We decided to move three of our divisions into one facility, those included to business facing units and the I.T. division.
I was charged with laying out the design for data, telecom and electrical for the project. Also had engineering of our little NOC.
Nice setup - redundant power in the I.T. division, nice big APC UPS for the entire room, had it's own 480V power drop, dual HVAC units, a natural gas fired generator. It's nice to have the money to do this.
Since we were a state agency we had to use state DNS services. And one day the city had a massive power outage. We were up and running happy as a clam but we found the Achilles heel in all our plans. Without DNS we couldn't get in or out. I had floated the idea of maintaining our own DNS server but nobody wanted to hear that. We had the decent network connection, and the redundant power (Yes, we even placed a UPS/Generator backed up outlet in the MDF for Cox's Marconi router) so why the hell not replicate the state DNS services?
Let that be a lesson. We tried to plan for all contingencies and we completely missed our dependence on an outside state agency. Of course since a river runs right behind we also raised the NOC floor by about a foot.
At the last meet of Providence Geeks I heard quite a bit about HTML5. But I have yet to find a decent how-to for it, nor a decent list of tags, etc. available. It's just a horrible mish-mash right now. And FTA, 21 years for full deployment. I said 5 years.
Say you hide active RF transmitters on your body and visit the guy. If he doesn't react then it is pure bullshit. Use controls with powered down RF transmitters, no RF transmitter etc.
And his symptoms while on a boat can also be due to sea sickness. Or maybe it was the motor on the boat, you know, nice big spark gap generators called spark plugs if it's gasoline, or the generator supplying power to the boat.
No kidding. When I saw the estimate that 31% was paperwork the first thing that popped into my head was "single payer".
Back in 2001 I worked at the state AG's office. It was there that I got a glimpse into the medical billing and insurance systems side. It lead me to the conclusion that not only are the insurance companies being enriched at our expense, the billing companies are making a fair amount of money too.
Go single payer and you cut out those two layers. Imagine that.
I know of one former job where they have no clue on the passwords used for things like databases, configuration passwords, etc. When they laid me off they didn't even ask. I guess they thought I did nothing there.
I know it won't happen soon but there will come a day when they'll wonder what those passwords are. Hell I don't even remember them, I used nice cryptic passwords for everything.
Just install a packet sniffer between your machine and the network connection. Problem solved. Then copy the code that they transmit and install it on a server on your network. Find out the connection details and point them at your local server. Presto, problem solved.
Precisely. There seems to be a general fear of electronic devices in the past few years. Recall the Mooninite scare in Boston.
Yet I can pack my Arduino, wire kit, and components in my backpack and send it through a TSA x-ray and nobody says BOO about it. Schools are getting out of control lately. It all started with the zero tolerance bullshit.
And in my office we had a combination of Macintosh LC II's, and LC III's and LC IV's.
In one office someone got upgraded to an LC IV which made their office mate jealous because she only had an LC II. We didn't have the money to buy more of the newer machines but since they all used the same case/covers I had an idea. I took the cover from my LC IV and swapped it with her LC II cover. She was so happy with her new machine.
Yup. I've often been of the opinion that if the Chinese government either can't get its act together or continues to sponsor what I term a form of terrorism, we should just push to cut their net connection completely.
Of course that would play into the governments hands. Then they'd have the ultimate control of information.
But I was just responsible for a state web site, not a federal web site. So no harm, no foul.
Back in 2001 I was working for state government. Our web site was defaced and I started tracing the sources through our border routers, etc. It resolved back to China.
So I did what any sane administrator in government would do, I just blotted out the known IP ranges from China.
My only duty was to report it to the I.T. Director. I followed up as far as I could. And when the two of us stopped monitoring we informed the director as to why we weren't doing it anymore and instead we built a content filter into our systems.
When I worked for the Sec State's office in RI we were utilizing Squidproxy. Reviewing logs came to a head when the policy went out the window. It went out the window because two of we systems people noted a high administration figure surfing the web for Big, Black Beautiful Women and hotels where he could take said women.
