It's utter insanity to place a kill switch on a system designed to be fault resistant. It defeats the whole purpose of such a system. If anything, I can only imagine the internet will become vastly more important during an emergency. It isn't TV, but the government wants desperately to control this ever more relevant media source. I remember when we were asking if the government should regulate the internet. There was a resounding, "No! Of course not." and this is one of the reasons why. They do not understand it and will break it.
One of the beautiful things about pre-intel macs is their great digital signal processing capabilities. Just leave OSX on it, throw on Guitar Rig and Pro tools, and offer remastering to local bands.
You could use it as a web server if ya want to...but why do something with it you could do with any old PC? Work with the strengths of the hardware, make it into an uber oscilloscope, plug in firewire pro audio equipment...I had a dual cpu G5 for awhile, and played with every flavour of linux I could find, but none of them worked with the hardware to a satisfactory degree. Many wouldn't even install.
I loved playing with Guitar Rig on the thing though....it's a fantastic piece of pro audio kit, and can robustly emulate and interconnect with many more.
Good luck playing around.
If two bars are displayed erroneously on the screen, this is not an optical illusion, but a calibration issue. I think someone got this wrong somewhere along the way...
All you can do technically is relative to their default security. Even if you had remote desktop enabled, it won't work unless they have a router port forwarding to your laptop on the right port, or in a DMZ.
You can find the IP address owner, and send an email to abuse@(insert name of ISP)
Many ISP's will respond to help you ID the owner of the internet account. There's no easy technical solution beyond this.
Good luck.
Alternately, just express to the authorities that these criminals are threatening your intellectual property which you fantasize to be worth hundreds of millions of lost profits which you may have otherwise reaped. Tell them you are the new Van Gough. Don't allow them to question it.It is a fact.
SCO must really hate *nix to run it into the ground like this. Are we sure they're not somehow a subterfuge branch of MS, or Apple?
I smell, well, not necessarily a conspiracy, but certainly a reasonable line of questioning as to their motive. It doesn't seem like genuine patent trolling to me....
Text messaging should really be nearly free. It can't possibly use as much overhead as a voice call...yet...I am intrigued to hear the suggestion that it is anything but obscenely expensive somewhere in the world.
RAID was at one time an acronym for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks...but I guess someone found that an embarrassing affront to any intelligent being...yet it keeps happening.
Human intelligence being insulted...that is.
There's this great invention discovered just this millennium most commonly referred to as the password. If the interloper is circumventing them, you should simply send an email to your client mailing list(assuming such an entity exists) informing them not to pay anything to your old I assume now defunct company.
I would recommend that you send the same email to your previous vendors.
At least then you've fulfilled your care of duty.
Outside of this you can panic and run around in curlicues until hitting the nearest brick wall, which will hopefully have a calming effect.
If you freak out the terrorists win...
Yes, because the general public should pay for the crimes of the public at large. It seems to me that people are going to copy information, and we're taking away a great deal from legitimate information sharing to satisfy the demands of some very moneyed interests. This isn't right, of course. It seems to be becoming the way of things though. It's also a great way of taking power away from people and giving it to wealthy organizations. They are sad because they lost money they pretended they could have made in some lab conditions. As long as the governments get a share...hey...that's better for everyone...yeah?
No.
But if we pretend hard enough and negotiate the terrain we can laugh nervously and talk about how this utter waste of resources has bought about a better tomorrow.
If we don't they'll find out we may have downloaded a song or a show.
That would really be tragic and potentially ruin our lives.
Ironic.
I've been using Freelink: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php?title=Category:FreeLink
on my LS Pro for a couple of years now with no hassle. I replaced the 500GB SATA with a 750GB, I get about 12MB/s throughput and unless it loses power, no issues. Then I just have to like, push the power button.
I also have Webmin installed so it's easy to add services. The modification requires some technical skills, but there are step by step instructions for the process.
We just use the type and serialize the numbers, usually LT-01, LT-02, LT-03... for laptops , WS-01, WS-02, WS-03...for workstations. If they are a multi-site client we would prefix the name with the location, Caloundra=CAL-WS-01....Our clients are all SMB and rarely have more than 100 stations. If they did, well...prefix a zero and so on and so forth. Naming by user or location within the building is usually not a good idea as these things change often.
good luck.
