If you are getting someone from India you aren't calling the right phone number for enterprise. All the enterprise support I've dealt with is based in North America. mostly I get people from Canada or the midwest U.S. SMB support is an entirely different story... good luck. HP is pretty much all India in my experience, but we only use them for client workstations that are cheap and dispensable. If they fail we swap them out with a standby unit and send it out for warranty repair.
I can call Dell and have them send me out a replacement part under warranty same day without having to sit through an 18 year old drop out read me a script asking me to turn it off and back on again and check the power cord. Dell and HP also offer servers with redundant power supplies, so when there is a power supply failure my company's infrastructure doesn't go down with it. Apple is great on the desktop, but in the server room it sucks balls (right now). So what's apple installing in that fancy datacenter they are building? Stacks of mac minis?
More like collateral damage (at least in the enterprise). With no rack mountable servers and no licenses for non-apple hardware based virtualization it is pretty much impossible to fully integrate macs into enterprise without 3rd party solutions, and since Apple clearly isn't interested in enterprise why would enterprise want to bother with macs? I love my apple laptop, but integrating macs in an AD environment is hellish. It should be as simple as click join domain, but I can tell you from experience that is only theory. Reality is that unless you are building the domain from the ground up with macs in mind it is a PITA involving screwing with bonjour services, disabling signing, and trying to figure out why a handful of the macs won't renew their kerberos tickets when all the others in the same OU will. Using a mac server solves most of these headaches and gives some level of access control, but without allowing virtualization or having a rackmount option (that can be purchased without the bookkeeper having a heart attack) many businesses are back to square one trying to make due with basic binding or using expensive third party options like likewise or centrify. Xserve was only unpopular because it was ungodly expensive for what it did and most admins only needed something that fit in a rack and could provide active directory and group policy, which doesn't require 50 cores and a TB of ram nonsense. So Mr. Jobs, do you plan on replacing it with a rack mountable mini with redundant power supplies or can I slap a sticker on my poweredge and call it a mac? The alternative is the fancy imacs everyone loves get tossed to ebay come the next refresh cycle, and I'm not the only one with a headache from this.
Piss on bluetooth. Replacing batteries in mice, keyboards, and other basic peripherals is for chumps. Seriously, I never knew what a waste they were until some shipped with some imacs we purchased. I'd trade them for the old wired versions in a heartbeat.
Firewire 800 is still really fast in the real world. If you take USB 2, which can technically go at 480Mbps and put it up against firewire 400 the Firewire beats it hands down; it is far faster. 800 being basically twice as fast is certainly quick enough for most people's needs with external devices including reasonable HD video and data transfers. If it needs to be faster than that, you probably should be using a macpro with a fiber card and not worry about any of these other interfaces at all.
yes, but the issue is macs still ship with usb 2, the only usb 3 option is a dangling wart attached to the thunderqueef. I love apple laptops, but some things they do just don't make sense (like getting rid of firewire 800 with no alternative for a while, and taking years to add basic SD support). This is one of those instances. It is nice to have the fancy fast new interface, but sometimes we also need what the rest of the world has to get work done.
They don't buy, they rent from limelight and level3. They used akamai before that as a cdn (and I think might still use it some). Between these 3 the backbone infrastructure is pretty well covered. If they really do make up 30% of peek traffic it is reasonable to imagine that netflix has localized storage of at least the most popular content at most of these nodes, and the fact that limelight specializes in video transfer (even before netflix) makes it even more likely.
The Iranians didn't find out about the obscure nature of PLC, they found out it isn't a good idea to buy your infrastructure from foreign countries... See in the U.S. we are careful to only use... oh nevermind.
Gahh!! that brings me back to a terrible terrible time in internet history when every site was hosted by angelfire and site owners let you know their precious piece of digital property was permanently under construction with animated gifs; the status bar told you everything you didn't want to know, and the blink tag was the best thing since sliced bread. My Eyes! Get it off! Get it off!
Like windows CE and Windows mobile created confusion? I think windows 8 tablet edition or whatnot will be easy enough for people to figure out. And people are dumb anyhow. If the virus laden toolbar doesn't install when they click the "do you want to see talking cats?" button they probably won't know the difference anyway.
I'm not sure what your definition of myth is, but mine involves something being fictional. This story definitely happened: White people gave native people blankets that they intentionally infected with smallpox. Native people got sick with smallpox.
Was it from the blankets? Maybe, maybe not. Who care? It is irrelevant. The point is it was an act of biological warfare.
And in only 10,000 more it will be possible to actually administer the damn thing. I swear Drupal is a really powerful project, but if you have ever tried to train non-tech savvy people to run the backend you know an unspeakable pain.
If you don't think apple calls home, use little snitch sometime. Click on help, open an apple pro app, type in the dictionary or spotlight, or just sit and wait for random checkins by "dashboard advisor" and software update among others.
