I'm definitely biased, but I'd also highly recommend Pivotal Tracker. It's not aimed at IT, but I've used it for both IT and dev work, and it can handle both. The question any sort of project management software needs to be able to answer is "what should I be doing right now?" and tracker is designed around that philosophy. Try it for a week or two and it will become second nature. It's free as in beer and has an api with full export capabilities, so there's no lock in.
You've obviously never done any work at a real conference center. The rates you quote are pretty reasonable in comparison. At a mid-level hotel on the strip in vegas, you're going to be paying 1k per megabit per week, easy. Plus IPs. Plus a good chunk of change per switch port. And their wireless networks are set on STUN for any unrecognized SSID, which doesn't matter much as you already signed an agreement saying they can shut down all networking during your keynote address if you've plugged a router in.
Yeah, it's expensive, but you're paying for value provided. I'm sure your employer has an office for which they've paid royally. Stay after your shift and get your fix. Learn to to use Google Reader with Gears or another RSS reader. Use a real mail client and write at leisure and send at work. Anyone who's worked in Mobile IT understands that short term bandwidth isn't cheap.
Calling Iridium profitable is a very interesting use of the word profitable. While they may be profitable on a month to moth basis, it's only because they are living off the assets that were thrown into space on someone else's dime. Iridium was a huge failure, and the likelyhood that a direct replacement system will be launched is extreemly close to zero.
No one seems to have pointed out that this seems to explicitly legalize Comercial Advance. ReplayTV gave up and stopped skipping comercials automatically as a compromise with the media industry. Hopefully they'll put it back in again.
I had a Dell sever CD-ROM die this august while installing gentoo. Any chance it was this? I wrote it off to it being a new drive failing during the break in period, and dell mailed me a new one and I never thought twice about it.
Bluetooth is one of those things you don't get until you've played with it. Once you get it, you'll want to convert to the bluetooth way of life.
Bluetooth isn't meant to communicate with acess points or have a full IP stack, so the moment anyone starts saying wifi has "won" doesn't get it.
When I start my car, my cell phone beeps to tell me it's connected. When a call comes in, my stereo mutes, and it says the name of the caller. At this point, I can press the answer button on my dash and the call comes in over the speaker phone. Instead, I can chose to pick up the call on the phone, but the stereo still stays muted until the call ends. It's a beautiful (but expensive) thing. I couldn't go back, and considering how little I drive I can't imagine how anyone who actually uses their cell phone regularly could live without it.
Now imagine that you're sitting on your laptop, and a call comes in. Instead of fishing the phone out of your pocket to see who it is, the caller name and number has already popped up in the corner of your screen. If you've got your wireless headset, just pop it on, and accept the call.
Anyone who doesn't see the promise of bluetooth hasn't tried it yet. Try it out and you'll understand.
Exactly. The IA64/itanic/itanium instruction set provides for executing multiple instructions "simultaneously" (aka: pipelined with no interference) but the intel guy I heard from said it so far doesn't provide anything close to the improvements they hoped the feature might. Scaling it up to 64 instructions per clock is only going to help tasks which IBM supercomputers have already lost to beowolf clusters.
Ogg may destroy the competition in terms of quality, but it wasn't designed with computing power in mind. You don't see ogg in every portable for the same reason that you don't see divx in every DVD player.
Everyone complains about cancelling AOL memberships, but I have a hard time beleiveing them. When I called up to cancel my free subcription on the 29th day of a 30 day trial, as soon as I said I wanted to cancel the medium-friendly person transfered me to an extra-friendly person who asked why i wanted to cancel, told me I could still use AOL's wonderfull services over my DSL line for only x dollars a month, then cancelled my account, and gave me a confirmation number.
Now, the evil media conglomerate conspiracies I'm all for, but I'd say AOL provides a friendly and easy method of getting online for people who don't know the difference between "the internet" and Internet Explorer.
You won't understand the zealots untill you've joined them.
1) The monthly fee is a financed $250 payment. Anyone with basic math knowledge will pay the lifetime fee and be done with it. (a used replay or tivo with lifetime subscription sells for about $250 more than one without). A tivo or replay costs $500 new, give or take 50.
2) PVRs do what they're supposed to do. A PC which costs more than a tivo can do the same thing as a tivo, and do a worse job. With a PVR, you're watching extreemly flexible TV. With a PC, you're using your computer to watch TV. Oh, and a new ReplayTV will do everything you mentioned and they're fighting for your right to do it in court.
You know, as much as you didn't mean to, you bring up a good point. A series 2 tivo has USB network support, so for the price of an extra usb nic, it could easily double as a home router. Now that's what I'd call feature creep.
I realize I shouldn't take this question seriously, but... In reality, windows hashes aren't too valuble because windows isn't open source. You can't compile a explorer.exe with a nice back door added in unless you've got the source to explorer.exe.
