So they should build out their network in every city in America to be able to handle an emergency that has 2 million people coming to the area for a 2 day period? That seems logical...
When most people argue the "fair and balanced" they fail to remember one thing... Hannity, O'Reilly and the other talking heads aren't what they are talking about. They are referring to their news coverage, not their talking heads shows. They are tough on both sides when it comes to the news.
It would be like saying that CNN had a Conservative bias because Glen Beck is on. When you watch his show it is obviously conservative, but when you watch the news it slants to the left. (not as much as MSNBC but still, it is to the left)
IIRC there was a poll that sad >75% of all CEO's surveyed supported McCain. I wish I could remember the source. But if you are one of the talk radio bashers you would probably also believe that those CEO's are just evil rich people.
That would be the case with most normal isp's but Cogent purchased enough ISP's in the last few years to now be considered Tier 1. They do not purchase bandwidth from anyone. If I remember correctly they purchased Verio giving them the peering agreement with AOL/TW. They do not block the traffic to the sprint network, they just don't have any transit agreements in place. (they peer with every other Tier 1 provider) Having a transit agreement in place would make them Tier 2 and they would probably have Tier 1 providers disconnecting from them left and right. (because it wouldn't affect their customers, traffic would re-route to the transit provider)
The Tier 1 providers hate them because they brought the price of bandwidth down so low that the market had to follow.
They are not allowed to use taxpayer dollars to travel on a campaign trip. US Senators get paid for the rest of their lives whether or not they are in office so it seems like a bit of a moot point.
In the Florida House there is a 1 month period when people are not allowed to have fundraisers for their campaign (when bills are being written) to make sure that bills are not being influenced by the fundraisers. This time period is when most opponents announce that they are running and they try to use that month to take the lead in fund raising.
Of course they do campaign quite a bit even when the house/senate is in session. If they were not allowed to, incumbents would be at a huge disadvantage.
From everything I read, she did not conduct state business on her personal email. She conducted campaign business on her personal email. It would be illegal to conduct campaign business on her government email.
I happen to have some insight here as my mother is an elected state rep. Using any government resources (including email) for campaign purposes would be a huge violation and it can (and has) gotten many officials in a huge amount of trouble. A political campaign must completely separate itself from government supplied services. For example, my mothers legislative aide is not even allowed to leave work during working hours to help with a fund raiser or campaign even. (since the aide is paid for by taxpayer dollars and not paid for by the campaign) She has to hire people(or find volunteers) to manage the campaign and her legislative aide can only show up on her own time. (after 5pm)
There is a huge difference between what a campaign aide and a legislative aide can do for a politician.
I am not sure how much one of those tiny little voting machines cost but I am glad that it does not cost as much as a Diebold ATM. I am an IT Manager for a bank that owns 9 Diebold ATM's. We do not even buy the fancy ATM's with all of the bells and whistles and they run us upwards of $40k a pop. From what I understand, the ATM's that can do on the spot check scanning and other advanced features like that cost upwards of about $80k. I would bet that there is 20x more cost in raw materials alone for an ATM than there would be for a voting machine. (I am talking about bank ATM's and not the little corner convenience store ones) The vaults on the ATM's are at least 1/2 if not 3/4inches thick. They have more security sensors on them than the bank building itself has. (IIRC there are around 14 sensors on them that will set off an alarm)
All that to say, if our government spend upwards of 40k per voting machine, I would be hugely pissed off... especially since the paper systems would have worked just as well for a fraction of the cost.
I am all for being responsible with the environment but saying that "It can't hurt" is dead wrong. It can hugely hurt the economy, imposing restrictions that usually do more harm to the environment than good. It demonizes manufacturers, the American people, and any wealthy country.
I heard on the radio (they speaking about a clip from Dateline NBC) this morning that the socialist Bolivian president plans on filing suit against wealthy countries to make up for the fact that the glacier that they get their drinking water from is melting due to "global warming".
