Especially if you work across timezones and others aren't aware and ring you. It's very easy to get into the "I'll just sort out this email" and find that you've lost your whole evening working
The failure mode of flash memory is to become read only. If you couldn't access it after a week it is NOT the flash memory that failed. Most likely it's the controller
Ok, lets lay down some facts. Many times on Top Gear they have said that on their track, otherwise normal cars get between 1 and 4 MPG. Yes, those are the numbers that have been mentioned.
This is because, _IT'S A TRACK_, and the cars are driven as such, with the pedal to the floor the whole time.
This, unsurprisingly, makes cars less efficient than they would be on the road. So, it's VERY likely the Tesla would only go 55 miles on their track. I'm surprised it goes that far to be honest.
Under normal conditions I'm also sure it does go about as far as Tesla say.
Personally, I'll likely never buy an electric car. Unless you can go from empty to full in less than 5 mins and there are charging stations at every petrol station why would I bother?
Everyone says they are good for the environment, but until we work out some better ways of recycling old batteries, and work out a way to make the battery pack in these cars last 20 years, are they really any better? We're just making it China & India's problem by shipping all our toxic stuff to them.
Electric is at best a stop-gap until hydrogen, whose sole remaining challenge is how to effectively get it.
Intel NIC's are held in high regard because a) they are fixed when a problem is found, and b) the bugs are documented.
You should have a look through some of the CPU errata on Intel's site. it'll open your eyes as to just how many bugs a desktop CPU has even once it's shipped
That's exactly what I was going to sugest. I've got one of the logic probes already and they are great for the price. I'm not sure the rigol scopes are still as upgradeable as they once were but they are still a cheap 50Mhz scope
Which is fine until you need those features. They may have also taken 20-30 mins to make absolutely sure they were doing the right thing and it wasn't going to break anything. Where as you would just change it, and see what happens and if it broke something, then you'd look to fix it.
Not breaking something in the first place is something you learn after you've broken a couple of large systems by not fully understanding the problem
Except it's not dual band, if you realy want to get decent N transfer speeds you need 5Ghz support, even more so if you plan to connect any Apple hardware, since it'll only connect at 300Mb/s on 5Ghz
Not only that, but if your software is smart it only greylists server that it hasn't ever sent an email to anyway. So after the first week of being installed all your important customers are automatically whitelisted
What annoys me (and I live in NZ) is that while Kim Dotcom is almost certainly a sleezy guy and hardly trustworthy, he didn't break any laws in NZ.
The NZ law enforcement agencies should have told the US agencies to get lost and released a press statement giving the details.
Of course, why the government allowed his residency in the first place is my real concern, given his criminal background. I guess promising to invest 10 mill in a country of 4 million people buy's a lot of bygones
Since people have been throwing around numbers of $20k just to release an update on XBLA then I would suggest even if there is more piracy, profit is probably going to be greater.
Of course, you're assuming an either/or situation when it's not. If this comes about it will be one more platform developers will need to port too, and if they don't then their profit from the platform is zero, if they do it'll be more than zero (assuming they sell in the first place.
Well, you see officers have these things called eyes.
If said officer has a pistol to hand he can absolutely get it directed at the suspect before a suspect can reach into a bag, find a gun and remove it from the bag.
From there all the officer has to do is wait and see what emerges from the bag, and pull the trigger if appropriate.
Obviously warning that is the suspect does not cease his actions the officer will fire.
Of course there is also the possibility of using non-lethal force to subdue a suspect
Personally I would say pull multiple cables to everything that isn't moving.
In a couple of years time when they decide to move some offices around there is nothing worse than find the old office you only pulled 4 ports too now has to support 6 people
It always bugged me that the Earth ships had fixed weapons front and rear only, if you're building a space warship, you would absolutely need full 360 degree (on all axis) weapons capability.
Imagine a WW2 era bomber that only had guns a tthe front and read
He did (well something like it), it's in the commentary for one of the episodes on DVD. He also said it with sarcasm (as was apparently not made obvious enough in the parent post).
In the commentary it's said as something like "We took artistic license", knowing full well there is no noise in space but putting it anyway or there would be whole sections of the show that were silent
So, the summary itself says they DO include a microSD slot behind the cover.
Yet everyone is bitching like this is an iPhone with no expansion possible...
Honestly I'd rather not have an ugly SD card slot on the outside of my phone, they are huge. A microSD slot... yeah ok, but it's still better hidden since you very rarely need to swap out the card.... which is exactly what this phone has.
