You miss my point. Thirty something years ago when I was in elementary school, I was taught about recycling and and encouraged to take the message home.

Starting around age 6 I was inundated with with messages of "reduce reuse or recycle" "#1 and #2 plastics, metals are recyclable" "captain planet" "ozone hole". We did experiments testing the pH of the "acid rain" in our yards and entered in a database we accessed via dial up on our Apple IIc class computer. We then took all this home and parroted it to our parents and when the recycling bins started showing up on the curb in ~1991 we made our parents recycle. Where i am from the cost of municipal waste handling was offset significantly by recycling. By the early 2000s you could put nearly everything recyclable in the bin and what you couldn't put in the bin you could easily drop off. In 2012 I moved to Utah in our first neighborhood only about 5-10% of homes had blue bins. I asked a long time resident. Turns out the HOA took the recycling bins away because people were just using them as an extra trash cans. I have been diligently recycling since ~1991 and in 2019 I can't help but doubt it's effectiveness because of the people around me. It's disheartening.

Every media company wants its own service so it can monopolize its own content and squeeze every penny from their customers. If they would remove their heads from their anuses they'd see that a few services offering everyone's content they'd make a killing. Micro transactions are where it's at. Ask the music and video game industries... Having to buy multiple services, navigate which content comes to which service and when will push consumers away. Make it brain dead simple and ubiquitously available and the money will pour in.

Hack - "lifehack" Code - "learn to code" Cloud - "in the cloud" to mean "I don't know where it is" or "to give away all one's personal data" Ping - "ping me later" Program - "program my phone"

Yes! Sespool at the bottom of the Dyson hand dryer creeps me out. I think the strategy is to gross people out so they'll just air dry thus saving paper and electricity.

Switch to UTC everywhere and allow each region will settle on its hours naturally. If most businesses in a region decide that "business hours" are from 0500 to 1300 then others are likely to go along with it. He'll this might even be beneficial for traffic. Without the convention of 9-5 businesses ina region might feel more free to vary their hours some. Calling noon the middle of the day made sense when people lived their lives within a few tens of miles (or kilometers). When the trains came and it meant that there needed to be consistent time over larger and larger distances we got 1 hour timezones. With more people interacting with people or traveling across many timezones perhaps it's time to widen timezones again... To the circumference of the earth, giving only one timezone.

The NRC needs an overhaul. Modern designs are very safe and emit less radioactivity than burning coal. People are needlessly scared. People perceive threat wrong. They fear terrorist attacks and nuclear meltdowns but don't even know that smoking, heart disease and driving are considerably more likely to kill them.

...about 2 years ago, 2x face to face. It was challenging. But man did I feel out of place and I was 35 at the time. I would say 7/10 people I interviewed with we're mid 20s males. No female interviewers. I got a distinct "out of place" feeling more than a few times. I felt like I had a rapport with my interviewers but that they were going through the motions, like they had made up their minds in the first few mins. "Hey cool man but it just isn't going to happen."

...they have agreed on another way to fuck their customers over.

Here here on avoiding the wall mount rack. I didn't run quite as many cables as this poster but I did run 2xCAT6, 2xCAT3 and 2xCOAX to each location.

In the basement I hung a piece of 2'x4' x 3/4" plywood on the wall with some cement screws and then got a surface mount CAT6 12 port punch block. A 8 way coax splitter with terminator caps. A signal amplifier and a small unmanaged gigabit switch. I haven't actually terminated the phone lines as I don't have "land line" phones anyway. I just ran the CAT3 since I was already in the walls. To hold up a "server" (purpose built PC) I bought (from a big box home improvement store) a set of "heavy duty" adjustable shelf brackets and 2x9" deep shelf.

My motivation for going all "PC" grade stuff was that I did not want the power consumption of enterprise/datacenter class equipment. My "server" has a 300W PSU in it which is enough to drive the CPU, Mobo, drives and a few other accessories but it should be operating at about 80% capacity which is where most PSUs run most efficient. As for the switch I just bought a little 8port d-link gigabit switch which uses a 5v 1.0A wall wart. My next endevor is to plug each device in to a Kill-A-Watt to how much power each actually uses.

