Posts by /dev/rant 19 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010
Do you know the cost of handling cash? It is a lot more expensive than paying a small percentage to the bank such as:
You need to be able to safely transport it to a bank (cost),
Manually reconcile the register to cash taken,
Cost of insuring against "hold ups",
violence against staff,
cost of preventing hold ups
Always be on the look out for counterfeit notes.
OK, I'll bite.
Most likely that given the limited resources the FreeNAS project might have, they might have decided to have a top notch NAS and necessary hooks for other amateurs to bolt the media server functionality instead of middle of the pack NAS with lots of other flavour of the month media servers.
I myself use FreeBSD server to run the services I deem necessary at home.
C'mon! Give the guys a break. If the features are really that important to your setup, you could easily extend it and give it back to the project. FreeNAS source and the documentation is freely available and besides FreeBSD has one of the best (if not the best) documented, un-encumbered OS's out there.
You reckon? In 3 months time you will receive a standard letter telling you that during "routine" audits, they "discovered" that you are on the wrong price plan and they will correct it for you by upping your monthly charges.
I hope you have this new price plan in writing.
This happened to me, at which point told them to shove it as it is a significant change to the t&c and that they are on 30 days notice.
Deformations tend to have 2 parts: elastic & plastic. The elastic part of the deformation revert to its original dimensions once the deforming force is removed where as plastic deformations are permanent.
Besides, one can always heat up the barrel so it expands to withdraw the mandrel.
"... By the time the email has even arrived on the Google servers, for them to process, it has already passed through who-knows how many nodes on the internet at large - all of which have "processed" that email"
Utter rubbish. These days most email servers use TLS (including gmail) which means all the communications between the two email servers are encrypted.
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