The irony here is, the Broadcom drivers are fine, except the lack of an accelerated X driver. The driver is question of the the USB hub/NIC combo chip that isn't a Broadcom chip at all
Unless specifically stated, a fireproof safe will not protect computer media. All they are rated for is to not exceed the ignition point of paper (233C or 451F).
Also a flood or decent natural event won't care about your safe.
A deposit box at a bank is the only way to go, and don't make it the local branch, somewhere 30mins drive away is a better option. You might also want to make sure the bank is in it's own building, not in a mall or and shared tenancy. An Earthquake could happily destroy/damage a mall and your house, however if the bank is in it's own building, even if it's damaged the bank themselves will be able to recovery anything they want and not be beholden to another party
The schematics show that when the ethernet chip (also a USB hub) is missing there are two SMD resistors that connect the actual port up to the single USB pins on the main SOC. When the chip is present those resistors are left off and that port goes into the ethernet chip to give both ethernet connectivity and two additional USB ports.
No idea what the white blob is, but it's not something required to make the USB port work.
No idea why the CSI connector isn't attached, seemingly there is nothing stopping it working if the header is attached as it's completely supplied by the main SOC
Uhh, what.... stop the SQL server to back it up.... have you never used SQL before?
SQL can happily back itself up while running. In fact any decent backup program can backup the whole system while SQL is running and still get a clean DB copy
Everyone's says this, but without a RAID card that can rebuild the array _CLEANLY_ then this really isn't the answer.
The answer is to either, take the whole server, or backup offsite.
If you have all/most of your systems virtualized then restoring them is simple since they aren't tied to hardware.
Taking workstations is madness, even if you have some lead time, there will be more important things to take, staff shouldn't store critical data on their workstations and if they must, there should be a robust backup solution in place (which also goes off-site
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This, exactly this....
Especially if you work across timezones and others aren't aware and ring you. It's very easy to get into the "I'll just sort out this email" and find that you've lost your whole evening working
The failure mode of flash memory is to become read only. If you couldn't access it after a week it is NOT the flash memory that failed. Most likely it's the controller
Ok, lets lay down some facts. Many times on Top Gear they have said that on their track, otherwise normal cars get between 1 and 4 MPG. Yes, those are the numbers that have been mentioned.
This is because, _IT'S A TRACK_, and the cars are driven as such, with the pedal to the floor the whole time.
This, unsurprisingly, makes cars less efficient than they would be on the road. So, it's VERY likely the Tesla would only go 55 miles on their track. I'm surprised it goes that far to be honest.
Under normal conditions I'm also sure it does go about as far as Tesla say.
Personally, I'll likely never buy an electric car. Unless you can go from empty to full in less than 5 mins and there are charging stations at every petrol station why would I bother?
Everyone says they are good for the environment, but until we work out some better ways of recycling old batteries, and work out a way to make the battery pack in these cars last 20 years, are they really any better? We're just making it China & India's problem by shipping all our toxic stuff to them.
Electric is at best a stop-gap until hydrogen, whose sole remaining challenge is how to effectively get it.
Intel NIC's are held in high regard because a) they are fixed when a problem is found, and b) the bugs are documented.
You should have a look through some of the CPU errata on Intel's site. it'll open your eyes as to just how many bugs a desktop CPU has even once it's shipped
Wow, high horse much...
Go and READ the article... I know, it's a crazy thought. What you said is not even remotely what's going on.
That's exactly what I was going to sugest. I've got one of the logic probes already and they are great for the price. I'm not sure the rigol scopes are still as upgradeable as they once were but they are still a cheap 50Mhz scope
Which is fine until you need those features. They may have also taken 20-30 mins to make absolutely sure they were doing the right thing and it wasn't going to break anything. Where as you would just change it, and see what happens and if it broke something, then you'd look to fix it.
Not breaking something in the first place is something you learn after you've broken a couple of large systems by not fully understanding the problem
Except it's not dual band, if you realy want to get decent N transfer speeds you need 5Ghz support, even more so if you plan to connect any Apple hardware, since it'll only connect at 300Mb/s on 5Ghz
Not only that, but if your software is smart it only greylists server that it hasn't ever sent an email to anyway. So after the first week of being installed all your important customers are automatically whitelisted
What annoys me (and I live in NZ) is that while Kim Dotcom is almost certainly a sleezy guy and hardly trustworthy, he didn't break any laws in NZ.
