Like another poster said, when you can buy 5 other devices for the price of 1 year's worth of Cisco support and keep them as hot spares, it's hard to justify that support.
All I know is, until you click 'I Agree' in the EULA that opens when you fire up your browser, all your connections are null-routed, or firewalled, or something. Because nothing works. After you agree, the connection will work for 24 hours, at which point you need to re-agree, I think. At least that's how it seems.
It's a simple middle ground between rwquiring them collecting all kinds of identifiable info, and letting everyone run free on the network. It gives them some CYA protection in case they get sued if someone is running a warez/mp3 server on the network I suppose - they may not know the person, but they know the tower they are on and the MAC address, so they could in theory use the cops and a signal meter to trace em down.
AFAIK we were the first city in NA to impliment it.
NO registration required (though you must agree to the EULA at sign on), and the city actually makes money from the ancillary services the municipal network provides to companies. A win-win in my book.
Sounds a lot like NB Power (New Brunswick Power). The executives goof up a deal to buy Orimulsion from Venezuela, costing the company 100 billion dollars. And what happens? The executives get huge bonuses and severence pay, the company/province is billions in debt, and the consumers are expected to pay for it, to the tune of a 13.6% rate hike!
I believe in publicly run monopolies on services like power and water, but I also believe that the people in charge should be held accountable for their actions, and not be appointed there as paybacks to political favours.
Every time the server is started, it sends a command to all the clients causing a full sync of all changes that occured while the server was offline. The same thing happens when a client is restarted, it sends a full sync to the backup server, any blocks that do not match the client checksum are re-sent.
Thus the first time you ran this thing it would copy the whole disk image to the backup server. After that subsequent writes would be the only output.
.. you can likely save a *massive amount of space* through simple education:
- When someone hits the 'reply' button to an email with a big attachment, unless they have modified it, they should delete it if their client re-attached it again. I can't even count how many times this has resulted in tons of wasted space from people spawning a giant thread off of some.ppt file that was emailed around.
- Encourage sharing of documents via a corperate file server, instead of email. Rather than emailing the file, the person should email the location of the file. As a side bonus this helps with versioning etc.
- Filter *.avi/*.mpg/*.asf/*.swf/*.mp3 as company policy. It is highly unlikely any of these have anything to do with company information but I bet your mail server is wasting GB storing them in people's inboxes.
3G data usage is charged at the rate of R2/mb, which is around 0.32 USD per megabyte. That's for out-of-bundle rates, so if you signed up for a data bundle, the per megabyte rate would be even lower. Data speeds are unbelievably fast - last week I had to retrieve an email attachment in the client basement parking (prior to a meeting with the client). Attachment was 2Mb in size, it took less than a minute to download it.
God, I should move to Africa. Here in Canada with Rogers it costs 7 dollars for a plan with just 1 MB of data on EDGE.
Pretty sad that a "3rd world country" has data cheaper than here.
... I can't stand when summaries read stuff like "available due to the lack of the average user's knowledge".
Lots of APs are open not because the user doesn't know how to secure them, but because they don't give a crap. I personally have run an open AP for years. It is more convient (any device someone brings into my house has access, they don't need to get any keys), and the odds of any of my non-techie neighbours having WiFi are slim to none, so I really don't give a hoot about someone stealing my connection.
The problem is not that there is no long-term storage. The problem is that we produce more useless data than ever before.
Really, who gives a f*ck about your 1.25 TB of crap? Or mine? We're just two ants in the anthill. You really think you can look up any substantial amount of information on someone who lived 200 years ago? Hell, try *50* years ago. Aside from public records like tax information and housing details, and maybe some family photos, you are likly to come up with bubkus, unless that person was famous.
It's going to be no different 200 years from now, and frankly I don't see the problem with that. Only in the past decade has everyone gotten this weird urge to try and archive and record every unimportant detail of their daily lives (see MySpace.com, blogging, etc). What they don't realize is no one really gives a crap today, and they sure as hell won't give a crap in 100 years.
Historians want to know about culture as a whole, not in bite-sized chunks. Aside from the major move-makers (politicians, *some* celebrities), historians won't be any more interested people's musings on shit like Paris Hilton than I am.
Or I can use Klik for free, which does the same thing, is constantly up to date, and is guarenteed to never interfere with my system since all the packages are installed in theor own chroot directories.
