A sure fire way to make sure you get your tapes off site is a regularly schedualed pickup from your off-site company.

Agreed. We have to archive stuff for 10+ years due to various legal reasons. I found have good backup software and a library with a barcode reader really helps. The backup software reads the barcode from the tape via the library and sets the media name the same. That saves alot of administrative overhead. Plus if your backup software is any good, it will keep a database of what data is on what tape.

The one thing you have to be mindfull about with LTO tapes is they have obselecence built in. The drives will read and write is generation (n) and one before (n-1), and read N-2. anyhing past N-2 your SOL

As for off-site tape vendors, shop around and visit the facility.I've seen some on paper that sound great, but inspected they arent that great. If you're Near the Philly, New Jersey, New Your area, Vital Records is a great company (not a paid shill, just a very happy customer)

I'm right there with you. I bashed Vista pre-sp1, but there was some griup policy issues. Once you understand why ms did some of the things they did, they got a lot right. It a really easy OS to manage. My favorites feature is the hardware-agnostic wim image and off line driver injection. It adds up to let you have a single master image that doesn't care about the target system. New model of opti from dell, no problem.

They didn't mention it because it doesn't matter. Its the result of bad coding practices. A sql injection attack is caused by the front end application accepting whatever input its given and using to generate the sql statements. You stop these attacks by sanitizing your input, use stored procedures to do the database work, and possibly stick in a middle ware tear to handle database access, ie apache -> websphere -> database.

serivce tag/serial number. it never changes. things like the description fields in AD help out for tracking the more dynamic stuff.

I'm also on the ServiceTag/Serial Number boat. My automated build tools will read the tag number from the BIOS. the host name stay the same cradle to crave. Details like where its located assigned goes into the AD deiscription field. All the other data sits in my ConfigMgr database

I forgot to mention the test is "if it would cause a resonable person to react violently under normal conditions"

We call that Disordly Conduct here in Delaware. Its an excellent tool for dealing with unruly neighbors From Del Code, title 11

by the same logic, license plates are a national id. USDOT sets the standards the state need to conform to a federal standard

Real ID isnt a national ID. Its a a set of rules to make it harder to game the system in getting your state issued plastic. Its still a state owned and managed process. You're info stays at the state level. Instead of paper based reciprocity, the verifcation is done a lot quicker electronicly.

There is a reliance, good bad or indifferent, on your state issued id. the biggest burdon to my state is the overhaul of the DMV apps to support the new info, and providing an electronic interface to other states to query our record.

driver licences are forged quite often, and there's a number of authenticity checks built into the state issued DL. i made the mistake of making a remark of how card is it to forge an id, and i quickly shown just how many anti-counterfitting measures there are

I know the DMV's in Delaware have a *huge*, and i mean huge, focus on customer service. Its been pretty descent since i moved here 10 years ago, and its only gotten better. Delaware is based quite a bit on who you know, so its easy to step on the wrong toes in this state. My car was due in for inspections (state provied) and renewal within 6 monthes after the new director of dmv was appointed. The morning i took it in, i got a call from her asking me be a reviewer of the lanes for her. she wanted to gage the process for an average (ie unconnected) looking citizen.

Getting a real fake ID isnt that hard if you know the process. If you bring falsified documents to the the DMV, assuming your forgeries ar half descent, you'll get your ID issued to you. The process is pretty easy to game today. Real ID is more about having the process to issue a licence authenicate the documents and ther person.

One of the issues that Real ID adresses is to cut down on issuing DL's to those that have had them revoked. Its a common occurance for John Doe to loose his license in state X so he drives across the state lines, and gets an license from state Y. States do have reciprocity. but it takes years for the records to catch up to you.

Like it or not, theres a lot of stock put in to that little peice of goverenment issued plastic. Real ID helps to make sure the plastic card s being issued to the person it say it is. Document Authenticity is a big problem, and not just with licences, but plates/tag, car titles, vehicle registrations. You get quite a different perspective when talking to a state's DMV director.

Wow, mines a baby, I only have 55K pages on it. Runs like a champ