Yes, "crap pay". On average across the US, teachers are paid far below that of almost every other profession. I don't care if they, their sposes, or children "lead very full lives". That is not a direct measure of ones income. You can live just as "full a life" @ 30k/yr as 100k/yr -- and people do. The point is, people make do with what they have -- be that 30k or 100k.
No, I do not work in education; for the exact reasons I've already stated. I know many who have left education for those reasons as well. I'd have to be a tenured professor to make what I currently do in private industry. (and that'd be at the top of the pay scale.)
You obviously don't work in education. Public schools are run more by politics than credentials and experience. There are lots of people able and willing to teach, but they will not put up with the crap pay and bullshit politics to do it.
A simple zeroing of the drive will prevent effectively all methods of data recovery. To recover an sector that's been overwritten, requires a lengthly, expensive, and destructive microscopic analysis -- the drive has to be disassbled in a clean room. Basically, only governments hunting for secrets are going to go to this level of trouble. The RIAA? No f'ing way.
Security "paranoid" enterprises (usually governments and their contractors) destroy media to ensure 0 chance of recovery. If the media is not physically destroyed, the probablity of recovery is non-zero. Zero means zero; non-zero means non-zero. If a DLT tape is converted to vapor, there are no known means of reversing the process and recovering the tape (and it's data.)
WTF? XP most certainly will install to an NTFS volume. In fact, given the size of modern drives, XP cannot format them as FAT32. XP's version of format was cripled to not format anything larger than 8GB(? maybe 32?) as FAT32. It's actually a huge f'ing pain in the ass as NTFS is not "multi-machine friendly". (think external removable storage)
I think your issue is with a System Restore Disk and not an actual OS installation disk. The restore CD for my sony laptop will plop an 8GB FAT32 partition on the drive -- it's actually a pain in the ass to get it not to, but it is possible to get even that PoS to dump into an existing NTFS volume. (I've sworn off restore disks.)
You restore a previous *non*corrupted copy from backup. The fact that you asked indicates you have no experience with such environments. (the company's core servers would have free-standing licenses, esp. the license server itself.)
Nah. Tiny slow MIPS processor... on my 1760 it takes about 1 second to handle the initial negotiation. That's not bad for interactive logins, but for scripts that connect often, that's not so good. Now in theory, it could had that process off to the crypto card but I doubt it does. (note: the MOD1700 doesn't do AES.)
The speed of IOS upgrades is limited to the write speed of the FLASH. The freakin' serial port can keep up with most flash chips. If you wanna see the difference, use rommon to download to ram... it flies.
it's a pretty reasonable assumption that if you're connected to a bittorrent swarm, you're participating in the data flow.
Really? So BayTSP's "clients" (and those of like companies) are "participating in the data flow"? As a tacker programmer/operator (read: well versed in the inner workings), I can assure you, just because the tracker handed back an address does not mean they are uploading/downloading anything. In fact, it's trivial to misconfigure your client to always report an incorrect IP (&ip=not.my.ip) -- however, nobody will be able to connect to you; and if everyone in the swarm is doing this, nobody will be able to find anybody else. There are numerous "clients" and hacks that will only download. (downloading is not "distribution" and thus not a copyright violation.)
It may be a reasonable assuumption, but it's not iron clad proof. For that, BayTSP's "client" would need to request and receive content from your client. (And prove the swarm/torrent actually represents copyright'd work(s).)
It's a laptop. Heat is always the first on the list. Most laptops are not built to run at 100% continuously. My 7 year old Sony would lock up a few minutes after the processor reached (or exceeded) 55C... either lift the keyboard off the heat sink blower's intake (so it can get more than a few mm of air), or take the damnedable thing apart to remove the cpu heat sink and replace the 3M Thermal Tape(tm) that is now nothing more than a thick hunk of aluminium foil. (It's now stable well beyond 55C... not that you'd want it on your laptop at that temp.)
Hardware spoofing of a MAC address usually requires desoldering the EEPROM...
Nah. There are loads of NICs that have programmable EEPROMs. I can only speak to 3com and Intel NICs, but there are tools floating around for many more models. In fact, there's a famous comment from Donald Becker in the linux 3com diag program -- it has a copy of his rom settings incase you foobar your card: "Let's just hope we don't meet on the net."
