An elegant solution. That's the trouble with some devices. They're so small, run a Linux kernel and don't ID themselves so easily that the only way to find them is the shut things down one by one to find it.
I'm thinking about buying a Honda Civic Hybrid. Apparently the Honda's are quite nice. And there's on feature I like. If the battery pack is dead the car will still run, unlike the Prius where when your battery dies you're SOL.
But with your thoughts in mind the first thing I plan to do when I get the car is remove all Hybrid badging.
My provider, Cox is already sending out flyers telling people that if they just leave the sets connected to cable they don't have to buy converters or DTV sets.
I have no motivation to move fast on the DTV transition since I don't watch much television in the first place. Or at least not broadcast or what comes over the cable.
I only get a net connection from the cable company, not a video feed. And all the computers in the house are at least 720p so I'm not worried.
But the linking of demand draft instruments to ACH. Demand draft and it's closely related cousin Share draft were never meant to be linked electronically.
It worked fine when just the banks were allowed to submit demand draft to the automated clearing house (ACH) but when you let merchants play in the ACH sphere all bets were off.
I'm not sure what the solution is that will restore integrity to the monetary transfer system. But it's broken now and needs to be examined and fixed.
It should also be common knowledge that banks primary security model means firewalls and intrusion detection, but it never really looks at the draft process and ACH transfers because as far as the bank is concerned, those are all legitimate transactions from 'trusted' sources.
The banking industry in general isn't the more secure place. While they'll spend money on intrusion detection systems etc, a simple low tech approach can defeat most bank security measures.
iTunes will indeed convert a WMA into it's AAC format.
And it will import MP3 files to it's library just like that. Not only that, drag those files into a playlist and burn a perfect audio cd.
Apple winks at DRM. Come on, even when the 8GB iPod Nano stores 1,200 songs who is going to spend $1,200 to buy their music over again in digital format? If you scale up to the 60GB models you're looking at about $9K just to fill the thing with music.
All our machines were imaged by one of our investor parent companies. I hope to hell they're legit copies. Just checked, the product key sticker matches the registry so I think I'm good.
That's why we need to make a massive investment in infrastructure in this country. Only thing is that I don't hold out much hope for that ever happening.
In answer to your question, it's because I've seen what power utility monopolies do. Where I live National Grid is the monopoly in both power and natural gas.
We just got hit with a 21% price increase for electricity and numerous nickle and dime increases for natural gas.
What irritates me about the natural gas side is that they already charge us for distribution, and it's a significant sum. So why do they have to hike our rates on that side so they can pay to upgrade the lines. Shouldn't they have been doing that all along?
The most recent one has them wanting to pass advertising costs to it's customer base in order to attract more people to use natural gas to heat their homes.
That whatever format and protocol you use, it may not be compatible with what we use 25 years from now, or even five years from now.
I used to work for the RI Sec State's office and had frequent discussions with archivists about how to store data for the long term. The solution is to keep migrating it to newer devices.
That said, I believe Kodak makes a burnable CD that will last for 20+ years. You might want to check with them though if I were you, I'd be sure to provide a CD-ROM drive and interface instructions along with electrical signals, etc. in with the disc.
Indeed, I get a 20/5 package from Cox and it works fairly well. I run my three types of VoIP over it including Vonage, Skype and MagicJack with great results.
But I want what they have in Japan. Not only do they get more bandwidth, they pay less for it.
The best interests include paying for a private security detail for the peoples homes while they're away.
The closing of the account AFTER the information was stolen is priceless. The chickens have already flown the coop and you close the door anyhow. Lovely.
Isn't part of the patent process to determine if prior art already exists? If so Microsoft doesn't have a chance of getting a patent on this, particularly since much of the prior art is GPL anyhow.
There are still a number of people I keep up with on Usenet (NNTP). That said, I finally ditched my ISP's shitty NNTP services. They use Limelight networks and I get frequent disconnects, frequent article number resets, etc.
Switched to Motzarella and it works fine with Gravity 2.60
Absolutely. I had made this exact point when we were planning the move but the then I.T. Director didn't want to hear about managing a DNS zone. I told him I'd done so in many cases without issue using BIND of all things.
After that power failure the tune changed. Got a Linux box with BIND installed and configured for our zone and all was well.
I was heavily involved in the planning for moving our I.T. infrastructure to a different place.
It went from what was essentially a closet in a basement with a single AC unit and individual UPS's on each server.
So I decided redundancy was key. We had redundant AC, but the best part was power.
All servers (70 of them at last reckoning) are attached to an APC Symmetra that nominally gives 40 minutes of battery power. The Symmetra in turn is backed up by a 125kW natural-gas fired generator that spools up within 10 seconds.
It was decided we could suffer a brief AC outage so that was simply attached to the generator. There were two 2 ton AC units in place.
Even had the foresight to extend a tendril out to the MDF in the building so that our telecom and ISP could plug their UPS into the generator circuit.
And what was the fly in the ointment? Our DNS services were provided by an outside entity. So one day we had a power failure that hit a very large swath of the city and included us and the entity that provided DNS services.
