Its probably not quite what you were looking for, but the Trinity Rescue Kit will boot directly into running several of the free virus scanners if you like (AVG (broken, soon to be removed too), Avast (coming soon), Vexira, F-prot, Clamav, and a bunch of people voting to get Avira added). Get an old 128Mb+ usb stick and use unetbootin to load the bootable image to it (or just burn the iso to cd), and make sure the computer in question is rebooted to it once a week or so (or whenever its "acting up"). It wont actively block things in windows (duh, its running from its own linux kernel on boot), but its a great off-line scanner that can scrape away some of the really nasty ones.
raid5 is ok for some things, but its not something I would trust for critical backups. Rebuild times are quite high these days for larger drives, so a single failure puts your terabytes of data at risk of total loss if just one other drive fails. I would say raid6 or mirrored raid5 sets, or just mirrored stripes, and always have a spare ready, and avoid using all the same brand/model/batch, so if one dies due to firmware or manufacturing bug, the others are less likely to die at the same time for the same reason (yes, Ive seen it happen). Still, this will not account for, correct or even warn for in-place data corruption, you need something that actively scans the drives comparing checksums against those written with the original data, something ZFS can do.
Or, you can go to an external provider as others have mentioned. There are more out there than just Amazon, some specializing in data integrity (amazon specifically does NOT guarantee your data, let alone any sort of redundancy/integrity for it Link).
And what the hell is the point in talking about the plants in Georgia? That's a different type of plant, being built by a different company! Georgia has the largest coal fired power plant in the us: where's that outrage? Where is the outrage over the radiation it emits?
Not to mention that Scherer and Bowen are also two of the dirtiest plants in the US, and pump out more radioactive waste and other crap (Sulpher Dioxide!) into the atmosphere and ash piles than this or any other leak from a nuclear plant (probably all combined, including Chernobyl).
Except 10Base-2 is 50ohm coax, while TV coax (which is probably what he has) is 75ohm. Nope, not going to work.
for short range applications, yes it will. I know this because I did exactly that, replaced the F style connectors with BNC connectors and had a working 10b2 home network (4 nodes about 100' total segment length). As long as its continuous and properly terminated you can get decent rates across the segment... note that thats shared across all nodes and requires T connectors at each node to keep it as a linear segment rather than star topology... but it would get you a lot more bandwidth than trying to splice rj45 jacks onto the coax. Its just like running 10bT on cat3 phone cord, or on an improperly paired cable (ie: not following the color codes, just making the ends match up) it works for short segments, and is far from ideal, but if its all you got its better than nothing.
Still, the best bet is to do like everyone else has suggested and just use it as a pull-cord to pull cat5/6e to the outlets.
They had bins full of LED traffic lights last time I was there (right around the corner from my office). Interesting place, great for dirt cheap keyboards and mice.
TiSP is WIRELESS - this article talks about fiber to the home
"Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines."
Yes, according to the lore they use entangled particles as a form of long range communication. EDI (Tricia Heifer of BSG fame) goes into some detail about how it works, which isn't that different from how the article here describes it.
Bioware deserve points for doing that kind of research into the game.
Its actually been around in Sci-Fi for quite some time. See Ansible, Orson Scott Card used it as the basis for Ender's Game and that whole series of books (though it got a bit extreme after the first one).
The key word here is: "unlawful transfer of content"
The reason BitTorrent has not suffered the fate of Napster is that there is significant noninfringing uses, ranging from Linux ISOs to public broadcasting to companies like Vuse which use BitTorrent for purely legal, liscenced content.
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FTFY
Anytime the word Content is used to describe traffic handling, it is by definition NOT NEUTRAL. Neutral means sending packets as packets and specifically NOT interfering with them due to what they carry, how, where from or to beyond basic routing rules. Once you step in and look at what it is/who is sending it/where its going and act based on that (again, aside from normal routing), you are no longer a neutral party. It would be like the post office opening your letter and reading it at each stop it makes between where you mailed it and who you mailed it to, and deciding if they want to deliver it or not or re-route it through alaska by dogsled to get to DC. Of course, this is the US govmnt, so they can redefine anything they want so that it fits the laws they can rewrite or ignore.
W00! this means my A+ from 1995 is still good! Im gona make mad $$ since I know how to boot DOS and unplug keyboards and monitors... I even know how to install a 386sx and 30pin simms!
(not really, Im lame cause I never got my A+, just a job as a sysadmin)
In every ticket I have received (2, one for speeding, one for dog-off-leash (yes, it went to traffic court, yay California)), the issuing officer made a point to tell me that it was my responsibility to call the court at the number listed on the ticket to check the status of my case in a few days, and no later than 30days. It was also my responsibility to follow up with the court to either pay the citation fee or appear in court by the deadline or at an appointed time, and that they would mail the details to me but it was still my responsibility to take care of it regardless.
