Mini + Netflix (nice streaming feature...works great) + Boxee + a 1TB Maxtor External drive ($114 w/free delivery from Amazon) for my own content (ripped personal DVDs, etc.). No cable service, just HSI. Don't miss it in the least and my monthly bill is $10 (Netflix) plus $29 for HSI (which I'd be paying for even if I did have cable or sat tv).
Having worked at the Agency I must say that the quality of the 'product' that they turn over to the public domain is second to none (well, except for that which they keep for themselves of course). They take a lot of heat at a leadership level, some warranted, some not. In the end, the caliber of the engineers, security professionals and JPG (just plain geeks) that work there is second to none. From SEL to crypto bake-offs to the submitter's topic, they've done a helluva lot of good for the community. Thanks guys! Now if they could just get 'Weed Man' to open an omelet shop out in town, all would be right with the world (inside joke, sorry).
I would think that if these were deployed as a sensor net of sorts that they could isolate faults pretty readily (whatever those faults may be...tap or otherwise).
I've been streaming Netflix to my Mac for weeks now (Silverlight, yadda). Am I missing something? Is it just that it's leaving beta at this point or something? Streaming to Linux is a nice addition though, if it wasn't previously available.
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Not so. I routinely get over a week of standby out of my 810 (far better than from my 800). In fact, I left town for almost two weeks and left the 810 in my glove box powered on. Came back, opened the glove box, good to go. My own first hand experience.
...only I used BGAN instead of standard INMARSAT (which may actually be what you're referring to here). In instances where I needed GUI access on Windows boxes I found a very workable solution: Installed 1 Linux box with FreeNX server and put RDP client on that box. I'd NX into the Linux box and then RDP into each Windows box from there. Absolutely workable over even a crappy connection.
Along the lines of several others comments, why do we ignore human power. I work out daily (run, rowing machine, bike, etc.) for a minimum of an hour. For the purposes of this post, let me focus on the rowing machine. I use an 'outrigger' style rower with two hydraulic resistance pistons. After 1 hour with the resistance cranked all the way up, the waste heat coming off of those pistons is sufficient to cause serious burns from simply letting your leg rest against it by accident. The amount of electric energy that could be generated from exercise is emmense and for the most part untapped. Granted, much of the exercise equipment that is sold become close racks, but think of the billions(?) of joules wasted each day. Capture that and you've got a serious back-up power source available. My two cents.
The Google Phone appeals to true nerds far more so than the market that the iPhone appeals to. I know two people in my immediate 'circle' that own iPhones. I know 5 that have bought (or ordered) G1's. I'm a gas station coffee guy as opposed to Starbuck's.;)
This is an interesting problem that I've seen repeated almost every place I've been (caveat: I'm a contractor). Businesses often take the approach that if IT's broken, it must be due to a lack of staffing either in skills or numbers. In reality, often IT is broken due to a lack of decision making prowess in upper management. IT is treated as a toy box and milestones and scope are like melting jell-o in terms of their definition and stability. Not getting the result you personally want out of IT? No problem, hire the next guy through the door that talks a good talk. In the end, IT is the one area that suffers the greatest harm due to 'too many cooks in the kitchen' and as such, 'this'. I hate to say it, but IT needs to bleed a little bit if order is to return.
They only have to go 12 miles, line of site. So say they go 20 for good measure. There are plenty of very high bandwidt solutions for that. Or they can run fiber. Of course whatever country their trunk lies in might have more than a wee bit of leverage with regard to how they conduct business and to whom taxes are paid.
Pretty much pick any Axis IP camera and you're golden. I've had Axis video links up for months at a time, no problem. Even broadband outages don't matter as the feed will reconnect if you use decent software (standard video stream, use software of your choice).
Your CV should always be up to date. Always. No exceptions. That said, outsourcing can be lucrative for the employees. Often you'll get a bump in pay or a retainer bonus. Replacing a mass exodus immediately after an outsourcing deal is highly problematic and most companies will do all they can to keep staff and convert them.
Every few weeks we have to endure this kind of drivel. Doom and gloom to sell news, get grant dollars, whatever. Last week's scare mongering wearing thing? Just trot out the latest manbearpig. In cases such as this, past performance IS a pretty good indicator of the future. We, mankind, make improvements, overcome shortfalls, etc. OLEDs will surpass LCDs in price/performance. Then the next. And the next. And so on. I'm damn sick of the media (ALL of the media be it online, print, radio, conservative, liberal, "Fair and Balanced", whatever) basing 95% of their reporting on sensationalism to pump up non-news.
When I first read the headline I thought it was referring to Thinking Machines of Danny Hillis fame. You know, the hypercubic CM series. "Do you know anyone who network three connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job?"