This is one of the biggest lies that Left have come up with. Do a google search for "Bush Tax Cut Calculator" and start plugging in some numbers. Take a look at what a single mother with 1 kid at 30k per year gets. From the calculator:
Your Tax Cut Under Bush Law: $400
Percentage Cut in Taxes $400 Is To Your Total Tax: 27.87%
Now unless you believe that a single mother with a kid that makes 30k is rich... I would say you are a flat out liar. A 27% tax cut is quite a nice deal. That could buy groceries for a month or more for the 2 of them.
The reason that the left is claiming tax cuts for the rich is that the rich also get a break.
I plugged some numbers in for someone making 500k a year and the tax cut is the difference between someone sending the government a check for the price of a house with new appliances or them just sending in the price of the house. They get a larger amount of money because they pay a much larger amount of taxes.
Now please, before throwing stupid phrases like "tax cuts for the rich" out, do your homework. It was tax cuts for everyone who actually pays taxes. Call it like it is. The Bush tax cuts are tax cuts for americans.
Assuming you live in the US, it sounds like you may have an idea here. Seeing as how we are a capitalistic society, and the consumers do not want to pay high prices for fuel and energy... go find some investors, incorporate and fix the problem yourself. You will become a billionaire and you will be helping the environment.
What is stopping you? Rather than complaining about the problem do something about it. If there was in fact some "magic bullet" that will fix this problem (doubtful) it is not up to the government or oil companies to find, it is up to any smart businessman to come up with. It could be you!
I was involved with the evaluation, purchase and implementation of a Xiotech Magnitude 3D (a generation ahead of the Magnitude) a little over a year ago and I can tell you that they are able to add new drives to an existing disk group without a problem. You would be best off re-striping the drive group since you would have a group of partially filled drives in the group and another group of completely empty drives.
Their interface was quite slick and the technology was quite impressive. We compared them to IBM, Netapp, and Dell/Emc and we were much more impressed with the features and performance of the Xiotech. One of the features that most of the other manufactures could not do is striping across every drive in one array. (IIRC something like 200+ or so 15k SCSI drives could be striped in one drive group to produce incredible speeds)Using some performance testing tools (with only about 40 drives) we were able to see some speeds of up to 40x that of enterprise class directly attached storage on the same server.
The customer that they brag about the most is Microsoft who apparently has a couple of petabytes (at the time) of Xiotech storage.
At my previous job I was talking with a director level person (in a different area of the company) about how I would ever be able to move up in the company the way it was setup. Our department had no supervisors and it looked like they were going to get rid of the manager position and have a director in charge instead. (they did that after I left)
She asked me what my motivations were as far as management. She realized that I was much more valuable to the company in a staff level position down in the trenches. I told her that I wanted to make more money and she said something to me that I later found to be true.
Just because someone is in a position of management, does not mean that they make more than the people that work for them. Any manager can manage employees, projects, and other managers, but it took a high level of competence to run their intricate network. There were a couple of people who were in Staff level positions making more than their manager. The IT managers responsibility had very little to do with IT (it probably could have been done with someone that just had a business background). It was a project management position.
The main goal beyond project management was to shield individual IT personnel from other managers and from end users. (mostly from upper management) The philosophy was we succeed as a team and fail as a team. When a server crashed that did not have a backup, upper management did not find out specifically who was responsible for that mistake, it was the mistake of the department.
I think that supporting somthing like Ubuntu would not be a good business decision for Dell. If they truly wanted to offer pre-installed linux, they should support the OS. In order to support the OS they should probably pick only one. Their best bet is to partner with a company like Redhat or Novell so that they can support everything from the basic linux desktop all the way up to a multi-server clustered system on the same platform. (or similar platform anyway) Of course there would be a cost involved if they did this.
I would be something that more companies would be likely to implement on a workstation and server environment if they can get direct support for the OS from the hardware company.
