it might not be "Frampton Comes Alive" but it certainly sounds better than a hand recorder stuck in someone's coat pocket. the pa mix, is at least mixed, and devoid of any inconsistency created by the venue. Arenas and stadiums aren't exactly designed to be concert halls, you are supposed to play sports there.
yes actually, it is the same hydrogen peroxide as in your medicine cabinet, except the one that is in your medicine cabinet is diluted heavily, check the bottle, its probably less than 1% hydrogen peroxide. Im pretty sure you wouldn't want to put pure hydrogen peroxide on an open wound.
I am currently a Safari subscriber (thankfully work pays for it) I find it a useful compliment to Google. Yes there are times when you want to read a physical book, but I find that quick lookups are my main need. Yes the info might not be as up to date, but it tends to be better organized. Plus if you need to you can download and print the PDFs. I also find that series of books seem to explain things more consistently. Ever go through the PHP wiki? Lots of helpful comments, hundreds of different coding styles. There is a pro and a con, sure its great to get new ideas, but sometimes it is very helpful to have a "standard view" of things. Everyone works differently, your best bet is to try it out before you write it off. Safari offers a short term test subscription why not give it a spin?
The G5 is not the equivalent of a ThinkCentre, when you think "General Business Workstation" think iMac. If you want an IBM machine that compares to the G5, look at the IntelliStation A Pro, which costs $2600 dollars. Comparing Apples to Oranges (no pun intended)
What is preventing Novell from purchasing TrollTech outright? They did it with Ximian, I think all these liscense questions go out the window, if they just purchase TT and add it to their open source offerings. Plus they get a bunch of skilled Qt developers in house.
You have a lot of open ended questions. But I'll take a shot. Your machine needs to be on 24/7 but does your sensitive data? If you only need that data when you are on the machine, spend 100 bucks and get a removable hard drive. As far as firewalls go, are you doing any tuning? If the defaults are too restrictive change them, having only one port firewalled is better than having none. As far as worms go, try and avoid the programs that help them propogate, namely outlook and IE, I use webmail and surprise surprise, I've never had a worm/virus hit my machine. Use mozilla. You can't switch to linux, can you switch to a Mac? Need more info next time.
Depending on how far you are willing to drive/commute you can stay in DC and your wife can get the rural fix. Have you looked at the Eastern Shore of Maryland? Its a long commute but it isn't THAT far, and its plenty rural, farms and everything, but you have nice proximity to Annapolis. Just an idea, maybe you and your wife can meet in the middle.
Why not pay for hosting and let someone else worry about the power problem? The reason co-location companies exist is so if you are in the range of businesses that can't afford heavy infrastructure costs, but have a definite uptime need then you can pool resources.
You could also think about VPN, if you have 4 locations, is the power situation better elsewhere or are the 4 locations in the same general area? if they are spread out, maybe think about moving your servers to the area with the better power, and having the users vpn from the area with the "bad" power.
If you can't install much software, I suggest using Putty for your SSH. They also have an SCP program for windows, you can find it here.
there is no install you just use the executable from whatever folder it resides in.
If you haven't used windows in a while, you may be surprised by XP, I'ts faster and more stable than people will have you believe, I need to dual boot at work, and although I try to stay away from the XP side, when I do use it, it works fine. Don't forget that Perl, Python, Apache, Mozilla, etc. all run on windows, and most have a painless binary installer.
Besides running on a bunch of platforms, the nice thing about OpenVPN is that it isn't browser based like a lot of SSL VPNs, it creates a tunnel (with either a tun or tap device, depending on configuration). OpenVPN is a great option, if ease of use is a factor. The Windows install is a breeze (which is important if you have a lot of "Road Warriors"). It basically leverages the high availability of SSL technology to create a secure and easy to set up VPN. It does NAT traversal, and pretty much anything else FreeSWAN does, but like I said it is much easier to setup.
