No, the point in greening up is to reduce power usage; by taking advantage of the way the chimney will pull air in to it (hot air rising), you can get away without fans... in theory, anyways.
You can certainly have the hot air exiting the room near the roof, and the cooler outside air coming in under the raised floor, that just makes sense.
I do wonder how things could be improved with a decently sized stack... the higher an exit chimney, the more draw you'll get from the temperature differential. If your computer rooms are near the base of a decent sized office building, and you have a 20 story stack, I'd expect you could get away without any intake or exhaust fans.
It can be interesting, but I found all kinds of performance oddities when we had a Linux slice on a mainframe. It certainly didn't help that they initially set it up with only 64MB of RAM!
What with problems getting modules installed, we eventually decided it would be easier on ourselves to go back to a gray box under a desk. We may go with a VMWare based linux install to get proper internal corporate support, since nobody wants to put in a simple server anymore.
I remember a number of systems that had case intrusion switches that would alarm. I don't see any reason why that couldn't also be tied in to an autoshutdown procedure that'd wipe the RAM.
Less obviously, the switch could trigger a special watchdog program that knows where your crypto keys are stored, and overwrites them when the sensor goes off.
He probably didn't warn him because he assumed that the guy had it recorded someplace secure. Only after the crap hit the fan, was it revealed that the password was lost.
Interesting... part of the issue seems to be that the opting out happens at the Facebook side.
These fixes should relieve any concerns in Harris' lawsuit, right? Wrong. There is a difference between reporting the data to Facebook and publishing it to a user's news feed by default, and Blockbuster is still engaged in the former.
It seems that if your two accounts are linked, there's no way to stop Blockbuster from sending the data to Facebook; only your feed preferences keep it from popping up.
Oh, I know that, but the suits either don't know it, or ignore it, and feel that they've got the control. That's all they need to decide to use flash instead of something with broader support.
It's all about control. Once they put it in Flash, they know exactly how it'll appear. No weirdness from browser to browser. Companies that argue endlessly about a 3 number color difference (should "our gray" be #CCCCCC or CCC9CC?, etc) are all over that kind of control of the presentation.
Unlike YouTube, where videos from professional media and amateurs alike are uploaded for the world to view, Flickr members can limit who the videos are shared with, through privacy settings
I guess I must be hallucinating the privacy settings on my videos, then? Amazingly effective hallucination, since it works properly.
They're actually a Cogent customer, but I believe they are in a marginally provider independent space right now - but the "secondary" connection to the game servers from Telia is problematic as well.
I know that at least one company that's been affected (Cornered Rat Software, who run the MMOFPS World War II Online) are seriously considering getting an AS of their own after this, so that if nothing else, they will be able to say "Telia's traffic can get to us via this route" and bypass Cogent's pettiness. I'd cite, but it was a post by one of their guys on a subscriber-only forum.
about 2 years ago my boss was talking about the security risk in shared network printers. If he wanted a hard copy of something sensitive, he would have to hit Print, and then trot down the hall to get his output before anyone say it.
Some of the current crop of printers theoretically have a "confidential print" option where you tell it to wait for a name and a PIN before it actually starts spitting paper out. Lexmark T632's are one I'm familiar with.
I say "theoretically" because I've tried to use the feature, just to confirm it works, and never managed to get it to work properly. The request either vanishes, or prints immediately....
The reason it comes up is because I know damn well what will happen the instant I try to tell the bosses "Nope, can't do that under strict, it requires unofficial extensions/IE bu/etc".
I will either be told to work around it (taking large amounts of time), or be castigated for running in strict.
Thus, it doesn't actually save me any time, not because of any technical reason, but because of business expectations.
How would the external drives use any less power than internal? I don't think anyone's expecting these cables to be as thin as internal SATA cables; nor do they expect internal "power over SATA" to not require a beefier unified cable. They just want one simple cable to avoid the clutter.
I believe that's why they have an old pager, which only receives, instead of a two-way SMS device. That, and signals at pager frequencies tend to punch through concrete and rebar better than cell frequencies.
So you've never seen support folks who use Linux as their desktop of choice, but have to support Windows users, which means having to hit up MS' site on a regular basis?
Sure, I've got a Windows VM when I absolutely have to use it, but I'd rather not have to use it all the time to consult KB's.
It's a least-cost analysis on the part of the business; it will cost them less to cave in to the extortionate methods of the BSA than to fight it out (especially if they lose) in court. The thing that's forcing them to comply is their own pocketbook.
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No, the point in greening up is to reduce power usage; by taking advantage of the way the chimney will pull air in to it (hot air rising), you can get away without fans... in theory, anyways.
You can certainly have the hot air exiting the room near the roof, and the cooler outside air coming in under the raised floor, that just makes sense.
I do wonder how things could be improved with a decently sized stack... the higher an exit chimney, the more draw you'll get from the temperature differential. If your computer rooms are near the base of a decent sized office building, and you have a 20 story stack, I'd expect you could get away without any intake or exhaust fans.
