Nightly (my data do not change that frequently) I backup important directories to another drive (used to be internal but is now an external 1TB disk). I have set rdiff-backup to keep 30 days worth of backwards diffs. I weekly mirror the latest copy to an off-site disk which happens to be connected to my workstation at work as they don't mind. I do not mirror the backwards diffs that rdiff-backup use to get old revisions of files.
This gives me screwup protection up to 30 days and theft/fire protection of the current data. The disk at work is encrypted. I thought of encrypting the external 1TB disk at home too but the disk of not being able to restore the primary backup outweighs the protection from datatheft if the disk should be stolen in a break-in.
No matter what backup software or script you use to backup your files see to it that you can go back at least a couple of revisions to be able to recover from the most common source of data corruption... you.
Disks are pretty cheap these days. Some might argue that the space needed for backups are too much, as much as the data you are backing up. Yes it often does but it's worth it. Once you have lost a great amount of files in a screwup or disk failure you gladly pay the price for an extra disk.
Now if I only could find a very user-friendly backup software for Windows that gives rdiff-backup functionality and is also wallet-friendly I could convince my father to start backing up his data.
I concur with many other commenters that getting to learning about LAMP setups after you get a job requiring that knowledge is a bit late, but better late than never.
Setting up a LAMP server is extremely easy. Just install your favorite distro, select apache httpd, mysql and php at the installation and there you have it. That is not learning. When I got my job as a sysadmin I knew my way around Apache and PHP but did not have a frame of reference where to tweak it for the load we got. I mean you've got threads, workers and a bunch of other parameters to tweak to get the most out of this sites unique load. What I have learned is
Apaches documentation for httpd is one of the best I've come across.
JMeter is a good tool to stress-test your site to see where the bottle-necks are. But building a good test setup is hard
Simulated load never reveals as much as real load. So sometimes you have to put it under live load and see where it goes boomely-pang
You will have to hope that you can aquire the knowledge you need it badly. Learning how to use a fire extinguisher after your pants catch on fire is not a good idea. You might learn before you get burned if you're lucky, but don't count on it.
I never reboot my router just because something is unstable and I have not seen it reboot on its own since I got it. I have a Linksys WRT-54GL with Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) running on it. Currently I have an uptime of 36 days and that is because I tweaked some settings requiring a reboot. The router is hooked to an APC UPS but we have pretty good power here.
If you choose to use Linux or some BSD you can run something like
xinit/usr/bin/firefox to launch X and run firefox
In windows you can set the shell to iexplore or firefox instead of explorer.exe. This this is stored in the registry. If I remember correctly it resides both in HKLM and HKCU. You ofcause only set it for the user that logs in or the administration would be tricky.
When the application is shut down, Windows or X shuts down too. If you run X you will have to set it up so the computer shuts down too. Maybe add some "are you really really really sure and not lying that you want to consider shutting down the system?"-dialog.
There are Mini-ITX (17cm x 17cm), Nano-ITX (12cm x 12cm) and now Pico-ITX (10cm x 7.2cm). I guess they skipped Micro-ITX because it could be confused with Micro-ATX.
I have some RSS feeds which I scan wherein Slashdot is one of them. Dilbert and XKCD is some others. Check if there's some urgent mail I need to read (if it's urgent enough my boss prints it out and hands it to me while explaining it's contents, therefor removing the need for the mail and the printout). All while having my morning drink. Usually Jolt.
I concur. I got into GNOME because it used many concepts that I was familiar with from the Magic User Interface framework on Amiga. I still prefer GNOME but more and more I have started to look at KDE. I don't like Mono and if GNOME will become GNOME.net, I won't be there.
There! You see? You don't need to spend millions developing a DRM scheme. Sooner rather later it *will* be broken. That money could have been spent on unifying the HD formats to one. Stupid lard brains!
The raptors have a window in its housing letting one can show off the platters. Why not make that window removable and when in need to erase the drive just pour in some sand while it's spinning. That will surely sand of anything magnetic.
Or make the heads lower themselves on to the platter and lathe the magnetic layer off.
When the magnetic top layer is shaved off into dust the platters are nothing more than metallic frisbees.
