Your experience with the QNAP NAS sounds pretty crappy.
I have installed Synology NAS DS212s in a couple of my retail locations to replace servers (that were really only used for hosting shared folders...) and found them to be inexpensive, fast, quiet, reliable, simple to configure and maintain, small footprint, and extremely energy efficient.
The Synology NAS is currently configured for:
hosting folders shared by various teams (users are on Macs, Windows, and Linux desktops)
hosting personal folders for each staff member
backing up files hosted on a few specific workstations -with user-browsable versioned backups ala Apple's Time Machine (HR and Payroll desktops are backed up once daily, point-of-sale is backed up hourly using a plugin that allows a snapshot backup of the databases without interrupting it's near constant use)
VPN endpoint server allowing mobile users to connect to their network files
VPN linking two sites -configured to make this site and its sibling appear to be on the same LAN segment to users
VPN client connection to a third site where the NAS backs itself up using RSYNC (the host system then backs this data up as part of it's own backup scheme)
anti-virus for hosted files.
The Synology NAS boxes are running a fairly standard Linux with a custom GUI overlay. They maintain their own packages for various applications, but you can log in to a shell and install/configure as you wish.
A GUID is not necessarily unique. There is no central registry enforcing uniqueness. The likelihood of randomly generating the same GUID twice is extremely slim:
128-bits is big enough and the generation algorithm is unique enough that if 1,000,000,000 GUIDs per second were generated for 1 year the probability of a duplicate would be only 50%
V1 GUIDs are generated by an algorithm using the system time as a seed and ending with the MAC address. The third group of numbers in the sequence will always begin with a 1. V4 GUIDs are generated using one of several different algorithms, and are identifiable by a 4 instead of a 1 in the third number group.
Various applications use GUIDs as unique keys, requiring only that the GUID is internally unique -although patterns can be seen in the GUIDs several applications allowing predictability of the generated GUIDs (Oracle's SYS_GUID, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Windows Registry, GUID Partition Table (aka GPT), etc).
Most people do not enable remote management... Its not enabled by default. Most people do not disable the automatic firmware updates... which is a default enabled check box on the page/tab for upgrading firmware (which most people don't even look at much less change the settings.)
My e1000 and e3000 (not listed as Cloud Connect compatible) will no longer allow direct connection and configuration while connected to the internet. They will not accept a connection from the LAN if there is a live cable on the WAN port.
If you are not connected to the internet, your router will allow you to connect to it directly and perform manual configuration... but many options are no longer configurable directly. You will still need to connect via "Cloud Connect" to configure the rest of your settings.
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The option to install firmware yourself is greyed out on routers after the "upgrade". I have read that if you call Cisco and complain they will allow you to roll back to a previous firmware (without Cloud Connect) at which point you can manually upgrade to non-Cisco firmware.
Author is asking for simple answers to complex questions.
Google has entire legal departments devoted to making these decisions on a case by case basis.
In order to do business in a jurisdiction, a business must agree to abide by their laws. Google cannot stat outright that they will not obey legal requests, or they would not be allowed to operate. They have lawyers to decide when they can get away with not complying, when they can obfuscate, when they can delay, and when they should capitulate.
Due to the founders personal biases, Google is willing to expend time and money shielding the weak from the powerful -just not to the point of being put up against the wall themselves.
The musicians who are making a living are doing it by performing music, instead of by selling recordings of music.
Recordings can be infinitely copied for very little cost (once the original is created). The market recognizes this even if the industry does not. Thus selling recordings is no longer profitable. Performances are so much more than a recording, and a recording of a performance falls far short of the experience. The market recognizes this as well, and thus performers get paid, recordings get copied, and artists who want to make a living do it by performing.
One minute the U.S. is trying to pass internet surveillance legislation. The next it is Britain. Then Australia jumps on the bandwaggon. Now its Canada. ------- The people lobbying for this BS need to be fought decisively. Otherwise we can forget the "free" internet as we know it today.
What was the saying? "Soap Box... Ballot Box... Ammo Box."
You are using the Soap Box now. In some countries, the Pirate Party is gaining headway (Australia even has rumors of trying to elect Julian Assange to parliament) that would be the Ballot Box in use. For examples of the Ammo Box try a search for "Arab Spring".
The world is changing. Fighting is going on. Some of us are just at different stages of the fight.
And how would you create something like his so.cl site or DuckDuckGo with that kind of rate?
The preferred method is to call (or email) google and ask for free access for your project. Or you could apply to the summer of code project and see if you can get google to pay you.
