Depends on the temperature

Just read about this in the paper today, a Norwegian parking company just started with this practice and the guy caught was quite surprised as he was not notified about his wrongdoings until the ticket came in the mail (he parked there several times thus getting several tickets). The Norwegian Data Inspectorate is looking into this practice.

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I have been to many african countries and the only way the are able to communicate with work, family and friends is through mobile phone. There is no infrastructure for wired communications and the postal service is almost non existant or cost a furtune (also there is a lack of places where you can pick up the mail). You can be in the middle of nowhere and you find a mobile phone mast and people with mobile phones. Many of them do in fact have several phones, one on each major provider, as the providers not always peer with each other or the peering is defunc. Mobile serivce is cheap as long as you call people on same carrier, thus another reason for more than one phone.

3Par is not worth it, HP is just being bully and want to get rid of the HD partnership so they can push their own storage.
For Dell and their customers this is a relief as they would have burned a lot of their cash reserves, now HP have. 3Par was impressive yesterday tomorrow somebody else will show how storage should be done.

Dubai has no income taxes at all, at least in the free zones.

You lucky bastard, we work with 128Kbit/s links (C-band)((ok, most of them are 256Kbit/s now)). You can a lot with 128Kbit/s links and up, we run whole offices with 5-20 people on that bandwidth.

All management is done from HQ using telnet/ssh/rdp and server management cards so as long as we got ip connection we are good.
We also do weekly backups from offshore to onshore as a disaster recovery using vmware, wan optimizers and deduplication. Works quite ok, as long as there is not massive amounts of unique data created offshore and stored on the vm's. As this is manned offshore units we do not need to ip enable utillity power controls, but they are available in many forms and shapes.

750-850ms latency is no problem, you get used to it in a couple of years but it's a real death blow for applications with a lot of small requests and replies like SQL.

There's is one problem you will get and that is your precious innmarsat/iridum links. You will need service personel on your unit when that fails, not if, when. A solution used on our units is a innmarsat-b/fleet terminal connected with a serial port or ip to equipment onsite, so at least if you mess up a router config you can dial in the backdoor.

In whisky production in Scotland, they always keep the 'head' and 'tail' of the destilling, recycling them with the new whisky being produced. Whisky contains far more than just ethanol, but in so small amounts it's not very harmful. Last I went to Oban, north-western scotland, I was told it took years to build up the base of non-wanted spirits(heads and tails) that makes the whisky taste well.