The NZ law enforcement agencies should have told the US agencies to get lost and released a press statement giving the details.
Of course, why the government allowed his residency in the first place is my real concern, given his criminal background. I guess promising to invest 10 mill in a country of 4 million people buy's a lot of bygones
Since people have been throwing around numbers of $20k just to release an update on XBLA then I would suggest even if there is more piracy, profit is probably going to be greater.
Of course, you're assuming an either/or situation when it's not. If this comes about it will be one more platform developers will need to port too, and if they don't then their profit from the platform is zero, if they do it'll be more than zero (assuming they sell in the first place.
You define remote as internet, I define remote as not on the local machine, which of us is right?
The Xerox Star had network capability, it certainly could have pulled data from another computer
Well, you see officers have these things called eyes.
If said officer has a pistol to hand he can absolutely get it directed at the suspect before a suspect can reach into a bag, find a gun and remove it from the bag.
From there all the officer has to do is wait and see what emerges from the bag, and pull the trigger if appropriate.
Obviously warning that is the suspect does not cease his actions the officer will fire.
Of course there is also the possibility of using non-lethal force to subdue a suspect
This is exactly why most RAID cards to patrol reads during low activity.
Of course, that assumes you use a real RAID card rather than software RAID. I'm not aware of any software raid implementation that does patrol reads
No UPS will be good enough for that. It'll be forever switching to battery when a big machine is switched on.
You need to isolate all your heavy machinery from all your other outlets. Course any decent electrician will quote that as a matter of course anyway
Personally I would say pull multiple cables to everything that isn't moving.
In a couple of years time when they decide to move some offices around there is nothing worse than find the old office you only pulled 4 ports too now has to support 6 people
It always bugged me that the Earth ships had fixed weapons front and rear only, if you're building a space warship, you would absolutely need full 360 degree (on all axis) weapons capability.
Imagine a WW2 era bomber that only had guns a tthe front and read
He did (well something like it), it's in the commentary for one of the episodes on DVD. He also said it with sarcasm (as was apparently not made obvious enough in the parent post).
In the commentary it's said as something like "We took artistic license", knowing full well there is no noise in space but putting it anyway or there would be whole sections of the show that were silent
So, the summary itself says they DO include a microSD slot behind the cover.
Yet everyone is bitching like this is an iPhone with no expansion possible...
Honestly I'd rather not have an ugly SD card slot on the outside of my phone, they are huge. A microSD slot... yeah ok, but it's still better hidden since you very rarely need to swap out the card.... which is exactly what this phone has.
How is this even a story?
That's true, but it's usually for any number of other reasons than this :)
The irony here is, the Broadcom drivers are fine, except the lack of an accelerated X driver. The driver is question of the the USB hub/NIC combo chip that isn't a Broadcom chip at all
THIS!
Unless specifically stated, a fireproof safe will not protect computer media. All they are rated for is to not exceed the ignition point of paper (233C or 451F).
Also a flood or decent natural event won't care about your safe.
A deposit box at a bank is the only way to go, and don't make it the local branch, somewhere 30mins drive away is a better option. You might also want to make sure the bank is in it's own building, not in a mall or and shared tenancy. An Earthquake could happily destroy/damage a mall and your house, however if the bank is in it's own building, even if it's damaged the bank themselves will be able to recovery anything they want and not be beholden to another party
The schematics show that when the ethernet chip (also a USB hub) is missing there are two SMD resistors that connect the actual port up to the single USB pins on the main SOC. When the chip is present those resistors are left off and that port goes into the ethernet chip to give both ethernet connectivity and two additional USB ports.
No idea what the white blob is, but it's not something required to make the USB port work.
No idea why the CSI connector isn't attached, seemingly there is nothing stopping it working if the header is attached as it's completely supplied by the main SOC
Uhh, what.... stop the SQL server to back it up.... have you never used SQL before?
SQL can happily back itself up while running. In fact any decent backup program can backup the whole system while SQL is running and still get a clean DB copy
Everyone's says this, but without a RAID card that can rebuild the array _CLEANLY_ then this really isn't the answer.
The answer is to either, take the whole server, or backup offsite.
If you have all/most of your systems virtualized then restoring them is simple since they aren't tied to hardware.
Taking workstations is madness, even if you have some lead time, there will be more important things to take, staff shouldn't store critical data on their workstations and if they must, there should be a robust backup solution in place (which also goes off-site