Seems like it would be easy enough to require ssl for the tokens... can you explain why google couldn't just make this possible via an update? Alternatively they could provide an option to turn off sync when wifi is unsecured.
Oh, that's nothing. I heard from someone who has a friend that met someone ones that said they had used bitcoins. This guy said their is a rumor they aren't mined digitally at all. They are actually processed from aborted children. That's right bitcoins kills babies! When will this end? The horror!
Yes, but it is equally important to note the maximum ram limits. I remember running into a large number of clients about 5-6 years ago that would call me complaining their brand new computers were slow. The processors were fast enough, but they shipped the machines with 256 MB of ram - enough to boot the OEM copy of xp but that was about it. Simple solution was to tell them to upgrade the RAM until I discovered the motherboards had a chipset that only supported 512MB. I was shocked. This was a major computer brand selling new computers with a chipset so old it could barely run windows. Well that's one way to clear old inventory I guess.... needless to say I am still wary about using that manufacturer nowadays, and I've seen an unusual number of plagued capacitors on their cheaper system boards recently too.
Seriously. I've grown tired of reporting abuse to amazon, whose policy is to "send the complaint on to the customer". I now just block their IP ranges. Unfortunate for anyone who legitimately wants to crawl my sites using their service, but if enough people block them they will start seeing customers head elsewhere. Blocking about a half dozen abusive ISPs has cut my attack logs down exponentially, so failure to regulate your service = banned appears to be an acceptable policy in many cases.
Wow, that is eerily accurate. In an IT office for a network I took over management of there are rows of filing cabinets. Among the thousands and thousands of pages of electronic manuals and config files pointlessly printed on a laser printer are some email correspondence that sound almost identical to what you wrote. Not sure why the previous guy printed all that out, he clearly didn't read or understand any of it given how the network was setup. That's ok though, he hired a consultant at some absurd rate to explain the basics of how to keep it from melting down by holding his mouth just right. Boy was that a fun mess to clean up.
Yeah, and I put my geiger counter in the microwave to make sure it wasn't bugged, lo and behold it went wild with radiation warnings. I think they are storing old nuclear waste in new microwaves!
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If you are getting someone from India you aren't calling the right phone number for enterprise. All the enterprise support I've dealt with is based in North America. mostly I get people from Canada or the midwest U.S. SMB support is an entirely different story... good luck. HP is pretty much all India in my experience, but we only use them for client workstations that are cheap and dispensable. If they fail we swap them out with a standby unit and send it out for warranty repair.
I can call Dell and have them send me out a replacement part under warranty same day without having to sit through an 18 year old drop out read me a script asking me to turn it off and back on again and check the power cord. Dell and HP also offer servers with redundant power supplies, so when there is a power supply failure my company's infrastructure doesn't go down with it. Apple is great on the desktop, but in the server room it sucks balls (right now). So what's apple installing in that fancy datacenter they are building? Stacks of mac minis?
More like collateral damage (at least in the enterprise). With no rack mountable servers and no licenses for non-apple hardware based virtualization it is pretty much impossible to fully integrate macs into enterprise without 3rd party solutions, and since Apple clearly isn't interested in enterprise why would enterprise want to bother with macs? I love my apple laptop, but integrating macs in an AD environment is hellish. It should be as simple as click join domain, but I can tell you from experience that is only theory. Reality is that unless you are building the domain from the ground up with macs in mind it is a PITA involving screwing with bonjour services, disabling signing, and trying to figure out why a handful of the macs won't renew their kerberos tickets when all the others in the same OU will. Using a mac server solves most of these headaches and gives some level of access control, but without allowing virtualization or having a rackmount option (that can be purchased without the bookkeeper having a heart attack) many businesses are back to square one trying to make due with basic binding or using expensive third party options like likewise or centrify. Xserve was only unpopular because it was ungodly expensive for what it did and most admins only needed something that fit in a rack and could provide active directory and group policy, which doesn't require 50 cores and a TB of ram nonsense. So Mr. Jobs, do you plan on replacing it with a rack mountable mini with redundant power supplies or can I slap a sticker on my poweredge and call it a mac? The alternative is the fancy imacs everyone loves get tossed to ebay come the next refresh cycle, and I'm not the only one with a headache from this.
Piss on bluetooth. Replacing batteries in mice, keyboards, and other basic peripherals is for chumps. Seriously, I never knew what a waste they were until some shipped with some imacs we purchased. I'd trade them for the old wired versions in a heartbeat.
