you're walking, i'm afraid. current advice is to stay put, but if i were you i'd be tempted to get indoors, maybe find a pub to sit in for the afternoon and have a stiff drink...
is your service available to you if you're blacklisted? (and by "available" i refer to the definition of "available" in your underlying contract between you and your businesses' ISP?
in a well-written contract, spamhaus ISPs will be in breach, and so you have a stick to hit them with. it's pretty simple when you think about it.
this is why you get people who know what they're doing to write contracts. you mean your SLA and underlying contract with your ISP doesn't mention availability and the like?
it's because you're constantly being bounced down the queue. you know when they ask you to "press 1 for sales, 2 for support" etc? they're not putting you in different queues - they're putting you in the same one at a different priority. so if you're calling to buy something: you're put into the queue higher up, and the poor guys waiting for support get bounced down. an announcement that says "you are now...7th in the queue. you are now...15th in the queue" doesn't improve tempers...
RAID is a great way of ensuring that your data is nice and consistent. If you're running RAID and you overwrite a file, delete one by accident etc etc then what you end up with is a perfectly redundant and consistent state: with your file deleted.
RAID is for availability, backup is for safety.
i could be wrong, but i'm pretty sure magic packets don't route: they broadcast. this'd reduce the usefulness considerably in a corporate environment...
Send your resume to all the big contract agencies (in the UK, this might include Lorien, Computerpeople, Elan, Parity, Hayes IT, etc etc). Go for a big, fat contract. The agency makes money from placing you and so has a vested interest in doing it: and they are always crying out for fresh meat.
will do all you ask, bar the music stuff: and if you're listening to CA, then i think you have bigger problems than mixing from 5.1 to stereo.
dvdshrink will let you set default audio, strip out excess language stuff and rip just the main film out of a movie. it also takes out restriction on fast forwarding and makes it region-free to boot, all with about 3 mouse clicks.
and then they'd charge you more for all versions, to cope with the overhead of compiling different versions of the binaries. THINK ABOUT THIS, it's not difficult to explain, or morally wrong: it's sound commercial sense.
they'd get sued, go bust and salt would be sown on the smoking ground that used to house their offices.
you would not believe the levels of testing for medical equipment and software. it's literally incredible. it's typically not done in open source as the effort invested in coding it is recouped through selling the software. the GPL approach to making money with it (free software, sell the support) just doesn't really fly with medical stuff as you NEED the vendors support anyway: you'd be in a very sticky situation with the FDA and other regulatory bodies if you are doing stuff without this...
"Never underestimate the extreme amount of digital pictures and MiniDV footage you'll accumulate when your first child is born."
This is why I keep on adding big HDDs to my mini tower. At 20GB an hour for full DV quality, it won't take you long to fill up a Mac Mini's storage. When you do this, you'll have to start adding external firewire drives, which isn't really all that neat...
take the MSI K7N2G-L. top quality nforce2 board, came in IGP, no integrated graphics and "deluxe variants" - the IGP version cost approx 6UKP more than the non-integrated graphics one, and still had an AGP slot. for a user who's not sure if they need killer graphics, this was great: the onboard Geforce4MX was more than adequate for most stuff, and if they wanted a hot card, they could add one.
my dad's *incenced* he can't fast forward through commercials. when he puts a dvd of cartoons on for his new granddaughter, they both have to sit through around 10 minutes of adverts and trailers before it starts - this is a *long* time to an 18 month old's attention span.
solution? burn an unencrypted copy using dvdshrink, and then they can fast forward to their heart's content - and also it doesn't matter if little'un scratches the disk.
then you're not making sense. "If an admin isn't skilled enough to run linux, then they shouldn't be in charge of *any* system. They are not qualified regardless of their years of experience or degree/certificates"
But they're NOT ADMINS. They're HOME USERS. Do you think all home users should have to pay an admin to come in and setup their machine, much like you might have to pay an electrician to come in and do your wiring before you turn on a light?