So while everything in our shop was running, nobody from the outside could see our public services, and nobody inside could get out.
We actually got hold of the DNS zone and had our own after that.
Then there's the process the BSA uses to initiate action against an entity. The first thing it does is look at the financials of the company in question.
I know, I submitted a former employer and was told that the company was in poor financial condition and would not be a viable target because of that.
I has a WAP54G die on me. Complete failure, didn't even get power onto the board because the regulator popped. I knew it meant that something else on the board was bad too so I tossed it.
Got a Belkin, I wish I had paid heed to a friends warning. I had to reboot the thing every few hours.
Next up a Netgear 614. Coverage awful which is odd because I used one on a clients network and it's got perfect coverage. But then I'm in an area where there are LOTS of wireless networks.
Another client gave me a WRT54G that wasn't working for him. I flashed the latest software onto it and it now works fine. Now if Windows didn't have such a fucked wireless zero config app maybe I'd be happier with wireless.
But by and large, I like wired better. I bought two 50' Cat-5 patch cables for $30 and ran one to my office and another to my bedroom.
Put it this way, extending human lifespans would eliminate the pressure to reproduce.
Carry on a name? Why when you live 1,000 years or so. You can reproduce later in life, say when you're 700 years old. The cycles just go longer.
From what I've read on de Grey, initially the spans might be 150 to 300 years. Hell, I'll go for 200 years if I could.
And the misconception is who wants to be even 100 years old if you're a wrinkled up prune? But that's something that de Grey's work addresses too. Anyone who's read Heinlein's stories about those with expanded lifetimes knows about the refresher.
Ah yes, phones. I've lost them in peoples cars but they've always returned them to me.
One day I was walking into the office and spotted a cell phone on the sidewalk. Now the first thing you do is go into the directory and look for an entry that says "home". When I got into the office I called that number and explained to the person that answered that I'd found the phone and where I was located in the building.
The woman who came and claimed it was grateful. She had all her contact info in that phone.
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I wonder where young Master Yuan got the nanotubes for his project and who might have helped him.
Could it be that a family member works for a place that uses nanotubes?
An elegant solution. That's the trouble with some devices. They're so small, run a Linux kernel and don't ID themselves so easily that the only way to find them is the shut things down one by one to find it.
I'm thinking about buying a Honda Civic Hybrid. Apparently the Honda's are quite nice. And there's on feature I like. If the battery pack is dead the car will still run, unlike the Prius where when your battery dies you're SOL.
But with your thoughts in mind the first thing I plan to do when I get the car is remove all Hybrid badging.
I was just reading about this in The Living Cosmos by Chris Impey. Very good book btw, worth checking out from the library or even buying.
I'm glad Szostak is doing this though, it starts to fill in the gab on how cellular life started.
My provider, Cox is already sending out flyers telling people that if they just leave the sets connected to cable they don't have to buy converters or DTV sets.
I have no motivation to move fast on the DTV transition since I don't watch much television in the first place. Or at least not broadcast or what comes over the cable.
I only get a net connection from the cable company, not a video feed. And all the computers in the house are at least 720p so I'm not worried.
But the linking of demand draft instruments to ACH. Demand draft and it's closely related cousin Share draft were never meant to be linked electronically.
It worked fine when just the banks were allowed to submit demand draft to the automated clearing house (ACH) but when you let merchants play in the ACH sphere all bets were off.
I'm not sure what the solution is that will restore integrity to the monetary transfer system. But it's broken now and needs to be examined and fixed.
It should also be common knowledge that banks primary security model means firewalls and intrusion detection, but it never really looks at the draft process and ACH transfers because as far as the bank is concerned, those are all legitimate transactions from 'trusted' sources.
The banking industry in general isn't the more secure place. While they'll spend money on intrusion detection systems etc, a simple low tech approach can defeat most bank security measures.
There's a nice thought.
iTunes will indeed convert a WMA into it's AAC format.
And it will import MP3 files to it's library just like that. Not only that, drag those files into a playlist and burn a perfect audio cd.
Apple winks at DRM. Come on, even when the 8GB iPod Nano stores 1,200 songs who is going to spend $1,200 to buy their music over again in digital format? If you scale up to the 60GB models you're looking at about $9K just to fill the thing with music.
All our machines were imaged by one of our investor parent companies. I hope to hell they're legit copies. Just checked, the product key sticker matches the registry so I think I'm good.
That's why we need to make a massive investment in infrastructure in this country. Only thing is that I don't hold out much hope for that ever happening.
In answer to your question, it's because I've seen what power utility monopolies do. Where I live National Grid is the monopoly in both power and natural gas.
We just got hit with a 21% price increase for electricity and numerous nickle and dime increases for natural gas.
What irritates me about the natural gas side is that they already charge us for distribution, and it's a significant sum. So why do they have to hike our rates on that side so they can pay to upgrade the lines. Shouldn't they have been doing that all along?
The most recent one has them wanting to pass advertising costs to it's customer base in order to attract more people to use natural gas to heat their homes.
So there you see the reason.
