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BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) will keep versioned backups of any network file shares including SMB and NFS. It just Does The Right Thing (TM) for using the backup storage efficiently. Throw in a web i/f for admin and file restore and it's hard to beat. I have used this to backup a small office (around 20 workstations) using a really old Compaq PC w/ an upgraded disk drive.
All you need is a cheap Linux box (Debian works well) with one or more large disks. The disks and disk controller don't need to be particularly fast either since backups happen during off hours. If you are worried about disk failure put in two drives, use software RAID, and forget about it.
You don't need to wait to transfer your domain. Just yesterday I transfered one from Verisign to PairNIC. It cost $18, went very smoothly, and added a year added to the expiration date. BTW, I'm not affiliated w/ PairNIC in any way. I'm just a satisified customer.
Everyone should transfer their registrations NOW. It's easy and you are making a stand that might actually be noticed. At least you won't be sending any more dollars to a corrupt company that doesn't give a rip about Internet standards.
For several years now I have been dutifully returning all the junk snail-mail credit card and etc. applications cluttering up my mailbox as a way of increasing the marketing costs of the companies sending them. I must get three or four applications for that damn Capital One card a week (what's in your mailbox?). I do the same for all of the magazine blow-in cards littering the floor of my bathroom. Just my way of fighting back.
I've normally left the forms blank, being willing to settle for sticking them with the return postage. However, this is a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. By using Ralsky's address it drives up the companies costs since they will send more junk to him and Ralsky gets to deal with it. I love it when a plan comes together.
A bigger problem with elections is the gerymandering of election districts. The two major parties conspire to create safe voting districts for the incumbents which guarantees non-competitive elections. This year most (90%+) of the races aren't even slightly competitive.
What is needed is a mathematical technique which draws districts based on a simple evaluation function that doesn't maximize a political party's advantage. For example, draw the lines such that you minimize the sum of the voter's distance from the population center of the region.
Dish/Direct offered to have one flat rate throughout the US if this merger was approved. This would put them in direct competition with every cable company. If they raised their rates too far customers with a choice would defect to cable. Voila, free market forces for everyone.
If this merger went through everyone in the US would eventually have access to a very broadband datastream. Hundreds of PPV channels. How about the latest ISO's for every Linux distribution delivered every night automatically? Every TV station throughout the US available to everyone. The possibilities are endless. The only losers here are the big cable companies and the local broadcast stations who would have to actually start competing.
The FCC decision didn't have anything to do with consumer choice and everything to do with preventing competition.
Six months ago Microsoft said they were going to review their code for security problems. Six months later they're still popping up one a week or so. How long does it take to find all the instances of strcpy()?
I worked on a similar project for Boeing back in the mid-1980's. It was a small R&D project for the Air Force modifing a F-111 with a Mission Adaptive Wing. There were hydrolics inside the wing that would warp it into various shapes depending on mission. In attack mode the wing would flatten out for performance. For cruising it would get more camber for efficient lift.
It was controlled by an Z-80 microprocessor programmed entirely in assembly language. I left the project before first flight. Hope we didn't kill anybody with a misplaced LDIR
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All you need is a cheap Linux box (Debian works well) with one or more large disks. The disks and disk controller don't need to be particularly fast either since backups happen during off hours. If you are worried about disk failure put in two drives, use software RAID, and forget about it.
Everyone should transfer their registrations NOW. It's easy and you are making a stand that might actually be noticed. At least you won't be sending any more dollars to a corrupt company that doesn't give a rip about Internet standards.
I've normally left the forms blank, being willing to settle for sticking them with the return postage. However, this is a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. By using Ralsky's address it drives up the companies costs since they will send more junk to him and Ralsky gets to deal with it. I love it when a plan comes together.
What is needed is a mathematical technique which draws districts based on a simple evaluation function that doesn't maximize a political party's advantage. For example, draw the lines such that you minimize the sum of the voter's distance from the population center of the region.
If this merger went through everyone in the US would eventually have access to a very broadband datastream. Hundreds of PPV channels. How about the latest ISO's for every Linux distribution delivered every night automatically? Every TV station throughout the US available to everyone. The possibilities are endless. The only losers here are the big cable companies and the local broadcast stations who would have to actually start competing.
The FCC decision didn't have anything to do with consumer choice and everything to do with preventing competition.
iptables -A FORWARD -d 65.89.168.4 -j REJECT
They must be using the million monkeys with typewriters (keyboards?) software development method.
It was controlled by an Z-80 microprocessor programmed entirely in assembly language. I left the project before first flight. Hope we didn't kill anybody with a misplaced LDIR