If you really want to understand how this happened, read this wired story. It will make a lot more sense.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/craigslist-vs-ebay/

You hit upon my biggest complaint about craigslist. The trust factor is terrible. All it would take is for them to implement user logins with the ability of the buyer/seller to rate each other. Yea, it's just like ebay and it is always subject to abuse, but I think it would help more than the current system. Until I see ratings on sellers, I am very, very leery of buying anything from craiglist.

Thank you for clarifying this. I am not an Electrical Engineer and I do not play one on TV either.

It actually was a serious question.

It appears this is talking about the particle beam.

Someone pointed out the cost to cool the magnets. How would that impact energy usage?

seven trillion electron volts....

How does that equate to greenhouse gas submissions? And how can the EU hold the Global Warming Conference on one hand, and then generate this kind of power on the other?

The OP would make a heck of a lot more sense if they used better terminology. Rather than Network Backup, call it Network Redundancy or High Availability. When people hear backup, they think storing data to tape.

I know everyone is going to mark the OP as a troll, but I have to agree. I started out using PHPNuke nearly 10 years ago. I moved on to PostNuke, then Joomla, then Drupal, back to Joomla, then Wordpress. Of all the CMS/Blog software I have used, Drupal was the most unintuitive and cumbersome. Everything about it was hard to do, hard to customize. I could not stand it. I've never understood how so many people can love it so much.

Don't worry though.... Much like a person who gets into politics with good intentions, they too will become jaded just like the rest of their coworkers.....

I'd like to make another comment. I'm a network engineer and my wife is an RN, 10+ years. I know first hand that IT can be thankless and people look at you as a blue collar worker there to do their bidding. But in Nursing, it's worse. People expect you to be their Nurse, Doctor, Waiter, Grief Counselor, Social Worker and clean up their poop. Nursing may be stable and pay good money, but if I was to look for an under appreciated class of educated professionals, Nursing would be two rungs below IT on the respect ladder.

You heard it here first!

This is why I view the management of SF's IT departments as incompetent. They don't even know their own policies. I really hope Terry wins this, then goes on to sue to City. The people of SF deserve to pay for allowing such incompetence to continue.

Google DoD Router Security practices. This is standard SOP in high security networks to not save the Config in NVRAM. As the highest level of Cisco Certification, CCIE, Terry would be very aware of this practice.

I've found this question will give you a lot of interesting insight into a company and the motivations of their employees. You can tell right away if they are blowing smoke up your ask or actually like working there.

I prefer my own page.... http://www.rtfg.net/ yes, I own it.

Here, let me help you with that....

Iraq guy at the press conference, obviously lying, with his hands in a "simmer down" gesture.

I actually agree with you. My wife would kill me if I tried to string up extension cables across every room just so I can tweet my power usage. Not to mention, I don't know if a single plug could handle all the stuff in my television/computer room. Besides, how many houses do you know that plugs every electrical device into a socket or even 110? What about the Fridge and the dryer?

Give me a way to measure my whole house, then graph it over time, then I can do something with this.

I bet he downloaded the Guitar Hero version because the over engineered free CD the label gave him sounded like crap.

Hey, Lars deserve a good copy of the CD, even if he didn't pay for it either.