You think IT want ie 6?! No were the ones that have bitching to management for the last two years to approve the rollout. But they say we can't until HR's ancient reporting tool is upgraded to work with IE8, but there's no money in the budget for that again.
So don't fucking poke me and leave my retro phone alone.
Sure, you have to leak your product - but what the hell.. nobody will suspect it. Then sue the shit out of the guy who published photos - even more press time when it goes to court.
Then on the day of the release... drop the charges so you don't look like a huge asshole.
As a systems administrator at a hosting company I'd suggest you do the following:
* Use a 3rd party registrar. A real registrar not a reseller of a reseller of a reseller of a registrar. Do not keep domains that have any value with your hosting provider. * Use a 3rd party backup service. Do not depend on your hosting providers backups.
So what you are saying is that you or your company can't deliver services that you or your company promiss so it's your customer's fault for not buying additional services from other people that can?
You may want to find a different line of work or a different company to work for.
I agree with TheReaperD, I wasn't pleased with the outages - but a company that posts to their status admissions of errors or unplanned outages and other issues like server specific problems (my server was running out of memory so they yanked it down afterhours and doubled it).
Previous hosts wouldn't tell you jack squat and would blame my ISP's routing tables (!?) and DNS servers for downtime. If I were making money on the sites - I would reinvest some of the profit for higher hosting offerings that come with SLAs. But I don't so Dreamhost works well for me.
I couldn't agree more - VPS is the way to go if you don't want to be tossed in a box with the rest of the morons running php proxy and chatback forum scripts that run your server loads into the sixties.
I use dreamhost vps, but there are many others that come highly recommended. I get free hourly, daily, weekly backups (and self service restores). Sure they're not a bulletproof as Rackspace or other more expensive hosting providers but they let you know what's what in their status blog and their support has always been top notch (especially if you're having a problem, admit you screwed something up, and ask nicely:) )
I spend about twenty bucks a month for unlimited/unlimited + 50GB of personal backup space. I'd say that was a pretty good value.
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We're looking for such a solution for a lecture room that also is used for online testing. Do we deploy three wireless AP's to handle the load of sixty to seventy wireless laptops or just one of these optical devices? Then account for modification or addition of optical wireless gear to each of the laptops and my costs are now far beyond that of the three APs.
Pretty cool solution - but not very practical for most situations.
How much ad revenue would they make on me, you, or the average schmoe? A few bucks at the most per month? Hardly justifies giving up my screen and bandwidth for a token discount on an outrageously expensive cell phone bill.
I've seen similar price differences in the same retail outlet, the only difference being whether or not an item was covered by Medicare. I needed to buy a portable wheelchair for my mother to use occasionally. The store marketed chairs for $120 to people whose chairs were not paid for by Medicare, and then chairs for $500 for people whose chairs were paid for by Medicare. The more expensive chairs looked better, but were not functionally different.
There is actually a justifiable reason for this... but I'm only going by what I hear from people I know who work in the medical field.
Medicare pays pennies on the dollar for most medical treatments, but are much more accommodating in hardware or support devices that get people out of hospitals. So, to recoup some of the money hospitals (and insurance companies) are losing to medicare patients - they farm the markets they can harvest.
Streaming to my legacy device which cannot be easily reprogrammed such as my Xbox 360 really relies on XVid. So, for now, I guess Handbrake is the rough beast. Oh well, I use dvd::rip anyway and avidemux when I need to do some transcoding. Computers can be easily upgraded, devices not so much: that is something to keep in mind too.
I don't want to take the air out of your argument... but... your Xbox 360 never had the ability to play divx/xvid videos until Microsoft released an update. They can release another to accept mpeg4 - but they won't. That's a great feature for the next Microsoft gaming console.
If I wanted color, I'd hit an iPod touch, tablet PC, or laptop.
You must be one of those "I want my phone to be just phone" people.
Hardly... I have a deep appreciation for multifunctional devices. I'm simply saying that if by introducing color to an e-ink device you make it dimmer and slower - then go home, you're fucking doing it wrong.
Don't cripple the kindle just so it can show a color picture. Make it color, brighter, AND refresh faster - then I'll be interested.
The beauty of grayscale eink is that it's very close to paper - making it easy to read for long periods of time. However, the transition time on the Kindle or other grayscale eink devices is long enough to be annoying. Making these transitions longer will decrease my satisfaction in them, making the display dimmer will make them worthless to me.
If I wanted color, I'd hit an iPod touch, tablet PC, or laptop.
He offered $500 to Sony, to my knowledge, and they turned him down and have now succeeded in the big bucks.
Sony needed much more to offset the cost of developing and marketing all their proprietary formats... ATRAC, MiniDiscs, and MemorySticks all took a lot of effort you know.
In your experience, do IT administrators abuse their supervisory powers?
No. I want to be able to read about the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and news applicable to my job. I don't want an end user seeing that there is a new hack or proxy available for making my job harder. Likewise, at the college I work at, law enforcement students are provided classes on online threats, sexual predators, and human trafficing - they require access to websites and services that we would normally block - having a web proxy/web scanning solution that allows for group based access lists is an absolute requirement.