In the real world what matters is whether you can find the right answer quickly, not whether you pulled it out of your ass, out of a book, or off google. The ability to get it done right and move on to whatever crisis is next is what counts.
Unless we solve the problems of... 1. Range 2. Recharge Time 3. Getting the Grid to handle all the cars. 4. How do we generate all that electricity to do so.
1. Range is increasing with every generation, and is already sufficient for 90% of daily needs. 2. Recharge time is also improving steadily, and is more a matter of infrastructure for convenience than time required. Recharge overnight at home, recharge during the day at the office, recharge while shopping, etc. 3 & 4. No clue - but I assume there are engineers working on solutions. Let them.
Range and Recharge time. is the biggest issue for me. I travel 30 miles to work and 30 miles back. That is 60 miles.
Charge at home overnight, charge at the office, you should have a mostly full charge when beginning either leg of your commute.
Most electric cars are pushing 100 miles, but that is the ideal range... what is the range going up a mountain?
Range will be effected by terrain -it is no matter your fuel source.
What if the batteries after 8 years are not optimal...
Batteries need to be replaced when they get old, oil needs to be changed, tires need to be replaced... its a fact: maintenance needs to be done.
Next my parents live 800 miles away. Say I have an electric car that can do 500 miles per run. I drive mostly there, however I need to recharge. Can I recharge in 5-10 minutes or will I need to spend the night charging my car. I do not have the money for a car to drive to work and a car to drive longer ranges. So we will still need chemical powered cars, until these issues are fixed. I am happy to see that they are getting a lot more fuel efficient.
The answer to these concerns is to rent a car for longer trips. I see Hertz has rental cars as low as $14/day for some sort of econobox. I think my last multi-state driving vacation was about $150 for a week in a mercedes c240 (thanks to a free upgrade coupon).
That is a good sign, because electric cars are not going to solve all the problems.
Electric cars or hybrids do not have to be perfect. They need to be good enough for daily use - we use diesel rigs (18 wheelers) for hauling big loads, and dont say that because a honda civic cant haul the same load every day it isnt a viable commuter car. Different solutions for different problems.
There is no reason to have pedestrians and motor vehicles sharing the same space.
Use an overpass/underpass design to keep the cars away from where the pedestrians are. Designate actual bike paths, separate from walkways or motorways.
In areas with large amounts of foot traffic, such as downtown/shopping/dining districts put in car parks a block or two away, and allow only foot traffic -except for designated cargo loading access points (aka alleyways).
if old version has a problem and new version doesn't have (this particular) problem
then solution = buy the new version.
If it was the current release that was buggy, I would say they should put developers on a fix... If it is a flaw in an older version, that doesn't exist in the new version, then telling the customers to buy the current version is perfectly acceptable.
If they were already in development on the new version when they found out about a flaw in the current version... then its a decision about how much developer time it will cost to create a fix for the old (current) version and whether that time could be put to better use working on the new version. I deal with those kind of questions all the time at work myself. They are not easy.
You are referring to a (large) list of specific questions that should not be asked... not to a (large) quantity of questions that are not directly relevant to the job the person is applying to...
Technically, it is illegal only to use the information received from answering those questions when considering whether or not to hire someone. However, I believe you would be incredibly hard pressed to prove that the knowledge was not in the back of your mind when making the decision, and you would not ask those questions in the first place unless you wanted to use that information.
False. It is legal to use any information that is not specifically legally protected (such as race, sex, age, disability, etc.) The burden is on the complainant to prove that discrimination based on protected criteria occurred.
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Your experience with the QNAP NAS sounds pretty crappy.
I have installed Synology NAS DS212s in a couple of my retail locations to replace servers (that were really only used for hosting shared folders...) and found them to be inexpensive, fast, quiet, reliable, simple to configure and maintain, small footprint, and extremely energy efficient.
The Synology NAS is currently configured for:
(users are on Macs, Windows, and Linux desktops)
(HR and Payroll desktops are backed up once daily, point-of-sale is backed up hourly using a plugin that allows a snapshot backup of the databases without interrupting it's near constant use)
(the host system then backs this data up as part of it's own backup scheme)
The Synology NAS boxes are running a fairly standard Linux with a custom GUI overlay. They maintain their own packages for various applications, but you can log in to a shell and install/configure as you wish.
YMMV
http://www.irobot.com/us/ may think differently (got the pun?)
Do you?
