Yes Shaw had an issue and there was some local neighbourhood services related to Shaw went down, but more to blame for the large outages is IBM for housing redundant systems in the same building or the government customers for buying a less than adequate redundancy solution.
Always ask for a physical diagram in addition to the logical diagram:)
What about the assets in all the countries that the US has invaded? Destroy cities, give "rebuilding" contracts to US companies, then now you have a new US assets! You think they are given back for free? Cuba saying get out was a far nicer approach then the US carries on elsewhere.
The privacy protections in Canada (socialist) are considerably stronger then the US or many parts of Europe. US companies are allowed to do whatever they want with your data with zero consequences from the government. In parts of Europe it's the government doing the data mining on their own people, but without any internal laws stopping it. Canada has strong privacy laws that both the government itself and companies have to obey.
From the time of my 20MB HD in my first 286 until about the time 40GB drives were common, I didn't have a single drive die. I think maybe a couple sectors on one 2GB disk, but it never got any worse. I used to laugh at people who ever had a HD die.
Well ever since disks have gone over 40GB, I've had nothing but bad luck. I'd guess across all my systems I have about 8 HDs running and have a HD die on me about every 6 months. I try to ensure that all the drives are well cooled and that the case is solidly mounted to elimiate vibrations, but they still die. HD prices have dropped, their capacity increased, but their reliabilty dropped. Now I just buy drives in pairs because I can't trust drives anymore.
On top of everything being RAID to make up for crappy HDs, I still had storage issues but this time getting burned by a bad SATA controller. It occasionally wrote corrupted blocks to one of the disks in the set without erroring, but it was definately a noticeable problem when files would randomly be corrupted.
Best way to sum it up: don't trust your HDs to last, don't trust your controller, don't trust your RAID, and don't trust your backups. Be as paranoid as possible with your backups by making sure you can actually read your own backups and make more then one backup.
What the internet really needs is a major push to SSL for a majority of websites. If there is even a hint that ISPs want to start inspecting encrypted data (ssl proxies or whatever aliance they might make with ssl cert providers), E-commerce and online banking services will be greatly affected by the lack of consumer trust.
CSIS is equivilent to the CIA CSE is equivilent to the NSA Although there isn't as much as a domestic/internation split as with the US orgs. They can operate wherever needed.
If you spend all day emailing jokes and images, then it should be pretty obvious you are going to take a hit to the IQ. Not all people discuss stupid sh*t though email/im/irc.
Probably because the Neanderthal women were ugly and the modern chicks were hotter and the envy of the Neanderthal men. So the Neanderthal men spent all their time trying to get a piece of the modern women until all the Neanderthal women got upset and killed the Neanderthal men.
Audiophiles are the best example of the placebo effect. Just ask John Vestman...
Two other engineers (in session with me) heard the sound change when we raised the client's computer off the floor with soft isolation pads. The only thing that changed was what the computer was sitting on. We found that setting the computer on a hardwood floor made the sound more immediate and crisp, compared with setting it on soft isolators. On the floor, the snare sounded punchier, the kic more immediate, and the overall sound was tighter. A solid platform is even better when vibration isolators are used - and you'll be amazed at the difference a great power cable makes too
Up until last week, I never played a console since the NES years ago. I recently played some PS2 games and was actually shocked at the poor quality of the games and of the console.
The low resolution on the TV was the first thing that bothered me. Some ppl have pointed out that HDTV is a significant improvment, but a very high majority of people do not have one and will not be getting one for some time to come.
All the games I played seemed to be far behind any current PC game for graphics quality, but that's what you expect when you have to top your graphics quality off because your console's hardware is 3 years out of date. I was constantly annoyed by rendering artifacts and by the cheap looking surfaces that look like a college students GL project.
There is a reason why PC games have more complicated controls: The players want them. Most hardcore gamers will have lots of personalized controls setup because it's how they want it. Console games seem to be geared more towards the computer illiterate or beginner. Plug in and go! Their online subscription service is a tribute to that model.
The article is talking about a SL8500 (had the pleasure of seeing one built this week) which is a massively huge library storing many terabytes of data that only typically only a very large company would require, NOT talking about a couple hundred GB or so for personal usage. The entire article is geared towards enterprise storage.
Also pretend you were to run a fairly large backup system with harddrives. So you replace the 2000 slots with 80-120GB drives...meaning you have to provide power for 2000 drives. So then you need to upgrade your UPS for more juice and A/C for all the extra heat. A 2000 drive SAN isn't cheap either.
Then there is the physical durabilty issue with taking drives offsite. You can drop and beat the crap out of tapes and you aren't going to break them easily. Drop a HD and likely your are going to do some damage.
