There are a number of illicit services which have to accept payment and don't keep records. Now, if there is a subscription then I would be suspect. However if its non-recurring payment, I could believe that they don't have any records. For instance, "seed banks" do the same thing for many entheogenic plants. You make a payment, they ship your product, and the records of the transaction are deleted and shredded. However, that would mean a *lot* of hands on work for a few people to perform since I doubt most seed banks will ever see 180,000 customers. I'm sure it could easily be automated though. But as I said, the whole idea of a subscription seems harder to believe, unless the subscription is tied solely to a username/password, and not to billing details. Even so, its not hard to skirt the potential identifiablity by using prepaid gift cards.
Tip jar? Heh, I remember being a technician in college and getting some lovely "tips" from gracious female students after rescuing their term papers from the aether. Ahhh, memories.
We don't use DHCP at our site, and we've got a good number more servers/workstations than the OP. Well, I fib a little. We have a DHCP range of about 100 addresses for users and administration. Everything else gets a static IP. Our reasoning is because we use a lot of server link aggregation/teaming, and certain vendors don't give the aggregated port a static MAC address. Because of this, it can boot up differently each time and since DHCP reservations are based on MAC address.. well, you can see the problem. We could fix this if we ever chose to use a directory service like ActiveDirectory, but at our facility there really isn't much need for it.
They're required to be interested in the welfare of their client. The issue is more that a public defender will likely have 40-50 cases to worry about, where a private defender may have 2-3. That means more time to spend on each one.
Because the additional read/write/seek time involved would kill the lifetimes of your disks. It would minimize the amount of places for the hard drive to move data in the event of a predictive cluster failure on a portion of the disk (disks usually have extra space so that if the drive detects a cluster is going bad, it will attempt to store the data outside of that area - why there have been firmware hacks to sometimes squeeze a few extra gigs out of a hard disk). It costs extra power. It will also cost you in terms of performance if the servers have a mission critical purpose.
Likewise, if MADD, PETA, and anti-smoking groups actually achieved their goals, they would be destitute, along with all of their employees. They'd also have nothing to use as propaganda. Maybe that's why PETA only actually adopted out 16 animals out of its "no kill" slaughter houses last year. They depend on the very thing they claim to want to stop. If that thing stops, no one will fund them. However, if the thing they're 'fighting against' is promoted and increased, so is their funding. Funny how that all works.
Please see my above post. I never had the opportunity to try their SAS controllers. We did have a BUNCH of their SATA controllers. My biggest gripe was their lack of support when their controller couldn't do what it was supposed to do (SATA-II 300w/NCQ). Also on a number of systems we had issues where the cards wouldn't present themselves on bootup. Too many different machines. It could have been a faulty hardware release, but it left such a bad taste in my mouth (and the rest of the people in our department) that we figured its not worth it to try any more of their products.
Not a shill, just someone who is tired of being on the phone with Areca tech support at 3am while i have radiologists screaming down my neck because they can't access their purdy little pictures. We were especially bad off with Areca SATA controllers. The storage devices that came with them had a few nasty habits. First, despite Areca claiming that they supported Sata300/NCQ they only supported Sata150 without NCQ. Funny part is even though the NAS units came with them set to 300/NCQ when that caused issues, it wasn't supported by areca, effectively screwing us, the customer. Plus of course in the configuration software provided by areca, there was no notice that 300/NCQ wasn't supported. Just an option that it was available. No warning that it was only for certain controllers, etc. Further, the same devices also had a nasty habit of seeing the device one moment, then not seeing it the next time you booted. Reboot a few times, and suddenly your data would come back. Maybe their other controllers work better, but their SATA devices were bad enough to make me never trust anything else they made. Their support and vendor support only added insult to injury. Not a shill, someone who had a bad experience. Given the above comments, it doesn't look like I'm the only one.
Now luckily most of our controllers are made by either QLogic/Emulex (for fibrechannel). On board stuff is usually HP, and we have yet to have much of a problem.
Sorry, I saw Areca and I threw up in my mouth a little. Their controllers are terrible, and gave our company nothing but trouble in the short amount of time we used them in the past. Those that are still out in the field (sold to customers and have service contracts) are a constant nuisance.
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Thanks for the review, you just gave me an idea for what I'm going to be getting my nephews for their respective birthdays. Awesome!:)
If you think that is bad, I pray that you never have to deal with Verizon at a corporate level. So many divisions, and each one is run like its own company and is completely separated from the others. It's pathetic.
