This article about data left on storage devices is churned out by the tabloids least once a year, if not twice. Its one of there staple fjear factors they like to inflict upon joe public whilst trying to educate them. Despite the fact joe public cant remove a HD let alone sell it with all there bank account details on ebay.
Ironicly there are companies that will garantee to destroy all your data on your old HD's and I personaly would ove to make money from taking drill bits to discs.
Given most packagable work units get privatised out in any kind of givermental work thesedays, one would assume that more than one tendered and geographicaly resiliance isn't always just about computers and having a DR site.
Given they have only just announced this and given the `omg, its comming right for us" was well known a few days in advance and the perchant of forcasts to go OTT on major weather effects on forcasts they must have known that statisticaly it was at least something to start thinking about then and not going doh afterwards.
Still after all there only human, and we make mistakes. Just some mistakes are meassured in inch's and others in cm's:D.
-- Shit happens, you just have to shovel it if you want to smell the roses. --
Well after reading thry them Ican honestly say I half expected a how to do my shoe laces, least from my point of view. But there again I'm a geek so the only aspect of an article like this is all the people who didn;t actualy know this stuff and will now bore the crap out of me down the pub. I'm supposed to bore them! Articles like this are bad Hmmmk - just say no to mind-dupes.
Being unable to lash out and indeed darned if I woudl ever pay $250 for a datacentre for dummies kidna guide given that every case has to be treated on its own merets.
I wonder if they cover aspects like power phase balancing given alot of places have 3-phase and we all know how box's move about so the aspect of auditing the balancing across the 3 phases comes in. Why well power costs given you pay for the highest usage over the 3 and then there is the UPS aspects and resiliance aspects.
Oh and DR sites, if you have enough eggs for one basket then you need backup plans.
As you who work in the feild can imagine there are sooo many aspects that need to be looked at and whilst a guidline/crib sheet is always welcome no two datacenters are the same or some manufactuirer would be making a killing selling them in a box;0.
The smallest deatil on one site becomes the largest priority on another. Hell i've even set up a site were we had critical servers spread across the area just to give that extra resiliance incase a train derailed and came thru, albeit remote possibility but still was a potential, and all before 9/11 which in itself shows the level of which murphy's law can stoop.
So whilst this type of thing is nice I do erk when people hold it up as a definitive guide as the only people fooled by that are those that dont know and highup managers and we all know a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Still its nice to have stuff like this as long as they are viewed in the context of guidlines and not guides in themselves.
I mean if all doctors were to follow a needle injection guidline of insert needle in left arm 13cm down from main index finger and on the horizontal plane of the wrist joint, not everybody would get the injection into a vien as we are all not exactly the same albiet similiar and indeed some people have no index finger nor left arm.
I personaly wish they would invest more time in a cable standard were the outer colouring deformed in relation to the number of times the cable is bent, now that would in itself be a much more useful input into datacenters in that they could pre-emptivly identify cable that is going past its shelf life or been over abused/used and liable to induce errors.
As with most things they like to get them as young as possib;e, like McDonalds and torrents and p2p are rpetty close to ground zero for the movie companies, albeit the real ground zero is actualy private ftp and irc servers and the like. Still it plicates them.
What next well can see you next Happy Meal having big dont pirate stickers on the side:).
All these are, well not read the article as lagged but I know the tech. Is basicly a taser but instead of having to fire probes orf wire they use a laser that ionisers the air to conduct the electricity.
Bout time realy it actualy got commerciolised into a useful product.
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I still remember when he conned a TV company into letting him build a plane and he made some huge mistakes. but the best part was when he almost hit the camera crew threw his own inner anger and no provication from them whatsoever. Clearly a bit unbalanced under stress and this is IT were stress and work go hand in hand.
Hence I think he is just jelous, simple as and sheeping it with oh lets slag {insert latest biggest name} as was the case with IBM then Microsoft and now he feels its googles turn. Seriously its sad when you cant be constructive and have to be deconstructive just to justify your existence.
Go back to being creative and constructive calmly Robert, you have potential without going down the tabloid sheep route.