Let me introduce you to something that is going to revolutionise the world. A glass tube that when something called electricity is applied to it it starts to glow
To claim that this one is the first "computer-free" camera is bogus. First of, it still uploads to a computer so technicly it's not independent of computers. Secon, almost all network cameras can upload by it self. Axis have been doing this for close to a decade now.
http://www.axis.com/products/cam_206w/index.htm/
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I find the iPods really cool. However until they support Ogg Vorbis and FLAC I will not buy one. The majority of my music collection is in Vorbis. I'm sure I'm not alone in this situation.
Hey, stop kidding, Apple! We're way past April 1st. Not funny anymore, joke's over.
PowerPC is one of the reason why I switched to Mac. I like to have performance w/o sitting in a windtunnel.
Actually, Glögg and Gluwein is not exactly the same.
Here's my moms recipe (which is made the real way, not cheating with red wine;-) ). Do try it once it's really nice and goes nice with the season
Metric units and swedish translations of the ingredients in parantheses.
2 Dried peels from Seville orange (Pomerans)
5 Potatoes, sliced raw
1/3 cup (3/4 dl) Dried clove (Nejlikor)
A bit of ginger (ingefära)
17.5 oz (1/2 kg) Raisins
A bag of (1/2 dl) Cardamom (Kardemumma)
1.5 oz (50 g) Yeast
5.5 lb (2.5 kg) Sugar
1.5 gal (5.5 l) Small beer (really really weak (of taste and alcohol) beer... sort of. Tommelillas svagdricka)
That is then just put in a pot for 4 weeks. It's then strained off and set to rest in another pot for a week. Then it's ready to be bottled up and drunk hot.
I have a slightly modified Procase with a fanless VIA EPIA board in it. It does just that. Firewall/Mail/File-server (it used to do jukeboxing too). With a 80mm Papst fan running on 7V (the harddrive generates some heat that must be sucked out of the box) it is quiet as a whisper and draws less current than an average light bulb.
From what I've read BSDs should run just fine on that hardware too.
Hey, I heard of BAN (Body Area Networks) years ago! The US patent office seems to be lame retards that doesn't check whether someone has done this before. I can't recollect who did the experiments but read an article about 5 years ago of a computer worn in the shoes drawing power from movement (and maybe foul air =) ). When people shaking hands their computers swapped electronic businesscards. So after a day of shaking hands on meetings, fairs etc you could get a list of whom they were and everything.
How the heck can you get a patent on something that is already out there?
Why don't we file a patent for "sending information through variations in airpressure" (also knows as talking)?
Besides the money (which are great to get/have/spend) I think it would be a nice experience to have worked in a such situation. And to have it on your resume wouldn't hurt when looking for other work. As others have pointed out, you could get killed slipping in you own bathtub.
Never the less. If you go to an unstable region do see to it that you have a guide/guard with you and don't dess up like a tourist with clothes screaming "HI, EVERYBODY! I'M A FOREIGNER! PLEASE KILL ME!".
There's two sides to having a gun. One side is the obvious that you can defend yourself. But it also makes you a target to others with guns.
A relative of mine worked as a teacher in a high security prison. While he had his thoughts about the risks (the interns where killers, rapists and the like) he found that in the end the experience/money outweighted the risk. That's the same math you'll have to make.
In the good ol' days that's where the Ctrl-key was placed. Then as far as I can remember the PC entered the scene and changed the world. The Amiga did sport a Caps Lock (as may of you know) but it was placed between the A-key and the Ctrl-key. Bottom line: the Amiga had (sorry, has) a great keyboard layout.
I am unsure of what the policy is. Are you allowed to have your own phones and the company don't supply phones or are you not allowed to use cellular phones at al?
If you are allowed to use cellular phones just that the company doesn't give it to you then by all means do refuse to take work calls on your phone.
If you're not allowed to use cellular phones at all just tell your friends that they can reach you at work on you work phone number. You should be reachable by family if something happens.
Well, it can do the stuff you see on the basic discs. But not have mutiple titles, mix 16:9, 4:3, have multiple audiotracks, subitles etc. But I really like this software. It's doesn't ruin you and it will get you through until there's a better authoring soft for Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's what I do.