Why doesn't Ubunto adopt Klik? Is it just not as well known?
Actually, it is the law that publicly traded companies need to do everything and anything possible, withiin the limits of the law, to mazimize shareholder value, and by extention, profits.
So, it is *required* that laws be enacted to keep them from being greedy assholes.
Because if I know for a fact my cell phone has excellent coverage in an area, and I can't call 9-1-1 cause my grandad has a heart attack in the theatre and we didn't know the cell was being jammed beforehand, I will sue their asses off.
I am not arguing the levys existance. I am arguing it's impact.
The parent says *100* discs is that much, not 200. Big difference. And also around boxing day I could get 200 for 25 bucks.
So I question it actually costing 21 cents a disc, No retailer could make a profit at that amount. Andif you actually look at the act instead of just blindly believing the poster, you will see it doesn't specify the levy amount anywhere.
...one could easily imagine a foam "knocking pad" that would muffle the knock so that it was all but inaudible, while still transmitting enough vibration through the door so that the system could discern the knocks.
I question your ability to even listen to 100 CDs in a month, let alone why you would bother burning them on CD when you could archive much more on DVD.
Obviously you have never tried to cross the border. It's actually kind of humerous because you can tell the cultural difference immediatly. You head from the US to Canada, and the Canadian customs officers are more concerned with collecting the GST and import duties then they are about looking for drugs and weapons. You head from Canada back into the US, and the US customs officers are out sniffing for drugs and and worried if your beard looks too long that you mgiht be a terrorist.
Consider the purchase of 100 blank Maxell CDs. Future Shop retails the 100 CDs for $69.99. The breakdown of this sale is $48.99 for the CDs and $21.00 for the levy (even worse is a current Future Shop deal of 200 blank CD-Rs from HP, which retails for $59.99. The levy alone on this sale is $42.00 (200 CDs x 21 cents/CD) which leaves the consumers paying $17.99 for the CDs and $42.00 for the levy).
For example, the same Maxell CDs retail for US$34.99 at CompUSA. When you add in the exchange differential, the Canadian cost is just over $40.00.
This article is on crack. Maybe if the authour was actually a Canadaian he'd know WTF he was talking about.
See above links. You can get 200 blank CDs for 40 bucks anywhere. And when they are on sale you can routinely get them for less, like 20 or 25.
So that means either this guy doesn't know WTF he is tlaking about RE the actual cost of the levy, or all these stores are selling CDs at a loss constantly.
The majority of my taxes go towards causes, programs, or institutions whose services I neither need nor want, and a handful to which I have serious ethical and/or moral objections. But there's no recourse. If I say all of this and want my taxes lowered or changed so I can keep more of my own money, I'm called greedy. When somebody else wants my money for some purpose, they're just needy.
It's called "Caring about someone other than yourself for a change".
You may not need schools now, but someday when you have kids you might. You may not need food stamps now, but when you get fired from your job and can't find employment for a few years despite all your best efforts, you'll be damn well glad we have our social saftey net.
We're human beings, we're supposed to be evolved. With modern technology and our overly affluent society there is no real need for poverty *anywhere* anymore, the "every man for himself" concept is an evolutionary hold over that the whole world would benefit from if it disappeared.
Maybe I am. But who fucking cares? 2 cents a disk, 15 cents a disc? If you can't afford $25 bucks for 200 CDRs, then you probably shouldn't be spending $$$ on your internet connection to get all the shit to burn on them to begin with.
I mean come on. No one burns data onto CDs anymore, it's all DVDs. And who burns 200 music CDs in a year, let alone 6 months? That's almost a new CD every day.
I personally have't bought a spindle of CDRs since I got my dvd burner in 2003. And I still have like 400 blanks in the house.
There's a lot more important things we Canadians get raped on compared to the U.S. (electronics prices, gas prices, food prices...), any of which costs you orders of magnitude more a year.
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Like another poster said, when you can buy 5 other devices for the price of 1 year's worth of Cisco support and keep them as hot spares, it's hard to justify that support.
All I know is, until you click 'I Agree' in the EULA that opens when you fire up your browser, all your connections are null-routed, or firewalled, or something. Because nothing works. After you agree, the connection will work for 24 hours, at which point you need to re-agree, I think. At least that's how it seems.