I wonder if it gets faster as it gets cooler and as such generates more heat due to the extra rotation, so as such it only slowly cools. Also given gravety and the way the earth forms it would be logical to conclude that the mass of the core would be pretty dense and I wonder what effect solar particals and other exotic particals have as they fly thru space and most matter upon the dense core. I mean if they were to interact with anything it would be something large and dense as there is more chance of a collision/slow down/interaction.
Interesting stuff non the less, but dont see us wrapping large coils around the earth and using it to generate electricity just yet. On that note does lightning manifest itself to induce an internal motor action inside the core - reverse dynamo stylee.
Who needs space when we have many great questions left all below our feet.
IBM make PPC kit, have done for ages, amazing realy given they invented it and prolly have more PPC kit out there than any other vendor including APple put together.
Next obvious question today will be - how do I use a keyboard to type stuff:)
We all have mobiles and landlines, and the ease and use of a mobile to dial and make calls does sometimes overide the use of landlines were we can just tap the green button for conveniance. Now with VOIP we have another optional way to save money.
Now if you could just link the two I wondred and easily... Having thought about it the only neat way (least UK) would be to avail one of these tri-band phones, we use 900/1800 in the UK for networks but alot of phones handle the USA variation of 1900. Hmm what if you had a 1900 base station inyour house (low power) and set that as your preferes network with your normal operator network being next in lone.
Then anytime your inrange of your house you would be dialing over your landline.
DOwnsides to this simple (least from handset aspect and ease of use) are many. Main one being illegal use of 1900 frequency I can see and then there is the small aspects of you cant recieve mobile calls unless you get involved diverting calls when out of signal to yoru landline, semi negating the savings.
Whilst a form of intergrated mobile/landline/VOIP would be neat a mojority of handsets are brought and reso0ld/sold by network operators and as such are dectated spec wise by said operators who amazingly enough seem to like that your kinda tied to making all your call over there networks and to offer break out to PSTN networks would be detramental to there profits. Lets face it there are a fair few handsets that have bluetooth but cant do the full range of profiles so you cant use your mobile as a mic/earpeace setup over bluetooth for VOIP calls. There are hacks but generaly all handsets are basterdised to squash any form of call managment that dont go over the network provider. Handsets locked to networks is mearly the icing on the cake. So many GSM and mobile standards get bastardised due to some factpr or another. 56bit encryption - ew yeah right and lets set x number of those bits to all 0's, you see the issue's. The technology is there and easily doable, as long as the providers can cash in on the market. Maybe when the network providers do landlines/mobiles packages then we might get somewere but then you can bet somebody will cry foul and the big mopnopoly commision gets involved to kill that off eventual due to all the other providers crying foul and slinging mud.
Its all chicken and egg and frankly totaly waste of time reading this article as its the kinda stuff people who have nothing better to do write to generate a hey look at me type effect.
What came first the chicken or the egg, frankly I dont care as I eat them both and thats all I care about.
OMG he soo wrote about that befoe it happened he must be a viral marketing peoon, that nostradamis dude ja soooo viral man:D.
So Microsoft gets to sue people who are either explioting there operationg systems shortcommings to send spam or just sending spam to ALL email users and Microsoft gets to sue them. how does that pan out, we victims of spam get nothing and one of the main causes of spam (worms trojans and general spam bottery) gets the money.
Spam kinda works all around the WOrld so do they now sue the same spammer in several countries or do we the public get some kick-back as well?
Personaly I'd still like to sue the ruddy ass's of the cold calling companies that ring you up from abroad and try to sell shit, had one ask for my dad to sell life insurance like 2 days ater he died and they do this shit from abroad like the states to the UK coz they can avoid blacklisting and then wonder why telco's have there exchanges rewritten over there the assholes.
It was found that a user thru a careful combination could induce the keyboard to cause the operating system to react in unpredictable ways.
Latest reports are that all keyboard devices will be prevented from attaching to the new Microsoft operating system for users.
Server systems which have no need for such a device will still be able to use it, possibly in ways so that easier crafting of shell macro's as long as there not called virus.bat:).
If they have grounds to sue this chap. Then I'd say alot of people have grounds to sue CISCO for wantingly selling a faulty product unfit for the job. So if CISCO realy want to be known as anal dweebs then I'm sure there is alot of loo paper that can be thrown there way as well.
