I have a reliable bag from Overland Equipment Company, which I found in a university bookstore for approximately $60.
One nice thing about the Overland bag is its mesh shoulder straps, which are very comfortable. In addition to a PC and accessories, it can hold 4 1.5-in binders in the main compartment. The sides are open-topped mesh with elastic, for carrying books, oversized water bottles, or two Red Bulls in each.
I suggest picking a bag out in a store because you can test the padding and latching directly. Having gone through several bags in the past, I cannot recommend buying one unseen, rather untouched. Bring your laptop with you, if you can. Also, I have discovered that SWAG bags are the most unreliable of all, usually lasting until the morning of your next flight to a trade show. There's few things as annoying than having all your stuff on your apartment floor while a taxicab is honking to take you to the airport.
Convincing management requires trying to think from their perspective. Most likely, your new policy is the result of some knucklehead outside your department abusing the system. So my advice is to comply, be agreeable, and let the heat stay on that knucklehead instead of you. Reprogram all your paging scripts to NOT call your personal cellphone. Leave yours in your glovebox and don't give that number to anyone in your workplace. As far as they are concerned, you are available at home or while you are at work. I once worked for an IT dept that had a simple solution for the "problem" of employee-owned technology. In this case the "problem" was the fiscally conservative accounting department. Acknowledging that any normal person would use the same phone for biz AND personal calls, IT agreed to reimburse us monthly for cell-phone expenses, but only if we followed 2 ground rules. It could not exceed 70$/mth and the provider had to be the same for each employee. This proved to adequately cover the minutes needed for both personal and telephone calls with the same phone. Because the monthly bill was consistent, the accounting dept did not have to see an itemized list of calls, just a copy of the front page of the phone bill. Our department never stood out as abusing the system, and each one us could make as many personal calls as we liked.
That explains the occasional emerging fruitfly from the keyboard in last cubicle I was stationed at.
One good strategy can be developed from this: According to Dr Gerba's study, bacteria levels peak after lunch. So early shifts may be our best bet.
The FBI will not seize computers without a warrant. I know this because I just lost a job for ratting to them about child pornography at one of the country's largest construction staffing firms ($100mil in sales last year). Though the local field agents were anxious to put the keibosh on the whole operation, they couldn't, because heresay is not enough evidence to get a subpoena for a raid. It takes a long time to collect evidence before such a raid will ever be authorized, sometimes months or years. So if the CTI data center was seized/shut-down, you can bet there was plenty of evidence already collected, enough to satisfy a judge. Most likely, their traffic was already being monitored, and they have only themselves to blame for condoning illegal activities.
There's already a box made for this, and having tested it in a previous life, I gurantee it will work. This will hold 200 DVD's, and w/Fire
Get yourself a PowerFile R200, DVD-jukebox system:
http://www.powerfile.com/
This same jukebox is built-in to high-end systems form Escient, including DVD management systems that allow you to have three jukeboxes running at once:
http://www.escient.com/fireballdvdm100.html
If you want to be really trick, get yourself a transcoder form Laird Telemedia:
http://www.lairdtelemedia.com/products/firewire.ht ml
Or maybe you can just store the disk images using DVD Xcopy, into your own tera/petabyte array. But you'd better get your copy now!
JK
looked into this when in a rural area w/o broadband. chose 128k ISDN instead, more reliable and dedicated bandwidth made it seem faster than prime-time broadband in a metro area. chose against directway for the following reasons:
high latency
slower upload speed vs. download: important if you're a develpper or graphic artist, not so if you mainly just surf the web
as one other user mentioned, the usb connection-only is a pain-in-the-ass, hopefully this has changed.
hope this helps
Kelly
Thanks for posting that. It's the brainiacs at ARRL who are partially responsible for a restrictive wireless facilities ordinance in Tuolumne County, California. That's why I won't join even though I have an ARL. I was using powerline to provide old brick hotels with internet access; pretty tough to do with 802.11. One thing I learned is that this is generally possible in older buildings without transformers to isolate the power-grids; ie. rural areas, thirld-world countries, anywhere where the facilities weren't build with recent money under recent building codes. Misinformation spewed by organizations such as the ARRL only increase the digital divide.
