We do Veeam backups of our virtual infrastructure nightly. Once a week, a copy of that is taken offsite. Also, every night our Equallogic SAN's replicate with eachother. They are in three separate offices in North America. In the event one building burns down, is blown up by a nuke, or similar, we can fire up our entire virtual infrastructure in the failback location within a couple of hours (minutes really). Since we only have 3-4 non-virtualized servers, and none of them store important data, we're pretty well protected I think.

I believe you are wrong there. It says for their wholesale customers, they are allowed to bill based on connection speed, but not total monthly bandwidth usage. This means a small ISP would pay for a 100Mbit link, or 2 Gbit link, etc... It is billed in 100Mbit increments. ISP can use as much as they want, but they will only get that amount per second they paid for. This makes sense to me, you pay for the size of the pipe you need, doesn't matter how much data you put through the pipe.

I have one. Wireless just shuts off randomly every day, and under heavy load. Not all of them do this, but if you get one, there is no known fix. Does it both on stock firmware and DD-WRT. Netgear forums are littered with reports of it. I'm getting an Asus RT-N16 today to replace it.

I got a call from Bell the other day asking me to switch back to them. I said no. The guy asked why, and I said it was because Bell was an evil greedy company that didn't care about customers and I would never use one of their products ever again. After about 10 seconds of dead air, I said goodbye :) Bell is a horrid company. At work I switched all our cell phones off them to the slightly less evil Rogers, and our internet off them too (though our fiber connection does go through their network, couldn't avoid that, but at least they just get a fraction of the money, not all of it. Soon our phone lines will all be switched to VOIP too at work, no more Bell.

We condidered it last year, for about 800 machines. We didn't go with it because it needed multiple servers, and some of those had to be 32 bit servers. The SQL I believe it was, not totally sure but I think it only ran on a 32 bit sql server, which we don't have any of. Went with Kaspersky, been working great.

I'm not sure you understood what I meant. If Rogers is offering a streaming video service through their internet service, they have to count that towards your data cap just as they would for netflix. They can't give their own service an unfair and artificial advantage like that. They certainly would love to, and thats what the whole net neutrality debate is about. This came up when Bell first started throttling customers. One of the reasons the CRTC ruled with Bell initially was because they also throttled customers using Bell's own services.

I'm surprised to hear that part about your ISP's own offerings not being included in the cap. I believe in Canada, that practice is illegal. If they are going to cap you they can't discriminate their traffic or a competitors.

Team Viewer 5 does this. You send the person a link, or verbally tell them the URL over the phone. It downloads an EXE file, they run it. The program gives them some numbers they read off to you, and you connect using those numbers. Done! I use it a lot for helping friends/family.

True for VHS, but initially the adult industry backed HD-DVD, not bluray,and bluray still won.

A few years back on April Fools day I sent around an e-mail staying passwords would now be expiring weekly (instead of quarterly), your password had to be 24 characters long, and we'd all have to use swipe cards to open any doors in the building. I got a bunch of horrified responses, but mostly people caught on. Flash forward 2 years. We merged our Active Directory domain with out head office, and the password requirements shot up (not as much as I said in my e-mail, but more then users were used to). Also we all got ID/swipe cards, although as of yet we don't use them for anything other then looking pretty.

Me too. I currently use my android based phone with a 'wifi tether' app, which can share the 3g over wifi or bluetooth. I have a CarPC in my car for wife/kids, it gets internet from phone, so they can surf on long trips.

Google recently released Nexus one that supports Rogers 3G networks, and it is available for Canadians to buy, there is also a version for Wind. Bell/Telus can't run the Nexus one yet though.

Rogers has already announced everyone with one of these handsets will be getting one month of free data service. However, I don't think it's right Rogers has cutoff our data in order to force us to update. I have a rooted magic running a 1.6 rom which is immune to this 911 problem. They want me to reflash back to their 1.5rom, which co-incidentally they loaded a new SPL into that is currently unbreakable, so we can't even flash back to another rom after. Brief history: -Rogers announces there is a critical problem with 911 on dream and magic phones. The issue is related to GPS trying to send your location when you call 911. -Rogers advises customers to disable GPS until they issue a fix. -Rogers releases a new ROM that fixes the issue, they say if you don't update to it within a day or so, your internet access will be cut off (this also allows 911 calls to go through since it can't try to transmit your location)

Not exclusive no, the US does license out that right to other countries :)