Would anyone care to make an audio book out of this?
I'm curious about the content (I like learning how things work), but don't want to wade through that many pages. On the other hand, if I could listen to it in the background while I'm doing something else...
I think I have a text to audio app somewhere, maby I can feed the text to it...:)
Actually, some friends of mine had a no-name PSU explode, literally. One of the electrolytic caps decided it had had enough. I replaced it with an Antec and no problems for as long as they used it.
Oh, and the Antec PSU in my personal machine died one day, possibly because it was plugged into an 11-year-old surge protector. I got a free replacement (minus shipping), and the replacement is a nicer unit and handles more power.
Say what you will, but their service is nothing to complain about.
We had a lot of Antec and Fortron PSU's at the company I work for. Almost all the Antec's have died, and they where replaced with Fortron. I have not yet seen a Fortron die. They where all the same model which probably had something to do with it, but bought within a timespan of 2 years.
On the hardware side, I love Macs. Except for the prices I've paid for them, I prefer all my Mac hardware to Windows
Are you talking about older Apple PCs, or the newer ones? I thought all of them just used standard-issue PC hardware now. Intel CPU, Asus motherboard, Nvidia/AMD graphics, etc. Just EFI instead of BIOS.
Nice case, superb trackpad... (at least in the late 2008 model notebooks)
But yeah, there's not a lot of difference in the actual internals.
I hate not to be all positive about this, but I'd much rather the prices drop rather than the sizes get bigger. Then again this is a huge sized solid state drive. I wonder if it is actually worth it. I'd like to see some real numbers comparing these drives to normal laptop drives.
A part of me also wonders when something like this will be thrown into the next ipod or DVR. It'll most likely be a price thing that determines it.
I've found the price of smaller drives generally goes down when larger ones are released. If the smaller ones having their price fall are large enough for sensible use their popularity might grow enough to get some good competition lowering the prices even further. I think I's pretty clear that the new 512GB model won't be cheap for a while, but maby the 128GB one... (would be fine for my laptop)
I have a qnap TS-109 and it has worked well. You get root shell without hacking the device and can setup all the stuff you lose on the cheaper version yourself (nfs etc). I think the biggest problem with it is slow replication for backups. I had to write my own scripts to back it up on an external device.
The best thing about this device is how silent it is. There are no fans, and using a silend disk (I have a 1TB wd green power which is pretty silent) you can only hear the sound of the disk rotating if you put your ear next to it.
I had a DNS-313 for a week. Despite being on the official "OSX supported" list it would not work with OS-X 10.5. Was fine with Windows, Linux and OS-X 10.4, though speeds where nothing to write home about (around 10MB/s on a gigabit network).
Really confirmed once again my opinion on dlink... I took it back and got a Qnap instead. Speeds are better and it has worked very well. The only reason I'd get a Qnap for a small company though would be the built in ability to use it as storage for IP video survalance cameras. I really think a proper server is the way to go if you actually require good speed from a cheap device.
Wire transfer does not cost anything in Europe. I have a close friend from the US living here, and can't stop wondering at how the way your banks work are so 1980...
Either way, on in twenty iPhones and one in ten blackberry's? That's disgraceful. Could you imagine if one in ten intel chips failed within their first year? How about one in ten hard drives?
How about one in ten / twenty notebooks? Still pretty high, but we have gotten far higher rates from Acer notebooks (and first revisions of new Mac models).
How about one in ten cars/planes/boats?
The stats I've seen for cars that need service (not just normal service, but repairs) within the first year or two have stated higher rates for almost all brands. One in twenty is probably among the top 30 car models sold in Europe, but I would guess that almost every brand will have some model with a failure rate at least so high (note car failures are usually counted by 2-3year olds).
See, that's also confusing. When you have a fully featured browser already in the phone, why compete with a substandard browser that's incapable of surfing anything more than static sites?
The only reason I did not take an iPhone (we where offered them from work) is that I can't browse without images. At my summerhouse there is no edge or 3g connectivity, and just reading the news at 500KB/page is quite annoying. Opera Mini would probably give me the option, at least they do on Symbian...
The issue here is to stop people access child porn. While I hate to be a black sheep, if you take speed away from a speed addict, they turn to meth or cocaine. You take ecstasy away from an addict and they turn to heroin.
What will pedophiles turn to if you take child porn away from their browsers at home?
Personally, if something like this ever went through, I would become more worried about kids on the street.
Put offenders into rehabilitation, or stop their contact or do something with a little common sense. This sort of knee jerk reaction solves nothing and generally creates more trouble than anything.
