I think this was something Mitnik suggested not sure. I've used it and it seems pretty good.
Just randomly pick alternating consanants and vowels. You end up with passwords like "kebilo" or "modawil". Wile this seems stupid and no one likes a random password, it also produces a pronouncable "word", which is much easier to remember than random garbage.
I used to do all sorts of this stuff. Extra fans, zip tied to the side of video cards, cutting holes in my case and mounting blowers...
Then I got smart. I bought a nice light aluminum Antec Case, with 2 120mm fans (front and back), and a very quiet PS with 1 big fan. I yanked out my SCSI RAID array and bought a 10K rpm SATA disk. I would have been happier with a bit less bling on the case, but it works.
Losing the RAID array didn't slow anything down, since it's a workstation, not a server. But I can hear myself think again. The loudest part of my PC is now the video card cooler.
With a BIOS update, I turn my single socket board into a dual CPU rig. Now your 799$ low end server gets almost 2x the CPU horsepower. This is killer for a cluster or similar. 2x the CPU in the same rack space.
For the bigger boxes, it turns a 4-way high end box into a 8-way. Think database servers, virtualization servers or any other multi-threaded app that uses a lot of CPU. If you need an 8-way box, your cost just went down by 40% or more.
For the board makers, they no longer have to build a big board with all the Hypertransport traces between sockets. There are 1/2 the traces to memory because there is only 1 memory controller.
The idea that a diabetic just takes shots is not true at all. My brother has type 1, he was initially misdiagnosed and he almost died. The shots are intended to counteract the sugar in the food you eat. Now if you should mess up somehow, and it does happen, you could be in trouble. Low blood sugar, possibly caused by too much insulin, can cause a sudden diabetic coma and a trip to the hospital. Additionally, your blood sugar is affected by your mood and sometimes by nothing at all. I've heard that teenage guys can suddenly have their blood sugar go nuts when a pretty girl walks by. Some diabetics can tell when their blood sugar feels off and begin treating themselves, but some cannot. Also, when a diabetic has very high or low blood sugar, it affects their brain and their ability to think clearly. In school, all his teachers knew that if he should feel funny, they had to send another student to escort him to the nurse; otherwise he could literally get lost along the way.
In any case, many diabetics do not monitor themselves properly. They allow their blood sugar to consistently run too high, which in the long term can cause kidney failure, foot amputation, blindness and a host of other problems. Even diabetics that do monitor their blood sugar properly risk these things.
My brother has had a much easier time since he switched from injections to an insulin pump. He still has to do the tests, but when you're out in public, a finger prick test can be done fairly privatly, while injected yourself in the stomach cannot. With the pump, he hits some buttons on it and he's done.
I'm not sure that the rejection pills would be better, since I don't really know much about them. But I do know that diabetes is not at all the "I just take a shot" most people think it is.
I don't know about planes, but my cel phone causes horrible static and buzzing around my PC speakers, car stereo as well as cheap analog phone sets.
My cel phone on my computer desk is apparently interfering with the amp from my speakers under the desk. It has to be a good 5 feet from the amp before the noise goes away.
I've also heard MP3s that work fine on my PC, but skipped horribly on my car player. Different players handle corrupted or badly compressed files differently.
I really only work on Windows machines, so this isn't totally valid, but I never surf the web from a server. I don't let my co-workers do so either.... Linux on the server and windows on the desktop makes those stats a whole lot more reasonable.
For a school, they have 5 buildings on a campus. Within each building was 1 to 5 wiring closets. A total of 900 ports or so. Their requirements were simple, they wanted speed, multicast support, and some access control between VLANs. IP only.
I'm a consultant and work with hardware from just about anyone, so it makes no difference who they bought. We were hired to design a network for this school using various vendors equipment. Primarily to compare costs.
In the end, they went with a solution from HP. A single 5300xl in each building connected to a bunch of 48 port edge switches in each closet. Their server room has a 5300xl with a couple Gig blades and a second 48 port Gigbit switch.
What really decided the issue was cost. They didn't need support for all the assorted protocols and features you get with cisco, and they didn't want to pay for it. With cisco, you had a 6500 series monster in the datacenter, then a distribution switch in each building, and a bunch of edge switches.
