IMO you've mistaken political correctness and socialism terms for something else. Your first point about media censoring an opinion is in fact related to political correctness but after that you have no clue. Think about yourself - please answer this sincerely - if you or somebody close to you had contradicted Ebola abroad of your country would you wish your country to help you or not? After all you've had paid for your country's medical care in your taxes - and this is by no means socialism. So how would it be? Would you wish your country to help you or your close one or just leave you to certain death abroad perhaps in some uncivilized African country?

How you can insert a bootable CD into ATM without having physical access to it? I havent seen any USB ports on the front nor CD drive slot...

> Separate but adjacent boxing/unboxing room with a sturdy table. And a sturdy
> cart to move equipment back and forth between them. You want to keep all the
> cardboard and styrofoam out of the equipment config area.

That is one great advance. DO NOT open equipment packaging in the data facility. Just do it somewhere else and bring it in unboxed. Uboxing in server room leads to loads of trash in the server room, dust and loads of other kind of garbage. Server room needs to be clean.

I would rather put additional spare wires in connections between core units (racks?) just in case you need them. If one wire fails than switch to another one, mark that old one as failed and be over with it. You can trace it if you WANT to but you don't NEED to do that. It is good to have some spare backup wires.

> My vote - one color - WHITE. Easy to label w/ a sharpie.

Why do you want to label wires with a sharpie? If you need to do so you are doing something wrong. Just use preprinted labels with numbers and barcodes (to easly scan these numbers). Attach label to each wire end and then input it into configuration database. In such database you can add all information you need - functional connection, physical connection (as which device goes where), even that floor positioning system - you have no limits. You just cannot and need not write all that information on the end of the wire - the end of the wire should be just unique id (human readable and scannable by device) and that is it. All the rest of data is in CMDB.

> Use over head cable management for network rather than under the floor. Ladder is easier to
> deal with than crawling in a hole. Put power under the floor as it's heavier and not moved as much.

Why would you need to touch, trace and whatever the wires once mounted? Just put like 25% more spare wiring where needed (like between core racks) and if you have a wire failure just switch to spare wire and that is it. Wires are cheap, downtime and labour are not.

You are asking quite a broad question so I'll just throw in some random ideas since the topic is so broad you'll need to specify exactly what you have problems with and ask about it... and then iterate and ask again since it would be a long process.

1) Mount infrastructure systems like UPS and AC in advance and let them dry run so you can test if they behave properly f.e. ACs dont produce fog (I've dealt with such problem and it required changes from vendor) UPSs produce weird vibrations and so on. Just put the basic stuff to work as soon as possible so it you can overcome any gotchas it may cause.

2) Plan for expansion in advance - make proper room for additional AC and UPS units. Wire it accordingly. Put exhaust tunnels and everything needed just don't put the unit itself - this will make it much easier for you to expand if needed as you'll have all the work done already. Also add all racks you'll probably need later and wire them. Just don't use them - leave as spare. Racks and wires are cheap - labour is not cheap and it consumes time when needed.

3) Put additional canals (just empty space) below AC units as they can leak fluid.

4) Invest into cable management system so you can label each end of each cable with barcode and have a database of this configuration so you can scan every end of every cable and lookup what is its function where and to what it is connected etc. Don't bother with manually labeling each cable since it is tedious and probably will change in time. Just use generic barcodes attached to ends of wires. MAINTAIN this database as it is the most important stuff. Every single change must be noted in database. Peroid. No exeptions. Also don't bother with color coding the cables - usualy you will end with a mess unless you have a simple network.

5) Invest in security system like webcams on entry doors, RFID IDs and so on. It is not as expensive and will give you audited information on who, when had physical access to the facility. Be strict and anal implementing this - in case of non compilance f.e. somebody is trying to get unauthorized access just raise the alarm to local security staff. It is better to have false positives here.

Confluence can be used in vendor cloud or on your own servers:
https://www.atlassian.com/soft...

Try Atlassian Confluence

https://www.atlassian.com/soft...

It is not free (as in beer) but IMO it meets your needs. This is the most user friendly wiki software I know and has roles for knowledge base system and also means to attach files (f.e. videos). You can put in few macros that will automagically embed attached videos in web player.

Read on here:

https://confluence.atlassian.c...

