I was at 45.292396,-75.930398 at the time, according to Google Maps.
Since I've been playing Fallout 3 lately, my first thought was "Oh shit, the Americans have dropped the bomb on us!"
I volunteer at a local AIDS organization, Bruce House, and have been their sole computer support for the last 7 or so years, both in their office of 10 people, and at their residence/hospice. Mostly desktop upgrades/installs/fixes, but pretty much anything they need. I enjoy the work, I like the people that work there, and I'm happy I can do something for the community. Fortunately my last two jobs have had me working outside of the usual 9-5 grind, so I'm able to go in at least one day a week if they need me.
At least you HAVE mass transit. Ottawa still doesn't after a month of striking, and since the union rejected the latest offer from the city, there's no end in sight.
It's estimated that there are 30% more cars on the road in the city since the strike started. I had to buy a car just so I could keep getting to work, and I will NOT be going back to mass transit.
There's probably a still-secret pneumatic tube system running straight from Parliament, 24 Sussex, and the other major political buildings, all the way to the Diefenbunker in Carp;)
If someone ever figures out how to translate 0x00 bytes into something that can affect human senses, they'll have developed the Somebody Else's Problem field!
The power companies should stop complaining and upgrade their equipment. Can't buy enough power from your current providers? Build wind farms, invest in alternative energy sources.
They're in business to make money. If people bought more "green" devices and started using less power, the power companies would make less money, and they would increase their rates to compensate.
I remember when Microsoft allowed users to order a free security update CD from their website - a good 2 or 3 years ago, I think. They shipped it free of charge. I just searched their website but couldn't find anything similar - the closest was DVD images available for download - images of each of their Patch Tuesday files for all their operating systems - but it doesn't appear to include the previous updates (I didn't read the whole thing so I could be wrong)
The company I work at used to use a mixture of Greek and science fiction names for servers - heavy on the science fiction, mostly Star Trek and some other stuff mixed in.
It's rather annoying when a server suddenly shows up as offline in the monitoring system and I have to think hard about wtf Kronos is supposed to be doing, and who I have to call about it at 3 in the morning when I can't get it to boot up.
I'm glad we've switched to a useful naming convention in the last year or so - now it goes by sub-company name, purpose, and machine number if it's in a cluster/load balance (which pretty much everything is). So "subcompanywww1" is easily recognizable as one of X sub--company's load-balanced web servers when it dies, and I know if it can be left alone until morning if it's on fire.
1) The actual account that holds your contact/ownership information (this account is generally referred to as your CIRA ID).
2) The "membership" account, which is to be able to do things outside of normal domain ownership, such as vote on CIRA board elections (details at https://member.cira.ca/en/index.html)
The CIRA ID is assigned when you register your first.ca domain (although you can have many, ask your registrar for details), and is based off the contact information you provided to your registrar. You buy the domain, then get a temporary CIRA ID to go to CIRA's website and confirm your details. They then e-mail you a permanent username and password (alphanumerical fun, and you can't change them). If you change your contact details through your registrar, you have to go to CIRA's site, log in, and confirm the change within the next 7 days, or they don't take effect. All.ca domains under a single CIRA ID share their contact information, no matter what registrars you buy them through (just make sure they link the same CIRA ID to your account before you start buying).
The membership used to be a yes/no option in the CIRA ID details when you logged in at CIRA's website, but they changed it last year. I went through the process to see how difficult it was, as I was working in a.ca registrar's customer service at that time. So you fill out a form, send it in with a photocopy of a driver's license, and they send you a letter by mail with details for going to their site and confirming. That's it. If you want to update the information, you send in another form. A web-based form for updating the information would be lovely, and probably will get put in eventually due to demand.
If you've got many.ca domains and have problems updating your information, talk to your registrar(s). Get all your domains moved into one CIRA ID, either by a change of ownership or a "merge" of CIRA accounts.
Sweet. I have to reinstall a Dell system tomorrow from its restore CDs (not my system, otherwise I'd just use a real CD), and since it's 4 years old, I'll be lucky if it even has SP1 integrated. This will save me the time of having to install SP2, then use AutoPatcher to get it up to date. Good sir, you have saved me several hours of waiting time, and for this, I thank you.
That seems to be the main distinction I see when these type of stories come up - the "theft" is always on completely open, unprotected routers, usually straight out of the box and plugged into someone's cable modem, SSID screaming out "LINKSYS"! to anything in range.
Computers will look for the strongest, most easily accessible network, and they never have to look far. I'm not about to go poking around on networks where I'm obviously not wanted, but if my computer decides that the Linksys next door is being the friendliest router today and connects, this becomes a problem that either the manufacturer or the device owner needs to address - jail time for the accidentally connected user isn't the way to fix it.
It's only a crime if they can prove you used the neighbor's wireless intentionally. My laptop loves to connect to random wireless connections instead of my own - hell, it tries to connect to wireless connections that aren't even there (such as the wireless at my workplace) instead of connecting to my home wireless first. How do you prove it wasn't intentional? How do they prove it was?