Counterfeiting isn't just the concern of Hollywood movies. Anytime you increase the number of bills in circulation, you put inflationary forces on the economy. Plus we spend a lot of tax dollars having the Secret Service and the Dept. of Treasury track down counterfeiters. So there may not be a direct cost to small business, but its certainly a cost to everyone.
Don't automatic garage doors rotate the frequency they use to open the doors, to prevent simple scanning (which would be analogous to sniffing in this case)? I could see where this idea could be used in combination with a lot of other ideas (Port Sentry) to make it a far less trivial task to find an open port on a machine. The reason script kiddies are successful and abundant is because its cheap and easy, this might not keep someone determined out, but it actually makes it a lot more work for the lazy intruder.
Most people never realized the usefulness of a cellphone until they got one. Now they will complain about having to buy a phone with a camera, until they find out that it can be useful to have a camera with you at all times. Check out this(mobileasses.com) if you don't believe me.
I know the Freesbie project is working on this (never used it myself) also if you buy the packaged CDs, disk #2 has a live filesystem that is typically used to repair an existing install. But its probably good enough for a tryout. See if someone you know, has the install CDs, or at worst case buy them, and then you can donate it to someone else who is curious.
I had the very same idea as the original poster not too long ago. I thought it was a shame that there was a lot of programming talent just waiting for something to do. I realized though that you need something to build, and developing a product and getting investment isn't typically doable in this type of economy. Its probably easier to provide a service, instead of creating/developing something brand new. There are tons of small companies that need some sort of programming, but not a full time programmer, or even a new product, but something that makes what they already have work better would be worth investment.
We use Granite Digital firewire drives here at work for backup purposes. There is no reason why this wouldn't work for your needs, just throw the drive into the caddy, and then slide it into the external bay, then when you are done unmount it and take it out of the caddy. They have external arrays also so you could do more than one drive at a time.
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Metric paper is great but Points and Picas are based on the inch, how do they size fonts in metric?
-G
it might not be "Frampton Comes Alive" but it certainly sounds better than a hand recorder stuck in someone's coat pocket. the pa mix, is at least mixed, and devoid of any inconsistency created by the venue. Arenas and stadiums aren't exactly designed to be concert halls, you are supposed to play sports there.
-G
yes actually, it is the same hydrogen peroxide as in your medicine cabinet, except the one that is in your medicine cabinet is diluted heavily, check the bottle, its probably less than 1% hydrogen peroxide. Im pretty sure you wouldn't want to put pure hydrogen peroxide on an open wound.
-G
I am currently a Safari subscriber (thankfully work pays for it) I find it a useful compliment to Google. Yes there are times when you want to read a physical book, but I find that quick lookups are my main need. Yes the info might not be as up to date, but it tends to be better organized. Plus if you need to you can download and print the PDFs. I also find that series of books seem to explain things more consistently. Ever go through the PHP wiki? Lots of helpful comments, hundreds of different coding styles. There is a pro and a con, sure its great to get new ideas, but sometimes it is very helpful to have a "standard view" of things. Everyone works differently, your best bet is to try it out before you write it off. Safari offers a short term test subscription why not give it a spin?
-G
The G5 is not the equivalent of a ThinkCentre, when you think "General Business Workstation" think iMac. If you want an IBM machine that compares to the G5, look at the IntelliStation A Pro, which costs $2600 dollars. Comparing Apples to Oranges (no pun intended)
-G
What is preventing Novell from purchasing TrollTech outright? They did it with Ximian, I think all these liscense questions go out the window, if they just purchase TT and add it to their open source offerings. Plus they get a bunch of skilled Qt developers in house.
-G
You have a lot of open ended questions. But I'll take a shot. Your machine needs to be on 24/7 but does your sensitive data? If you only need that data when you are on the machine, spend 100 bucks and get a removable hard drive. As far as firewalls go, are you doing any tuning? If the defaults are too restrictive change them, having only one port firewalled is better than having none. As far as worms go, try and avoid the programs that help them propogate, namely outlook and IE, I use webmail and surprise surprise, I've never had a worm/virus hit my machine. Use mozilla. You can't switch to linux, can you switch to a Mac? Need more info next time.
