In my fifth failed drive, I often have a working drive (on the shelf) in which I can carefully remove the logic board and exchange it with the failing drive.
Only the 3rd time, the spindle was jammed or the motor is dead (no spinning), in this case, it was the RAID that save the day (as usual).
In all cases, these drives were selected for their highest reported reliability (that I can determine from various websites). Then I research for the latest drive models with the best uptime and go out and buy them.
You do DO backup, don't you?
Something like 23% of all IT folks ever bother doing backup period. Less than 5% do backup daily. Its a common theme with small/medium business not having an IT staff.
For SMB IT folks, invest a lil' extra in H/W RAID; it'll save your hide (not to mention your job). If you're budget-constrained (another common IT issue), go with software RAID.
Isn't any of this a viable option for the ubergeek?
1a. Move your precious stuff to another partition. 1b. Insert a OSS distro (FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, Solaris x86)
I don't know many applications not found on OSS (www.freshmeat.net, sourceforge.com, www.acroread.com, openoffice.org, gimp.org, mysql, Perl/PHP, C++ compiler) that can be done reliably in place of Microsoft Windows.
I mean, I got everything I need so far, why bother with the pain of many unsecured Windows APIs?
To reduce the identity theft immensely, one or more of the following MUST be legislated:
1. Replace the SSN with SecureID card with challenge keypad (none of those biometric foo-foo crap, bio is non-revokable)
2. Make data aggregation illegal (ooooh, sorry credit bureaus)
3. Make IRS the focal point of multi-keyed 2nd-generation SSN registration centre (sorry SSA, you screwed up, big-time!)
4. Customer "optionally" generate a NEW SSN for each business or financial institutions. (remember, data aggregation should be illegal)
5. Credit Bureau would function just fine (just a bit laggard with aggregation effort).
Once imposed, identity theft would (I guarantee this) be reduced to insignificant amount.
UNTIL THEN, nothing is currently being done to reduce the water flow from the Dutch Boy's leaking dikes.
It doesn't take much brain to resolve this crisis, just time and money. The Congress has absolutely no clue on how to fix this mess... Write your congressman today with these suggestions.
To reduce the identity theft immensely, one or more of the following MUST be legislated:
1. Replace the SSN with SecureID card with challenge keypad (none of those biometric foo-foo crap, bio is non-revokable)
2. Make data aggregation illegal (ooooh, sorry credit bureaus)
3. Make IRS the focal point of multi-keyed 2nd-generation SSN registration centre (sorry SSA, you screwed up, big-time!)
4. Customer "optionally" generate a NEW SSN for each business or financial institutions. (remember, data aggregation should be illegal)
5. Credit Bureau would function just fine (just a bit laggard with aggregation effort).
Once imposed, identity theft would (I guarantee this) be reduced to insignificant amount.
UNTIL THEN, nothing is currently being done to reduce the water flow from the Dutch Boy's leaking dikes.
It doesn't take much brain to resolve this crisis, just time and money. The Congress has absolutely no clue on how to fix this mess... Write your congressman today with these suggestions.
If you deduced from my profile, you'll learned that I've been at the bleeding edge of IPS/IDS and the commercial ones implicitly do normalization.
For home use, I'm partial to rolling my own default-deny firewall from day one. Mine is shaped in a tree fashion to ensure that no much time spent in any one chain.
Oh boy, the joy of having to keep 11 plates spinning on a pole.
Actually, I liked what you posted. It showed that I've been sadly misinformed, very sadly, that is.
It basically opened up my eyes to the fact that FreeBSD is up to the game and possibly more so than Gentoo with regard to default security.
Thanks for the much needed insight. I'm going to give it another FreeBSD spin (upgrade that spare BSD box from a 2yr older version), particularly the PF.
I hail from the Internet, sorry... Just keeping a low profile here...
And no, Hungarian is not my first tongue but I made use of a dictionary quite often and I can read for the most part without one.