What a pointless story realy, basicly ALOT of games/software etc etc etc have unused code/content. Some are called easter egg's and some are called cheats.
But to have to modify or change your system to run this code/copntent that is not otherwise available is basicly saying. I breached the software liscience of this program and now I want the company to suffer due to me breaching said agreement.
Oh and you do agree to a lic for any software. But for the game to be rereated due to external modifying is just sad, hell in a harry potter book on a certain page you can read every 11th character and spell wanker race's and other more ruder words and I dont see that getting reavaluated due to me modifying the content.
ANyhow I look forwards to the GTA:SA Directors cut were the devolopers dont bend over to the ratings boards and go straight for the 25+ market with the GTA:SA attack of the killer cum-sluts:D.
Give them all a USB bootable drive or CD with a basic OS and functionality for jdoing just what is needed, ie visit the site display the page and not leak any of that data. Less OS means less holes, less services means less holes, Less of the rest means less holes and also a easier experience for customers.
IE - pop in CD - boot PC , ew look a bank web login page, nothing more nothing less. ANy user data will be lost once system closed and we are running of a bootable CD here so not like anything goona be phised of that let alone be able to sneak in.
Anyhow thats a basic, cimple solution and I'm sure a few linux distro's with the right mentality will see that there is a market for them and a positive one that will get them into the doors of many homes.
Or even have a CPU that runs encypted code only and have keyed discs, dedicated hardware when you factor the mass production costs and loss due to fruad also start to become viable. SMS based mobile phone and wap anybody running on leased moile networks, certainly raises the anti.
Anyhow I like cash, thifs can photocopy it all they like but its still mine and aint lost any yet.
I would like a credit card were I pay for the transaction at any site using my web credit card. When the transaction is recieved it is then approved in the normal way with one extra step.
I the customer is involved in the authorisation process, so the cridit card company authorises it as per normal and then I the customer have to authorise it.
This could be dont by replying to a SMS message sent to my mobile phone or via numerous other methords, even a phone call.
The extra costs involved would be more than offset in that crime would be reduced pretty much to just those who defraud there own cards, or attempt to.
Nothing is perfect but a system like this would be more useful from a consumer level then just burying the issue with another layer of the same type of paper they already cover it in.
A few years back I was helping out a bio=-tech company with there IT secuirty issues. One such issue was constant spamming. ANyhow one day the head of IT thought, hmmm lets just bounce all this spam back. End result was a quiet word from the law of the land saying, whilst they agree in his approach, they could not condone such actions and poilitly asked him never to do it again or he might get in trouble.
Now if you bounce one back saying any further emails will constitute a charge if sent unsolicited, of course more legalised and at the top of the emil (lol how many emails from companies to you get with at the end a disclaimer saying if your not the correct reciepient do not read) and script a little billing bot to send out bills to the sender and there ISP. I'm sure you will at elast feel better and might get somewere other than the darn spammers stress syndrome.
Do these classical music muppets claim a monopoly on it. I'd like to see them try. As for unfair competition I'd like to complain that they get [aid to whistle dizie were upon I dont, does that makes sence - NO.
therefore If music peons get paid to whistle dixie and I dont then you must ignore this load of crap for what it is. Grown up schoolchildren who complain that somebody got more gold stars than them instead of making there own gold stars.
PS i pay for my internet, TV BBC lic fee and sadly I probably indirectly pay for these muppets to winge.
play on.
PPS Aint these trcks just a tadge out of copyright period anyhow, so any attempt to pursue it would realy be an attempt to pervert the copyright laws albiet indirectly; It is still a direct attack. ANd I'm buggered if I'm letting all my employee at eth BBC ( I pay the lic as do many UK people so there our servants along with the goverment) waste a single penny on this pile of bullcrap.
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This article about data left on storage devices is churned out by the tabloids least once a year, if not twice. Its one of there staple fjear factors they like to inflict upon joe public whilst trying to educate them. Despite the fact joe public cant remove a HD let alone sell it with all there bank account details on ebay.