DVDs are a total ripoff pricewise compared to VHS. When VHS was the only option around in the 90s, you could expect to pay about $12 for a movie. Now that DVD is the standard, you pay about $25.
Easy way to make a killer profit if everytime a new standard comes out you double the price and leave it high. It's understandable when a new technology first comes out that everything in the production of it will be more pricy, but it's been quite a while since DVDs came out and the price is still stupidly high.
Worst I did years ago was when I just bought a new much larger drive and was reorganizing the filesystems on my workstation. The workstation had some NFS and samba mounts at the time to the roots of other machines to help shuffle stuff around. I just finished copying everything important out of one partition and did a rm -rf * to clean it and went to get something to drink.
Came back and found pages of unable to delete errors on the console from some of the network paths. I apparently forgot to cd into the partition I was clearing and did the rm -rf in/. It deleted enough on each computer that I had to reinstall each one. Destroyed 3 computers with one command.
Considering the amount of time people surf porn on their desktops, I highly doubt it will ever be replaced. Hard to look at boobies while holding a 1.5 x 1.5" screen that you can't hold still.
Who are these clowns that the media talk to for their "expert" opinion on computers?
"George Geczy, a software developer and computer consultant based in Ancaster, Ont., guessed that the problem involves identification numbers assigned to transactions"
Thousands of different reasons why their system cratered and some guy running a consulting firm from his basement nailed it for us! Guess his experience in installing MySQL a couple times helped him diagnose their massively huge database issue.
Just because you have a IT job and a bank card, doesn't make you an expert.
What does Akamai do for me? Hosts lots of annoying popup ads, shockwave ads, and adware. Most of the adware I find hooked in IE has a codebase from akamai./enjoyed an ad free day
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Yes Shaw had an issue and there was some local neighbourhood services related to Shaw went down, but more to blame for the large outages is IBM for housing redundant systems in the same building or the government customers for buying a less than adequate redundancy solution. Always ask for a physical diagram in addition to the logical diagram :)
What about the assets in all the countries that the US has invaded? Destroy cities, give "rebuilding" contracts to US companies, then now you have a new US assets! You think they are given back for free? Cuba saying get out was a far nicer approach then the US carries on elsewhere.
The privacy protections in Canada (socialist) are considerably stronger then the US or many parts of Europe. US companies are allowed to do whatever they want with your data with zero consequences from the government. In parts of Europe it's the government doing the data mining on their own people, but without any internal laws stopping it. Canada has strong privacy laws that both the government itself and companies have to obey.
From the time of my 20MB HD in my first 286 until about the time 40GB drives were common, I didn't have a single drive die. I think maybe a couple sectors on one 2GB disk, but it never got any worse. I used to laugh at people who ever had a HD die.
Well ever since disks have gone over 40GB, I've had nothing but bad luck. I'd guess across all my systems I have about 8 HDs running and have a HD die on me about every 6 months. I try to ensure that all the drives are well cooled and that the case is solidly mounted to elimiate vibrations, but they still die. HD prices have dropped, their capacity increased, but their reliabilty dropped. Now I just buy drives in pairs because I can't trust drives anymore.
On top of everything being RAID to make up for crappy HDs, I still had storage issues but this time getting burned by a bad SATA controller. It occasionally wrote corrupted blocks to one of the disks in the set without erroring, but it was definately a noticeable problem when files would randomly be corrupted.
Best way to sum it up: don't trust your HDs to last, don't trust your controller, don't trust your RAID, and don't trust your backups. Be as paranoid as possible with your backups by making sure you can actually read your own backups and make more then one backup.
Nah, he just wants to fix his own elections just like the Republicans do. Damn you diebold!
What the internet really needs is a major push to SSL for a majority of websites. If there is even a hint that ISPs want to start inspecting encrypted data (ssl proxies or whatever aliance they might make with ssl cert providers), E-commerce and online banking services will be greatly affected by the lack of consumer trust.
CSIS is equivilent to the CIA
CSE is equivilent to the NSA
Although there isn't as much as a domestic/internation split as with the US orgs. They can operate wherever needed.
RCMP is equivilent to the FBI
There are multiple standards already ( http://www.leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm )
UTC, GPS (+13sec from UTC), Loran (+22sec from UTC), TAI (+32sec from UTC).
The only difference this time is that they want to break UTC which us everyday folk use.
The V710 is crippled though Telus as well. Tried a number of hacks I've read and none seem to work...likely disabled in the Telus branded firmware.
But companies can establish a bulk rate for insurance. As a lone employee of your own company you get screwed.