So, yes. I replied in English mostly because I'm not used to typing in a foreign language.
FreeBSD seems to be having trouble keeping up with the growing packages that are Linux-centrix; take Debian which is the largest cesspool of tools; follwed by Gentoo. For example, there are many tools that were developed in BSD but have evolved more toward Linux/POSIX.
I used to have FreeBSD as my firewall but even ipfw is showing its limitation that Linux IPTABLES can do (MANGLE, IP_POSTROUTING, string-matching). Now, FreeBSD is relegated to a utility PC that I keep around (packet captures).
I resent that remark of "don't have the 4 GHz computer..."
I happened to have a fabled Netpliance running 333Mhz WinChip of which it is highly optimized.
Now, this fine piece of workmanship sports a Mozilla Firebird 1.0.3 complete with Adblock/FlashBlock plugin and PGP mail support.
Plus it sits on my kitchen counter sporting a USB bluetooth.
And IF I had "massaged" RedHat AES into this slowpoke (but a very portable LCD-based panel computer), it runs for crap.
So, SCHTUPT THE PHUCK UP with your quest for ignoring "silly arguments" and listen to the fact.
Gentoo user are a breed that leverages highly-optimized and finely tuned machine that is unrivaled by no other Linux distros. On a wide variety of CPU speed.
I beg to differ... as one approaches the 'c', the RF will encounter extreme relativity and each transceiver will form its own VERY parabolic shockwave.
Thus each daring sky-diver will no longer overlap each other's receiver. One would have to alternatively take turn drag-braking into each other's RF parabolic range to conduct a simplex conversation.
Why bother going back to C.B. radio? Use a tachyon transceiver instead.
US a Democracy, not quite. How about a Democratic Republic or a Repulican Democracy. Pick your poison. Both are about correct and for all intent and purposes, it is functioning well within its parameters for over 229 years.
But Theocracy, Nazi, Dictactor, it ain't USA's cup of tea;
Party-side appointment is within the rules (40 years of democratic judgeship is an awful long time; now its the other party's turn and quite a stretch it is...)
Vote with your pencil (or lever); not with your mouth.
As for assult rifles; yeah that is a bit extreme; but a handgun or rifle is a must in every rural homes. City folks can do without them but remember, if and when foreign invasion occurs (and I truly hope it doesn't ever happen in my lifetime); you city-folks can rely on your dwindling local guardsmen force (or heaven-forbid, gangsters) for protection.
If four skydivers were in space (exo-solar-diving) free-falling from Jupiter toward the Sun with an intent to drop into Earth after a few braking maneuvers (what a rush! Oh wait, you'd barely feel the solar wind, uh?).
So, once again if four sport-extremists were sol-exo-diving, would that 20 K-mile/per second put a dent in your line-of-sight RF communication channel?
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In my fifth failed drive, I often have a working drive (on the shelf) in which I can carefully remove the logic board and exchange it with the failing drive.
Only the 3rd time, the spindle was jammed or the motor is dead (no spinning), in this case, it was the RAID that save the day (as usual).
In all cases, these drives were selected for their highest reported reliability (that I can determine from various websites). Then I research for the latest drive models with the best uptime and go out and buy them.
You do DO backup, don't you?
Something like 23% of all IT folks ever bother doing backup period. Less than 5% do backup daily. Its a common theme with small/medium business not having an IT staff.
For SMB IT folks, invest a lil' extra in H/W RAID; it'll save your hide (not to mention your job). If you're budget-constrained (another common IT issue), go with software RAID.
Isn't any of this a viable option for the ubergeek?
1a. Move your precious stuff to another partition.
1b. Insert a OSS distro (FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, Solaris x86)
I don't know many applications not found on OSS (www.freshmeat.net, sourceforge.com, www.acroread.com, openoffice.org, gimp.org, mysql, Perl/PHP, C++ compiler) that can be done reliably in place of Microsoft Windows.
I mean, I got everything I need so far, why bother with the pain of many unsecured Windows APIs?