We brought it the the IT Director and were told we do nothing about it. So we then told him we'd no longer view the proxy logs.
A little while later we also installed DansGuardian. That is a content filter. But the decision was made to exempt all administration and IT. It caused a few issues but nothing we couldn't handle.
When I worked in the IT support unit for the Alumni & Development unit of Brown University we pushed the non-existent dress code. A t-shirt and shorts worked.
Yep, yank the subsidies from the airlines and build high speed rail all across the U.S. That'll work but then the damned terrorists will just attempt to bomb trains.
Yeah, Bush was famous for putting people with no real subject relevant experience in control of agencies like DARPA, NASA and any other science endeavors.
The whole motive of the Bush administration was two fold, loot the middle class and employ nepotism as far and widely as possible.
First off every single I.T. unit I've worked in has NEVER been mixed in with accounting, customer service and marketing.
In all we were allowed to install iTunes or WMP, or whatever preferred. We could play CD's, or what we want with headphones or earphones. If it was iTunes we all shared libraries.
Your boss is off base here. Cite music in cars as an example, or music used while studying.
This would also be good for people who live in cities and near highways. Diesel, even the low sulfur varieties spews a lot of particulates. Not to mention the tiny bits of rubber tire you inhale regulary.
I've already gotten reports that at&t is blocking some calls from Google Voice. So look for some big court cases to happen. And last I looked, Google has deeper pockets than all the telecoms combined.
Upstart technologies (In this case VoIP) just keep getting cheaper and cheaper and just like long distance calls, they get to the point where they literally costs thousandths of a penny per minute or less.
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We decided to move three of our divisions into one facility, those included to business facing units and the I.T. division.
I was charged with laying out the design for data, telecom and electrical for the project. Also had engineering of our little NOC.
Nice setup - redundant power in the I.T. division, nice big APC UPS for the entire room, had it's own 480V power drop, dual HVAC units, a natural gas fired generator. It's nice to have the money to do this.
Since we were a state agency we had to use state DNS services. And one day the city had a massive power outage. We were up and running happy as a clam but we found the Achilles heel in all our plans. Without DNS we couldn't get in or out. I had floated the idea of maintaining our own DNS server but nobody wanted to hear that. We had the decent network connection, and the redundant power (Yes, we even placed a UPS/Generator backed up outlet in the MDF for Cox's Marconi router) so why the hell not replicate the state DNS services?
Let that be a lesson. We tried to plan for all contingencies and we completely missed our dependence on an outside state agency. Of course since a river runs right behind we also raised the NOC floor by about a foot.
At the last meet of Providence Geeks I heard quite a bit about HTML5. But I have yet to find a decent how-to for it, nor a decent list of tags, etc. available. It's just a horrible mish-mash right now. And FTA, 21 years for full deployment. I said 5 years.
Say you hide active RF transmitters on your body and visit the guy. If he doesn't react then it is pure bullshit. Use controls with powered down RF transmitters, no RF transmitter etc.
And his symptoms while on a boat can also be due to sea sickness. Or maybe it was the motor on the boat, you know, nice big spark gap generators called spark plugs if it's gasoline, or the generator supplying power to the boat.
No kidding. When I saw the estimate that 31% was paperwork the first thing that popped into my head was "single payer".
Back in 2001 I worked at the state AG's office. It was there that I got a glimpse into the medical billing and insurance systems side. It lead me to the conclusion that not only are the insurance companies being enriched at our expense, the billing companies are making a fair amount of money too.
Go single payer and you cut out those two layers. Imagine that.
I know of one former job where they have no clue on the passwords used for things like databases, configuration passwords, etc. When they laid me off they didn't even ask. I guess they thought I did nothing there.
I know it won't happen soon but there will come a day when they'll wonder what those passwords are. Hell I don't even remember them, I used nice cryptic passwords for everything.
