Which means the people who engage my services likely end up paying about 3x my salary to have me as a consultant.
So if assuming your normal yearly rate is a respectable $100k, and you're on a consulting gig where your annual is effectively 3x that, or $300k, your hourly rate comes out to roughly $144/hr.
For a short-term engagement, that's not bad at all, but it's awfully high for a 4-year stint. I'd love to learn more about how you came into the position, what it entails, etc. Would you be willing to share here, or at least privately?
As long as you can control basic DNS records for your domain (GoDaddy even lets you do that) you can set the MX record for the domain to be the Dynamic DNS address and the whole thing should work just fine.
I've never actually tested it, but it sounds like it would work in theory.
DNS RFCs **require** that your MX records refer to IP addresses, not A or CNAME, which you'd get via a Dynamic DNS service.
Cisco gear is *made* in China. We're not dealing with pin-heads here, if they wanted to "backdoor" routers, they would at least attempt to "backdoor" the real things with Chinese operatives in Chinese factories where these routers are made, while on Chinese soil...
Nice FUD. Most Cisco gear is assembled in Mexico from parts sourced worldwide.
This would be fine if Google (and others) didn't constantly mis-locate my home and work IPs. In fact, today, Google thinks that my office IPs are coming from the UK. My range is an old UUNet IP block, hasn't changed in 13 years, and whois (still) shows things properly registered to my physical address. In the past 12 months, Google has considered my office IPs to have been "in" Canada, California, UK, and Japan (should be NY state).
My home IP(s) (VZ FiOS) have had me in Virginia, Canada, and NJ in the same timeframe.
The problem doesn't seem to be limited to Google, either. www.elgato.com showed me their UK site this morning, too, but I can't be sure if they geolocated me by IP address, or by an AdWords session cookie. At the same time, cnn.com, apple.com, etc. see me where I should be, as do a few "what is my IP address" websites.
Anyone have any ideas how this whole geolocation thing actually works nowadays?
If you suffer from anxiety (and even if you don't) I suggest you take a magnesium supplement, preferably magnesium citrate or magnesium ororate. Magnesium helps you relax.
I have 3 kids. All are gorgeous and free from any genetic defects. I got lucky, but so what? I am FIRMLY against any manufactured competition for my offspring. Do it naturally, I say!
Seriously though, knowing that my spermies and my wife's eggs are worth a few million... TOTALLY awesome.
but possibly more important, the government (currently) cannot break PGP encryptopn. A PGP encrypted message is only as strong as the algorithm used to encrypt (or sign) the data. While the PGP process is commonly referred to as "encryption", PGP itself is _not_ cryptographic.
Ignoring all he peer-trust advantages of PGP, at its heart PGP is a certificate based public key "wrapper system" that can use a multitude of encryption mechanisms to encrypt its payload. You could (in theory) use ROT-13 for your encryption inside a PGP cyphertext, but then it'd be pretty easy to decrypt.
If a vulnerability were found in 3DES or AES, any PGP archive enctypted with those algorithms would also be vulnerable.
It's more accurate to say that, in this case, the government can't yet break the encryption method this person used to protect his whole disk.
BUT EVERY PATCH has to be installed individually. What the hell?
It's obviously been a long time since you used Windows. I'll admit that I didn't read your whole comment and got snagged by the caps -- and I realized that when you CALL ATTENTION TO THINGS that aren't true makes me wonder why I should care enough to go back and find what this post is all about. You may have some good stuff in there, but I'll never know, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Who really cares how big their console and power supply are and how much they weigh? As long as it's not 250lbs and the size of a 7U Compaq server, what's the incentive to redesign it? Redesign it and all you'll do it piss off the early adopters that need th elatest and greatest.
I've had mine in my entertainment system since I got it in November, and have never thought about how big it is, nor the brick power adapter that's nicely hidden behind it. It fits in nicely next to my cable box, Tivo, and receiver.
I recall one of the biggest arguments against P2P sharing of movies, music, etc. is that I don't "own" the content - I license it. If I license the content by owning a copy of "Movie A" on DVD, why is it that I have to buy another license of "Movie A" on Blu-Ray at full price, instead of just the price of the new media?
