Understanding process is the most important thing, for you a resposible customer. If there is not a process in place for change control or the vendor has nothing (system or software) that records changes, you might not want to use them if you are paranoid. That doesn't mean they aren't worth their salt, but it definitely a consideration if you require HIPPA, sox, or gov guidelines and compliance.
I took an older Compaq iPaq (small toaster) Pentium 3 computer off of eBay like this one:
$34.96
Then I tried FreeNAS, but it didn't have that usability factor that I wanted, it was TOO toaster-ish. I wasn't able to install a lot of popular backup programs with this.
So,
I put in an inexpensive but long-lasting 500GB disk from Seagate (5year warranty).($85.00 @ Fry's)
I downloaded Ubuntu Server 7.04 as a LAMP and SAMBA server
I did the usual command line updates (I disabled getting APT packages from the cdrom in/etc/apt/sources.list):
sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
Then I installed Webmin: sudo apt-get install webmin-mysql
I can now control everything via a web interface.
For the icing on the top I installed "backuppc" on the box also (which can be controlled using its own web interface as well): sudo apt-get install backuppc
So now I have a NAS, controlled by a web interface, that can automatically backup data to an external disk or CDROM and can be extended to do alot more.
$34.96 + $85.00 + 2 hours of work = happiness and lighter some 120.00 worth of drinking money.
FOSS is the only way forward. To meet budgets it would take a small group of developers to scope infrastructure already available to put this together. Sadly, they will probably want to use Microsoft.
I'm kinda tired of wikipedia stories. Its a neat project but it has taken a bunch of story time recently and I'd rather see more diverse postings.
Sorry for being a troll.
I believed this too until I worked in NYC and then had to move for family reasons. I moved down to Houston, TX and could never find a job (hubris is a bitch).
Paying them well.:)
However, let it be said that alot of talented young people are tired of watching their bosses get rich while they give up their lives writing code till 1am every night and barely making it month to month. Young entreprenuership is on the rise.
I'm a keyboard monkey. So unless they are doing handwritting analysis I don't know how they are going to eventually distinguish student papers.
I guess they forget it is an assymptotic rule that many of these papers are bound to be similar if not dead on eventually.
What is next? Mandatory root kits for the teachers?
Sony!!!??? Where are you!!!????
WARNING: Trollbait
Investigations on what?
This is an agreement between two private companies. The only investigation that happened with the NYC power outage was that state investigators went and bothered some poor saps in Edison Power and wondered why they were drawing power from another country. When they got the answer which was "Does everyone want to pay another $200 a year for more power?" they dropped it.
This is nothing more than Cogent abusing a public aggreement and then pissing and moaning that they finally got cut off (because they are using someone else's backbone to transit traffic to another area of the world).
Let face it... noone needs to make any generalizations or comments on this sort of thing until they are part of it.
Well, I think it has come up again because I submitted yesterday (obviously didn't do a good job with it) about NPR doing a report on a community that has it ROLLED OUT! Not in trial not testing.. but in use and for only $200,000.00. That is the story that should have been posted.
Let us start with the basics.
1. A signal is passed across a copper wire by first adding a voltage on it.
2. You then oscilate that electricity which produces a signal when you choose where 0 is on the sine wave.
3. You then decode the 0(s) and 1(s) on the far side.
Now, if you were to place different signals on the same wire where the alternating current is already running you can increase the "up-swing" and "down-swing" of those oscillating waves by having any signal were the wave peak and wave trough meet. Can you imagine what would happen if you played with alternating current phases?
What is worse for this plan? Even if you can dampen the harmonics on that wire. How many times does the electrical signal split? How many end-points are necessary to repeat signals out to all the people connected to the grid? What happens when someone wants to feed electricity or even a signal back? Telephone networks have enough problems with the number of devices it takes to make sure you get an IP signal.. and that telephone network was originally designed for communication.
Actually, the original article that you linked to, I knee-jerked over as well. Please don't make the same mistake. The plaintiff in question in that case simply wanted a temporary route. I assumed people posting those articles would have enough klu to know the difference between a temp route and a permanent IP space move.
Whats more, its not routing we are talking about but some sort of bridging or translation. Routing is IP only. We do not know if 3G actually uses IP addresses at all.
IPv4 has seen its time and now we are about to see the same thing we always see whenever stupid people chafe against the technical limitations of a closed system.
Hell stupid people get into cars all the time, so why shouldn't they get to take their IP networks with them? I mean what could it hurt? If I was the judge I'd let them do it on the condition that they pay for the RAM and switch fabric cards that will be required for anyone to peer with them or listen to their measely route.
Even if they win there will be a technical hurdle. Remember.. most providers don't even listen to anything below a/22 anymore.
If you are using an inferior product it will be suseptible to tunneling. Implementations like PacketShaper from Packeteer peek into the payload and type the traffic based on layer 7 (application).
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Understanding process is the most important thing, for you a resposible customer. If there is not a process in place for change control or the vendor has nothing (system or software) that records changes, you might not want to use them if you are paranoid. That doesn't mean they aren't worth their salt, but it definitely a consideration if you require HIPPA, sox, or gov guidelines and compliance.
Only if the controller was the bastard child of a wiimote with and an analog coupler
uuhhh... April Fools?
