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- Geek Trivia: First to the Fourth
- Supernovas and ignoranceIn James Michener's novel SPACE, an astronomer character tells this story, emphasizing how apparently just about every culture on Earth EXCEPT that of Europe saw that supernova, but there is zero evidence that anybody in Europe saw it -- or if they did notice, they did not leave...
- Tags: mdhealy@...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-08
- Ross Vincent and the Thureon Armarac (Thureon's Armarac is a server room-in-a-box)
- Convection agreementyour comment makes sense not only would air flow improve but it would draw the cooler air from the floor. Who needs heat pump!. Nice unit thoughHow about a home version?I would *LOVE* to have a home version of this, but it would need adjustable internal wire shelving instead...
- Tags: Servers, mdhealy@..., server, home version, rack, Thureon
- Discussion threads 2007-06-05
- (Image: ReCaptcha kills two birds with two words)
- ADA lawsuit waiting to happen!Since I can see Ok, Captcha images are no problem for me, but I have long wondered, what are people who cannot see expected to do? Sooner or later somebody's gonna file an ADA lawsuit.
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), mdhealy@..., ADA Lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2007-05-28
- Heinlein Quote, relevant to DMCA and copy protection
- There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of protecting such profit in...
- Tags: Digital media, mdhealy@..., DMCA, copy protection
- Discussion threads 2007-05-11
- PRACTICE a bare-metal recovery
- Many people learn their backups don't work at the worst possible time: when they have had a major failure. You must validate your backups before you need them.Something I have done several times and recommend very highly is the following, which can easily be done over a weekend (and...
- Tags: Backups, mdhealy@..., backup, new Hard Drive
- Discussion threads 2007-05-05
- RIAA Gestapo
- I have not been following the various RIAA-versus-P2P-user legal cases very closely, but was profoundly shocked by the testimony in the following deposition:http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/03/deposition-of-riaas-expert-available.htmlIf this how their alleged experts think, then the RIAA has really gone off the deep end.This makes me want to go out and rip a whole bunch...
- Tags: CD, mdhealy@..., RIAA
- Discussion threads 2007-03-03
- VoIP over cable broadband: Does it mean business?
- Reliability and finger pointing...My wife and I still use POTS and cellphones for most of our home voice communications, precisely because no Internet connection in my experience has yet attained the "five nines" reliability that has been for decades the goal of most telcos. Uptime of 99.999% translates into...
- Tags: broadband, cable, cable broadband, cable modem, DSL, Internet, isp, laptop computer, mdhealy@..., modem, networking, POTS, router, telco, troubleshooting, voip
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
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