It's really not that hard. I've been forced to clone MACs several times -- because dumbass programmers use "the" MAC for generating licenses... it isn't unique and isn't even deterministic.
You miss the point... NC will not "make up" the foregone utility taxes in the jobs it brings to the area. Is it tax revenues the state would not otherwise have? Yes. In fact, it'll be "good money" in the first few years as the data center has to be built first. The politicians are banking on Google acting as a magnet to bring other industry to the state. (Having grown up and worked around there, I seriously doubt Lenoir will become the next RTP.)
The incentive(s) to bringing Google to Lenoir aren't specific to Google. There are many other "internet data centers" in the state that will fall under the "no electricity tax" BS. Nobody is counting those millions. Data centers use a tremendous amount of power.
And if it was anyone other than Google bringing 200 jobs to the state... we'd get the utility taxes.
Incorrect. If you actually figure out the tax paid by 200 average employees, it comes out far less than 3mil per year. 200 jobs at an average of 50k each (pretty good pay for Lenoir) amounts to ~1m in income tax for the state. The remaining 35k they actually take home would only total ~400k in sales tax, assuming they spent every penny they made in the local ecomony subject to sales tax. Property tax of 1k for a house and 100 per car (let's say they have 2) brings in an additional ~250k. That's not even 2mil.
And let's not forget, this isn't a "Google" bill. The tax break applies to any "internet data center" in the state. There are plenty of pre-existing data centers in the state. Nobody is screaming about how much they won't be paying in electrical sales tax.
Apples and Oranges. You do know they're different, right? If one has it, the other has to as well or it's not a valid comparison. The point is not to get one system cheaper than the other, it's to show that for comparably built systems, the one with "no" OS costs more than the one with a "$279 retail OS" on it. Dell's Windows OEM cost is reportedly 47$ based on those that have gotten refunds. So, there's very little reason for the bare systems to not be less than or equal to the cost of a windows system.
I said "identical". The only difference between the machines was the OS. The windows C521 was $70 cheaper. Different systems with different configurations (but still the same for both sides) will vary, but the "linux" system is almost always more expensive -- certainly more expensive than it should be minus the cost of a windows license. So either Dell is still paying M$ a license for the box, or they're pocketing the difference.
Windows XP Professional - Retail : $279.99 Windows XP Professional Upgrade - Retail : $199.99
Windows XP Professional - OEM : $139.99
Ignoring the fact that no one is supposed to sell the OEM versions -- it's supposed to come installed on an already assembled PC, but newegg ignores that little detail -- it's still too expensive. I paid less for Tru64 for a single Alpha ($99) and DEC included a copy of OpenVMS. I don't think I've paid that much, total, for *all* of the copies of Solaris (sparc and x86) I've bought over the years. [didn't buy Sol10. I hate what they did to UNIX(tm).] Shit, BeOS was only 50$
Even the crippled BS known as XP Home is too expensive... 90-190$
If they made anything of any measurable quality (debatable) that was (a) worth buying, and (b) reasonablly priced, people would be fair less inclined to steal it. *I* think NT4, 2000, and XP Pro are (or were *grin*) actually worthy of purchase, but not at Microsoft's prices.
That only proves you have at least ONE licensed system. In today's realm, M$ requires you to enable activex if you're using IE. It doesn't give you any other choice. Of course, it'll let you pass with any non-IE browser. (just like you cannot disable the WGA plugin anymore. If you turn it off anyway, it'll reinstall it until it *is* enabled.) I acutally have a download code held in one of the custom wand boxes in opera... down arrow a few times and off I go.
I would suspect the "geeks" are actually way under represented. Those that are knowingly installing unlicensed copies know they are doing it and install the necessary hack(s) to get around it.
22% sounds reasonable. Consider the uneducated who paid $29.95 at some Russian website for a "Discounted" OEM Windows XP CD, about 100% of the time, it's warez. (the other 100% of the time it's a credit card scam.) And *sigh* Microsoft is spot on when they say repair shops are a major source of failures because users don't bring in the CDs for their systems. If an OEM installation is repaired with a different version, it can render the key invalid.
