And fast lane changes can cause plenty of accidents too. The only time I've been rear-ended was when I had to stop short, and the car behind me didn't even slow down, just swerved over to the next lane barely missing me, which gave NO time for the car behind him to see that traffic had stopped.
Disaster recovery centers are mostly for mainframes and other uber-mission critical functions. Most of our servers/software are running in multiple redundant data centers. When I left the bank, Wachovia had four major data centers.
But that's not the point. You would never use disaster recovery centers or redundant servers as a make-shift lab. If there was a problem on the production box and the redundant server wasn't available, you'd definitely be in deep doo doo.
My original point is if you have a production environment with 20 physical sites all connected a certain way, then you can't really FULLY test your changes in the lab unless your lab has the same number of sites all wired the same way, which is ridiculous. It would literally cost 50 mil.
I'm a call-center telephony engineer. Kinda the same thing as network engineer in that you're routing calls instead of packets.
Back around '01, I was working for First Union (which later became Wachovia).
They had this massive corporate push for anyone and everyone in IT to roll out a standardized Software Configuration Management,
and of course we were included. The big problem was the lab. The corporate standard was to test changes in a lab environment and then move to production (duh).
For a telephony environment, we had a pretty good lab that could duplicate most of our production scenarios, but not all.
Another problem was there were a LOT of people with their fingers in the lab since so many groups were involved: eg. The IVR team is in there because you have to have IVRs in the system. Same with
call routing, call recording, desktop software, Q&A, etc.etc.
So the lab was in a constant state of flux with multiple products, multiple teams, and different software cycles and endless testing always occurring.
We made it work by testing the stuff we weren't sure about in the lab, only doing changes in prod after hours, and having really good testing and back-out plans.
So when the corporate overlords started telling use we couldn't make any changes to production without running everything through the lab first, we basically laughed and told
them we'd need around 500 million for the lab and dedicated resources to run it. I ended up telling them that to duplicate the production environment, we'd need another bank
as our "test bank", and we could test changes on the test bank and then put them in the production bank.
As with so many things in that IT department, it went from being a priority to fading away when something else became a priority.
What's amazing is most airports, ORD, SFO, and SEA included, still charge for Wifi.
I guess since you're stuck there and you need Wifi, they've got you by the balls.
Some of my coworkers who travel a lot have air cards just for when they're in airports.
Mod parent up. This was my first thought too.
I still think if a law is in a digital format you should be able to get a copy for free, esp if you bring in your own media.
I can see them charging you $20 for a DVD-R disc and the time/resources it takes to burn it, but claims of copyright and
having to use proprietary software to read the law is rediculous.
Ya know those "call may be monitored and recorded for quality blah blah" announcements you always hear when calling pretty much any company?
Most of that is done by Nice recording company, based in Israel (they sell the machines; they don't do the actual recording themselves.)
Every air traffic controller in the WORLD is recorded on Nice machines. They are HUGE.
So, yeah, Israelis know a thing or two about recording a phone call.
Yup, and it's also why I rarely check slashdot anymore:
Yahoo actually had this story on their front page this morning and/. is only getting around to posting it now.
(I read about it on photoshop disasters via reddit days ago.)
Usually/. is ahead of the curve, but lately they've been behind it.
Sorry for the winy bitchy post. Just had to get it out of my system.
Yes there are a lot of fundamentalist nuts in the bible belt. I know. I live in it.
That said, I'll wager large piles of money that the real nuts WAY outnumber sensible people in Utah than any south-eastern state.
Anyone who's lived/worked in Charlotte, Raleigh, Columbia, Atlanta, Orlando, Jacksonville, Athens, St Louis, Nashville, Jackson, or Birmingham know they are actually fairly progressive cities.
An annual publication gathering the best non-fiction science writing for the year. Usually edited by a good science writer (eg. Glick).
I love them because of the variety and it usually gives you a good idea of the science without boring you with mundane details or being too pedantic.
Isn't there some diagnostic software you can run to test a cable between two computers?
I guess you may need a special NIC, but even still, its gotta be cheaper than $1200.
You have taught me a valuable lesson about Alaska and Google maps! I guess I only remember mountains to the south due to the drive around Turnagain arm.
>In truth, Sarah Palin almost certainly can see this from her house.
She might be able to see a vague outline of ash in the sky today, but as the ash blows north any further viewing will be obscured.
You can see Denali from Anchorage because it's mostly flat in between the two. The view south from Anchorage however is mostly mountains; seeing anything off in the distance is unlikely.