KG6NRF
I used to imagine myself in a GTA world while driving taxi in Sonora...could only imagine the scenarios we could have in the Motherlode...take a login road to a marijuana plantation, avoid the spankheads at the sierra trading post, leave downtown without getting a dui or dip...dump bodies into reservoirs for the russian mafia...the posssibilities are endless!
JK
You're right, the telephone treatment is better for business customers, however there is a goofiness behind the scenes at Dell that is unacceptable. In one recent case, I needed a power-supply for an Optiplex. I knew this from my own troubleshooting, but the tech stayed on with me while I tore apart my own admin computer (also an Optiplex), swapped power-supplies and made the troubled computer work. This was an uneccessary waste of my time, shutting down my apps etc. because some tech wasn't convinced i knew how to troubleshoot in the first place. Condescension? Incompetence? I dunno, but was assured a new powersupply would be shipped out immediately. In a couple days I received the part, but it had the warranty void tag broken and stamps indicated it was a refurbed part older than the original power supply. So I call them back, this time I'm routed to a call center in Bangalore. The tech was couteous, sure, and not condescending as the previous American tech was. But he had very little information in front of him about this exchange, and was obviously adhering to a script. It took him half an hour to square everything away, and guarantee me a NEW part would arrive next day. This part came a week later, and my user is back to work 3 weeks after I first ask Dell for a new power supply. And all because Dell's tech support wouldn't take my word for it that the power-supply crapped out. That's not professional service, despite the fact that it's tiered to provide a better class than residential users.
Not sure what my take on the spyware issue is. I would think it's for legal reasons but still lame they won't support the box they sold you.
So while the treatment may SEEM better for business customers, Dell is a real time-sucker for busy admins trying to keep their users satisfied.
It's true. I used to maintain a UHF televison transmitter; when tower workers needed to be anywhere near the antenna we had to cut to quarter-power and lower our ad rates. Skin heats up with or without metal. This weapon is seriously dangerous.
Sure hope this oversized diathermy machine is never deployed. Pacemaker or not, I can smell the cooking skin already... who do these scientists think they're kidding? Would be alot cheaper to modify an old Therac 25.
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I have a reliable bag from Overland Equipment Company, which I found in a university bookstore for approximately $60. One nice thing about the Overland bag is its mesh shoulder straps, which are very comfortable. In addition to a PC and accessories, it can hold 4 1.5-in binders in the main compartment. The sides are open-topped mesh with elastic, for carrying books, oversized water bottles, or two Red Bulls in each. I suggest picking a bag out in a store because you can test the padding and latching directly. Having gone through several bags in the past, I cannot recommend buying one unseen, rather untouched. Bring your laptop with you, if you can. Also, I have discovered that SWAG bags are the most unreliable of all, usually lasting until the morning of your next flight to a trade show. There's few things as annoying than having all your stuff on your apartment floor while a taxicab is honking to take you to the airport.
Convincing management requires trying to think from their perspective. Most likely, your new policy is the result of some knucklehead outside your department abusing the system. So my advice is to comply, be agreeable, and let the heat stay on that knucklehead instead of you. Reprogram all your paging scripts to NOT call your personal cellphone. Leave yours in your glovebox and don't give that number to anyone in your workplace. As far as they are concerned, you are available at home or while you are at work. I once worked for an IT dept that had a simple solution for the "problem" of employee-owned technology. In this case the "problem" was the fiscally conservative accounting department. Acknowledging that any normal person would use the same phone for biz AND personal calls, IT agreed to reimburse us monthly for cell-phone expenses, but only if we followed 2 ground rules. It could not exceed 70$/mth and the provider had to be the same for each employee. This proved to adequately cover the minutes needed for both personal and telephone calls with the same phone. Because the monthly bill was consistent, the accounting dept did not have to see an itemized list of calls, just a copy of the front page of the phone bill. Our department never stood out as abusing the system, and each one us could make as many personal calls as we liked.
That explains the occasional emerging fruitfly from the keyboard in last cubicle I was stationed at. One good strategy can be developed from this: According to Dr Gerba's study, bacteria levels peak after lunch. So early shifts may be our best bet.