In the licensing model this makes sense, but it's not going to be available. The "ownership" model would support having to purchase new content when the format changes, but then I'd technically be able to put it on P2P or back it up to my HD, no?
Essentially, a part of Schmeiser's canola crop, grown from seed he had bred over many decades, was accidentally contaminated with Monsanto's GE canola, likely by seed escaping from passing trucks. Schmeiser discovered the crossbreeding, collected the seed, planted it the next year, and harvested that crop. Both the case, and Monsanto's ultimate victory, were widely misunderstood. In fact, the infringement finding solely concerned the fact that he had knowingly replanted the crossbred seed he had collected. The court did not impose punitive damages on Schmeiser, as may have been expected in a patent infringement case, and the decision did not absolve Monsanto of responsibilty for genetic contamination, or even consider that aspect. The case did cause Monsanto's aggressively litigious tactics to be highlighted in the media over the years it took to play out.
Not that I defend Monsanto's motives, but if this was the article to which you refer, you're spreading FUD. I hate FUD as much as "devient corporations(tm)". Let them hang themselves, there's no doubt they don't need your PR to do it.:-)
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that Symantec Corporation is discontinuing its L0phtCrack (LC) product line and will no longer provide product code updates, enhancements or fixes to this product line.
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After calling around, I found out the fastest bandwidth package available is half the speed of my previous package.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the optics aren't going to get you any additional speed to the internet if the fastest connection you can find to uplink it is still slow.
I don't understand all the people that are disappointed that it's taking only 20 hours to finish. I'm not even done with Chapter 2 yet, and I'm at 9 hours already.
If you don't take the time to enjoy the sidequests and the story itself, did you really play the game? Seems to me that there are some types out there that try to "speed read" their way through the game only to bitch about how short it was.
> Wouldn't you agree, then, that if Napster had every recording made, it would be the holy grail?
Nope. Bird in the hand...:-)
Like a previous poster said, if Napster were to ever go out of business, or somehow make its DRM services unavailable, it doesn't matter how much music I used to have access to.
I've been ripping all my 2k+ CDs lately and building up a collection of 35,000 (legit) tracks of all stuff that I like to listen to - and I have it all on a dedicated jukebox server that I use to stream music to the rooms in my house and to my desktop at work. I never have to worry about me going out of business. I never have to worry about losing the media thanks to multiple levels of backup.
I prefer the iPod model for the same reason I finance (purchase) all my cars. At the end of the day, when the payments stop, I want to have something to show for my money, er, lack of bank account.
Granted, if all you're looking for is a way to get a few crappy, er, "currently popular" songs to listen to for a week, Napster's your choice. If you're a collector like me, you wouldn't touch Napster with a 1,000,000' pole.:-)
re there DR classes that don't require you to have expensive backup solutions?
DR (Disaster Recovery / Readiness) is really more a state of planning and procedure and is (or shoudl be) independent from technology. Sure, tech is (obviously) involved, but should never be the driving force.
From a higher level, take a good look at what you'd need to do if, in a worst case scenario, you lost everything - pretend that "Poof!" it doesn't exist anymore. If you can figure what it takes to get 100% of your shiznit back, you can easy figure out what subset of that you need for a less serious incident.
A warning, though - don't downgrade the technology just because the incident is less serious. You'll end up burning yourself in the end.
And they don't have a local copy ANYWHERE? I find that scenerio to be improbable.
I find it unlikely that users keep local copies of 2TB databases on their own.:-) Since this doesn't seem to be the case with you, and you trust your users to be responsible for their own data, that's up to you. However, it's always good PR to have the backups anyway - CTA (cover their
Shrug. I keep a nightly SQL dump on my RAID. That's not what the undelete function is for. You said "When a user accidentally deletes a file." Not "When a user totally screws up and pillages the system."
Well, kinda - a user should never be able to pillage a system, but I have seen instances where a botched script caused errors that didn't get picked up for a few days and only a small subset was "broken".