Ironicly there are companies that will garantee to destroy all your data on your old HD's and I personaly would ove to make money from taking drill bits to discs.
Given most packagable work units get privatised out in any kind of givermental work thesedays, one would assume that more than one tendered and geographicaly resiliance isn't always just about computers and having a DR site.
:D.
Given they have only just announced this and given the `omg, its comming right for us" was well known a few days in advance and the perchant of forcasts to go OTT on major weather effects on forcasts they must have known that statisticaly it was at least something to start thinking about then and not going doh afterwards.
Still after all there only human, and we make mistakes. Just some mistakes are meassured in inch's and others in cm's
--
Shit happens, you just have to shovel it if you want to smell the roses.
--
Well after reading thry them Ican honestly say I half expected a how to do my shoe laces, least from my point of view. But there again I'm a geek so the only aspect of an article like this is all the people who didn;t actualy know this stuff and will now bore the crap out of me down the pub. I'm supposed to bore them! Articles like this are bad Hmmmk - just say no to mind-dupes.
lol - was late and well; Think faster than I type, and cuting and pasting into spellcheckers is a pain.
:).
But glad the rest panned out for you
Being unable to lash out and indeed darned if I woudl ever pay $250 for a datacentre for dummies kidna guide given that every case has to be treated on its own merets.
;0.
I wonder if they cover aspects like power phase balancing given alot of places have 3-phase and we all know how box's move about so the aspect of auditing the balancing across the 3 phases comes in. Why well power costs given you pay for the highest usage over the 3 and then there is the UPS aspects and resiliance aspects.
Oh and DR sites, if you have enough eggs for one basket then you need backup plans.
As you who work in the feild can imagine there are sooo many aspects that need to be looked at and whilst a guidline/crib sheet is always welcome no two datacenters are the same or some manufactuirer would be making a killing selling them in a box
The smallest deatil on one site becomes the largest priority on another. Hell i've even set up a site were we had critical servers spread across the area just to give that extra resiliance incase a train derailed and came thru, albeit remote possibility but still was a potential, and all before 9/11 which in itself shows the level of which murphy's law can stoop.
So whilst this type of thing is nice I do erk when people hold it up as a definitive guide as the only people fooled by that are those that dont know and highup managers and we all know a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Still its nice to have stuff like this as long as they are viewed in the context of guidlines and not guides in themselves.
I mean if all doctors were to follow a needle injection guidline of insert needle in left arm 13cm down from main index finger and on the horizontal plane of the wrist joint, not everybody would get the injection into a vien as we are all not exactly the same albiet similiar and indeed some people have no index finger nor left arm.
I personaly wish they would invest more time in a cable standard were the outer colouring deformed in relation to the number of times the cable is bent, now that would in itself be a much more useful input into datacenters in that they could pre-emptivly identify cable that is going past its shelf life or been over abused/used and liable to induce errors.
As with most things they like to get them as young as possib;e, like McDonalds and torrents and p2p are rpetty close to ground zero for the movie companies, albeit the real ground zero is actualy private ftp and irc servers and the like. Still it plicates them.
:).
What next well can see you next Happy Meal having big dont pirate stickers on the side
Could it possibly be that he is 50% right so only 50% of the 50% are wrong.
:)
statisticly speaking 100% or stats are wrong.
All these are, well not read the article as lagged but I know the tech. Is basicly a taser but instead of having to fire probes orf wire they use a laser that ionisers the air to conduct the electricity.
Bout time realy it actualy got commerciolised into a useful product.
I still remember when he conned a TV company into letting him build a plane and he made some huge mistakes. but the best part was when he almost hit the camera crew threw his own inner anger and no provication from them whatsoever. Clearly a bit unbalanced under stress and this is IT were stress and work go hand in hand.
Hence I think he is just jelous, simple as and sheeping it with oh lets slag {insert latest biggest name} as was the case with IBM then Microsoft and now he feels its googles turn. Seriously its sad when you cant be constructive and have to be deconstructive just to justify your existence.
Go back to being creative and constructive calmly Robert, you have potential without going down the tabloid sheep route.
