Howabout if they kept tabs on what books you bought? They've already required librarians to disclose ID of people who borrow particular combinations of books under the PATRIOT act...
"Perhaps because of the end user? How many joe sixpacks do you know with a properly configured firewall, an up-to-date AV program, and have even heard of AdAware?
Seriously, all are available free: put them on your family's PCs and educate them in their usage. Kerio Personal Firewall's reasonably idiot-proof, AVG antivirus excellent, and AdAware 6 just works. All free for personal use...
Now, all we need is the big OEM people to ship with their PCs and provide a quick tutorial.
nope, it's still people who don't know how to use it. don't know what a partition is, or the difference between a logical and extended partition? then don't use drive imaging software.
I do this kind of thing for a living, preserving data to FDA requirement standards, which might be 12 years after the patentable lifetime of a drug. Can you *guarantee* that you can get a 24x CD-ROM drive in 35 years? 100% sure? Willing to risk FDA 483 letters and be held personally liable?
The format may be open and published, but that doesn't mean that you'll be able to build an optical drive that'll read your media in the future any more than you could hook a wax cylinder of data up to your SAN now.
Archiving *isn't* simple. Incidentally, paper's not bad as a long-term storage solution. Archival quality media and an environmentally controlled storage area means you can get hundreds of years out of paper and YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT BEING ABLE TO READ IT for the forseeable.
A post about how you can't program your video recorder?
They *all* work. Tip: YOU DON'T NEED TO INSTALL ANY OF THEM - correct usage is to use them off a boot floppy or CD. Jesus, can't you read instructions?
Phrases like "Anywho, I've heard stories of people sucessfully plugging their generic laptops into their car's computer and getting some useful data out of it. Unfortunately I don't have any sources:( (If I find some I'll let you know!)" just make me glad I took the time to read it.
...archiving data to CDs solves everything, does it? Including software that requires proprietary hardware and OS that will not be available in a few years? Archival strategy doesn't just mean burn it to the latest backup medium and hope for the best.
And when your l33t motherboard goes pop in 2 years, what do you do? You can't buy that exact model anymore, so you get the nearest. Plug your drives into it's onboard RAID controller, which promptly craps out leaving you with a dead array. Fine for serving data when your data/uptime doesn't matter, but there aren't many calls for a server like this. At least, not more than once.
...it's geared towards someone who wants a box in the corner that they can point at and say "look at the server we built" without worrying about life, stability, hotswap components, functionality or any of those other annoying little requirements usually associated with server-class stuff.
Fileserver DOES NOT equal a desktop with big disks.
You buy spares for your RAID array. Unless you're doing it for fun at home, if it's mission-critical then you've already thought this all through, gritted your teeth and written the cheque.
your ISP or their upstream is spam-friendly and RFC ignorant. they've repeatedly ignored LARTS for spam, and this is the price they pay. Your mail is only blocked by ISPs who've voluntarily signed up with SPEWS/Spamhaus because it works for them. The idea is you and all the other guys it's pissed off will complain/take your business elsewhere and the ISP will be encouraged to behave responsibly. They've already ignored warnings, hence the voluntary block.
your ISP has explicitly signed up to SPEWS because it works. it works because it encourages ISPs to be RFC compliant. it's for the greater good: i don't *care* if it breaks your email to your mom on a blacklisted ISP: it's your ISP's business decision to ignore spam complaints and become spam-friendly. natural selection says their customers get pissed off (step one: looks like it's working so far) and then jump ship to an ethical ISP. eventually the spamhauses go bust.
and i'll go out on a limb and say "bullshit". decentralised, totally secure and anonymous connections worldwide? like that's going to be allowed to happen.
...it was live action: ie a radio drama, not just reading out of the book. big (but cheap!) production, full stereo effects, the book was BASED UPON THE RADIO SERIES that DNA wrote, for god's sake. even the radio scripts book is brilliant.
if you have to ask, you've not heard it. i've got it all on mp3 and it still sounds great.
...and spending 100s of millions developing a drug that you absolutely *know* you can't sell to the US is attractive to a pharmaceuticals company how exactly?
it's not part of the BT spec, and i don't remember ever seeing a device that had this. you turn it off in "software" which phone designers like as you don't have to clutter the already cluttered keypad with a button just to babysit idiots...
My phone has a blue LED that indicates, yes, you guessed it, that I'm using bluetooth. It *doesn't* mean I've been dumb enough not to realise that if you don't put a tick in the "discoverable" box that you can get short range messages from strangers.
