"The student told Professor Pontbriand and Dr. Williams that the Homeland Security agents told him the book was on a "watch list." They brought the book with them, but did not leave it with the student, the professors said. "
So the kid still needs a copy to finish his assignment.
Ask your bank "What is your medium for Statement of record?"
You might be suprised at what answer you get. The majority of banks use Microfiche, but the trend is to go digital.
When I worked for a bank (name left blank), I was involved in a project for the conversion of "Statement of Record" from microfiche to digital format. Being the lowly sys admin, I first thought "Cool, this would be fun." But then I realized, "Hey, they will be converting MY records! I know how this place works, and how much a bad idea this really is!" I started to ask questions like "What is the FDIC rules on this?", "What is required time for retention?", "What format are you chosing?", you know the basic stuff.
Turns out the FDIC didn't have rules at the time, for long term storage of digital information (no one in the bank bothered to call). The time retention was minimum 7 years, possible up to 50 years.
Myself and my co-admin, we kept asking basic common sense questions, we ended up delaying the project for 3 years. Sorry, but we were just asking questions from the consumer point of view, with some insight of the technical area.
The biggest question that remained un-answered for a long time, was the cost. The cost of upgrading when equipment became obsolete. What do you do, when the format you chose is no longer being used. You have to go back and convert all the old data to the new format, how much is that going to run? We never did get an answer, none of the upper management wanted to touch that question, nor did they really understand what was involved. They just thought, "It is on disk/tape, we will be able to read it forever." (this was an actual remark from one of the CEO's on a conference call).
We finally got someone to run the numbers comparing the cost of the current microfiche vs digital. With the comment of, if one has to, they can use a magnifing glass to read the microfiche. When it was all said and done over a 50 year time period, the microfiche won as being the least expensive. But did that stop them? Nope... they are continuing on with the project, but only now that myself and my co-admin have left the company.
Anyone remember the Polymorphic Systems 'Poly-88' S100 bus system? Originally released as the "Micro-Altair".
Man I miss my old Poly-88.
8" Floppies??? Ha! I had to use an old audio casette deck to save my programs. I was finally able to upgrade to 5 1/4" floppies (skipped the 8" for the higher density 5 1/4").
I remember finishing typing in 'Hunt the Wumpus' and playing it for hours. Next came 'Lunar Lander' in text mode! It took me a month of work to rewrite it to have some basic block graphics. All of this in BASIC!
I learned a valuable lesson about EMF with my Poly-88 right after I bought the RAM. Stero speakers and the Poly-88 don't play together well. I had my stereo on, with my Poly-88 on a shelf below my speaker. Fired up the Poly-88, BBBBZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTT. Fried the Poly-88.
64k of RAM cost me around $1,000.00 at the time. Never did get to install the RAM, fried the system the night I was going to put it in.
It took me a LONG time delivering newspapers to save up for this box and the extras. Did I mention that I was 12 or 13 at the time? I had to borrow the money from my parent for the RAM. I think I still need to pay them back for it.
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Aaaa no. He didn't get to keep the book.
"The student told Professor Pontbriand and Dr. Williams that the Homeland Security agents told him the book was on a "watch list." They brought the book with them, but did not leave it with the student, the professors said. "
So the kid still needs a copy to finish his assignment.
If you really want to learn about quieting a PC down, go read The Silent PC.
Ask your bank "What is your medium for Statement of record?"
You might be suprised at what answer you get. The majority of banks use Microfiche, but the trend is to go digital.
When I worked for a bank (name left blank), I was involved in a project for the conversion of "Statement of Record" from microfiche to digital format. Being the lowly sys admin, I first thought "Cool, this would be fun." But then I realized, "Hey, they will be converting MY records! I know how this place works, and how much a bad idea this really is!" I started to ask questions like "What is the FDIC rules on this?", "What is required time for retention?", "What format are you chosing?", you know the basic stuff.
Turns out the FDIC didn't have rules at the time, for long term storage of digital information (no one in the bank bothered to call). The time retention was minimum 7 years, possible up to 50 years.
Myself and my co-admin, we kept asking basic common sense questions, we ended up delaying the project for 3 years. Sorry, but we were just asking questions from the consumer point of view, with some insight of the technical area.
The biggest question that remained un-answered for a long time, was the cost. The cost of upgrading when equipment became obsolete. What do you do, when the format you chose is no longer being used. You have to go back and convert all the old data to the new format, how much is that going to run? We never did get an answer, none of the upper management wanted to touch that question, nor did they really understand what was involved. They just thought, "It is on disk/tape, we will be able to read it forever." (this was an actual remark from one of the CEO's on a conference call).
We finally got someone to run the numbers comparing the cost of the current microfiche vs digital. With the comment of, if one has to, they can use a magnifing glass to read the microfiche. When it was all said and done over a 50 year time period, the microfiche won as being the least expensive. But did that stop them? Nope... they are continuing on with the project, but only now that myself and my co-admin have left the company.
Anyone remember the Polymorphic Systems 'Poly-88' S100 bus system? Originally released as the "Micro-Altair".
Man I miss my old Poly-88.
8" Floppies??? Ha! I had to use an old audio casette deck to save my programs. I was finally able to upgrade to 5 1/4" floppies (skipped the 8" for the higher density 5 1/4").
I remember finishing typing in 'Hunt the Wumpus' and playing it for hours. Next came 'Lunar Lander' in text mode! It took me a month of work to rewrite it to have some basic block graphics. All of this in BASIC!
I learned a valuable lesson about EMF with my Poly-88 right after I bought the RAM. Stero speakers and the Poly-88 don't play together well. I had my stereo on, with my Poly-88 on a shelf below my speaker. Fired up the Poly-88, BBBBZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTT. Fried the Poly-88.
64k of RAM cost me around $1,000.00 at the time. Never did get to install the RAM, fried the system the night I was going to put it in.
It took me a LONG time delivering newspapers to save up for this box and the extras. Did I mention that I was 12 or 13 at the time? I had to borrow the money from my parent for the RAM. I think I still need to pay them back for it.