I took an older Compaq iPaq (small toaster) Pentium 3 computer off of eBay like this one: $34.96
/etc/apt/sources.list):
sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
Then I tried FreeNAS, but it didn't have that usability factor that I wanted, it was TOO toaster-ish. I wasn't able to install a lot of popular backup programs with this.
So,
I put in an inexpensive but long-lasting 500GB disk from Seagate (5year warranty).($85.00 @ Fry's)
I downloaded Ubuntu Server 7.04 as a LAMP and SAMBA server
I did the usual command line updates (I disabled getting APT packages from the cdrom in
Then I installed Webmin: sudo apt-get install webmin-mysql
I can now control everything via a web interface.
For the icing on the top I installed "backuppc" on the box also (which can be controlled using its own web interface as well): sudo apt-get install backuppc
So now I have a NAS, controlled by a web interface, that can automatically backup data to an external disk or CDROM and can be extended to do alot more.
$34.96 + $85.00 + 2 hours of work = happiness and lighter some 120.00 worth of drinking money.
FOSS is the only way forward. To meet budgets it would take a small group of developers to scope infrastructure already available to put this together. Sadly, they will probably want to use Microsoft.
That was all it was??? See, I knew it was something easy. What's in a name, eh?
Has anyone smacked Ballmer yet? He really needs to wake up. And lets face it ... we all just want to smack pompous people.
I'm kinda tired of wikipedia stories. Its a neat project but it has taken a bunch of story time recently and I'd rather see more diverse postings. Sorry for being a troll.
I believed this too until I worked in NYC and then had to move for family reasons. I moved down to Houston, TX and could never find a job (hubris is a bitch).
Paying them well. :)
However, let it be said that alot of talented young people are tired of watching their bosses get rich while they give up their lives writing code till 1am every night and barely making it month to month. Young entreprenuership is on the rise.
yeah ... I really do think all users will want to pay for Word monthly...
So linux finally wins.
I'm a keyboard monkey. So unless they are doing handwritting analysis I don't know how they are going to eventually distinguish student papers. I guess they forget it is an assymptotic rule that many of these papers are bound to be similar if not dead on eventually. What is next? Mandatory root kits for the teachers? Sony!!!??? Where are you!!!????
WARNING: Trollbait Investigations on what? This is an agreement between two private companies. The only investigation that happened with the NYC power outage was that state investigators went and bothered some poor saps in Edison Power and wondered why they were drawing power from another country. When they got the answer which was "Does everyone want to pay another $200 a year for more power?" they dropped it. This is nothing more than Cogent abusing a public aggreement and then pissing and moaning that they finally got cut off (because they are using someone else's backbone to transit traffic to another area of the world). Let face it ... noone needs to make any generalizations or comments on this sort of thing until they are part of it.
paint ball in breakroom
Well, I think it has come up again because I submitted yesterday (obviously didn't do a good job with it) about NPR doing a report on a community that has it ROLLED OUT! Not in trial not testing .. but in use and for only $200,000.00. That is the story that should have been posted.
Let us start with the basics. 1. A signal is passed across a copper wire by first adding a voltage on it. 2. You then oscilate that electricity which produces a signal when you choose where 0 is on the sine wave. 3. You then decode the 0(s) and 1(s) on the far side. Now, if you were to place different signals on the same wire where the alternating current is already running you can increase the "up-swing" and "down-swing" of those oscillating waves by having any signal were the wave peak and wave trough meet. Can you imagine what would happen if you played with alternating current phases? What is worse for this plan? Even if you can dampen the harmonics on that wire. How many times does the electrical signal split? How many end-points are necessary to repeat signals out to all the people connected to the grid? What happens when someone wants to feed electricity or even a signal back? Telephone networks have enough problems with the number of devices it takes to make sure you get an IP signal .. and that telephone network was originally designed for communication.
Pole dancing ... they have my $10.50 already.
Scotty: How do we know he didn't event the damn stuff?
Failing miserably .. but trying anyway.
Actually, the original article that you linked to, I knee-jerked over as well. Please don't make the same mistake. The plaintiff in question in that case simply wanted a temporary route. I assumed people posting those articles would have enough klu to know the difference between a temp route and a permanent IP space move. Whats more, its not routing we are talking about but some sort of bridging or translation. Routing is IP only. We do not know if 3G actually uses IP addresses at all.
IPv4 has seen its time and now we are about to see the same thing we always see whenever stupid people chafe against the technical limitations of a closed system. Hell stupid people get into cars all the time, so why shouldn't they get to take their IP networks with them? I mean what could it hurt? If I was the judge I'd let them do it on the condition that they pay for the RAM and switch fabric cards that will be required for anyone to peer with them or listen to their measely route. Even if they win there will be a technical hurdle. Remember .. most providers don't even listen to anything below a /22 anymore.
Desktop Linux
And there will be many. Too bad it won't be as true as the "Evil Bit" in AMD processors
put a game on a bootable CD .. make linux invisible to the user. Embrace and extend .. consoles
If you are using an inferior product it will be suseptible to tunneling. Implementations like PacketShaper from Packeteer peek into the payload and type the traffic based on layer 7 (application).