Password selection depends on the place you're using the password.
For most websites, enter something like abc321, hit reset password and they kindly reset the password to something and email me the new relatively good password.
It doesn't need that much security, so those are stored in my email.
For places that need better passwords, $ md5sum - lot of random text pounded on the keyboard and result is something like 24a53bc05c6f216e340aa8d5dc08b605
That checksum becomes the password.
For places where I actually have to enter the password without copypaste, something generated like xkcd's battery horse staple correct.
If I'm laid off, my union salary kicks in and I get ~60% of my salary for 500 days.(where regular unemployment would be ~25-30%)
Now if after say 3-5 months I'm called back to work, I can continue with my normal salary.
If I would agree on a paycut instead, my salary would remain cut until I'd switch to another employer.
I would never agree to a paycut personally.
But thats probably different between countries, it works that way in Finland.
Seriously, $3500 for that? There really are people with too much money to spend.
Granted, it would be a nice woodworking project to build one.
But looking at the size of it, the wood would probably cost less than $200, throw in extra $100 for lacquer/varnish.
I don't like the idea of tankless water heaters at all.
Can you provide a more detailed engineering assessment?
That is a personal opinion, but I'm thinking of the power grid here.
When you're using electric equipment to heat water directly during usage, you're causing massive drain spikes to the network at mornings and at evenings depending on how people take showers.(doesn't apply to gas utilities, but I'm assuming electrical here)
Properly insulated tank can be heated during off-peak hours(the electricity might be cheaper) or using solar/wind, tankless rules those options out.
It's just a question of "do you have room to place that massive water tank?" mostly.
I don't like the idea of tankless water heaters at all. There are plenty of things you can do to reduce water heating costs.
If the house is in a windy place, think about getting a small wind mill, something you can easily place on your property, (think something like this)
Add directly attached heating element to the water tank and add temperature control relay to switch off the current when the water temperature in tank reaches desired level.
Second grid-connected heating element could be low-level triggered, if you're using up water faster than your wind power can heat up, the more expensive heating method kicks in and keeps your reservoir going.
Place the stuff you need on a livecd and give usb sticks to the users if they need storage, remove the hdds entirely during the event, then place hdd back afterwards to reset situation?
Samba/nfs share for storage could work also.
Other solution would be to use G4L to ghost all the laptop hard drives, first to backup them, then to image it with your preinstalled linux stuff.
Then repeat after event to restore original system image, but that would take ~10 days to do, both ways, and you'd need ~5-10Tb space to hold copies of the laptop images.(depending on the size of the original hdds)
I've never used Openfiler but I agree with expanding the storage with iSCSI, though iSCSI traffic should not be in his local network.
Each disk node should have dedicated 1Gbit connection without switches between the master server and the disk node.
If direct links are not possible and switches are needed, those should be manageable and configured with iSCSI in its own vlan.
Also important, unbind all other services from the NIC dedicated to iSCSI.
The disk node can be connected to the local network using 10/100mbit card for management via ssh etc.
I think that surface-mount usb power connector will fail eventually since the images seem to show it not welded through-board.
Maybe they'll fix it on later models.(or it is already, but I'm not seeing the throughwelds from the pictures)
'The 9/11 commission concluded America's number one vulnerability during the attacks was the lack of interoperability communications,' writes Vernon Herron, 'I spoke to several first responders who were concerned that their efforts to respond and assist at the Pentagon after the attacks were hampered by the lack of interoperability with neighboring jurisdictions.'"
Wikipedia quote:
TETRA was specifically designed for use by government agencies, emergency services, (police forces, fire departments, ambulance) for public safety networks, rail transportation staff for train radios, transport services and the military.
This is widely used standard around the world despite the slight downsides of the system.
Anyone want to guess if US government goes with standard system or decides to spend few hundred million to reinvent the wheel?
I dont think engineers and such have ever been target customers for Apple.
But if you mean image/video field workers as professionals, then you probably are right.
