During one large layoff wave at a Cisco location the head of security found out he was going to be let go because the facility was going to be scaled back so far that they were going to simply outsource security to some outside firm. So he started to grab laptops from layedoff employees. Eventually someone noticed and when the police arrested him in the parking lot he had almost filled the trunk of his car, a Crown Victoria! (for non-American's these are cars with trunks large enough for about 4 people to lay in)
Yep, a friend of my dad's is a Navy Captain in charge of a light destroyer. At one of the bases he regulary docks at their is a nuclear depot station. When you enter the area of the base where the depot is you must present your ID by placing it on the ground, backing up ~20 feet, placing your hands on your head, one guard checks your ID while two others cover you with machine guns. After going through this procedure and walking across the area to check some orders he went to leave the area, exact same procedure even though it was the same guards and the same captain that had completed the drill not more than 20 minutes before. When it comes to security MP's on guard do NOT screw around.
After taking the mandatory electrical safety course for IBM field technicians I can tell you that IBM's tech writers already make it sound like that is a standard feature. The amount of time devoted in that course to electrical safety and lockout procedures is around 40 pages. Since the number of PC tech's outnumber techs who work on hardwired mainframes is probably 1,000:1 this fact amused me. And then I realized that I had just lost 2 hours of my life that I would never get back.
Actually if the server is regularly getting screwed on tips and they keep good records then the employer is responsible for making up the difference between tips and the federal minimum wage. I had a friend do this, she was being worked full time on the worst shifts (overnight weekdays at an all night diner), her tips averaged out to like $2/hr, combine that with the $2.15 she was being payed and she still didn't make min wage. She was terminated without cause. She was needless to say pissed off so she sued the employer for back wages. The judge reviewed her meticulous records and forced the place to make up the difference.
I HATE the RAVE act with a supreme passion. I had the owner of a bar that occassionally hold techno events ask me to put away my glowsticks at a Bad Boy Bill concert because the local police had harassed him and insinuated that they would shut him down and try to seize his business. Their justification was that under the RAVE act glowsticks are drug paraphanalia (under Ohio Revised Code only things that can reasonably be construed as aiding in the consumption of controlled substances are considered paraphanalia) and that they could use that as indication of drug activity at the event and shutdown the concert and sieze the establishment. If the guy wasn't so nice about it I would have gone outside flagged down a police officer and asked to be arrested. Then I would have gone to the same neighborhood with my son on holoween and demanded to be arrested again.
We've made fusion work tons of times, there have even been short shots that have broken even on energy input vs output. The problem is it's not economic at this point. To get there we have to improve efficiency by several times and reduce input power.
Yeah solar will do SO much good in the areas hit by the blackout, not. I would guess that you have never lived in the midwest or upstate New York. Since we have to get energy from some source and the source of choice due to environmental nutjobs is fossil fuels instead of nuclear we need to burn it as efficiently as possible. That means large centralized generation facilities that are several times more efficient than smaller local plants, it is also much cheaper per ton of material removed to do scrubbing on large plants.
Sounds like the BSA audits. A company a friend works for runs all critical systems on some form of UNIX, the idiot "technician" from the BSA didn't understand that a company could run something other than windows and tried to find some way to install their scanner. He wouldn't leave for several days and the company couldn't use their systems during that time because the BSA guys were accompanied by sheriffs officers and a warrant specifying nothing be touched until the audit was completed so that no evidence was eliminited. Eventually the IT people at the company got the state crime lab computer people to tell the sheriff that the guy from the BSA was an idiot and that the company should be allowed to use their systems.
By telling them to go out and socialize, drink, and fornicate? Either that or tell em to study their textbooks. Guess it depends on if it's a liberal arts college or a tech school.
30 days may be a bit much but as I found out one day 48 hours comes close to being too little in some situations. We had a massive generator capable of running most of our 4 story suburban office building for a couple days including the datacenter, AC for the datacenter, lights, and desktops. It would not run AC for the rest of the building or the elevator. At the ~35% load we placed on it and its 500 gallon tank the engineer from Catapilar said it should run for around 48 hours. Well we called our fuel supplier to get some offroad diesel delivered the next morning, no can do, they no longer stock it!?!? WHAT! Then we tried every other listed company in the area, none of them could get to us the next day with fuel. We ended up getting a fuel company out to deliver 300 gallons from Detroit to our offices in Akron, Ohio paying a $500 delivery charge and 70 cents a mile. After that we made sure to get a contract with a fuel company that guarenteed 24 hour delivery of offroad diesel =)
I've dealt with enough telco's to know that just getting backup circuits provisioned this fast was amazing. Hell during normal operations they typically want 30-45 days notice, after a disaster they are so busy I'm suprised he even got a response from his sales rep.
During the great blackout I was able to browse the web in the dark from my laptop for several hours until the UPS at the ISP's datacenter finally gave up. They were recently purchased by a larger ISP and next time the servers and networking equipment will all be in a generator backed datacenter so I will need a fuelcell laptop instead of a battery powered one.