BTW, the drive from Anchorage down the Kenai to Homer is staggeringly beautiful. I highly recommend it.
Let me explain it:
Colbert and his show is one big satire on the right-wing and the pompous right-wind media.
One of the most important parts of the satire is letting the fans play along. When fans vote to put his name on the space station, really they're joining in on the act.
Its kinda like when Spinal Tap actually went on tour. Fans came to see them and did man-on-the-street interviews talking about how they've seen them on the past 12 tours and have been fans of theirs since the '70s, etc.etc., even though the band didn't exist until the '80s.
Colbert, and Colbert fans, are doing the same thing only in the political/media spectrum and throwing it in the face of the right-wing.
On April 1st a few years ago, my boss and I put together a mass email saying that another member of my team was leaving the company.
My boss sent it out to lend it credibility.
My teammate is Italian both in looks and in name. We stated in the email that he was leaving the company to go work for his "family business",etc.etc.
and that no one should make inquiries about it since the family was tight-knit and considered their business very personal, etc.etc. could be dangerous,etc.etc.
Thankfully he had a good laugh about it, but he did admit that he had some relatives in Jersey that wouldn't have found it funny.
We didn't make him the butt of any jokes after that.
It doesn't use Caller ID, it uses ANI, which is not the same thing.
I'm a call center engineer. Call center agents often use ANI as once point of caller authentication. Most calling systems (eg. ACDs and PBXs) can insert any caller ID information with an outbound call, which is usually used to send out the generic 800 number for a company, but unfortunately it sometimes gets set to some poor old ladies home phone number.
How is this NOT gambling? Granted, you only have to pay the $5 once, but most states in the US don't let you give away something as a promotion unless "no purchase is required."
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And fast lane changes can cause plenty of accidents too. The only time I've been rear-ended was when I had to stop short, and the car behind me didn't even slow down, just swerved over to the next lane barely missing me, which gave NO time for the car behind him to see that traffic had stopped.
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Disaster recovery centers are mostly for mainframes and other uber-mission critical functions. Most of our servers/software are running in multiple redundant data centers. When I left the bank, Wachovia had four major data centers.
But that's not the point. You would never use disaster recovery centers or redundant servers as a make-shift lab. If there was a problem on the production box and the redundant server wasn't available, you'd definitely be in deep doo doo.
My original point is if you have a production environment with 20 physical sites all connected a certain way, then you can't really FULLY test your changes in the lab unless your lab has the same number of sites all wired the same way, which is ridiculous. It would literally cost 50 mil.
I'm a call-center telephony engineer. Kinda the same thing as network engineer in that you're routing calls instead of packets.
Back around '01, I was working for First Union (which later became Wachovia). They had this massive corporate push for anyone and everyone in IT to roll out a standardized Software Configuration Management, and of course we were included. The big problem was the lab. The corporate standard was to test changes in a lab environment and then move to production (duh).
For a telephony environment, we had a pretty good lab that could duplicate most of our production scenarios, but not all. Another problem was there were a LOT of people with their fingers in the lab since so many groups were involved: eg. The IVR team is in there because you have to have IVRs in the system. Same with call routing, call recording, desktop software, Q&A, etc.etc.
So the lab was in a constant state of flux with multiple products, multiple teams, and different software cycles and endless testing always occurring. We made it work by testing the stuff we weren't sure about in the lab, only doing changes in prod after hours, and having really good testing and back-out plans.
So when the corporate overlords started telling use we couldn't make any changes to production without running everything through the lab first, we basically laughed and told them we'd need around 500 million for the lab and dedicated resources to run it. I ended up telling them that to duplicate the production environment, we'd need another bank as our "test bank", and we could test changes on the test bank and then put them in the production bank.
As with so many things in that IT department, it went from being a priority to fading away when something else became a priority.
Same here. I worked for First Union at the time. Did a lot of Y2K work that would have been very VERY disruptive to the call centers.
What's amazing is most airports, ORD, SFO, and SEA included, still charge for Wifi.
I guess since you're stuck there and you need Wifi, they've got you by the balls.
Some of my coworkers who travel a lot have air cards just for when they're in airports.
or...
...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/
Mod parent up. This was my first thought too.
I still think if a law is in a digital format you should be able to get a copy for free, esp if you bring in your own media. I can see them charging you $20 for a DVD-R disc and the time/resources it takes to burn it, but claims of copyright and having to use proprietary software to read the law is rediculous.
