There's a difference between knowing how to use it and not wanting to use it.
My coworkers generally don't like to use computers as it is, they only use it because their job requires it. Most just learn just enough to get the job done and don't care to put in effort to learn any more.
I support 120+ users. One thing I've noticed during our Windows 7 migration is that our staff do not use the start menu at all. The server places shortcuts for six or seven common use tools on users' desktops, and are shown how to pin apps to the taskbar.
The result I've noticed is that users have pinned office and internet apps used frequently to the taskbar, and use the icons on the desktop like they always have. I'd say about 5 users have seen the usefulness of the search feature on the Start menu. The other 115 don't use it.
The only time I've seen staff use the Start button here is to log off when they're done with the machine. If there was a button on the taskbar to do that, they'd never use the Start menu at all!
If you are thinking of virtualizing, there are antivirus vendors that will protect the host and all virtual machines as a whole, rather than running an agent on each one. Less resources consumed...
Not just that, but if your local connection in the restaurant to the internet is flaky for whatever reason, using internet-based services is a disaster!
Also, make sure that you find a backup solution that does actually back up the entire VM and all its related config files! This was you just restore the entire virtual machine and power it back up and you should be good.
If you only have the one server, you can't do in-house redundancy on multiple machines, but you could possibly hook up an external hard drive and use that for backups. Just make sure you have copies off-site! There are companies that can store tapes or drives for you on a weekly basis if you don't want to do it yourself. Not sure about the cost on that though.
As with any backup/disaster recovery scenario, make sure you test it! Nothing like restoring an VM and finding out it doesn't work! There are some solutions on the market that allow you to sandbox your backed up virtual machines and power them up under a virtual network separate from your main one to ensure they work!
Not to mention that it's possible to change the batteries to a better technology (even better density for more charge) in the future, perhaps at one of the maintenance cycles. This type of car could last a very long time. While I don't have the money to get one, I do think that this car can have serious longevity.
I've had SSDs for about a year and a half now and they're still doing just fine. In fact the boot time for my mythtv frontend is so fast now I just power the thing off instead of dealing with sleep issues. It worked so well in my frontend that I put one in the backend as well (the guide on the frontends pop up instantly now, instead of 2-3 seconds later.) That's a very noticeable change.
I haven't noticed any speed degradation over that time either. It still boots in ~10 seconds, as it did when I installed it ~18 months ago.
In my case, the BIOS did intervene - it spun up the fans to full speed. However, the system hardlocked. Hardlocked as in holding the power button down wouldn't do anything. The only way to power it off was to unplug & yank the battery. And yes, the laptop was really toasty. I wonder how much I shortened the life of it...
I suspect that the existing install wasn't reading the temperature properly and so it was reporting it incorrectly. As I said, after installing the newest (at that time) lm_sensors from the repository, the problem went completely away.
Yes, some drivers can cause issues. My laptop came with Vista, which I despise, and so I installed linux on it. Everything mostly worked properly with the exception of the hard-wired lan port and the occasional hang. During my own troubleshooting, I discovered one problem would happen in both OSs and one would not. It turns out a linux driver was causing issues with the temperature probe or something similar and was overheating. So I can understand why manufacturers void the warranty when software can cause the machine to overheat and do nasty things. The LAN port was actually defective. I fixed the temperature issue by getting a bleeding edge copy of lm_sensors.
In my case, I tarballed my linux install to an external HDD and restored an image I took before I installed linux and sent it back for servicing (which was repaired and sent back to me.)
In the article it says the BIOS tests confirmed an error. Who knows if it was a rogue driver that caused it?
In this case, I got from the summary there was an accident between a car and a motorbike. I knew that the outcome was bad just from reading it.
Wrecks between two cars happen often and if any injury happens it's not losing a limb like this case. There is usually bruises and scrapes unless you collide with something like a truck or similar.
In any case, any accident with a motorcycle is very, very bad. It's why I don't ride one. I am confident with my driving, but not others. The motorcyclist always loses...
However, the cost of creating recordings has gone down. I sure wish I could do a week's or month's worth of work and get paid for it over my entire lifetime (and maybe even my kids' lifetimes.)
They can always go live and get paid for concerts. The days of being paid for a lifetime over a month's worth of work is going the way of the do-do.
MythBusters is one. Some episodes can air a year or more in Canada after the US:
One of the most common questions we hear from you at Discovery Interactive is about Mythbusters. Specifically, you wonder why we don't air the show at the same time as they do on Discovery Channel USA.