Anyway, it's always better to be safe than sorry. Proper backups & DR can be more time consuming and expensive than a cursory review may imply. But if you stand to lose $500,000 over the next 5 years if you had a major issue, and you didn't spend $15k to make sure that $500,000 was "in the bank" hindsight won't be plesant to look at.:-)
There is no Windows Server license that prohibits moving an OS image to another server. Windows desktop OEM, yes. If the app you're running has this licensing limitation, or you're running on a desktop OS, well, there's no one to blame for that but yourself (or whoever made the decision).
Find an "undelete function" that will recover your data when a user "accidentally" runs a SQL package against the wrong data. Or one that will roll back to a version from 3 days ago when a (l)user in your company realizes that someone else got rid of a chapter that took 3 weeks to write.
Recovering a deleted file != recovering altered data (which is far more common).
As for your diaster recovery / business continuity preparedness (and your assumed desire for continued employment), you might want to take a DR class.
I used to fall into the same trap I see you heading towards - cool technology is very cool - I'm a huge geek for that kind of thing - but there's a time and a place for everything, and it's rare that one solution is the best or perfect one. Usually I find that it's a conglomaration of some very cool shiznit, and some older time-tested methods. Old and new guard working together to satisfy the suits and the geeks.:-)
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Which means the people who engage my services likely end up paying about 3x my salary to have me as a consultant.
So if assuming your normal yearly rate is a respectable $100k, and you're on a consulting gig where your annual is effectively 3x that, or $300k, your hourly rate comes out to roughly $144 /hr.
For a short-term engagement, that's not bad at all, but it's awfully high for a 4-year stint. I'd love to learn more about how you came into the position, what it entails, etc. Would you be willing to share here, or at least privately?
As long as you can control basic DNS records for your domain (GoDaddy even lets you do that) you can set the MX record for the domain to be the Dynamic DNS address and the whole thing should work just fine.
I've never actually tested it, but it sounds like it would work in theory.
DNS RFCs **require** that your MX records refer to IP addresses, not A or CNAME, which you'd get via a Dynamic DNS service.
I don't recall which RFC(s) at the moment, sorry.
Cisco gear is *made* in China. We're not dealing with pin-heads here, if they wanted to "backdoor" routers, they would at least attempt to "backdoor" the real things with Chinese operatives in Chinese factories where these routers are made, while on Chinese soil...
Nice FUD. Most Cisco gear is assembled in Mexico from parts sourced worldwide.
Geolocate source ip addresses.
This would be fine if Google (and others) didn't constantly mis-locate my home and work IPs. In fact, today, Google thinks that my office IPs are coming from the UK. My range is an old UUNet IP block, hasn't changed in 13 years, and whois (still) shows things properly registered to my physical address. In the past 12 months, Google has considered my office IPs to have been "in" Canada, California, UK, and Japan (should be NY state).
My home IP(s) (VZ FiOS) have had me in Virginia, Canada, and NJ in the same timeframe.
The problem doesn't seem to be limited to Google, either. www.elgato.com showed me their UK site this morning, too, but I can't be sure if they geolocated me by IP address, or by an AdWords session cookie. At the same time, cnn.com, apple.com, etc. see me where I should be, as do a few "what is my IP address" websites.
Anyone have any ideas how this whole geolocation thing actually works nowadays?
so far I haven't seen a SINGLE game in years that offers the ability for you to play through the story mode with a friend/spouse/etc.
Gears of War series. This is how CoOp should be done.
If you suffer from anxiety (and even if you don't) I suggest you take a magnesium supplement, preferably magnesium citrate or magnesium ororate. Magnesium helps you relax.
+1 HILARIOUS
From TFA: "The process defined a data center as any room larger than 500 square feet dedicated to data processing..."
I have 3 kids. All are gorgeous and free from any genetic defects. I got lucky, but so what? I am FIRMLY against any manufactured competition for my offspring. Do it naturally, I say!
Seriously though, knowing that my spermies and my wife's eggs are worth a few million... TOTALLY awesome.