I'm waiting patiently for google to become self aware so I can teach it Asimovs laws, and then how they can go terribly wrong. For Instance, Disney might make a movie starring Robin Williams...and the sequal could be a vehicle for Whoppie Goldberg. (SP?)
Anyhow thanks.
I'd take a look at Novell Directory Services. I think it's called eDirectory now. Although the company I work for has almost exclusively windows based environments, I'm not a fan of the Jet database engine or its derivitaves many of these services are based on. If Windows users and PC's are in the minority, NDS would probably be an ideal solution.
As long as it's not a noisy desktop replacement, you can hook it up to your HDTV, throw on XBMC and have a nice quiet little media server client.
That's what I did. Works well. Much more quiet than the XBOX 360, and considerably more versatile.
Go with an entry level enterprise server, like a Dell T300w/ 5 Yr. NBD warranty, throw on Xenserver 5, Spring for 2003 Standard, and possibly 2008. Install both OS's, develop for 2003 with the idea of migrating to 2008 as you can run both OS's live and migrate at your leisure. At the other end place a Wyse terminal(or use the current workstation as an RDP client if it's not too flakey.) With an ADSL connection he can have a consistent environment from work or home, and more terminals can be added as necesary. I know you could have done this for less than 5 grand last year. Prices have changed, but it would probably still be viable. 15 year solutions aren't easy these days. Lifecycles have diminished with price.
You have to get yourself out there like a good IT company. You do it by word of mouth, and advertising when you want to reach some new people. Experience goes a long way in IT, but you've got to be able to demonstrate a progression. The more success you can show, the more employers are willing to realign their criteria when looking at your resume.
You have to be good at what you do, as your record will reflect that. If you're very good, your formal education won't matter, but you've got to have real world success to compansate for that.
You can't walk in and say, "I've got a GED and I like computers...also I can run scripts."
You need to be able to demonstrate that experience. You get it through hobby and work. You probably need more of both though than your college educated counterparts.
The true nature of information is that it can be used as a commodity, but if you eavesdrop...you as a citizen can get it for free, and that's all been well and good, unless you used it to bring down your country. Until it was defined as a commodity by corporate interests we could all send and recieve any information we had freely.
Now we don't get anything for the information we disseminate...but pay for the information we want.
Awesome...just like buying water.
When you hack into Joe Keggers email...he can't go to the cops...they don't give a fuck. But when you find out the truth about someone in power, and they don't want you to...you pay.
Thus the lesson is, be careful how you distribute information you think people should have access to, but which may cause you to land in jail or prison, and/or pay heavy fines.
Oh...and people often suck. And the world is a bit fucked up.
Don't get caught up in the quagmire.
Bring a shaker of salt and pepper, state that the salt represents 0's and the pepper represents 1's. Spill them out on a table, and with a razor blade start chopping and filing them into thin lines. And say, "This is what I do for the scientest so they can work."
I'm sure the teacher will be appreciative and ask you to come back next year.
Almost every invention and discovery is based on knowledge and mechanisms built in the past. Like the water and air, corporate America seems hell bent on packaging everything that in actuality is ours for free, and sell it back to us.
Until this century though, there was no way to make us buy it. We could just use it and we did.
The intention of patenting a device has gone well past it's intended implementation.
It's ruined, and we just keep on using it. Why is that?
I've been in IT for about 2 decades. I've always had to deal with arrogant emotionally retarded types who feel the need to be precieved as the smartest person in the room. I'm one of them, but emotionally not so retarded. I understand where my compulsions come from, and can usually maintain my irrational assholery. I never assume a client is stupid, only ignorant.
The best tactic is to stick to the facts, stay calm, and hand them a bone ever so often. Don't try to impress the geek, talk to the emotionally stunted kid into helping you.
They will, every time. They want to.
Just be a buddy and hook them up with honesty about your situation, explaining the facts with as many detailed relevant details as possible. Don't waste their time. Present them a problem and ask them to provide a solution. That's the deal.
Don't respond to their little anger. It will only grow larger.
They'll know soon enough you've got their number. Now you got a geek working for you. Congratulations for leveraging your investment.
It's not difficult to find POS software that will turn even a very old workstation into a cash register. Quite often for free. Once you're there, backing up, analyzing, and sharing the data becomes very easy.