However, we don't organize these episodes into seasons. Because of issues such as rights clearances, budgets, and Canadian content rules, we don't always air new episodes right away.
So if you want to keep current with MythBusters, you can't with Discovery Channel Canada. All they do is drive people to download.
That watch has a fatal flaw, what good is a watch that only goes to 15:00 hours? Other than losing 9 hours... that might be good for some. Maybe it's supposed to be used as an offset when you wake up? Yep, been awake for 14h 59m, time to go to bed and get 9 hours sleep...
Pretty sure that AVG issue is the one I mentioned in another post, where they mixed 32-bit binaries in the package for 64-bit installation. Pretty sure that happened in 2010, as we switched at work to ESET in early 2011 because the lack of AVG's QA.
I think if you blacklist every AV vendor for random f-ups you wouldn't have any left to buy from. I've had issues in the past with: Trend Micro, McAfee, Symantec, AVG (most recent - they decided to bundle 32-bit binaries for 64-bit machines and this causes all 64-bit machines to bluescreen), ESET (issues with our accounting systems) and probably others I've forgotten about. This is mixed personal and work experiences.
So far I've had OK luck with MSE at home, but I'm sure at some point Microsoft will screw that up too, like they've done with other apps...
I thought that should be funny more than insightful, but oh well...
It sounds like the free version is unaffected. I find that kind of interesting, you wind up paying for more features that invariably breaks your machine..
I guess I'll find out if the free version is affected, as I've installed Avira Free on a few people's personal computers. They'll probably think they've gotten a virus and bring it back to me for repair.
Update: For those of you inquiring about the strength of my Hotmail password – it was a seven-letter string of lowercase letters. Not a dictionary word, but part acronym, part proper noun. It’s not the world’s strongest password, and I can feel the parental glare of Davey Winder from 200 miles away, but it wasn’t that weak, either.
Yeah, not a very strong password. What the hell was he thinking? At least mix case and have one number. Passwords I use have mixed case, numbers and symbols in it so it's not so easy to guess.
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There's a difference between knowing how to use it and not wanting to use it.
My coworkers generally don't like to use computers as it is, they only use it because their job requires it. Most just learn just enough to get the job done and don't care to put in effort to learn any more.
Absolutely correct.
I support 120+ users. One thing I've noticed during our Windows 7 migration is that our staff do not use the start menu at all. The server places shortcuts for six or seven common use tools on users' desktops, and are shown how to pin apps to the taskbar.
The result I've noticed is that users have pinned office and internet apps used frequently to the taskbar, and use the icons on the desktop like they always have. I'd say about 5 users have seen the usefulness of the search feature on the Start menu. The other 115 don't use it.
The only time I've seen staff use the Start button here is to log off when they're done with the machine. If there was a button on the taskbar to do that, they'd never use the Start menu at all!
If you are thinking of virtualizing, there are antivirus vendors that will protect the host and all virtual machines as a whole, rather than running an agent on each one. Less resources consumed...
Not just that, but if your local connection in the restaurant to the internet is flaky for whatever reason, using internet-based services is a disaster!
Another thing to point out is that during the rebuild of the array it's possible that the other [old] drive can fail. Happened to me at home...
Also, make sure that you find a backup solution that does actually back up the entire VM and all its related config files! This was you just restore the entire virtual machine and power it back up and you should be good.
If you only have the one server, you can't do in-house redundancy on multiple machines, but you could possibly hook up an external hard drive and use that for backups. Just make sure you have copies off-site! There are companies that can store tapes or drives for you on a weekly basis if you don't want to do it yourself. Not sure about the cost on that though.
As with any backup/disaster recovery scenario, make sure you test it! Nothing like restoring an VM and finding out it doesn't work! There are some solutions on the market that allow you to sandbox your backed up virtual machines and power them up under a virtual network separate from your main one to ensure they work!
*sigh*
All tech companies copy off of other tech companies, then patent everything in between in case they get sued.
It still happens today!
Not to mention that it's possible to change the batteries to a better technology (even better density for more charge) in the future, perhaps at one of the maintenance cycles. This type of car could last a very long time. While I don't have the money to get one, I do think that this car can have serious longevity.