Nightly (my data do not change that frequently) I backup important directories to another drive (used to be internal but is now an external 1TB disk). I have set rdiff-backup to keep 30 days worth of backwards diffs. I weekly mirror the latest copy to an off-site disk which happens to be connected to my workstation at work as they don't mind. I do not mirror the backwards diffs that rdiff-backup use to get old revisions of files.
This gives me screwup protection up to 30 days and theft/fire protection of the current data. The disk at work is encrypted. I thought of encrypting the external 1TB disk at home too but the disk of not being able to restore the primary backup outweighs the protection from datatheft if the disk should be stolen in a break-in.
No matter what backup software or script you use to backup your files see to it that you can go back at least a couple of revisions to be able to recover from the most common source of data corruption... you.
Disks are pretty cheap these days. Some might argue that the space needed for backups are too much, as much as the data you are backing up. Yes it often does but it's worth it. Once you have lost a great amount of files in a screwup or disk failure you gladly pay the price for an extra disk.
Now if I only could find a very user-friendly backup software for Windows that gives rdiff-backup functionality and is also wallet-friendly I could convince my father to start backing up his data.
I concur with many other commenters that getting to learning about LAMP setups after you get a job requiring that knowledge is a bit late, but better late than never.
Setting up a LAMP server is extremely easy. Just install your favorite distro, select apache httpd, mysql and php at the installation and there you have it. That is not learning. When I got my job as a sysadmin I knew my way around Apache and PHP but did not have a frame of reference where to tweak it for the load we got. I mean you've got threads, workers and a bunch of other parameters to tweak to get the most out of this sites unique load. What I have learned is
You will have to hope that you can aquire the knowledge you need it badly. Learning how to use a fire extinguisher after your pants catch on fire is not a good idea. You might learn before you get burned if you're lucky, but don't count on it.
I never reboot my router just because something is unstable and I have not seen it reboot on its own since I got it. I have a Linksys WRT-54GL with Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) running on it. Currently I have an uptime of 36 days and that is because I tweaked some settings requiring a reboot. The router is hooked to an APC UPS but we have pretty good power here.
If you choose to use Linux or some BSD you can run something like xinit /usr/bin/firefox to launch X and run firefox
In windows you can set the shell to iexplore or firefox instead of explorer.exe. This this is stored in the registry. If I remember correctly it resides both in HKLM and HKCU. You ofcause only set it for the user that logs in or the administration would be tricky.
When the application is shut down, Windows or X shuts down too. If you run X you will have to set it up so the computer shuts down too. Maybe add some "are you really really really sure and not lying that you want to consider shutting down the system?"-dialog.
There are Mini-ITX (17cm x 17cm), Nano-ITX (12cm x 12cm) and now Pico-ITX (10cm x 7.2cm). I guess they skipped Micro-ITX because it could be confused with Micro-ATX.
I have some RSS feeds which I scan wherein Slashdot is one of them. Dilbert and XKCD is some others. Check if there's some urgent mail I need to read (if it's urgent enough my boss prints it out and hands it to me while explaining it's contents, therefor removing the need for the mail and the printout). All while having my morning drink. Usually Jolt.
I concur. I got into GNOME because it used many concepts that I was familiar with from the Magic User Interface framework on Amiga. I still prefer GNOME but more and more I have started to look at KDE. I don't like Mono and if GNOME will become GNOME.net, I won't be there.
There! You see? You don't need to spend millions developing a DRM scheme. Sooner rather later it *will* be broken. That money could have been spent on unifying the HD formats to one. Stupid lard brains!
Move to a country that doesn't do that kind of surveillance.
The raptors have a window in its housing letting one can show off the platters. Why not make that window removable and when in need to erase the drive just pour in some sand while it's spinning. That will surely sand of anything magnetic. Or make the heads lower themselves on to the platter and lathe the magnetic layer off. When the magnetic top layer is shaved off into dust the platters are nothing more than metallic frisbees.
Let me introduce you to something that is going to revolutionise the world. A glass tube that when something called electricity is applied to it it starts to glow
And here's something else for the "news".
Humans landed on the moon!
I tried some searches, got mad and made one last search... it didn't like me.
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http://fredrik.rambris.com/images/microsoft-live.
