FATHER + SAILOR + TECHNOLOGIST + MUSICIAN + CYCLIST
Wow, this was stuck in drafts.
As I get the estimate for the repair on the Trooper, I must keep happy thoughts. It could be worse. What I find amusing is that I get an estimate for $500 and I cringe. I get an estimate of $500 for a new anchor for Hemispheres and I don’t even blink an eye. Something is fundamentally out of alignment in my rationalization of things, but maybe not. Doing both…
My how things have come full circle. As we talk about hyper-convergence, I think back to the previous version of H-C. Think long and hard onto at one. What was it? Well remember, hyper-convergence requires the skills of a server administrator, a network administrator, a storage administrator and lastly the OS and application administrator. All those skills rolled up into one.
So in a sense, we’ve seen this before, in the mid 90’s. Take two Compaq Proliant 1000s with 4x2GB drives, two 3Com network cards each and a 3Com FDDi card. Now slap on Novell Netware SFT and a Btrieve app and there you have it. Nobody needed to be a deep specialist, they were generalists running that whole “stack”.
Fast forward to today and we’re seeing the same , but faster, bigger, better and more cost efficient. I’m thinking of a vBlock 100, VMware vSphere and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. All can be run by one person with the generalist skillset, not even needing to be very deep in any one area, but skilled enough to have it deployed and running to support the business. So hail the return of the Hyper-converged Generalist !!!!
Let me be clear, I don’t care about the Comcast and TWC merger, if it happens or doesn’t. I don’t care who owns who, if there are 100 providers or one provider.
What I do care about is that I just want one service from a broadband provider and that is an open, net-neutral broadband connection at a market or regulated price, free of obstruction, equal access to all content creators, and free of caps. Essentially, I want what the internet was intended to be.
So apparently, everything that I have in gmail and everything I’ve done with Google is in huge hands of the NSA. I think it’s reasonable to say that everything anyone has done anywhere online is in the hands of the government and for-profit companies, period. Our politicians now use the threat of the unknown to spy on its own people, with the objective to further entrench and empower themselves knowing that information is key, and can be a powerful weapon.
It’s the new way of life in our 21st century police state. America will never be the same and for that, it seems that the terrorists have won. They’ve changed who we are.
Just realized that this post has been in draft status for over a year, how did I miss that? Anyway, my original post on cable cutting from Sept. 2013. We did go into relapse after a month and got TWC after AT&T U-Verse, mainly because I switched to TWC for greater download speeds and added cable to the package. But that lasted about a month or so, so officially, we’ve been cable cutters for a little over a year. Look for an update to how we’re doing. Spoiler alert, doing real good.
Well, we finally cut the cord and it was long overdue. It was an interesting set of events that caused it. We’ve been thinking of it for some time now, and last Monday, AT&T made the decision easy. Maybe it was just timing or divine intervention, but their DVR box crapped out, right around the time I received an email notification that our new online bill is ready. Really….
So why cut the cord? In short, value. Or not enough value in their offerings. I findit absurd to pay for hundreds of channels that I don’t watch, just to gain access to a few HD channels that I’m interested in.
We’re able to get what we want with Netflix streaming, Hulu Plus and Amazon Instant Prime, all for a fraction of the cost. We have a Roku box in the theater and an AppleTV in the family room. In addition, we’re doing over-the-air broadcasts. Now there are some things that I’m saying goodbye to, such as ESPN and Monday Night Football, but oh well, not worth the cable cost to me. If ESPN chooses to provide their programming directly without a cable subscription, good, otherwise, see ya’.
Frankly, I just don’t like feeling and being treated as a mindless consumer, where a company can just peddle their wares with no real value, and expect people to line up and pay for it. Now I doubt that AT&T U-Verse or TWC will change their business model on account of me, after all I’m just one customer.
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Thanks,
Tony Nelson
“7 Jun 2013: • Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook”
A headline from June 7th reveals that pretty much every thou do online is known by your government, period. No escaping it. If there’s anything you don’t want to be known, then don’t post it, email it, tweet it or anything else. Each of these companies, regardless of what their public relations spokesperson says, will turn over your information to the government with the drop of a hat, if they haven’t already set up permanent funnel to them already.
At some point, expect to receive a bill from the IRS for sales tax because you posted on twitter that you got this great deal on something you bought on Craigslist.
Don’t be surprised when you receive a speeding ticket directly from the dept of transportation because you phones locatin data was correlated to show that you got from point A to point B quicker than the speed limit would allow.
The opportunities are limitless for gov’t intrusion and make no mistake, just like a corporation, the gov’t is an autonomous entity that will do whatever it needs to do to ensure its growth and survival.
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Thank you, Anthony Luke Nelson
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Just read that Tesla now does a battery swap in addition to their supercharging technique. It seems to me that we spent out taxpayer dollars on the wrong company. Instead of bailing out General Motors (actually, the union bosses to return election favors), we should have been putting our taxpayer dollars behind forward thinking, innovating companies like Tesla. We should be investing in the future, not the legacy past.
So the “damage” caused by the American Patriotic Whistleblower, Edward Snowden, is being reviewed to see how badly national security has be damaged. To the President…..the only this that has been damaged is the credibility and trust of you, your administration and the supporting cast of congress.
This issue at hand here is not that the NSA is collecting and analyzing phone records and internet data, but that it was kept a secret from the American people and was continually lied about. You make the assumption that the American people are simpletons and cannot engage or comprehend a discussion of such a sensitive nature.
What concerns Americans is the lack of transparency that your office declared would happen, and what has actually happened. In practicality, having the NSA collect phone records and Internet data, and mining for patterns to prevent terrorist acts is a novel and sound idea. But the lack of transparency and oversight is the problem. We as Americans willingly give our information every day with out tweets and loyalty cards, but as someone else mentioned, Amazon or Twitter can’t arrest you or audit your taxes, and without proper oversight, those checks and balances are out of order.
As with any government agency, for it to exist, there must be an issue or problem for it to resolve. What if there is a long quiet period, no activity of terrorist plotting and the world becomes a safer place, would the program still be needed? Would that division of the NSA and Justice Dept. be downsized? Or will they (like the TSA) vocalize and create out of thin air, problems that need to be addressed, hence justifying their existence.
Also, it’s pretty naive to think that most Americans did not already assume that some level of recording and tracking of our online life wasn’t already being watched and analyzed by the gov’t in some form or another. The American people are not as simpletons or commoners as you may believe, regardless of how we collectively portray ourselves and conduct our everyday lives.
So, a special note to the people who represent me and who I can directly impact with my vote. To Representative George Holding, Senator Richard Burr and Senator Kay Hagan. The most important thing to me, above all else, is my personal freedom and liberty. For the next election cycle, I will be a single issue voter. For you to support the prosecution of American patriots that are whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden, is not to align with my beliefs of trust, transparency, freedom and liberty, and will reflect in my voting decision. This is the one single issue that each of you will be running on as far as I’m concerned. While I am just one vote, I am one voice, and a very vocal voice at that.
Reuters – The Obama administration has launched an internal review to assess damage to national security from Edward Snowdens public release of top secret details of National Security Agency eavesdropping programs, a senior U.S. intelligence official told Reuters.
via Obama administration weighing damage from NSA disclosures | Reuters.
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