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Comment Not unlike giant propane tanks (Score 2) 239

It's not uncommon to see rural houses with giant propane tanks either above or below ground, since they can't get natural gas service. If you have solar, you can get a battery big enough to run your house for a while that would be smaller than those tanks and can just as easily be buried as long as they're thermally suited. Heck you could have both and have a propane generator on hand just in case.

Comment Out-of-band VPN (Score 1) 125

I may be showing my ignorance since this isn't something that I'd be involved in implementing, so it may exist but just not at my university.

I'm an IT admin and we have Dell computers with out-of-band management features, but those features don't work when the computer is off campus. The only way users can connect to the VPN is if they are logged in to Windows. Any of the problems I'd be able to solve or features I'd be able to use with vPro rely on the computer being on the campus network so It'd be nice if there was a way either force or allow the computer to connect to the VPN as soon as it has power, and keep that connection alive even with the computer off or asleep or whatever else.

Comment Re:"predatory fees" (Score 1) 161

Banks also used pay you to hold and use your money.

They still do, they're called saving accounts...

And they pay about 1/30th the interest that they did when I was a kid.

Mine pays 1.7%. It was up over 2% for a little while last year. What did yours pay when you were a kid (and what was the prime rate at the time)?

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