We use Google Apps for business purposes, but selectively. It just doesn't work for all my documents. By the term "all", I mean most. We basically use it to keep track of certain project details among other things, but not for any of our real documents.
The UPS isn't the issue and taking it out of the loop would be absolutely dumb. The issue is proper maintaining, testing, most of all the design of HOW it's installed. (scheme if you will)
We had a power failure (UPS failure) at our backup facility (Peer1 in lower Manhattan) The problem was, they had a UPS, but if that UPS failed, there was nothing behind it. What happen was the UPS failed and the passthough controller burnt up during the failover and took the entire wing down. They have replaced the old UPS (with new 2 bigger daisy chained UPS) and have assured me that what happen won't happen again. (we shall see)
FYI: The Mavs were on the verge of winning when Cuban bought the team and the core that was winning all those games was mostly in place already. (Dirk, Nash, & Finley) Don Nelson as coach and his son Donnie Nelson who still happens to be the Mavericks GM are the guys who built the Mavericks. Cuban is the one who traded away the much more talented (today anyway) and younger Devin Harris for a 35 year old has-been point guard and then turned around and dumped another $25M in him AFTER he turned 36!
I'm not sure I would take to much advise from Mark Cuban. First, he is a hard worker, but with Broadcast.com he was in the right place at the right time. Beyond that he hasn't exactly made a lot of great desciions. The major investment into HDnet hasn't been that fruitful and the major investment into Register.com was a debacle. He traded a rising star point guard for a bad apple 35 year old point guard. Today, he just spent $25M on resigning that bad apple point guard (now 36 years old) that isn't half the player he onces was.
Anything editable by the user is unacceptable. I work in the financial district as an Infrastructure Engineer. Instant messages are a big channel of communications between traders and brokers. If the IMs are stored on a users local machine they are pretty much useless in court. You need a external IM logger of sort. Since bash history is editable by a user, it's useless in court.
Oh yeah? What about all the time I spend clicking that little update button that keeps popping up on my Ubuntu Desktop? Huh? What about that! That takes away from my.... um, web surfing time!:P
Items Shipped to New York State Effective June 1, 2008, Amazon.com LLC will begin collecting sales tax on items shipped to destinations within the State of New York as New York has enacted a new law requiring out-of-state sellers to collect and remit sales tax based on advertising. Amazon has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of this provision. However, as required by the law, we must still begin collecting New York sales tax beginning on that date.
Please note that if you place an order prior to June 1, 2008, your Order Total may not include an estimate of New York sales taxes, but those taxes may still be charged if your order is readied for shipment on or after that date.
So, they pay taxes to NY, but won't for North Carolina and Rhode Island? I haven't seen anywhere that they revoked New York webstore owners.
Amazon is basically screaming: "Taxation Without Representation" and taking a stand against what it believes is unconstitutional taxation. (ie being taxed by a foreign (different state) government) This is exactly what happen in the mid-late 1700s and the reason the US is it's own country rather than part of the United Kingdom.
I completely agree with Amazon. I happen to have an Amazon shop (I'm not located in either of those states) I know it screws the webstore owner, but Amazon is doing the right thing and THEY need to stand up to their own state's goverment and let them know that they are hurting their own people by being greeding and trying to tax people that don't even live in their state.
I'm guessing they are looking at it two fold. First, if they can't force you to use their browser, they will make money off of it. Second, since they had to work to rip the browser out, they are going to make someone pay for that work. After all. Nobody works for free right?
They should make it where the price of a domain doubles for each domain you have registered.
1. $35 2. $70 3. $105...etc.
That would raise the annual price of owning two domains to $105 and $210 for three, $420 for four, $840 for five and so on. That keeps the price relatively cheap for people who just want a personal domain or small businesses, but the domain squaters will be rendered out of business for the most part.
I want to see someone squat 1,000 domains at those prices.
I ran into this problem the other day. It ask you if you do not want to show the ads anymore, but it doesn't accept your answer and shows them over and over. I finally figured out what app was causing it and disabled it in msconfig. I can't remember what it was right now, but when I get home I will reply to this with the name of the app to disable.
btw, I got the adware when I installed the Thinkpad Wireless software.
The FTC should kill all of those fake review sites that are 100% paid advertisements. Like for hosting providers, marchant accounts (accepting credit cards), and I'm sure there is a whole host of others. It's damn hard to find real information on which of these companies are worth a damn and it's all because they flood the search engines with all that garbage.
Asus has jumped in bed with Microsoft as of late. With AMD's purchase of ATI and promise of open source drivers and Nvidia's failure to move forward in open source, Nvidia and Asus has seen the last dollar of mine.