To reduce the identity theft immensely, one or more of the following MUST be legislated:
1. Replace the SSN with SecureID card with challenge keypad (none of those biometric foo-foo crap, bio is non-revokable)
2. Make data aggregation illegal (ooooh, sorry credit bureaus)
3. Make IRS the focal point of multi-keyed 2nd-generation SSN registration centre (sorry SSA, you screwed up, big-time!)
4. Customer "optionally" generate a NEW SSN for each business or financial institutions. (remember, data aggregation should be illegal)
5. Credit Bureau would function just fine (just a bit laggard with aggregation effort).
Once imposed, identity theft would (I guarantee this) be reduced to insignificant amount.
UNTIL THEN, nothing is currently being done to reduce the water flow from the Dutch Boy's leaking dikes.
It doesn't take much brain to resolve this crisis, just time and money. The Congress has absolutely no clue on how to fix this mess... Write your congressman today with these suggestions.
Perhaps as the submitter's name implies, the submitter only understands zeroes and ones.
What about "Vulcan"?
If I'm not mistaken, there are a couple of European countries that makes uses of SecureID card with challenege 0-9 keypad.
How hard is that?
To reduce the identity theft immensely, one or more of the following MUST be legislated:
1. Replace the SSN with SecureID card with challenge keypad (none of those biometric foo-foo crap, bio is non-revokable)
2. Make data aggregation illegal (ooooh, sorry credit bureaus)
3. Make IRS the focal point of multi-keyed 2nd-generation SSN registration centre (sorry SSA, you screwed up, big-time!)
4. Customer "optionally" generate a NEW SSN for each business or financial institutions. (remember, data aggregation should be illegal)
5. Credit Bureau would function just fine (just a bit laggard with aggregation effort).
Once imposed, identity theft would (I guarantee this) be reduced to insignificant amount.
UNTIL THEN, nothing is currently being done to reduce the water flow from the Dutch Boy's leaking dikes.
It doesn't take much brain to resolve this crisis, just time and money. The Congress has absolutely no clue on how to fix this mess... Write your congressman today with these suggestions.
Your check is proverbially in your mail.
You have already received it in form of a viral GPL software found through out your Linux, FreeBSD and Windows platform.
Enjoy!
Compile time, a comprehensive test does not make.
Actual execution rate, doth make.
Who's funding this guy's mouthpiece?
Would be very interesting to know who is funding his soapbox.
If you deduced from my profile, you'll learned that I've been at the bleeding edge of IPS/IDS and the commercial ones implicitly do normalization.
For home use, I'm partial to rolling my own default-deny firewall from day one. Mine is shaped in a tree fashion to ensure that no much time spent in any one chain.
Oh boy, the joy of having to keep 11 plates spinning on a pole.
Actually, I liked what you posted. It showed that I've been sadly misinformed, very sadly, that is.
It basically opened up my eyes to the fact that FreeBSD is up to the game and possibly more so than Gentoo with regard to default security.
Thanks for the much needed insight. I'm going to give it another FreeBSD spin (upgrade that spare BSD box from a 2yr older version), particularly the PF.
$20!!!! PER MONTH!!????
One can circumvent that by lil' wardriving and getting it for free. 8.8 cents per mile for gasoline until an unsecured hotspot is detected.
YMMV.
I hail from the Internet, sorry... Just keeping a low profile here...
And no, Hungarian is not my first tongue but I made use of a dictionary quite often and I can read for the most part without one.
So, yes. I replied in English mostly because I'm not used to typing in a foreign language.
FreeBSD seems to be having trouble keeping up with the growing packages that are Linux-centrix; take Debian which is the largest cesspool of tools; follwed by Gentoo. For example, there are many tools that were developed in BSD but have evolved more toward Linux/POSIX.
I used to have FreeBSD as my firewall but even ipfw is showing its limitation that Linux IPTABLES can do (MANGLE, IP_POSTROUTING, string-matching). Now, FreeBSD is relegated to a utility PC that I keep around (packet captures).