I've had SSDs for about a year and a half now and they're still doing just fine. In fact the boot time for my mythtv frontend is so fast now I just power the thing off instead of dealing with sleep issues. It worked so well in my frontend that I put one in the backend as well (the guide on the frontends pop up instantly now, instead of 2-3 seconds later.) That's a very noticeable change.
I haven't noticed any speed degradation over that time either. It still boots in ~10 seconds, as it did when I installed it ~18 months ago.
In my case, the BIOS did intervene - it spun up the fans to full speed. However, the system hardlocked. Hardlocked as in holding the power button down wouldn't do anything. The only way to power it off was to unplug & yank the battery. And yes, the laptop was really toasty. I wonder how much I shortened the life of it...
I suspect that the existing install wasn't reading the temperature properly and so it was reporting it incorrectly. As I said, after installing the newest (at that time) lm_sensors from the repository, the problem went completely away.
Yes, some drivers can cause issues. My laptop came with Vista, which I despise, and so I installed linux on it. Everything mostly worked properly with the exception of the hard-wired lan port and the occasional hang. During my own troubleshooting, I discovered one problem would happen in both OSs and one would not. It turns out a linux driver was causing issues with the temperature probe or something similar and was overheating. So I can understand why manufacturers void the warranty when software can cause the machine to overheat and do nasty things. The LAN port was actually defective. I fixed the temperature issue by getting a bleeding edge copy of lm_sensors.
In my case, I tarballed my linux install to an external HDD and restored an image I took before I installed linux and sent it back for servicing (which was repaired and sent back to me.)
In the article it says the BIOS tests confirmed an error. Who knows if it was a rogue driver that caused it?
Well, if they're using Hollywood accounting, I can see what they'd want that classified...
In this case, I got from the summary there was an accident between a car and a motorbike. I knew that the outcome was bad just from reading it.
Wrecks between two cars happen often and if any injury happens it's not losing a limb like this case. There is usually bruises and scrapes unless you collide with something like a truck or similar.
In any case, any accident with a motorcycle is very, very bad. It's why I don't ride one. I am confident with my driving, but not others. The motorcyclist always loses...
So they could be tracking your bathroom visits. Ouch. Anyone been fired for taking too many/too long bathroom breaks?
However, the cost of creating recordings has gone down. I sure wish I could do a week's or month's worth of work and get paid for it over my entire lifetime (and maybe even my kids' lifetimes.)
They can always go live and get paid for concerts. The days of being paid for a lifetime over a month's worth of work is going the way of the do-do.
MythBusters is one. Some episodes can air a year or more in Canada after the US:
So if you want to keep current with MythBusters, you can't with Discovery Channel Canada. All they do is drive people to download.
That watch has a fatal flaw, what good is a watch that only goes to 15:00 hours? Other than losing 9 hours... that might be good for some. Maybe it's supposed to be used as an offset when you wake up? Yep, been awake for 14h 59m, time to go to bed and get 9 hours sleep...
Figures, it finally installed and the battle.net servers are down. Go Blizzard!
Well, I guess that's the only way they can get people to use Bing... ;)
Found the link to the slashdot article.
Pretty sure that AVG issue is the one I mentioned in another post, where they mixed 32-bit binaries in the package for 64-bit installation. Pretty sure that happened in 2010, as we switched at work to ESET in early 2011 because the lack of AVG's QA.
I think if you blacklist every AV vendor for random f-ups you wouldn't have any left to buy from. I've had issues in the past with: Trend Micro, McAfee, Symantec, AVG (most recent - they decided to bundle 32-bit binaries for 64-bit machines and this causes all 64-bit machines to bluescreen), ESET (issues with our accounting systems) and probably others I've forgotten about. This is mixed personal and work experiences.
So far I've had OK luck with MSE at home, but I'm sure at some point Microsoft will screw that up too, like they've done with other apps...
I thought that should be funny more than insightful, but oh well...
It sounds like the free version is unaffected. I find that kind of interesting, you wind up paying for more features that invariably breaks your machine..
I guess I'll find out if the free version is affected, as I've installed Avira Free on a few people's personal computers. They'll probably think they've gotten a virus and bring it back to me for repair.
I took the day off to play it too, I'm just getting ready to install it. I sure hope I don't have problems...
Pioneer One comes to mind. And what about indie artists using TPB to distribute their music?
If anything that could be considered anticompetitive behaviour.
From the article:
Yeah, not a very strong password. What the hell was he thinking? At least mix case and have one number. Passwords I use have mixed case, numbers and symbols in it so it's not so easy to guess.