Hang on. This isn't actually that bad an idea...!
lets have, ooh, say, a hundred different linux advocacy websites. Then all we need is some sort of web forum where we can all bicker about which flavour is better and why, endlessly and repeatedly...
you *try* donating old PCs. People don't want to know - ok, a primary school where they have a couple of machines for kids to play on might, but secondary schools are like corporations: they want new, fixed TCO machines on a 4 year refresh cycle. they want them consisted, so they can use the same image on them. what they don't want is a ragbag of old tat that'll cost more to setup and support than buying new will. PC costs are negligible now: I've just bought a Dell with a monitor for 211UKP with 3 year warranty, for example.
These come with a client licence for XP as well.
Bash MS all you want, suggest schools use Linux/Open Source, but don't set up a straw man argument that's clearly false.
this is *not insightful*. this comes up everytime a new virus hits the media, and it's *still* a dumb idea. there is no such thing as a benificent virus. it's still going to generate mass traffic, it's still going to get you sued for installing stuff on users' machines without their permissions, and it's still going to cause problems because the sort of idiot who thinks this kind of thing is a cool idea typically isn't going to program to a particularly high standard, and say *test their code*.
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/25ukus.htm "On 31 March, David Blunkett, UK Home Secretary, signed an Extradition Treaty on behalf of the UK with his United States counterpart, Attorney General Tom Ashcroft, ostensibly bringing the US into line with procedures between European countries. The UK parliament was not consulted at all and the text was not public available until the end of May. The only justification given for the delay was "administrative reasons", though these did not hold-up scrutiny by the US senate, which began almost immediately.
The UK-US Treaty has three main effects:
- (1) it removes the requirement on the US to provide prima facie evidence when requesting the extradition of people from the UK but maintains the requirement on the UK to satisfy the "probable cause" requirement in the US when seeking the extradition of US nationals;
- (2) it removes or restricts key protections currently open to suspects and defendants;
- (3) it implements the EU-US Treaty on extradition, signed in Washington on 25 June 2003, but far exceeds the provisions in this agreement.
An analysis of the new UK-US Treaty - which will replace the 1972 UK-US Treaty - follows below, together with a number of relevant cases and issues that raise serious concern about the new agreement (and those between the EU and US).
Ben Hayes of Statewatch comments:
"Under the new treaty, the allegations of the US government will be enough to secure the extradition of people from the UK. However, if the UK wants to extradite someone from the US, evidence to the standard of a "reasonable" demonstration of guilt will still be required."
"On 31 March, David Blunkett, UK Home Secretary, signed an Extradition Treaty on behalf of the UK with his United States counterpart, Attorney General Tom Ashcroft, ostensibly bringing the US into line with procedures between European countries. The UK parliament was not consulted at all and the text was not public available until the end of May. The only justification given for the delay was "administrative reasons", though these did not hold-up scrutiny by the US senate, which began almost immediately.
The UK-US Treaty has three main effects:
- (1) it removes the requirement on the US to provide prima facie evidence when requesting the extradition of people from the UK but maintains the requirement on the UK to satisfy the "probable cause" requirement in the US when seeking the extradition of US nationals;
- (2) it removes or restricts key protections currently open to suspects and defendants;
- (3) it implements the EU-US Treaty on extradition, signed in Washington on 25 June 2003, but far exceeds the provisions in this agreement.
An analysis of the new UK-US Treaty - which will replace the 1972 UK-US Treaty - follows below, together with a number of relevant cases and issues that raise serious concern about the new agreement (and those between the EU and US).
Ben Hayes of Statewatch comments:
"Under the new treaty, the allegations of the US government will be enough to secure the extradition of people from the UK. However, if the UK wants to extradite someone from the US, evidence to the standard of a "reasonable" demonstration of guilt will still be required."
in the uk, a contract phone is for 12 months. i want a phone, i'm not going to want to change my number every month: so i can either spend 300UKP on a phone and then pay over the odds for pay-as-you-go non contract calls, or i can get the phone for free, pay 15UKP a month for phone service and get loads of bundled minutes. if you use more than minimal minutes, it's a no-brainer.
tying yourself into a contract=agreeing to have the phone for 12 months. that's it. over the 12 months, i'm still saving a *load* of money, thanks very much.
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in which case, keeping all your info in your head can be quite a career-extending move...