To claim that this one is the first "computer-free" camera is bogus. First of, it still uploads to a computer so technicly it's not independent of computers. Secon, almost all network cameras can upload by it self. Axis have been doing this for close to a decade now. http://www.axis.com/products/cam_206w/index.htm/
I find the iPods really cool. However until they support Ogg Vorbis and FLAC I will not buy one. The majority of my music collection is in Vorbis. I'm sure I'm not alone in this situation.
Hey, stop kidding, Apple! We're way past April 1st. Not funny anymore, joke's over. PowerPC is one of the reason why I switched to Mac. I like to have performance w/o sitting in a windtunnel.
Here's my moms recipe (which is made the real way, not cheating with red wine ;-) ). Do try it once it's really nice and goes nice with the season
Metric units and swedish translations of the ingredients in parantheses.
2 Dried peels from Seville orange (Pomerans)
5 Potatoes, sliced raw
1/3 cup (3/4 dl) Dried clove (Nejlikor)
A bit of ginger (ingefära)
17.5 oz (1/2 kg) Raisins
A bag of (1/2 dl) Cardamom (Kardemumma)
1.5 oz (50 g) Yeast
5.5 lb (2.5 kg) Sugar
1.5 gal (5.5 l) Small beer (really really weak (of taste and alcohol) beer... sort of. Tommelillas svagdricka)
That is then just put in a pot for 4 weeks. It's then strained off and set to rest in another pot for a week. Then it's ready to be bottled up and drunk hot.
It doesn't matter then that PowerPC has been developed by IBM, Apple and Motorola?
I have a slightly modified Procase with a fanless VIA EPIA board in it. It does just that. Firewall/Mail/File-server (it used to do jukeboxing too). With a 80mm Papst fan running on 7V (the harddrive generates some heat that must be sucked out of the box) it is quiet as a whisper and draws less current than an average light bulb.
From what I've read BSDs should run just fine on that hardware too.
Hey, I heard of BAN (Body Area Networks) years ago! The US patent office seems to be lame retards that doesn't check whether someone has done this before. I can't recollect who did the experiments but read an article about 5 years ago of a computer worn in the shoes drawing power from movement (and maybe foul air =) ). When people shaking hands their computers swapped electronic businesscards. So after a day of shaking hands on meetings, fairs etc you could get a list of whom they were and everything.
How the heck can you get a patent on something that is already out there?
Why don't we file a patent for "sending information through variations in airpressure" (also knows as talking)?
I second that. "Long hours" should only not be used often. If work can't be done in regular hours, hire more people.
I've been burnt out myself so I know what the stresses are for the staff.
Besides the money (which are great to get/have/spend) I think it would be a nice experience to have worked in a such situation. And to have it on your resume wouldn't hurt when looking for other work. As others have pointed out, you could get killed slipping in you own bathtub.
Never the less. If you go to an unstable region do see to it that you have a guide/guard with you and don't dess up like a tourist with clothes screaming "HI, EVERYBODY! I'M A FOREIGNER! PLEASE KILL ME!".
There's two sides to having a gun. One side is the obvious that you can defend yourself. But it also makes you a target to others with guns.
A relative of mine worked as a teacher in a high security prison. While he had his thoughts about the risks (the interns where killers, rapists and the like) he found that in the end the experience/money outweighted the risk. That's the same math you'll have to make.
I wouldn't go only for the money.
In the good ol' days that's where the Ctrl-key was placed. Then as far as I can remember the PC entered the scene and changed the world. The Amiga did sport a Caps Lock (as may of you know) but it was placed between the A-key and the Ctrl-key. Bottom line: the Amiga had (sorry, has) a great keyboard layout.
If you are allowed to use cellular phones just that the company doesn't give it to you then by all means do refuse to take work calls on your phone.
If you're not allowed to use cellular phones at all just tell your friends that they can reach you at work on you work phone number. You should be reachable by family if something happens.
Well, it can do the stuff you see on the basic discs. But not have mutiple titles, mix 16:9, 4:3, have multiple audiotracks, subitles etc. But I really like this software. It's doesn't ruin you and it will get you through until there's a better authoring soft for Linux.
Aaaahh.... So that's why smart men have beards =].