Credant: http://www.credant.com/ (FDE = Full-Data Encryption, not Full-Disk Encryption).
Policy-based, rock solid server-side admin, you encrypt exactly what you want and no more.
Don't want to encrypt files saved by Notepad? Want to encrypt External Media?
Look to Credant.
Until I found Credant I was pulling my hair out over Guardian Edge's (Symantec Endpoint Encryption) Full Disk Encryption solution. I just couldn't get the central administration working, and deployment without imaging was intolerable. Fortunately we did not purchase the GE/SEE product before we saw Credant.
For banks, where specific (read: GLBA, FDIC, SOX) compliance is required, open source encryption solutions are not easy options. Auditors love to gum up the works causing costly delays when they hear the words "Open Source". And Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) causes many headaches, not the least of which is the inability to run disk utilities (chkdsk, spinrite) without screwing up the encrypted volume, and the impossibility of using standard image-based deployment tools (Altiris, Ghost, WIM, etc).
Example: Symantec purchased the FDE solution from Guardian Edge, calling it "Symantec Endpoint Encryption" (SEE). Administration is based on Windows Group Policy, which sucks in a disconnected environment (laptops)
We use Credant. It's policy-based, runs just as well disconnected as it does connected, and provides full compliance reporting.
Is Tegra dead then? It sure was promising...
I have been waiting for nVidia to come out with retail items equipped with Tegra since Q3 2008. Atom + Ion seems a direct threat to Tegra.
I waited as long as I could for Tegra, but due to need and desire I ended up with an iPhone.
All I can find are the original plugs for Tegra technology:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tegra_600_us.html
"The first NVIDIA Tegra 600 Series-based devices are expected to begin shipping in mid-2009".
I set my WRT54GL 1.1 Tomoto to reboot every night at 2AM. I also reboot myself every night by sleeping. I have an uptime of around 66% -- that's how long I'm not sleeping every day. When I'm sleeping I don't mind that my router takes a 49-second reboot siesta every night. My router has an up time of 99.94% based on that single daily reboot. Is that so bad? Every morning I know that my router sneezed -- but so what? It/never/ sneezes unless I tell it to. Planned down-time is a damn sight better than unplanned downtime.
I'm not sure that the Internet can do much better than 99.94% daily uptime. Every day I have to reload at least one web page -- and I have to do that manually!
A $69 router that works with Tomato/dd-wrt firmware as if it were a $800 router? It's amazing that it works at all at that price point. I don't mind a planned reboot. I suppose I could try a weekly reboot, or monthly. The point is that I don't have to touch the damn thing. I plan for a 49 second outage, and it doesn't hurt at all.
Instead of coaxial cable in the proposed buried conduit, and instead of CATx twisted-pair, what about a cheap powerline in the conduit with a BPL node on either end? It's less expensive than coax and certainly less expensive than CATx. It can be made relatively safe, but I admit it's a bit scary to run 120V on your own for long distances.
Run the conduit with the cheapest household wiring = 3 conductor copper, energize the line with GFI and surge-protected 120VAC, and install Linksys BPL nodes on either end (PLE200). Ethernet on both sides, one side connected to a broadband router.
1) the PLE200s are not that expensive, under $100 per node
2) BPL might not be good for the entire solution, but might help you with a particularly troublesome leg.
3) household wiring can be less expensive than coax and CAT5, for me it worked out to 3 cents per foot for the wire
I'm into it. I set up a Linux gentoo box for the sole purpose of gaming. Reason? It was free, as in beer. Hardware and software and games were free. Performance is great. I don't quite remember/how/ I did it, but I got myself into Linux hacking mode and created a system that my boys still use to this day.
I found the PC at the dump, a 1.3Ghz Athlon with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP GPU and an Ethernet card. I hooked it up, booted up the gentoo installer on CD, asked my friend (who thought I was crazy for making a Linux gamer) across town to help me compile the kernel especially for games (sound, video, OpenGL and USB game controller) via ssh through a hole punched in my WRT54GL, watched it compile and reboot after his ministrations, set KDE as default Window Manager, listened for the sound card (yay), grabbed the accelerated Nvidia driver for X, and emerge'd every game package I could find out of hundreds to choose from. I emerge'd and then tested each game: 95% of the emerge'd games ran without a flaw in X at 1280x1024. It was/easy/ and rewarding and didn't take hours of running Windows Update to get XP up to snuff. I remember the whole thing taking just a couple of hours and I was damn glad that Nvidia bothered to create an accelerated driver for X. No antivirus, no SpyBot, no slew of services running, no printer.
The desktop is/covered/ with shortcuts/aliases to games, many of them arcade copies that look better than the originals. Mostly 2D scrolling shooters, puzzles, card games, board games, logic games and console emulation up to the N64 era. It's an offline box (no web surfing where parents can't watch). I even created shortcuts for mugwump and zork. Only I know the root password -- all the games run as a humble user.
