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Actually, as a sysadmin I'd
1. reduce ttl of dns entries (well in advance) 2. suspend updates 3. dump database 4. start t-logging, restart updates, and ship dump to new server 5. load dump 6. suspend updates, switch dns (ddns), move t-logs, apply t-logs 7. resume updates on new server 8.... 9. PROFIT!!!
The C-Pen is a stand-alone, highligher-sized single-text-line scanner with OCR, LCD display, 4MB memory and IrDA. Software is available for Win32 and Mac.
My g/f used one of these during the last 2 years of her degree, and swears by it - it's so discrete you can use it anywhere, including libraries and even book-shops!
Do you know anyone who has ever paid for winzip? I don't.
You do now. I gladly paid for WinZIP many years ago - a one-off $30 (IIRC) for a lifetime licence. Also, the last mega-corp I worked for had a site licence for WinZIP, and it was installed on >25000 desktops...
I've also paid for UEdit and Agent (Win32 newsreader)...
A non profit organization still brings in money, it just doesn't bring in more than it needs to say in existance.
Not true. A non-profit organisation must demonstrate that all income over-and-above operating costs (including wages) is re-invested in the organisation... a subtle but important difference.
Do you know if this infertilility gene is dominant?
Do you know it's not? With your crop at stake, do you believe anyone who tells you it's not? Are they the same people who want to SELL it to you when the "free" supply runs out?
One other point regarding many patented "wheat products" - as a seed it is effectively infertile... any crop from it used as seed will never germinate, and if that cross-fertilises with an exising native strain, blammo!
...that the incremental cost of laying "extra" fibre is inconsequential. The difference between laying 1 and laying 20 is the additonal - trivial - cost of 19 strands... it's all the same hole, and it's a one-time bill.
The cost of lighting-up that same extra fibre is _not_ incremental but geometric. Each strand requires significant (and expensive) kit at either end, as well as an increasing the local copper-cable volume... which is why there is so much "excess" capacity the world over, not just Canada.
The whole point about using wireless LANs is to enable environments where you either need to support roaming/migrant users or you have little/no control over the local infrastructure.
Neither is the case here.
You also need to remember that the 11MB/s provided by WiFi is shared between all users. If you have 50 "dwelling units" and two WiFi access points, you'll be offering a service with less maximum bandwidth than bottom-of-the-range xDSL... and you'll be charging for $100 WiFi NICs instead of $10 PCI ethernet NICs (which many PCs now have as standard anyway)... and for a service subject to atmospheric outages (ever use a WiFi network during a thunderstorm) as well as interference from a multitude of other devices like microwaves, cordless headphones and DECT telephones...
I'd recommend taking a bit of up-front hit and running CAT5 to each apartment. Put a switch on each floor (unmanaged 16-port switches are less than $80), and run each floor-switch to a central switch, and from there to the T1 router, squid server and whatever other infrastructure you've going to value-add into the equation.
This is what business-class hotels now do - just provide an ethernet RJ-45 jack and a DHCP server... all a guest has to do is plug in, configure for DHCP, and reboot.
If nothing else, support costs for a wired network are trivial... but for a WiFi? How do you explain to a user that they can't get their mail because the guy in apartment 2B is listening to a CD?
When I lived in NYC, I went to both EB and Toys'R'Us to buy a DreamCast when they came out.
Toys'R'Us would sell me one for the declared retail price of USD199 (IIRC), but EB stated that they could only sell one to me for USD229 - a price which included an EB extended warranty. Even better, they argued that this was mandated by Sega, and that it was not possible to buy a DreamCast without it.
Needless to say, I bought the DC from TRU... but went back in to the EB on Broadway (to buy a game that TRU didn't have) and loudly gave the manager a hard time about it, on a packed Saturday afternoon.
16 colour mode may have been the same, but in the games I remember playing in 4-colour mode, the difference between yellow and green was the only time it made a... difference.
Not only do the differences between individual monitors - make, model, batch, age, time used, etc - affect the state of the phosphor and so the displayed colour, so do brightness, contrast and ambient lighting. That's not even taking LCD panels into consideration.
Then you've got the fact that not only does everyone perceive colour in a different way, but some people are colour-blind! I myself am unable to distinguish between the standard yellow & green used in 4-colour mode on the BBC Micro from so long ago - the last census stats I saw indicated that 8% of the population have some form of colour-blindness.
I think you really need to re-think your web-site design - after all, what's wrong with black on white?
In the case of WinZIP and mIRC, the payment is a "licence for life" - no charge for upgrades, ever. (This may also be the case in some of the others - I don't know for certain).
In the case of "commercial" software, you've bought media, but you'll pay again for the next major revision... "Free upgrade to 3.0? I don't think so...that's another $100 please."
And anyway, why do you need both WinZIP and WinRAR, when WinRAR will handle ZIPs?
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Sorry, you can't patent that... there's too much prior art...
Hack Microsoft? Rewards and adulation...
Hack me? Nail the fucker to a tree...
And yours... and, of course, mine...
The 4-line display itself would fit in a single 5.25" bay if only the PCB were perpendicular instead of parallel to the VFD...
Taking up two bays is one too many, and very poor design.