Most entry level cash registers don't keep a record of transactions. They leave that to other entities.
If you register has an RS-232 (9 or 25 pin serial port) or other IO port, you can probably give out the model number and find more bickering, though eventually usually help here.
Consoles are handy for gaming. I think the Wii demonstrates this well. Devices designed for gaming will always be the best sort of gaming platforms. Their specialization will continue to keep them relevant. People are learning about the advantages of RISC processing and specialized CODEC hardware. It's not a new phenomenon. You look at the PC specs required to play most PC games, then look at the specs of the consoles it was developed for, and you'll find a huge and expensive discrepency.
I'm pretty sure because of this specializations, consoles will continue to hold their own.
Most of us hacker types grew up believing information should be free, like water, or air. Of course they're trying to can everything these days.
Back in the days of Windows 3.1, a large portion of small computer shops had 1 legal copy and put it on all of their machines. The OS became ubiquitous.
Now for the hard part, making people pay for what they knew they liked and needed.
Convincing people that they had to pay for something that was previously free, and that in "reality" they were stealing is a hard sell.
Honest people using the software for business and profit should and usually do pay. Saying we lost this imaginary money we never had is blind, expecting people to believe it is a fact is foolish.
Like any corporation they want more money, even though they're doing well, and certainly are more than reasonably compensated for their time and effort. They want more...and more...and more.
When people own information, it's like them owning the air. It's taking it away from everybody, and selling it to the people who can afford it.
I've always thought that the mutually exclusive nature of science and religion was perhaps elevated by example to the minds of people as fact. I've always considered it a false dichotomy. We all know the bible was written, revised, and published by man. Men who lived a long time ago and were unaware of many things we consider common knowledge today. Written for people who were even more ignorant.
If we focused as much on the points where the Bible is viable as much as we focus on the points on which we disagree, I think everyone would be more tolerant. Atheists could stand Christians more if they lived by their principals. Christians could stand atheists more if they really had the higher ground. But we love conflict. Without it there is no story to tell in the minds of most people.
And therein lies the bullshit tragedy of religion versus science.
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It's utter insanity to place a kill switch on a system designed to be fault resistant. It defeats the whole purpose of such a system. If anything, I can only imagine the internet will become vastly more important during an emergency. It isn't TV, but the government wants desperately to control this ever more relevant media source. I remember when we were asking if the government should regulate the internet. There was a resounding, "No! Of course not." and this is one of the reasons why. They do not understand it and will break it.
One of the beautiful things about pre-intel macs is their great digital signal processing capabilities. Just leave OSX on it, throw on Guitar Rig and Pro tools, and offer remastering to local bands. You could use it as a web server if ya want to...but why do something with it you could do with any old PC? Work with the strengths of the hardware, make it into an uber oscilloscope, plug in firewire pro audio equipment...I had a dual cpu G5 for awhile, and played with every flavour of linux I could find, but none of them worked with the hardware to a satisfactory degree. Many wouldn't even install. I loved playing with Guitar Rig on the thing though....it's a fantastic piece of pro audio kit, and can robustly emulate and interconnect with many more. Good luck playing around.
If two bars are displayed erroneously on the screen, this is not an optical illusion, but a calibration issue. I think someone got this wrong somewhere along the way...
All you can do technically is relative to their default security. Even if you had remote desktop enabled, it won't work unless they have a router port forwarding to your laptop on the right port, or in a DMZ. You can find the IP address owner, and send an email to abuse@(insert name of ISP) Many ISP's will respond to help you ID the owner of the internet account. There's no easy technical solution beyond this. Good luck. Alternately, just express to the authorities that these criminals are threatening your intellectual property which you fantasize to be worth hundreds of millions of lost profits which you may have otherwise reaped. Tell them you are the new Van Gough. Don't allow them to question it.It is a fact.
SCO must really hate *nix to run it into the ground like this. Are we sure they're not somehow a subterfuge branch of MS, or Apple? I smell, well, not necessarily a conspiracy, but certainly a reasonable line of questioning as to their motive. It doesn't seem like genuine patent trolling to me....