A similar filter has been applied in Finland a year or two ago, and just a month ago there was an article that police investigations on child abuse have increased dramatically. Now there was no mention of a link to the filtering in these child abuse articles, and I have doubts that the filtering is actually causing this rise, but it's definately an interesting coincidence.
Exactly. The important thing is that all risks are clearly presented. The people making the decisions should be able to calculate a ruff estimate of the expenses to the business in case of a problem (service available for "X" time means services "Y" and "Z" are also unavailabe and workers "a, b, c, d" can't do their job. This will cost the company the workers salaries, lost sales, lost clients due to not being able to fulfill contracts etc). If they make the calculations based on this and decide not to proceed they at least know what is coming to them.
Being a small company it's probably your job to identify the implications of each devices failure / downtime and present them clearly to the management. Then they can base their decisions on that.
11. Browse the internet without pictures when outside 3G / Edge connectivity? - Forget it.
Some of the points you make go the other way too though. I have a Nokia E61i which is a fairly recent "business phone", and about as expensive as an iPhone. It has multitasking, so I guess it's a more modern device... The problem is, that if I open both the browser and email, the one left in the background dies (not enough memory).
The Nokia (like the iPhone) does support bluetooth headsets (I assume the iPhone does), just not stereo headsets (like the iPhone).
Well, no iPhone for me, maby the next generation will be better.
One big advantage over the Nokia n-series is build quality. Nokia N-series phones feel very flimsy. Eriksson is a lot better in this regard.
Or in this case, Paris. The law is the law, and Google need to respect the local laws.
(emphasis mine)
Why exactly? Google is a U.S. based corporation, right? So if anything, shouldn't the people that should have to worry about laws be Parisians, not Google?
Frankly, I think every person who wants to work in IT should spend at least a year on the helpdesk.
In my experience, the number one problem with IT is that the programmers and managers really don't have enough interaction with the end users to understand their side of things. Every time there's an outtage because someone kicked the cord out of a server, or every patch that breaks usability in the name of some wizzbang feature, it really falls on the helpdesk to manage and do damage control while you're out "on break".
To the rest of the company, the helpdesk is literally the face of the IT department. They're the ones who get to deal with irate customers, desperate password seekers, and the social manipulators.
On the help desk, you learn every quirk of every system your company supports. You learn all the "unofficial" tricks that get things done, regardless of policy or procedure. Most importantly, you learn who to call when situations arise you can't handle. You know *everyone*, so that when application Z is causing catastrophic system failures on your server farm you know exactly who to go to to make it stop.
It really depends on what kind of a helpdesk it is. I think one of the most valuable skills an IT person can learn in helpdesk is communication. Learning to talk to "normal" people so they "some how" understand what you are saying.
Other then that, I don't think IT people accidently pull of cables from servers, especially not to give helpdesk more work. IT people can be pretty tied with time, so mistakes happen.
From all the jobs I've been to, it's the boss who makes most of the difference. Some IT managers believe short breaks are ok (and won't pay to do risky changes out of office hours). In these cases chances to have outages grow.
I think I have once shut down the wrong server, and even then I did it from the command line (display and keyboard attached to the wrong machine..:) I'm sure it caused some work for the helpdesk, but things like that happen.
I don't think there are very many people who have never made a mistake in their job. In some jobs mistakes just have bigger consequences (at least if you are unlucky).
I don't know what's wrong with your set up, but the web client is extremely fast for us. Maby you have some slow disk for your database, or insufficient memory on the server?
We've been using Zimbra for about 6 months and it feels great. It scales very well, and has been robust. Our company is not huge, but we have about 500GB of mail over 5000000 files. The largest mailboxes are 30GB. We have Apple, Windows and mobile users, and the web client works great for all of them. There are connectors for all operating systems to synchronize the calendars.
Onboard sound is fine for most applications, but it is not suitable for audio enthusiasts such as musicians who need low latency ASIO. The ASIO implementation on most on-board chipsets (that I have used) is atrocious to the point of being unusable. Well Creatives ASIO drivers have always sucked so it's not really related to this topic.;)
Unfortunately consumers are not used to a line of thought where you buy hardware that does not have all features enabled. Of course most corporate workers will be used to having to separately license features in your hardware or software. Maby Creative should provide some transparency in there thoughts and start talking about licensed features (from Creative to the purchaser) instead of seemingly selling consumer hardware.
This would also open up a whole new business model too. They could start to sell you the right to use the soundcard for a fixed amount of time, for example a year after which you would have to relicence. It would fit in well with my view of Creative.:)
I had a few Creative soundcards in my day, but the last product I ever bought (and ever will) was in 2000. The company has never understood a thing about a majority of it's customers.
