Comment Re:Before this gets even more overblown... (Score 1) 128
So close, but instead of a poster, it's a 140 character scribble on the bathroom wall of the Internet, and childish clips of kids kicking each other in their nuts.
So close, but instead of a poster, it's a 140 character scribble on the bathroom wall of the Internet, and childish clips of kids kicking each other in their nuts.
Much like a creative decision making meeting at SyFy, any stupid idea will be made.
So I'm not the only one who read that as the basis for a bad made-for-SyFy movie.
Plucky protagonist: Oh no, the Starivore is coming to eat our sun!
Glasses wearing scientist: Yes Plucky, and there's nothing we can do about it!
Ribbon laden general: We'll nuke it!
Plucky protagonist: But the nuclear detonation would only make it stronger.
Glasses wearing scientist: You have a point there Plucky, I'm glad you figured that out before we made a terrible mistake.
Ribbon laden general: Too late, the missiles have already launched, there's nothing we can do.
Glasses wearing scientist: There's only one thing we can do, stop it with a black hole!
[all somewhat technical people viewing it]: shit, I should have known better than to watch more SyFy channel crap.
Shit, I really shouldn't have said anything. Now they'll really make that movie. Right after Sharkgle.
I say this in all seriousness: Who cares? If you're in Apple's world, you take what Apple gives you. If you don't like Apple's offerings, you can either invest the energy in getting a Hackintosh running or buy the thing Apple consents to sell you.
For what it's worth, Intel NUCs make pretty good Hackintoshes.
I thought that was in the in-game trolls.
Ya, I doubt it would really cause too many cancellations, but it's still within the realm of possibilities. I've seen people cancel service over a couple hours of downtime, for things that cost pennies a day. Like one hour down, on a $25/yr subscription to a porn site.
On the network/systems part, I really meant to say it as the department, not as the individual. It's not unheard of to call in contractors, especially where it was an ongoing thing. Not all network and systems people are salary either. Some don't have any. I have had contract gigs to try to figure out why a network was misbehaving. Even when it turns out to be the upstream provider, they still have to pay me for showing up.
That's you and me. I have something somewhat legitimate in there. I'm also sure you're aware that domain registrar information is rarely changed in a timely fashion, even though they're sending out the yearly reminders to make sure your information is right.
The whole registrar proxy thing is easy money for them. As I recall, they have verbage on the page that strongly recommends using it, implying it's for the safety of your domain.
I've frequently seen that the registration itself is handled by an accounting department, not by the IT department. When I was looking at their pages, it looked like they don't have an in-house IT department. It's probably a contracted web designer who maintains the page, and someone in-house (like accounting) manages the domain. By managed, I mean "pays the bill when it comes up for renewal".
Since it's frequently managed someone who will never check it, it's actually better to let the proxy service handle the contacts. They will (hopefully) update their billing info if there is a change, so the service knows who to send contacts to.
When you blocked McDonalds by flooding all the highways with a 12" deep layer of molasses, it would probably be considered equally damaging.
There is a discernible monetary loss. How much was lost in revenue where customers could not pay for services? How much was lost from cancellation of services because of the outage? How much was spent for network and systems administrators to work on it, beyond their normal workload?
And then
I'm sure those numbers were easily in the millions. Those won't be the all inclusive questions either. I'm afraid to even ponder how big the final figure will become. It could involve seemingly unrelated companies, who lost sales because their VoIP traffic was on one of the over-utilized circuits.
It looks like this is more of a competitor trying to sabotage them, rather than a legitimate complaint. Yes, Slashdot could have gotten in trouble for running it. Honestly, they should have seen it, did the difficult step of "Look at the site first" and realized it was a non-story.
He's bitching about not being able to contact the company, yet http://kahntools.com/contact-us
Address
6320 Canoga Ave. Suite 640
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Phone
Office: (818) 884-7000
Toll Free: (855) 585-7500
Fax: (818) 530-4249
Hours of Operation
9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Monday â Friday
Email
Customer Service: sales@kahntools.com
General Inquiries: support@kahntools.com
and I found separately through the magic of g00gle...
Shhh.. Talk like that will get the attention of DHS.
I used Familiar Linux back in the day, when my Compaq iPaq became little more than a paperweight. When it was new, I had bought the iPaq with the battery sleeve that had 2 PCMCIA card slots. I did use it for a couple things. One was a little wifi scan tool, kind a primitive Wifi Analyzer. The other was the fancy IR remote that you mentioned.
Since it was so limited, even though it was a little Linux box, it eventually just ended up sitting on my desk until the batteries died, and a few years later it end up in a box in the closet. I haven't seen it in a few years, so it got misplaced one of the times I've moved. No big loss, other than the huge amount I had paid for it when it was new.
Since I can do everything with my Android phone that I ever did with the iPaq, there really isn't a reason to even try to resurrect one.
Their consumer drives have gone to absolute shit. I was buying them because they were marginally cheaper than the other choices. I ended up with a couple dozen running over the period of about a year. As each matured to about 1.5 years old, they started dying. Seagate reduced their warranty for consumer drives down to 1 year, so now they're all paperweights.
I guess they're ok, if you want to build a computer that you only want to use for 1 year. Maybe building out a machine for someone you don't like, or you like repeat business from angry customers who lose all their data yearly.
One of these days, we're going to have a thermite fueled funeral pyre. I'll post the YouTube video.
At least these "archive" drives get a 3 year warranty, for now. I wouldn't be surprised if they start trimming that down over time as they find out what their real failure rates are like.
I've only ever been asked once, over countless flights before and after 9/11. That was in 2000, to board a flight leaving the US for Europe. Unfortunately, I was using it on the first flight, and my battery died. I told the agent "The battery is dead, but I can plug it in if you'd show me where an outlet is". That was the end of it.
Intel was still making some Atom CPUs with only 32 bit support as recently as IIRC 2012. An Atom is generally a pretty good choice for a FreeNAS box, since just about the only thing that will even touch multithreaded operation is the NFS server (or Plex, if you've hacked that in).
It wouldn't have "seeped out", but you're on the right track. hydrogen + oxygen + energy = water. and water + energy = hydrogen + oxygen. We understand a lot of the surface chemical processes on this planet. We don't understand all the subterranean processes, but we have an idea.
Non-terrestrial bodies can carry water. Landing on a single comet and saying "no comets have Earth-like water" is like saying "We've only found life on Earth, therefore no other life exists."
I think some people have a very homogenous view of the universe. Once you've sampled a few, you've sampled them all.
Even on the Earth, there isn't a lot of water. This may give a better visualization.
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