So, by that logic can I be a bank by saying "I'm a Bank"? Can I not be a person by never claiming to be one? I'm more of a believer in being defined by actions, not words...
Hmmm... I suspect you'll find that strada isn't covered. The Free Speech Cafe is, on the other hand, so perhaps you'll want to switch your alliances. It's not quite the same, I'll admit...
Well, with Sonic Blue's solution, you're paying for the software, the pre-hacked linux kernel, and the support. You pay through the nose for it, but you get a lot. You can plug it in and think of it as a music appliance, not a computer playing mp3's. Ask anyone who coughed up $1200 for an empeg (the central is designed by the same group) if they think it was worth the price...
That being said, an xBox hacked to be a home audio server would be a nice toy and a great way for a geek to get extra value out of it when they already want it for games.
Let me get this strait, they're defending the person who sent out an unsolicited mass email to every email address they could get their hands on that might have been in california -- with such brilliant tactics as assuming any email address ending in.ca was from california. (.ca.us perhaps, but I've never met anyone who uses one)
I think I'll read my sample ballot and look for their web page if I'm interested, when I'm insterested.
Yeah, but that would be far more expensive than the electronic solution, and in the end people wouldn't be able to know if they were getting a call... I don't care if people look at their phone, decide they want to take the call, and walk out of the theater -- it's no more of a hassle than the person who has a extra large soda and has to go to the bathroom... I just don't want to hear the damn phone ring.
With more and more cell phones being bluetooth enabled, how hard would it be to integrate some sort of "ringer off" message that went out to all cell phones in the area? That way, anywhere that thought it required quietness could easily turn off the ringer... This would be somewhat expensive, but bluetooth hardware is supposed to be cheap...
Your phone could have a setting to automatically accept the ringer off command, or promt you if you chose... There would still be assholes, but you wouldn't have the "oops I forgot to turn the ringer off" syndrome.
What's even better is that some states have started charging sales tax on compressed scuba air, because it's a product and not a service, according to them. You've got to wonder about the logic behind that one...
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I'm definitely biased, but I'd also highly recommend Pivotal Tracker. It's not aimed at IT, but I've used it for both IT and dev work, and it can handle both. The question any sort of project management software needs to be able to answer is "what should I be doing right now?" and tracker is designed around that philosophy. Try it for a week or two and it will become second nature. It's free as in beer and has an api with full export capabilities, so there's no lock in.
You've obviously never done any work at a real conference center. The rates you quote are pretty reasonable in comparison. At a mid-level hotel on the strip in vegas, you're going to be paying 1k per megabit per week, easy. Plus IPs. Plus a good chunk of change per switch port. And their wireless networks are set on STUN for any unrecognized SSID, which doesn't matter much as you already signed an agreement saying they can shut down all networking during your keynote address if you've plugged a router in.
Yeah, it's expensive, but you're paying for value provided. I'm sure your employer has an office for which they've paid royally. Stay after your shift and get your fix. Learn to to use Google Reader with Gears or another RSS reader. Use a real mail client and write at leisure and send at work. Anyone who's worked in Mobile IT understands that short term bandwidth isn't cheap.
Calling Iridium profitable is a very interesting use of the word profitable. While they may be profitable on a month to moth basis, it's only because they are living off the assets that were thrown into space on someone else's dime. Iridium was a huge failure, and the likelyhood that a direct replacement system will be launched is extreemly close to zero.
No one seems to have pointed out that this seems to explicitly legalize Comercial Advance. ReplayTV gave up and stopped skipping comercials automatically as a compromise with the media industry. Hopefully they'll put it back in again.
My xbox only runs XBMC and a region free DVD player. The only microsoft signed code it's ever booted was the tetris demo disk it came with.
Kind of funny that you've got to keep a memory resident program running in order to prevent more memory resident programs, eh?
What's the resolution on that massive battery hogging LCD that you get to carry around with you?
Just hit 7 twice while listening the the message and you're all set.
Now, don't get me started on the whole "You have one unheard message. First unheard message. The following message has not been heard" speech...
I had a Dell sever CD-ROM die this august while installing gentoo. Any chance it was this? I wrote it off to it being a new drive failing during the break in period, and dell mailed me a new one and I never thought twice about it.
Bluetooth is one of those things you don't get until you've played with it. Once you get it, you'll want to convert to the bluetooth way of life.
Bluetooth isn't meant to communicate with acess points or have a full IP stack, so the moment anyone starts saying wifi has "won" doesn't get it.
When I start my car, my cell phone beeps to tell me it's connected. When a call comes in, my stereo mutes, and it says the name of the caller. At this point, I can press the answer button on my dash and the call comes in over the speaker phone. Instead, I can chose to pick up the call on the phone, but the stereo still stays muted until the call ends. It's a beautiful (but expensive) thing. I couldn't go back, and considering how little I drive I can't imagine how anyone who actually uses their cell phone regularly could live without it.