If you spend all day emailing jokes and images, then it should be pretty obvious you are going to take a hit to the IQ. Not all people discuss stupid sh*t though email/im/irc.
Probably because the Neanderthal women were ugly and the modern chicks were hotter and the envy of the Neanderthal men. So the Neanderthal men spent all their time trying to get a piece of the modern women until all the Neanderthal women got upset and killed the Neanderthal men.
Audiophiles are the best example of the placebo effect. Just ask John Vestman...
Two other engineers (in session with me) heard the sound change when we raised the client's computer off the floor with soft isolation pads. The only thing that changed was what the computer was sitting on. We found that setting the computer on a hardwood floor made the sound more immediate and crisp, compared with setting it on soft isolators. On the floor, the snare sounded punchier, the kic more immediate, and the overall sound was tighter. A solid platform is even better when vibration isolators are used - and you'll be amazed at the difference a great power cable makes too
http://www.johnvestman.com/digital_myth.htm . Some other hilarious examples of audiophile stupidity can be found on his site.
And of course you need a $200 power cord plugged into a $2 power bar! http://nautiluspro.com/power_cords.htm
The article really only highlights growth. Pretty useless stat for Canada since the broadband penetration is already very high.
Isn't it great fun having a DRM system built into a game? Any of you remember the good old days when you could just play a game when you wanted to?
Awh...I wanted to be the first to make fun of his first post :)
Up until last week, I never played a console since the NES years ago. I recently played some PS2 games and was actually shocked at the poor quality of the games and of the console.
The low resolution on the TV was the first thing that bothered me. Some ppl have pointed out that HDTV is a significant improvment, but a very high majority of people do not have one and will not be getting one for some time to come.
All the games I played seemed to be far behind any current PC game for graphics quality, but that's what you expect when you have to top your graphics quality off because your console's hardware is 3 years out of date. I was constantly annoyed by rendering artifacts and by the cheap looking surfaces that look like a college students GL project.
There is a reason why PC games have more complicated controls: The players want them. Most hardcore gamers will have lots of personalized controls setup because it's how they want it. Console games seem to be geared more towards the computer illiterate or beginner. Plug in and go! Their online subscription service is a tribute to that model.
The article is talking about a SL8500 (had the pleasure of seeing one built this week) which is a massively huge library storing many terabytes of data that only typically only a very large company would require, NOT talking about a couple hundred GB or so for personal usage. The entire article is geared towards enterprise storage.
Also pretend you were to run a fairly large backup system with harddrives. So you replace the 2000 slots with 80-120GB drives...meaning you have to provide power for 2000 drives. So then you need to upgrade your UPS for more juice and A/C for all the extra heat. A 2000 drive SAN isn't cheap either.
Then there is the physical durabilty issue with taking drives offsite. You can drop and beat the crap out of tapes and you aren't going to break them easily. Drop a HD and likely your are going to do some damage.
DVDs are a total ripoff pricewise compared to VHS. When VHS was the only option around in the 90s, you could expect to pay about $12 for a movie. Now that DVD is the standard, you pay about $25.
Easy way to make a killer profit if everytime a new standard comes out you double the price and leave it high. It's understandable when a new technology first comes out that everything in the production of it will be more pricy, but it's been quite a while since DVDs came out and the price is still stupidly high.
Worst I did years ago was when I just bought a new much larger drive and was reorganizing the filesystems on my workstation. The workstation had some NFS and samba mounts at the time to the roots of other machines to help shuffle stuff around. I just finished copying everything important out of one partition and did a rm -rf * to clean it and went to get something to drink.
/. It deleted enough on each computer that I had to reinstall each one. Destroyed 3 computers with one command.
Came back and found pages of unable to delete errors on the console from some of the network paths. I apparently forgot to cd into the partition I was clearing and did the rm -rf in
Considering the amount of time people surf porn on their desktops, I highly doubt it will ever be replaced. Hard to look at boobies while holding a 1.5 x 1.5" screen that you can't hold still.
Who are these clowns that the media talk to for their "expert" opinion on computers?
"George Geczy, a software developer and computer consultant based in Ancaster, Ont., guessed that the problem involves identification numbers assigned to transactions"
Thousands of different reasons why their system cratered and some guy running a consulting firm from his basement nailed it for us! Guess his experience in installing MySQL a couple times helped him diagnose their massively huge database issue.
Just because you have a IT job and a bank card, doesn't make you an expert.
What does Akamai do for me? Hosts lots of annoying popup ads, shockwave ads, and adware. Most of the adware I find hooked in IE has a codebase from akamai. /enjoyed an ad free day