I didn't even read what they said. All I know is as an IT guy with many users that use Linux. It has issues. Adobe Flash causing a shit load of them. (especially peered with Skype)
I myself don't have many issues, but then again I take extra special care on what hardware I purchase.
As "Reboot" is the first step in support for Windows. In Linux I've found it's "alsa force-reload".
I think they should subpoena the jury and ask them exactly how they came up with $2M in damages. As I noted before. This sounds extremely fishy that they would award that type of money to the RIAA. I suspect there was jury tampering involved.
Fresh cash to persue copyright violations? Is Gulf Capital Partners LLC of London a cover for someone like Microsoft? Why would someone want to purchase SCO properties? SCO the Unix business is almost completely dead.
I'm a Unix engineer who happens to handle a small office also. I cannot stress enough about the right tool for the job. If you have a bunch of Windows workstations and need Anti-Virus, go Symantec End Point Protection or the older Symantec Corporate 10.x. You get the Symantec server with it. You are basically just paying for the licenses for each desktop. Our Windows domain controller is a VMWare VM that runs on our Linux server. Backups are simply. At night, it shutdown and rsyncs to a different server then restarts. Windows file sharing (and even Linux develop's use it) is done with the Windows VM. Simple management of centralized authentication, file sharing and Anti-virus.
There is no way an Open Source App store is going to work. Open Source apps are already free and you can usually get most of them with yum / apt-get and you expect someone to pay to use your store?
Hell, this is a worse idea than Sun's Java App Store.
I refuse to pay the idiot premium on high fashion items, and that is exactly what Apple's products are.
Someone that the actual value of the 32GB is $699 so you're still getting a deal. I bought my Thinkpad Z61e that I'm posting this comment with for $650. I don't think there is a phone on the planet worth $700. To even make that excuse is lame.
I'll stick with whatever device does what I want it too without spending laptop money on it.
It will just raise the prices since the auditors will have to take out insurance. Of course, what are banks to do? They hire someone to ensure they are compliant, then get screwed because they were compromised by something that is included in the compliancy!
Security is an imperfect world. I'm sure something will come up that a company was compliant, but still gets compromised and attempts to sue the auditor. Then again, I've met more than a few auditors that had no busy being in the security business!
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We use Google Apps for business purposes, but selectively. It just doesn't work for all my documents. By the term "all", I mean most. We basically use it to keep track of certain project details among other things, but not for any of our real documents.
The UPS isn't the issue and taking it out of the loop would be absolutely dumb. The issue is proper maintaining, testing, most of all the design of HOW it's installed. (scheme if you will)
We had a power failure (UPS failure) at our backup facility (Peer1 in lower Manhattan) The problem was, they had a UPS, but if that UPS failed, there was nothing behind it. What happen was the UPS failed and the passthough controller burnt up during the failover and took the entire wing down. They have replaced the old UPS (with new 2 bigger daisy chained UPS) and have assured me that what happen won't happen again. (we shall see)
FYI: The Mavs were on the verge of winning when Cuban bought the team and the core that was winning all those games was mostly in place already. (Dirk, Nash, & Finley) Don Nelson as coach and his son Donnie Nelson who still happens to be the Mavericks GM are the guys who built the Mavericks. Cuban is the one who traded away the much more talented (today anyway) and younger Devin Harris for a 35 year old has-been point guard and then turned around and dumped another $25M in him AFTER he turned 36!
I'm not sure I would take to much advise from Mark Cuban. First, he is a hard worker, but with Broadcast.com he was in the right place at the right time. Beyond that he hasn't exactly made a lot of great desciions. The major investment into HDnet hasn't been that fruitful and the major investment into Register.com was a debacle. He traded a rising star point guard for a bad apple 35 year old point guard. Today, he just spent $25M on resigning that bad apple point guard (now 36 years old) that isn't half the player he onces was.
I'll pass on advise from Mark Cuban.
Anything editable by the user is unacceptable. I work in the financial district as an Infrastructure Engineer. Instant messages are a big channel of communications between traders and brokers. If the IMs are stored on a users local machine they are pretty much useless in court. You need a external IM logger of sort. Since bash history is editable by a user, it's useless in court.
Oh yeah? What about all the time I spend clicking that little update button that keeps popping up on my Ubuntu Desktop? Huh? What about that! That takes away from my .... um, web surfing time! :P
Hmm, I just found the following on Amazon's website.
LINK: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468512
(not sure how to make a pretty link on /.)
Items Shipped to New York State
Effective June 1, 2008, Amazon.com LLC will begin collecting sales tax on items shipped to destinations within the State of New York as New York has enacted a new law requiring out-of-state sellers to collect and remit sales tax based on advertising. Amazon has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of this provision. However, as required by the law, we must still begin collecting New York sales tax beginning on that date.
