You are correct. Combined, in both my racks are 12 3U battery backups. Roughly $1200.00 each. Worth every penny.
All my servers have redundant power supplies, so each P/S on an individual server uses two separate devices.

We also have an 8cyl Detroit diesel generator that kicks in when the mains drop, probably takes less than half a second, BUT I remember one time the fuel guys forgot to fill it, it ran for an hour and quit. Shit happens. My batteries are good for 20 to 40 minutes depending on load and by that time a yard guy had filled it up and restarted it. Has a 100 gallon tank btw.

All the desktops (except a few) survived as well.

Why would /. editors leave out crib? Great game and if youre stuck without a board and pegs, just use a piece of paper. Although personally I only like 2 handed, up to 4 can play as well.

Both my sons have gotten very good at it and when we get bored with movies or video games, crib it is!

This would be a good time to subtly remind your users, or at least the higher up ones that they should never put something in an email they would be afraid to see in court, or directly read to the recipient, face to face. In the same conversation, you would mention that due to your job, you have access to everyone's email account (as you must) because SOMEONE has to administer it.

You cannot evade office politics, ever. Just don't do stupid things like buy a new hire a 27" Dell Ultrasharp while your bosses son in accounting is using a 19" Chinese knockoff. Common sense.

Don't take sides, remain neutral when Sally tells you what an asshole Bill is. DO NOT run over to Bill and tell him. That is what Sally wants.Eventually the peons will stop and perhaps your boss will realize he can share something with you, without the entire company knowing 5 minutes later. Common sense.

Dont play favorites. If the biggest dick head in the company needs a new workstation, get it for him. If you dont, you are only hurting your company, not the dick head.

I could continue, but you probably get the drift by now.

You know, as a Canadian, I have to say it was more the British soldiers that burned pert of it down, in retaliation for having OUR (in Canada, but Britains) parliment buildings razed.

That being said........We're Sorry!

Full disclosure: I am 56 years old.

I've found over the years that a lot of smaller, family owned or privately run businesses will hire older personnel for the experience factor alone. Granted, I'm a Sysadmin, not a programmer.

The larger companies are shackled by company policy (written or unwritten) HR, fixed pay scales and so on. I do believe money comes in to play as younger can mean considerably cheaper, but if that person takes 3X longer to accomplish the task, how much are you really saving in the long run?

The company I've worked for the last 8 years has 50 employees, 11 servers, 65 workstations, laptops, phones, tablets, and so on. I'm also involved in special projects which I have time for because all our systems run smoothly. I can take time off without fear of something bad happening, barring hardware failure or user stupidity.

I tried hiring an assistant, but didn't have much luck. Anyone who could actually help me, and was knowledgeable were few and far between. I got lots of kids who "played with computers" but had no clue on AD, Domains, and so on. I was willing to pay 50k to start by the way.

Anyway, of course age discrimination exists, as does other forms of discrimination. It has simply moved below the surface whereas previously it was overt. I know many companies I have dealt with would hire me in an instant because they know my skill level, however I would have one Hell of a time on the open market at my age. I doubt I would make it past the HR drone.

Pete

If we ignore the "law" for a moment, I'm having a hard time understanding why ANY sane person would blow through a stop sign. There could very well be a hidden drive way or road on one side of it. By the time you look left, then right, another vehicle could have easily pulled out that you may not have seen.

I find the "right of way" advocates even sillier.
We can put this on your tombstone " Here lies John Doe, tragically taken from us in an intersection by a large SUV, BUT HE HAD THE RIGHT OF WAY"

I would say $200,00.00 is a good start

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/h...

Hanlon's razor would like a word with you.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Even simpler to use Chrome and open up an incognito tab.

That’s not the best news, the best part of this story is that Google will do it using it’s own open sourced VP9 technology. Google acquired the technology from O2 and open sourced it. Google started offering the codec on royalty free basis to vendors to boost adoption.

