Supposedly Double-Take software is good at "mirroring" one box with another... and then when box1 dies box2 very quickly takes over, stealing the IP, etc. I have the software, but I haven't had the balls or the weekend time to test it for real yet.
I hate UAC with a passion. It's like this... you learn to walk after years of growing and the one common thing throughout your walking days at 2 years old and walking days at 30 years old is that you pick up one foot and move it in front of the other, set it down, repeat. It's effortless after you learn how to do it.
Compare the windows or similar GUI experience. You click or double click on something, and voila you get what you asked for.
Putting in UAC into Windows is like putting tiny little hurdles in front of every flipping step you take when you walk so that you have to concentrate on stepping rather than the rest of your life. It throws off your rhythm, and makes you unlearn everything you learned before... and slows you down.
The passion that people hate UAC with far outweighs any benefit 5% of the population gets 5% of the time. I'm sorry.
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As a fan of film first and literature second, I'll disagree. What I would say instead is that books and movies portray things differently because of the medium, and that books are able to strangely do two or three sometimes contradictory things at once.
1. Spoon feed the reader certain critical information while 2. ignoring/blocking out all other information that you don't want your reader to notice. 3. While finally giving the reader the ability to use his imagination and interpretation more so than something more concrete like a picture or video. (Think of a court case or a news report that has a written explanation of a police officer attacking an individual. Now think of a start to finish video. Which one provides better actual information? Which one allows more interpretation?)
In a movie, aka moving pictures, you are immersed in a picture (worth a thousand words) multiplied by what, a million or so? There are so many details that no group of individuals can easily reign in all that information to give you exactly precisely what a book can.
Regardless, some movies are great and some books are great. If anything... watch the movie before you read (or reread) the damn book! Then you can enjoy it more.
Gattaca and all the rest played it out pretty well. Supposed super humans vs the rest of us. The only thing that gives me satisfaction is that we'll not know enough about genes and the dependencies to really pick and choose wisely for hundreds of years... and in the meantime people will be picking things they think sound good only to also accidentally weed out some of the harder to pinpoint genetics (smarts, creativity, humanitarianism). Think all the funky dog breeds. So eventually we'll have a breed of human with bugged out eyes and a nervous disorder. But hey, they'll be blonde and blue-eyed or muscular and tall or resistant to colds but can't fight cancer or something.
What I'm trying to find is whether VMWare plays nice with terminal services/Xenn App server/Presentation server/Citrix Metaframe/whatever they are calling it this year. According to this link, the Citrix people of course optimize for that type of server:
I have two Citrix servers that I would love to virtualize, but I've always heard nightmares with VMware or anything else. But other than that, I'm a VMware fan.
Well, the biometrics devices just have to get smarter. How about a 3-d picture of your face, so that photos won't work? How about you get older and the device is so sensitive it looks for the new wrinkles every year? How about the device that reads your thumbprint require a couple of skin particles that holds your DNA?
To say once they have your photo it's over is a little short sighted, in my opinion. A bitch in the short run, yes, but as everybody is saying... the multi-tired approach is the only way to go if you are serious.
Actually, biometrics are considered better for security than passwords according to the CISSP book. Worse than that, passwords are considered THE worst for security. But they are the cheapest and most easily implemented, which is why everybody uses them. And for a so called "strong" authentication, you need at least two ways to authenticate. Like a password and a thumbprint reader.
according to google: "It is important the passwords are strong and properly managed.... most commonly used authentication mechanisms, they are also considered one of the weakest..."
Be paranoid. Don't name things with real names if they ever touch the internet! Put your neighbor's name on there if you don't like him, then go visit the cracker sites.
I think he/she was going to say mars isn't a solar system. But the poster clearly meant "from the solar system". Or maybe the 2nd post was going to say "Death Star" had a space and was an illegal name. The world may never know.