First, this apparently applies to VoIP systems and cell phones, not analog land lines....
VoIP and Cell systems are packetized data, just like normal analog phones are once they get to an RT or CO (read up on SS7). Most cell towers have VoIP connections back to a CO somewhere, and VoIP terminating on the POTS network first has to be converted to normal SS7 packetized traffic. This means the wire tap is tapping actual data packets from the SS7 channel (hence the mention of "only" 64kbps, which is actually a full ds0, same as a normal analog line). The attack mentioned (going from the way the summary presented it) requires taking up all available channels on the same switch that the tap is being placed on, so there are not enough available ds0 channels left for the tap to send its data, or alternatively, creating multiple voice channels that are targets for the tap so that it cant send all the voice even with a high compression codec (assuming its limited to the single ds0) . This is only capable if you get a bunch of people to dial into the same switch at the same time, basically a DDoS, or place multiple calls from the tapped phone or send sms/other stuff that takes up data channels. This has the same effect as what happens when a radio station announces that "10th caller gets tickets" to some concert, and you try to call but get "all circuits busy". But still, good luck flooding all the channels in a CO....
Its kinda what the system was designed to do: encrypt info, allow only designated users access. Its also GNU. In your case, the simple command line gpg -c PASWORD.PLAINTEXTFILE would work, and gpg -d on the.gpg file to get them back. Just be sure to nuke the original plaintext file when done. IIRC there are ways to edit and save the file without decrypting it to disk, though unless you have other people on your system with access to read your files while you edit things, this shouldnt be a problem.
GPG is wide spread enough that you should be able to find front-ends to it for many mobile platforms, otherwise at the least you can use cygwin to get it running. On a more complex level, gpg lets you add/revoke permission to read the file and also does integrity checking via PKI signatures and signed keys (ie: gpg creates an encryption key pair, then signs it with a users own public key so they can decrypt it. any additional user can be added by adding another signed key using that users public key to decrypt the original encryption key)
The Asterisk crowd has been playing Zork over phone systems for quite some time now... all thats needed to make a computer do anything via voice command is a decent speech to text lib, like sphinx, and a way to get your verbal noises into the computer for it to decipher. Past that its the same old scripting game. Voice recognition is about like the Internet, it was really exciting the first few years when it was new and actually innovative, now doing something via the Internet/via Voice Recognition is nothing special (and often just annoying... "Operator" "Im sorry, I did not understand.." "I want to speak with an Opera.." "Transfering you to sales").
From the article, it says this is going to cost $45 billion to build. $45 BILLION? For 800 miles of high-speed tracks and trains? I can't see any concievable way, even if they had to purchases premium land the entire length rather than using state land, that there's any way to justify 56 million dollars per mile. International constructions have cost around one twentieth of this amount.
Lots of bridges, tunnels and filldirt.. Its already been kicked off of the SF Peninsula because they said it would be too expensive to go underground the whole way, and the only other way to have a 200+mph train go through high density residential areas is to elevate it, which the residents refused as an option. It would have shared the caltrain route, which already has long sections of elevated track (via10-20' of filldirt and fences on both sides) that effictively creates a berlin wall through neighborhoods. To keep people from "trespassing" they would have to elevate the whole line, and that pissed a bunch of people off (especially those in Atherton behind their wooden fences).
Caltrain electrification will be done first, and highspeed rail, to be successful, would have to tie in to caltrain somewhere, or it would just be a train to nowhere.
... Do you hunt and kill and butcher all of your own food? Do you make and can all of your own fruits and vegetables and preserves? Do you skin and tan your own leather clothing? Do you use kerosene lamps? Do you own a horse instead of a car for transportation?
Yes,yes,yes (ich liebe meine lederhosen), no... I use whale blubber, thankyouverymuch, and no, pack llamas are much more efficient.
What about short-hand? Morse code? Olde English?
I chisel my notes into stone tablets, or if Im in a hurry, charcoal on my cave's walls works well
Otherwise it would mean other non-predictable numbers could actually be predictable, potentially make breaking cryptography easier (much like finding out that a prime really isnt), would generally disrupt a bunch of mathematical theorems probably pissing off a whole sect of mathematicians, and turn a lot of things we think we know upside down.
No, but maybe you could patent reading the percentage of CO2 in the air exhaled by the body as an indicator that the person is indeed using the O2 being breathed in.
Or, more relevantly, patent the process of observing the color of the patient's skin in shades of violet as an indicator for the amount of O2 being administered as a treatment against hypoxia.