Has there ever been a backlash from users or management for doing so?
No. Typically if an IT admin is in charge of the web proxy, he's white listed his laptop/workstation's static IP (or DHCP reserved IP) so that the relaxed rules are only applicable to him/her.
I worked in a place that used a whitenoise system that utilized ceiling mounted speakers. The unix folks disconnected it in their area and hooked it up to their own amp and music player. The programmers didn't notice - they were all using headphones. The sales guys didn't care - they weren't in the office. And the managers had no clue - they had their own offices.
The windows guys still suffered through it but were on the phone so much it really didn't matter.
Even if they wish to fire you for something they can't - they'll find something else to fire you for. They don't have to look far - typically they just come up with some bullshit like a reorganization (of your position or duties) or downsizing (of one).
Some folks are still union, which offers them more protection... but unions for IT folks are few and far between (read: they have no power). The boss would gladly fire the lot of them in an office and hire a few newbies to pick up the slack. Sadly in this economy your skills don't carry you far enough - there are ten new grads with glossy resumes waiting to take your seat before it even gets cold.
My suggestion to the OP: build up a fuck you money account and find a new job. It ain't going to get any better.
Clings to the idea? How about trying to reconcile the disaster that was the last eight years of foreign policy? Remember those days where we told just about every other country to do it our way or fuck off?
Yeah, we have a lot of enemies out there. But why not work with those who used to be our friends and try to reconcile our differences for a better world? Contrary to popular belief the United States does not have infinite resources. Money, scientists, natural resources... yeah, you know those things we need to actually make shit?
I'm so sick and tired of people bashing the one president this decade who is actually trying to get my country back in the good light it once had. So if you have no recommendations on how to improve this country - move out or shut the fuck up.
Use an FDE disk with a TPM... if you want to burn the data on the drive, just reset the TPM key - poof, all that data is now 100% unreadable. Unless they have a backdoor into AES-256.
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You think IT want ie 6?! No were the ones that have bitching to management for the last two years to approve the rollout. But they say we can't until HR's ancient reporting tool is upgraded to work with IE8, but there's no money in the budget for that again.
So don't fucking poke me and leave my retro phone alone.
Seriously, you can't buy this kind of publicity.
Sure, you have to leak your product - but what the hell.. nobody will suspect it. Then sue the shit out of the guy who published photos - even more press time when it goes to court.
Then on the day of the release... drop the charges so you don't look like a huge asshole.
The only Win2k3 servers I create any more are vm clones of a master. Meatspace hardware, that's so last year.
I prefer SIS (single instance storage) or ASIS (Advanced SIS)
So you think government should not spend during a recession?
Do you lack any knowledge of economics or do you really want a new great depression?
I think they lack all knowledge of economics.
Hi,
As a systems administrator at a hosting company I'd suggest you do the following:
* Use a 3rd party registrar. A real registrar not a reseller of a reseller of a reseller of a registrar. Do not keep domains that have any value with your hosting provider.
* Use a 3rd party backup service. Do not depend on your hosting providers backups.
So what you are saying is that you or your company can't deliver services that you or your company promiss so it's your customer's fault for not buying additional services from other people that can?
You may want to find a different line of work or a different company to work for.
I agree with TheReaperD, I wasn't pleased with the outages - but a company that posts to their status admissions of errors or unplanned outages and other issues like server specific problems (my server was running out of memory so they yanked it down afterhours and doubled it).
Previous hosts wouldn't tell you jack squat and would blame my ISP's routing tables (!?) and DNS servers for downtime. If I were making money on the sites - I would reinvest some of the profit for higher hosting offerings that come with SLAs. But I don't so Dreamhost works well for me.
I couldn't agree more - VPS is the way to go if you don't want to be tossed in a box with the rest of the morons running php proxy and chatback forum scripts that run your server loads into the sixties.
I use dreamhost vps, but there are many others that come highly recommended. I get free hourly, daily, weekly backups (and self service restores). Sure they're not a bulletproof as Rackspace or other more expensive hosting providers but they let you know what's what in their status blog and their support has always been top notch (especially if you're having a problem, admit you screwed something up, and ask nicely :) )
I spend about twenty bucks a month for unlimited/unlimited + 50GB of personal backup space. I'd say that was a pretty good value.
WARNING, AD: If you're interested in signing up, use GEEK25 for $25 off your signup (any level).
We're looking for such a solution for a lecture room that also is used for online testing. Do we deploy three wireless AP's to handle the load of sixty to seventy wireless laptops or just one of these optical devices? Then account for modification or addition of optical wireless gear to each of the laptops and my costs are now far beyond that of the three APs.
Pretty cool solution - but not very practical for most situations.
It's an answer looking for a question.
Here's your million dollars - no.
