Actually toner is NOT a carcinogen because the carbon black (which is dubiously linked to cancer to begin with) is bound within a polymer matrix in the toner. For more info see this study related to carbon black as it relates to toner and California prop 65.
At Cisco we had a rechargable flashlight with a nightlite type strip on the back in every rack. That way you were never without one and during an outage when you are running on emergency lighting you were sure to have a working light.
I have a nice Plantronics headset and I can't hear anything in the datacenter itself. I always have to go out to the observation area to talk to the tech between performing requested actions. Not such a problem with a small or medium sized datacenter but I wonder how they deal with it in larger facilities.
The Saturn V isn't an ICBM! It has a launch capacity of 118,000 kg or ~130tons it could launch the machinery (minus the stuff made to refine the ore) into orbit. That's not the kind of thing you use to launch a few nuclear warheads onto a transcontinental target.
American cellphone plans aren't expensive if you play the game right. My previous plan with AT&T was $29.99 a month, it only included 250 anytime minutes *BUT* by haggling and agreeing to a one year contract I got two 250 minute extra blocks (for a total of 750) and free nights and weekends. I think I went over on minutes twice in the three years I had that plan. Now I've got a free phone from work and my wife is on my dad's family share plan, $15/month and the phone was $50 with a one year contract. Even someone working minimum wage could afford those prices.
The hardware is generally VERY reliable and TAC is the gold standard in support organizations. In fact the only problems I have ever had with TAC related not having my contract number readily available. As far as being overpriced, that depends. I don't know of a competitor to the 6500 and 4500 series that is significantly cheaper.
Large businesses are probably the largest customers of those little 5 port Linksys switches. When it costs about $200/drop to pull new cat5 plus the cost of a port on the IDF switch it's generally WAY more cost effective to plunk a little Linksys in someones cube when they get yet another IP printer or development workstation, etc.
Is that 7.3% of the population is working directly for the state government! I wonder what total percentage of the population works directly and indirectly (such as the contractor) for the government at all levels?
Except that the debt is mostly unsecured high interest debt that is growing at a rate faster than inflation. Inflation might help reduce the pain of that 25% credit card debt but it is in no way going to eliminate it.
Uh, the market was driven up by margin buying in a market where the margin buy was not backed by any assets. This led to an inflation in stock prices that was in no way tied to the currency supply.
The modern right wants big government too, they just want big government that helps corporations and forces other people not to do "immoral" things instead of the left that wants big government that will help people and wants to keep people from doing things that are "bad" for them or others. That's why our two party system is so depressing, there isn't much hope for real change.
It's actually a twofer for the senators, they get to throw a bone to their religious right and nanystate voters and they get to support the interests of their entrenched corporate gambling masters.
SATA drives should have been cheaper almost from the getgo. One of the big reasons to go serial was to drop the complexity of the controll chips, simpler chips are smaller and hence cheaper. Add to that the fact that there's less material used in the physical interfaces and connecting the chips to the interfaces and SATA is simply cheaper to produce.
You know that modern SCSI drives have almost NO differences with SATA right? SAS(serial attached SCSI) is a simple superset of SATA. The primary difference has to do with how they work in large arrays with multiple switches. The problem with parallel cables is that at speeds over about 3Gb/s syncing the multiple drive lines was almost impossible and required lots of power and expensive silicone.
If they are New Order Amish or Mennonite then there's no problem with them having tv, only the old order Amish still hold strict beliefs about not using electricity.
The reason to drop PS/2 is that then you can remove the ISA emulation logic from the Southbridge. On most modern designs the PS/2 controller is the only component still using that part of the chip so you can drop it if you drop the ports.
The problem with Windows isn't file formats, that's generally the easy part of migrations. The problem is user training, proprietary addons to Office, custom programs (less of a problem with modern tools) and the capital costs of most alternatives. As far as Windows interoperating with other system, I have never had a problem linking a Windows system to any other computer system. I have integrated Windows into Sun NIS+ domains, hooked up Windows boxes to mainframes and mini's, mounted exported NFS mounts from a VMS cluster, and run an X desktop from an SGI workstation just to name some of the ways I've used Windows to interoperate with other systems.