The FBI will not seize computers without a warrant. I know this because I just lost a job for ratting to them about child pornography at one of the country's largest construction staffing firms ($100mil in sales last year). Though the local field agents were anxious to put the keibosh on the whole operation, they couldn't, because heresay is not enough evidence to get a subpoena for a raid. It takes a long time to collect evidence before such a raid will ever be authorized, sometimes months or years. So if the CTI data center was seized/shut-down, you can bet there was plenty of evidence already collected, enough to satisfy a judge. Most likely, their traffic was already being monitored, and they have only themselves to blame for condoning illegal activities.
There's already a box made for this, and having tested it in a previous life, I gurantee it will work. This will hold 200 DVD's, and w/Fire Get yourself a PowerFile R200, DVD-jukebox system: http://www.powerfile.com/ This same jukebox is built-in to high-end systems form Escient, including DVD management systems that allow you to have three jukeboxes running at once: http://www.escient.com/fireballdvdm100.html If you want to be really trick, get yourself a transcoder form Laird Telemedia: http://www.lairdtelemedia.com/products/firewire.ht ml
Or maybe you can just store the disk images using DVD Xcopy, into your own tera/petabyte array. But you'd better get your copy now!
JK
looked into this when in a rural area w/o broadband. chose 128k ISDN instead, more reliable and dedicated bandwidth made it seem faster than prime-time broadband in a metro area. chose against directway for the following reasons: high latency slower upload speed vs. download: important if you're a develpper or graphic artist, not so if you mainly just surf the web as one other user mentioned, the usb connection-only is a pain-in-the-ass, hopefully this has changed. hope this helps Kelly
Thanks for posting that. It's the brainiacs at ARRL who are partially responsible for a restrictive wireless facilities ordinance in Tuolumne County, California. That's why I won't join even though I have an ARL. I was using powerline to provide old brick hotels with internet access; pretty tough to do with 802.11. One thing I learned is that this is generally possible in older buildings without transformers to isolate the power-grids; ie. rural areas, thirld-world countries, anywhere where the facilities weren't build with recent money under recent building codes. Misinformation spewed by organizations such as the ARRL only increase the digital divide. KG6NRF
I used to imagine myself in a GTA world while driving taxi in Sonora...could only imagine the scenarios we could have in the Motherlode...take a login road to a marijuana plantation, avoid the spankheads at the sierra trading post, leave downtown without getting a dui or dip...dump bodies into reservoirs for the russian mafia...the posssibilities are endless! JK
They already use MS Word Docs for Draft Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action.
You're right, the telephone treatment is better for business customers, however there is a goofiness behind the scenes at Dell that is unacceptable. In one recent case, I needed a power-supply for an Optiplex. I knew this from my own troubleshooting, but the tech stayed on with me while I tore apart my own admin computer (also an Optiplex), swapped power-supplies and made the troubled computer work. This was an uneccessary waste of my time, shutting down my apps etc. because some tech wasn't convinced i knew how to troubleshoot in the first place. Condescension? Incompetence? I dunno, but was assured a new powersupply would be shipped out immediately. In a couple days I received the part, but it had the warranty void tag broken and stamps indicated it was a refurbed part older than the original power supply. So I call them back, this time I'm routed to a call center in Bangalore. The tech was couteous, sure, and not condescending as the previous American tech was. But he had very little information in front of him about this exchange, and was obviously adhering to a script. It took him half an hour to square everything away, and guarantee me a NEW part would arrive next day. This part came a week later, and my user is back to work 3 weeks after I first ask Dell for a new power supply. And all because Dell's tech support wouldn't take my word for it that the power-supply crapped out. That's not professional service, despite the fact that it's tiered to provide a better class than residential users. Not sure what my take on the spyware issue is. I would think it's for legal reasons but still lame they won't support the box they sold you. So while the treatment may SEEM better for business customers, Dell is a real time-sucker for busy admins trying to keep their users satisfied.
It's true. I used to maintain a UHF televison transmitter; when tower workers needed to be anywhere near the antenna we had to cut to quarter-power and lower our ad rates. Skin heats up with or without metal. This weapon is seriously dangerous.
Sure hope this oversized diathermy machine is never deployed. Pacemaker or not, I can smell the cooking skin already ... who do these scientists think they're kidding? Would be alot cheaper to modify an old Therac 25.