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by caw 12y ago
Similarly, if there's some kind of training that this company will provide that you may not get elsewhere it may be a reason to take them up on it. For example a paid Masters degree that you want or industry certification/licensin
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by caw 12y ago
Based on how Amazon's pricing tables are, it should be included. If you go to the normal RDS pricing, there's "Single AZ" and "Multi AZ" pricing. The Multi is 2x Single because it transparently runs the 2nd ins
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by caw 12y ago
The company I'm at uses a 3rd party company to handle payroll, taxes, health insurance, and some level of benefits (like 401k and "discount programs"). According to my understanding I'm a W-2 employee of my company and s
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by caw 12y ago
My 3GS exclusively sits in my car and plays music connected via Bluetooth. I also used it traveling to another country, since AT&T would unlock my old iPhone but not my new one. They said the reason was that I was "currently on con
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by caw 12y ago
You have to realize that it really wasn't until recently that you could do BYOD on the networks. They wouldn't give you a discount at all for owning the device outright, even at the end of the 2 year contract. There was no benefit
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by caw 12y ago
You might actually have power though. Check out http://www.seatguru.com/findseatmap/findseatmap.php , you can punch in your flight number and departure date, and it'll tell you which plane you're supposed to b
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by caw 12y ago
Think of it this way, when you have a normal system, your write is flushed out to the disk as fast as possible. When you add in full disk encryption, you're going to have to encrypt on write. Your write won't be acknowledged until
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by caw 12y ago
I've never considered Tor as a beacon of security, I believe it to be anonymity. If this is secure stuff, you probably want to VPN into a known good host using a hardware token device. Since this is a work thing, they should most likel
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by caw 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Houston Linux DevOps / Sysadmin Looking to setup a new computing environment, expand your existing, or bring in new services? Or are you swamped with Ops-related technical debt and need to get out from und
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by caw 12y ago
The HOPE scholarship used to pay full in-state tuition for full time students. It pays a bit less now, and that started around 2009, though they grandfathered in existing HOPE scholarship students. Program rules: https://www.gaco
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by caw 12y ago
Not only that, but '3pm to 3am' is also going to harm your chance for success at getting into the college(s) you want. You'll probably find your grades will start dropping with too much work and not enough sleep. If you'
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by caw 12y ago
Presumably it uses the US Standard drinks, found here: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/faqs.htm#standDrink To save the click, it's 14g of alcohol, which is roughly a 12oz beer (5% ABV), 5oz wine (12% ABV), and 1 shot o
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by caw 12y ago
I wouldn't say it's a horror story, it's just not really for time series "big data". The backend guys have had to muck about with the data a lot to get good performance out of it. There's some optimizations we
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by caw 12y ago
My company is currently using Mongo, and while it works, I wouldn't recommend it. We're looking at Cassandra and Elasticsearch, which seems to be a lot more promising.
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by caw 12y ago
A few of my co-workers have that and like it, but if you don't want laptop keys there's always the Microsoft 4000 (what I use), or 8000 for wireless. On the 4000, things like the volume buttons work out of the box with a Mac, but
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by caw 12y ago
Mostly using the application-specific backup tool (pgdump, mongodump, etc) to S3. For system configuration it's all in Chef, so I backup chef. For a few flat file tools I just tar up the directory and upload that. Sometimes, I just tak
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by caw 12y ago
One benefit is related to DNS. If you assume fbsrv is an internal network, you have to be on the company network in order to access it. This automatically restricts everything on fbsrv.com to company machines on the VPN or things in the dat
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by caw 12y ago
My job as a student involved working in an IT office, and we had a policy of "always lock your screen". Those who didn't got creative pranks put on their computer. Only rules were no root level pranks and it had to be SFW. So
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by caw 12y ago
The problem is that the OBD codes aren't always specific. Sometimes they're specific enough to diagnose the problem, sometimes they're not, which is why you still need someone with auto expertise to correctly identify the pro
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by caw 12y ago
No, but at the same time I've never needed their CS. The one time I've called was to inform of international travel. Total time spent on the call was less than 5 minutes. Did the same thing for my Visa card and that took over 15.
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by caw 12y ago
I use Vanguard as well, most of my trades with them are their ETFs or Mutual Funds so it's no fee (I don't trade very often, maybe every 6 months to rebalance). My stocks are predominantly in Fidelity because I have their 2%-back-
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by caw 12y ago
I think we could get some kind of intermediate state though - Red is the expired/invalid cert, yellow could be valid self-signed (where you don't trust the issuer), and green is fully validated trust.
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by caw 12y ago
Don't have a Windows box, but sounds like fun discovering how to disable it. * If locked, I assume it prevents access even by changing the USB port? * Does it prevent other use of the USB ports (flash drives, etc)? * Does it prevent al
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by caw 12y ago
HPC costs vary significantly with the hardware and size of datacenter, if you want to break it down. It's probably best to ask them what the cost would be if you weren't a federal employee. Otherwise, ask them for a total cost of
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by caw 12y ago
My coworker just bought a Schenker s403 because he was looking for a replacement laptop to run Ubuntu on. European company, but they ship to the US, and they'll happily throw in a US power cable if you request one in comments when purc
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by caw 12y ago
10GBASE-T isn't popular because your cable runs are cut short. Costs have come down a lot on fiber. A short range SFP is like $120 or so, and short range cables are like $3 per meter. What a lot of people do as a stopgap is binding por
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by caw 12y ago
Welcome to office politics at bigco! You're upheaving the existing processes and people don't like that. You have to remember that the trade-off for working at a big company is larger scope projects, higher pay, more upward moment
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by caw 12y ago
Red Hat is made to use Red Hat repos. You may have to enable epel or epel-testing for packages that are newer or have software that Red Hat isn't interested in maintaining. Red Hat also isn't meant to be bleeding edge, it's a
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by caw 12y ago
There's 3 bundle options. The minimum package including the book is $69. http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/rate/
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by caw 12y ago
Most games have all of this info in the credits, and if you get a manual anymore, in there.

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