For the record, I'd prefer to live down the street from a nuclear plant than a gas or coal or oil-burning power plant. And I did the math: if I covered my roof in solar panels, I'd lower my electric bill by at most 50-60% on sunny days, and only 30% averaged year round.
Unless you live in a "tiny house" or run a server farm in your basement, you should probably recheck your math.
It's going to take more than tabs to make it useful. I don't know if it's the Windows 10 file structure or the file manager but it has become very difficult to find anything on my drive since "upgrading" to Windows 10. Stuff seems to get randomly stashed in any of numerous Documents Folders.
Whenever I get a "warning" about malware on my device, I assume that the message is a scam where someone wants to charge me to "fix" my device or wants to install malware on it.
I started with Sprint then switched to AT&T after a couple of years. After a couple of more years with AT&T I switched to Simple Mobile for the unlimited data and the low cost. During a cross country car trip I switched to Straight Talk because Simple Mobile did not have coverage through large swaths of Tornado Alley. I currently use Google Project Fi while my wife is still on Straight Talk. Most of my data usage is on WiFi so the $0.01 / Mb data charge works well for me. My wife will probable switch also when we get her a new Google-phone.
I made a road trip from California to Vermont and back this June. I started off using Simple Mobile which operates on the T-Mobile network because it has the best connectivity at my home. Heading Northeast from San Diego through Utah and Western Colorado I had decent service through Denver. I lost service East of Denver and did not regain it again until half way through Kansas. Coverage between Kansas and Vermont was generally satisfactory except in some extremely rural areas. On my return trip I was a bit concerned about weather conditions and decided that I wanted better data coverage. I bought a prepaid Straight Talk sim kit at a Walmart in Ohio and switched over. The sim kit has sims for connectivity on the T-Mobile and AT&T GSM networks as well as provisions for connecting on the Verizon and Sprint CDMA networks. I selected the AT&T sim and I had pretty good coverage through Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota as long as I was on a major highway. Coverage in Montana was a bit spotty because we were headed to Glacier National Park near the Canadian border. I had good coverage all the way down the West coast. The cost is reasonable at $45 for 30 days unlimited talk, text and 5 GB of 4G LTE data and unlimited 2G data after the 5 GB is used up.
I was able to do it after retiring from the navy. I did most of my lower division work through several community colleges in the area and then transferred to a state university to complete my degree. It took eight years to go this route. I was lucky because my employer was very supportive of my efforts and allowed me to adjust my work hours so that I could attend certain classes that were not offered at night.
Sam Adams and Yuengling are actually quite good. Budweiser is Belgian, Coors and Miller are South African. I giggle when people complain about American beer because they don't realize the worst swill we produce has been purchased by other countries.
I think that Yuengling is very good but unfortunately is available only on the East coast.
I was 48 when I got my BS and I have not regretted the effort. I did 22 years in the navy before starting college, so I didn't exactly piss the years away, but what I learned in college definitely helped to make my life in the workplace easier.
I have the same duties at a similarly sized company. First of all, your users are to be congratulated for good internet practices that result in only 2000 SPAM emails a day. Typically, our filters capture about 40,000 SPAM per day. We use three layers of filtering. Our first defense is a commercial real time black list service. Email from an IP address on the black list results in a rejection with a 500 error. This blocks about 65% of our incoming SPAM. Email that makes it through the RBL gets processed by Spam Assassin which tags suspected SPAM but lets it pass through to the next stage. The third stage is another SPAM filter contained in the mail server anti-virus scanner. This also just marks suspected SPAM. I have set up rules on our local user's machines to dump any emails marked SPAM into a SPAM folder on their machines. It is the user's responsibility to periodically screen the SPAM folder for false positives, and yes, I still get occasional complaints from users.