Dude, where do you work that is "forcing it down your throat"? I've seen no business Vista use (granted I'm not exactly in the business of surveying other businesses about their OS choices). My impression is that Vista is nearly non-existent in the corp arena. Perhaps you could get a job....anywhere else, and thus not have to worry about dealing with Vista as a sysadmin. I'm also puzzled how being a sysadmin has anything to do with Vista. Normally sysadmin implies server mgt. and the like. I would think of dealing with Vista as desktop support or something. Anyway, not important, just curious. In the end, "leaving system administration" over Vista is idiotic. If you like sysadmin and you're good at it, get another job administering systems you enjoy (Linux, Unix, Windows Server, etc.). I didn't see many sysadmins leaving in droves over Windows ME.
I have two Windows computers that I use. They are rarely used (Govt issue). In addition I have 3 Macs, two Sun boxes (Solaris 9 & 10 respectively) and a number of Linux boxes. I run Symantec on the two Windows machines (comes pre-installed) but it has never caught anything. This is not because there was nothing to catch, but rather because I have very high security at the demarcation point of my network at home. I run a router with PacketProtector (a great OSS project...if you've not tried it out, you should) which runs ClamAV, Inline SNORT, DG, TinyProxy, etc. etc. etc. which pretty much stops everything in it's tracks. I wouldn't call it ready for prime time as there are still some bugs, but implementing the same packages on a old PC would be simplistic. My point is that it's relatively easy to stop darn near everything at the entry point to the Network rather than waiting for it to make itself known on one of the PCs. Catching it on the host should be the last resort, not the first line of defense. Hopefully projects such as OpenWRT, PacketProtector and IPCop will make it easier for the average user to make this a reality. There is certainly a need for more effective anomaly based analysis and filtering vs. signature based, but there seems to be a lot of progress in that direction by SourceFire and others. Of course it would be nice if MS would stop producing virtual petri dishes, but in the mean time....
Such foolishness. Imagine a program which exists for the intent purpose of solving math equations interpreting 703-555-5555 as just such an equation. Next someone's going to say that you shouldn't be using Excel as a database. Crazy talk I tell ya'!
And I'd LOVE to use their instant viewing feature but I don't have a Windows machine. I have a Mac Mini and a PS3 for all movie viewing via their respective media GUIs. Why Netflix doesn't have streaming on platforms other than Windows and these new dedicated devices is beyond me. It would certainly be cheap enough to do and provide instant market share for them.
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Mini + Netflix (nice streaming feature...works great) + Boxee + a 1TB Maxtor External drive ($114 w/free delivery from Amazon) for my own content (ripped personal DVDs, etc.). No cable service, just HSI. Don't miss it in the least and my monthly bill is $10 (Netflix) plus $29 for HSI (which I'd be paying for even if I did have cable or sat tv).
Having worked at the Agency I must say that the quality of the 'product' that they turn over to the public domain is second to none (well, except for that which they keep for themselves of course). They take a lot of heat at a leadership level, some warranted, some not. In the end, the caliber of the engineers, security professionals and JPG (just plain geeks) that work there is second to none. From SEL to crypto bake-offs to the submitter's topic, they've done a helluva lot of good for the community. Thanks guys! Now if they could just get 'Weed Man' to open an omelet shop out in town, all would be right with the world (inside joke, sorry).
I would think that if these were deployed as a sensor net of sorts that they could isolate faults pretty readily (whatever those faults may be...tap or otherwise).
I've been streaming Netflix to my Mac for weeks now (Silverlight, yadda). Am I missing something? Is it just that it's leaving beta at this point or something? Streaming to Linux is a nice addition though, if it wasn't previously available.
Not so. I routinely get over a week of standby out of my 810 (far better than from my 800). In fact, I left town for almost two weeks and left the 810 in my glove box powered on. Came back, opened the glove box, good to go. My own first hand experience.
...only I used BGAN instead of standard INMARSAT (which may actually be what you're referring to here). In instances where I needed GUI access on Windows boxes I found a very workable solution: Installed 1 Linux box with FreeNX server and put RDP client on that box. I'd NX into the Linux box and then RDP into each Windows box from there. Absolutely workable over even a crappy connection.
Along the lines of several others comments, why do we ignore human power. I work out daily (run, rowing machine, bike, etc.) for a minimum of an hour. For the purposes of this post, let me focus on the rowing machine. I use an 'outrigger' style rower with two hydraulic resistance pistons. After 1 hour with the resistance cranked all the way up, the waste heat coming off of those pistons is sufficient to cause serious burns from simply letting your leg rest against it by accident. The amount of electric energy that could be generated from exercise is emmense and for the most part untapped. Granted, much of the exercise equipment that is sold become close racks, but think of the billions(?) of joules wasted each day. Capture that and you've got a serious back-up power source available. My two cents.
The Google Phone appeals to true nerds far more so than the market that the iPhone appeals to. I know two people in my immediate 'circle' that own iPhones. I know 5 that have bought (or ordered) G1's. I'm a gas station coffee guy as opposed to Starbuck's. ;)
"...people would be all over them". Yes, sort of like we're doing here.
