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Comment File an FCC Complaint (Score 1) 562

If you live in the US (the posting implies that you do) and you can't resolve the issue with AT&T, then I would file a FCC Complaint.

You can even file the complaint online.

That said, 20%, is not a huge difference - is it worth fighting over?

Remember when people used to be concerned that when buying a 10 Gig hard drive, it wasn't really 10 Gigabytes?

(I hope you weren't expecting me to make your decision for you.)

Comment You Suck, the New Person Doesn't (Score 1) 290

Pretty much, no matter what you do, even if you build a wiki, have everything amazingly documented, and are in the top 10% of all shops in terms of best practices, the new person will find reasons to find fault with what you have done. Servers will be rebuilt, upgrades will happen, etc. A year from now, things will either be better off than when you were running them or worse off, but the reality is that re-use just doesn't happen enough in our industry. So if re-use isn't happening, then it's really just up to the quality of the individual.

Comment Re:That is the thing (Score 1) 947

I'm not sure at what age I learned that when I put my baby bottle down that it wouldn't mysteriously float in the air, but I suspect that I wasn't educated on gravity, but in fact learned of the existence of gravity through observation and tests.

Outside of perhaps the favorable mutation's of bacteria to become antibiotic resistant, I don't have a significant opportunity to observe and test evolution.

I find it bizarre how emotional both sides of the evolutionary debate get. Either take the time to do real science or go watch TV.

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Man Swallows USB Flash Drive Evidence Screenshot-sm 199

SlideRuleGuy writes "In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents. Records show Florin Necula ingested the Kingston flash drive shortly after his January 21 arrest outside a bank in Queens. A Kingston executive said it was unclear if stomach acid could damage one of their drives. 'As you might imagine, we have no actual experience with someone swallowing a USB.' I imagine that would be rather painful. But did he follow his mother's advice and chew thoroughly, first? Apparently not, as the drive was surgically recovered."

Comment Re:Well, (Score 1) 420

Actually, it's the corporations here in the USA that have conditioned the consumers into buying unlimited-service-for-fixed-fee per billing period contracts. Corporations are addicted to committed revenue - and fixed fee pricing is a great way to get it. The usual 80/20 rule applies where they wouldn't offer the fixed fee at a particular pricing point unless they make added profit on the under utilization by 80% of the subscribers.
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Submission + - What Open Source VPN Solution to Use for an SMB?

emmjayell writes: The office I work at has between 30 and 40 staff and contractors (# of contractors varies from time to time) and is moving from a everyone work at one site sort of office, to a virtual office where most folks will be doing their work remotely 90% of the time. Almost everyone is running Windows XP as their primary OS (although a few of use run linux).

We currently have Checkpoint (firewall and vpn), MS Windows Server 2000 (file and print services), and a number of other systems that are browser based and internet/intranet friendly.

So the questions are:

1) What would work best for VPN access to internal resources?
2) What would work well for File sharing over a VPN/Remote access?

Some more explanation:

The vpn would need to support both Linux clients as well as Windows XP clients, hopefully able to support Vista and OSX clients into the future.

We do run a checkpoint VPN today, however we only have a single T1 for vpn access. I'm currently thinking that I'll move our high traffic volume email file services to a colocation site so that I'll have access to much higher bandwidth for those servers. Our lower traffic development servers (mostly linux), will remain behind the T1 which will be fine for 99% of the access.

Although accessing Windows Server is bearable over the VPN, running a Windows Domain over a vpn, domain logins, don't seem to make much sense. I'm currently thinking of using samba for 'shared file' access.

From a sysadmin perspective, we can run linux, bsd or any *nix based solution. We could handle a windows based solution as well, but are somewhat biased against it.

From the subject — SMB = Small / Mid sized Business, as opposed to Server Message Block (although you can see that I'm concerned about both topics)

Thanks for your time!

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