Yes, these drives certainly work well in some regards. However the article talks about datacenters, and I can hardly think of lots of uses for 5400rpm drives in "my" datacenter. Already with 500GB sata drives / 300GB FC I'm running out of IOPS far before space... Well maby for SAN replication?
not only does this feature need to be enabled but you also have to configure at least one folder for sharing. makes sense. until it gets fixed, it is best to disable the shared folders feature and use another method that has not yet been compromised.
It's enabled by default though, at least in Fusion.
Slashdot Mirror
Would anyone care to make an audio book out of this?
I'm curious about the content (I like learning how things work), but don't want to wade through that many pages. On the other hand, if I could listen to it in the background while I'm doing something else ...
I think I have a text to audio app somewhere, maby I can feed the text to it... :)
2. For awhile the court reporter was on maternity leave. I don't know about other delays.
Do you think the RIAA where involved with getting her pregnant? A cunning plan to delay the release of the transcripts...
Actually, some friends of mine had a no-name PSU explode, literally. One of the electrolytic caps decided it had had enough. I replaced it with an Antec and no problems for as long as they used it. Oh, and the Antec PSU in my personal machine died one day, possibly because it was plugged into an 11-year-old surge protector. I got a free replacement (minus shipping), and the replacement is a nicer unit and handles more power. Say what you will, but their service is nothing to complain about.
We had a lot of Antec and Fortron PSU's at the company I work for. Almost all the Antec's have died, and they where replaced with Fortron. I have not yet seen a Fortron die. They where all the same model which probably had something to do with it, but bought within a timespan of 2 years.
On the hardware side, I love Macs. Except for the prices I've paid for them, I prefer all my Mac hardware to Windows
Are you talking about older Apple PCs, or the newer ones? I thought all of them just used standard-issue PC hardware now. Intel CPU, Asus motherboard, Nvidia/AMD graphics, etc. Just EFI instead of BIOS.
Nice case, superb trackpad... (at least in the late 2008 model notebooks)
But yeah, there's not a lot of difference in the actual internals.
I hate not to be all positive about this, but I'd much rather the prices drop rather than the sizes get bigger. Then again this is a huge sized solid state drive. I wonder if it is actually worth it. I'd like to see some real numbers comparing these drives to normal laptop drives.
A part of me also wonders when something like this will be thrown into the next ipod or DVR. It'll most likely be a price thing that determines it.
I've found the price of smaller drives generally goes down when larger ones are released. If the smaller ones having their price fall are large enough for sensible use their popularity might grow enough to get some good competition lowering the prices even further. I think I's pretty clear that the new 512GB model won't be cheap for a while, but maby the 128GB one... (would be fine for my laptop)
I have a qnap TS-109 and it has worked well. You get root shell without hacking the device and can setup all the stuff you lose on the cheaper version yourself (nfs etc). I think the biggest problem with it is slow replication for backups. I had to write my own scripts to back it up on an external device.
The best thing about this device is how silent it is. There are no fans, and using a silend disk (I have a 1TB wd green power which is pretty silent) you can only hear the sound of the disk rotating if you put your ear next to it.
I had a DNS-313 for a week. Despite being on the official "OSX supported" list it would not work with OS-X 10.5. Was fine with Windows, Linux and OS-X 10.4, though speeds where nothing to write home about (around 10MB/s on a gigabit network).
Really confirmed once again my opinion on dlink... I took it back and got a Qnap instead. Speeds are better and it has worked very well. The only reason I'd get a Qnap for a small company though would be the built in ability to use it as storage for IP video survalance cameras. I really think a proper server is the way to go if you actually require good speed from a cheap device.
Wire transfer does not cost anything in Europe. I have a close friend from the US living here, and can't stop wondering at how the way your banks work are so 1980...
Either way, on in twenty iPhones and one in ten blackberry's? That's disgraceful. Could you imagine if one in ten intel chips failed within their first year? How about one in ten hard drives?
How about one in ten / twenty notebooks? Still pretty high, but we have gotten far higher rates from Acer notebooks (and first revisions of new Mac models).
How about one in ten cars/planes/boats?
The stats I've seen for cars that need service (not just normal service, but repairs) within the first year or two have stated higher rates for almost all brands. One in twenty is probably among the top 30 car models sold in Europe, but I would guess that almost every brand will have some model with a failure rate at least so high (note car failures are usually counted by 2-3year olds).
See, that's also confusing. When you have a fully featured browser already in the phone, why compete with a substandard browser that's incapable of surfing anything more than static sites?