This was the first thought I had about this as well. Not only did Bush not have the power to send in the National Guard during Katrina, when they finally arrived people were shooting at them!!! Nothing says "we need martial law" like a bunch of idiots firing at the military and non-military workers trying to save you after a disaster.
I find it quite humorous that they only bothered to get a democrat to comment on the story. Just another example of the liberal (read: drive-by) media and how biased and one sided it is.
Democrats asked for this law and now they are angry that it is happening. (kinda like voting for the war just before voting against it?)
Bluestar.net (a covad company) opened up a local branch around our area a year or two ago and tried to sell dsl services. They were also interested in signing up isps wich wanted to sell dsl. You basically give them their customers and they give you a few bux a month. They then changed it to something that an isp could sell. Although there was no wholesale prices that an isp would pay (they paid the full price for a circuit without bandwidth) they did get a few local isp's to signup including the one I work for. Just as we were geting these customers up and going they closed down their offices and said that they no longer offer service in this area. (actually we just kinda assumed until about a month later someone called us and said, by the way we closed down the local pops) We spent a good deal of time and money in them and then they died with stacks of signed, unfulfilled contracts in their hands. Now our ILEC is the only provider of dsl in the area and it is ADSL and not SDSL.
I had the latest versions of Freebsd and Rh Leeknucks and Redhat could not run my usb devices that I had and FreeBSD could. It shure seems like they did have the support before linux.
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So they should build out their network in every city in America to be able to handle an emergency that has 2 million people coming to the area for a 2 day period? That seems logical...
40% of americans already do not pay income taxes. The only taxes they pay are payroll taxes. (SS medicare...)
When most people argue the "fair and balanced" they fail to remember one thing... Hannity, O'Reilly and the other talking heads aren't what they are talking about. They are referring to their news coverage, not their talking heads shows. They are tough on both sides when it comes to the news.
It would be like saying that CNN had a Conservative bias because Glen Beck is on. When you watch his show it is obviously conservative, but when you watch the news it slants to the left. (not as much as MSNBC but still, it is to the left)
IIRC there was a poll that sad >75% of all CEO's surveyed supported McCain. I wish I could remember the source. But if you are one of the talk radio bashers you would probably also believe that those CEO's are just evil rich people.
That would be the case with most normal isp's but Cogent purchased enough ISP's in the last few years to now be considered Tier 1. They do not purchase bandwidth from anyone. If I remember correctly they purchased Verio giving them the peering agreement with AOL/TW. They do not block the traffic to the sprint network, they just don't have any transit agreements in place. (they peer with every other Tier 1 provider) Having a transit agreement in place would make them Tier 2 and they would probably have Tier 1 providers disconnecting from them left and right. (because it wouldn't affect their customers, traffic would re-route to the transit provider)
The Tier 1 providers hate them because they brought the price of bandwidth down so low that the market had to follow.
They are not allowed to use taxpayer dollars to travel on a campaign trip. US Senators get paid for the rest of their lives whether or not they are in office so it seems like a bit of a moot point.
In the Florida House there is a 1 month period when people are not allowed to have fundraisers for their campaign (when bills are being written) to make sure that bills are not being influenced by the fundraisers. This time period is when most opponents announce that they are running and they try to use that month to take the lead in fund raising.
Of course they do campaign quite a bit even when the house/senate is in session. If they were not allowed to, incumbents would be at a huge disadvantage.
From everything I read, she did not conduct state business on her personal email. She conducted campaign business on her personal email. It would be illegal to conduct campaign business on her government email.
I happen to have some insight here as my mother is an elected state rep. Using any government resources (including email) for campaign purposes would be a huge violation and it can (and has) gotten many officials in a huge amount of trouble. A political campaign must completely separate itself from government supplied services. For example, my mothers legislative aide is not even allowed to leave work during working hours to help with a fund raiser or campaign even. (since the aide is paid for by taxpayer dollars and not paid for by the campaign) She has to hire people(or find volunteers) to manage the campaign and her legislative aide can only show up on her own time. (after 5pm)
There is a huge difference between what a campaign aide and a legislative aide can do for a politician.