*all* bluejacking is: turning on your bluetooth and scanning for nearby devices who's idiot owners haven't turned "discoverable" off. that's what "discoverable" means: your phone can be discovered and messaged. Nokia ships with this on by default.
it's not some cool hack, or anything, it's just a setting within bluetooth for exchanging information without pairing.
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Howabout if they kept tabs on what books you bought? They've already required librarians to disclose ID of people who borrow particular combinations of books under the PATRIOT act...
...You'll be moving house every 6 months just to keep eating...
oh yes, if you like being posted places freight.
Seriously, all are available free: put them on your family's PCs and educate them in their usage. Kerio Personal Firewall's reasonably idiot-proof, AVG antivirus excellent, and AdAware 6 just works. All free for personal use...
Now, all we need is the big OEM people to ship with their PCs and provide a quick tutorial.
nope, it's still people who don't know how to use it. don't know what a partition is, or the difference between a logical and extended partition? then don't use drive imaging software.
The format may be open and published, but that doesn't mean that you'll be able to build an optical drive that'll read your media in the future any more than you could hook a wax cylinder of data up to your SAN now.
Archiving *isn't* simple. Incidentally, paper's not bad as a long-term storage solution. Archival quality media and an environmentally controlled storage area means you can get hundreds of years out of paper and YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT BEING ABLE TO READ IT for the forseeable.
Oops, there goes another kitty.
These work flawlessly, all the time. Really. I have a room full of Dells multicasting it as I speak.
If it doesn't work for you, you're not doing it right.
They *all* work. Tip: YOU DON'T NEED TO INSTALL ANY OF THEM - correct usage is to use them off a boot floppy or CD. Jesus, can't you read instructions?
Phrases like "Anywho, I've heard stories of people sucessfully plugging their generic laptops into their car's computer and getting some useful data out of it. Unfortunately I don't have any sources :( (If I find some I'll let you know!)" just make me glad I took the time to read it.
...archiving data to CDs solves everything, does it? Including software that requires proprietary hardware and OS that will not be available in a few years? Archival strategy doesn't just mean burn it to the latest backup medium and hope for the best.
And when your l33t motherboard goes pop in 2 years, what do you do? You can't buy that exact model anymore, so you get the nearest. Plug your drives into it's onboard RAID controller, which promptly craps out leaving you with a dead array. Fine for serving data when your data/uptime doesn't matter, but there aren't many calls for a server like this. At least, not more than once.
Fileserver DOES NOT equal a desktop with big disks.
You buy spares for your RAID array. Unless you're doing it for fun at home, if it's mission-critical then you've already thought this all through, gritted your teeth and written the cheque.
Got a better idea, have you? Or perhaps a nice new line in snake oil?
your ISP has explicitly signed up to SPEWS because it works. it works because it encourages ISPs to be RFC compliant. it's for the greater good: i don't *care* if it breaks your email to your mom on a blacklisted ISP: it's your ISP's business decision to ignore spam complaints and become spam-friendly. natural selection says their customers get pissed off (step one: looks like it's working so far) and then jump ship to an ethical ISP. eventually the spamhauses go bust.
bang goes your internet access, your relationship as your sysadmin posts stuff from your account to your girlfriend(s)...
the above comment is THE ONLY TIME THIS HAS EVER BEEN FUNNY. EVER. do not try to disprove this, it's just the way it is. now move on.
and i'll go out on a limb and say "bullshit". decentralised, totally secure and anonymous connections worldwide? like that's going to be allowed to happen.
if you have to ask, you've not heard it. i've got it all on mp3 and it still sounds great.
no, i just know what a switch does. it's explicitly in the manual. this is NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.
...and spending 100s of millions developing a drug that you absolutely *know* you can't sell to the US is attractive to a pharmaceuticals company how exactly?
My phone has a blue LED that indicates, yes, you guessed it, that I'm using bluetooth. It *doesn't* mean I've been dumb enough not to realise that if you don't put a tick in the "discoverable" box that you can get short range messages from strangers.
*all* bluejacking is: turning on your bluetooth and scanning for nearby devices who's idiot owners haven't turned "discoverable" off. that's what "discoverable" means: your phone can be discovered and messaged. Nokia ships with this on by default.
it's not some cool hack, or anything, it's just a setting within bluetooth for exchanging information without pairing.