Yeah go ahead and price P-to-V capability in VMWare, last I checked it wasn't in the free ESXi version.
Oh by the way make sure your hardware has Virtualization Support built in or 64-bit OS in the VM is out of the question.
Implementing virtualization in a production environment is not as easy or cheap as a lot of people seem to think.
I have implemented it and don't think it's the right choice for small one-man operation. A large data center absolutely but not the small branch office. Expensive, especially if you need hardware-level redundancy.
I do this kind of thing for a living, upgrading small military sites that support 50-100 users. Most of these sites haven't seen new hardware for several years and have a stand-alone AD. We provide new hardware and bring them into an integrated AD.
Start adding up the costs of VMWare, I know ESXi is free but you very quickly need/want the management tools of VSphere and they ain't cheap, and it is significantly cheaper to use not virtual boxes combining compatible services.
2-4 servers and a small Equallogic SAN can go a long ways towards providing what you need. Less than 50K in hardware and software licenses.
Depending on connectivity and redundancy requirements a DC at each site also providing internal DNS, DHCP and WINS (UGH!!) a mail server with a mail relay at the central office and a File and Print server should do it. VPN appliance (Cisco 5510) to put it all be a firewall at corporate.
I provide a bit more redundancy and security for the military sites but that's the basics.
Lots of companies that have a highly fluid employee population use these payroll debit cards.
My son works for a company owned 7-11 that pays him this way. Each card has an account dedicated to it. Not sure what the benefit from the company perspective is. Probably some kickback on the percentage the card issuing company collects on purchase and maybe ATM fees.
These cards are also probably a handy to pay illegal aliens who can't get bank accounts (just speculating).
So you think 80-90 percent of Garmin's business is consumer level GPS units? I highly doubt that. Garmin was around long before the advent of those boxes you use in your car and will probably survive much longer.
They have the enthusiast market that will plunk down $400 for a water-proof hand-held that will work anywhere in the world, think the middle of Alaska. That market is older than you think.
They have been marketing map databases for longer that you have been alive. That market won't disappear, think Google competitors.
They have the commercial trucking market. They have the marine market.
So no I don't think those shiny little boxes you put in your car equals 90 percent of Garmin.
So what you are saying is even though the backbone providers got government subsidies to increase the backbone bandwidth they failed to do so and now they cannot provide sufficient bandwidth even though they charge me double what I was paying in the modem days.
Call it unlimited, charge me twice the amount and whine I am using too much. How do I get a piece of this action? Sounds like something Uncle Bruno whould like.
Damn right it will be covered. If you never had to deal with the idiot question--What color is that, and that, and that?--you have noooooo idea how stupid you "normals" can be.
It's nice to see someone else that thinks the color purple is a conspiracy that all the "normal" vision carry out on us. I can't tell you how many "purple" shirts my daughter has convinced me to buy. There is no such thing as "purple" it's all a conspiracy.
Only conservative news source?? What are you smoking? MSNBC,CNN, Local news, two-thirds of the local newspapers in America. Oh I see you mean the only news source to the right of the John Birch Society.
Travel a little bit and see just how right-wing most of america really is.
Might be old and outdated but it is worldwide and don't you think users of high-end smartphones are more likely to travel than standard everyday users?
Screw Verizon, you would have to redesign the battery to use them on Verizon. Why not sell them unlocked so I can use it on my ATT GSM network and roam worldwide.
Amen brother, I work as a Government contractor in network design and it is a very bad thing for the company to get caught making employees work unpaid hours.
Or better your company gets bought and that 4 weeks vacation you worked your way up to turns into 3 weeks and magically you are capped at 200 hours on the books.
If us IT guys could get our shit together and have a decent professional society (read union) we might have some negotiating strength. The problem is all of us are convinced that we are better that all the others (All the kids are above average), so we think that a union drags us down to the level of everyone else.
In reality a union might fix the situation where the new guy makes 20% more that the current staff and the only way to get a decent raise is to leave for a new job.
I would have to agree. I liken this to the old saying Windows isn't done until 1-2-3 won't run. Why should a vendor be allowed to deliberately modify software so that another vendors product will not run. I do not believe that the I-tunes UELA says that I have to have an Apple device to use the software.
I recently worked on a government program that had some of the same requirements that you describe. Lockheed-Martin proposed that they create a custom protocol to do this at the cost of about a zillon dollars. Some research turned up SCTP "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol" which is now available in Windows. We were using an implementation for Solaris.
So sue the government because the tornado hits your house. Please explain to me how having analog TV would make the tornado miss your house???
Ever hear of a radio, government even has stations dedicated to telling you to get into the basement. Storm gets bad, funnel cloud forms, head for the basement. not too hard to figure out
Why does one care about how big the pixels are? A larger pixel has more light-gathering area, which means the light signal is stronger over a given interval of time.
This usually results in an improved signal to noise ratio (SNR), which creates a smoother and more detailed image. Furthermore, the dynamic range of the images (range of light to dark which the camera can capture without becoming either black or clipping highlights) also increases with larger pixels. This is because each pixel well can contain more photons before it fills up and becomes completely white.
It doesn't take much heat to generate digital noise and all you need to do is look at the small digital handhelds that have really tiny sensors and very small pixels to see how much more noisy small pixels are.