Condoms were a significant portion of the waste? Enough to be listed in the article? What, do brits have a separate bin for condoms so they can all be collected and recycled somehow? "Wait a tic dear, before we cuddle I gotta go toss this used rubber in the condom bin". Or is there some government agency that goes around filtering all the condoms from the normal rubbish bins of England? Unless they are un-used, expired maybe, this makes little sense to me...
The best way to protect against drive failure is to buy server grade SATA drives, which are designed for 24/7/365*5 operation, and not cheap PC drives which are designed for 10 hours per day for 3-4 years. Buy server grade SATA drives, mirror them using a hardware controller, back up daily, sleep at night.
Err, thats been proven questionable. More specifically, here is an article from eweek and here is the google talk about a large study of drive lifetime characteristics. "Server" drives are just as good as "consumer" drives when it comes to lifetime. The only benefit you get with the more expensive drives is slightly better performance (NCQ, higher rpm, larger buffers, etc). I have several machines at home that run 24x7x365 on the "cheap PC drives" in raid1 pairs (linux md) and a non-raided windoze box, and have had to replace 2 drives out of 12+ over the past 8 years due to failure: I tend to need to upgrade to larger ones before they fail. Even at work we have used the cheaper drives in clusters, next to others running enterprise level drives and found no benefit to the extra cost in most situations.
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Tm
Or, you can go to an external provider as others have mentioned. There are more out there than just Amazon, some specializing in data integrity (amazon specifically does NOT guarantee your data, let alone any sort of redundancy/integrity for it Link).
-Tm
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And what the hell is the point in talking about the plants in Georgia? That's a different type of plant, being built by a different company! Georgia has the largest coal fired power plant in the us: where's that outrage? Where is the outrage over the radiation it emits?
Not to mention that Scherer and Bowen are also two of the dirtiest plants in the US, and pump out more radioactive waste and other crap (Sulpher Dioxide!) into the atmosphere and ash piles than this or any other leak from a nuclear plant (probably all combined, including Chernobyl).
-Tm
Except 10Base-2 is 50ohm coax, while TV coax (which is probably what he has) is 75ohm. Nope, not going to work.
for short range applications, yes it will. I know this because I did exactly that, replaced the F style connectors with BNC connectors and had a working 10b2 home network (4 nodes about 100' total segment length). As long as its continuous and properly terminated you can get decent rates across the segment... note that thats shared across all nodes and requires T connectors at each node to keep it as a linear segment rather than star topology... but it would get you a lot more bandwidth than trying to splice rj45 jacks onto the coax. Its just like running 10bT on cat3 phone cord, or on an improperly paired cable (ie: not following the color codes, just making the ends match up) it works for short segments, and is far from ideal, but if its all you got its better than nothing.
Still, the best bet is to do like everyone else has suggested and just use it as a pull-cord to pull cat5/6e to the outlets.
Tm
tm
TiSP is WIRELESS - this article talks about fiber to the home
"Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines."
RTFA!
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Yes, according to the lore they use entangled particles as a form of long range communication. EDI (Tricia Heifer of BSG fame) goes into some detail about how it works, which isn't that different from how the article here describes it.
Bioware deserve points for doing that kind of research into the game.
Its actually been around in Sci-Fi for quite some time. See Ansible, Orson Scott Card used it as the basis for Ender's Game and that whole series of books (though it got a bit extreme after the first one).
tm
The key word here is: "unlawful transfer of content"
The reason BitTorrent has not suffered the fate of Napster is that there is significant noninfringing uses, ranging from Linux ISOs to public broadcasting to companies like Vuse which use BitTorrent for purely legal, liscenced content.
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FTFY
Anytime the word Content is used to describe traffic handling, it is by definition NOT NEUTRAL. Neutral means sending packets as packets and specifically NOT interfering with them due to what they carry, how, where from or to beyond basic routing rules. Once you step in and look at what it is/who is sending it/where its going and act based on that (again, aside from normal routing), you are no longer a neutral party. It would be like the post office opening your letter and reading it at each stop it makes between where you mailed it and who you mailed it to, and deciding if they want to deliver it or not or re-route it through alaska by dogsled to get to DC. Of course, this is the US govmnt, so they can redefine anything they want so that it fits the laws they can rewrite or ignore.
Tm
(not really, Im lame cause I never got my A+, just a job as a sysadmin)
When theres a 2008 Model up at only $450k:
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...for those who didn't RTFA:
First, this apparently applies to VoIP systems and cell phones, not analog land lines....
