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Comment As an network administrator (Score 1) 1307

If you want something to run on the corporate network, and ESPECIALLY if you want a firewall hole opened up, you sure as hell better be giving me access to your server. And I better be able to have full admin rights, even if I'm not going to do anything to it. This is an ABSOLUTE requirement, there is no exceptions here. You would be lucky to get permission to even plug a network cable into this since you didn't go to the IT department about this before you ever started. IT is for the IT people for a damn good reason. Things you haven't taken into account, security (ok, I'll give it that you have thought about this some), HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxly, several other legal liabilities that fall back upon the IT dept if something gets hacked on that box. All of these have to be taken into account.

Comment WHat HORRIBLE place to store photos (Score 1) 368

Why would you ever consider that a repository for your photos? It's a place to share them, but that sure as hell is not where you want to store them for keep sake. When you upload photos to FB they are down rez'd. The image quality of them is lost. That reason alone is why you should NEVER consider it a long term store for your records. Read the fine print, it's explained.

Comment Are you sure you're on a business class service? (Score 1) 459

If you are on a business class service, they should not be blocking smtp traffic. I work at a place that uses business TWC and we send and receive a LARGE volume of email everyday. You need to call their business support and talk to them, it's not the same number as residential.

Comment Re:Redundant (Score 1) 600

Motorola thumping their chest and trying to say you can't do that with our phones. When you can. It just means when a new phone comes out it takes a little longer. It's probably more sucking up to the PhoCo's than it has anything to do with the endusers. I'm sure Motorola really doesn't even care. After all, including efuse increases complexity of design, increases cost of production, creates more points of failure, ect, ect. There is no real reason for them to want that feature, other than Verizon and the likes saying if you don't include it we won't buy it.

Comment Harddrive not in freezer but ice water bath (Score 1) 208

I had to recover a drive from a test machine that was holding up about $300K worth of product from shipping. I didn't have a backup of this machine because someone deleted a folder on the file server recently. (I still don't know who did that). I tried freezing it, but the drive heated up too quick to get the data off. So, I took the drive, put it in a ziploc bag, submerged it except for the opening of the bag with the cables coming out of it in a bath of ice, water, and salt. The combination kept the drive cold enough to run a full disk to disk copy. We got the shipment out that night.

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