-G
Depending on how far you are willing to drive/commute you can stay in DC and your wife can get the rural fix. Have you looked at the Eastern Shore of Maryland? Its a long commute but it isn't THAT far, and its plenty rural, farms and everything, but you have nice proximity to Annapolis. Just an idea, maybe you and your wife can meet in the middle.
-G
Why not pay for hosting and let someone else worry about the power problem? The reason co-location companies exist is so if you are in the range of businesses that can't afford heavy infrastructure costs, but have a definite uptime need then you can pool resources.
You could also think about VPN, if you have 4 locations, is the power situation better elsewhere or are the 4 locations in the same general area? if they are spread out, maybe think about moving your servers to the area with the better power, and having the users vpn from the area with the "bad" power.
- G
If you can't install much software, I suggest using Putty for your SSH. They also have an SCP program for windows, you can find it here.
there is no install you just use the executable from whatever folder it resides in.
If you haven't used windows in a while, you may be surprised by XP, I'ts faster and more stable than people will have you believe, I need to dual boot at work, and although I try to stay away from the XP side, when I do use it, it works fine. Don't forget that Perl, Python, Apache, Mozilla, etc. all run on windows, and most have a painless binary installer.
-G
Doesn't this just reinforce bad behaviour? how does the cat know that its ok to chew on "cat" cables not "your" cables?
-G
Besides running on a bunch of platforms, the nice thing about OpenVPN is that it isn't browser based like a lot of SSL VPNs, it creates a tunnel (with either a tun or tap device, depending on configuration). OpenVPN is a great option, if ease of use is a factor. The Windows install is a breeze (which is important if you have a lot of "Road Warriors"). It basically leverages the high availability of SSL technology to create a secure and easy to set up VPN. It does NAT traversal, and pretty much anything else FreeSWAN does, but like I said it is much easier to setup.
--G
Counterfeiting isn't just the concern of Hollywood movies. Anytime you increase the number of bills in circulation, you put inflationary forces on the economy. Plus we spend a lot of tax dollars having the Secret Service and the Dept. of Treasury track down counterfeiters. So there may not be a direct cost to small business, but its certainly a cost to everyone.
-G
Don't automatic garage doors rotate the frequency they use to open the doors, to prevent simple scanning (which would be analogous to sniffing in this case)? I could see where this idea could be used in combination with a lot of other ideas (Port Sentry) to make it a far less trivial task to find an open port on a machine. The reason script kiddies are successful and abundant is because its cheap and easy, this might not keep someone determined out, but it actually makes it a lot more work for the lazy intruder.
-G
Most people never realized the usefulness of a cellphone until they got one. Now they will complain about having to buy a phone with a camera, until they find out that it can be useful to have a camera with you at all times. Check out this(mobileasses.com) if you don't believe me.
G
I know the Freesbie project is working on this (never used it myself) also if you buy the packaged CDs, disk #2 has a live filesystem that is typically used to repair an existing install. But its probably good enough for a tryout. See if someone you know, has the install CDs, or at worst case buy them, and then you can donate it to someone else who is curious.
G
I had the very same idea as the original poster not too long ago. I thought it was a shame that there was a lot of programming talent just waiting for something to do. I realized though that you need something to build, and developing a product and getting investment isn't typically doable in this type of economy. Its probably easier to provide a service, instead of creating/developing something brand new. There are tons of small companies that need some sort of programming, but not a full time programmer, or even a new product, but something that makes what they already have work better would be worth investment.
We use Granite Digital firewire drives here at work for backup purposes. There is no reason why this wouldn't work for your needs, just throw the drive into the caddy, and then slide it into the external bay, then when you are done unmount it and take it out of the caddy. They have external arrays also so you could do more than one drive at a time.
--g