+1 for AWS. I'm using Route53 + S3 for a personal static site. I'm using a different registrar currently -- I didn't realize Amazon was also a registrar, so I might have to check into transferring.
I now (thanks to the ACA) pay half of what I was paying with COBRA for similar coverage. The thing that made COBRA a rip-off (potentially a rip-off -- it's all about personal circumstances) is mostly that you were stuck with whichever plans (usually very few) your employer had on offer, and you had to pay what your employer was paying for it. Now when you need to get insurance outside of an employer plan, you have choices in insurance companies and coverage levels, no discrimination based on previous health, and limitations on the exorbitant amounts they can charge you for it. I think that's an overall win, even if there needs to be far more changes made.
Then *everyone* will watch it, with no large gatherings of people to target. And it'll be a big f*** you to the terrorists. Sounds like a win-win to me!
Ugh, holy crap. Don't shoot Velvia 100F and expect it to look like Velvia 50. It doesn't. Shoot Velvia 100 (notice the missing F). It's pretty darn close to Velvia 50 (close enough that I was willing to switch, saving myself from the need to stockpile).
We're using Linksys SPA-941 phones at my work and they have a visual ring indicator (red light bar at the top which flashes). If you're using soft phones, just find some software that'll give a visual indicator.
As far as the PA system, get a phone that's compatible with Asterisk's paging/intercom support, then just tap into the phone's speakerphone wires (easy to tap mono analog sound signal, may need to add some hardware to adjust for signal strength) and route that into the PA. Or use the headset port, and have the paging go to the headset instead of the speaker. Seems like it would be fairly simple.
True... similar, I'm sure, to how Orson Scott Card imagined it in his Ender Series. Have they been able to do any entanglement experiments that cover long distances (more than just across the lab)?
FTL speeds are necessary if those of us *not going* want to see quick results from a trip. After all, who wants to sit around for more than 4 years waiting for a flight to reach the closest star, and then have to wait another 4.2 years for any radio transmissions to make it back. It would just be a lot easier if they can get there in 10 days and back again in another 10 days.
I think what was meant by a Free Market Government is that the government is willing to sell their services to the highest bidder. They don't play favorites, they go where the money is. They didn't create the laws they did because they were forced to, or thought it would do some good. They did it for their own gain - because someone else paid them. (That puts them in the evil category.)
And the fact is, the money isn't coming from the voters, the money comes from all the rich corporations. I know I can't afford my own Washington DC lobbyist, nor even afford to be a lobbyist. Can the RIAA? Can Microsoft? Sure, no sweat. So no, the voters aren't to blame for the laws that protect giant corporations. The politicians that follow their wallet and the corporations that pay them are the ones to blame.
And while it might be nice to think we could elect some non-evil government representatives, could we really find enough that we could achieve a majority status? And have a non-evil president that will cooperate? Let's face it, political work is inherently attractive to corruptible people.
And I have no comment on the indie music scene.:-)
I had a drive do the exact same thing, and it was fixable. Just find someone that knows how to solder (see all the other posts here).
BUT, once you've had it fixed, spend $5 on a USB extension cable (male on one end, female on the other) and plug your drive in through that instead of directly into the computer. This saves the drive from getting bumped around while it's plugged in, and weakening the solder again. The drive moves, but the connector doesn't, and the solder gets all of that force. The connector simply allows the drive some flexibility and takes away a lot of the stress on the connector.
I've done this with a second drive of mine, and have never had problems with the connector.:-)
Of course, there's Synergy, which I've briefly used. It seemed to do the job, but I've never had the use for it. I guess I should feel fortunate to have always had hardware KVM's on hand.
It works with Linux and Win32 as well.
It's fiber to the classroom, AFAIK. I agree, running fiber out to the farther buildings would be reasonable, especially looking at growth, but the school district is in a town of 10K people, and isn't growing very rapidly. I think the whole reason they're wanting it is because a lot of the existing network is chained hubs, running at 10mb. It's a little slow for intranet stuff sometimes. But instead of just upgrading stuff to 100mb (hubs/switches mostly), they want to replace it all with fiber. It's overkill for what they use on it. "Man, this BB gun isn't killing that deer. Let's go get some armor piercing anti-tank weaponry.":-)
I think he meant notebook, as in a bunch of paper bound together on one side. You can use a pencil or other writing utensil to write on it. But I too had to re-read that a few times to get it.