For some reason this topic has been on my mind lately. It's so true that paper is about the best way to preserve information. I hope a few libraries are printing out all the good stuff. But what about all the stuff that is going video now? Kinda freaky. And then again, what about all the TV and movie stock over all the decades that will be lost? Some of that stuff is really good... kinda worrisome isn't it? I mean, past human civilization isn't the most important thing ever. But some of it is pretty cool. And for nothing else, our offspring need to know a little history so they don't get stepped on by the rich and annoying.
I probably wouldn't last long at my current house. But first thing I'd do is pack up to move in with the folks back home.
And as far as too many people for the land to support, well that's true. If you don't eat other people. I figure the highly populated areas, the cities, will take care of thinning out the population just fine. And country folk have lots of guns... like lots... to defend themselves.
Well, I had my fair share of parties and clubbing at certain points in my college life. But by far my best social experiences were at the (I'm not even joking) arcade. All my best friends were met either in an arcade or as a friend of an arcade friend. Too bad they are dead nowadays. LAN parties were the shit too.
I agree with the easy to learn, hard to master. I'll add to that, multi-player usually helps a LOT... due to replayability and increasing the "hard to master" aspect, since there is another active human right there with you increasing his/her skills. Obvious choices:
Street Fighter 2, etc. Warcraft2/StarCraft Doom/Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc.
To be blunt, the summary of the article just sounds like more of the trend to make games easier for the newbs. Since I have less time for gaming, I don't hate this as much as I did. But I also find myself going back and playing 10 and 15 year old games more and more. Thank god for the classics. By the way, if you like street fighter and own the ROMs (I'm no legal expert, but I wonder if you bought it on 3 different systems if that means you own the ROMs?), try out GGPO. The net code is AMAZING and makes it almost perfect as if you are playing in the same room. I still don't know how they do it.
It's easy to imagine that the reason octopuses respond "randomly" when the screen is employed is due to something unrelated to personality, such as them "testing" this new situation to see what response they should evoke to bring back the crab. If she's not rewarding them with the crab after a specific action, they just keep trying different things randomly hoping it will come back. If that is indeed what they are doing, I'd say they gain another point in the smart score even if it were more instinct that conscious thought that would cause that behavior.
I'm not sure if it is fair or not, but if you get Gold Support with Dell, you can usually skip at least a decent portion of the "don't want to send a tech out" people. There is still some red tape, but way way less.
And go figure, it costs money because it pays someone's salary in the US who is actually a knowledgeable "computer person", not a voice on the phone.
My gold support has always been with the server guys, so ymmv.
I am not up on all theories relative to the situation, but isn't the ability of life to exist kind of the same as the ability of anything to exist? It just seems like common sense, no religion or anti-religion sentiment here. I mean, just common sense logic. If you haven't seen life come about, it is just too much for your mind to wrap around.
Anything that is, came to be by all the random and not so random processes that shape anything. A complex con where you don't see it coming demonstrates the effect... sort of. OK, big long terrible example to follow.
Take rock X that you found on the beach. It is a complex shape, let's call it shape B. Now you draw an accurate drawing of the rock.
Then you hide the rock in your pocket and go up to a 6 year old. Show the 6 year old the picture, tell him it was randomly drawn by a friend standing a few feet away, point out all the various intricate details of the rock... a hole here... a scratch there. Then bet the kid his lunch money that you can find a rock like that on the exact beach you are on. He'll take your bet, and when you take the rock out of your pocket he'll say you cheated! From his naive perspective you had no chance of finding a rock of shape B on that beach or even the planet. But the rock of course did in fact exist... you just made it seem like you didn't know it exists.
Same thing for life! It's complex, it seems impossible to have been made, it seems unlikely it'd happen here, and it seems very mystical from a naive perspective that hasn't actually witnessed all the events leading to that situation/state. But, religion and creation aside, it is just the manifestation of all the events that lead us to this point.
1. If you can find someone who works for a company that doesn't have a professional IT presence... have them tell you all the trouble they have and how much time gets wasted waiting for a consultant.
2. If you are too busy on some days, you should be asking for a part time guy to help out. Record all the crap you run into and your time to see if it's justified.
