And have been for a while - I'm not sure of the exact date they started, but it caught me off guard when we went earlier this year. I wasn't happy, but I was asked by my significant other not to cause a scene about it.
Racks are cheap - a brand new Chatsworth telecom rack (just 2 rails - you know, what you put switches and routers in) goes for less than $150. A four rail rack is a bit more expensive but not that much more, and those prices are the result of a quick search. Which of course means you could easily find them cheaper elsewhere.
The harder part of setting up a rack for servers is proper airflow. Servers are designed to be cooled in a specific way, usually front to back. But there are exceptions to that. If you have some older Sun servers, be warned, they cool side to side, and putting them in a rack with sides on it will cause them to start loosing processors.
Back to normal servers. When you put a rack into a server room full of gear, you generally want to have it setup to provide cold airflow down (or up) the front of the rack so that the servers can pull cool air through the gear. Then you want to pull the hot air out the back of the gear. In data centers or server rooms you set this up as a cold aisle and a hot aisle.
As for this guys gear, it probably won't over heat (though I'd be worried about how he stacked the drives) simply because most small form factor desktop machines no longer put out enough heat to make it an issue.
See earlier comment - wire is the future of networking. No problems with WEP, no problems with incompatible implementations of WPA, no problems with networks extending past your pre-defined usage area.
On the other hand, if you automatically assume all wireless networks are insecure, you'll do much better dealing with wifi.
I do work there, and I anxiously await the return of paper and pencil as well. It works much better in a power outage than computers and doesn't require A/C and specialized fire control systems.
And most people have figured out how to use paper based systems by now.
Ummm - it's not theft if what you bought is a copy of M$ server software with enough licenses for everyone in your building.
Regardless, having an open AP doesn't mean that you have given up your right to expect privacy. But was this guy (who is an idiot for sitting there long enough to be noticed a couple of times) actually invading privacy? Or was he just using a service that someone else was paying for without their permission?
Open Access Points abound. I know that manufacturers are providing more and better solutions for securing them, but there are so many out there, deployed either by very non-technical people, or by semi technical people who have no idea about security that this type of issue will continue to come up.
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But Ronnie was the start of bringing the religious fanatics into the Republican party. Oh, and he was pretty much a tool, too.
And have been for a while - I'm not sure of the exact date they started, but it caught me off guard when we went earlier this year. I wasn't happy, but I was asked by my significant other not to cause a scene about it.
Racks are cheap - a brand new Chatsworth telecom rack (just 2 rails - you know, what you put switches and routers in) goes for less than $150. A four rail rack is a bit more expensive but not that much more, and those prices are the result of a quick search. Which of course means you could easily find them cheaper elsewhere.
The harder part of setting up a rack for servers is proper airflow. Servers are designed to be cooled in a specific way, usually front to back. But there are exceptions to that. If you have some older Sun servers, be warned, they cool side to side, and putting them in a rack with sides on it will cause them to start loosing processors.
Back to normal servers. When you put a rack into a server room full of gear, you generally want to have it setup to provide cold airflow down (or up) the front of the rack so that the servers can pull cool air through the gear. Then you want to pull the hot air out the back of the gear. In data centers or server rooms you set this up as a cold aisle and a hot aisle.
As for this guys gear, it probably won't over heat (though I'd be worried about how he stacked the drives) simply because most small form factor desktop machines no longer put out enough heat to make it an issue.
Wi-Fi is short for Wireless Fidelity. Maybe they aren't so bad at this at all.
See earlier comment - wire is the future of networking. No problems with WEP, no problems with incompatible implementations of WPA, no problems with networks extending past your pre-defined usage area. On the other hand, if you automatically assume all wireless networks are insecure, you'll do much better dealing with wifi.
I do work there, and I anxiously await the return of paper and pencil as well. It works much better in a power outage than computers and doesn't require A/C and specialized fire control systems.
And most people have figured out how to use paper based systems by now.
Ummm - it's not theft if what you bought is a copy of M$ server software with enough licenses for everyone in your building. Regardless, having an open AP doesn't mean that you have given up your right to expect privacy. But was this guy (who is an idiot for sitting there long enough to be noticed a couple of times) actually invading privacy? Or was he just using a service that someone else was paying for without their permission? Open Access Points abound. I know that manufacturers are providing more and better solutions for securing them, but there are so many out there, deployed either by very non-technical people, or by semi technical people who have no idea about security that this type of issue will continue to come up.
wire is the future of networking. Wireless is just a fad.