There's something wonderful about watching a child learn *nix shell commands...and something horrible about watching a child use XP.
Yes, algae and human/choice/.
The future will present us with/choice/ for as long as we continue to demand/choice/. I choose to sell biodiesel to people who choose to buy biodiesel for their chosen applications. Because I am at the application level and not production (although I do my best to make sure that my biodiesel is
being produced by least-harmful techniques and from least-harmful sources) I see benefits that haven't yet been calculated
into pennies or glorified in popular science. Biodiesel saves resources in terms of reduced scheduled maintenance, it makes school-bus emissions less toxic which has been linked directly to higher grade-point averages and biodiesel is non-toxic and entirely biodegradable.
/There is no one analysis that will answer our application-specific questions./
Use Google search keywords in combination with 'biodiesel' : lubricity, school bus, grade point average, children, non-toxic, biodegradable
1) Biodiesel use in diesel engines prolongs service intervals due to increased lubricity. How many resources are saved when fleets of trucks don't need their crankcase oil/changed/ anymore?
2) Health benefits of biodiesel - where grade-point averages of students are higher where biodiesel buses are in use. Also, reduces respiratory symptoms in illness.
3) Biodiesel itself is non-toxic to the environment, and is very biodegradable. It will serve as an effective herbicide but dissolves in water faster than salt.
I came in late due to the holiday. Yes, I ramble. So here's the home heating point first:
Home heaters can burn biodiesel in place of #2 heating oil. New Englanders burn on average approximately 900 gallons of #2 heating oil per year. The EPA is starting to crack down on home heating equipment emissions, low NOx being a priority. You'd better know your stuff if you want to burn biodiesel in your home furnace, but LLBean and many state governments are quietly using biodiesel for space heating. National Parks are obliged to burn biodiesel appropriately where biodiesel is "readily available".
Fact: The combustion of biodiesel in vehicles or home heaters increases NOx emissions/slightly/. Most other emissions drop dramatically. European elite boiler makers are producing low NOx boilers and biodiesel compatible boilers that meet low NOx EPA requirements -- other mfrs are stepping up to the plate.
Regarding this topic, the story shows how there's almost always a technical solution to every technical problem. But politics and economy often cause technical innovations to be dropped, forgotten, avoided, or bribed into the ether. Fortunately, I think there's enough momentum behind US biodiesel sentiment to make it a profitable and worthwhile product on the open market for many a year. But then again, potpourri is a profitable product. As Eddie Izzard remarks, you couldn't give potpourri away to practical folks but for those with a disposable income, potpourri is the dog's bollocks.
As long as potpourri sells in the USA, biodiesel will sell. Quote me on that. Even if biodiesel jumps to 4 times the price of petro-diesel or #2, there will always be those who are willing to take the financial hit for whatever practical reason they latch on to. And with biodiesel, there's plenty of good reasons if you can afford to burn it, even if the price is higher than a petroleum based alternative. Even a blend of B5 is a good thing from a renewability, sustainability, and closed-carbon-cycle POV.
Right now, however, biodiesel is slightly more expensive than petro diesel or #2. I figure if a family wants to burn B20 for home heating, the yearly hit will be around $400. Tax time incentives help.
Regardless of the Willie Nelson "Oh Christ, there he goes again" wingnut factor, which Car and Driver loves to pooper-scoop and feed the masses, biodiesel remains and will continue to slip into existing petroleum infrastructure and retail markets.
What other energy alternative permits you to vacillate between solar energy and petroleum with your existing vehicles and/or heating equipment?
That's right: ethanol, at least in vehicles. I'm under the impression that ethanol is popular in the MidWest primarily because it is so close to the source of distillation: it's mixed with gasoline the/morning/ of delivery to the pumps due to the rapid vaporization of the alcohol. Correct me here. I have always wondered why we don't see gasahol sold in New England, and I think it's because of the problems inherent in moving large quantities of alcohol over long distances. Am I right? As an exercise, contrast the characteristics of alcohol and biodiesel (methyl or ethyl esters) when applied to moving large quantities of the stuff. Biodiesel wins in my mind simply because of the "invisible sheet of flame" factor. Alcohol scares the hell out of me from a safety standpoint.
I can't even light a biodiesel (B100) soaked rag with a butane lighter.