That whatever format and protocol you use, it may not be compatible with what we use 25 years from now, or even five years from now.
I used to work for the RI Sec State's office and had frequent discussions with archivists about how to store data for the long term. The solution is to keep migrating it to newer devices.
That said, I believe Kodak makes a burnable CD that will last for 20+ years. You might want to check with them though if I were you, I'd be sure to provide a CD-ROM drive and interface instructions along with electrical signals, etc. in with the disc.
Indeed, I get a 20/5 package from Cox and it works fairly well. I run my three types of VoIP over it including Vonage, Skype and MagicJack with great results.
But I want what they have in Japan. Not only do they get more bandwidth, they pay less for it.
The best interests include paying for a private security detail for the peoples homes while they're away.
The closing of the account AFTER the information was stolen is priceless. The chickens have already flown the coop and you close the door anyhow. Lovely.
Let's see.
275 employees, 4 IT people. 68.75:1 Salary mid 5 digits.
60 employee, 7 IT people. 8.57:1 Salary high 5 digits
Currently 12 employees, 3 IT people 4:1 Salary low six figure.
So I can see that in my I.T career the money has gone higher while the ratio has gone down. I must be doing something right.
Isn't part of the patent process to determine if prior art already exists? If so Microsoft doesn't have a chance of getting a patent on this, particularly since much of the prior art is GPL anyhow.
I know COBOL. But I can see they're not going to pay much to modify the code. That's too bad because now they're stuck.
Got to love the unintended consequences of this one.
There are still a number of people I keep up with on Usenet (NNTP). That said, I finally ditched my ISP's shitty NNTP services. They use Limelight networks and I get frequent disconnects, frequent article number resets, etc.
Switched to Motzarella and it works fine with Gravity 2.60
Absolutely. I had made this exact point when we were planning the move but the then I.T. Director didn't want to hear about managing a DNS zone. I told him I'd done so in many cases without issue using BIND of all things.
After that power failure the tune changed. Got a Linux box with BIND installed and configured for our zone and all was well.
I was heavily involved in the planning for moving our I.T. infrastructure to a different place.
It went from what was essentially a closet in a basement with a single AC unit and individual UPS's on each server.
So I decided redundancy was key. We had redundant AC, but the best part was power.
All servers (70 of them at last reckoning) are attached to an APC Symmetra that nominally gives 40 minutes of battery power. The Symmetra in turn is backed up by a 125kW natural-gas fired generator that spools up within 10 seconds.
It was decided we could suffer a brief AC outage so that was simply attached to the generator. There were two 2 ton AC units in place.
Even had the foresight to extend a tendril out to the MDF in the building so that our telecom and ISP could plug their UPS into the generator circuit.
And what was the fly in the ointment? Our DNS services were provided by an outside entity. So one day we had a power failure that hit a very large swath of the city and included us and the entity that provided DNS services.
So while everything in our shop was running, nobody from the outside could see our public services, and nobody inside could get out.
We actually got hold of the DNS zone and had our own after that.
Why? The president of the company forced the I.T. staff to install pirated software. I knew it and the company controller knew it.
I specifically warned the company president of the potential liabilities too.
Then there's the process the BSA uses to initiate action against an entity. The first thing it does is look at the financials of the company in question.
I know, I submitted a former employer and was told that the company was in poor financial condition and would not be a viable target because of that.
So if you're not making much money, pirate away!
Network Interface Cards and chips are probably the most failure prone components in a computer.
If you've been around networks long enough you've found jabbering nics, dead nics etc.
I has a WAP54G die on me. Complete failure, didn't even get power onto the board because the regulator popped. I knew it meant that something else on the board was bad too so I tossed it.
Got a Belkin, I wish I had paid heed to a friends warning. I had to reboot the thing every few hours.
Next up a Netgear 614. Coverage awful which is odd because I used one on a clients network and it's got perfect coverage. But then I'm in an area where there are LOTS of wireless networks.
Another client gave me a WRT54G that wasn't working for him. I flashed the latest software onto it and it now works fine. Now if Windows didn't have such a fucked wireless zero config app maybe I'd be happier with wireless.
But by and large, I like wired better. I bought two 50' Cat-5 patch cables for $30 and ran one to my office and another to my bedroom.
Put it this way, extending human lifespans would eliminate the pressure to reproduce.
Carry on a name? Why when you live 1,000 years or so. You can reproduce later in life, say when you're 700 years old. The cycles just go longer.
From what I've read on de Grey, initially the spans might be 150 to 300 years. Hell, I'll go for 200 years if I could.
And the misconception is who wants to be even 100 years old if you're a wrinkled up prune? But that's something that de Grey's work addresses too. Anyone who's read Heinlein's stories about those with expanded lifetimes knows about the refresher.
Ah yes, phones. I've lost them in peoples cars but they've always returned them to me.
One day I was walking into the office and spotted a cell phone on the sidewalk. Now the first thing you do is go into the directory and look for an entry that says "home". When I got into the office I called that number and explained to the person that answered that I'd found the phone and where I was located in the building.
The woman who came and claimed it was grateful. She had all her contact info in that phone.