VoIP and Cell systems are packetized data, just like normal analog phones are once they get to an RT or CO (read up on SS7). Most cell towers have VoIP connections back to a CO somewhere, and VoIP terminating on the POTS network first has to be converted to normal SS7 packetized traffic. This means the wire tap is tapping actual data packets from the SS7 channel (hence the mention of "only" 64kbps, which is actually a full ds0, same as a normal analog line). The attack mentioned (going from the way the summary presented it) requires taking up all available channels on the same switch that the tap is being placed on, so there are not enough available ds0 channels left for the tap to send its data, or alternatively, creating multiple voice channels that are targets for the tap so that it cant send all the voice even with a high compression codec (assuming its limited to the single ds0) . This is only capable if you get a bunch of people to dial into the same switch at the same time, basically a DDoS, or place multiple calls from the tapped phone or send sms/other stuff that takes up data channels. This has the same effect as what happens when a radio station announces that "10th caller gets tickets" to some concert, and you try to call but get "all circuits busy". But still, good luck flooding all the channels in a CO....
Tm
GPG is wide spread enough that you should be able to find front-ends to it for many mobile platforms, otherwise at the least you can use cygwin to get it running. On a more complex level, gpg lets you add/revoke permission to read the file and also does integrity checking via PKI signatures and signed keys (ie: gpg creates an encryption key pair, then signs it with a users own public key so they can decrypt it. any additional user can be added by adding another signed key using that users public key to decrypt the original encryption key)
-tm
Tm
cheap cheap!
Siemens
PS: There seems to be something wrong with the numbers. 4.7b is correct, but that's for 25miles not 800 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid).
highspeed != maglev
The proposal is a standard wheels-on-rails rail line with bullet trains, ala the japanese bullets. see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
From the article, it says this is going to cost $45 billion to build. $45 BILLION? For 800 miles of high-speed tracks and trains? I can't see any concievable way, even if they had to purchases premium land the entire length rather than using state land, that there's any way to justify 56 million dollars per mile. International constructions have cost around one twentieth of this amount.
Lots of bridges, tunnels and filldirt.. Its already been kicked off of the SF Peninsula because they said it would be too expensive to go underground the whole way, and the only other way to have a 200+mph train go through high density residential areas is to elevate it, which the residents refused as an option. It would have shared the caltrain route, which already has long sections of elevated track (via10-20' of filldirt and fences on both sides) that effictively creates a berlin wall through neighborhoods. To keep people from "trespassing" they would have to elevate the whole line, and that pissed a bunch of people off (especially those in Atherton behind their wooden fences). Caltrain electrification will be done first, and highspeed rail, to be successful, would have to tie in to caltrain somewhere, or it would just be a train to nowhere.
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... Do you hunt and kill and butcher all of your own food? Do you make and can all of your own fruits and vegetables and preserves? Do you skin and tan your own leather clothing? Do you use kerosene lamps? Do you own a horse instead of a car for transportation?
Yes,yes,yes (ich liebe meine lederhosen), no... I use whale blubber, thankyouverymuch, and no, pack llamas are much more efficient.
What about short-hand? Morse code? Olde English?
I chisel my notes into stone tablets, or if Im in a hurry, charcoal on my cave's walls works well
Tm
that was just the drive, its so fast it finishes sending before it
jet aircraft (each costing millions), runs on jet fuel, not methane
But rockets (and rocket planes) do Carmack and Armadillo Aerospace have been doing just that for NASA.
Tm
Otherwise it would mean other non-predictable numbers could actually be predictable, potentially make breaking cryptography easier (much like finding out that a prime really isnt), would generally disrupt a bunch of mathematical theorems probably pissing off a whole sect of mathematicians, and turn a lot of things we think we know upside down.
Tm
No, but maybe you could patent reading the percentage of CO2 in the air exhaled by the body as an indicator that the person is indeed using the O2 being breathed in.
Or, more relevantly, patent the process of observing the color of the patient's skin in shades of violet as an indicator for the amount of O2 being administered as a treatment against hypoxia.
-Tm
Tm
The best way to protect against drive failure is to buy server grade SATA drives, which are designed for 24/7/365*5 operation, and not cheap PC drives which are designed for 10 hours per day for 3-4 years. Buy server grade SATA drives, mirror them using a hardware controller, back up daily, sleep at night.
Err, thats been proven questionable. More specifically, here is an article from eweek and here is the google talk about a large study of drive lifetime characteristics. "Server" drives are just as good as "consumer" drives when it comes to lifetime. The only benefit you get with the more expensive drives is slightly better performance (NCQ, higher rpm, larger buffers, etc). I have several machines at home that run 24x7x365 on the "cheap PC drives" in raid1 pairs (linux md) and a non-raided windoze box, and have had to replace 2 drives out of 12+ over the past 8 years due to failure: I tend to need to upgrade to larger ones before they fail. Even at work we have used the cheaper drives in clusters, next to others running enterprise level drives and found no benefit to the extra cost in most situations.
-Tm