This is an interesting problem that I've seen repeated almost every place I've been (caveat: I'm a contractor). Businesses often take the approach that if IT's broken, it must be due to a lack of staffing either in skills or numbers. In reality, often IT is broken due to a lack of decision making prowess in upper management. IT is treated as a toy box and milestones and scope are like melting jell-o in terms of their definition and stability. Not getting the result you personally want out of IT? No problem, hire the next guy through the door that talks a good talk. In the end, IT is the one area that suffers the greatest harm due to 'too many cooks in the kitchen' and as such, 'this'. I hate to say it, but IT needs to bleed a little bit if order is to return.
They only have to go 12 miles, line of site. So say they go 20 for good measure. There are plenty of very high bandwidt solutions for that. Or they can run fiber. Of course whatever country their trunk lies in might have more than a wee bit of leverage with regard to how they conduct business and to whom taxes are paid.
Pretty much pick any Axis IP camera and you're golden. I've had Axis video links up for months at a time, no problem. Even broadband outages don't matter as the feed will reconnect if you use decent software (standard video stream, use software of your choice).
Ever. Linksys WRT54GL w/DD-WRT on a small UPS/conditioner. Bullet and proof.
Your CV should always be up to date. Always. No exceptions. That said, outsourcing can be lucrative for the employees. Often you'll get a bump in pay or a retainer bonus. Replacing a mass exodus immediately after an outsourcing deal is highly problematic and most companies will do all they can to keep staff and convert them.
I'd of thought that, by its very nature, reverse engineering is never really directly possible. Sorta why it has to be reverse engineered.
PDF != open format. NeoOffice is a native OS X port of Open Office, and Open Office has their own native port now as well.
Every few weeks we have to endure this kind of drivel. Doom and gloom to sell news, get grant dollars, whatever. Last week's scare mongering wearing thing? Just trot out the latest manbearpig. In cases such as this, past performance IS a pretty good indicator of the future. We, mankind, make improvements, overcome shortfalls, etc. OLEDs will surpass LCDs in price/performance. Then the next. And the next. And so on. I'm damn sick of the media (ALL of the media be it online, print, radio, conservative, liberal, "Fair and Balanced", whatever) basing 95% of their reporting on sensationalism to pump up non-news.
I'm not a big fan of Bill, but blaming him for making IT look nerdy....? C'mon. I think we as a community handle that pretty well ourselves.
I had a t-shirt! Man, I'm old.
When I first read the headline I thought it was referring to Thinking Machines of Danny Hillis fame. You know, the hypercubic CM series. "Do you know anyone who network three connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job?"
Dude, where do you work that is "forcing it down your throat"? I've seen no business Vista use (granted I'm not exactly in the business of surveying other businesses about their OS choices). My impression is that Vista is nearly non-existent in the corp arena. Perhaps you could get a job....anywhere else, and thus not have to worry about dealing with Vista as a sysadmin. I'm also puzzled how being a sysadmin has anything to do with Vista. Normally sysadmin implies server mgt. and the like. I would think of dealing with Vista as desktop support or something. Anyway, not important, just curious. In the end, "leaving system administration" over Vista is idiotic. If you like sysadmin and you're good at it, get another job administering systems you enjoy (Linux, Unix, Windows Server, etc.). I didn't see many sysadmins leaving in droves over Windows ME.
I have two Windows computers that I use. They are rarely used (Govt issue). In addition I have 3 Macs, two Sun boxes (Solaris 9 & 10 respectively) and a number of Linux boxes. I run Symantec on the two Windows machines (comes pre-installed) but it has never caught anything. This is not because there was nothing to catch, but rather because I have very high security at the demarcation point of my network at home. I run a router with PacketProtector (a great OSS project...if you've not tried it out, you should) which runs ClamAV, Inline SNORT, DG, TinyProxy, etc. etc. etc. which pretty much stops everything in it's tracks. I wouldn't call it ready for prime time as there are still some bugs, but implementing the same packages on a old PC would be simplistic. My point is that it's relatively easy to stop darn near everything at the entry point to the Network rather than waiting for it to make itself known on one of the PCs. Catching it on the host should be the last resort, not the first line of defense. Hopefully projects such as OpenWRT, PacketProtector and IPCop will make it easier for the average user to make this a reality. There is certainly a need for more effective anomaly based analysis and filtering vs. signature based, but there seems to be a lot of progress in that direction by SourceFire and others. Of course it would be nice if MS would stop producing virtual petri dishes, but in the mean time....
Such foolishness. Imagine a program which exists for the intent purpose of solving math equations interpreting 703-555-5555 as just such an equation. Next someone's going to say that you shouldn't be using Excel as a database. Crazy talk I tell ya'!
But you can do this with non-free software's source? I'm missing your point I believe.
And I'd LOVE to use their instant viewing feature but I don't have a Windows machine. I have a Mac Mini and a PS3 for all movie viewing via their respective media GUIs. Why Netflix doesn't have streaming on platforms other than Windows and these new dedicated devices is beyond me. It would certainly be cheap enough to do and provide instant market share for them.