Paul McMillan

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bio	website	thefire.us
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My hammer is awesome.

	938 reputation	bio	website	thefire.us	visits	member for	3 years, 10 months
412 badges		location	Berkeley, CA		seen	Jan 11 at 23:53

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Apr 25	awarded	Popular Question
Jul 13	awarded	Yearling
Feb 26	awarded	Notable Question
Jul 28	revised	LSI 9211-8i won't boot in KVM deleted 106 characters in body
Jul 21	asked	LSI 9211-8i won't boot in KVM
Jul 14	awarded	Yearling
Jun 25	comment	How do I protect my company from my IT guy? @TomWij if you haven't hired a complete idiot, your IT guy will notice very quickly what's going on.
Jun 25	comment	How do I protect my company from my IT guy? A competent admin will balk at being required to provide non-technical users with admin passwords except in emergencies. People who don't know what they're doing WILL be tempted to mess around with stuff they shouldn't. Seal them and lock them in a safe.
Jun 25	comment	How do I protect my company from my IT guy? @TomWij if I were your IT guy and I knew you were doing IT work behind my back (backups or otherwise) on the system you charged me with managing, I would throw a fit. It costs you more, destroys any rapport you have with your employee, and will damage your company in the long run. Don't do that.
May 26	awarded	Popular Question
Feb 10	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Jan 24	comment	Unclear pricing of Windows Azure Thanks for a really useful response. It is indeed very unclear about what precisely "stopped" means. This clears it up nicely.
Jan 24	answered	Unclear pricing of Windows Azure
Dec 21	comment	Which wiki satisfies ACL ADI and API? Please use complete sentences and correct spelling when asking your question.
Dec 13	comment	Help finding a hosting service (offshore?) that doesn't automatically cave to DMCA demands My typical recommendation for better registrar is Resell.biz. They have better prices, better customer service, and don't play daft games with their customer domains and livelihoods. They're not particularly "bulletproof" though. If you're looking for stronger registration protection, again, consider the former soviet bloc. The language barrier helps, and many companies there ignore takedown requests. Do your research - look at where major torrent sites and spammers are registered.
Nov 18	comment	Why do Facebook users sometimes end up on my site when they enter www.facebook.com in their browser? I'd be very interested in the resolution of this too. Post back when you figure out what's going on.
Nov 18	comment	Why do Facebook users sometimes end up on my site when they enter www.facebook.com in their browser? Not a bad theory, but not necessarily true either. Some subnet (say, a university, or a smaller ISP) might be mucking with the DNS records in a similar way.
Nov 16	comment	Cost effective, long term archival of video and image data? ~50 TB Honestly, the difficulty with any kind of CMS system is that it is likely to be the first and most outdated portion of a system. You'd almost be better off requiring everyone to write an ASCII text file with some basic descriptions and store it with your raw data. Any CMS or automated system is going to get old on a scale of a few years.
Nov 16	revised	Cost effective, long term archival of video and image data? ~50 TB added 309 characters in body; added 306 characters in body
Nov 16	comment	Cost effective, long term archival of video and image data? ~50 TB yeah, we've come a ways. Still, I have no problem playing 17 year old AVI files from windows 3.1 days. The trick lies in choosing formats that are already in wide use.