Opera may be better, but it isn't portable for embedded environment use.
Firefox can be trimmed down for uses with 32MB memory or less. However, some sacrifices have to be made (sans JAVA, smaller window manager).
Also, Gentoo is a tough one for cross-environment development but attainable.
FreeBSD? Stable, but not keeping with the trend.
I resent that remark of "don't have the 4 GHz computer..."
I happened to have a fabled Netpliance running 333Mhz WinChip of which it is highly optimized.
Now, this fine piece of workmanship sports a Mozilla Firebird 1.0.3 complete with Adblock/FlashBlock plugin and PGP mail support.
Plus it sits on my kitchen counter sporting a USB bluetooth.
And IF I had "massaged" RedHat AES into this slowpoke (but a very portable LCD-based panel computer), it runs for crap.
So, SCHTUPT THE PHUCK UP with your quest for ignoring "silly arguments" and listen to the fact.
Gentoo user are a breed that leverages highly-optimized and finely tuned machine that is unrivaled by no other Linux distros. On a wide variety of CPU speed.
Dumb kopfts...
Conked (W3C-CSS), Embrace (WinMedia-DRM), Hijack (MIT-Kerberos), engulf (Active Directory), and discard (NetBEUI).
How about open, free (as in beer) for a change?
I beg to differ... as one approaches the 'c', the RF will encounter extreme relativity and each transceiver will form its own VERY parabolic shockwave.
Thus each daring sky-diver will no longer overlap each other's receiver. One would have to alternatively take turn drag-braking into each other's RF parabolic range to conduct a simplex conversation.
Why bother going back to C.B. radio? Use a tachyon transceiver instead.
US a Democracy, not quite. How about a Democratic Republic or a Repulican Democracy. Pick your poison. Both are about correct and for all intent and purposes, it is functioning well within its parameters for over 229 years.
But Theocracy, Nazi, Dictactor, it ain't USA's cup of tea;
Party-side appointment is within the rules (40 years of democratic judgeship is an awful long time; now its the other party's turn and quite a stretch it is...)
Vote with your pencil (or lever); not with your mouth.
As for assult rifles; yeah that is a bit extreme; but a handgun or rifle is a must in every rural homes. City folks can do without them but remember, if and when foreign invasion occurs (and I truly hope it doesn't ever happen in my lifetime); you city-folks can rely on your dwindling local guardsmen force (or heaven-forbid, gangsters) for protection.
If four skydivers were in space (exo-solar-diving) free-falling from Jupiter toward the Sun with an intent to drop into Earth after a few braking maneuvers (what a rush! Oh wait, you'd barely feel the solar wind, uh?).
So, once again if four sport-extremists were sol-exo-diving, would that 20 K-mile/per second put a dent in your line-of-sight RF communication channel?
Yes...barely I leave you to do the math.
(plus, then, no one can hear you scream in space)
I would be wary of going into 2.6 over 2.4 kernel for low-power application such as a cell phone.
Check out the Linux v2.4 vs. Linux v2.6
Why does this title remind me of "Flying Toasters?"
Design, implement and then taken down Dr. Charles Forbin's Colossus.
(Bzzzzzzz...Bzzzzzz..Bzzzzzz)
I'm just standing in line for the self-checkout when I'm watching the doorway alarm goes off at a crazy clip...
(Bzzzzzzz)
Sheesh... They never let up... Half of the kin-folks are automatic criminal suspect (Bzzzzz)...
Now, its time to pray, when my turn is up. That my time and date are decided by a crazed-fate.
(Bzzzzz)...
Drat... It got me for no good reason.... Evil eyes lurks on me from all the overflowing lines.
(Bzzzzz) Oh? It got you too? He he he...Join the crowd, buddy.
http://www.kisa.ca/asl.html
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.ht m
http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Signing/
Other estoteric ASL signs are:
http://deafmissions.com/dic/ADRSindex.html (religious)