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Repeat after me: "IT IS MY NETWORK. It is my computer. It is my browser. If the web site operator doesn't want me to view the content for free, then they should not place it on the web in a public location."
What do they propose to do about ad blocking on a network level? I have several thousand users, and like it or not, they are all filtered. There is so much junk out there, I cannot afford to not filter this kind of crap.
Go ahead and block my FF , I'll use IE and still not see your flash/js ads.
j
I have a wan that is nationwide, and it is basically the backbone for the entire company. When I have a problem, I get a notification email from my monitoring system, my provider, and then they call me, and an hour later (no matter what has happened) they call me again. When they have information about my issue, they call, when they don't they still call and tell me they are working on it.
They can also give me service where no one else can. I have T1s in LA , Ft Worth, but I also have them in the middle of nowhere GA, MS, and AL. Can the guys here that say they can provide cheap service, provide it in all of these locations? IF so , I would love to talk to them. But DSL and cable is not available where 90% of my plants are located. And wireless is not feasible when you get in to the locations that are in the mountains.
My prices for T1s vary from $400 for locations that are near a city, and $800 when you have to back haul it a long way. Also, point to point t1s are out, unless you are just going across town, then how do you setup your DR site? Mine runs over mpls using bgp. The t1s terminate in the largest local city, then they send it back to me over their ip network. It is so sweet, my NOC is no longer the center of the world when it comes to the network. When it was frame-relay, it was so horrible.
As far as parent saying "it'll be up in less than 10 minutes and mean it", that is most definately the case. I have talked numerous times to escalation managers that have told me , " you will be receiving a call in 5 minutes, if you do not receive a call in 5 minutes, here is my number to call me back", and guess what , sometimes I can barely hang up when I get a call from a person saying they will have my t1 up. I guess this level of service is to be expected when you have a $40k a month phone bill. jk
The extra conversion savings comes from the ups systems also. How many times to you convert from ac to dc? AC from wall, converted to DC for your ups, converted to AC for PC power supply, converted to DC again for internal PC usage.
Alot of power is lost in the conversion process in the form of heat, and then you consume more power to removed the heat. We always had our UPS in another room, with a DC converter right beside it, the we wired the DC straight to the datacenter to the equipment. The room where the UPS and DC converters were stayed hot, but our servers and equipment stayed nice and cool.
It also simplifies wiring the equipment. Take 2 DC converters, and daisy chain redundant power supplies to each machine. Now you have 2 wires instead of 2-3 per machine.
I used to do contract work for a lot of dentists and doctors, most of them already had a thin film of some sort that they put on the KB, and they also put them on the touchpads. The touchpads were easy to keep clean.
I have noticed that now that I stay pretty much in one place, I do not get nearly as sick as often as I used to. I used to get sick 4-5 times a year, but now it is very seldom. I used to see many people cough/sneeze into their hand, and then use that same hand to move the mouse.
I used to carry hand sanitizer with me, but i dont think it worked that well.
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Small Correction: Repeat after me: "IT IS MY NETWORK. It is my computer. It is my browser. If the web site operator doesn't want me to view the content for free, then they should not place it on the web in a public location."
What do they propose to do about ad blocking on a network level? I have several thousand users, and like it or not, they are all filtered. There is so much junk out there, I cannot afford to not filter this kind of crap.
Go ahead and block my FF , I'll use IE and still not see your flash/js ads.
j
Exactly...Almost...
I have a wan that is nationwide, and it is basically the backbone for the entire company. When I have a problem, I get a notification email from my monitoring system, my provider, and then they call me, and an hour later (no matter what has happened) they call me again. When they have information about my issue, they call, when they don't they still call and tell me they are working on it.
They can also give me service where no one else can. I have T1s in LA , Ft Worth, but I also have them in the middle of nowhere GA, MS, and AL. Can the guys here that say they can provide cheap service, provide it in all of these locations? IF so , I would love to talk to them. But DSL and cable is not available where 90% of my plants are located. And wireless is not feasible when you get in to the locations that are in the mountains.
My prices for T1s vary from $400 for locations that are near a city, and $800 when you have to back haul it a long way. Also, point to point t1s are out, unless you are just going across town, then how do you setup your DR site? Mine runs over mpls using bgp. The t1s terminate in the largest local city, then they send it back to me over their ip network. It is so sweet, my NOC is no longer the center of the world when it comes to the network. When it was frame-relay, it was so horrible.
As far as parent saying "it'll be up in less than 10 minutes and mean it", that is most definately the case. I have talked numerous times to escalation managers that have told me , " you will be receiving a call in 5 minutes, if you do not receive a call in 5 minutes, here is my number to call me back", and guess what , sometimes I can barely hang up when I get a call from a person saying they will have my t1 up. I guess this level of service is to be expected when you have a $40k a month phone bill.
jk
The extra conversion savings comes from the ups systems also. How many times to you convert from ac to dc? AC from wall, converted to DC for your ups, converted to AC for PC power supply, converted to DC again for internal PC usage.
Alot of power is lost in the conversion process in the form of heat, and then you consume more power to removed the heat. We always had our UPS in another room, with a DC converter right beside it, the we wired the DC straight to the datacenter to the equipment. The room where the UPS and DC converters were stayed hot, but our servers and equipment stayed nice and cool.
It also simplifies wiring the equipment. Take 2 DC converters, and daisy chain redundant power supplies to each machine. Now you have 2 wires instead of 2-3 per machine.
J
I used to do contract work for a lot of dentists and doctors, most of them already had a thin film of some sort that they put on the KB, and they also put them on the touchpads. The touchpads were easy to keep clean. I have noticed that now that I stay pretty much in one place, I do not get nearly as sick as often as I used to. I used to get sick 4-5 times a year, but now it is very seldom. I used to see many people cough/sneeze into their hand, and then use that same hand to move the mouse. I used to carry hand sanitizer with me, but i dont think it worked that well.
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