My mom teaches at a public elementary school, and they have a "technology committee" that decides all things technology for the school. That's ok, except that none of them are career IT'ers, and none of them have much training in IT except a seminar or 2 about things, or maybe a couple cisco classes.
So lately the committee has decided that in order to solve all it's network ills, they need to install fiber throughout the entire school! Woo hoo! Right? Theoretically it's a good idea, but in reality, they don't even need it. They're external internet is a T1 (1.5mb), so even a 10mb network will swamp that. Internally they don't even use the network for much besides the internet... just a little storage for the teachers who know, and a few apps here and there. Stuff 100mb ethernet would handle fine.
Seems pretty stupid to me, and a big useless expense. Especially with all the layoffs and budget crunches going on. I'd rather see them spend the money on a new PC for each teacher, or some classroom spending money. <sarcasm>But they're the technology committee. They know what's best.</sarcasm>
Unfortunately, it seems the poster is looking for a sort of directory/search function built on top of that. I know core CVS doesn't do that. It's great for version control and code repositories, but has no functionality at all for displaying what projects are on a server and what those projects do.
With a little coding, it would be pretty simple to create a perl or php web page that allows you to upload a file, along with a description of the program. Then that info can get stored somewhere (flat file, mysql db) that a search program can then use to search. If you really wanted to get into it, you could add categories and keywords to the description. The access could be limited using Apache's ip or password based controls.
Then again... that kind of goes against the whole theme of code re-use.:-)
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Except that only the person that submits the code could (should?) be held responsible for it. The only way that you, as a project lead, might know if some snippet of code is proprietary or not would be if you had access to both the snippet and the proprietary code base it came from (and could make the connection). That's pretty impractical. I doubt very many OSS projects can claim they have access to proprietary code which they could then use in their project. I think the OSS model is pretty safe. Individual programmers, OTOH, could have some problems if they submitted proprietary code, so they should be careful.
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Yes, it's true that most projects would prefer getting original, non-copyrighted code, how are you as a project lead/maintainer going to know the difference? You can't. You have to trust the person submitting the code. It's up to them to make sure it's ok. So while copyrighted code could undoubtedly sneak in that way, it seems logical that only the submitter could be held responsible for that copyright infringement.
As a programmer, the incentives are there. The leak could potentially be traced to you, and consequences dealt. I don't see too many incentives for the project to be super-vigilant about it. I don't see any way a project CAN be vigilant about it. After all, if someone submitted some code to you, would you know if it was a verbatim copy from the Windoze source? Nope...
I've been using DigitalSpace for about a year now, and have no complaints whatsoever. Whenever I've needed to make changes to my account, they're quick to respond, and quite helpful. They're decently priced and support everything you pointed out.
Definitely worth checking out!
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I'm pretty sure that the Al Qaeda and North Korea are happy with underfunded, understaffed schools creating an illiterate, uneducated population.
On the contrary, an illiterate and uneducated population is more likely to follow it's leaders with passionate ferver... even if that leader is suggesting some pretty hair-brained ideas. Whereas, an educated population would be likely to question the motives, consequences, etc. of said idea. Sooo... if I were Al Qaeda or N. Korea, I'd be hoping that Americans are educated, so they don't blindly follow GW Bush to war...
Demarc PureSecure was one software suite I looked at about a year ago. It's free for personal use, fee for commercial use. I'm not sure how their prices compare to other software packages, but it would be worth looking at. It's being marketed as a Total Intrusion Detection System, and monitors Snort logs, log files, disk space/usage, open ports, and more.
Heh... Fear factors in the same line as: Look out! There's a big rock falling on your head!!!
Somehow I doubt it's the same as FUD.
Just my 2 cents, tho.
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+1 for AWS. I'm using Route53 + S3 for a personal static site. I'm using a different registrar currently -- I didn't realize Amazon was also a registrar, so I might have to check into transferring.
Shifting your balance is how you turn a motorcycle at anything about parking lot speeds.
Wow. If that's how you ride, try counter-steering sometime. It will blow your mind.