Apple product lines are just following the industry trend of consumerism and becoming more targeted for home users, rather than enterprises(for which they never were targetting to begin with).
The interesting thing about Nokia today seems to be their patent portfolio.
They own 70% of relevant mobile patents.
You need to license them if you want to manufacture/sell mobile phones.
Their stock is extremely undervalued and even with the 12-month high/average(which is higher) takeover-protection, Nokia might be target for corporate takeover soon.
> Just get an iPad, a keyboard case, and buy one of the MANY VNC / SSH applications for the iPad.
You cannot put iPad in your pocket.
You don't need to pay extra for a proper keyboard on N900.
You have MANY VNC/RDP to choose from and ssh application for free on N900.
You can get N900 for $200 used.
Those two devices are worlds apart.
N9 is not symbian, its not S40 either. S40 is market segment of budget phones, which you can buy $20/device
Those devices are popular in africa and india etc developing markets.
The OS in N9 is Harmattan aka Maemo 6, you know one of the linux based Nokia phones. (No, not Meego)
It has nothing to do with symbian.
Only problem with N9 is, that it's 4 years too late.
It exists, abloy specific product is called protec.
The key operating the disks is special shaped, quad toothed, double grooved with head pin.
The metal in the key works as i-wire or similar digital contact which controls the magnetic part of the door.(has string encrypted on it, which the server uses to validate access times for that specific key).
Mostly because there aren't trains which travel at/over 200mph in USA
There are only ongoing plans to renovate rail sections to accomodate those speeds.
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Not my list, but here's 121 reasons why you don't want Windows Phone 7.5
Password selection depends on the place you're using the password.
For most websites, enter something like abc321, hit reset password and they kindly reset the password to something and email me the new relatively good password.
It doesn't need that much security, so those are stored in my email.
For places that need better passwords, $ md5sum - lot of random text pounded on the keyboard and result is something like 24a53bc05c6f216e340aa8d5dc08b605
That checksum becomes the password.
For places where I actually have to enter the password without copypaste, something generated like xkcd's battery horse staple correct.
There's a road going near the building, and across the street, there's a bus stop
One of the neighbours has wlan called IsItColdAtTheBusStop?
If I'm laid off, my union salary kicks in and I get ~60% of my salary for 500 days.(where regular unemployment would be ~25-30%)
Now if after say 3-5 months I'm called back to work, I can continue with my normal salary.
If I would agree on a paycut instead, my salary would remain cut until I'd switch to another employer.
I would never agree to a paycut personally.
But thats probably different between countries, it works that way in Finland.
Seriously, $3500 for that? There really are people with too much money to spend.
Granted, it would be a nice woodworking project to build one.
But looking at the size of it, the wood would probably cost less than $200, throw in extra $100 for lacquer/varnish.
There are NO BUGS in the software!
You're hold^wrunning it wrong!
XBMC
Combine this with AppleTV, it's only $99, and you have somewhat sane system.
It comes with remote already so one less extra step to tinker on.
Your question is about media and entertainment. Are you entertained by tinkering stuff or consuming entertainment generated by others?
I don't like the idea of tankless water heaters at all.
Can you provide a more detailed engineering assessment?
That is a personal opinion, but I'm thinking of the power grid here.
When you're using electric equipment to heat water directly during usage, you're causing massive drain spikes to the network at mornings and at evenings depending on how people take showers.(doesn't apply to gas utilities, but I'm assuming electrical here)
Properly insulated tank can be heated during off-peak hours(the electricity might be cheaper) or using solar/wind, tankless rules those options out.
It's just a question of "do you have room to place that massive water tank?" mostly.
I don't like the idea of tankless water heaters at all. There are plenty of things you can do to reduce water heating costs.
If the house is in a windy place, think about getting a small wind mill, something you can easily place on your property, (think something like this)
Add directly attached heating element to the water tank and add temperature control relay to switch off the current when the water temperature in tank reaches desired level.
