On 1/3/2012 11:56 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
I just heard about a company selling
a product to maintain power on seized computers while you transport
them:
http://www.wiebetech.com/products/HotPlug.php
It came up in the context of moving servers from one power jack to
another one due to data
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:24:47AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
Anyone buying this device would do well to have paid-up life insurance:
the company is selling a UPS, but they're also selling cheater cords
that allow their UPS to power a live outlet with a double-male
connection cord, and that's
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:24:47AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
Anyone buying this device would do well to have paid-up life insurance:
the company is selling a UPS, but they're also selling cheater cords
that allow their UPS
Starts sounding like it might be best to get a system like
off-the-grid folks have,
where they run inverters full time from batteries, and charge the batteries
from whatever is available (PV solar, generators, wind, tractor/generators,
steam engine/generators, or even just charger from the grid,
Richard Pieri wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
Are you using full disk encryption?
I don't. I take care of my gear. I made this statement before: I
see WDE as enabler for carelessness.
The EFF article I quoted references a prior EFF article on border
crossing inspections. The encouragement to
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote:
...
Daniel Feenberg wrote:
I don't see much point in encrypting data on a network server - if the
disk is mounted then the plain-text is available to an intruder and the
addition of an encrypted version doesn't enhance
