I knew that Verizon and at&t would come out against this. They've been taking additional revenues from the various fees like FUSF, et al and just plowing it right back into the revenue and dividend stream.
You think for a moment they're actually going to do something like build out broadband? Not on your life, unless of course the FCC mandates it. Then it'll be tied up in the courts for a decade or so. By the time a decision favoring the FCC ruling is made, there will already be an upstart and disruptive technology that fills the void, or do I need to remind everyone of the origins of MCI and Sprint.
Uniform Commercial Code pretty much says that only the Federal Government has the power to tax interstate commerce. Most states get around this by calling it a use tax which I thoroughly disagree with the concept.
Nice job! I had the responsibility for redundancy planning too. Went with an APC Symmetra in room, and a 125kW natural gas fired generator on the back end with auto-transfer, regular generator exercising, and regular maintenance and monitoring as part of the whole APC package. Did a 10 year contract on that one. So they notice a battery gone bad in the Symmetra before we did. Also had a 480VAC dedicated service to the NOC.
Dual redundant AC systems. One fails the other one runs.
Raised floor (8") - this saved our bacon when we had to cable out 8 new servers. Luckily I know my way around the business end of a punch down tool.
Separately keyed room locks. Separate alarm system on NOC. So both the I.T. space and the NOC had their own alarm systems.
Also - data centers do move. I know, been through a couple myself. Make sure the movers are bonded, check references for the movers, and insure both the equipment and costs to recover lost data.
One move was government systems. One of the horror stories I heard back when checking with other state agencies was that in one case movers dropped an entire rack of servers, destroying all.
Our moving company un-racked every server, then wrapped in padding and blanket and placed in a stable rolling cart. Only 3 servers per cart.
Move went off without a hitch. However the facility we moved into was still under construction and we had a brand new fully populated HP4108 switch that got fried because the electricians shorted the power supply while running CATV lines. Apparently a piece of copper fell in and the electrician heard a snap and we noticed our network going dark.
Luckily I could get some spare switches from another state agency. And the building owner was good, he paid the $1,500 plus $150 in shipping charges to get us a new power supply for the HP switch the next day. We also chipped in $1,500 to get the redundant power supply.
Disaster recovery is clutch. We had a web server crash hard that didn't have solid backups or documentation. So we put policies in place to document and backup everything. Ended up using an rsnapshot server for the purpose and that made life so easy.
The SCADA systems. Some genius decided to write a TCP/IP stack for SCADA and then put an ethernet port on the damned things. And what did the utility companies do but hook em' up to an IP network. Not very smart.
Definitely an Ayn Rand adherent. They'll just pick up and leave. Oh my god, what are we going to do when the parasitic captains of industry just disappear? Yeah, like there aren't some of us ready to pick up the mantle.
Yup, I'm not gonna pay for it. I'm a little surprised they couldn't make it work with the ad model. But then lots of us know how to block ads on hulu. I wouldn't have a problem with ads if they didn't run the same #(*#$*# ad six times in he space of a 40 minute block.
I deal with a lot of technically clueless attorneys. They really have no idea about technology other than the fact that the computer is a black box that they use to word process, and email, and occasionally listen to case based audio files.
In the case of the SPARC v. Sparkfun it's just some attorneys with a hair across their ass.
I was responsible for reviewing proxy logs (squidproxy). One day I noted our Chief of Staff was visiting hookup sites and then looking for hotels and motels. He had a predilection for big, black, beautiful women btw.
I bring it to the IT Director. I'm told we do nothing about it. So I told the director it was pointless to monitor the proxy logs if we weren't going to apply the policy across all staff.
The other systems guy started watching the logs and noticed the same pattern. He brings it to the IT Director and gets the same response and says the same thing.
Squidproxy is fine for blacklisting but DansGuardian is awesome. While Squidproxy watches sites, DansGuardian watches content. That nipped the problem in the bud or so we thought. Admin and IT were exempted from DansGuardian. So we never looked at a proxy log again.
I'm going to start with trains. Trains in the U.S. practice collision survival whereas trains in Europe and Asia use collision avoidance.
The same principle applies to automobiles, collision survival vs. avoidance. We're starting to see a little feature creep in that respect but it won't come soon enough for my tastes. Right now the collision avoidance is a passive device, it warns if you're getting too close. Instead the car should simply take over to preserve itself.
I once worked in a shop that had all critical functions running on Linux. From databases, web servers even email was all OSS and it ran like a well oiled machine.
New administration comes and the Admin Director is paranoid that we can read her email because of the way Qmail stores email in the users home directory. So we pave over everything, Windows Server, Exchange (Ick, poo!) and IIS.
We two systems guys realized that a) Why 'fix' what isn't broken. We had far too much integrity to snoop email, why change systems due to management paranoia and b) If we're going to put up an Exchange box, we need something in front of it to catch all the shit.