Actually there are 4 major cd copy protection systems. They range in annoyance from basically non-existant to won't play on anything but a standalone cd player with no digital outs. I personally consider any copy protected disk defective and refuse to buy it. My main way to listen to music are winamp and my iPod.
Hell I'm into various forms of electronica and I usually hand my money to the guy at the door. My brother is one of the promoter/artists in the area and after the guys who own the place get paid ALL of the money goes to the artists. The other way I give them money is to hand em cash for a CD-R or their sets or by recording a set and sending them a heap of CD-R's to sell to others.
Bullshit walks. As the media companies figure out that they can't inprison all of their customers and that the mind controll devices hasn't yet been perfected they will realize that the only way to survive will be to adapt. I expect to see $10 dollar MSRP cd's by the end of next year. I also think that the iTunes music store being opened to Windows and international sales later this year will have a large impact on the industry.
Did the machine actually crash or did you just place such a large queue in place that production work was going to be effected? If the latter, like I would expect, that is nothing. Stuff backs up fairly regularly at some installations but the machines keep chugging along, if it happens too frequently the customer orders newer bigger iron and the long queues become short again. If a little workout actually brought the system down then something was terribly wrong.
It sucks. I really, really wanted it to not suck but it does. I kept installing it every update and reinstalling it every time I upgraded Mozilla. It's not even fit to be a PIM at this point, let alone as a networked collaboritive calandering solution (which it will never be, that's not the goal of the project).
These are not BS. This was an IP block set aside for future use and Apple, MS, Sun, and others decided to use it for local link zero config stuff. This was codified by the ietf and is specified in RFC 3330 and other places.
I haven't seen any other solution that works as well for colaboritive calendering. For instance you can tell Outlook to schedule an appointment and invite a bunch of people, if there is a time where everyone is available that day that is not the time you specified it will ask you if you want to reschedule to that time. It also works well when you want to intetgrate meeting room checkout, you just add the meeting rooms as participants and they automatically accept and mark themselves as busy for that time period. If so setup you can easily see when a meeting room is open. It also scales to any size organization which most other systems do not.
The VPN solution should give you a NAT'd VPN address. For instance when I VPN into work I get a 10.X address. I have a 192.168 internal address and a real routable IP address from my ISP. The only one that matters for transfers is the VPN address of 10.X
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During one large layoff wave at a Cisco location the head of security found out he was going to be let go because the facility was going to be scaled back so far that they were going to simply outsource security to some outside firm. So he started to grab laptops from layedoff employees. Eventually someone noticed and when the police arrested him in the parking lot he had almost filled the trunk of his car, a Crown Victoria! (for non-American's these are cars with trunks large enough for about 4 people to lay in)
Boxed up a Sun V880 did he =)
Yep, a friend of my dad's is a Navy Captain in charge of a light destroyer. At one of the bases he regulary docks at their is a nuclear depot station. When you enter the area of the base where the depot is you must present your ID by placing it on the ground, backing up ~20 feet, placing your hands on your head, one guard checks your ID while two others cover you with machine guns. After going through this procedure and walking across the area to check some orders he went to leave the area, exact same procedure even though it was the same guards and the same captain that had completed the drill not more than 20 minutes before. When it comes to security MP's on guard do NOT screw around.
After taking the mandatory electrical safety course for IBM field technicians I can tell you that IBM's tech writers already make it sound like that is a standard feature. The amount of time devoted in that course to electrical safety and lockout procedures is around 40 pages. Since the number of PC tech's outnumber techs who work on hardwired mainframes is probably 1,000:1 this fact amused me. And then I realized that I had just lost 2 hours of my life that I would never get back.
Actually if the server is regularly getting screwed on tips and they keep good records then the employer is responsible for making up the difference between tips and the federal minimum wage. I had a friend do this, she was being worked full time on the worst shifts (overnight weekdays at an all night diner), her tips averaged out to like $2/hr, combine that with the $2.15 she was being payed and she still didn't make min wage. She was terminated without cause. She was needless to say pissed off so she sued the employer for back wages. The judge reviewed her meticulous records and forced the place to make up the difference.
I HATE the RAVE act with a supreme passion. I had the owner of a bar that occassionally hold techno events ask me to put away my glowsticks at a Bad Boy Bill concert because the local police had harassed him and insinuated that they would shut him down and try to seize his business. Their justification was that under the RAVE act glowsticks are drug paraphanalia (under Ohio Revised Code only things that can reasonably be construed as aiding in the consumption of controlled substances are considered paraphanalia) and that they could use that as indication of drug activity at the event and shutdown the concert and sieze the establishment. If the guy wasn't so nice about it I would have gone outside flagged down a police officer and asked to be arrested. Then I would have gone to the same neighborhood with my son on holoween and demanded to be arrested again.
That's from a Fark Photoshop contest. It includes several common fark themes. Domo-kun, the cliche kitty, and masterbation/sex.
We've made fusion work tons of times, there have even been short shots that have broken even on energy input vs output. The problem is it's not economic at this point. To get there we have to improve efficiency by several times and reduce input power.
