We'd be at least at Alpha Centauri, possibly further out by now. It's all a perfect example of opportunity cost. I'd much prefer we spend the money on space exploration and science in general than to perpetuate a military based on a war that no longer exists.
Storage of nuclear waste. Now France seems to have the right idea - reprocess it and react it again and again. This cuts down on the total amount of waste too.
But I'd like to see the U.S. and the world move toward thorium cycle power. It's much safer than the BWR designs operating now. And thorium cycle burns the fuel more completely without a lot of nasties left over.
I'm generally not good with people either but there is a caveat. I expect they rise to my level of intelligence first. If they don't tough cookies. But I'm also nice to receptionists - they know where the bodies are buried.
Yeah, the last ten years most of the jobs I've gotten have been word of mouth or I knew someone inside. This one is a slight one off - a fluke that came into my private corporation's email. They were looking for someone with experience in product x and I just happened to have such experience.
Actually I'd say by version 4. I used to run a Netware 3.20 server. The thing was a workhorse - in fact it served as an IP briding router in addition to being our main files server.
If I were those guys I'd just image the drives and get new ones. Maybe port the whole thing over to a bit more modern hardware.
Not too well. But for a different reason - it wasn't that I.T. people in India are any better or worse than we here in the United States. But like us in the U.S. they realize their skills are WORTH something and have begun demanding higher wages.
Seriously - a couple years ago I saw a photo spread in National Geographic. It was what appeared to be a nice residential enclave in southern California but instead it was in Bangalore.
"IT managers says a big reason for the shift is IT pros don't want to work in data centers at small-to-mid size firms" that is complete and utter bull!
Now if they wanted to pay a reasonable rate then yes, maybe they'd get people to work for them. But until such time those small to medium shops stop being so cheap about what they pay their I.T. people they need to STFU right now.
Avaya support isn't what it should be. I've worked in places that had Definity, Prologix and Audix systems. One thing I found is that when the guys are out in the field doing repairs, they'll tell you the craft access password. From there you can administer the switch you own.
But an example - had an issue where we had two systems, the Definity and the Prolofix with numbering plans set so all 12xx was one office, all 34xx another etc. But we could carve out space to move a user from one switch to another.
Moved the user to the other switch - extension ported perfectly. But the message waiting light would never illuminate. Changed out the phone set, still same problem. Contacted Avaya, they dialed in and couldn't figure it out.
I happened to think about it and realized it's the Audix system that sets the light. Looked in the second page and there's a system-id field. Just change it from 221 to 222 and all of a sudden the light works. Thanks Avaya - you were useless as always.
I once worked as the I.T. Director for the State AG's office. I coached a lot of prosecutors on technology issues. But on the federal level it is different. It's more isolated, knowledge sharing is almost frowned upon.
But in my view, a prosecutor who has more than a passing knowledge of technology and infosec is a better prosecutor.
If there were no commercial ramifications you could use amateur radio licenses. People already talk to the ISS, bounce signals off the moon, etc. All you need is the ticket.
We don't already have high resolution satellite based photos of most of the cities in China. We just don't know the NAMES of the streets. Besides, we don't need to know the names. We only need to know how they relate to one another and what interesting things run along side them.
It's funny, everywhere I've worked that had docks I realized it could be an attack vector. Glad that someone else realizes it too. However the solutions/defenses they provide aren't likely to happen in most I.T. groups. Really? Infrared cameras? RF sniffers?
Well they're just now starting to figure out warp drive - and it appears Alcubiere had the wrong estimate for reaction mass. He had said you'd need something the mass of Jupiter. But recent calculations say you only need a couple of tons of reaction mass.
And I still maintain if we had funded NASA like we funded them in the 1960's and early 1970's we'd be at Alpha Centauri or Barnard's Star by now. But instead we'd prefer to fund military misadventure. However look at the private interest in mining asteroids - that will be cool!
Well in my case I scrubbed a couple netstat dumps before and during commercials and found the ad servers and blocked the fuckers. In fact on hulu every now and then they use an ad server I have blocked. Just gotta get off my lazy ass and do the before/after netstats and do a diff on them to see what bubbles to the top.
Well yes, and there's the female problem in China too. It'll be a nation where the number of males is hovering around 70%. That's going to causer massive instability.
In terms of shipped mobile operating systems, most of the universe out there right now is Android.
Now Android has it's own issues - namely upgrade paths. But it does run your choice of browser without complaint.
I remember when I got my Android phone - I worked with a bunch of iPhone users. I used to listen to them complain about they couldn't install cool app x, and said I had no trouble putting on my Android phone.
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We'd be at least at Alpha Centauri, possibly further out by now. It's all a perfect example of opportunity cost. I'd much prefer we spend the money on space exploration and science in general than to perpetuate a military based on a war that no longer exists.
The number of English Lit and Semiotics types I've encountered in the I.T. field. It's incredible.
Storage of nuclear waste. Now France seems to have the right idea - reprocess it and react it again and again. This cuts down on the total amount of waste too.