We managed to stop up the process for 9 months until management capitulated.
Here in Providence, RI our police chief Col. Dean Esserman is known by the moniker "Chief Shiny Badge". I'd say it's an accurate assessment, his rank and file even had a full no confidence vote against the chief a bit over a year ago.
And who coined the "Chief Shiny Badge" name? Convicted former Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci. Cianci also calls current mayor David Cicilline "Little Napoleon" on Cianci's radio show.
I know. Sometimes reality is stunning. I think the FCC has gotten a heap of pro-neutrality comments. Be aware, the FCC is driven by its public comment process to the point of almost ridiculousness.
It's the reason that the six participants of the Parents Television Council can through their weight around regarding obscenity. They essentially game the system, commenting over and over again on the same issue and the FCC counts each one as distinct.
I bet it's the lead free solder. That's the big deal in electronics circles right now. It has a different melting point and has different characteristics. Gimme rosin core any day!
And let us not talk about the experts on YouTube's Make channel who cold solder like crazy.
That's the thing. We knew that tape is a serial system, in other words if the data you want is towards the end you have to spool through the thing to the end.
Hard drives are random access devices. Point, click, restore. Love it.
But rsnapshot works even better. When I worked for the RI Sec State's office we found tape backup wasn't cutting it for us. We picked up a cheapie HP server loaded it up with storage and bought a bunch of terabyte capacity external drives for off sites.
You don't know what a relief it was to be able to go to a web interface and restore files from there. Worked great with linux boxes, but you had to jump through a few hoops to deal with the Windows servers we had.
I've got a 2nd Generation Touch and I just updated it to the iPhone 3.1 software. I now see bluetooth options on it. This means it has that Broadcom chip that also does FM tuner too. I so want that capability.
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I knew that Verizon and at&t would come out against this. They've been taking additional revenues from the various fees like FUSF, et al and just plowing it right back into the revenue and dividend stream.
You think for a moment they're actually going to do something like build out broadband? Not on your life, unless of course the FCC mandates it. Then it'll be tied up in the courts for a decade or so. By the time a decision favoring the FCC ruling is made, there will already be an upstart and disruptive technology that fills the void, or do I need to remind everyone of the origins of MCI and Sprint.
Uniform Commercial Code pretty much says that only the Federal Government has the power to tax interstate commerce. Most states get around this by calling it a use tax which I thoroughly disagree with the concept.
Nice job! I had the responsibility for redundancy planning too. Went with an APC Symmetra in room, and a 125kW natural gas fired generator on the back end with auto-transfer, regular generator exercising, and regular maintenance and monitoring as part of the whole APC package. Did a 10 year contract on that one. So they notice a battery gone bad in the Symmetra before we did. Also had a 480VAC dedicated service to the NOC.
Dual redundant AC systems. One fails the other one runs.
Raised floor (8") - this saved our bacon when we had to cable out 8 new servers. Luckily I know my way around the business end of a punch down tool.
Separately keyed room locks. Separate alarm system on NOC. So both the I.T. space and the NOC had their own alarm systems.
Also - data centers do move. I know, been through a couple myself. Make sure the movers are bonded, check references for the movers, and insure both the equipment and costs to recover lost data.
One move was government systems. One of the horror stories I heard back when checking with other state agencies was that in one case movers dropped an entire rack of servers, destroying all.
Our moving company un-racked every server, then wrapped in padding and blanket and placed in a stable rolling cart. Only 3 servers per cart.
Move went off without a hitch. However the facility we moved into was still under construction and we had a brand new fully populated HP4108 switch that got fried because the electricians shorted the power supply while running CATV lines. Apparently a piece of copper fell in and the electrician heard a snap and we noticed our network going dark.
Luckily I could get some spare switches from another state agency. And the building owner was good, he paid the $1,500 plus $150 in shipping charges to get us a new power supply for the HP switch the next day. We also chipped in $1,500 to get the redundant power supply.
Disaster recovery is clutch. We had a web server crash hard that didn't have solid backups or documentation. So we put policies in place to document and backup everything. Ended up using an rsnapshot server for the purpose and that made life so easy.
The SCADA systems. Some genius decided to write a TCP/IP stack for SCADA and then put an ethernet port on the damned things. And what did the utility companies do but hook em' up to an IP network. Not very smart.
Definitely an Ayn Rand adherent. They'll just pick up and leave. Oh my god, what are we going to do when the parasitic captains of industry just disappear? Yeah, like there aren't some of us ready to pick up the mantle.
Yup, I'm not gonna pay for it. I'm a little surprised they couldn't make it work with the ad model. But then lots of us know how to block ads on hulu. I wouldn't have a problem with ads if they didn't run the same #(*#$*# ad six times in he space of a 40 minute block.