...services are starting to return. UK confirm 33 dead so far...
you're walking, i'm afraid. current advice is to stay put, but if i were you i'd be tempted to get indoors, maybe find a pub to sit in for the afternoon and have a stiff drink...
is your service available to you if you're blacklisted? (and by "available" i refer to the definition of "available" in your underlying contract between you and your businesses' ISP? in a well-written contract, spamhaus ISPs will be in breach, and so you have a stick to hit them with. it's pretty simple when you think about it.
this is why you get people who know what they're doing to write contracts. you mean your SLA and underlying contract with your ISP doesn't mention availability and the like?
it's because you're constantly being bounced down the queue. you know when they ask you to "press 1 for sales, 2 for support" etc? they're not putting you in different queues - they're putting you in the same one at a different priority. so if you're calling to buy something: you're put into the queue higher up, and the poor guys waiting for support get bounced down. an announcement that says "you are now...7th in the queue. you are now...15th in the queue" doesn't improve tempers...
RAID is a great way of ensuring that your data is nice and consistent. If you're running RAID and you overwrite a file, delete one by accident etc etc then what you end up with is a perfectly redundant and consistent state: with your file deleted. RAID is for availability, backup is for safety.
very cool! cheers, will investigate...
i could be wrong, but i'm pretty sure magic packets don't route: they broadcast. this'd reduce the usefulness considerably in a corporate environment...
Send your resume to all the big contract agencies (in the UK, this might include Lorien, Computerpeople, Elan, Parity, Hayes IT, etc etc). Go for a big, fat contract. The agency makes money from placing you and so has a vested interest in doing it: and they are always crying out for fresh meat.
will do all you ask, bar the music stuff: and if you're listening to CA, then i think you have bigger problems than mixing from 5.1 to stereo.
dvdshrink will let you set default audio, strip out excess language stuff and rip just the main film out of a movie. it also takes out restriction on fast forwarding and makes it region-free to boot, all with about 3 mouse clicks.
and then they'd charge you more for all versions, to cope with the overhead of compiling different versions of the binaries. THINK ABOUT THIS, it's not difficult to explain, or morally wrong: it's sound commercial sense.
and they get free spares?
they'd get sued, go bust and salt would be sown on the smoking ground that used to house their offices.
you would not believe the levels of testing for medical equipment and software. it's literally incredible. it's typically not done in open source as the effort invested in coding it is recouped through selling the software. the GPL approach to making money with it (free software, sell the support) just doesn't really fly with medical stuff as you NEED the vendors support anyway: you'd be in a very sticky situation with the FDA and other regulatory bodies if you are doing stuff without this...
"Never underestimate the extreme amount of digital pictures and MiniDV footage you'll accumulate when your first child is born."
This is why I keep on adding big HDDs to my mini tower. At 20GB an hour for full DV quality, it won't take you long to fill up a Mac Mini's storage. When you do this, you'll have to start adding external firewire drives, which isn't really all that neat...
take the MSI K7N2G-L. top quality nforce2 board, came in IGP, no integrated graphics and "deluxe variants" - the IGP version cost approx 6UKP more than the non-integrated graphics one, and still had an AGP slot. for a user who's not sure if they need killer graphics, this was great: the onboard Geforce4MX was more than adequate for most stuff, and if they wanted a hot card, they could add one.
my dad's *incenced* he can't fast forward through commercials. when he puts a dvd of cartoons on for his new granddaughter, they both have to sit through around 10 minutes of adverts and trailers before it starts - this is a *long* time to an 18 month old's attention span.
solution? burn an unencrypted copy using dvdshrink, and then they can fast forward to their heart's content - and also it doesn't matter if little'un scratches the disk.
then you're not making sense.
"If an admin isn't skilled enough to run linux, then they shouldn't be in charge of *any* system. They are not qualified regardless of their years of experience or degree/certificates"
But they're NOT ADMINS. They're HOME USERS. Do you think all home users should have to pay an admin to come in and setup their machine, much like you might have to pay an electrician to come in and do your wiring before you turn on a light?
