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  1. tornado proof data centers. on OK City Data Center Built To Withstand Winds Up To 310 MPH, Says Contractor · · Score: 1

    Sabre built a data center in tulsa that's tornado proof. to all outward appearances, it's an empty field surrounded by chain link fencing and razor wire. then they sold it to eds. *shakes head*

  2. Re:ZFS on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    second the motion.

    $ zpool list
    NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
    rpool 232G 72.1G 160G 31% 1.00x ONLINE -
    z1 7.25T 4.44T 2.81T 61% 1.00x ONLINE -

    built in backups with automatic snapshots taken every 15 minutes and aged off to hourly, daily, weekly and monthly, I've got snapshots of the data going back eight months, realise you deleted something months ago? no problem, bring up the file browser, click the clock icon, drag the pointer back in time and look at what files were there... time slider is great. on disk data compression, if you want it, data deduplication, if you want it. 's the goodness.

  3. Re:If you're on the clock.. on Bosses Keep Sharp Eye on Mobile Workers · · Score: 1

    >> "I have and I know how employees are your biggest loss, weather its theft or stealing time they always want more to do less."

    Wow, I think I used to work for you, that is, before your sleazy company went bankrupt because you treated your employees like shit.

    It's no wonder you're bitter, you whine that employees don't give a shit, and yet, you fail to realize that you've started the process, by not giving a shit about them, treating your greatest asset as a liability, and not having a clue... Each of those *PEOPLE* has their own problems, bills, bitchy demanding 'customers' (ie, YOU) and stress that YOU'RE causing them, to make them sick.

    You whine about having to pay bills, and insurance, and taxes, and ... gosh, every single one of your employees has the same problem.

    Maybe you'd still be in business if you'd been smart enough to realize that your employees are your biggest asset, the *ONLY* thing that keeps your company running, as you nickle and dime them to death, and bitch about how much they cost.... If they're so much of a bad investment, get rid of 'em and do all the work yourself... save that expense.

    If not, then shut the fuck up and treat them like people, and like your greatest asset in your business, and maybe you'll find that they take pride in what they do, and the company they work for, and the quality of job they do.

    Oh, and learn the difference in "there" and "their"... damn borderline illiterate bosses.

  4. Re:Digital Photogs on Digital 35mm SLRs? · · Score: 1

    Kodachrome
    You give us those nice bright colors
    You give us the greens of summers
    Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
    I got a Nikon camera
    I love to take a photograph
    So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

    (apologies to Paul Simon)

  5. Re:It's far from just printers... on Are Printers What They Used To Be? · · Score: 1

    Xerox bought the printer division only, plus Phasers don't just come in waxjets (300,340,350,360,840,850,860,8200) there are also color lasers, and dye sub printers. (the best looking printouts imaginable.)

  6. cool. on The Company Therapist (dot.com) · · Score: 1

    Fascinating stuff.

  7. Re:Welcome to the Police State on Government to Eavesdrop on Lawyer-Client Conversations · · Score: 1

    Also, lets remember that if you didn't do anything
    wrong, they won't be able to convict you of anything.


    Tell that to all the folks recently freed from death row by DNA testing... and think about those that weren't freed in time.

    time to take off those rosey colored glasses you're wearing!

  8. Re:What's wrong with you? on Unreasonable Searches When Going to Work? · · Score: 1

    re fry's doordweebs, sometimes they're there to catch stupidity on the part of the even more clueless checkers...

    I bought 2 gig of memory (4 sticks) and the door guy caught the fact that the checker gave me three 128 meg sticks and one 512 megger, then went and got me what I'd paid for.

  9. Re:The Prosecutor should get in on the action on Los Angeles County To Tax Outer Space · · Score: 1

    Yes, they're geostationary, so they never even come close to LA, being appx 22,500 miles above the equator, ie, central america, and the oceans on both sides.

  10. two line, user,system,path, root indication. on What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like? · · Score: 1

    if [ -w / ] ; then
    PS1=`tput smso`'($PWD)
    [$UNAME@$HOSTNAME]'#`tput rmso`' '
    else
    PS1='($PWD)
    [$UNAME@$HOSTNAME]$ '
    fi

    looks like:
    /etc/default
    [fred@name]$

    when running as root, it's reverse video'd as an extra reminder to be extra careful. set UNAME and HOSTNAME however you please.

    handy when you're hopping from system to system.