I do a 20 mile daily commute, mostly on the freeway, and typically get around 48 MPG in my 2004 Prius. My wife's typical drive ranges between 3-7 miles in a 50-50 freeway/in town environment and she normally gets about 42 MPG in her 2006 Prius. I believe that her lower mileage is mostly due to the computer running the gasoline engine almost continuously for the first 5 minute of operation in order to heat up the catalytic converter. During longer road trips she averages closer to 47 MPG. All-in-all I think that the new EPA calculations are much more realistic. Incidentally, my Prius' cost was about $1500 more than a comparably equipped Toyota Camry and I believe that I have already recovered the cost difference on the 2004.
So, if a Prius costs $3.25/mile over 100,000 miles, the cost to own of my 2004 Prius with 50K miles on it must be something in excess of $3.25 * 50,000 or $162,500. I certainly haven't sunk anything close to that into it, so the manufacturer must be taking a real beating.
This does not appear to have anything to do with GPS. The base station is tethered to a known position and depth, it does not need to receive GPS signals since its coordinates can be entered into the base station when it is put into operation.
I use Fedora Core 3, 4, 5 and 6 at my office. I found that yum updated the files in/usr/share/zoneinfo, but did nothing to/etc/localtime (the zone data that the system actually uses). Actually Core 3 added file/etc/localtime.rpm which was fine if I was located in the US Eastern time zone (I'm not). The manual update was easy, however. To check the current settings:
zdump -v/etc/localtime | grep 2007
If the DST start date shown is not March 11 then check the file in/usr/share/zoneinfo. I am in the US Pacific time zone so I verified that my zone file had been updated by:
In the 60's and 70's I bought numerous vinyl albums for about the same price (adjusted for inflation) as a CD is going for now. Back then it was not unusual for me to pick up an album and be able to recognize four or five songs on it before I bought it because I'd heard them on the radio. Nowadays, I'll pick up a CD and recognize one or maybe two songs on it. Today's industry paradigm seems to be to pick a hit song, package it with a bunch of fillers and sell it for $15. No wonder the record labels aren't thrilled by $0.99 downloads.
You are less likely to find a PHB in a small company than in a large one. It takes a fair budget to support a non-productive project and the small company would be out of business pretty quickly if it allowed such a project to eat up its (usually) limited resources.
Only an idiot believes that we can maintain our economy without foreign workers, but since we don't let enough workers in legally, illegals come in to fill the jobs. Employers hire the illegals because they can pay them in cash (no workers comp, health insurance, no tax withholdings, etc.), and the probability of legal repercussions is low. So, if we adopt a method to identify those who can legally work that cannot be counterfeited, we would still need to raise the consequences for employers who hire undocumented workers and prosecute them. Otherwise, those that do so now will continue doing it for reasons of economic gain. If we are going to identify legal workers and enforce the law, we will also need to allow enough people in to fill the available jobs. I am in favor of some kind of guest worker program, but I am against giving those living illegally in the United States automatic amnesty and documentation. To do so would be giving preference to those who choose to break our laws. Documentation should be available to non-residents only outside of the United States. Let prospective guest workers apply in their homelands. If people living illegally in the US want documentation, then they should go back to their homeland and compete for what is available with their countrymen.
The 2006 Prius Nav System will also allow you to enter an address by voice while moving, although this is a tedious and painful process. I have found the navigation system to be particularly useful when I'm driving around areas where I seldom travel. Rather than trying to read all of the road signs, I can concentrate on the traffic and let the navigation lady tell me when my turn is coming up. With the Nav System, it's almost like driving around my own neighborhood.
I a word, yes. I am very inerested in the work that I do now and I'm well compensated for what I do, but if something came up that I find more interesting I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. Of course in taking my opinion into consideration, you should keep in mind that I'm 60 years old and ready to retire if life in the workplace doesn't meet my needs.
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For the record, I'd prefer to live down the street from a nuclear plant than a gas or coal or oil-burning power plant. And I did the math: if I covered my roof in solar panels, I'd lower my electric bill by at most 50-60% on sunny days, and only 30% averaged year round.
Unless you live in a "tiny house" or run a server farm in your basement, you should probably recheck your math.