I wonder if it gets faster as it gets cooler and as such generates more heat due to the extra rotation, so as such it only slowly cools. Also given gravety and the way the earth forms it would be logical to conclude that the mass of the core would be pretty dense and I wonder what effect solar particals and other exotic particals have as they fly thru space and most matter upon the dense core. I mean if they were to interact with anything it would be something large and dense as there is more chance of a collision/slow down/interaction.
Interesting stuff non the less, but dont see us wrapping large coils around the earth and using it to generate electricity just yet. On that note does lightning manifest itself to induce an internal motor action inside the core - reverse dynamo stylee.
Who needs space when we have many great questions left all below our feet.
IBM make PPC kit, have done for ages, amazing realy given they invented it and prolly have more PPC kit out there than any other vendor including APple put together.
:)
Next obvious question today will be - how do I use a keyboard to type stuff
We all have mobiles and landlines, and the ease and use of a mobile to dial and make calls does sometimes overide the use of landlines were we can just tap the green button for conveniance. Now with VOIP we have another optional way to save money.
Now if you could just link the two I wondred and easily... Having thought about it the only neat way (least UK) would be to avail one of these tri-band phones, we use 900/1800 in the UK for networks but alot of phones handle the USA variation of 1900. Hmm what if you had a 1900 base station inyour house (low power) and set that as your preferes network with your normal operator network being next in lone.
Then anytime your inrange of your house you would be dialing over your landline.
DOwnsides to this simple (least from handset aspect and ease of use) are many. Main one being illegal use of 1900 frequency I can see and then there is the small aspects of you cant recieve mobile calls unless you get involved diverting calls when out of signal to yoru landline, semi negating the savings.
Whilst a form of intergrated mobile/landline/VOIP would be neat a mojority of handsets are brought and reso0ld/sold by network operators and as such are dectated spec wise by said operators who amazingly enough seem to like that your kinda tied to making all your call over there networks and to offer break out to PSTN networks would be detramental to there profits. Lets face it there are a fair few handsets that have bluetooth but cant do the full range of profiles so you cant use your mobile as a mic/earpeace setup over bluetooth for VOIP calls. There are hacks but generaly all handsets are basterdised to squash any form of call managment that dont go over the network provider. Handsets locked to networks is mearly the icing on the cake. So many GSM and mobile standards get bastardised due to some factpr or another. 56bit encryption - ew yeah right and lets set x number of those bits to all 0's, you see the issue's. The technology is there and easily doable, as long as the providers can cash in on the market. Maybe when the network providers do landlines/mobiles packages then we might get somewere but then you can bet somebody will cry foul and the big mopnopoly commision gets involved to kill that off eventual due to all the other providers crying foul and slinging mud.
Shark based filtration systems :)
Technicaly this subject shoudl appear on the BBC site to help circular promote this digital rubbish.
Its all chicken and egg and frankly totaly waste of time reading this article as its the kinda stuff people who have nothing better to do write to generate a hey look at me type effect.
:D.
What came first the chicken or the egg, frankly I dont care as I eat them both and thats all I care about.
OMG he soo wrote about that befoe it happened he must be a viral marketing peoon, that nostradamis dude ja soooo viral man
So Microsoft gets to sue people who are either explioting there operationg systems shortcommings to send spam or just sending spam to ALL email users and Microsoft gets to sue them. how does that pan out, we victims of spam get nothing and one of the main causes of spam (worms trojans and general spam bottery) gets the money.
Spam kinda works all around the WOrld so do they now sue the same spammer in several countries or do we the public get some kick-back as well?
Personaly I'd still like to sue the ruddy ass's of the cold calling companies that ring you up from abroad and try to sell shit, had one ask for my dad to sell life insurance like 2 days ater he died and they do this shit from abroad like the states to the UK coz they can avoid blacklisting and then wonder why telco's have there exchanges rewritten over there the assholes.
It was found that a user thru a careful combination could induce the keyboard to cause the operating system to react in unpredictable ways.
:).
Latest reports are that all keyboard devices will be prevented from attaching to the new Microsoft operating system for users.