But think about all of the cacti and scorpions you would be killing if you used the desert.
I am not sure how much one of those tiny little voting machines cost but I am glad that it does not cost as much as a Diebold ATM. I am an IT Manager for a bank that owns 9 Diebold ATM's. We do not even buy the fancy ATM's with all of the bells and whistles and they run us upwards of $40k a pop. From what I understand, the ATM's that can do on the spot check scanning and other advanced features like that cost upwards of about $80k. I would bet that there is 20x more cost in raw materials alone for an ATM than there would be for a voting machine. (I am talking about bank ATM's and not the little corner convenience store ones) The vaults on the ATM's are at least 1/2 if not 3/4inches thick. They have more security sensors on them than the bank building itself has. (IIRC there are around 14 sensors on them that will set off an alarm)
All that to say, if our government spend upwards of 40k per voting machine, I would be hugely pissed off... especially since the paper systems would have worked just as well for a fraction of the cost.
I am all for being responsible with the environment but saying that "It can't hurt" is dead wrong. It can hugely hurt the economy, imposing restrictions that usually do more harm to the environment than good. It demonizes manufacturers, the American people, and any wealthy country.
I heard on the radio (they speaking about a clip from Dateline NBC) this morning that the socialist Bolivian president plans on filing suit against wealthy countries to make up for the fact that the glacier that they get their drinking water from is melting due to "global warming".
This is one of the biggest lies that Left have come up with. Do a google search for "Bush Tax Cut Calculator" and start plugging in some numbers. Take a look at what a single mother with 1 kid at 30k per year gets. From the calculator:
Your Tax Cut Under Bush Law: $400
Percentage Cut in Taxes $400 Is To Your Total Tax: 27.87%
Now unless you believe that a single mother with a kid that makes 30k is rich... I would say you are a flat out liar. A 27% tax cut is quite a nice deal. That could buy groceries for a month or more for the 2 of them.
The reason that the left is claiming tax cuts for the rich is that the rich also get a break.
I plugged some numbers in for someone making 500k a year and the tax cut is the difference between someone sending the government a check for the price of a house with new appliances or them just sending in the price of the house. They get a larger amount of money because they pay a much larger amount of taxes.
Now please, before throwing stupid phrases like "tax cuts for the rich" out, do your homework. It was tax cuts for everyone who actually pays taxes. Call it like it is. The Bush tax cuts are tax cuts for americans.
Assuming you live in the US, it sounds like you may have an idea here. Seeing as how we are a capitalistic society, and the consumers do not want to pay high prices for fuel and energy... go find some investors, incorporate and fix the problem yourself. You will become a billionaire and you will be helping the environment.
What is stopping you? Rather than complaining about the problem do something about it. If there was in fact some "magic bullet" that will fix this problem (doubtful) it is not up to the government or oil companies to find, it is up to any smart businessman to come up with. It could be you!
I was involved with the evaluation, purchase and implementation of a Xiotech Magnitude 3D (a generation ahead of the Magnitude) a little over a year ago and I can tell you that they are able to add new drives to an existing disk group without a problem. You would be best off re-striping the drive group since you would have a group of partially filled drives in the group and another group of completely empty drives.
Their interface was quite slick and the technology was quite impressive. We compared them to IBM, Netapp, and Dell/Emc and we were much more impressed with the features and performance of the Xiotech. One of the features that most of the other manufactures could not do is striping across every drive in one array. (IIRC something like 200+ or so 15k SCSI drives could be striped in one drive group to produce incredible speeds)Using some performance testing tools (with only about 40 drives) we were able to see some speeds of up to 40x that of enterprise class directly attached storage on the same server.
The customer that they brag about the most is Microsoft who apparently has a couple of petabytes (at the time) of Xiotech storage.