It's easier to notice an air supply problem than a failing battery problem.
How so? I can easily design a circuit to monitor charge voltage of a battery and report it remotely/log it and I've never had a formal EE class. Besides your weekly/monthly spin up tests of your generators should tell you if you have a flat battery.
These guys had 21MW of generators! The problem was 3/10 failed to startup in time (they use a combination flywheel/generator instead of the more traditional UPS/generator, a good idea if it works because you don't have the heat/power loss of all those batteries) and so the remaining units couldn't keep up with the load and so probably defensively shut down. If they've been keeping up on maintenance then the manufacturer has some explaining to do, because a 30% failure rate isn't at all acceptable for machinery that cost that much (I've hear about $140M for the 10 units) and is supposed to be mission critical.
SAN's can and do span multiple physical locations, though if distances are too far latency becomes an issue. Most SAN's allow multiple hosts to be targeted at a single LUN, this is how the Quorum disk in a MS cluster works and how multiple nodes in a RAC cluster work. But, the reality is most SAN's won't be simply spanned across sites, they will generally have a near synchronous replication piece, either built in or as a bolt-on addition which ensures your data is available at your DR site. I know that with our SAN replicated I can have physical boot from SAN servers and VMWare hosts running with little/no interruption of service and no additional work to maintain them.
Hell, diesel doesn't have to ever go bad. AT&T has some damn remote facilities that aren't visited for years at a time that have diesel backup generators.
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Actually toner is NOT a carcinogen because the carbon black (which is dubiously linked to cancer to begin with) is bound within a polymer matrix in the toner. For more info see this study related to carbon black as it relates to toner and California prop 65.
At Cisco we had a rechargable flashlight with a nightlite type strip on the back in every rack. That way you were never without one and during an outage when you are running on emergency lighting you were sure to have a working light.
I have a nice Plantronics headset and I can't hear anything in the datacenter itself. I always have to go out to the observation area to talk to the tech between performing requested actions. Not such a problem with a small or medium sized datacenter but I wonder how they deal with it in larger facilities.
The Saturn V isn't an ICBM! It has a launch capacity of 118,000 kg or ~130tons it could launch the machinery (minus the stuff made to refine the ore) into orbit. That's not the kind of thing you use to launch a few nuclear warheads onto a transcontinental target.
No aspect of the Saturn V could be considered to approach a "relatively cheap" or "relatively reliable" ICBM system.
Because it's not only relatively reliable, it was absolutely reliable. The Saturn V is the only launch vehicle to have zero losses AFAIK.
American cellphone plans aren't expensive if you play the game right. My previous plan with AT&T was $29.99 a month, it only included 250 anytime minutes *BUT* by haggling and agreeing to a one year contract I got two 250 minute extra blocks (for a total of 750) and free nights and weekends. I think I went over on minutes twice in the three years I had that plan. Now I've got a free phone from work and my wife is on my dad's family share plan, $15/month and the phone was $50 with a one year contract. Even someone working minimum wage could afford those prices.
The hardware is generally VERY reliable and TAC is the gold standard in support organizations. In fact the only problems I have ever had with TAC related not having my contract number readily available. As far as being overpriced, that depends. I don't know of a competitor to the 6500 and 4500 series that is significantly cheaper.
Ah, I had read an earlier article that said the SSN's were from state employees. Guess it pays to RTFA =)
Large businesses are probably the largest customers of those little 5 port Linksys switches. When it costs about $200/drop to pull new cat5 plus the cost of a port on the IDF switch it's generally WAY more cost effective to plunk a little Linksys in someones cube when they get yet another IP printer or development workstation, etc.