  11. demarc, not D-Mark on Thoughts On Third-Party DSL Providers? · · Score: 1

    that's demarc, short for demarcation, ie, the boundary between their stuff and yours...

  12. Re: telling 'em to remove me... on On DDoS, SPAM, Telemarketing And Harrasment? · · Score: 1
    Isn't this bad like SPAM e-mails? I know that if you reply to remove from SPAM e-mails, then the spammers know your e-mail address is legit and pass it to other companies. Can't telemarketers do the same if they are told to remove your phone number?

    nope, in this case, there's federal laws on your side, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act 47 U.S.C Section 227, and $500 per instance penalties if they don't comply.

    read the stuff at Junkbusters for more info!

  13. Re:getting rid of telemarketers on On DDoS, SPAM, Telemarketing And Harrasment? · · Score: 1
    No. There is no need for me to be polite. There is no need for ME to make ANY REQUEST of ANY sort.

    Go ahead, but it won't do any good, until the telemarketing companies put your number on their company wide 'do not call' list, their automated calling systems will KEEP CALLING YOU.

    you need to say "company wide" because the same telemarketing company may make calls for dozens of companies, if you don't specify 'company wide', they may just block calls for that one particular company...

    go ahead... don't make a request, but don't expect the calls to stop. I get maybe one a week now, used to get several a day...

  14. getting rid of telemarketers on On DDoS, SPAM, Telemarketing And Harrasment? · · Score: 5

    actually, it's pretty easy. do not hang up, do not yell, do not curse... very nicely say "please put this number on your company wide 'do not call' list". http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/telemarketing.htm l for a full explanation it works..

  15. Re:The Nature of Glass on IBM 75G Hard Drive Ready · · Score: 1

    glass does *NOT* flow.

    if it did, goblets dating from way before the cathedrals would all be little glomps of glass, not goblets...

  16. Re:WebWasher used to support this on CERT Advisory On Malicious HTML Tags · · Score: 1

    webwasher 1.2.2 still does it, but you have to make sure that "Don't change netscape's context menu" is not checked in the options under preferences.

  17. Re:ad filtering proxies on DoubleClick DoubleCross · · Score: 1

    www.webwasher.com wonderful little piece of software

  18. Re:ad filtering proxies on DoubleClick DoubleCross · · Score: 1

    www.webwasher.com

    wonderful little piece of software

  19. Re:I'm Primed. on Movie Reviews:GalaxyQuest · · Score: 1

    hello.... *tink tink tink*... anybody home?

    that same "millenium crap" applies to the century as well... same logic, same reasoning... etc. the 21st century begins in ... 2001, like the novel (grins)

  20. Re:Nightvision HUD is cool but... on Driving with Night Vision · · Score: 1

    92 olds cutlass supreme was one that had a HUD.

  21. Re:Afraid so... on Driving with Night Vision · · Score: 1

    notice where it says "not an acutal simulation" down at the bottom of the 'example' box on the web page?

    the image is on the bottom of the windshield, and isn't even as wide as the steering wheel...

    I've seen it in the DeVilles, have you?

  22. Re:Is this common in the United States? on Driving with Night Vision · · Score: 1

    99.99% of the time in a car-train collision, it's directly the fault of the driver of the car. It's not like the train can swerve to hit the car. If the AC's mommy hadn't been in such a hurry to make it across the RR crossing before the train got to it, she wouldn't have gotten hit.

    remember when racing a train, even if you tie, you lose.

  23. Re:Strange, it'd be ok in Canada.... on CTO is Too Young for Comdex · · Score: 1
    Maybe it's different in the States, but here, (Canada), although they have stupid rules, they at least have smart people
    I think you got it in one...
  24. Uptimes... on Hurricane Floyd Shuts Red Hat Down Temporarily · · Score: 1

    Heard on the net, in an uptime war thread, first talk about NT, then talk about Unix, then a guy piped up with a call he'd had recently to replace a disk in a company's NetWare server, the apps disk went down, but nobody in the company knew where the server was, the tech finally found it by tracing cables in the ceiling, the poor server was buried in the back of a stockroom, and had been up for slightly over five *years*, still running NetWare 2.15.....

  25. Re:Animated GIFs on Unisys Enforcing GIF Patents · · Score: 1

    http://www.siemens.de/servers/wwash/wwash_us.htm

    don't surf without it.