There's legal and then there's legal. The real issue is simply that there's no way to look at a key and tell what type it is. And M$ hasn't provided any utility/tool to turn that string of crap into a meaning full number -- "00000-XXX-0000000-00000" where XXX is the Very Important Part(tm). The key that's on the side of your dell is a dell oem ("vendor") key. It works with Dell's OEM install/recovery disk, and maybe a full retail XP CD, but I don't have one of those. It's only supposed to work on a Dell, so you cannot "transfer" that key to any other (non-dell) box.
Yes, it's annoying as hell. And Vista is only going to make it worse with it's thousand different varieties.
At least you don't have any Dell's that insist Dell's VLK is *Blocked*. And suddenly lose their activation. That's a wipe-and-reinstall; there's no fixing that.
News Flash: if you buy into the bull, you'll be paying more for the "bare" system.
This is marketing *gold*... get saps to pay you more money for less work. There's exactly two differences: (1) no one has to stick a windows OEM label on the machine, and (2) they put an "unimaged" hard drive in the case -- which ultimately makes no difference as that's how the OEM'd hard drives are initially tested. (if it fails imaging, it's trash. Having dealt with bulk hard drives, I can say about 10-20% are *going* *to* *be* *trash*. That's why system builders get deep discounts.)
I've not actually checked to see if there's a BIOS (DMI) difference to prevent installing the Dell OEM image on a "non-windows" Dell box. The Dell OEM VLK doesn't work with any other version of windows, and doesn't work on non-Dell hardware. (I've used that CD to (re)install otherwise legit machines.)
The comparison I just ran... the minimum consistent C521, runs $70 MORE for the WINDOWS-LESS configuration. My biggest gripe is being forced to a take a monitor with it.
Expensive, indeed. Compare an identically configured "windows" system vs. the "n" version and tell me which one is more expensive. Answer: the non-windows one.
He got in hot water over bugging his rival's office. And getting caught... When you go to tap someone's phone line, you do it from the pole; you don't break into their house and run a wire directly out of their phone. In today's world, it's possible to tap your phone without even getting off my couch. (even though CALEA terminals are supposed to be protected, telco security is notoriously lax.)
Despite what you believe and Microsoft insists, both can be removed. (and they can be removed from the installer. Microsoft themselves now sell a medialess version -- the european mandated "N" versions.) Medical computer systems have very specific requirements; and the people who work on them know it. System integrators don't go down to Best Buy for a retail copy of XP for their MRI computers.
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Yes, "crap pay". On average across the US, teachers are paid far below that of almost every other profession. I don't care if they, their sposes, or children "lead very full lives". That is not a direct measure of ones income. You can live just as "full a life" @ 30k/yr as 100k/yr -- and people do. The point is, people make do with what they have -- be that 30k or 100k.
No, I do not work in education; for the exact reasons I've already stated. I know many who have left education for those reasons as well. I'd have to be a tenured professor to make what I currently do in private industry. (and that'd be at the top of the pay scale.)
... that's where the teach shortage comes from.
You obviously don't work in education. Public schools are run more by politics than credentials and experience. There are lots of people able and willing to teach, but they will not put up with the crap pay and bullshit politics to do it.
A simple zeroing of the drive will prevent effectively all methods of data recovery. To recover an sector that's been overwritten, requires a lengthly, expensive, and destructive microscopic analysis -- the drive has to be disassbled in a clean room. Basically, only governments hunting for secrets are going to go to this level of trouble. The RIAA? No f'ing way.
Security "paranoid" enterprises (usually governments and their contractors) destroy media to ensure 0 chance of recovery. If the media is not physically destroyed, the probablity of recovery is non-zero. Zero means zero; non-zero means non-zero. If a DLT tape is converted to vapor, there are no known means of reversing the process and recovering the tape (and it's data.)
So? Overwrite the conflicting files... --force or rpm2cpio directly into place.