This issue does not appear to be limited to the Windows Server 2016. I have observed 4 hour updates on my wife's Windows 10 desktop and on mine also.
It's going to take more than tabs to make it useful. I don't know if it's the Windows 10 file structure or the file manager but it has become very difficult to find anything on my drive since "upgrading" to Windows 10. Stuff seems to get randomly stashed in any of numerous Documents Folders.
Whenever I get a "warning" about malware on my device, I assume that the message is a scam where someone wants to charge me to "fix" my device or wants to install malware on it.
I started with Sprint then switched to AT&T after a couple of years. After a couple of more years with AT&T I switched to Simple Mobile for the unlimited data and the low cost. During a cross country car trip I switched to Straight Talk because Simple Mobile did not have coverage through large swaths of Tornado Alley. I currently use Google Project Fi while my wife is still on Straight Talk. Most of my data usage is on WiFi so the $0.01 / Mb data charge works well for me. My wife will probable switch also when we get her a new Google-phone.
I made a road trip from California to Vermont and back this June. I started off using Simple Mobile which operates on the T-Mobile network because it has the best connectivity at my home. Heading Northeast from San Diego through Utah and Western Colorado I had decent service through Denver. I lost service East of Denver and did not regain it again until half way through Kansas. Coverage between Kansas and Vermont was generally satisfactory except in some extremely rural areas. On my return trip I was a bit concerned about weather conditions and decided that I wanted better data coverage. I bought a prepaid Straight Talk sim kit at a Walmart in Ohio and switched over. The sim kit has sims for connectivity on the T-Mobile and AT&T GSM networks as well as provisions for connecting on the Verizon and Sprint CDMA networks. I selected the AT&T sim and I had pretty good coverage through Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota as long as I was on a major highway. Coverage in Montana was a bit spotty because we were headed to Glacier National Park near the Canadian border. I had good coverage all the way down the West coast. The cost is reasonable at $45 for 30 days unlimited talk, text and 5 GB of 4G LTE data and unlimited 2G data after the 5 GB is used up.
I was able to do it after retiring from the navy. I did most of my lower division work through several community colleges in the area and then transferred to a state university to complete my degree. It took eight years to go this route. I was lucky because my employer was very supportive of my efforts and allowed me to adjust my work hours so that I could attend certain classes that were not offered at night.
Sam Adams and Yuengling are actually quite good. Budweiser is Belgian, Coors and Miller are South African. I giggle when people complain about American beer because they don't realize the worst swill we produce has been purchased by other countries.
I think that Yuengling is very good but unfortunately is available only on the East coast.
Microsoft Reader also has text-to-speech. I've not heard of any complaints about that either.
When terrorists are using the web to plan attacks against me, I would surely prefer that they do it on my website where I can keep an eye on them.
This one was actually assigned in my High School Junior Year English class in 1962.
I was 48 when I got my BS and I have not regretted the effort. I did 22 years in the navy before starting college, so I didn't exactly piss the years away, but what I learned in college definitely helped to make my life in the workplace easier.
I have the same duties at a similarly sized company. First of all, your users are to be congratulated for good internet practices that result in only 2000 SPAM emails a day. Typically, our filters capture about 40,000 SPAM per day. We use three layers of filtering. Our first defense is a commercial real time black list service. Email from an IP address on the black list results in a rejection with a 500 error. This blocks about 65% of our incoming SPAM. Email that makes it through the RBL gets processed by Spam Assassin which tags suspected SPAM but lets it pass through to the next stage. The third stage is another SPAM filter contained in the mail server anti-virus scanner. This also just marks suspected SPAM. I have set up rules on our local user's machines to dump any emails marked SPAM into a SPAM folder on their machines. It is the user's responsibility to periodically screen the SPAM folder for false positives, and yes, I still get occasional complaints from users.