It's a simple middle ground between rwquiring them collecting all kinds of identifiable info, and letting everyone run free on the network. It gives them some CYA protection in case they get sued if someone is running a warez/mp3 server on the network I suppose - they may not know the person, but they know the tower they are on and the MAC address, so they could in theory use the cops and a signal meter to trace em down.
Sorry, I guess it was 100 million / year, 2 billion total.
That makes it OK right, after all, it's pocket change!
AFAIK we were the first city in NA to impliment it.
NO registration required (though you must agree to the EULA at sign on), and the city actually makes money from the ancillary services the municipal network provides to companies. A win-win in my book.
Sounds a lot like NB Power (New Brunswick Power). The executives goof up a deal to buy Orimulsion from Venezuela, costing the company 100 billion dollars. And what happens? The executives get huge bonuses and severence pay, the company/province is billions in debt, and the consumers are expected to pay for it, to the tune of a 13.6% rate hike!
I believe in publicly run monopolies on services like power and water, but I also believe that the people in charge should be held accountable for their actions, and not be appointed there as paybacks to political favours.
Every time the server is started, it sends a command to all the clients causing a full sync of all changes that occured while the server was offline. The same thing happens when a client is restarted, it sends a full sync to the backup server, any blocks that do not match the client checksum are re-sent.
Thus the first time you ran this thing it would copy the whole disk image to the backup server. After that subsequent writes would be the only output.
.. you can likely save a *massive amount of space* through simple education:
.ppt file that was emailed around.
- When someone hits the 'reply' button to an email with a big attachment, unless they have modified it, they should delete it if their client re-attached it again. I can't even count how many times this has resulted in tons of wasted space from people spawning a giant thread off of some
- Encourage sharing of documents via a corperate file server, instead of email. Rather than emailing the file, the person should email the location of the file. As a side bonus this helps with versioning etc.
- Filter *.avi/*.mpg/*.asf/*.swf/*.mp3 as company policy. It is highly unlikely any of these have anything to do with company information but I bet your mail server is wasting GB storing them in people's inboxes.
And remove the "games." from all "games.slahsdot.org" links.
/. is referencable from any section other section's domain or even from the "no section" section.
Any article on
No?
Then shut your trap.
So, only people whose IP says they are from NJ will be forced to register.
The result?
- People in NJ who want to remain anonymous to do obnoxious postings will use a proxy
- The people who will be hassled and thus pissed off? The people who live in NJ and are not doing obnoxious postings.
Way to bring home the vote fellas - by pissing off all your constitients.
I wouldn't tell your insurance company or too many people about this, you wouldn't be covered if someone did steal stuff.
3G data usage is charged at the rate of R2/mb, which is around 0.32 USD per megabyte. That's for out-of-bundle rates, so if you signed up for a data bundle, the per megabyte rate would be even lower. Data speeds are unbelievably fast - last week I had to retrieve an email attachment in the client basement parking (prior to a meeting with the client). Attachment was 2Mb in size, it took less than a minute to download it.
God, I should move to Africa. Here in Canada with Rogers it costs 7 dollars for a plan with just 1 MB of data on EDGE.
Pretty sad that a "3rd world country" has data cheaper than here.
... I can't stand when summaries read stuff like "available due to the lack of the average user's knowledge".
Lots of APs are open not because the user doesn't know how to secure them, but because they don't give a crap. I personally have run an open AP for years. It is more convient (any device someone brings into my house has access, they don't need to get any keys), and the odds of any of my non-techie neighbours having WiFi are slim to none, so I really don't give a hoot about someone stealing my connection.
The problem is not that there is no long-term storage. The problem is that we produce more useless data than ever before.
Really, who gives a f*ck about your 1.25 TB of crap? Or mine? We're just two ants in the anthill. You really think you can look up any substantial amount of information on someone who lived 200 years ago? Hell, try *50* years ago. Aside from public records like tax information and housing details, and maybe some family photos, you are likly to come up with bubkus, unless that person was famous.
It's going to be no different 200 years from now, and frankly I don't see the problem with that. Only in the past decade has everyone gotten this weird urge to try and archive and record every unimportant detail of their daily lives (see MySpace.com, blogging, etc). What they don't realize is no one really gives a crap today, and they sure as hell won't give a crap in 100 years.