Privacy.ca is just a go-between service. As long as the contact info (and registrant name) on the WHOIS is valid, CIRA doesn't care. CIRA can still e-mail you if you're using Privacy.ca, but nobody else can. And it's only private until someone pays Privacy.ca for your contact info (it's part of their TOS), and then anyone can find out who you are and start to annoy you.
They're also gaining control over the release of expired/deleted domains. If a domain expires and gets deleted, Verisign will control whether or not the domain becomes available for anyone to register, or if it gets put up for auction (by Verisign) to the highest bidder. Any independant company that's been reselling domain names is either going to go out of business or have to find another way to make money off domains.
A good portion of the money for a domain goes to whatever organization/company runs the registry. It pays for their staff, equipment, Net connection, etc. Don't know what the.eu domains actually cost, but for most domains, usually around half goes to the registry and the other half to the registrar that the domain was purchased through.
My younger brother is currently using my laptop from college, which I finished 6 years ago. The laptop is an IBM ThinkPad 365ED, supposedly 100 MHz (actually 66), 24 megs of RAM, and a 540 MB hard drive. Runs Windows 95 and Office, AVG for antivirus protection, and has a PCMCIA network card.
It chugs, but it works. I'd put a firewall on it, but it would probably choke and die.
I had an AMD board go during the summer, but at the time the system was reporting that it couldn't detect the brand-new hard drive 8 out of 10 times, or the one I tried replacing it with. I didn't realize that it was from a bad capacitor until I decided to remove the power supply to be able to see the whole board, and saw two that had popped.
My server sits on top of a set of plastic shelves, about 5 1/2 feet off the floor. Both side panels on the case have been removed, and I have a large (2 1/2 feet or so wide) box fan sitting on the same shelf, about a foot and a half from the computer, blowing air through the case.
All three hard drives in the case are nice and cool to the touch, even with an 80 GB and a 40 GB drive mounted one right above the other. The box fan doesn't add any extra vibrations to the computer, and should be more than far enough away to avoid any magnetic problems.
As for noise, the server is in my bedroom, and I sleep better with a fan running. Otherwise, the room is way too quiet. As a bonus, the fan drowns out any outside traffic noises while I sleep in.
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I have the same, and it runs even better with DD-WRT!
I was at 45.292396,-75.930398 at the time, according to Google Maps. Since I've been playing Fallout 3 lately, my first thought was "Oh shit, the Americans have dropped the bomb on us!"
I volunteer at a local AIDS organization, Bruce House, and have been their sole computer support for the last 7 or so years, both in their office of 10 people, and at their residence/hospice. Mostly desktop upgrades/installs/fixes, but pretty much anything they need. I enjoy the work, I like the people that work there, and I'm happy I can do something for the community. Fortunately my last two jobs have had me working outside of the usual 9-5 grind, so I'm able to go in at least one day a week if they need me.
At least you HAVE mass transit. Ottawa still doesn't after a month of striking, and since the union rejected the latest offer from the city, there's no end in sight. It's estimated that there are 30% more cars on the road in the city since the strike started. I had to buy a car just so I could keep getting to work, and I will NOT be going back to mass transit.
There's probably a still-secret pneumatic tube system running straight from Parliament, 24 Sussex, and the other major political buildings, all the way to the Diefenbunker in Carp ;)
If someone ever figures out how to translate 0x00 bytes into something that can affect human senses, they'll have developed the Somebody Else's Problem field!
The power companies should stop complaining and upgrade their equipment. Can't buy enough power from your current providers? Build wind farms, invest in alternative energy sources.
They're in business to make money. If people bought more "green" devices and started using less power, the power companies would make less money, and they would increase their rates to compensate.
I remember when Microsoft allowed users to order a free security update CD from their website - a good 2 or 3 years ago, I think. They shipped it free of charge. I just searched their website but couldn't find anything similar - the closest was DVD images available for download - images of each of their Patch Tuesday files for all their operating systems - but it doesn't appear to include the previous updates (I didn't read the whole thing so I could be wrong)
Hooray for SP3, and more hooray for AutoPatcher.
The company I work at used to use a mixture of Greek and science fiction names for servers - heavy on the science fiction, mostly Star Trek and some other stuff mixed in.
It's rather annoying when a server suddenly shows up as offline in the monitoring system and I have to think hard about wtf Kronos is supposed to be doing, and who I have to call about it at 3 in the morning when I can't get it to boot up.
I'm glad we've switched to a useful naming convention in the last year or so - now it goes by sub-company name, purpose, and machine number if it's in a cluster/load balance (which pretty much everything is). So "subcompanywww1" is easily recognizable as one of X sub--company's load-balanced web servers when it dies, and I know if it can be left alone until morning if it's on fire.
CIRA accounts are set up in two sections:
.ca domain (although you can have many, ask your registrar for details), and is based off the contact information you provided to your registrar. You buy the domain, then get a temporary CIRA ID to go to CIRA's website and confirm your details. They then e-mail you a permanent username and password (alphanumerical fun, and you can't change them). If you change your contact details through your registrar, you have to go to CIRA's site, log in, and confirm the change within the next 7 days, or they don't take effect. All .ca domains under a single CIRA ID share their contact information, no matter what registrars you buy them through (just make sure they link the same CIRA ID to your account before you start buying).