Ignoring all he peer-trust advantages of PGP, at its heart PGP is a certificate based public key "wrapper system" that can use a multitude of encryption mechanisms to encrypt its payload. You could (in theory) use ROT-13 for your encryption inside a PGP cyphertext, but then it'd be pretty easy to decrypt.
If a vulnerability were found in 3DES or AES, any PGP archive enctypted with those algorithms would also be vulnerable.
It's more accurate to say that, in this case, the government can't yet break the encryption method this person used to protect his whole disk.
BUT EVERY PATCH has to be installed individually. What the hell?
It's obviously been a long time since you used Windows. I'll admit that I didn't read your whole comment and got snagged by the caps -- and I realized that when you CALL ATTENTION TO THINGS that aren't true makes me wonder why I should care enough to go back and find what this post is all about. You may have some good stuff in there, but I'll never know, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
Hope they're better at building levees than Nawlins was.
Who really cares how big their console and power supply are and how much they weigh? As long as it's not 250lbs and the size of a 7U Compaq server, what's the incentive to redesign it? Redesign it and all you'll do it piss off the early adopters that need th elatest and greatest.
I've had mine in my entertainment system since I got it in November, and have never thought about how big it is, nor the brick power adapter that's nicely hidden behind it. It fits in nicely next to my cable box, Tivo, and receiver.
Serious question here -
I recall one of the biggest arguments against P2P sharing of movies, music, etc. is that I don't "own" the content - I license it. If I license the content by owning a copy of "Movie A" on DVD, why is it that I have to buy another license of "Movie A" on Blu-Ray at full price, instead of just the price of the new media?
In the licensing model this makes sense, but it's not going to be available. The "ownership" model would support having to purchase new content when the format changes, but then I'd technically be able to put it on P2P or back it up to my HD, no?
Why the catch-22?
from Wikipedia:
:-)
Essentially, a part of Schmeiser's canola crop, grown from seed he had bred over many decades, was accidentally contaminated with Monsanto's GE canola, likely by seed escaping from passing trucks. Schmeiser discovered the crossbreeding, collected the seed, planted it the next year, and harvested that crop. Both the case, and Monsanto's ultimate victory, were widely misunderstood. In fact, the infringement finding solely concerned the fact that he had knowingly replanted the crossbred seed he had collected. The court did not impose punitive damages on Schmeiser, as may have been expected in a patent infringement case, and the decision did not absolve Monsanto of responsibilty for genetic contamination, or even consider that aspect. The case did cause Monsanto's aggressively litigious tactics to be highlighted in the media over the years it took to play out.
Not that I defend Monsanto's motives, but if this was the article to which you refer, you're spreading FUD. I hate FUD as much as "devient corporations(tm)". Let them hang themselves, there's no doubt they don't need your PR to do it.
Got this in the mail yesterday:
--
Subject: Sunset Plan for L0phtCrack (LC) Products
Dear LC Customer,
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that Symantec Corporation is
discontinuing its L0phtCrack (LC) product line and will no longer
provide product code updates, enhancements or fixes to this product
line.
Key dates in this process are listed below.
Last Order Date: February 28, 2006
Last Ship Date: March 3, 2006
Customer Help Until Date: December 16, 2006
Symantec will continue to use reasonable commercial efforts to provide
available customer support by email to US and Canada based customers who
purchased L0phtCrack (LC) products through the dates indicated above.
As a courtesy to LC customers, we offer customer help via email
regarding product usability inquiries through December 16, 2006.
An FAQ for Licensed Users of L0phtCrack (LC) Products is also attached
to help answer commonly asked questions. If you have additional
questions about our notification, please contact us by email at
mailto:Americas-LCcustserv@symantec.com.
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Sales Operations
Symantec Corporation
After calling around, I found out the fastest bandwidth package available is half the speed of my previous package.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the optics aren't going to get you any additional speed to the internet if the fastest connection you can find to uplink it is still slow.
Reminds me of my old school that touted FIBER TO THE DESKTOP!!! - doesn't make much sense when all you have is a T1 and 10k nodes on a single subnet.
How did the "government agency" allow the pictures to be taken? Even in my private datacenter, there's a strict no photography policy.