WTF? XP most certainly will install to an NTFS volume. In fact, given the size of modern drives, XP cannot format them as FAT32. XP's version of format was cripled to not format anything larger than 8GB(? maybe 32?) as FAT32. It's actually a huge f'ing pain in the ass as NTFS is not "multi-machine friendly". (think external removable storage)
I think your issue is with a System Restore Disk and not an actual OS installation disk. The restore CD for my sony laptop will plop an 8GB FAT32 partition on the drive -- it's actually a pain in the ass to get it not to, but it is possible to get even that PoS to dump into an existing NTFS volume. (I've sworn off restore disks.)
You restore a previous *non*corrupted copy from backup. The fact that you asked indicates you have no experience with such environments. (the company's core servers would have free-standing licenses, esp. the license server itself.)
Nah. Tiny slow MIPS processor... on my 1760 it takes about 1 second to handle the initial negotiation. That's not bad for interactive logins, but for scripts that connect often, that's not so good. Now in theory, it could had that process off to the crypto card but I doubt it does. (note: the MOD1700 doesn't do AES.)
The speed of IOS upgrades is limited to the write speed of the FLASH. The freakin' serial port can keep up with most flash chips. If you wanna see the difference, use rommon to download to ram... it flies.
It may be a reasonable assuumption, but it's not iron clad proof. For that, BayTSP's "client" would need to request and receive content from your client. (And prove the swarm/torrent actually represents copyright'd work(s).)
It's a laptop. Heat is always the first on the list. Most laptops are not built to run at 100% continuously. My 7 year old Sony would lock up a few minutes after the processor reached (or exceeded) 55C... either lift the keyboard off the heat sink blower's intake (so it can get more than a few mm of air), or take the damnedable thing apart to remove the cpu heat sink and replace the 3M Thermal Tape(tm) that is now nothing more than a thick hunk of aluminium foil. (It's now stable well beyond 55C... not that you'd want it on your laptop at that temp.)
It's really not that hard. I've been forced to clone MACs several times -- because dumbass programmers use "the" MAC for generating licenses... it isn't unique and isn't even deterministic.
You miss the point... NC will not "make up" the foregone utility taxes in the jobs it brings to the area. Is it tax revenues the state would not otherwise have? Yes. In fact, it'll be "good money" in the first few years as the data center has to be built first. The politicians are banking on Google acting as a magnet to bring other industry to the state. (Having grown up and worked around there, I seriously doubt Lenoir will become the next RTP.)
The incentive(s) to bringing Google to Lenoir aren't specific to Google. There are many other "internet data centers" in the state that will fall under the "no electricity tax" BS. Nobody is counting those millions. Data centers use a tremendous amount of power.
And if it was anyone other than Google bringing 200 jobs to the state... we'd get the utility taxes.
Incorrect. If you actually figure out the tax paid by 200 average employees, it comes out far less than 3mil per year. 200 jobs at an average of 50k each (pretty good pay for Lenoir) amounts to ~1m in income tax for the state. The remaining 35k they actually take home would only total ~400k in sales tax, assuming they spent every penny they made in the local ecomony subject to sales tax. Property tax of 1k for a house and 100 per car (let's say they have 2) brings in an additional ~250k. That's not even 2mil.
And let's not forget, this isn't a "Google" bill. The tax break applies to any "internet data center" in the state. There are plenty of pre-existing data centers in the state. Nobody is screaming about how much they won't be paying in electrical sales tax.
Apples and Oranges. You do know they're different, right? If one has it, the other has to as well or it's not a valid comparison. The point is not to get one system cheaper than the other, it's to show that for comparably built systems, the one with "no" OS costs more than the one with a "$279 retail OS" on it. Dell's Windows OEM cost is reportedly 47$ based on those that have gotten refunds. So, there's very little reason for the bare systems to not be less than or equal to the cost of a windows system.
I said "identical". The only difference between the machines was the OS. The windows C521 was $70 cheaper. Different systems with different configurations (but still the same for both sides) will vary, but the "linux" system is almost always more expensive -- certainly more expensive than it should be minus the cost of a windows license. So either Dell is still paying M$ a license for the box, or they're pocketing the difference.