The only reason I did not take an iPhone (we where offered them from work) is that I can't browse without images. At my summerhouse there is no edge or 3g connectivity, and just reading the news at 500KB/page is quite annoying. Opera Mini would probably give me the option, at least they do on Symbian...
The issue here is to stop people access child porn. While I hate to be a black sheep, if you take speed away from a speed addict, they turn to meth or cocaine. You take ecstasy away from an addict and they turn to heroin. What will pedophiles turn to if you take child porn away from their browsers at home? Personally, if something like this ever went through, I would become more worried about kids on the street. Put offenders into rehabilitation, or stop their contact or do something with a little common sense. This sort of knee jerk reaction solves nothing and generally creates more trouble than anything.
A similar filter has been applied in Finland a year or two ago, and just a month ago there was an article that police investigations on child abuse have increased dramatically. Now there was no mention of a link to the filtering in these child abuse articles, and I have doubts that the filtering is actually causing this rise, but it's definately an interesting coincidence.
Exactly. The important thing is that all risks are clearly presented. The people making the decisions should be able to calculate a ruff estimate of the expenses to the business in case of a problem (service available for "X" time means services "Y" and "Z" are also unavailabe and workers "a, b, c, d" can't do their job. This will cost the company the workers salaries, lost sales, lost clients due to not being able to fulfill contracts etc). If they make the calculations based on this and decide not to proceed they at least know what is coming to them.
Being a small company it's probably your job to identify the implications of each devices failure / downtime and present them clearly to the management. Then they can base their decisions on that.
Bah, FreeBSD box up over 1000 days
> uptime 11:39PM up 1288 days, 8:59, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Some of the points you make go the other way too though. I have a Nokia E61i which is a fairly recent "business phone", and about as expensive as an iPhone. It has multitasking, so I guess it's a more modern device... The problem is, that if I open both the browser and email, the one left in the background dies (not enough memory).
The Nokia (like the iPhone) does support bluetooth headsets (I assume the iPhone does), just not stereo headsets (like the iPhone).
Well, no iPhone for me, maby the next generation will be better.
One big advantage over the Nokia n-series is build quality. Nokia N-series phones feel very flimsy. Eriksson is a lot better in this regard.
My thoughts exactly...
Can't you create several hidden volumes?
Depends if they have an office in France.
It really depends on what kind of a helpdesk it is. I think one of the most valuable skills an IT person can learn in helpdesk is communication. Learning to talk to "normal" people so they "some how" understand what you are saying.
Other then that, I don't think IT people accidently pull of cables from servers, especially not to give helpdesk more work. IT people can be pretty tied with time, so mistakes happen.
From all the jobs I've been to, it's the boss who makes most of the difference. Some IT managers believe short breaks are ok (and won't pay to do risky changes out of office hours). In these cases chances to have outages grow.
I think I have once shut down the wrong server, and even then I did it from the command line (display and keyboard attached to the wrong machine..:) I'm sure it caused some work for the helpdesk, but things like that happen.
I don't think there are very many people who have never made a mistake in their job. In some jobs mistakes just have bigger consequences (at least if you are unlucky).
I don't know what's wrong with your set up, but the web client is extremely fast for us. Maby you have some slow disk for your database, or insufficient memory on the server?
We've been using Zimbra for about 6 months and it feels great. It scales very well, and has been robust. Our company is not huge, but we have about 500GB of mail over 5000000 files. The largest mailboxes are 30GB. We have Apple, Windows and mobile users, and the web client works great for all of them. There are connectors for all operating systems to synchronize the calendars.
Unfortunately consumers are not used to a line of thought where you buy hardware that does not have all features enabled. Of course most corporate workers will be used to having to separately license features in your hardware or software. Maby Creative should provide some transparency in there thoughts and start talking about licensed features (from Creative to the purchaser) instead of seemingly selling consumer hardware.
This would also open up a whole new business model too. They could start to sell you the right to use the soundcard for a fixed amount of time, for example a year after which you would have to relicence. It would fit in well with my view of Creative. :)
I had a few Creative soundcards in my day, but the last product I ever bought (and ever will) was in 2000. The company has never understood a thing about a majority of it's customers.
Yes, these drives certainly work well in some regards. However the article talks about datacenters, and I can hardly think of lots of uses for 5400rpm drives in "my" datacenter. Already with 500GB sata drives / 300GB FC I'm running out of IOPS far before space... Well maby for SAN replication?
not only does this feature need to be enabled but you also have to configure at least one folder for sharing. makes sense. until it gets fixed, it is best to disable the shared folders feature and use another method that has not yet been compromised.
It's enabled by default though, at least in Fusion.