.ca registrar's customer service at that time. So you fill out a form, send it in with a photocopy of a driver's license, and they send you a letter by mail with details for going to their site and confirming. That's it. If you want to update the information, you send in another form. A web-based form for updating the information would be lovely, and probably will get put in eventually due to demand.
.ca domains and have problems updating your information, talk to your registrar(s). Get all your domains moved into one CIRA ID, either by a change of ownership or a "merge" of CIRA accounts.
1) The actual account that holds your contact/ownership information (this account is generally referred to as your CIRA ID).
2) The "membership" account, which is to be able to do things outside of normal domain ownership, such as vote on CIRA board elections (details at https://member.cira.ca/en/index.html)
The CIRA ID is assigned when you register your first
The membership used to be a yes/no option in the CIRA ID details when you logged in at CIRA's website, but they changed it last year. I went through the process to see how difficult it was, as I was working in a
If you've got many
Sweet. I have to reinstall a Dell system tomorrow from its restore CDs (not my system, otherwise I'd just use a real CD), and since it's 4 years old, I'll be lucky if it even has SP1 integrated. This will save me the time of having to install SP2, then use AutoPatcher to get it up to date. Good sir, you have saved me several hours of waiting time, and for this, I thank you.
That seems to be the main distinction I see when these type of stories come up - the "theft" is always on completely open, unprotected routers, usually straight out of the box and plugged into someone's cable modem, SSID screaming out "LINKSYS"! to anything in range. Computers will look for the strongest, most easily accessible network, and they never have to look far. I'm not about to go poking around on networks where I'm obviously not wanted, but if my computer decides that the Linksys next door is being the friendliest router today and connects, this becomes a problem that either the manufacturer or the device owner needs to address - jail time for the accidentally connected user isn't the way to fix it.
It's only a crime if they can prove you used the neighbor's wireless intentionally. My laptop loves to connect to random wireless connections instead of my own - hell, it tries to connect to wireless connections that aren't even there (such as the wireless at my workplace) instead of connecting to my home wireless first. How do you prove it wasn't intentional? How do they prove it was?
Privacy.ca is just a go-between service. As long as the contact info (and registrant name) on the WHOIS is valid, CIRA doesn't care. CIRA can still e-mail you if you're using Privacy.ca, but nobody else can. And it's only private until someone pays Privacy.ca for your contact info (it's part of their TOS), and then anyone can find out who you are and start to annoy you.
They're also gaining control over the release of expired/deleted domains. If a domain expires and gets deleted, Verisign will control whether or not the domain becomes available for anyone to register, or if it gets put up for auction (by Verisign) to the highest bidder. Any independant company that's been reselling domain names is either going to go out of business or have to find another way to make money off domains.
Prepare to be boarded, and hand over yer gold! Or your small change!
Wait, piracy requres water?
What about ocean-blue carpet? Or tile? I swear I'm a real pirate, I just get seasick!
A good portion of the money for a domain goes to whatever organization/company runs the registry. It pays for their staff, equipment, Net connection, etc. Don't know what the .eu domains actually cost, but for most domains, usually around half goes to the registry and the other half to the registrar that the domain was purchased through.
My younger brother is currently using my laptop from college, which I finished 6 years ago. The laptop is an IBM ThinkPad 365ED, supposedly 100 MHz (actually 66), 24 megs of RAM, and a 540 MB hard drive. Runs Windows 95 and Office, AVG for antivirus protection, and has a PCMCIA network card.
It chugs, but it works. I'd put a firewall on it, but it would probably choke and die.
I had an AMD board go during the summer, but at the time the system was reporting that it couldn't detect the brand-new hard drive 8 out of 10 times, or the one I tried replacing it with. I didn't realize that it was from a bad capacitor until I decided to remove the power supply to be able to see the whole board, and saw two that had popped.
It's extremely portable!
The second guy looks like a starved Narn!
It's all just technobabble! He's trying to confuse us so that he can take longer to get the warp engines back online!
My server sits on top of a set of plastic shelves, about 5 1/2 feet off the floor. Both side panels on the case have been removed, and I have a large (2 1/2 feet or so wide) box fan sitting on the same shelf, about a foot and a half from the computer, blowing air through the case.
All three hard drives in the case are nice and cool to the touch, even with an 80 GB and a 40 GB drive mounted one right above the other. The box fan doesn't add any extra vibrations to the computer, and should be more than far enough away to avoid any magnetic problems.
As for noise, the server is in my bedroom, and I sleep better with a fan running. Otherwise, the room is way too quiet. As a bonus, the fan drowns out any outside traffic noises while I sleep in.
Not only is Canada Dry ginger ale, it's "The Champagne of Ginger Ales". At least that's what the label says.
Not a big fan of the stuff normally, but it works wonders on an upset stomach.