Please note that if you place an order prior to June 1, 2008, your Order Total may not include an estimate of New York sales taxes, but those taxes may still be charged if your order is readied for shipment on or after that date.
So, they pay taxes to NY, but won't for North Carolina and Rhode Island? I haven't seen anywhere that they revoked New York webstore owners.
Amazon is basically screaming: "Taxation Without Representation" and taking a stand against what it believes is unconstitutional taxation. (ie being taxed by a foreign (different state) government) This is exactly what happen in the mid-late 1700s and the reason the US is it's own country rather than part of the United Kingdom.
I completely agree with Amazon. I happen to have an Amazon shop (I'm not located in either of those states) I know it screws the webstore owner, but Amazon is doing the right thing and THEY need to stand up to their own state's goverment and let them know that they are hurting their own people by being greeding and trying to tax people that don't even live in their state.
I'm guessing they are looking at it two fold. First, if they can't force you to use their browser, they will make money off of it. Second, since they had to work to rip the browser out, they are going to make someone pay for that work. After all. Nobody works for free right?
They should make it where the price of a domain doubles for each domain you have registered.
1. $35 ...etc.
2. $70
3. $105
That would raise the annual price of owning two domains to $105 and $210 for three, $420 for four, $840 for five and so on. That keeps the price relatively cheap for people who just want a personal domain or small businesses, but the domain squaters will be rendered out of business for the most part.
I want to see someone squat 1,000 domains at those prices.
I ran into this problem the other day. It ask you if you do not want to show the ads anymore, but it doesn't accept your answer and shows them over and over. I finally figured out what app was causing it and disabled it in msconfig. I can't remember what it was right now, but when I get home I will reply to this with the name of the app to disable.
btw, I got the adware when I installed the Thinkpad Wireless software.
The FTC should kill all of those fake review sites that are 100% paid advertisements. Like for hosting providers, marchant accounts (accepting credit cards), and I'm sure there is a whole host of others. It's damn hard to find real information on which of these companies are worth a damn and it's all because they flood the search engines with all that garbage.
Asus has jumped in bed with Microsoft as of late. With AMD's purchase of ATI and promise of open source drivers and Nvidia's failure to move forward in open source, Nvidia and Asus has seen the last dollar of mine.
I didn't even read what they said. All I know is as an IT guy with many users that use Linux. It has issues. Adobe Flash causing a shit load of them. (especially peered with Skype)
I myself don't have many issues, but then again I take extra special care on what hardware I purchase.
As "Reboot" is the first step in support for Windows. In Linux I've found it's "alsa force-reload".
I think they should subpoena the jury and ask them exactly how they came up with $2M in damages. As I noted before. This sounds extremely fishy that they would award that type of money to the RIAA. I suspect there was jury tampering involved.
$2M for 24 songs? Sounds like jury tampering.
Fresh cash to persue copyright violations? Is Gulf Capital Partners LLC of London a cover for someone like Microsoft? Why would someone want to purchase SCO properties? SCO the Unix business is almost completely dead.
I'm a Unix engineer who happens to handle a small office also. I cannot stress enough about the right tool for the job. If you have a bunch of Windows workstations and need Anti-Virus, go Symantec End Point Protection or the older Symantec Corporate 10.x. You get the Symantec server with it. You are basically just paying for the licenses for each desktop. Our Windows domain controller is a VMWare VM that runs on our Linux server. Backups are simply. At night, it shutdown and rsyncs to a different server then restarts. Windows file sharing (and even Linux develop's use it) is done with the Windows VM. Simple management of centralized authentication, file sharing and Anti-virus.
Don't panic, we will be ok! I have Windows Firewall!!!
Dick Cheney will shoot them all in the face. :)
There is no way an Open Source App store is going to work. Open Source apps are already free and you can usually get most of them with yum / apt-get and you expect someone to pay to use your store?
Hell, this is a worse idea than Sun's Java App Store.
I refuse to pay the idiot premium on high fashion items, and that is exactly what Apple's products are.
Someone that the actual value of the 32GB is $699 so you're still getting a deal. I bought my Thinkpad Z61e that I'm posting this comment with for $650. I don't think there is a phone on the planet worth $700. To even make that excuse is lame.
I'll stick with whatever device does what I want it too without spending laptop money on it.
Real life appears to disagree with you! :D
It will just raise the prices since the auditors will have to take out insurance. Of course, what are banks to do? They hire someone to ensure they are compliant, then get screwed because they were compromised by something that is included in the compliancy!
Security is an imperfect world. I'm sure something will come up that a company was compliant, but still gets compromised and attempts to sue the auditor. Then again, I've met more than a few auditors that had no busy being in the security business!
Murder in the first. ;)