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More for the hit-by-the-bus files

More for the hit-by-the-bus filesHit by the bus: TelecomVoice network diagram as well, PBX/voicemail login accounts, Maintenance contracts, vendor contact information, CSRs customer service records, billing/budget spreadsheet. I have found with this data I can manage pretty much any site I walk into.Hurricane files ...Thought I'd pass this on. It's...

Tags: Engineering, Backups, PRODUCTIVITY, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Power Outage, hurricane, battery, backup, battery backup, phone, computer

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

CIA reveals that hackers were responsible for power outages

CIA reveals that hackers were responsible for power outagesUnix at fault!The federal govt ought to mandate Winsows in Power!http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comBefore you drink any more CIA kool-aid, you better read this...[url=http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/hacker_crackdown/]Bruce Sterling's [i]The Hacker Crackdown[/i][/url] exposes the truth behind the 1990 AT&T system outage; How AT&T's own technicians brought the system...

Tags: Hacking, Manufacturing, SECURITY, cyberterrorism, CIA, hacker, power outage, outage

Discussion threads 2008-01-18

Power outage unplugs Microsoft conference

Power outage unplugs Microsoft conferenceEasy solutionWe haven't figured out a software solution to this one--yet," Sullivan joked.Really? I think its called a UPS system, coupled with a motor generator. A very small amount of java code maintains the entire system.I Heard They Were Adding A Scanner To A Windows ServerWhen...

Tags: Power Outage, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-09-13

Power outage knocks CheckFree offline

Power outage knocks CheckFree offlineWorthless backups...Unfortunately, too many companies don't realize that thier backup systems and data are worthless unless they are regularly tested.idiots....High Availability is more than BackupsWhile the sentiment about testing backups is valid, that "judgement" is poorly thought out (and ill-mannered). This service loss is not about...

Tags: Backups, Data centers, high availability, backup, Power Outage, CheckFree Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-06-16

Report: System failures, not MSBlast, led to blackout

Report: System failures, not MSBlast, led to blackoutPower outage is not a virusSounds like the engineer fell asleep on the job and tried to pass the buck on a virus.Report: System failures, not MSBlast, led to blackoutOf course it wasn't a virus, considering the SCANA systems run Unix. I...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, NETWORKING, transmission industry, Power Outage, blackout, Spoon, System Failure, Google Inc., Jabber, fanboy, MSBlast worm, virus

Discussion threads 2004-04-05

Additional Resources

In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Bang & Olufsen tries to make land-line phones cool again with BeoCom 5

No one wants a land-line anymore for other reasons1. The landline service is too expensive considering that all the 'infrastructure' is already there for them. $30 dollars a month is VERY expensive for a landline, and that's why my family is thinking of dropping ours.2. Cell phones are simply more...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, cell phone, land line, BeoCom 5, Bang & Olufsen, VoIP

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Wireless And Mobility, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Mobile Applications, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-07

The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale

ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...

Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

News to know: Verizon's Pre; Tornado; IDF; iPhone MMS; RedHat; Gmail outage

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Verizon says no to Palm Pre Andrew Mager: Tornado: The real-time web server from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, MMS, Red Hat Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., E-mail Providers, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage

Gmail is down again? And you are giving them a free pass because they are Google? That is crazy talk. What you should be asking is "Why am I using this service that is constantly going down?" With an in-house solution you can have total control of your Microsoft...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, IT IS, expection, Google Gmail, latest Gmail outage, Gmail outage, Unrealistic expection, Google Inc., outage

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Office Web Apps: OneNote (Office Web Apps: New screenshots)

Office Web AppsNot at all impressed with the Offfice Web Apps....while the other issue that many will still have to decide upon, if they want/ or should allow their own, or business data to be stored on the web/ internet/ cloud.....MS, along with many others pushing Web based apps have...

Tags: cloud computing, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, New screenshot, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Gmail FAIL - What it says about Google and email in general

A little perspective...2 hours of downtime since May. That's at least 3 months of uptime if the May outage happened to fall on the last day of the month. Applying a little math, that tells me that GMail has had an uptime percentage of 99.999%. That's the...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Gmail FAIL, uptime, downtime, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down

RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Don't rely on industry averages for cost of downtime

On a weekly basis, I get at least one inquiry request from either a vendor or an end-user company seeking industry averages for the cost of downtime. Vendors like to quote these statistics to grab your attention and to create a sense of urgency to buy their products or services. BC/DR planners...

Tags: Risk Assessment, Demographics, Industry, Downtime, BC/DR, Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Stephanie Balaouras

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Lofty aspirations for power efficiency: Power Loft seeks silver certification for new data center

Colocation data center Power Loft began dreaming about greener data centers several years ago, long before it became vogue to do so. Now, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard's Critical Facilities Services, the company has designed a 200,000-square-foot facility in Prince William County, Va., that can deliver between 120...

Tags: Facility, Certification, Data Center, Virginia, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-03

The quest for the ultimate desktop experience

The quest for the ultimate desktop experienceWide Screen Not Always UsefulWide screens look really cool, but the second photo with the portrait format screens may be more useful. I have two 22" widescreens, and I turned one vertical - I can put a copy of IE on the top,...

Tags: Construction, Monitors & displays, ultimate desktop, desktop experience, monitor, widescreen, window, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud services

Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge reports that a lightning storm knocked out power to part of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing services. Some customers were offline for more than four hours before the damage could be repaired. The problems began at about 6:30...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Data Centers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-11

News to know: Palm CEO; Barry Diller; iPhone upgrade; Iomega; MS Money

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely'...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Iomega Corp., Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Want a smart meter? Try your electric bill first

Want a smart meter? Try your electric bill firstMisses the value of real time dataWhile I wholeheartedly agree with the point that $2500+ smart meters are a costly approach to achieving efficiency, at least before they're networked to specific appliances, the value of energy use in real time is missed....

Tags: smart meter

Discussion threads 2009-06-05