3. After you record your list, take all the high priority items and point them out. It should be obvious how much business is hurt when email is down or the payroll computer goes down on payroll day. And then point out the small emergencies. How long can payroll not be able to print before they are stuck working all night? How long can management be without their blackberries?
4. Take into consideration if one of the viruses of yesterday hits your network. We had one at an old company that jumped across shared folders on windows networks. One whole branch office went down completely. How much did that cost the company? (Yeah, they were skimpy on IT budget big time).
5. What other time critical things does your company run up against? Do they deal with bids or deadlines of any type? Could they lose a million dollar deal if your network was down a day?
6. If your company is really being a jerk about this, go ahead and look for a better place to work. Maybe next time practice your people skills up and make sure you are friendly with at least a few managers. In IT you almost always get the chance to meet them... just make sure you aren't an ass to them and do your job well. Usually that helps life out in a company as much as your real work.
I'm pretty sure there are about 100 ways to prevent your kids from watching shows that are rated for language or whatever. What I want is a way to ban commercials for my kids without having to completely turn off the TV. Commercials are WAY more dangerous since they are about real life things that you can buy or do. Drugs, alcohol, sex, self-loathing, junk food... on a TV show is bad enough... but on a commercial that advertises crap you can get at the local fix Dr.'s office or buy at a convenience store is a whole different ballgame. Fuck all these drug advertisements on TV too... who needs that crap on TV? Go to a fucking M.D. or stop smoking if you are sick.
Besides, I don't want my kids nagging me about lame toys. Whatever happened to the cool violent toys of yesteryear? As much as I appreciate cartoons, I'm sick of all the ultra-cutsie stuff.
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You're right... fairly readable.
Right. They avoid electrical shocks because they feel good. You are well on your way to a Nobel prize.
Supposedly Double-Take software is good at "mirroring" one box with another... and then when box1 dies box2 very quickly takes over, stealing the IP, etc. I have the software, but I haven't had the balls or the weekend time to test it for real yet.
I hate UAC with a passion. It's like this... you learn to walk after years of growing and the one common thing throughout your walking days at 2 years old and walking days at 30 years old is that you pick up one foot and move it in front of the other, set it down, repeat. It's effortless after you learn how to do it.
Compare the windows or similar GUI experience. You click or double click on something, and voila you get what you asked for.
Putting in UAC into Windows is like putting tiny little hurdles in front of every flipping step you take when you walk so that you have to concentrate on stepping rather than the rest of your life. It throws off your rhythm, and makes you unlearn everything you learned before... and slows you down.
The passion that people hate UAC with far outweighs any benefit 5% of the population gets 5% of the time. I'm sorry.
As a fan of film first and literature second, I'll disagree. What I would say instead is that books and movies portray things differently because of the medium, and that books are able to strangely do two or three sometimes contradictory things at once.
1. Spoon feed the reader certain critical information while
2. ignoring/blocking out all other information that you don't want your reader to notice.
3. While finally giving the reader the ability to use his imagination and interpretation more so than something more concrete like a picture or video. (Think of a court case or a news report that has a written explanation of a police officer attacking an individual. Now think of a start to finish video. Which one provides better actual information? Which one allows more interpretation?)
In a movie, aka moving pictures, you are immersed in a picture (worth a thousand words) multiplied by what, a million or so? There are so many details that no group of individuals can easily reign in all that information to give you exactly precisely what a book can.
Regardless, some movies are great and some books are great. If anything... watch the movie before you read (or reread) the damn book! Then you can enjoy it more.
Gattaca and all the rest played it out pretty well. Supposed super humans vs the rest of us. The only thing that gives me satisfaction is that we'll not know enough about genes and the dependencies to really pick and choose wisely for hundreds of years... and in the meantime people will be picking things they think sound good only to also accidentally weed out some of the harder to pinpoint genetics (smarts, creativity, humanitarianism). Think all the funky dog breeds. So eventually we'll have a breed of human with bugged out eyes and a nervous disorder. But hey, they'll be blonde and blue-eyed or muscular and tall or resistant to colds but can't fight cancer or something.