"Server" specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
CPU: i5-2500k (No OC)
RAM: 16G DDR3
HDD: 4x (1x Samsung 7200.12, 3x Samsung 7200.11) (Had to RMA one of my 7200.11s and got a 7200.12 as replacement.)

Links (for references, not endorsements)
Cat6 12 port punch block: http://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-N250-012-Mount-Feedthrough/dp/B000HZES42
8 Way Splitter: http://www.amazon.com/Philips-PH61046-8-WAY-Cable-Splitter/dp/B0009A3IXW
Terminator Caps http://www.computercablestore.com/Coaxial_Termination_Cap_catID3984.aspx

My 2c.
-Alan

I have not used partimage in a long time either but I had great results when I did. I imaged a couple hundred WindowsXP boxes without problems. The biggest thing I ran into was having to set the sector offset in the bootloader when a partition moved from one place on a box to another. Another that I had a lot of luck with though not as 'pretty' as partimage is ntfsclone which is part of ntfsprogs. -Alan

Some rules and technologies my company has adopted:

Between racks
1. Raised floor for air only, high ceilings for air buffer and room for overhead wiring, hot and cold aisle partitioning including doors at the end of aisles
2. Power in conduit immediately above racks
3. Cable ladders above power for Cat6, cable bundles are zip tied to ladders every second or third cross rung
4. Fiber trays above cable trays for fiber
5. Run cables from the rack to a row of 2 post rack w/ patch panels in a network cage
6. Run cables from devices in another parallel row(high density line cards etc) to more 2 post racks in the first row via ladders running parallel and perpendicular to rows
7. Use horizontal runs between rack and device patch panels to patch racks to infrastructure
8. Dedicated 2 post racks for telco DMARC gear in another row again, perpendicular cable ladders between rows
9. Clearly label everything using wire wrap labeler

In the racks
1. Use appropriate lengths for everything, fiber, patch and power
2. Label everything using wire wrap labeler
3. Use velcro straps as in rack cabling can change more frequently

In specific we use RapidNet, you order pre terminated modules that you clip into 19" panels, they come terminated, tested and strapped in bundles of 6. Once your cable ladders and trays are up you know how long your runs are.
http://www.hellermanntyton.us/rapidnet
Some good pictures in: http://www.hellermanntyton.us/media/documents/LITPDDCS.pdf
Check out page 9 for some similar to what I described above w/ different racks/cross connects.

This is exactly right. Try teaching a 55+ yr old accountant or bookkeeper when he/she should use black&white vs color, 150 vs 300 vs 600 dpi and the difference between JPEG, TIFF and PDF. Then teach them how to enter their email address on the network scanner printer using only the number keys then how to forward that email without sending it to 500 other people accidentally and without blowing up email quotas. - OR - you can teach them to put the original in the feeder, punch in a phone number, press send.

The truth is even many fax machines have different photo/text settings, contrast settings, quality settings but no one other than us IT types ever considers those.

My company uses OpenLDAP for user authentication in the datacenter and ran across a strange problem that seems very similar to this. It was present in at least OpenLDAP 2.4.16. We tracked it down to a weird problem in the password policy overlay. If I recall right it was the password policy overlay was returning a successful response to updating the last failed login time attribute but that was being passed up and causing binds to return true also. Our solution was to remove the password policy overlay and we have not gone back to revisit it.

I do not know if OpenLDAP in Lion uses the password policy overlay but if it does it would be an easy test to disable it and see if the problem persists. I post here because I don't really feel like registering to a Mac related forum that I will only post once on. I hope someone finds this and finds it useful.

1. Worry about securing Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress first...
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2. Use a VPN and hardware firewall
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3. Use iptables 'recent' or 'limit' modules
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4. SSH keys
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5. Find a managed service provider to do 1-4 so you can worry about managing the sites (check out Secure-24.com maybe)