A GUID is not necessarily unique. There is no central registry enforcing uniqueness. The likelihood of randomly generating the same GUID twice is extremely slim:
128-bits is big enough and the generation algorithm is unique enough that if 1,000,000,000 GUIDs per second were generated for 1 year the probability of a duplicate would be only 50%
V1 GUIDs are generated by an algorithm using the system time as a seed and ending with the MAC address. The third group of numbers in the sequence will always begin with a 1.
V4 GUIDs are generated using one of several different algorithms, and are identifiable by a 4 instead of a 1 in the third number group.
Various applications use GUIDs as unique keys, requiring only that the GUID is internally unique -although patterns can be seen in the GUIDs several applications allowing predictability of the generated GUIDs (Oracle's SYS_GUID, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Windows Registry, GUID Partition Table (aka GPT), etc).
This "upgrade" that they performed for me last Tuesday, prompted me to perform an upgrade myself -I installed DD-WRT on my router.
Remote Management != Firmware Upgrade
Most people do not enable remote management... Its not enabled by default.
Most people do not disable the automatic firmware updates... which is a default enabled check box on the page/tab for upgrading firmware (which most people don't even look at much less change the settings.)
The information on effected models is incomplete.
My e1000 and e3000 (not listed as Cloud Connect compatible) will no longer allow direct connection and configuration while connected to the internet. They will not accept a connection from the LAN if there is a live cable on the WAN port.
If you are not connected to the internet, your router will allow you to connect to it directly and perform manual configuration... but many options are no longer configurable directly. You will still need to connect via "Cloud Connect" to configure the rest of your settings.
Dont forget section 4 of the Terms of Sevice!
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As a condition of your use of the Service, you agree that your use of the Service in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement is permitted under and will comply with the applicable laws of the country where you use the Service. You agree not to use or permit the use of the Service: (i) to invade another's privacy; (ii) for obscene, pornographic, or offensive purposes; (iii) to infringe another's rights, including but not limited to any intellectual property rights; (iv) to upload, email or otherwise transmit or make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, spam, junk mail or any other form of solicitation; (v) to transmit or otherwise make available any code or virus, or perform any activity, that could harm or interfere with any device, software, network or service (including this Service); or (vi) to violate, or encourage any conduct that would violate any applicable law or regulation or give rise to civil or criminal liability.
While we are not responsible for any content or data that you choose to access or otherwise use in connection with the Service, we reserve the right to take such action as we (i) deem necessary or (ii) are otherwise required to take by a third party or court of competent jurisdiction, in each case in relation to your access or use or misuse of such content or data. Such action may include, without limitation, discontinuing your use of the Service immediately without prior notice to you, and without refund or compensation to you.
You will indemnify and hold us and Cisco Systems Inc. and its affiliates harmless against any claims, losses or damages arising from any threatened, repudiatory or actual breach by you of the covenants set out in this Section.
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The option to install firmware yourself is greyed out on routers after the "upgrade". I have read that if you call Cisco and complain they will allow you to roll back to a previous firmware (without Cloud Connect) at which point you can manually upgrade to non-Cisco firmware.
Author is asking for simple answers to complex questions.
Google has entire legal departments devoted to making these decisions on a case by case basis.
In order to do business in a jurisdiction, a business must agree to abide by their laws. Google cannot stat outright that they will not obey legal requests, or they would not be allowed to operate. They have lawyers to decide when they can get away with not complying, when they can obfuscate, when they can delay, and when they should capitulate.
Due to the founders personal biases, Google is willing to expend time and money shielding the weak from the powerful -just not to the point of being put up against the wall themselves.
If someone has a ridiculous world view, that doesn't preclude them from saying something that makes sense occasionally.
And if ever they do, we will react with appropriate incredulity...
If you need that many words to explain how simple something is, you've already lost.
Not at all.
That is not a problem, its a paradigm shift.
The musicians who are making a living are doing it by performing music, instead of by selling recordings of music.
Recordings can be infinitely copied for very little cost (once the original is created). The market recognizes this even if the industry does not. Thus selling recordings is no longer profitable. Performances are so much more than a recording, and a recording of a performance falls far short of the experience. The market recognizes this as well, and thus performers get paid, recordings get copied, and artists who want to make a living do it by performing.
One minute the U.S. is trying to pass internet surveillance legislation. The next it is Britain. Then Australia jumps on the bandwaggon. Now its Canada. ------- The people lobbying for this BS need to be fought decisively. Otherwise we can forget the "free" internet as we know it today.
What was the saying? "Soap Box... Ballot Box... Ammo Box."