The HP solution was well under a third of the cost of the cisco solution, also free lifetime next day replacement warranty on hardware. For the money they saved, they can afford to have a shelf full of spares, including a spare core switch.
Personally, instead of looking at what model you want to use, look at what you need your network to do, then talk to your prefered vendors and see who can do it at the best price point.
I have ASSP, it integrates with the ClamAV database. World-Wide Stats as well as my own stats indicate it's blocking viruses. Though I still have some viruses get picked up by my Exchange server, however there are a very large number blocked.
Since I have separate AV on my Exchange server, and had it before the ClamAV integration with ASSP, I never bothered to troubleshoot why ASSP misses some of the viruses that it should be catching.
So based on this, I can't say I'd use it as my only mail AV solution, but then again I haven't tried to either.
Personally, I like nothing better than code examples, and lots of them. I've never really used a SDK, but I have done enough programming in different languages to know what helps me turn out productive code quickly.
While not a SDK, take a look at the book On To C. This is the best programming book I've ever read. It is example heavy and assumes the reader already is familiar with programming. For example, it doesn't attempt to explain what a variable is or why you'd want to declare one, just how to do so, then provdes examples.
I'm an IT person. I've seen a couple of these systems. In general, they use networking simply to transport data between HVAC controllers.
In my experience, the customers have multi-building networks. Within each building, all the HVAC sensors and controls are all wired to a central control device, not over the network. The control device is typically some solid-state box bolted to the wall, not a PC.
All these boxes talk back to a central server (crummy PC with BAS software) over the WAN. The server then tells the boxes what to turn on and off and sends out alerts if something goes wrong. The alerting is basic, no SNMP or emails. A pager if you're lucky, but probably just a flashing message on the screen. My understanding is that there are some default settings the boxes can use if they should lose connection to the server.
As for this being an area for IT to take over, I don't see it. The vast majority of the work involved is with wiring HVAC sensors and systems back to the controllers and in programming the settings into the BAS software on the server. There is very little IT knowledge required. If you can program a cable modem router, you probably have enough IT knowledge to program the IT part of these things.
Shame on me for responding to my own post, but I wanted to note that DeCorp also makes that flatwire product for audio, video and electrical wiring as well.
At least in the US, ANY working cel phone that can get signal can be used to call 911. They are collected by a lot of battered womens shelters and similar places, then distributed to people who otherwise couldn't afford a cel phone to call authorities in an emergency.
But don't stop there, any elderly or non-mobile person (think wheel-chair) should have a cel in their pocket, all the time. As long as it's charged, they never need worry about not being able to get to a normal phone, which might be impossible in an emergency.
All my old phones have been donated and put to good use.
My experience is that Zip doesn't handle archiving multiple files with the same name. Zip fails if you have a directory structure like..
foo.txt/images/foo.txt
I've also seen zip fail completely trying to compress a directory structure containing very large numbers of small files > 10,000.
I always use RAR unless I know the recpient can't handle a RAR file.
I remember listening to some sort of interview with the head of the FCC (Powell), months ago. He remarked that kids didn't know the difference between a pay channel and a broadcast channel. So he felt the FCC should be regulating any sort of medium that kids might listen/view, no matter where it came from.
Don't like it? Get involved - Write to the US Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Senator Ted Stevens.
And the Co-Chairman Senator Daniel K. Inouye.
It's cool to complain on websites, but if even a fraction of us actually contacted our representatives in congress, maybe things might change.
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Tag and rename handles a bunch of different files, and has a pile of tools for editing tags.
I think this was something Mitnik suggested not sure. I've used it and it seems pretty good.
Just randomly pick alternating consanants and vowels. You end up with passwords like "kebilo" or "modawil". Wile this seems stupid and no one likes a random password, it also produces a pronouncable "word", which is much easier to remember than random garbage.
I used to do all sorts of this stuff. Extra fans, zip tied to the side of video cards, cutting holes in my case and mounting blowers...