Just install a packet sniffer between your machine and the network connection. Problem solved. Then copy the code that they transmit and install it on a server on your network. Find out the connection details and point them at your local server. Presto, problem solved.
Web robots. Just put a robots.txt file in your web directory and that pretty much shuts it down.
Also take into account that China, Russia, et al are +12 from us So that might explain some of it. In other words, they might be caching your site.
Precisely. There seems to be a general fear of electronic devices in the past few years. Recall the Mooninite scare in Boston.
Yet I can pack my Arduino, wire kit, and components in my backpack and send it through a TSA x-ray and nobody says BOO about it. Schools are getting out of control lately. It all started with the zero tolerance bullshit.
Thank you, yes they were LC 475's.
And in my office we had a combination of Macintosh LC II's, and LC III's and LC IV's.
In one office someone got upgraded to an LC IV which made their office mate jealous because she only had an LC II. We didn't have the money to buy more of the newer machines but since they all used the same case/covers I had an idea. I took the cover from my LC IV and swapped it with her LC II cover. She was so happy with her new machine.
I like your idea of bounties! That would be something that interests me greatly.
Yup. I've often been of the opinion that if the Chinese government either can't get its act together or continues to sponsor what I term a form of terrorism, we should just push to cut their net connection completely.
Of course that would play into the governments hands. Then they'd have the ultimate control of information.
But I was just responsible for a state web site, not a federal web site. So no harm, no foul.
Back in 2001 I was working for state government. Our web site was defaced and I started tracing the sources through our border routers, etc. It resolved back to China.
So I did what any sane administrator in government would do, I just blotted out the known IP ranges from China.
My only duty was to report it to the I.T. Director. I followed up as far as I could. And when the two of us stopped monitoring we informed the director as to why we weren't doing it anymore and instead we built a content filter into our systems.
I think you're on to something. I wonder why it hasn't hit the U.S. yet.
When I worked for the Sec State's office in RI we were utilizing Squidproxy. Reviewing logs came to a head when the policy went out the window. It went out the window because two of we systems people noted a high administration figure surfing the web for Big, Black Beautiful Women and hotels where he could take said women.
We brought it the the IT Director and were told we do nothing about it. So we then told him we'd no longer view the proxy logs.
A little while later we also installed DansGuardian. That is a content filter. But the decision was made to exempt all administration and IT. It caused a few issues but nothing we couldn't handle.
When I worked in the IT support unit for the Alumni & Development unit of Brown University we pushed the non-existent dress code. A t-shirt and shorts worked.
Yep, yank the subsidies from the airlines and build high speed rail all across the U.S. That'll work but then the damned terrorists will just attempt to bomb trains.
Yeah, Bush was famous for putting people with no real subject relevant experience in control of agencies like DARPA, NASA and any other science endeavors.
The whole motive of the Bush administration was two fold, loot the middle class and employ nepotism as far and widely as possible.
As soon as I saw the $25,000 price tag I knew it was a ham. I'm one but at least I have a brain.
First off every single I.T. unit I've worked in has NEVER been mixed in with accounting, customer service and marketing.
In all we were allowed to install iTunes or WMP, or whatever preferred. We could play CD's, or what we want with headphones or earphones. If it was iTunes we all shared libraries.
Your boss is off base here. Cite music in cars as an example, or music used while studying.
Yep, the cat is out of the bag, and you can't un-ring that bell. The net is interesting in that respect, it has a LONG memory.
I've used FreeBSD (Mostly for Qmail Toaster) and couldn't stand it. I'll take Debian hands down.
This would also be good for people who live in cities and near highways. Diesel, even the low sulfur varieties spews a lot of particulates. Not to mention the tiny bits of rubber tire you inhale regulary.
I've already gotten reports that at&t is blocking some calls from Google Voice. So look for some big court cases to happen. And last I looked, Google has deeper pockets than all the telecoms combined.
Upstart technologies (In this case VoIP) just keep getting cheaper and cheaper and just like long distance calls, they get to the point where they literally costs thousandths of a penny per minute or less.