How much ad revenue would they make on me, you, or the average schmoe? A few bucks at the most per month? Hardly justifies giving up my screen and bandwidth for a token discount on an outrageously expensive cell phone bill.
try robots.wtf
I've seen similar price differences in the same retail outlet, the only difference being whether or not an item was covered by Medicare. I needed to buy a portable wheelchair for my mother to use occasionally. The store marketed chairs for $120 to people whose chairs were not paid for by Medicare, and then chairs for $500 for people whose chairs were paid for by Medicare. The more expensive chairs looked better, but were not functionally different.
There is actually a justifiable reason for this... but I'm only going by what I hear from people I know who work in the medical field.
Medicare pays pennies on the dollar for most medical treatments, but are much more accommodating in hardware or support devices that get people out of hospitals. So, to recoup some of the money hospitals (and insurance companies) are losing to medicare patients - they farm the markets they can harvest.
Streaming to my legacy device which cannot be easily reprogrammed such as my Xbox 360 really relies on XVid. So, for now, I guess Handbrake is the rough beast. Oh well, I use dvd::rip anyway and avidemux when I need to do some transcoding. Computers can be easily upgraded, devices not so much: that is something to keep in mind too.
I don't want to take the air out of your argument... but... your Xbox 360 never had the ability to play divx/xvid videos until Microsoft released an update. They can release another to accept mpeg4 - but they won't. That's a great feature for the next Microsoft gaming console.
If I wanted color, I'd hit an iPod touch, tablet PC, or laptop.
You must be one of those "I want my phone to be just phone" people.
Hardly... I have a deep appreciation for multifunctional devices. I'm simply saying that if by introducing color to an e-ink device you make it dimmer and slower - then go home, you're fucking doing it wrong.
Don't cripple the kindle just so it can show a color picture. Make it color, brighter, AND refresh faster - then I'll be interested.
The beauty of grayscale eink is that it's very close to paper - making it easy to read for long periods of time. However, the transition time on the Kindle or other grayscale eink devices is long enough to be annoying. Making these transitions longer will decrease my satisfaction in them, making the display dimmer will make them worthless to me.
If I wanted color, I'd hit an iPod touch, tablet PC, or laptop.
Keep It Simple Stupid.
He offered $500 to Sony, to my knowledge, and they turned him down and have now succeeded in the big bucks.
Sony needed much more to offset the cost of developing and marketing all their proprietary formats... ATRAC, MiniDiscs, and MemorySticks all took a lot of effort you know.
If Google can license the Microsoft ActiveSync and make it work as well as Apple's iPhone... then I will be on board 100%
In your experience, do IT administrators abuse their supervisory powers?
No. I want to be able to read about the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and news applicable to my job. I don't want an end user seeing that there is a new hack or proxy available for making my job harder. Likewise, at the college I work at, law enforcement students are provided classes on online threats, sexual predators, and human trafficing - they require access to websites and services that we would normally block - having a web proxy/web scanning solution that allows for group based access lists is an absolute requirement.
Has there ever been a backlash from users or management for doing so?
No. Typically if an IT admin is in charge of the web proxy, he's white listed his laptop/workstation's static IP (or DHCP reserved IP) so that the relaxed rules are only applicable to him/her.
I'd rather have a plane that lands on-time everytime than a plane that rolled off the assembly line on-time once.
I worked in a place that used a whitenoise system that utilized ceiling mounted speakers. The unix folks disconnected it in their area and hooked it up to their own amp and music player. The programmers didn't notice - they were all using headphones. The sales guys didn't care - they weren't in the office. And the managers had no clue - they had their own offices.
The windows guys still suffered through it but were on the phone so much it really didn't matter.
Even if they wish to fire you for something they can't - they'll find something else to fire you for. They don't have to look far - typically they just come up with some bullshit like a reorganization (of your position or duties) or downsizing (of one).
Some folks are still union, which offers them more protection... but unions for IT folks are few and far between (read: they have no power). The boss would gladly fire the lot of them in an office and hire a few newbies to pick up the slack. Sadly in this economy your skills don't carry you far enough - there are ten new grads with glossy resumes waiting to take your seat before it even gets cold.
My suggestion to the OP: build up a fuck you money account and find a new job. It ain't going to get any better.
Clings to the idea? How about trying to reconcile the disaster that was the last eight years of foreign policy? Remember those days where we told just about every other country to do it our way or fuck off?
Yeah, we have a lot of enemies out there. But why not work with those who used to be our friends and try to reconcile our differences for a better world? Contrary to popular belief the United States does not have infinite resources. Money, scientists, natural resources... yeah, you know those things we need to actually make shit?
I'm so sick and tired of people bashing the one president this decade who is actually trying to get my country back in the good light it once had. So if you have no recommendations on how to improve this country - move out or shut the fuck up.
Use an FDE disk with a TPM... if you want to burn the data on the drive, just reset the TPM key - poof, all that data is now 100% unreadable. Unless they have a backdoor into AES-256.
Slashdot posted this story in 2007 about Video Professor sueing to get critical reviews off the internet.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/1619240
Yeah, that worked out well for them, didn't it?
90 mbps = 11.25 MBps