Is that 7.3% of the population is working directly for the state government! I wonder what total percentage of the population works directly and indirectly (such as the contractor) for the government at all levels?
I don't know, modest overpressure isn't going to crumple a shipping container like the one that was near the explosion.
Except that the debt is mostly unsecured high interest debt that is growing at a rate faster than inflation. Inflation might help reduce the pain of that 25% credit card debt but it is in no way going to eliminate it.
Uh, the market was driven up by margin buying in a market where the margin buy was not backed by any assets. This led to an inflation in stock prices that was in no way tied to the currency supply.
The modern right wants big government too, they just want big government that helps corporations and forces other people not to do "immoral" things instead of the left that wants big government that will help people and wants to keep people from doing things that are "bad" for them or others. That's why our two party system is so depressing, there isn't much hope for real change.
what a bunch of nanny-state crap
It's actually a twofer for the senators, they get to throw a bone to their religious right and nanystate voters and they get to support the interests of their entrenched corporate gambling masters.
SATA drives should have been cheaper almost from the getgo. One of the big reasons to go serial was to drop the complexity of the controll chips, simpler chips are smaller and hence cheaper. Add to that the fact that there's less material used in the physical interfaces and connecting the chips to the interfaces and SATA is simply cheaper to produce.
You know that modern SCSI drives have almost NO differences with SATA right? SAS(serial attached SCSI) is a simple superset of SATA. The primary difference has to do with how they work in large arrays with multiple switches. The problem with parallel cables is that at speeds over about 3Gb/s syncing the multiple drive lines was almost impossible and required lots of power and expensive silicone.
If they are New Order Amish or Mennonite then there's no problem with them having tv, only the old order Amish still hold strict beliefs about not using electricity.
The reason to drop PS/2 is that then you can remove the ISA emulation logic from the Southbridge. On most modern designs the PS/2 controller is the only component still using that part of the chip so you can drop it if you drop the ports.
The problem with Windows isn't file formats, that's generally the easy part of migrations. The problem is user training, proprietary addons to Office, custom programs (less of a problem with modern tools) and the capital costs of most alternatives. As far as Windows interoperating with other system, I have never had a problem linking a Windows system to any other computer system. I have integrated Windows into Sun NIS+ domains, hooked up Windows boxes to mainframes and mini's, mounted exported NFS mounts from a VMS cluster, and run an X desktop from an SGI workstation just to name some of the ways I've used Windows to interoperate with other systems.
It's easier to notice an air supply problem than a failing battery problem.
How so? I can easily design a circuit to monitor charge voltage of a battery and report it remotely/log it and I've never had a formal EE class. Besides your weekly/monthly spin up tests of your generators should tell you if you have a flat battery.
These guys had 21MW of generators! The problem was 3/10 failed to startup in time (they use a combination flywheel/generator instead of the more traditional UPS/generator, a good idea if it works because you don't have the heat/power loss of all those batteries) and so the remaining units couldn't keep up with the load and so probably defensively shut down. If they've been keeping up on maintenance then the manufacturer has some explaining to do, because a 30% failure rate isn't at all acceptable for machinery that cost that much (I've hear about $140M for the 10 units) and is supposed to be mission critical.
SAN's can and do span multiple physical locations, though if distances are too far latency becomes an issue. Most SAN's allow multiple hosts to be targeted at a single LUN, this is how the Quorum disk in a MS cluster works and how multiple nodes in a RAC cluster work. But, the reality is most SAN's won't be simply spanned across sites, they will generally have a near synchronous replication piece, either built in or as a bolt-on addition which ensures your data is available at your DR site. I know that with our SAN replicated I can have physical boot from SAN servers and VMWare hosts running with little/no interruption of service and no additional work to maintain them.
Hell, diesel doesn't have to ever go bad. AT&T has some damn remote facilities that aren't visited for years at a time that have diesel backup generators.
Well, the intermediate step would be lasers mounted on trained spy squirrels.