It IS a word because it is in common usage and understood by the majority of the audience. It may be slang but it is inarguably a word.
Yeah solar will do SO much good in the areas hit by the blackout, not. I would guess that you have never lived in the midwest or upstate New York. Since we have to get energy from some source and the source of choice due to environmental nutjobs is fossil fuels instead of nuclear we need to burn it as efficiently as possible. That means large centralized generation facilities that are several times more efficient than smaller local plants, it is also much cheaper per ton of material removed to do scrubbing on large plants.
Sounds like the BSA audits. A company a friend works for runs all critical systems on some form of UNIX, the idiot "technician" from the BSA didn't understand that a company could run something other than windows and tried to find some way to install their scanner. He wouldn't leave for several days and the company couldn't use their systems during that time because the BSA guys were accompanied by sheriffs officers and a warrant specifying nothing be touched until the audit was completed so that no evidence was eliminited. Eventually the IT people at the company got the state crime lab computer people to tell the sheriff that the guy from the BSA was an idiot and that the company should be allowed to use their systems.
By telling them to go out and socialize, drink, and fornicate? Either that or tell em to study their textbooks. Guess it depends on if it's a liberal arts college or a tech school.
30 days may be a bit much but as I found out one day 48 hours comes close to being too little in some situations. We had a massive generator capable of running most of our 4 story suburban office building for a couple days including the datacenter, AC for the datacenter, lights, and desktops. It would not run AC for the rest of the building or the elevator. At the ~35% load we placed on it and its 500 gallon tank the engineer from Catapilar said it should run for around 48 hours. Well we called our fuel supplier to get some offroad diesel delivered the next morning, no can do, they no longer stock it!?!? WHAT! Then we tried every other listed company in the area, none of them could get to us the next day with fuel. We ended up getting a fuel company out to deliver 300 gallons from Detroit to our offices in Akron, Ohio paying a $500 delivery charge and 70 cents a mile. After that we made sure to get a contract with a fuel company that guarenteed 24 hour delivery of offroad diesel =)
I've dealt with enough telco's to know that just getting backup circuits provisioned this fast was amazing. Hell during normal operations they typically want 30-45 days notice, after a disaster they are so busy I'm suprised he even got a response from his sales rep.
During the great blackout I was able to browse the web in the dark from my laptop for several hours until the UPS at the ISP's datacenter finally gave up. They were recently purchased by a larger ISP and next time the servers and networking equipment will all be in a generator backed datacenter so I will need a fuelcell laptop instead of a battery powered one.
Well I think This would be an apropriate signal to use as a slashdot alarm for your datacenter.
Actually there are 4 major cd copy protection systems. They range in annoyance from basically non-existant to won't play on anything but a standalone cd player with no digital outs. I personally consider any copy protected disk defective and refuse to buy it. My main way to listen to music are winamp and my iPod.
Hell I'm into various forms of electronica and I usually hand my money to the guy at the door. My brother is one of the promoter/artists in the area and after the guys who own the place get paid ALL of the money goes to the artists. The other way I give them money is to hand em cash for a CD-R or their sets or by recording a set and sending them a heap of CD-R's to sell to others.
Bullshit walks. As the media companies figure out that they can't inprison all of their customers and that the mind controll devices hasn't yet been perfected they will realize that the only way to survive will be to adapt. I expect to see $10 dollar MSRP cd's by the end of next year. I also think that the iTunes music store being opened to Windows and international sales later this year will have a large impact on the industry.
Did the machine actually crash or did you just place such a large queue in place that production work was going to be effected? If the latter, like I would expect, that is nothing. Stuff backs up fairly regularly at some installations but the machines keep chugging along, if it happens too frequently the customer orders newer bigger iron and the long queues become short again. If a little workout actually brought the system down then something was terribly wrong.
It sucks. I really, really wanted it to not suck but it does. I kept installing it every update and reinstalling it every time I upgraded Mozilla. It's not even fit to be a PIM at this point, let alone as a networked collaboritive calandering solution (which it will never be, that's not the goal of the project).
These are not BS. This was an IP block set aside for future use and Apple, MS, Sun, and others decided to use it for local link zero config stuff. This was codified by the ietf and is specified in RFC 3330 and other places.
I haven't seen any other solution that works as well for colaboritive calendering. For instance you can tell Outlook to schedule an appointment and invite a bunch of people, if there is a time where everyone is available that day that is not the time you specified it will ask you if you want to reschedule to that time. It also works well when you want to intetgrate meeting room checkout, you just add the meeting rooms as participants and they automatically accept and mark themselves as busy for that time period. If so setup you can easily see when a meeting room is open. It also scales to any size organization which most other systems do not.
Then you've never seen Outlook used to its fullest in an Exchange environment.
The VPN solution should give you a NAT'd VPN address. For instance when I VPN into work I get a 10.X address. I have a 192.168 internal address and a real routable IP address from my ISP. The only one that matters for transfers is the VPN address of 10.X