Then I got smart. I bought a nice light aluminum Antec Case, with 2 120mm fans (front and back), and a very quiet PS with 1 big fan. I yanked out my SCSI RAID array and bought a 10K rpm SATA disk. I would have been happier with a bit less bling on the case, but it works.
Losing the RAID array didn't slow anything down, since it's a workstation, not a server. But I can hear myself think again. The loudest part of my PC is now the video card cooler.
Yea, last week.
hogged 1/2 a T3 for 12 hours or so.
Someone check me on this, but the FX series of chips don't support dual CPU.
And the Nforce 4 isn't a dual CPU chipset. So you'll never find what you're looking for.
Cost.
With a BIOS update, I turn my single socket board into a dual CPU rig. Now your 799$ low end server gets almost 2x the CPU horsepower. This is killer for a cluster or similar. 2x the CPU in the same rack space.
For the bigger boxes, it turns a 4-way high end box into a 8-way. Think database servers, virtualization servers or any other multi-threaded app that uses a lot of CPU. If you need an 8-way box, your cost just went down by 40% or more.
For the board makers, they no longer have to build a big board with all the Hypertransport traces between sockets. There are 1/2 the traces to memory because there is only 1 memory controller.
The idea that a diabetic just takes shots is not true at all. My brother has type 1, he was initially misdiagnosed and he almost died. The shots are intended to counteract the sugar in the food you eat. Now if you should mess up somehow, and it does happen, you could be in trouble. Low blood sugar, possibly caused by too much insulin, can cause a sudden diabetic coma and a trip to the hospital. Additionally, your blood sugar is affected by your mood and sometimes by nothing at all. I've heard that teenage guys can suddenly have their blood sugar go nuts when a pretty girl walks by. Some diabetics can tell when their blood sugar feels off and begin treating themselves, but some cannot. Also, when a diabetic has very high or low blood sugar, it affects their brain and their ability to think clearly. In school, all his teachers knew that if he should feel funny, they had to send another student to escort him to the nurse; otherwise he could literally get lost along the way.
In any case, many diabetics do not monitor themselves properly. They allow their blood sugar to consistently run too high, which in the long term can cause kidney failure, foot amputation, blindness and a host of other problems. Even diabetics that do monitor their blood sugar properly risk these things.
My brother has had a much easier time since he switched from injections to an insulin pump. He still has to do the tests, but when you're out in public, a finger prick test can be done fairly privatly, while injected yourself in the stomach cannot. With the pump, he hits some buttons on it and he's done.
I'm not sure that the rejection pills would be better, since I don't really know much about them. But I do know that diabetes is not at all the "I just take a shot" most people think it is.
I don't know about planes, but my cel phone causes horrible static and buzzing around my PC speakers, car stereo as well as cheap analog phone sets.
My cel phone on my computer desk is apparently interfering with the amp from my speakers under the desk. It has to be a good 5 feet from the amp before the noise goes away.
So given that, my phone stays off on the plane.
I've also heard MP3s that work fine on my PC, but skipped horribly on my car player. Different players handle corrupted or badly compressed files differently.
I really only work on Windows machines, so this isn't totally valid, but I never surf the web from a server. I don't let my co-workers do so either....
Linux on the server and windows on the desktop makes those stats a whole lot more reasonable.
For a school, they have 5 buildings on a campus. Within each building was 1 to 5 wiring closets. A total of 900 ports or so. Their requirements were simple, they wanted speed, multicast support, and some access control between VLANs. IP only.
I'm a consultant and work with hardware from just about anyone, so it makes no difference who they bought. We were hired to design a network for this school using various vendors equipment. Primarily to compare costs.
In the end, they went with a solution from HP. A single 5300xl in each building connected to a bunch of 48 port edge switches in each closet. Their server room has a 5300xl with a couple Gig blades and a second 48 port Gigbit switch.
What really decided the issue was cost. They didn't need support for all the assorted protocols and features you get with cisco, and they didn't want to pay for it. With cisco, you had a 6500 series monster in the datacenter, then a distribution switch in each building, and a bunch of edge switches.
The HP solution was well under a third of the cost of the cisco solution, also free lifetime next day replacement warranty on hardware. For the money they saved, they can afford to have a shelf full of spares, including a spare core switch.