I now (thanks to the ACA) pay half of what I was paying with COBRA for similar coverage. The thing that made COBRA a rip-off (potentially a rip-off -- it's all about personal circumstances) is mostly that you were stuck with whichever plans (usually very few) your employer had on offer, and you had to pay what your employer was paying for it. Now when you need to get insurance outside of an employer plan, you have choices in insurance companies and coverage levels, no discrimination based on previous health, and limitations on the exorbitant amounts they can charge you for it. I think that's an overall win, even if there needs to be far more changes made.
Then *everyone* will watch it, with no large gatherings of people to target. And it'll be a big f*** you to the terrorists. Sounds like a win-win to me!
You're off by a bit. The math should be:
100,000,000 MB / 200 MB = 500,000 frames
Not sure where you were going with your money calculations...
Ugh, holy crap. Don't shoot Velvia 100F and expect it to look like Velvia 50. It doesn't. Shoot Velvia 100 (notice the missing F). It's pretty darn close to Velvia 50 (close enough that I was willing to switch, saving myself from the need to stockpile).
We're using Linksys SPA-941 phones at my work and they have a visual ring indicator (red light bar at the top which flashes). If you're using soft phones, just find some software that'll give a visual indicator.
As far as the PA system, get a phone that's compatible with Asterisk's paging/intercom support, then just tap into the phone's speakerphone wires (easy to tap mono analog sound signal, may need to add some hardware to adjust for signal strength) and route that into the PA. Or use the headset port, and have the paging go to the headset instead of the speaker. Seems like it would be fairly simple.
True... similar, I'm sure, to how Orson Scott Card imagined it in his Ender Series. Have they been able to do any entanglement experiments that cover long distances (more than just across the lab)?
And you missed my point. The benefit is not for the traveler, it's for the rest of us. For the traveler, you're right, there is no advantage.
FTL speeds are necessary if those of us *not going* want to see quick results from a trip. After all, who wants to sit around for more than 4 years waiting for a flight to reach the closest star, and then have to wait another 4.2 years for any radio transmissions to make it back. It would just be a lot easier if they can get there in 10 days and back again in another 10 days.
:-)
Falls in line with our "want it now" attitude.
I think what was meant by a Free Market Government is that the government is willing to sell their services to the highest bidder. They don't play favorites, they go where the money is. They didn't create the laws they did because they were forced to, or thought it would do some good. They did it for their own gain - because someone else paid them. (That puts them in the evil category.)
And the fact is, the money isn't coming from the voters, the money comes from all the rich corporations. I know I can't afford my own Washington DC lobbyist, nor even afford to be a lobbyist. Can the RIAA? Can Microsoft? Sure, no sweat. So no, the voters aren't to blame for the laws that protect giant corporations. The politicians that follow their wallet and the corporations that pay them are the ones to blame.
And while it might be nice to think we could elect some non-evil government representatives, could we really find enough that we could achieve a majority status? And have a non-evil president that will cooperate? Let's face it, political work is inherently attractive to corruptible people.
And I have no comment on the indie music scene. :-)
I had a drive do the exact same thing, and it was fixable. Just find someone that knows how to solder (see all the other posts here).
:-)
BUT, once you've had it fixed, spend $5 on a USB extension cable (male on one end, female on the other) and plug your drive in through that instead of directly into the computer. This saves the drive from getting bumped around while it's plugged in, and weakening the solder again. The drive moves, but the connector doesn't, and the solder gets all of that force. The connector simply allows the drive some flexibility and takes away a lot of the stress on the connector.
I've done this with a second drive of mine, and have never had problems with the connector.
Of course, there's Synergy, which I've briefly used. It seemed to do the job, but I've never had the use for it. I guess I should feel fortunate to have always had hardware KVM's on hand. It works with Linux and Win32 as well.
Same thing here. They have excellent service, too, the once or twice I've had to use it (in 5 years).