What is this commie liberal pinko "competition" bs. This is the United States of America. Everyone knows that capitalism works by litigating your competitors into oblivion, not by creating better products and services. Why, just look at the telephone, cable, satellite, and **AA providers.
As mentioned elsewhere, I am not a rocket scientist, and I am trying to look at things in terms of cost. If a large amount of fuel is used in larger lift rockets (I used the term stage as I know they're often referred to as stage 1, stage 2, stage 3, etc), you do not need to have the metal housings, the assemblies to attach those housings to one another, the labor to assemble them, etc. Further, none of the crafts contained within have to have the mass of those housings, assemblies, etc.
I am not a rocket scientist, and was mostly just throwing an idea out there as a pondering point:)
As for decreasing the need for fuel, read my other followup post. By creating specialized delivery vehicles which could contain the parts for numerous other vehicles, you could yield a substantial savings. Further it would allow us to begin stockpiling parts in orbit, decreasing need for further launches to deploy parts.
We could begin creating specialized vehicles. Right now we have to build vessels with many purposes in mind. They have numerous stages to get the vehicles into orbit. Then the vehicles must have parts for landing, scientific observation, satellite dropping, repair facilities, etc. By having a space port, we could build dedicated craft to deliver equipment to said port - think space barges. Likewise, the vehicles launched from orbit could have specialized purposes. It would bring an end to the current idea that vessels have to be 'jacks of all trades.' Further the stage rockets would no longer be needed for individual craft to reach orbit since they are already there. To put it mathematically... suppose you launch 4 vehicles from earth, and each costs 1 million to launch (completely theoretical numbers). However, you build a barge type vehicle which needs its own stage rockets, costing 2.5 million to launch. It is capable of delivering the modular parts to create the 4 space craft to the port. Since those craft no longer need to be launched from earth, they no longer need the stage rockets to get there (the largest parts of our current space craft). This leads to an overall savings of 1.5 million on the launches alone. I'm pulling these numbers out of my arse, but I hope you are picking up on my train of thought.
...space port? Imagine it, we build a space port in geosynchronous orbit. It would decrease the necessity to have massive quantities of fuel expended for vehicles to reach orbital velocity since you'd already be at speed at launch time. They could plan for modularized spacecraft, and then simply deliver them to the port for construction and deployment. If a space elevator were ever to be built, it could serve as the end linkage. There are a ton of possibilities, and I think its ultimately where we're headed. So why not swing for the stars (no pun intended)?
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So, I guess we really are all "Shiny Happy People!" I suppose next we should begin holding hands.
There are a number of illicit services which have to accept payment and don't keep records. Now, if there is a subscription then I would be suspect. However if its non-recurring payment, I could believe that they don't have any records. For instance, "seed banks" do the same thing for many entheogenic plants. You make a payment, they ship your product, and the records of the transaction are deleted and shredded. However, that would mean a *lot* of hands on work for a few people to perform since I doubt most seed banks will ever see 180,000 customers. I'm sure it could easily be automated though. But as I said, the whole idea of a subscription seems harder to believe, unless the subscription is tied solely to a username/password, and not to billing details. Even so, its not hard to skirt the potential identifiablity by using prepaid gift cards.
Well, I guess it wouldn't be a tip... not sure how you could report it on taxes :-)
Tip jar? Heh, I remember being a technician in college and getting some lovely "tips" from gracious female students after rescuing their term papers from the aether. Ahhh, memories.
So, how far are you from Richmond? ;)
We don't use DHCP at our site, and we've got a good number more servers/workstations than the OP. Well, I fib a little. We have a DHCP range of about 100 addresses for users and administration. Everything else gets a static IP. Our reasoning is because we use a lot of server link aggregation/teaming, and certain vendors don't give the aggregated port a static MAC address. Because of this, it can boot up differently each time and since DHCP reservations are based on MAC address.. well, you can see the problem. We could fix this if we ever chose to use a directory service like ActiveDirectory, but at our facility there really isn't much need for it.
They're required to be interested in the welfare of their client. The issue is more that a public defender will likely have 40-50 cases to worry about, where a private defender may have 2-3. That means more time to spend on each one.
Because the additional read/write/seek time involved would kill the lifetimes of your disks. It would minimize the amount of places for the hard drive to move data in the event of a predictive cluster failure on a portion of the disk (disks usually have extra space so that if the drive detects a cluster is going bad, it will attempt to store the data outside of that area - why there have been firmware hacks to sometimes squeeze a few extra gigs out of a hard disk). It costs extra power. It will also cost you in terms of performance if the servers have a mission critical purpose.