Firewire 800 is still really fast in the real world. If you take USB 2, which can technically go at 480Mbps and put it up against firewire 400 the Firewire beats it hands down; it is far faster. 800 being basically twice as fast is certainly quick enough for most people's needs with external devices including reasonable HD video and data transfers. If it needs to be faster than that, you probably should be using a macpro with a fiber card and not worry about any of these other interfaces at all.
yes, but the issue is macs still ship with usb 2, the only usb 3 option is a dangling wart attached to the thunderqueef. I love apple laptops, but some things they do just don't make sense (like getting rid of firewire 800 with no alternative for a while, and taking years to add basic SD support). This is one of those instances. It is nice to have the fancy fast new interface, but sometimes we also need what the rest of the world has to get work done.
They don't buy, they rent from limelight and level3. They used akamai before that as a cdn (and I think might still use it some). Between these 3 the backbone infrastructure is pretty well covered. If they really do make up 30% of peek traffic it is reasonable to imagine that netflix has localized storage of at least the most popular content at most of these nodes, and the fact that limelight specializes in video transfer (even before netflix) makes it even more likely.
The Iranians didn't find out about the obscure nature of PLC, they found out it isn't a good idea to buy your infrastructure from foreign countries... See in the U.S. we are careful to only use... oh nevermind.
Gahh!! that brings me back to a terrible terrible time in internet history when every site was hosted by angelfire and site owners let you know their precious piece of digital property was permanently under construction with animated gifs; the status bar told you everything you didn't want to know, and the blink tag was the best thing since sliced bread. My Eyes! Get it off! Get it off!
No worries, they will likely leave out macros just like they did with OS X. Good riddance.
Like windows CE and Windows mobile created confusion? I think windows 8 tablet edition or whatnot will be easy enough for people to figure out. And people are dumb anyhow. If the virus laden toolbar doesn't install when they click the "do you want to see talking cats?" button they probably won't know the difference anyway.
I'm not sure what your definition of myth is, but mine involves something being fictional. This story definitely happened: White people gave native people blankets that they intentionally infected with smallpox. Native people got sick with smallpox. Was it from the blankets? Maybe, maybe not. Who care? It is irrelevant. The point is it was an act of biological warfare.
And in only 10,000 more it will be possible to actually administer the damn thing. I swear Drupal is a really powerful project, but if you have ever tried to train non-tech savvy people to run the backend you know an unspeakable pain.
If you don't think apple calls home, use little snitch sometime. Click on help, open an apple pro app, type in the dictionary or spotlight, or just sit and wait for random checkins by "dashboard advisor" and software update among others.
yeah, because cable companies don't throttle bit torrent ever...
Seems like it would be easy enough to require ssl for the tokens... can you explain why google couldn't just make this possible via an update? Alternatively they could provide an option to turn off sync when wifi is unsecured.
Bios, SMM. See Abstracts: http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=Wiki&action=view&type=publication&name=Persistent_BIOS_Infection http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.153.9106&rep=rep1&type=pdf (warning, pdf!)
EEPROM can be... this is essentially what coreboot is.
actually the argyria is "generally believed to be irreversible" although the symptoms can be treated with lasers.
Oh, that's nothing. I heard from someone who has a friend that met someone ones that said they had used bitcoins. This guy said their is a rumor they aren't mined digitally at all. They are actually processed from aborted children. That's right bitcoins kills babies! When will this end? The horror!
Yes, but it is equally important to note the maximum ram limits. I remember running into a large number of clients about 5-6 years ago that would call me complaining their brand new computers were slow. The processors were fast enough, but they shipped the machines with 256 MB of ram - enough to boot the OEM copy of xp but that was about it. Simple solution was to tell them to upgrade the RAM until I discovered the motherboards had a chipset that only supported 512MB. I was shocked. This was a major computer brand selling new computers with a chipset so old it could barely run windows. Well that's one way to clear old inventory I guess.... needless to say I am still wary about using that manufacturer nowadays, and I've seen an unusual number of plagued capacitors on their cheaper system boards recently too.
Seriously. I've grown tired of reporting abuse to amazon, whose policy is to "send the complaint on to the customer". I now just block their IP ranges. Unfortunate for anyone who legitimately wants to crawl my sites using their service, but if enough people block them they will start seeing customers head elsewhere. Blocking about a half dozen abusive ISPs has cut my attack logs down exponentially, so failure to regulate your service = banned appears to be an acceptable policy in many cases.
Wow, that is eerily accurate. In an IT office for a network I took over management of there are rows of filing cabinets. Among the thousands and thousands of pages of electronic manuals and config files pointlessly printed on a laser printer are some email correspondence that sound almost identical to what you wrote. Not sure why the previous guy printed all that out, he clearly didn't read or understand any of it given how the network was setup. That's ok though, he hired a consultant at some absurd rate to explain the basics of how to keep it from melting down by holding his mouth just right. Boy was that a fun mess to clean up.
More likely he didn't trust using them again after they were plugged into an internet cafe computer. Virus anyone?
Yeah, and I put my geiger counter in the microwave to make sure it wasn't bugged, lo and behold it went wild with radiation warnings. I think they are storing old nuclear waste in new microwaves!