What I'm trying to find is whether VMWare plays nice with terminal services/Xenn App server/Presentation server/Citrix Metaframe/whatever they are calling it this year. According to this link, the Citrix people of course optimize for that type of server:
http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/simoncr/2009/02/23/Free%2C+as+in+Virtual+Infrastructure
I have two Citrix servers that I would love to virtualize, but I've always heard nightmares with VMware or anything else. But other than that, I'm a VMware fan.
Well, the biometrics devices just have to get smarter. How about a 3-d picture of your face, so that photos won't work? How about you get older and the device is so sensitive it looks for the new wrinkles every year? How about the device that reads your thumbprint require a couple of skin particles that holds your DNA?
To say once they have your photo it's over is a little short sighted, in my opinion. A bitch in the short run, yes, but as everybody is saying... the multi-tired approach is the only way to go if you are serious.
Actually, biometrics are considered better for security than passwords according to the CISSP book. Worse than that, passwords are considered THE worst for security. But they are the cheapest and most easily implemented, which is why everybody uses them. And for a so called "strong" authentication, you need at least two ways to authenticate. Like a password and a thumbprint reader.
Here's a link says basically the same thing:
http://books.google.com/books?id=tiKZ-0ssRvsC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=password+weakest+biometrics+strong+authentication+cissp&source=web&ots=mgkUBK1p92&sig=n41Qz_zoAKjKT0CdZq2KOIhYIJw&hl=en&ei=x4ebSfP4DuH8tge0mITqBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result
according to google: ... most commonly used authentication mechanisms, they are also considered one of the weakest ..."
"It is important the passwords are strong and properly managed.
Be paranoid. Don't name things with real names if they ever touch the internet! Put your neighbor's name on there if you don't like him, then go visit the cracker sites.
I think he/she was going to say mars isn't a solar system. But the poster clearly meant "from the solar system". Or maybe the 2nd post was going to say "Death Star" had a space and was an illegal name. The world may never know.
No kidding? Well damn it, they need to start making paper the old and better way again so we can keep some of this stuff around!
For some reason this topic has been on my mind lately. It's so true that paper is about the best way to preserve information. I hope a few libraries are printing out all the good stuff. But what about all the stuff that is going video now? Kinda freaky. And then again, what about all the TV and movie stock over all the decades that will be lost? Some of that stuff is really good... kinda worrisome isn't it? I mean, past human civilization isn't the most important thing ever. But some of it is pretty cool. And for nothing else, our offspring need to know a little history so they don't get stepped on by the rich and annoying.
I probably wouldn't last long at my current house. But first thing I'd do is pack up to move in with the folks back home.
And as far as too many people for the land to support, well that's true. If you don't eat other people. I figure the highly populated areas, the cities, will take care of thinning out the population just fine. And country folk have lots of guns... like lots... to defend themselves.
Well, I had my fair share of parties and clubbing at certain points in my college life. But by far my best social experiences were at the (I'm not even joking) arcade. All my best friends were met either in an arcade or as a friend of an arcade friend. Too bad they are dead nowadays. LAN parties were the shit too.
I agree with the easy to learn, hard to master. I'll add to that, multi-player usually helps a LOT... due to replayability and increasing the "hard to master" aspect, since there is another active human right there with you increasing his/her skills. Obvious choices:
Street Fighter 2, etc.
Warcraft2/StarCraft
Doom/Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc.
To be blunt, the summary of the article just sounds like more of the trend to make games easier for the newbs. Since I have less time for gaming, I don't hate this as much as I did. But I also find myself going back and playing 10 and 15 year old games more and more. Thank god for the classics. By the way, if you like street fighter and own the ROMs (I'm no legal expert, but I wonder if you bought it on 3 different systems if that means you own the ROMs?), try out GGPO. The net code is AMAZING and makes it almost perfect as if you are playing in the same room. I still don't know how they do it.
It's easy to imagine that the reason octopuses respond "randomly" when the screen is employed is due to something unrelated to personality, such as them "testing" this new situation to see what response they should evoke to bring back the crab. If she's not rewarding them with the crab after a specific action, they just keep trying different things randomly hoping it will come back. If that is indeed what they are doing, I'd say they gain another point in the smart score even if it were more instinct that conscious thought that would cause that behavior.