Likewise, if MADD, PETA, and anti-smoking groups actually achieved their goals, they would be destitute, along with all of their employees. They'd also have nothing to use as propaganda. Maybe that's why PETA only actually adopted out 16 animals out of its "no kill" slaughter houses last year. They depend on the very thing they claim to want to stop. If that thing stops, no one will fund them. However, if the thing they're 'fighting against' is promoted and increased, so is their funding. Funny how that all works.
Please see my above post. I never had the opportunity to try their SAS controllers. We did have a BUNCH of their SATA controllers. My biggest gripe was their lack of support when their controller couldn't do what it was supposed to do (SATA-II 300w/NCQ). Also on a number of systems we had issues where the cards wouldn't present themselves on bootup. Too many different machines. It could have been a faulty hardware release, but it left such a bad taste in my mouth (and the rest of the people in our department) that we figured its not worth it to try any more of their products.
Now luckily most of our controllers are made by either QLogic/Emulex (for fibrechannel). On board stuff is usually HP, and we have yet to have much of a problem.
Tell them to stay vigilant and keep copies of EVERY payment. Eventually verizon will relent and work with you, but it'll take a few months.
Sorry, I saw Areca and I threw up in my mouth a little. Their controllers are terrible, and gave our company nothing but trouble in the short amount of time we used them in the past. Those that are still out in the field (sold to customers and have service contracts) are a constant nuisance.
Thanks for the review, you just gave me an idea for what I'm going to be getting my nephews for their respective birthdays. Awesome! :)
Wait, Jack Thompson? Isn't he that dude on 24?
They're the product of me being lazy and not wanting to write a second sentence :)
Congrats on the purchase, btw! :)
I wish I made that much money :) I'm just a network engineer, hahaha.
What is this commie liberal pinko "competition" bs. This is the United States of America. Everyone knows that capitalism works by litigating your competitors into oblivion, not by creating better products and services. Why, just look at the telephone, cable, satellite, and **AA providers.
As mentioned elsewhere, I am not a rocket scientist, and I am trying to look at things in terms of cost. If a large amount of fuel is used in larger lift rockets (I used the term stage as I know they're often referred to as stage 1, stage 2, stage 3, etc), you do not need to have the metal housings, the assemblies to attach those housings to one another, the labor to assemble them, etc. Further, none of the crafts contained within have to have the mass of those housings, assemblies, etc.
I am not a rocket scientist, and was mostly just throwing an idea out there as a pondering point :)
As for decreasing the need for fuel, read my other followup post. By creating specialized delivery vehicles which could contain the parts for numerous other vehicles, you could yield a substantial savings. Further it would allow us to begin stockpiling parts in orbit, decreasing need for further launches to deploy parts.
We could begin creating specialized vehicles. Right now we have to build vessels with many purposes in mind. They have numerous stages to get the vehicles into orbit. Then the vehicles must have parts for landing, scientific observation, satellite dropping, repair facilities, etc. By having a space port, we could build dedicated craft to deliver equipment to said port - think space barges. Likewise, the vehicles launched from orbit could have specialized purposes. It would bring an end to the current idea that vessels have to be 'jacks of all trades.' Further the stage rockets would no longer be needed for individual craft to reach orbit since they are already there. To put it mathematically... suppose you launch 4 vehicles from earth, and each costs 1 million to launch (completely theoretical numbers). However, you build a barge type vehicle which needs its own stage rockets, costing 2.5 million to launch. It is capable of delivering the modular parts to create the 4 space craft to the port. Since those craft no longer need to be launched from earth, they no longer need the stage rockets to get there (the largest parts of our current space craft). This leads to an overall savings of 1.5 million on the launches alone. I'm pulling these numbers out of my arse, but I hope you are picking up on my train of thought.
...space port? Imagine it, we build a space port in geosynchronous orbit. It would decrease the necessity to have massive quantities of fuel expended for vehicles to reach orbital velocity since you'd already be at speed at launch time. They could plan for modularized spacecraft, and then simply deliver them to the port for construction and deployment. If a space elevator were ever to be built, it could serve as the end linkage. There are a ton of possibilities, and I think its ultimately where we're headed. So why not swing for the stars (no pun intended)?
Also, despite the bad form of replying to myself, I found the RFC's specifying the protocols here: RFC 4838 (DTN) and RFC 5050.