Ya know those "call may be monitored and recorded for quality blah blah" announcements you always hear when calling pretty much any company?
Most of that is done by Nice recording company, based in Israel (they sell the machines; they don't do the actual recording themselves.)
Every air traffic controller in the WORLD is recorded on Nice machines. They are HUGE.
So, yeah, Israelis know a thing or two about recording a phone call.
Yup, and it's also why I rarely check slashdot anymore: /. is only getting around to posting it now. /. is ahead of the curve, but lately they've been behind it.
Yahoo actually had this story on their front page this morning and
(I read about it on photoshop disasters via reddit days ago.) Usually
Sorry for the winy bitchy post. Just had to get it out of my system.
>two-and-a-half football fields
So is that US football fields or are we using the metric system (ie. Soccer fields) ?
I hope you filed for unemployment.... they have to pay that too based on work environment.
Yes there are a lot of fundamentalist nuts in the bible belt. I know. I live in it.
That said, I'll wager large piles of money that the real nuts WAY outnumber sensible people in Utah than any south-eastern state.
Anyone who's lived/worked in Charlotte, Raleigh, Columbia, Atlanta, Orlando, Jacksonville, Athens, St Louis, Nashville, Jackson, or Birmingham know they are actually fairly progressive cities.
Provo on the other hand....ugh.
An annual publication gathering the best non-fiction science writing for the year. Usually edited by a good science writer (eg. Glick).
I love them because of the variety and it usually gives you a good idea of the science without boring you with mundane details or being too pedantic.
Yup, Snow Crash was the first thing I thought of when I saw the words Avatar, 3d, and drug.
Is there an actual plot or characters or anything in Cameron's movie, or is this going to be another star wars ep I?
Isn't there some diagnostic software you can run to test a cable between two computers?
I guess you may need a special NIC, but even still, its gotta be cheaper than $1200.
What's the coolest egg ever?
Phrase your answer in the form of a tweet. "OMG gt2B SWbxSET3".
What is this? Tweeny-Cutie magazine?
I enjoy a fun easter-egg but this is asinine.
There was a lot of buzz a year ago about a sequel for ps3, and then nothing. Anyone know if it's still in the works?
You have taught me a valuable lesson about Alaska and Google maps! I guess I only remember mountains to the south due to the drive around Turnagain arm.
>In truth, Sarah Palin almost certainly can see this from her house.
She might be able to see a vague outline of ash in the sky today, but as the ash blows north any further viewing will be obscured.
You can see Denali from Anchorage because it's mostly flat in between the two.
The view south from Anchorage however is mostly mountains; seeing anything off in the distance is unlikely.
BTW, the drive from Anchorage down the Kenai to Homer is staggeringly beautiful. I highly recommend it.
Let me explain it:
Colbert and his show is one big satire on the right-wing and the pompous right-wind media.
One of the most important parts of the satire is letting the fans play along.
When fans vote to put his name on the space station, really they're joining in on the act.
Its kinda like when Spinal Tap actually went on tour. Fans came to see them and did man-on-the-street interviews talking about how they've seen them on the past 12 tours and have been fans of theirs since the '70s, etc.etc., even though the band didn't exist until the '80s.
Colbert, and Colbert fans, are doing the same thing only in the political/media spectrum and throwing it in the face of the right-wing.
On April 1st a few years ago, my boss and I put together a mass email saying that another member of my team was leaving the company. My boss sent it out to lend it credibility.
My teammate is Italian both in looks and in name. We stated in the email that he was leaving the company to go work for his "family business",etc.etc. and that no one should make inquiries about it since the family was tight-knit and considered their business very personal, etc.etc. could be dangerous,etc.etc.
Thankfully he had a good laugh about it, but he did admit that he had some relatives in Jersey that wouldn't have found it funny.
We didn't make him the butt of any jokes after that.
If you are taking photographs in a public place, know your rights. Take a copy of this with you:
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
It doesn't use Caller ID, it uses ANI, which is not the same thing.
I'm a call center engineer. Call center agents often use ANI as once point of caller authentication.
Most calling systems (eg. ACDs and PBXs) can insert any caller ID information with an outbound call, which is usually used to send out the generic 800 number for a company, but unfortunately it sometimes gets set to some poor old ladies home phone number.
She could file a john doe lawsuit and get the CDRs via subpoena ala RIAA and then sue the telemarketers for damages.
How is this NOT gambling? Granted, you only have to pay the $5 once, but most states in the US don't let you give away something as a promotion unless "no purchase is required."