I thought the lampoon was this movie.
Actually, as a sysadmin I'd
...
1. reduce ttl of dns entries (well in advance)
2. suspend updates
3. dump database
4. start t-logging, restart updates, and ship dump to new server
5. load dump
6. suspend updates, switch dns (ddns), move t-logs, apply t-logs
7. resume updates on new server
8.
9. PROFIT!!!
...so they do a production change-over during the course of a business day, rather than at a weekend...
I'll bet they haven't even shortend the TTL of their DNS entries in advance... bloody amatuers...
...was named Orion, and featured in the Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle novel "Footfall".
I could list a whole load of links, but
a) You can find them yourself if you're interested; and
b) I can't be arsed
The scrapyard/junkyard used in both the original British show and the subsequent American one is the same... and it is in London...
There are several times in both shows where Canary Wharf is visible on the skyline...
The C-Pen is a stand-alone, highligher-sized single-text-line scanner with OCR, LCD display, 4MB memory and IrDA. Software is available for Win32 and Mac.
My g/f used one of these during the last 2 years of her degree, and swears by it - it's so discrete you can use it anywhere, including libraries and even book-shops!
Yah, big deal.
So the G7/8 governments conspire to destroy a native crop in an African country at the behest of Western-world-agri-business-interests.
After all, when they get spectacularly in debt they can sell off their surplus population - "every home should have one!"
Yah, then they end up having to buy ALL their grain from the industrialised West, and end up more in debt...
One other point regarding many patented "wheat products" - as a seed it is effectively infertile... any crop from it used as seed will never germinate, and if that cross-fertilises with an exising native strain, blammo!
...that the incremental cost of laying "extra" fibre is inconsequential. The difference between laying 1 and laying 20 is the additonal - trivial - cost of 19 strands... it's all the same hole, and it's a one-time bill.
The cost of lighting-up that same extra fibre is _not_ incremental but geometric. Each strand requires significant (and expensive) kit at either end, as well as an increasing the local copper-cable volume... which is why there is so much "excess" capacity the world over, not just Canada.
Because corporate laptops generally don't run a modern operating system... mostly NT4, although you might get W2K if you're "lucky"...
The whole point about using wireless LANs is to enable environments where you either need to support roaming/migrant users or you have little/no control over the local infrastructure.
Neither is the case here.
You also need to remember that the 11MB/s provided by WiFi is shared between all users. If you have 50 "dwelling units" and two WiFi access points, you'll be offering a service with less maximum bandwidth than bottom-of-the-range xDSL... and you'll be charging for $100 WiFi NICs instead of $10 PCI ethernet NICs (which many PCs now have as standard anyway)... and for a service subject to atmospheric outages (ever use a WiFi network during a thunderstorm) as well as interference from a multitude of other devices like microwaves, cordless headphones and DECT telephones...
I'd recommend taking a bit of up-front hit and running CAT5 to each apartment. Put a switch on each floor (unmanaged 16-port switches are less than $80), and run each floor-switch to a central switch, and from there to the T1 router, squid server and whatever other infrastructure you've going to value-add into the equation.
This is what business-class hotels now do - just provide an ethernet RJ-45 jack and a DHCP server... all a guest has to do is plug in, configure for DHCP, and reboot.
If nothing else, support costs for a wired network are trivial... but for a WiFi? How do you explain to a user that they can't get their mail because the guy in apartment 2B is listening to a CD?
When I lived in NYC, I went to both EB and Toys'R'Us to buy a DreamCast when they came out.
Toys'R'Us would sell me one for the declared retail price of USD199 (IIRC), but EB stated that they could only sell one to me for USD229 - a price which included an EB extended warranty. Even better, they argued that this was mandated by Sega, and that it was not possible to buy a DreamCast without it.
Needless to say, I bought the DC from TRU... but went back in to the EB on Broadway (to buy a game that TRU didn't have) and loudly gave the manager a hard time about it, on a packed Saturday afternoon.
There is no real news today, as it's another bank holiday here in England...
What? No holiday today? Damn... it must suck to be you...
Two colour mode is black and white.
16 colour mode may have been the same, but in the games I remember playing in 4-colour mode, the difference between yellow and green was the only time it made a... difference.
Not only do the differences between individual monitors - make, model, batch, age, time used, etc - affect the state of the phosphor and so the displayed colour, so do brightness, contrast and ambient lighting. That's not even taking LCD panels into consideration.
Then you've got the fact that not only does everyone perceive colour in a different way, but some people are colour-blind! I myself am unable to distinguish between the standard yellow & green used in 4-colour mode on the BBC Micro from so long ago - the last census stats I saw indicated that 8% of the population have some form of colour-blindness.
I think you really need to re-think your web-site design - after all, what's wrong with black on white?
In the case of WinZIP and mIRC, the payment is a "licence for life" - no charge for upgrades, ever. (This may also be the case in some of the others - I don't know for certain).
In the case of "commercial" software, you've bought media, but you'll pay again for the next major revision... "Free upgrade to 3.0? I don't think so...that's another $100 please."
And anyway, why do you need both WinZIP and WinRAR, when WinRAR will handle ZIPs?