You are using the Soap Box now. In some countries, the Pirate Party is gaining headway (Australia even has rumors of trying to elect Julian Assange to parliament) that would be the Ballot Box in use. For examples of the Ammo Box try a search for "Arab Spring".
The world is changing. Fighting is going on. Some of us are just at different stages of the fight.
Microsoft Research does some pretty cool stuff...
And how would you create something like his so.cl site or DuckDuckGo with that kind of rate?
The preferred method is to call (or email) google and ask for free access for your project. Or you could apply to the summer of code project and see if you can get google to pay you.
In the real world what matters is whether you can find the right answer quickly, not whether you pulled it out of your ass, out of a book, or off google. The ability to get it done right and move on to whatever crisis is next is what counts.
Troll, do you have even the slightest idea what you are talking about?
No?
Well, okay then.
Best comment of the day.
No I don't see all electric in 20 years.
Unless we solve the problems of...
1. Range
2. Recharge Time
3. Getting the Grid to handle all the cars.
4. How do we generate all that electricity to do so.
1. Range is increasing with every generation, and is already sufficient for 90% of daily needs.
2. Recharge time is also improving steadily, and is more a matter of infrastructure for convenience than time required. Recharge overnight at home, recharge during the day at the office, recharge while shopping, etc.
3 & 4. No clue - but I assume there are engineers working on solutions. Let them.
Range and Recharge time. is the biggest issue for me. I travel 30 miles to work and 30 miles back. That is 60 miles.
Charge at home overnight, charge at the office, you should have a mostly full charge when beginning either leg of your commute.
Most electric cars are pushing 100 miles, but that is the ideal range... what is the range going up a mountain?
Range will be effected by terrain -it is no matter your fuel source.
What if the batteries after 8 years are not optimal...
Batteries need to be replaced when they get old, oil needs to be changed, tires need to be replaced... its a fact: maintenance needs to be done.
Next my parents live 800 miles away. Say I have an electric car that can do 500 miles per run. I drive mostly there, however I need to recharge. Can I recharge in 5-10 minutes or will I need to spend the night charging my car. I do not have the money for a car to drive to work and a car to drive longer ranges. So we will still need chemical powered cars, until these issues are fixed. I am happy to see that they are getting a lot more fuel efficient.
The answer to these concerns is to rent a car for longer trips. I see Hertz has rental cars as low as $14 /day for some sort of econobox. I think my last multi-state driving vacation was about $150 for a week in a mercedes c240 (thanks to a free upgrade coupon).
That is a good sign, because electric cars are not going to solve all the problems.
Electric cars or hybrids do not have to be perfect. They need to be good enough for daily use - we use diesel rigs (18 wheelers) for hauling big loads, and dont say that because a honda civic cant haul the same load every day it isnt a viable commuter car. Different solutions for different problems.
There is no reason to have pedestrians and motor vehicles sharing the same space.
Use an overpass/underpass design to keep the cars away from where the pedestrians are. Designate actual bike paths, separate from walkways or motorways.
In areas with large amounts of foot traffic, such as downtown/shopping/dining districts put in car parks a block or two away, and allow only foot traffic -except for designated cargo loading access points (aka alleyways).
In a way, it is obvious...
if old version has a problem
and new version doesn't have (this particular) problem
then solution = buy the new version.
If it was the current release that was buggy, I would say they should put developers on a fix... If it is a flaw in an older version, that doesn't exist in the new version, then telling the customers to buy the current version is perfectly acceptable.
If they were already in development on the new version when they found out about a flaw in the current version... then its a decision about how much developer time it will cost to create a fix for the old (current) version and whether that time could be put to better use working on the new version. I deal with those kind of questions all the time at work myself. They are not easy.
AHA!
You are referring to a (large) list of specific questions that should not be asked... not to a (large) quantity of questions that are not directly relevant to the job the person is applying to...
If you wouldn't shout it down the hallway in the dorm, you shouldn't put it in an email.
email is not private.
People may think it is. They may feel it should be. According to the specifications, it is not.
Technically, it is illegal only to use the information received from answering those questions when considering whether or not to hire someone. However, I believe you would be incredibly hard pressed to prove that the knowledge was not in the back of your mind when making the decision, and you would not ask those questions in the first place unless you wanted to use that information.
False. It is legal to use any information that is not specifically legally protected (such as race, sex, age, disability, etc.) The burden is on the complainant to prove that discrimination based on protected criteria occurred.
it is illegal to ask a large number of questions that are not directly relevant to the job
False.