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Comment environmental damage from dams (Score 1) 360

Dam's are great for humans in the short run, but as we have seen with nearly every attempt we have made to shape nature to our will it causes long term damage. Dams restructure entire ecosystems. They (obviously) change water levels in adjoining rivers and streams will leads to kill offs of entire ecosystems. They mess up spawning patterns of various fish and even the ones that add fish ladders still screw it up because there is a severe temperature gradient between the two sides of a dam that upsets egg viability. There are several more ways and I am sure you can find lists on the web from the Army Corps of engineers, etc. that are less biased than some of the more radical green groups, but in general dams are not good for the environment.

Comment NASD fines go back 5 to 10 years (Score 1) 119

The NASD has been known to levy multimillion dollar fines and pull dealer licenses for offenses made by previous staff. Their reasoning is that any competent professional would see and correct pre-existing issues. To be fair, they gave me and my staff 6 months to fix some stuff related to email auditing and retention and even made suggestions...

Comment Big Brother and Project Observer (Score 1) 342

Big Brother (or Sister) which uses push agents so you are not generating vast amount of SNMP polls and you get instant feedback on a stupid simple dashboard.
http://www.bb4.org/

Project Observer is super easy to set up for SNMP and can auto-discover Cisco gear (with CDP). A good, simple SNMP monitor but it has serious scaling limitations.
http://www.observernms.org/

Nagios for hard core up/down monitoring with good flap detection and Cacti for performance monitoring.

OCS Inventory for push software distribution and inventory control.

Or you could drop some serious cash and just get Unicenter TNG and go bald from ripping your hair out.

Seriously, though, try a bunch of things and see what actually works for your team.

Comment Differences in storage sizes / AFT (Score 1) 536

Have you checked that the differences in files sizes aren't due to the differences in cluster size?

You can verify content by simply comparing hash values. If you need more assurance, then Sterling Managed File Transfer, or SFTP.

If you are talking DoD, DoE, or anything above a confidential level... for the love of God, call the NSA and request to use Assured File Transfer (AFT) or some other managed system. They should help you with this.

Comment Drove over 800 miles in last three days (Score 2, Interesting) 319

I live in the US and we just went for a little trip from Indianapolis to Madison, Wisconsin. Round trip with side ventures and a little driving around Madison came to over 800 miles.

That's just a couple of neighboring states. I drive 30 minutes at 60 MPH to get to work and that is all within city limits. The suburbs and exurbs and much further away.

Comment Organ Donors (Score 4, Insightful) 319

The Smart ForTwo weighs over 2.5 times as much (1880 lbs.) in large part to the hardware required to pass those crash tests.

How well do, for example, motorcycles pass crash tests?

Motorcycles don't. You get into a wreck with another vehicle, you die. We refer to motorcycle riders as "organ donors" in the US.

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