Personally, instead of looking at what model you want to use, look at what you need your network to do, then talk to your prefered vendors and see who can do it at the best price point.
Or I'd have 9 of these things roaming my house.
That's a good point. I'd assume the guy who wrote it.
But then again, it has a purple snake for a mascot, plus a theme song (mouse over the musical note).
I think it balances out in the end.
I have ASSP, it integrates with the ClamAV database. World-Wide Stats as well as my own stats indicate it's blocking viruses. Though I still have some viruses get picked up by my Exchange server, however there are a very large number blocked.
Since I have separate AV on my Exchange server, and had it before the ClamAV integration with ASSP, I never bothered to troubleshoot why ASSP misses some of the viruses that it should be catching.
So based on this, I can't say I'd use it as my only mail AV solution, but then again I haven't tried to either.
Personally, I like nothing better than code examples, and lots of them. I've never really used a SDK, but I have done enough programming in different languages to know what helps me turn out productive code quickly.
While not a SDK, take a look at the book On To C. This is the best programming book I've ever read. It is example heavy and assumes the reader already is familiar with programming. For example, it doesn't attempt to explain what a variable is or why you'd want to declare one, just how to do so, then provdes examples.
My desk sits directly in line with the crummy AC. I wear sweatshirts in the summer.
Bring it.
I'm an IT person. I've seen a couple of these systems. In general, they use networking simply to transport data between HVAC controllers.
In my experience, the customers have multi-building networks. Within each building, all the HVAC sensors and controls are all wired to a central control device, not over the network. The control device is typically some solid-state box bolted to the wall, not a PC.
All these boxes talk back to a central server (crummy PC with BAS software) over the WAN. The server then tells the boxes what to turn on and off and sends out alerts if something goes wrong. The alerting is basic, no SNMP or emails. A pager if you're lucky, but probably just a flashing message on the screen. My understanding is that there are some default settings the boxes can use if they should lose connection to the server.
As for this being an area for IT to take over, I don't see it. The vast majority of the work involved is with wiring HVAC sensors and systems back to the controllers and in programming the settings into the BAS software on the server. There is very little IT knowledge required. If you can program a cable modem router, you probably have enough IT knowledge to program the IT part of these things.
I'm currently looking at doing just what the poster is, however in my case my coverage will be just a few locations within a few blocks of each other.
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the newer 802.16 WiMax stuff that's just starting to roll around.
The specs sound great.
Several Mile Range
Hi Speed
and Non-LOS, apparently the hardware can handle multi-pathing issues.
But I'm wondering if it actually works.
Shame on me for responding to my own post, but I wanted to note that DeCorp also makes that flatwire product for audio, video and electrical wiring as well.
I'm not sure if it's out yet or not, but Flatwire has talked about this at least a year ago.
The average computer user doesn't even know what Linux is, they don't even recognize the word.
At least in the US, ANY working cel phone that can get signal can be used to call 911. They are collected by a lot of battered womens shelters and similar places, then distributed to people who otherwise couldn't afford a cel phone to call authorities in an emergency.
But don't stop there, any elderly or non-mobile person (think wheel-chair) should have a cel in their pocket, all the time. As long as it's charged, they never need worry about not being able to get to a normal phone, which might be impossible in an emergency.
All my old phones have been donated and put to good use.
My experience is that Zip doesn't handle archiving multiple files with the same name. Zip fails if you have a directory structure like.. /images/foo.txt
foo.txt
I've also seen zip fail completely trying to compress a directory structure containing very large numbers of small files > 10,000.
I always use RAR unless I know the recpient can't handle a RAR file.
I don't get it. THe head has been photo-chopped into the picture.
I remember listening to some sort of interview with the head of the FCC (Powell), months ago. He remarked that kids didn't know the difference between a pay channel and a broadcast channel. So he felt the FCC should be regulating any sort of medium that kids might listen/view, no matter where it came from.
Don't like it? Get involved - Write to the US Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Senator Ted Stevens.
And the Co-Chairman Senator Daniel K. Inouye. It's cool to complain on websites, but if even a fraction of us actually contacted our representatives in congress, maybe things might change.