Anyone here that can confirm or deny this?
It can be interesting, but I found all kinds of performance oddities when we had a Linux slice on a mainframe. It certainly didn't help that they initially set it up with only 64MB of RAM!
What with problems getting modules installed, we eventually decided it would be easier on ourselves to go back to a gray box under a desk. We may go with a VMWare based linux install to get proper internal corporate support, since nobody wants to put in a simple server anymore.
I remember a number of systems that had case intrusion switches that would alarm. I don't see any reason why that couldn't also be tied in to an autoshutdown procedure that'd wipe the RAM.
Less obviously, the switch could trigger a special watchdog program that knows where your crypto keys are stored, and overwrites them when the sensor goes off.
Six euros is a steal. At my workplace the charge to business units for each RSA token is up over $50.
He probably didn't warn him because he assumed that the guy had it recorded someplace secure. Only after the crap hit the fan, was it revealed that the password was lost.
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Interesting... part of the issue seems to be that the opting out happens at the Facebook side.
These fixes should relieve any concerns in Harris' lawsuit, right? Wrong. There is a difference between reporting the data to Facebook and publishing it to a user's news feed by default, and Blockbuster is still engaged in the former.
It seems that if your two accounts are linked, there's no way to stop Blockbuster from sending the data to Facebook; only your feed preferences keep it from popping up.
Oh, I know that, but the suits either don't know it, or ignore it, and feel that they've got the control. That's all they need to decide to use flash instead of something with broader support.
It's all about control. Once they put it in Flash, they know exactly how it'll appear. No weirdness from browser to browser. Companies that argue endlessly about a 3 number color difference (should "our gray" be #CCCCCC or CCC9CC?, etc) are all over that kind of control of the presentation.
Unlike YouTube, where videos from professional media and amateurs alike are uploaded for the world to view, Flickr members can limit who the videos are shared with, through privacy settings
I guess I must be hallucinating the privacy settings on my videos, then? Amazingly effective hallucination, since it works properly.
False positives.... hmm. Let me think.
Nope, not one in 10 years has been reported to me via the alternate (non-RBL'ed) communication channel.
That's pretty damn good.
You're right, the 90% of inbound mail that gets dropped at the pure IP level before it even hits my more CPU intensive filters is "worthless".
They're actually a Cogent customer, but I believe they are in a marginally provider independent space right now - but the "secondary" connection to the game servers from Telia is problematic as well.
I know that at least one company that's been affected (Cornered Rat Software, who run the MMOFPS World War II Online) are seriously considering getting an AS of their own after this, so that if nothing else, they will be able to say "Telia's traffic can get to us via this route" and bypass Cogent's pettiness. I'd cite, but it was a post by one of their guys on a subscriber-only forum.
Guns per capita is a potentially misleading statistic.
So long as ownership is "clumpier" in the US, there can be a higher percentage of gun OWNERS in Canada, with a lower per CAPITA ownership.
Given the number of Americans I know on various forums with 30+ firearms (not joking in the slightest here), it's something that can't be disregarded.
That is one handy little device; thanks for the link!
Some of the current crop of printers theoretically have a "confidential print" option where you tell it to wait for a name and a PIN before it actually starts spitting paper out. Lexmark T632's are one I'm familiar with.
I say "theoretically" because I've tried to use the feature, just to confirm it works, and never managed to get it to work properly. The request either vanishes, or prints immediately....
The reason it comes up is because I know damn well what will happen the instant I try to tell the bosses "Nope, can't do that under strict, it requires unofficial extensions/IE bu/etc".
I will either be told to work around it (taking large amounts of time), or be castigated for running in strict.
Thus, it doesn't actually save me any time, not because of any technical reason, but because of business expectations.
Webmonkey's mental path...
"So, I could add a special tag, and it'll make the browser pickier and my job harder...."
"Yeah, I'll get riiiiight on that".
Seriously, where is the benefit to the web devs to turn on this mode?
How would the external drives use any less power than internal? I don't think anyone's expecting these cables to be as thin as internal SATA cables; nor do they expect internal "power over SATA" to not require a beefier unified cable. They just want one simple cable to avoid the clutter.
I don't know about you, but for me, nine days ago was last year.
I believe that's why they have an old pager, which only receives, instead of a two-way SMS device. That, and signals at pager frequencies tend to punch through concrete and rebar better than cell frequencies.
So you've never seen support folks who use Linux as their desktop of choice, but have to support Windows users, which means having to hit up MS' site on a regular basis?
Sure, I've got a Windows VM when I absolutely have to use it, but I'd rather not have to use it all the time to consult KB's.
It's a least-cost analysis on the part of the business; it will cost them less to cave in to the extortionate methods of the BSA than to fight it out (especially if they lose) in court. The thing that's forcing them to comply is their own pocketbook.