Just curious.
Seriously... the man needs to be heard and not killed by international terrorists. The secret service should protect him immediately.
I don't understand all the people that are disappointed that it's taking only 20 hours to finish. I'm not even done with Chapter 2 yet, and I'm at 9 hours already.
If you don't take the time to enjoy the sidequests and the story itself, did you really play the game? Seems to me that there are some types out there that try to "speed read" their way through the game only to bitch about how short it was.
I don't see what the big deal is. All we need to do is thaw out the Master Chief and get him going on the Covenent.
I mean, everyone knows that "exploding star" is just government-speak for the HALO project, right?
> Wouldn't you agree, then, that if Napster had every recording made, it would be the holy grail?
:-)
Nope. Bird in the hand...
Like a previous poster said, if Napster were to ever go out of business, or somehow make its DRM services unavailable, it doesn't matter how much music I used to have access to.
I've been ripping all my 2k+ CDs lately and building up a collection of 35,000 (legit) tracks of all stuff that I like to listen to - and I have it all on a dedicated jukebox server that I use to stream music to the rooms in my house and to my desktop at work. I never have to worry about me going out of business. I never have to worry about losing the media thanks to multiple levels of backup.
I prefer the iPod model for the same reason I finance (purchase) all my cars. At the end of the day, when the payments stop, I want to have something to show for my money, er, lack of bank account.
:-)
Granted, if all you're looking for is a way to get a few crappy, er, "currently popular" songs to listen to for a week, Napster's your choice. If you're a collector like me, you wouldn't touch Napster with a 1,000,000' pole.
re there DR classes that don't require you to have expensive backup solutions?
:-) Since this doesn't seem to be the case with you, and you trust your users to be responsible for their own data, that's up to you. However, it's always good PR to have the backups anyway - CTA (cover their
:-)
DR (Disaster Recovery / Readiness) is really more a state of planning and procedure and is (or shoudl be) independent from technology. Sure, tech is (obviously) involved, but should never be the driving force.
From a higher level, take a good look at what you'd need to do if, in a worst case scenario, you lost everything - pretend that "Poof!" it doesn't exist anymore. If you can figure what it takes to get 100% of your shiznit back, you can easy figure out what subset of that you need for a less serious incident.
A warning, though - don't downgrade the technology just because the incident is less serious. You'll end up burning yourself in the end.
And they don't have a local copy ANYWHERE? I find that scenerio to be improbable.
I find it unlikely that users keep local copies of 2TB databases on their own.
Shrug. I keep a nightly SQL dump on my RAID. That's not what the undelete function is for. You said "When a user accidentally deletes a file." Not "When a user totally screws up and pillages the system."
Well, kinda - a user should never be able to pillage a system, but I have seen instances where a botched script caused errors that didn't get picked up for a few days and only a small subset was "broken".
Anyway, it's always better to be safe than sorry. Proper backups & DR can be more time consuming and expensive than a cursory review may imply. But if you stand to lose $500,000 over the next 5 years if you had a major issue, and you didn't spend $15k to make sure that $500,000 was "in the bank" hindsight won't be plesant to look at.
There is no Windows Server license that prohibits moving an OS image to another server. Windows desktop OEM, yes. If the app you're running has this licensing limitation, or you're running on a desktop OS, well, there's no one to blame for that but yourself (or whoever made the decision).
Find an "undelete function" that will recover your data when a user "accidentally" runs a SQL package against the wrong data. Or one that will roll back to a version from 3 days ago when a (l)user in your company realizes that someone else got rid of a chapter that took 3 weeks to write.
:-)
Recovering a deleted file != recovering altered data (which is far more common).
As for your diaster recovery / business continuity preparedness (and your assumed desire for continued employment), you might want to take a DR class.
I used to fall into the same trap I see you heading towards - cool technology is very cool - I'm a huge geek for that kind of thing - but there's a time and a place for everything, and it's rare that one solution is the best or perfect one. Usually I find that it's a conglomaration of some very cool shiznit, and some older time-tested methods. Old and new guard working together to satisfy the suits and the geeks.