I am not US taxpayer so I don't give a shit how much such bullet costs. All I know that sometimes the SEALS or other special ops. unit serves to protect civilians. Hard to belive but that is its function. Put aside "the bad terrorists" and just focus on some scenarios in which such weapon would be extremely useful despite its cost... like I don't know... maybe it is some stupid Hollywood style example but - Maersk Alabama incident. AFAIK snipers did excellent job then and if such weapon could help in such situations I like it.

The idea is good itself but unless your OS vendor starts using it it is worthless IMHO - lets think of RHEL for example:
* it rises security issues cruicial stuff like kernel code comes from third party which party does not give any SLA or other agreement - I don't think that security guys will like that
* it rises support issues - does f.e. RH or Oracle support systems patched this way
* it (paradoxically) rises the complexity of running the systems since it involves yet another way of patch, test, deploy cycle iterations

So it is cool feature to have f.e. for home server but I won't pay 4 bucks for it. It is cool from technical standpoint. But unless the operating system vendor itself supports it is worthless from my point of view.

Also I don't see RH or Novell (SUSE) even touching this stuff - I wonder why?

> When a stock broker's trading floor system goes down, the loss is
> measured in millions of dollars per second

Ksplice does not protect you from servers going down.

> Downtime is just not acceptable under some circumstances.

Still - ksplice does not make your servers highly avialable or fault tolerant. It just allows you to patch the server without rebooting.

Any decently designed HA or FT system should have such things like service reboots implemented by design since it is natural and obvious that you will need to reboot some nodes sometimes. Usually it is reffered to as maintanance or planned downtime - it is quite other thing that an unplanned downtime or disaster recovery - ksplice does not deal with that.

I don't really personally see any use of such service. If you need FT or HA system you need to design it as such from ground up. In this case paying 4 bucks just solves some problems with rebooting after kernel upgrade. I dont have problem with that. I just reboot in next service window. In normal situation mission critical systems have some sort of redundancy not only to cope with planned service reboots but with other unplanned disasters. So usually you have a N+1 redundant cluster in which you can reboot the servers using some procedure that was worked out while DESIGNING the system. Also I see quite few security issues with patching the kernel this way. In mission critical services you usually do test everything before rolling it out to the systems so using such feature just makes things more complicated (that just simply reboot the machine with my current procedures).

I cannot find anything about security details on their webpage. They state "Ksplice Uptrack uses cryptography to authenticate the update feed.". So what? Fedora also used cryptography and once their servers got rooted the whole chain collapsed. So if I was to use their service I wish to know how exactly their security is implemented since I would be getting kernel patches (quite critical stuff) from them. At least with RHEL I know a about their security procedures (quite rigorious). From support point of view. Does f.e. Red Hat or Oracle support systems patched this way?

It is a nice feature but IMO not suitable for enterprises yet.

At launch of Bing I have used it to test it and I haven't found any feature that would break my addition to Google. Even if Bing was as good as Google it is still different and requires me to learn a new tool. The only reason I would have learnt a new tool would be if it was any better - but it is not. At least in my opinion.

So my question is - does anybody even use Bing? Recently I recall that I have used Bing only when I gived the search box at MSFT KB/Support pages (which use Bing) and it just failed for simple queries like "download something-microsoftish". Google is much better even when searching MSFT sites.

Yes and I know that Google != privacy. But I can cope with that if it works OK.

> Any admin worth their pay can run rings around a net-blocker.

What Admin? Oracle admin? AIX admin? SharePoint admin? SAP admin? There is a lot of different types of admins now and what makes them worth their pay is that they help you run your business and earn money. The ability to run rings around a net-blocker is not something you put on your resume.

Also in well implemented network it is not as easy to run around it *undetected*.

Also by doing so you are clearly breaking the rules that your supervisor set for you - what for? So they can fire you easly if they wish? Mobile broadband internet is like 10 bucks a month (at least here in Poland). Just get your own netbook or laptop and use it for unauthorized Internet access.

Where is logic in that?

Two facts:
- you use SPF for own domains
- your shool's Zimbra installation scores mails from your domains as spam

Based on above facts how have you come to conclusion that SPF doesn't work in general? The fact that your school's Zimbra scores your mail as spam is just a single cases and most probably not related to SPF in general.

Have you looked at headers of these message marked as spam? Have you contacted the postmaster?