I deal with a lot of technically clueless attorneys. They really have no idea about technology other than the fact that the computer is a black box that they use to word process, and email, and occasionally listen to case based audio files.
In the case of the SPARC v. Sparkfun it's just some attorneys with a hair across their ass.
20 inches. That isn't much and WiTricity has ranges that are multiples of that 20.
Other good HP's:
LaserJet 5si LaserJet 4
HP business class printers are phenomenal. If you want just plain monochrome prints, go for a LaserJet 4000N.
When I worked for Ernst & Young we had a ton of LaserJet II's and III's that had ticket over a million pages too.
That's part of why I love New England in general. It tends to stick more the constitutional side than anything else.
So in MA they need a warrant to GPS you or your car, in RI they can't have random road blocks for alcohol checks.
Yes it was a clear violation of our acceptable use policies.
I was responsible for reviewing proxy logs (squidproxy). One day I noted our Chief of Staff was visiting hookup sites and then looking for hotels and motels. He had a predilection for big, black, beautiful women btw.
I bring it to the IT Director. I'm told we do nothing about it. So I told the director it was pointless to monitor the proxy logs if we weren't going to apply the policy across all staff.
The other systems guy started watching the logs and noticed the same pattern. He brings it to the IT Director and gets the same response and says the same thing.
Squidproxy is fine for blacklisting but DansGuardian is awesome. While Squidproxy watches sites, DansGuardian watches content. That nipped the problem in the bud or so we thought. Admin and IT were exempted from DansGuardian. So we never looked at a proxy log again.
I'm going to start with trains. Trains in the U.S. practice collision survival whereas trains in Europe and Asia use collision avoidance.
The same principle applies to automobiles, collision survival vs. avoidance. We're starting to see a little feature creep in that respect but it won't come soon enough for my tastes. Right now the collision avoidance is a passive device, it warns if you're getting too close. Instead the car should simply take over to preserve itself.
Yes that was a point we systems people brought up. Exchange mailboxes aren't really that secure either.
This was a state government job btw. I note that incoming administrations aren't the brightest bulbs.
I once worked in a shop that had all critical functions running on Linux. From databases, web servers even email was all OSS and it ran like a well oiled machine.
New administration comes and the Admin Director is paranoid that we can read her email because of the way Qmail stores email in the users home directory. So we pave over everything, Windows Server, Exchange (Ick, poo!) and IIS.
We two systems guys realized that a) Why 'fix' what isn't broken. We had far too much integrity to snoop email, why change systems due to management paranoia and b) If we're going to put up an Exchange box, we need something in front of it to catch all the shit.
We managed to stop up the process for 9 months until management capitulated.
Here in Providence, RI our police chief Col. Dean Esserman is known by the moniker "Chief Shiny Badge". I'd say it's an accurate assessment, his rank and file even had a full no confidence vote against the chief a bit over a year ago.
And who coined the "Chief Shiny Badge" name? Convicted former Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci. Cianci also calls current mayor David Cicilline "Little Napoleon" on Cianci's radio show.
The Austin chief needs to grow a thicker skin.
I know. Sometimes reality is stunning. I think the FCC has gotten a heap of pro-neutrality comments. Be aware, the FCC is driven by its public comment process to the point of almost ridiculousness.
It's the reason that the six participants of the Parents Television Council can through their weight around regarding obscenity. They essentially game the system, commenting over and over again on the same issue and the FCC counts each one as distinct.
I bet it's the lead free solder. That's the big deal in electronics circles right now. It has a different melting point and has different characteristics. Gimme rosin core any day!
And let us not talk about the experts on YouTube's Make channel who cold solder like crazy.
That's the thing. We knew that tape is a serial system, in other words if the data you want is towards the end you have to spool through the thing to the end.
Hard drives are random access devices. Point, click, restore. Love it.
Well it was 4mm DAT but yes, very limited in capacity and access. Not to mention we'd never done a full restore from tape.
You'd actually be surprised how much tape is still used in government circles, the FBI included.
But rsnapshot works even better. When I worked for the RI Sec State's office we found tape backup wasn't cutting it for us. We picked up a cheapie HP server loaded it up with storage and bought a bunch of terabyte capacity external drives for off sites.
You don't know what a relief it was to be able to go to a web interface and restore files from there. Worked great with linux boxes, but you had to jump through a few hoops to deal with the Windows servers we had.
TDP or Thermal De-Polymerization can in fact be fed plastics, turkey offal, etc. and separate it into components like carbon, oil, etc.
I want to see this go large scale. $10 a barrel oil would mean gasoline prices around $0.50
I've got a 2nd Generation Touch and I just updated it to the iPhone 3.1 software. I now see bluetooth options on it. This means it has that Broadcom chip that also does FM tuner too. I so want that capability.