Hang on. This isn't actually that bad an idea...!
lets have, ooh, say, a hundred different linux advocacy websites. Then all we need is some sort of web forum where we can all bicker about which flavour is better and why, endlessly and repeatedly...
you *try* donating old PCs. People don't want to know - ok, a primary school where they have a couple of machines for kids to play on might, but secondary schools are like corporations: they want new, fixed TCO machines on a 4 year refresh cycle. they want them consisted, so they can use the same image on them. what they don't want is a ragbag of old tat that'll cost more to setup and support than buying new will. PC costs are negligible now: I've just bought a Dell with a monitor for 211UKP with 3 year warranty, for example.
These come with a client licence for XP as well.
Bash MS all you want, suggest schools use Linux/Open Source, but don't set up a straw man argument that's clearly false.
this is *not insightful*. this comes up everytime a new virus hits the media, and it's *still* a dumb idea. there is no such thing as a benificent virus. it's still going to generate mass traffic, it's still going to get you sued for installing stuff on users' machines without their permissions, and it's still going to cause problems because the sort of idiot who thinks this kind of thing is a cool idea typically isn't going to program to a particularly high standard, and say *test their code*.
...they don't need to decrypt. all they need to do is ask the phone company nicely, and they'll hear it in the clear...
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/25ukus.htm
"On 31 March, David Blunkett, UK Home Secretary, signed an Extradition Treaty on behalf of the UK with his United States counterpart, Attorney General Tom Ashcroft, ostensibly bringing the US into line with procedures between European countries. The UK parliament was not consulted at all and the text was not public available until the end of May. The only justification given for the delay was "administrative reasons", though these did not hold-up scrutiny by the US senate, which began almost immediately. The UK-US Treaty has three main effects: - (1) it removes the requirement on the US to provide prima facie evidence when requesting the extradition of people from the UK but maintains the requirement on the UK to satisfy the "probable cause" requirement in the US when seeking the extradition of US nationals; - (2) it removes or restricts key protections currently open to suspects and defendants; - (3) it implements the EU-US Treaty on extradition, signed in Washington on 25 June 2003, but far exceeds the provisions in this agreement. An analysis of the new UK-US Treaty - which will replace the 1972 UK-US Treaty - follows below, together with a number of relevant cases and issues that raise serious concern about the new agreement (and those between the EU and US). Ben Hayes of Statewatch comments: "Under the new treaty, the allegations of the US government will be enough to secure the extradition of people from the UK. However, if the UK wants to extradite someone from the US, evidence to the standard of a "reasonable" demonstration of guilt will still be required."
you just don't care about anything happening outside your country, do you?
"On 31 March, David Blunkett, UK Home Secretary, signed an Extradition Treaty on behalf of the UK with his United States counterpart, Attorney General Tom Ashcroft, ostensibly bringing the US into line with procedures between European countries. The UK parliament was not consulted at all and the text was not public available until the end of May. The only justification given for the delay was "administrative reasons", though these did not hold-up scrutiny by the US senate, which began almost immediately. The UK-US Treaty has three main effects: - (1) it removes the requirement on the US to provide prima facie evidence when requesting the extradition of people from the UK but maintains the requirement on the UK to satisfy the "probable cause" requirement in the US when seeking the extradition of US nationals; - (2) it removes or restricts key protections currently open to suspects and defendants; - (3) it implements the EU-US Treaty on extradition, signed in Washington on 25 June 2003, but far exceeds the provisions in this agreement. An analysis of the new UK-US Treaty - which will replace the 1972 UK-US Treaty - follows below, together with a number of relevant cases and issues that raise serious concern about the new agreement (and those between the EU and US). Ben Hayes of Statewatch comments: "Under the new treaty, the allegations of the US government will be enough to secure the extradition of people from the UK. However, if the UK wants to extradite someone from the US, evidence to the standard of a "reasonable" demonstration of guilt will still be required."
in the uk, a contract phone is for 12 months. i want a phone, i'm not going to want to change my number every month: so i can either spend 300UKP on a phone and then pay over the odds for pay-as-you-go non contract calls, or i can get the phone for free, pay 15UKP a month for phone service and get loads of bundled minutes. if you use more than minimal minutes, it's a no-brainer.
tying yourself into a contract=agreeing to have the phone for 12 months. that's it. over the 12 months, i'm still saving a *load* of money, thanks very much.