Google has also learned the hardware partnership game and has already roped in hardware partners to use and showcase VP9 at CES. According to reports LG (the latest Nexus maker), Panasonic and Sony will be demonstrating 4K YouTube using VP9 at the event.

VP9 keeps FSF happy, users happy, content providers happy, carriers/ISPs happy and hardware vendors happy.

Google today announced that most leading hardware vendors will start supporting the royalty-free VP9 codecs. These hardware vendors include major names like ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba.

VP9 is beneficial for everyone as it makes the codec available to vendors for free of cost – thus boosting its adoption compared to the non-free H.264/265. At the same time being Open Standard and Open Source it also ensures that users won’t require proprietary (and insecure) technologies like Flash to view content. The third benefit of VP9 is that it can deliver high-resolutions at low bit-rates thus using less bandwidth to watch content. It means that those on slower connections will not have to wait for buffering and be satisfied with low-resolution videos. It will benefit those on faster connections as they won’t have to waste their expensive bandwidth on videos.

Back in the late 70's I used to work for the only company in Canada that manufactured very large ball valves for pipelines. We are talking in excess of 10 ton's with 42" flanges. We supplied Trans Canada Pipelines, Foothills, etc. I designed the pressure testing rig and tank for these very large units.

Know what the biggest problem was/is with pipelines? Materials used in manufacturing.

"Sour" gas vs "Sweet" gas valves (and the pipeline itself) are made of completely different materials. An "O" ring housing for example may be made from Titanium for a corrosive sour gas and Stainless Steel for sweet non corrosive gas.

More than once, on smaller valves (gate or ball, I forget now) we had to investigate why a valve failed and it was always the incorrect material. Some worker swapped a part behind QC's back thinking "no big deal, they look the same".

Perhaps traceability and manufacturing has improved (I would hope so) by now though.

On an interesting side note, the big guy's were tested at 20,000kpa, or about 2900psi. The rumor went that if there were ever a pinhole leak in one of the 3" deep welds, or porosity in the casting and you walked through it without seeing it, it would cut you in half.

Nothing is perfectly safe, but I do think a pipeline is "safer" than rail transport.

What could possibly go wrong!

I used to belong to a gun club. Competitive Bull's-eye shooter here.

I've seen the top strap of a S&W model 686 (Stainless Steel 6" barrel .357 Magnum revolver) get peeled back due to an "explosion". The top of the cylinder was blown open, then the top strap was blown upwards and back.
Now a revolver is inherently stronger than an automatic in most cases, and Smith & Wesson is a well manufactured pistol, but do you know what caused it? It was caused by a squib load.
A squib load is not enough powder in the case. Lets say you were hand loading your own cartridges and you were measuring out 14 grains of powder, but instead only put 4 grains in. Now, instead of a controlled burn (which is how firearm cartridges work) you really DO have an explosion. Too much pressure, probably in excess of 50,000 PSI, way too fast. Boom goes your handgun.
So, I don't have a tinfoil hat on, but things may not always be as they seem.

On behalf of all Canadians, we apologize.

I strongly recommend sending Teamviwer an email explaining your situation and perhaps asking for a little relief on the pricing.
We started using it a few years ago. I used it for "commercial purposes" on a few machines for 2 or 3 months, then contacted them about a business license. The cost was a little high, but they offered me a 40% discount, so I purchased it on the spot.

Later, after training a few employees on its use, I ran in to the single channel problem, so I called TeamViewer again and explained the situation. I upgraded to an Enterprise model that allowed 3 channels simultaneously. Again, based on the fact I had recently purchased the business class model (and if I could have seen the future I would have gone Enterprise right off the bat) they gave me an extremely nice discount.

No point in explaining all the features, you can look that up yourself, but we consider it money well spent and the point is they are very nice people to deal with, at least in my experience. One thing I will mention though, is you can set it up on your remote machines (white list connections) and forget it.

What have you got to lose? The worst they can say is "no".

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with TeamViewer, other than the fact I purchased a corporate license.