Server systems which have no need for such a device will still be able to use it, possibly in ways so that easier crafting of shell macro's as long as there not called virus.bat
If they have grounds to sue this chap. Then I'd say alot of people have grounds to sue CISCO for wantingly selling a faulty product unfit for the job. So if CISCO realy want to be known as anal dweebs then I'm sure there is alot of loo paper that can be thrown there way as well.
What a pointless story realy, basicly ALOT of games/software etc etc etc have unused code/content. Some are called easter egg's and some are called cheats.
:D.
But to have to modify or change your system to run this code/copntent that is not otherwise available is basicly saying. I breached the software liscience of this program and now I want the company to suffer due to me breaching said agreement.
Oh and you do agree to a lic for any software. But for the game to be rereated due to external modifying is just sad, hell in a harry potter book on a certain page you can read every 11th character and spell wanker race's and other more ruder words and I dont see that getting reavaluated due to me modifying the content.
ANyhow I look forwards to the GTA:SA Directors cut were the devolopers dont bend over to the ratings boards and go straight for the 25+ market with the GTA:SA attack of the killer cum-sluts
Give them all a USB bootable drive or CD with a basic OS and functionality for jdoing just what is needed, ie visit the site display the page and not leak any of that data. Less OS means less holes, less services means less holes, Less of the rest means less holes and also a easier experience for customers.
IE - pop in CD - boot PC , ew look a bank web login page, nothing more nothing less. ANy user data will be lost once system closed and we are running of a bootable CD here so not like anything goona be phised of that let alone be able to sneak in.
Anyhow thats a basic, cimple solution and I'm sure a few linux distro's with the right mentality will see that there is a market for them and a positive one that will get them into the doors of many homes.
Or even have a CPU that runs encypted code only and have keyed discs, dedicated hardware when you factor the mass production costs and loss due to fruad also start to become viable. SMS based mobile phone and wap anybody running on leased moile networks, certainly raises the anti.
Anyhow I like cash, thifs can photocopy it all they like but its still mine and aint lost any yet.
I would like a credit card were I pay for the transaction at any site using my web credit card. When the transaction is recieved it is then approved in the normal way with one extra step.
I the customer is involved in the authorisation process, so the cridit card company authorises it as per normal and then I the customer have to authorise it.
This could be dont by replying to a SMS message sent to my mobile phone or via numerous other methords, even a phone call.
The extra costs involved would be more than offset in that crime would be reduced pretty much to just those who defraud there own cards, or attempt to.
Nothing is perfect but a system like this would be more useful from a consumer level then just burying the issue with another layer of the same type of paper they already cover it in.
A few years back I was helping out a bio=-tech company with there IT secuirty issues. One such issue was constant spamming. ANyhow one day the head of IT thought, hmmm lets just bounce all this spam back. End result was a quiet word from the law of the land saying, whilst they agree in his approach, they could not condone such actions and poilitly asked him never to do it again or he might get in trouble.
Now if you bounce one back saying any further emails will constitute a charge if sent unsolicited, of course more legalised and at the top of the emil (lol how many emails from companies to you get with at the end a disclaimer saying if your not the correct reciepient do not read) and script a little billing bot to send out bills to the sender and there ISP. I'm sure you will at elast feel better and might get somewere other than the darn spammers stress syndrome.
Well, its what is needed. No more false ecconomies.
Much respect for the Chinese in taking the step to what is needed.
Do these classical music muppets claim a monopoly on it. I'd like to see them try. As for unfair competition I'd like to complain that they get [aid to whistle dizie were upon I dont, does that makes sence - NO.
therefore If music peons get paid to whistle dixie and I dont then you must ignore this load of crap for what it is. Grown up schoolchildren who complain that somebody got more gold stars than them instead of making there own gold stars.
PS i pay for my internet, TV BBC lic fee and sadly I probably indirectly pay for these muppets to winge.
play on.
PPS Aint these trcks just a tadge out of copyright period anyhow, so any attempt to pursue it would realy be an attempt to pervert the copyright laws albiet indirectly; It is still a direct attack. ANd I'm buggered if I'm letting all my employee at eth BBC ( I pay the lic as do many UK people so there our servants along with the goverment) waste a single penny on this pile of bullcrap.
so its contagious then :(. You know communisim did have some positive things going for it thinking about it retrospectivly :D