At my previous job I was talking with a director level person (in a different area of the company) about how I would ever be able to move up in the company the way it was setup. Our department had no supervisors and it looked like they were going to get rid of the manager position and have a director in charge instead. (they did that after I left)
She asked me what my motivations were as far as management. She realized that I was much more valuable to the company in a staff level position down in the trenches. I told her that I wanted to make more money and she said something to me that I later found to be true.
Just because someone is in a position of management, does not mean that they make more than the people that work for them. Any manager can manage employees, projects, and other managers, but it took a high level of competence to run their intricate network. There were a couple of people who were in Staff level positions making more than their manager. The IT managers responsibility had very little to do with IT (it probably could have been done with someone that just had a business background). It was a project management position.
The main goal beyond project management was to shield individual IT personnel from other managers and from end users. (mostly from upper management) The philosophy was we succeed as a team and fail as a team. When a server crashed that did not have a backup, upper management did not find out specifically who was responsible for that mistake, it was the mistake of the department.
If they are limiting it, I have got access to 2 full Class B's of public IP space that is not being used that we could have fun with...
I think that supporting somthing like Ubuntu would not be a good business decision for Dell. If they truly wanted to offer pre-installed linux, they should support the OS. In order to support the OS they should probably pick only one. Their best bet is to partner with a company like Redhat or Novell so that they can support everything from the basic linux desktop all the way up to a multi-server clustered system on the same platform. (or similar platform anyway) Of course there would be a cost involved if they did this.
I would be something that more companies would be likely to implement on a workstation and server environment if they can get direct support for the OS from the hardware company.
What are you talking about??? People on the left have blamed the machines for many losses.
This was the first thought I had about this as well. Not only did Bush not have the power to send in the National Guard during Katrina, when they finally arrived people were shooting at them!!! Nothing says "we need martial law" like a bunch of idiots firing at the military and non-military workers trying to save you after a disaster.
I find it quite humorous that they only bothered to get a democrat to comment on the story. Just another example of the liberal (read: drive-by) media and how biased and one sided it is.
Democrats asked for this law and now they are angry that it is happening. (kinda like voting for the war just before voting against it?)
This is an Open Source advocacy site not a linux advocacy site. Big difference. The slogan goes
Get it str8.
Umm, yes it does support passive ftp, read the docs about ipnat proxying
Bluestar.net (a covad company) opened up a local branch around our area a year or two ago and tried to sell dsl services. They were also interested in signing up isps wich wanted to sell dsl. You basically give them their customers and they give you a few bux a month. They then changed it to something that an isp could sell. Although there was no wholesale prices that an isp would pay (they paid the full price for a circuit without bandwidth) they did get a few local isp's to signup including the one I work for. Just as we were geting these customers up and going they closed down their offices and said that they no longer offer service in this area. (actually we just kinda assumed until about a month later someone called us and said, by the way we closed down the local pops) We spent a good deal of time and money in them and then they died with stacks of signed, unfulfilled contracts in their hands. Now our ILEC is the only provider of dsl in the area and it is ADSL and not SDSL.
I had the latest versions of Freebsd and Rh Leeknucks and Redhat could not run my usb devices that I had and FreeBSD could. It shure seems like they did have the support before linux.
As the admin of SlashHosting.com I would like to clear some things up.
1. We do offer mailing lists. Just ask.
2. We run FreeBSD, but for a virtual hosting user the difference between Linux and FreeBSD is nil.
3. Our FreeBSD machines will run all Linux binaries, unmodified.
4. We will be offering within the next few weeks, slashcode as a package on our RedHat Linux private servers (yes, root access and control panel), starting at under $90 a month. If you are interested in a private server, let us know.
5. As far as the price goes, RAM is expensive, and each instance of slash uses between 16-20 megs of ram while running idle. (No hits to the website)
6. Someone mentioned slashhost.com, they were not domain squatters, they planned on doing slash hosting services but quickly found out the resources it requires. At one time they were taken out of the sites list, I don't know why they were put back in.