But I'd like to see the U.S. and the world move toward thorium cycle power. It's much safer than the BWR designs operating now. And thorium cycle burns the fuel more completely without a lot of nasties left over.
Destroy it instead. It's enormously gratifying to reduce a smart phone to powder. And try reading that.
On the train home tonight I noted a high prevalence of laptops. Me, I just stuck with my cell phone. I refuse to take my computer into the office.
I'm generally not good with people either but there is a caveat. I expect they rise to my level of intelligence first. If they don't tough cookies. But I'm also nice to receptionists - they know where the bodies are buried.
Yeah, the last ten years most of the jobs I've gotten have been word of mouth or I knew someone inside. This one is a slight one off - a fluke that came into my private corporation's email. They were looking for someone with experience in product x and I just happened to have such experience.
Yeah, dropping the battery is probably the best way to prevent it. But if you're an iPhone owner you're screwed. You can't easily drop the battery.
That said, just put the phone in airplane mode. That shuts off all the radios including bluetooth, wifi and CDMA/GSM.
Actually I'd say by version 4. I used to run a Netware 3.20 server. The thing was a workhorse - in fact it served as an IP briding router in addition to being our main files server.
If I were those guys I'd just image the drives and get new ones. Maybe port the whole thing over to a bit more modern hardware.
I've got six years of archived email. I like Thunderbird's archiving scheme. You can have it automatically create archives as a calendar year goes by.
Not too well. But for a different reason - it wasn't that I.T. people in India are any better or worse than we here in the United States. But like us in the U.S. they realize their skills are WORTH something and have begun demanding higher wages.
Seriously - a couple years ago I saw a photo spread in National Geographic. It was what appeared to be a nice residential enclave in southern California but instead it was in Bangalore.
"IT managers says a big reason for the shift is IT pros don't want to work in data centers at small-to-mid size firms" that is complete and utter bull!
Now if they wanted to pay a reasonable rate then yes, maybe they'd get people to work for them. But until such time those small to medium shops stop being so cheap about what they pay their I.T. people they need to STFU right now.
Avaya support isn't what it should be. I've worked in places that had Definity, Prologix and Audix systems. One thing I found is that when the guys are out in the field doing repairs, they'll tell you the craft access password. From there you can administer the switch you own.
But an example - had an issue where we had two systems, the Definity and the Prolofix with numbering plans set so all 12xx was one office, all 34xx another etc. But we could carve out space to move a user from one switch to another.
Moved the user to the other switch - extension ported perfectly. But the message waiting light would never illuminate. Changed out the phone set, still same problem. Contacted Avaya, they dialed in and couldn't figure it out.
I happened to think about it and realized it's the Audix system that sets the light. Looked in the second page and there's a system-id field. Just change it from 221 to 222 and all of a sudden the light works. Thanks Avaya - you were useless as always.
I once worked as the I.T. Director for the State AG's office. I coached a lot of prosecutors on technology issues. But on the federal level it is different. It's more isolated, knowledge sharing is almost frowned upon.
But in my view, a prosecutor who has more than a passing knowledge of technology and infosec is a better prosecutor.
If there were no commercial ramifications you could use amateur radio licenses. People already talk to the ISS, bounce signals off the moon, etc. All you need is the ticket.
We don't already have high resolution satellite based photos of most of the cities in China. We just don't know the NAMES of the streets. Besides, we don't need to know the names. We only need to know how they relate to one another and what interesting things run along side them.
It's funny, everywhere I've worked that had docks I realized it could be an attack vector. Glad that someone else realizes it too. However the solutions/defenses they provide aren't likely to happen in most I.T. groups. Really? Infrared cameras? RF sniffers?
I'm talking purely of FTL not chemical rockets. FTL is things like 12 light years in a single jump.
Yep, and that was based on no real advancement in technology.
Well they're just now starting to figure out warp drive - and it appears Alcubiere had the wrong estimate for reaction mass. He had said you'd need something the mass of Jupiter. But recent calculations say you only need a couple of tons of reaction mass.
And I still maintain if we had funded NASA like we funded them in the 1960's and early 1970's we'd be at Alpha Centauri or Barnard's Star by now. But instead we'd prefer to fund military misadventure. However look at the private interest in mining asteroids - that will be cool!
Well in my case I scrubbed a couple netstat dumps before and during commercials and found the ad servers and blocked the fuckers. In fact on hulu every now and then they use an ad server I have blocked. Just gotta get off my lazy ass and do the before/after netstats and do a diff on them to see what bubbles to the top.
Well yes, and there's the female problem in China too. It'll be a nation where the number of males is hovering around 70%. That's going to causer massive instability.
Cox over the years has had some spectacular email outages and fuckups. To the point where I now use Gmail via IMAP and a private domain via IMAP.
In terms of shipped mobile operating systems, most of the universe out there right now is Android.
Now Android has it's own issues - namely upgrade paths. But it does run your choice of browser without complaint.
I remember when I got my Android phone - I worked with a bunch of iPhone users. I used to listen to them complain about they couldn't install cool app x, and said I had no trouble putting on my Android phone.