It's fiber to the classroom, AFAIK. I agree, running fiber out to the farther buildings would be reasonable, especially looking at growth, but the school district is in a town of 10K people, and isn't growing very rapidly. I think the whole reason they're wanting it is because a lot of the existing network is chained hubs, running at 10mb. It's a little slow for intranet stuff sometimes. But instead of just upgrading stuff to 100mb (hubs/switches mostly), they want to replace it all with fiber. It's overkill for what they use on it. "Man, this BB gun isn't killing that deer. Let's go get some armor piercing anti-tank weaponry." :-)
I think he meant notebook, as in a bunch of paper bound together on one side. You can use a pencil or other writing utensil to write on it. But I too had to re-read that a few times to get it.
My mom teaches at a public elementary school, and they have a "technology committee" that decides all things technology for the school. That's ok, except that none of them are career IT'ers, and none of them have much training in IT except a seminar or 2 about things, or maybe a couple cisco classes.
So lately the committee has decided that in order to solve all it's network ills, they need to install fiber throughout the entire school! Woo hoo! Right? Theoretically it's a good idea, but in reality, they don't even need it. They're external internet is a T1 (1.5mb), so even a 10mb network will swamp that. Internally they don't even use the network for much besides the internet... just a little storage for the teachers who know, and a few apps here and there. Stuff 100mb ethernet would handle fine.
Seems pretty stupid to me, and a big useless expense. Especially with all the layoffs and budget crunches going on. I'd rather see them spend the money on a new PC for each teacher, or some classroom spending money. <sarcasm>But they're the technology committee. They know what's best.</sarcasm>
Unfortunately, it seems the poster is looking for a sort of directory/search function built on top of that. I know core CVS doesn't do that. It's great for version control and code repositories, but has no functionality at all for displaying what projects are on a server and what those projects do.
With a little coding, it would be pretty simple to create a perl or php web page that allows you to upload a file, along with a description of the program. Then that info can get stored somewhere (flat file, mysql db) that a search program can then use to search. If you really wanted to get into it, you could add categories and keywords to the description. The access could be limited using Apache's ip or password based controls.
Then again... that kind of goes against the whole theme of code re-use. :-)
Except that only the person that submits the code could (should?) be held responsible for it. The only way that you, as a project lead, might know if some snippet of code is proprietary or not would be if you had access to both the snippet and the proprietary code base it came from (and could make the connection). That's pretty impractical. I doubt very many OSS projects can claim they have access to proprietary code which they could then use in their project. I think the OSS model is pretty safe. Individual programmers, OTOH, could have some problems if they submitted proprietary code, so they should be careful.
Yes, it's true that most projects would prefer getting original, non-copyrighted code, how are you as a project lead/maintainer going to know the difference? You can't. You have to trust the person submitting the code. It's up to them to make sure it's ok. So while copyrighted code could undoubtedly sneak in that way, it seems logical that only the submitter could be held responsible for that copyright infringement.
As a programmer, the incentives are there. The leak could potentially be traced to you, and consequences dealt. I don't see too many incentives for the project to be super-vigilant about it. I don't see any way a project CAN be vigilant about it. After all, if someone submitted some code to you, would you know if it was a verbatim copy from the Windoze source? Nope...
I've been using DigitalSpace for about a year now, and have no complaints whatsoever. Whenever I've needed to make changes to my account, they're quick to respond, and quite helpful. They're decently priced and support everything you pointed out.
Definitely worth checking out!
I'm pretty sure that the Al Qaeda and North Korea are happy with underfunded, understaffed schools creating an illiterate, uneducated population.
On the contrary, an illiterate and uneducated population is more likely to follow it's leaders with passionate ferver... even if that leader is suggesting some pretty hair-brained ideas. Whereas, an educated population would be likely to question the motives, consequences, etc. of said idea. Sooo... if I were Al Qaeda or N. Korea, I'd be hoping that Americans are educated, so they don't blindly follow GW Bush to war...
Demarc PureSecure was one software suite I looked at about a year ago. It's free for personal use, fee for commercial use. I'm not sure how their prices compare to other software packages, but it would be worth looking at. It's being marketed as a Total Intrusion Detection System, and monitors Snort logs, log files, disk space/usage, open ports, and more.
Heh... Fear factors in the same line as: Look out! There's a big rock falling on your head!!! Somehow I doubt it's the same as FUD. Just my 2 cents, tho.
And maybe if you donated a little $$ to the "get me a new game" fund, I'd care.