What? Won't be in the final? Come on now... that's way too basic to making excuses for.
I'm not sure if it is fair or not, but if you get Gold Support with Dell, you can usually skip at least a decent portion of the "don't want to send a tech out" people. There is still some red tape, but way way less.
And go figure, it costs money because it pays someone's salary in the US who is actually a knowledgeable "computer person", not a voice on the phone.
My gold support has always been with the server guys, so ymmv.
I am not up on all theories relative to the situation, but isn't the ability of life to exist kind of the same as the ability of anything to exist? It just seems like common sense, no religion or anti-religion sentiment here. I mean, just common sense logic. If you haven't seen life come about, it is just too much for your mind to wrap around.
Anything that is, came to be by all the random and not so random processes that shape anything. A complex con where you don't see it coming demonstrates the effect... sort of. OK, big long terrible example to follow.
Take rock X that you found on the beach. It is a complex shape, let's call it shape B. Now you draw an accurate drawing of the rock.
Then you hide the rock in your pocket and go up to a 6 year old. Show the 6 year old the picture, tell him it was randomly drawn by a friend standing a few feet away, point out all the various intricate details of the rock... a hole here... a scratch there. Then bet the kid his lunch money that you can find a rock like that on the exact beach you are on. He'll take your bet, and when you take the rock out of your pocket he'll say you cheated! From his naive perspective you had no chance of finding a rock of shape B on that beach or even the planet. But the rock of course did in fact exist... you just made it seem like you didn't know it exists.
Same thing for life! It's complex, it seems impossible to have been made, it seems unlikely it'd happen here, and it seems very mystical from a naive perspective that hasn't actually witnessed all the events leading to that situation/state. But, religion and creation aside, it is just the manifestation of all the events that lead us to this point.
Nothing is worse than satellite internet. I'll gladly sign all my family up who live in the boondocks.
Somebody mod this guy up. The smartest thing MS ever did was buy Sysinternals... those guys know what they are doing.
1. If you can find someone who works for a company that doesn't have a professional IT presence... have them tell you all the trouble they have and how much time gets wasted waiting for a consultant.
2. If you are too busy on some days, you should be asking for a part time guy to help out. Record all the crap you run into and your time to see if it's justified.
3. After you record your list, take all the high priority items and point them out. It should be obvious how much business is hurt when email is down or the payroll computer goes down on payroll day. And then point out the small emergencies. How long can payroll not be able to print before they are stuck working all night? How long can management be without their blackberries?
4. Take into consideration if one of the viruses of yesterday hits your network. We had one at an old company that jumped across shared folders on windows networks. One whole branch office went down completely. How much did that cost the company? (Yeah, they were skimpy on IT budget big time).
5. What other time critical things does your company run up against? Do they deal with bids or deadlines of any type? Could they lose a million dollar deal if your network was down a day?
6. If your company is really being a jerk about this, go ahead and look for a better place to work. Maybe next time practice your people skills up and make sure you are friendly with at least a few managers. In IT you almost always get the chance to meet them... just make sure you aren't an ass to them and do your job well. Usually that helps life out in a company as much as your real work.
I'm pretty sure there are about 100 ways to prevent your kids from watching shows that are rated for language or whatever. What I want is a way to ban commercials for my kids without having to completely turn off the TV. Commercials are WAY more dangerous since they are about real life things that you can buy or do. Drugs, alcohol, sex, self-loathing, junk food... on a TV show is bad enough... but on a commercial that advertises crap you can get at the local fix Dr.'s office or buy at a convenience store is a whole different ballgame. Fuck all these drug advertisements on TV too... who needs that crap on TV? Go to a fucking M.D. or stop smoking if you are sick.
Besides, I don't want my kids nagging me about lame toys. Whatever happened to the cool violent toys of yesteryear? As much as I appreciate cartoons, I'm sick of all the ultra-cutsie stuff.