I do a 20 mile daily commute, mostly on the freeway, and typically get around 48 MPG in my 2004 Prius. My wife's typical drive ranges between 3-7 miles in a 50-50 freeway/in town environment and she normally gets about 42 MPG in her 2006 Prius. I believe that her lower mileage is mostly due to the computer running the gasoline engine almost continuously for the first 5 minute of operation in order to heat up the catalytic converter. During longer road trips she averages closer to 47 MPG. All-in-all I think that the new EPA calculations are much more realistic. Incidentally, my Prius' cost was about $1500 more than a comparably equipped Toyota Camry and I believe that I have already recovered the cost difference on the 2004.
So, if a Prius costs $3.25/mile over 100,000 miles, the cost to own of my 2004 Prius with 50K miles on it must be something in excess of $3.25 * 50,000 or $162,500. I certainly haven't sunk anything close to that into it, so the manufacturer must be taking a real beating.
Your co-worker is either BSing you or he is driving with his parking brake on.
This does not appear to have anything to do with GPS. The base station is tethered to a known position and depth, it does not need to receive GPS signals since its coordinates can be entered into the base station when it is put into operation.
I use Fedora Core 3, 4, 5 and 6 at my office. I found that yum updated the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo, but did nothing to /etc/localtime (the zone data that the system actually uses). Actually Core 3 added file /etc/localtime.rpm which was fine if I was located in the US Eastern time zone (I'm not). The manual update was easy, however. To check the current settings:
/etc/localtime | grep 2007
/usr/share/zoneinfo. I am in the US Pacific time zone so I verified that my zone file had been updated by:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific | grep 2007
/etc:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime
zdump -v
If the DST start date shown is not March 11 then check the file in
zdump -v
Then I activated the updated file by copying it into
cp
Why would I pay for their product? Norton AV is regularly offered with enough rebates to make it effectively free.
In the 60's and 70's I bought numerous vinyl albums for about the same price (adjusted for inflation) as a CD is going for now. Back then it was not unusual for me to pick up an album and be able to recognize four or five songs on it before I bought it because I'd heard them on the radio. Nowadays, I'll pick up a CD and recognize one or maybe two songs on it. Today's industry paradigm seems to be to pick a hit song, package it with a bunch of fillers and sell it for $15. No wonder the record labels aren't thrilled by $0.99 downloads.
You are less likely to find a PHB in a small company than in a large one. It takes a fair budget to support a non-productive project and the small company would be out of business pretty quickly if it allowed such a project to eat up its (usually) limited resources.
Only an idiot believes that we can maintain our economy without foreign workers, but since we don't let enough workers in legally, illegals come in to fill the jobs. Employers hire the illegals because they can pay them in cash (no workers comp, health insurance, no tax withholdings, etc.), and the probability of legal repercussions is low. So, if we adopt a method to identify those who can legally work that cannot be counterfeited, we would still need to raise the consequences for employers who hire undocumented workers and prosecute them. Otherwise, those that do so now will continue doing it for reasons of economic gain. If we are going to identify legal workers and enforce the law, we will also need to allow enough people in to fill the available jobs. I am in favor of some kind of guest worker program, but I am against giving those living illegally in the United States automatic amnesty and documentation. To do so would be giving preference to those who choose to break our laws. Documentation should be available to non-residents only outside of the United States. Let prospective guest workers apply in their homelands. If people living illegally in the US want documentation, then they should go back to their homeland and compete for what is available with their countrymen.
>97%+ Server uptime during working hours.
Personnally I think that 62+ hours/year of server down time during work hours is a little excessive.
The 2006 Prius Nav System will also allow you to enter an address by voice while moving, although this is a tedious and painful process. I have found the navigation system to be particularly useful when I'm driving around areas where I seldom travel. Rather than trying to read all of the road signs, I can concentrate on the traffic and let the navigation lady tell me when my turn is coming up. With the Nav System, it's almost like driving around my own neighborhood.
I a word, yes. I am very inerested in the work that I do now and I'm well compensated for what I do, but if something came up that I find more interesting I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. Of course in taking my opinion into consideration, you should keep in mind that I'm 60 years old and ready to retire if life in the workplace doesn't meet my needs.