Now imagine that you're sitting on your laptop, and a call comes in. Instead of fishing the phone out of your pocket to see who it is, the caller name and number has already popped up in the corner of your screen. If you've got your wireless headset, just pop it on, and accept the call.
Anyone who doesn't see the promise of bluetooth hasn't tried it yet. Try it out and you'll understand.
Exactly. The IA64/itanic/itanium instruction set provides for executing multiple instructions "simultaneously" (aka: pipelined with no interference) but the intel guy I heard from said it so far doesn't provide anything close to the improvements they hoped the feature might. Scaling it up to 64 instructions per clock is only going to help tasks which IBM supercomputers have already lost to beowolf clusters.
Ogg may destroy the competition in terms of quality, but it wasn't designed with computing power in mind. You don't see ogg in every portable for the same reason that you don't see divx in every DVD player.
It doesn't actually run linux, unfortunatly. The sofware is based on the Empeg, wich runs linux, but the karma doesn't.
I'm sitting here typing on a Dell 600sc running Gentoo. It shipped without an OS, and has never booted Windows.
Everyone complains about cancelling AOL memberships, but I have a hard time beleiveing them. When I called up to cancel my free subcription on the 29th day of a 30 day trial, as soon as I said I wanted to cancel the medium-friendly person transfered me to an extra-friendly person who asked why i wanted to cancel, told me I could still use AOL's wonderfull services over my DSL line for only x dollars a month, then cancelled my account, and gave me a confirmation number.
Now, the evil media conglomerate conspiracies I'm all for, but I'd say AOL provides a friendly and easy method of getting online for people who don't know the difference between "the internet" and Internet Explorer.
You won't understand the zealots untill you've joined them.
1) The monthly fee is a financed $250 payment. Anyone with basic math knowledge will pay the lifetime fee and be done with it. (a used replay or tivo with lifetime subscription sells for about $250 more than one without). A tivo or replay costs $500 new, give or take 50.
2) PVRs do what they're supposed to do. A PC which costs more than a tivo can do the same thing as a tivo, and do a worse job. With a PVR, you're watching extreemly flexible TV. With a PC, you're using your computer to watch TV. Oh, and a new ReplayTV will do everything you mentioned and they're fighting for your right to do it in court.
You know, as much as you didn't mean to, you bring up a good point. A series 2 tivo has USB network support, so for the price of an extra usb nic, it could easily double as a home router. Now that's what I'd call feature creep.
I realize I shouldn't take this question seriously, but... In reality, windows hashes aren't too valuble because windows isn't open source. You can't compile a explorer.exe with a nice back door added in unless you've got the source to explorer.exe.
So, by that logic can I be a bank by saying "I'm a Bank"? Can I not be a person by never claiming to be one? I'm more of a believer in being defined by actions, not words...
Hmmm... I suspect you'll find that strada isn't covered. The Free Speech Cafe is, on the other hand, so perhaps you'll want to switch your alliances. It's not quite the same, I'll admit...
Well, with Sonic Blue's solution, you're paying for the software, the pre-hacked linux kernel, and the support. You pay through the nose for it, but you get a lot. You can plug it in and think of it as a music appliance, not a computer playing mp3's. Ask anyone who coughed up $1200 for an empeg (the central is designed by the same group) if they think it was worth the price...
That being said, an xBox hacked to be a home audio server would be a nice toy and a great way for a geek to get extra value out of it when they already want it for games.
Let me get this strait, they're defending the person who sent out an unsolicited mass email to every email address they could get their hands on that might have been in california -- with such brilliant tactics as assuming any email address ending in .ca was from california. (.ca.us perhaps, but I've never met anyone who uses one)
I think I'll read my sample ballot and look for their web page if I'm interested, when I'm insterested.
Yeah, but that would be far more expensive than the electronic solution, and in the end people wouldn't be able to know if they were getting a call... I don't care if people look at their phone, decide they want to take the call, and walk out of the theater -- it's no more of a hassle than the person who has a extra large soda and has to go to the bathroom... I just don't want to hear the damn phone ring.
With more and more cell phones being bluetooth enabled, how hard would it be to integrate some sort of "ringer off" message that went out to all cell phones in the area? That way, anywhere that thought it required quietness could easily turn off the ringer... This would be somewhat expensive, but bluetooth hardware is supposed to be cheap...
Your phone could have a setting to automatically accept the ringer off command, or promt you if you chose... There would still be assholes, but you wouldn't have the "oops I forgot to turn the ringer off" syndrome.
What's even better is that some states have started charging sales tax on compressed scuba air, because it's a product and not a service, according to them. You've got to wonder about the logic behind that one...