Historians want to know about culture as a whole, not in bite-sized chunks. Aside from the major move-makers (politicians, *some* celebrities), historians won't be any more interested people's musings on shit like Paris Hilton than I am.
CNR for $20 / year for outdated software.
Or I can use Klik for free, which does the same thing, is constantly up to date, and is guarenteed to never interfere with my system since all the packages are installed in theor own chroot directories.
Why doesn't Ubunto adopt Klik? Is it just not as well known?
Actually, it is the law that publicly traded companies need to do everything and anything possible, withiin the limits of the law, to mazimize shareholder value, and by extention, profits.
So, it is *required* that laws be enacted to keep them from being greedy assholes.
None of the stuff on that page works anymore.
Because if I know for a fact my cell phone has excellent coverage in an area, and I can't call 9-1-1 cause my grandad has a heart attack in the theatre and we didn't know the cell was being jammed beforehand, I will sue their asses off.
I am not arguing the levys existance. I am arguing it's impact. The parent says *100* discs is that much, not 200. Big difference. And also around boxing day I could get 200 for 25 bucks. So I question it actually costing 21 cents a disc, No retailer could make a profit at that amount. Andif you actually look at the act instead of just blindly believing the poster, you will see it doesn't specify the levy amount anywhere.
...one could easily imagine a foam "knocking pad" that would muffle the knock so that it was all but inaudible, while still transmitting enough vibration through the door so that the system could discern the knocks.
I question your ability to even listen to 100 CDs in a month, let alone why you would bother burning them on CD when you could archive much more on DVD.
Obviously you have never tried to cross the border. It's actually kind of humerous because you can tell the cultural difference immediatly. You head from the US to Canada, and the Canadian customs officers are more concerned with collecting the GST and import duties then they are about looking for drugs and weapons. You head from Canada back into the US, and the US customs officers are out sniffing for drugs and and worried if your beard looks too long that you mgiht be a terrorist.
Consider the purchase of 100 blank Maxell CDs. Future Shop retails the 100 CDs for $69.99. The breakdown of this sale is $48.99 for the CDs and $21.00 for the levy (even worse is a current Future Shop deal of 200 blank CD-Rs from HP, which retails for $59.99. The levy alone on this sale is $42.00 (200 CDs x 21 cents/CD) which leaves the consumers paying $17.99 for the CDs and $42.00 for the levy).
For example, the same Maxell CDs retail for US$34.99 at CompUSA. When you add in the exchange differential, the Canadian cost is just over $40.00.
Umm... excuse me
This article is on crack. Maybe if the authour was actually a Canadaian he'd know WTF he was talking about.
See above links. You can get 200 blank CDs for 40 bucks anywhere. And when they are on sale you can routinely get them for less, like 20 or 25.
So that means either this guy doesn't know WTF he is tlaking about RE the actual cost of the levy, or all these stores are selling CDs at a loss constantly.
I think option A is more likely.
The majority of my taxes go towards causes, programs, or institutions whose services I neither need nor want, and a handful to which I have serious ethical and/or moral objections. But there's no recourse. If I say all of this and want my taxes lowered or changed so I can keep more of my own money, I'm called greedy. When somebody else wants my money for some purpose, they're just needy.
It's called "Caring about someone other than yourself for a change".
You may not need schools now, but someday when you have kids you might. You may not need food stamps now, but when you get fired from your job and can't find employment for a few years despite all your best efforts, you'll be damn well glad we have our social saftey net.
We're human beings, we're supposed to be evolved. With modern technology and our overly affluent society there is no real need for poverty *anywhere* anymore, the "every man for himself" concept is an evolutionary hold over that the whole world would benefit from if it disappeared.
Maybe I am. But who fucking cares? 2 cents a disk, 15 cents a disc? If you can't afford $25 bucks for 200 CDRs, then you probably shouldn't be spending $$$ on your internet connection to get all the shit to burn on them to begin with. I mean come on. No one burns data onto CDs anymore, it's all DVDs. And who burns 200 music CDs in a year, let alone 6 months? That's almost a new CD every day. I personally have't bought a spindle of CDRs since I got my dvd burner in 2003. And I still have like 400 blanks in the house. There's a lot more important things we Canadians get raped on compared to the U.S. (electronics prices, gas prices, food prices...), any of which costs you orders of magnitude more a year.