Windows XP Professional - Retail : $279.99
Windows XP Professional Upgrade - Retail : $199.99
Windows XP Professional - OEM : $139.99
Ignoring the fact that no one is supposed to sell the OEM versions -- it's supposed to come installed on an already assembled PC, but newegg ignores that little detail -- it's still too expensive. I paid less for Tru64 for a single Alpha ($99) and DEC included a copy of OpenVMS. I don't think I've paid that much, total, for *all* of the copies of Solaris (sparc and x86) I've bought over the years. [didn't buy Sol10. I hate what they did to UNIX(tm).] Shit, BeOS was only 50$
Even the crippled BS known as XP Home is too expensive... 90-190$
If they made anything of any measurable quality (debatable) that was (a) worth buying, and (b) reasonablly priced, people would be fair less inclined to steal it. *I* think NT4, 2000, and XP Pro are (or were *grin*) actually worthy of purchase, but not at Microsoft's prices.
That only proves you have at least ONE licensed system. In today's realm, M$ requires you to enable activex if you're using IE. It doesn't give you any other choice. Of course, it'll let you pass with any non-IE browser. (just like you cannot disable the WGA plugin anymore. If you turn it off anyway, it'll reinstall it until it *is* enabled.) I acutally have a download code held in one of the custom wand boxes in opera... down arrow a few times and off I go.
I would suspect the "geeks" are actually way under represented. Those that are knowingly installing unlicensed copies know they are doing it and install the necessary hack(s) to get around it.
22% sounds reasonable. Consider the uneducated who paid $29.95 at some Russian website for a "Discounted" OEM Windows XP CD, about 100% of the time, it's warez. (the other 100% of the time it's a credit card scam.) And *sigh* Microsoft is spot on when they say repair shops are a major source of failures because users don't bring in the CDs for their systems. If an OEM installation is repaired with a different version, it can render the key invalid.
There's legal and then there's legal. The real issue is simply that there's no way to look at a key and tell what type it is. And M$ hasn't provided any utility/tool to turn that string of crap into a meaning full number -- "00000-XXX-0000000-00000" where XXX is the Very Important Part(tm). The key that's on the side of your dell is a dell oem ("vendor") key. It works with Dell's OEM install/recovery disk, and maybe a full retail XP CD, but I don't have one of those. It's only supposed to work on a Dell, so you cannot "transfer" that key to any other (non-dell) box.
Yes, it's annoying as hell. And Vista is only going to make it worse with it's thousand different varieties.
At least you don't have any Dell's that insist Dell's VLK is *Blocked*. And suddenly lose their activation. That's a wipe-and-reinstall; there's no fixing that.
News Flash: if you buy into the bull, you'll be paying more for the "bare" system.
This is marketing *gold*... get saps to pay you more money for less work. There's exactly two differences: (1) no one has to stick a windows OEM label on the machine, and (2) they put an "unimaged" hard drive in the case -- which ultimately makes no difference as that's how the OEM'd hard drives are initially tested. (if it fails imaging, it's trash. Having dealt with bulk hard drives, I can say about 10-20% are *going* *to* *be* *trash*. That's why system builders get deep discounts.)
I've not actually checked to see if there's a BIOS (DMI) difference to prevent installing the Dell OEM image on a "non-windows" Dell box. The Dell OEM VLK doesn't work with any other version of windows, and doesn't work on non-Dell hardware. (I've used that CD to (re)install otherwise legit machines.)
The comparison I just ran... the minimum consistent C521, runs $70 MORE for the WINDOWS-LESS configuration. My biggest gripe is being forced to a take a monitor with it.
Expensive, indeed. Compare an identically configured "windows" system vs. the "n" version and tell me which one is more expensive. Answer: the non-windows one.
He got in hot water over bugging his rival's office. And getting caught... When you go to tap someone's phone line, you do it from the pole; you don't break into their house and run a wire directly out of their phone. In today's world, it's possible to tap your phone without even getting off my couch. (even though CALEA terminals are supposed to be protected, telco security is notoriously lax.)
Despite what you believe and Microsoft insists, both can be removed. (and they can be removed from the installer. Microsoft themselves now sell a medialess version -- the european mandated "N" versions.) Medical computer systems have very specific requirements; and the people who work on them know it. System integrators don't go down to Best Buy for a retail copy of XP for their MRI computers.