I'm in the biodiesel distribution business, so I professionally opine that ASTM certified biodiesel is a very a good thing for you because I need to sell fuel to make money. Federal subsidies make biodiesel distribution a profitable thing, and though the distribution subsidy for blends is not available to the retail customer, there exists another strong April 15th incentive for businesses to use biodiesel on-road, so if you're running diesel onroad in the course of doing business it makes good sense for you to look to biodiesel
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Credant: http://www.credant.com/ (FDE = Full-Data Encryption, not Full-Disk Encryption). Policy-based, rock solid server-side admin, you encrypt exactly what you want and no more. Don't want to encrypt files saved by Notepad? Want to encrypt External Media? Look to Credant. Until I found Credant I was pulling my hair out over Guardian Edge's (Symantec Endpoint Encryption) Full Disk Encryption solution. I just couldn't get the central administration working, and deployment without imaging was intolerable. Fortunately we did not purchase the GE/SEE product before we saw Credant. For banks, where specific (read: GLBA, FDIC, SOX) compliance is required, open source encryption solutions are not easy options. Auditors love to gum up the works causing costly delays when they hear the words "Open Source". And Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) causes many headaches, not the least of which is the inability to run disk utilities (chkdsk, spinrite) without screwing up the encrypted volume, and the impossibility of using standard image-based deployment tools (Altiris, Ghost, WIM, etc). Example: Symantec purchased the FDE solution from Guardian Edge, calling it "Symantec Endpoint Encryption" (SEE). Administration is based on Windows Group Policy, which sucks in a disconnected environment (laptops) We use Credant. It's policy-based, runs just as well disconnected as it does connected, and provides full compliance reporting.
I know these are Windows apps, but still very useful free apps: Steganos Locknote: http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/locknote/overview/ Steganos Password Manager: http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/password-manager-free/overview/
Is Tegra dead then? It sure was promising... I have been waiting for nVidia to come out with retail items equipped with Tegra since Q3 2008. Atom + Ion seems a direct threat to Tegra. I waited as long as I could for Tegra, but due to need and desire I ended up with an iPhone. All I can find are the original plugs for Tegra technology: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tegra_600_us.html "The first NVIDIA Tegra 600 Series-based devices are expected to begin shipping in mid-2009".
I set my WRT54GL 1.1 Tomoto to reboot every night at 2AM. I also reboot myself every night by sleeping. I have an uptime of around 66% -- that's how long I'm not sleeping every day. When I'm sleeping I don't mind that my router takes a 49-second reboot siesta every night. My router has an up time of 99.94% based on that single daily reboot. Is that so bad? Every morning I know that my router sneezed -- but so what? It /never/ sneezes unless I tell it to. Planned down-time is a damn sight better than unplanned downtime.
I'm not sure that the Internet can do much better than 99.94% daily uptime. Every day I have to reload at least one web page -- and I have to do that manually!
A $69 router that works with Tomato/dd-wrt firmware as if it were a $800 router? It's amazing that it works at all at that price point. I don't mind a planned reboot. I suppose I could try a weekly reboot, or monthly. The point is that I don't have to touch the damn thing. I plan for a 49 second outage, and it doesn't hurt at all.
Instead of coaxial cable in the proposed buried conduit, and instead of CATx twisted-pair, what about a cheap powerline in the conduit with a BPL node on either end? It's less expensive than coax and certainly less expensive than CATx. It can be made relatively safe, but I admit it's a bit scary to run 120V on your own for long distances. Run the conduit with the cheapest household wiring = 3 conductor copper, energize the line with GFI and surge-protected 120VAC, and install Linksys BPL nodes on either end (PLE200). Ethernet on both sides, one side connected to a broadband router. 1) the PLE200s are not that expensive, under $100 per node 2) BPL might not be good for the entire solution, but might help you with a particularly troublesome leg. 3) household wiring can be less expensive than coax and CAT5, for me it worked out to 3 cents per foot for the wire
I'm into it. I set up a Linux gentoo box for the sole purpose of gaming. Reason? It was free, as in beer. Hardware and software and games were free. Performance is great. I don't quite remember /how/ I did it, but I got myself into Linux hacking mode and created a system that my boys still use to this day.
I found the PC at the dump, a 1.3Ghz Athlon with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP GPU and an Ethernet card. I hooked it up, booted up the gentoo installer on CD, asked my friend (who thought I was crazy for making a Linux gamer) across town to help me compile the kernel especially for games (sound, video, OpenGL and USB game controller) via ssh through a hole punched in my WRT54GL, watched it compile and reboot after his ministrations, set KDE as default Window Manager, listened for the sound card (yay), grabbed the accelerated Nvidia driver for X, and emerge'd every game package I could find out of hundreds to choose from. I emerge'd and then tested each game: 95% of the emerge'd games ran without a flaw in X at 1280x1024. It was /easy/ and rewarding and didn't take hours of running Windows Update to get XP up to snuff. I remember the whole thing taking just a couple of hours and I was damn glad that Nvidia bothered to create an accelerated driver for X. No antivirus, no SpyBot, no slew of services running, no printer.
The desktop is /covered/ with shortcuts/aliases to games, many of them arcade copies that look better than the originals. Mostly 2D scrolling shooters, puzzles, card games, board games, logic games and console emulation up to the N64 era. It's an offline box (no web surfing where parents can't watch). I even created shortcuts for mugwump and zork. Only I know the root password -- all the games run as a humble user.