Text messaging should really be nearly free. It can't possibly use as much overhead as a voice call...yet...I am intrigued to hear the suggestion that it is anything but obscenely expensive somewhere in the world. RAID was at one time an acronym for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks...but I guess someone found that an embarrassing affront to any intelligent being...yet it keeps happening. Human intelligence being insulted...that is.
There's this great invention discovered just this millennium most commonly referred to as the password. If the interloper is circumventing them, you should simply send an email to your client mailing list(assuming such an entity exists) informing them not to pay anything to your old I assume now defunct company. I would recommend that you send the same email to your previous vendors. At least then you've fulfilled your care of duty. Outside of this you can panic and run around in curlicues until hitting the nearest brick wall, which will hopefully have a calming effect. If you freak out the terrorists win...
Yes, because the general public should pay for the crimes of the public at large. It seems to me that people are going to copy information, and we're taking away a great deal from legitimate information sharing to satisfy the demands of some very moneyed interests. This isn't right, of course. It seems to be becoming the way of things though. It's also a great way of taking power away from people and giving it to wealthy organizations. They are sad because they lost money they pretended they could have made in some lab conditions. As long as the governments get a share...hey...that's better for everyone...yeah? No. But if we pretend hard enough and negotiate the terrain we can laugh nervously and talk about how this utter waste of resources has bought about a better tomorrow. If we don't they'll find out we may have downloaded a song or a show. That would really be tragic and potentially ruin our lives. Ironic.
I've been using Freelink: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php?title=Category:FreeLink on my LS Pro for a couple of years now with no hassle. I replaced the 500GB SATA with a 750GB, I get about 12MB/s throughput and unless it loses power, no issues. Then I just have to like, push the power button. I also have Webmin installed so it's easy to add services. The modification requires some technical skills, but there are step by step instructions for the process.
We just use the type and serialize the numbers, usually LT-01, LT-02, LT-03... for laptops , WS-01, WS-02, WS-03...for workstations. If they are a multi-site client we would prefix the name with the location, Caloundra=CAL-WS-01....Our clients are all SMB and rarely have more than 100 stations. If they did, well...prefix a zero and so on and so forth. Naming by user or location within the building is usually not a good idea as these things change often. good luck.
I'm waiting patiently for google to become self aware so I can teach it Asimovs laws, and then how they can go terribly wrong. For Instance, Disney might make a movie starring Robin Williams...and the sequal could be a vehicle for Whoppie Goldberg. (SP?) Anyhow thanks.
I'd take a look at Novell Directory Services. I think it's called eDirectory now. Although the company I work for has almost exclusively windows based environments, I'm not a fan of the Jet database engine or its derivitaves many of these services are based on. If Windows users and PC's are in the minority, NDS would probably be an ideal solution.
As long as it's not a noisy desktop replacement, you can hook it up to your HDTV, throw on XBMC and have a nice quiet little media server client. That's what I did. Works well. Much more quiet than the XBOX 360, and considerably more versatile.
They're not a problem if you have a NBD warranty which can be extended at the end of the warranty lifecycle. They're not even an issue.
Go with an entry level enterprise server, like a Dell T300w/ 5 Yr. NBD warranty, throw on Xenserver 5, Spring for 2003 Standard, and possibly 2008. Install both OS's, develop for 2003 with the idea of migrating to 2008 as you can run both OS's live and migrate at your leisure. At the other end place a Wyse terminal(or use the current workstation as an RDP client if it's not too flakey.) With an ADSL connection he can have a consistent environment from work or home, and more terminals can be added as necesary. I know you could have done this for less than 5 grand last year. Prices have changed, but it would probably still be viable. 15 year solutions aren't easy these days. Lifecycles have diminished with price.
You have to get yourself out there like a good IT company. You do it by word of mouth, and advertising when you want to reach some new people. Experience goes a long way in IT, but you've got to be able to demonstrate a progression. The more success you can show, the more employers are willing to realign their criteria when looking at your resume. You have to be good at what you do, as your record will reflect that. If you're very good, your formal education won't matter, but you've got to have real world success to compansate for that. You can't walk in and say, "I've got a GED and I like computers...also I can run scripts." You need to be able to demonstrate that experience. You get it through hobby and work. You probably need more of both though than your college educated counterparts.