Second grid-connected heating element could be low-level triggered, if you're using up water faster than your wind power can heat up, the more expensive heating method kicks in and keeps your reservoir going.
Place the stuff you need on a livecd and give usb sticks to the users if they need storage, remove the hdds entirely during the event, then place hdd back afterwards to reset situation?
Samba/nfs share for storage could work also.
Other solution would be to use G4L to ghost all the laptop hard drives, first to backup them, then to image it with your preinstalled linux stuff.
Then repeat after event to restore original system image, but that would take ~10 days to do, both ways, and you'd need ~5-10Tb space to hold copies of the laptop images.(depending on the size of the original hdds)
Duh. Their fusion works with solar power..
I've never used Openfiler but I agree with expanding the storage with iSCSI, though iSCSI traffic should not be in his local network.
Each disk node should have dedicated 1Gbit connection without switches between the master server and the disk node.
If direct links are not possible and switches are needed, those should be manageable and configured with iSCSI in its own vlan.
Also important, unbind all other services from the NIC dedicated to iSCSI.
The disk node can be connected to the local network using 10/100mbit card for management via ssh etc.
I think that surface-mount usb power connector will fail eventually since the images seem to show it not welded through-board.
Maybe they'll fix it on later models.(or it is already, but I'm not seeing the throughwelds from the pictures)
'The 9/11 commission concluded America's number one vulnerability during the attacks was the lack of interoperability communications,' writes Vernon Herron, 'I spoke to several first responders who were concerned that their efforts to respond and assist at the Pentagon after the attacks were hampered by the lack of interoperability with neighboring jurisdictions.'"
Wikipedia quote:
TETRA was specifically designed for use by government agencies, emergency services, (police forces, fire departments, ambulance) for public safety networks, rail transportation staff for train radios, transport services and the military.
This is widely used standard around the world despite the slight downsides of the system.
Anyone want to guess if US government goes with standard system or decides to spend few hundred million to reinvent the wheel?
Why VPS? You can get real machine from ovh for 18/month with better specs.
I dont think engineers and such have ever been target customers for Apple.
But if you mean image/video field workers as professionals, then you probably are right.
Apple product lines are just following the industry trend of consumerism and becoming more targeted for home users, rather than enterprises(for which they never were targetting to begin with).
Debian testing should fit those requirements nicely. It's stable enough to be run in non-profit production.
Extinguish works in open source as well.
It comes to play right after:
# dmesg | tail -n1
lp0: on fire
The interesting thing about Nokia today seems to be their patent portfolio.
They own 70% of relevant mobile patents.
You need to license them if you want to manufacture/sell mobile phones.
Their stock is extremely undervalued and even with the 12-month high/average(which is higher) takeover-protection, Nokia might be target for corporate takeover soon.
> Just get an iPad, a keyboard case, and buy one of the MANY VNC / SSH applications for the iPad. You cannot put iPad in your pocket.
You don't need to pay extra for a proper keyboard on N900.
You have MANY VNC/RDP to choose from and ssh application for free on N900.
You can get N900 for $200 used.
Those two devices are worlds apart.
N9 is not symbian, its not S40 either. S40 is market segment of budget phones, which you can buy $20/device
Those devices are popular in africa and india etc developing markets.
The OS in N9 is Harmattan aka Maemo 6, you know one of the linux based Nokia phones. (No, not Meego)
It has nothing to do with symbian.
Only problem with N9 is, that it's 4 years too late.
It exists, abloy specific product is called protec. The key operating the disks is special shaped, quad toothed, double grooved with head pin. The metal in the key works as i-wire or similar digital contact which controls the magnetic part of the door.(has string encrypted on it, which the server uses to validate access times for that specific key).
You could use alien to convert the package to rpm/tgz/pkg and use it in your preferred distro.
Mostly because there aren't trains which travel at/over 200mph in USA
There are only ongoing plans to renovate rail sections to accomodate those speeds.
> Online storage makes no sense.
In storage, online means the data is connected and instantly available(harddrive etc) vs offline(dvd,tape etc)