There's something wonderful about watching a child learn *nix shell commands...and something horrible about watching a child use XP.
Yes, algae and human /choice/.
The future will present us with /choice/ for as long as we continue to demand /choice/. I choose to sell biodiesel to people who choose to buy biodiesel for their chosen applications. Because I am at the application level and not production (although I do my best to make sure that my biodiesel is
being produced by least-harmful techniques and from least-harmful sources) I see benefits that haven't yet been calculated
into pennies or glorified in popular science. Biodiesel saves resources in terms of reduced scheduled maintenance, it makes school-bus emissions less toxic which has been linked directly to higher grade-point averages and biodiesel is non-toxic and entirely biodegradable.
/There is no one analysis that will answer our application-specific questions./
/changed/ anymore?
Use Google search keywords in combination with 'biodiesel' : lubricity, school bus, grade point average, children, non-toxic, biodegradable
1) Biodiesel use in diesel engines prolongs service intervals due to increased lubricity. How many resources are saved when fleets of trucks don't need their crankcase oil
2) Health benefits of biodiesel - where grade-point averages of students are higher where biodiesel buses are in use. Also, reduces respiratory symptoms in illness.
3) Biodiesel itself is non-toxic to the environment, and is very biodegradable. It will serve as an effective herbicide but dissolves in water faster than salt.
I came in late due to the holiday. Yes, I ramble. So here's the home heating point first: /slightly/. Most other emissions drop dramatically. European elite boiler makers are producing low NOx boilers and biodiesel compatible boilers that meet low NOx EPA requirements -- other mfrs are stepping up to the plate. /morning/ of delivery to the pumps due to the rapid vaporization of the alcohol. Correct me here. I have always wondered why we don't see gasahol sold in New England, and I think it's because of the problems inherent in moving large quantities of alcohol over long distances. Am I right? As an exercise, contrast the characteristics of alcohol and biodiesel (methyl or ethyl esters) when applied to moving large quantities of the stuff. Biodiesel wins in my mind simply because of the "invisible sheet of flame" factor. Alcohol scares the hell out of me from a safety standpoint.
Home heaters can burn biodiesel in place of #2 heating oil. New Englanders burn on average approximately 900 gallons of #2 heating oil per year. The EPA is starting to crack down on home heating equipment emissions, low NOx being a priority. You'd better know your stuff if you want to burn biodiesel in your home furnace, but LLBean and many state governments are quietly using biodiesel for space heating. National Parks are obliged to burn biodiesel appropriately where biodiesel is "readily available".
Fact: The combustion of biodiesel in vehicles or home heaters increases NOx emissions
Regarding this topic, the story shows how there's almost always a technical solution to every technical problem. But politics and economy often cause technical innovations to be dropped, forgotten, avoided, or bribed into the ether. Fortunately, I think there's enough momentum behind US biodiesel sentiment to make it a profitable and worthwhile product on the open market for many a year. But then again, potpourri is a profitable product. As Eddie Izzard remarks, you couldn't give potpourri away to practical folks but for those with a disposable income, potpourri is the dog's bollocks.
As long as potpourri sells in the USA, biodiesel will sell. Quote me on that. Even if biodiesel jumps to 4 times the price of petro-diesel or #2, there will always be those who are willing to take the financial hit for whatever practical reason they latch on to. And with biodiesel, there's plenty of good reasons if you can afford to burn it, even if the price is higher than a petroleum based alternative. Even a blend of B5 is a good thing from a renewability, sustainability, and closed-carbon-cycle POV.
Right now, however, biodiesel is slightly more expensive than petro diesel or #2. I figure if a family wants to burn B20 for home heating, the yearly hit will be around $400. Tax time incentives help. Regardless of the Willie Nelson "Oh Christ, there he goes again" wingnut factor, which Car and Driver loves to pooper-scoop and feed the masses, biodiesel remains and will continue to slip into existing petroleum infrastructure and retail markets.
What other energy alternative permits you to vacillate between solar energy and petroleum with your existing vehicles and/or heating equipment?
That's right: ethanol, at least in vehicles. I'm under the impression that ethanol is popular in the MidWest primarily because it is so close to the source of distillation: it's mixed with gasoline the
I can't even light a biodiesel (B100) soaked rag with a butane lighter.
I'm in the biodiesel distribution business, so I professionally opine that ASTM certified biodiesel is a very a good thing for you because I need to sell fuel to make money. Federal subsidies make biodiesel distribution a profitable thing, and though the distribution subsidy for blends is not available to the retail customer, there exists another strong April 15th incentive for businesses to use biodiesel on-road, so if you're running diesel onroad in the course of doing business it makes good sense for you to look to biodiesel