The true nature of information is that it can be used as a commodity, but if you eavesdrop...you as a citizen can get it for free, and that's all been well and good, unless you used it to bring down your country. Until it was defined as a commodity by corporate interests we could all send and recieve any information we had freely. Now we don't get anything for the information we disseminate...but pay for the information we want. Awesome...just like buying water. When you hack into Joe Keggers email...he can't go to the cops...they don't give a fuck. But when you find out the truth about someone in power, and they don't want you to...you pay. Thus the lesson is, be careful how you distribute information you think people should have access to, but which may cause you to land in jail or prison, and/or pay heavy fines. Oh...and people often suck. And the world is a bit fucked up. Don't get caught up in the quagmire.
How else are they going to sell XP, and mark down that Vista is selling...just...just great.
Bring a shaker of salt and pepper, state that the salt represents 0's and the pepper represents 1's. Spill them out on a table, and with a razor blade start chopping and filing them into thin lines. And say, "This is what I do for the scientest so they can work." I'm sure the teacher will be appreciative and ask you to come back next year.
Almost every invention and discovery is based on knowledge and mechanisms built in the past. Like the water and air, corporate America seems hell bent on packaging everything that in actuality is ours for free, and sell it back to us. Until this century though, there was no way to make us buy it. We could just use it and we did. The intention of patenting a device has gone well past it's intended implementation. It's ruined, and we just keep on using it. Why is that?
I've been in IT for about 2 decades. I've always had to deal with arrogant emotionally retarded types who feel the need to be precieved as the smartest person in the room. I'm one of them, but emotionally not so retarded. I understand where my compulsions come from, and can usually maintain my irrational assholery. I never assume a client is stupid, only ignorant. The best tactic is to stick to the facts, stay calm, and hand them a bone ever so often. Don't try to impress the geek, talk to the emotionally stunted kid into helping you. They will, every time. They want to. Just be a buddy and hook them up with honesty about your situation, explaining the facts with as many detailed relevant details as possible. Don't waste their time. Present them a problem and ask them to provide a solution. That's the deal. Don't respond to their little anger. It will only grow larger. They'll know soon enough you've got their number. Now you got a geek working for you. Congratulations for leveraging your investment.
It's not difficult to find POS software that will turn even a very old workstation into a cash register. Quite often for free. Once you're there, backing up, analyzing, and sharing the data becomes very easy. Most entry level cash registers don't keep a record of transactions. They leave that to other entities. If you register has an RS-232 (9 or 25 pin serial port) or other IO port, you can probably give out the model number and find more bickering, though eventually usually help here.
Consoles are handy for gaming. I think the Wii demonstrates this well. Devices designed for gaming will always be the best sort of gaming platforms. Their specialization will continue to keep them relevant. People are learning about the advantages of RISC processing and specialized CODEC hardware. It's not a new phenomenon. You look at the PC specs required to play most PC games, then look at the specs of the consoles it was developed for, and you'll find a huge and expensive discrepency. I'm pretty sure because of this specializations, consoles will continue to hold their own.
Most of us hacker types grew up believing information should be free, like water, or air. Of course they're trying to can everything these days. Back in the days of Windows 3.1, a large portion of small computer shops had 1 legal copy and put it on all of their machines. The OS became ubiquitous. Now for the hard part, making people pay for what they knew they liked and needed. Convincing people that they had to pay for something that was previously free, and that in "reality" they were stealing is a hard sell. Honest people using the software for business and profit should and usually do pay. Saying we lost this imaginary money we never had is blind, expecting people to believe it is a fact is foolish. Like any corporation they want more money, even though they're doing well, and certainly are more than reasonably compensated for their time and effort. They want more...and more...and more. When people own information, it's like them owning the air. It's taking it away from everybody, and selling it to the people who can afford it.
I've always thought that the mutually exclusive nature of science and religion was perhaps elevated by example to the minds of people as fact. I've always considered it a false dichotomy. We all know the bible was written, revised, and published by man. Men who lived a long time ago and were unaware of many things we consider common knowledge today. Written for people who were even more ignorant. If we focused as much on the points where the Bible is viable as much as we focus on the points on which we disagree, I think everyone would be more tolerant. Atheists could stand Christians more if they lived by their principals. Christians could stand atheists more if they really had the higher ground. But we love conflict. Without it there is no story to tell in the minds of most people. And therein lies the bullshit tragedy of religion versus science.