Light gathering for a digital camera is slightly more complicated. Total light is the speed of the lens but each pixel also has to gather light and the bigger the individual pixel the more light it can gather.
Yeah sure we do until that nice ice storm comes thru and takes them all down. Underground might be expensive to put in but sure saves a hell of a lot of money when you have the kind of weather you get here. Nice to not worry about power outages while new cable and poles are installed.
For once someone that gets the bonus thing. The bonus is tied to working for the company until a certain date, for example, work here for 1 year and receive a specified bonus at the end of the year. The amounts on Wall St. are obscene but are not tied to performance of the company.
Companies use the same thing for contractors to go to Iraq or Afghanistan. You have a base salary and receive a bonus for staying a year or more.
Um, no Cheyenne Mountain is not closed. I would argue that whether or not a public facing site has a current certificate has nothing to do with the security of the rest of the installation.
It might not hurt to contact the WebMaster and bring it to his/her attention, or maybe I will as I currently work in CMAFS.
Check out this site. I walked into the processing facility at Cavalier AFS (aka PAR) and these computers are still running with some of the code originally designed and implemented in 1972. Most of the peripherals have been upgraded but the core is original. In fact they just took the 80-column card reader out of service last year.
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Yeah go ahead and price P-to-V capability in VMWare, last I checked it wasn't in the free ESXi version.
Oh by the way make sure your hardware has Virtualization Support built in or 64-bit OS in the VM is out of the question.
Implementing virtualization in a production environment is not as easy or cheap as a lot of people seem to think.
I have implemented it and don't think it's the right choice for small one-man operation. A large data center absolutely but not the small branch office. Expensive, especially if you need hardware-level redundancy.
This guy has it right.
I do this kind of thing for a living, upgrading small military sites that support 50-100 users. Most of these sites haven't seen new hardware for several years and have a stand-alone AD. We provide new hardware and bring them into an integrated AD.
Start adding up the costs of VMWare, I know ESXi is free but you very quickly need/want the management tools of VSphere and they ain't cheap, and it is significantly cheaper to use not virtual boxes combining compatible services.
2-4 servers and a small Equallogic SAN can go a long ways towards providing what you need. Less than 50K in hardware and software licenses.
Depending on connectivity and redundancy requirements a DC at each site also providing internal DNS, DHCP and WINS (UGH!!) a mail server with a mail relay at the central office and a File and Print server should do it. VPN appliance (Cisco 5510) to put it all be a firewall at corporate.
I provide a bit more redundancy and security for the military sites but that's the basics.
Lots of companies that have a highly fluid employee population use these payroll debit cards.
My son works for a company owned 7-11 that pays him this way. Each card has an account dedicated to it. Not sure what the benefit from the company perspective is. Probably some kickback on the percentage the card issuing company collects on purchase and maybe ATM fees.
These cards are also probably a handy to pay illegal aliens who can't get bank accounts (just speculating).
So you think 80-90 percent of Garmin's business is consumer level GPS units? I highly doubt that. Garmin was around long before the advent of those boxes you use in your car and will probably survive much longer.
They have the enthusiast market that will plunk down $400 for a water-proof hand-held that will work anywhere in the world, think the middle of Alaska. That market is older than you think.
They have been marketing map databases for longer that you have been alive. That market won't disappear, think Google competitors.
They have the commercial trucking market. They have the marine market.
So no I don't think those shiny little boxes you put in your car equals 90 percent of Garmin.
Actually if you are using AD you are using LDAP so any Microsoft shop has to use LDAP
So what you are saying is even though the backbone providers got government subsidies to increase the backbone bandwidth they failed to do so and now they cannot provide sufficient bandwidth even though they charge me double what I was paying in the modem days.
Call it unlimited, charge me twice the amount and whine I am using too much. How do I get a piece of this action? Sounds like something Uncle Bruno whould like.
Damn right it will be covered. If you never had to deal with the idiot question--What color is that, and that, and that?--you have noooooo idea how stupid you "normals" can be.
Right on brother.
And by the way all of you that color-code the pie charts in Powerpoint without patterns, you are the first to go.
It's nice to see someone else that thinks the color purple is a conspiracy that all the "normal" vision carry out on us. I can't tell you how many "purple" shirts my daughter has convinced me to buy. There is no such thing as "purple" it's all a conspiracy.
Only conservative news source?? What are you smoking? MSNBC,CNN, Local news, two-thirds of the local newspapers in America. Oh I see you mean the only news source to the right of the John Birch Society.
Travel a little bit and see just how right-wing most of america really is.
Might be old and outdated but it is worldwide and don't you think users of high-end smartphones are more likely to travel than standard everyday users?
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Screw Verizon, you would have to redesign the battery to use them on Verizon. Why not sell them unlocked so I can use it on my ATT GSM network and roam worldwide.
Amen brother, I work as a Government contractor in network design and it is a very bad thing for the company to get caught making employees work unpaid hours.
Gets them banned from bidding on contracts.
Or better your company gets bought and that 4 weeks vacation you worked your way up to turns into 3 weeks and magically you are capped at 200 hours on the books.
If us IT guys could get our shit together and have a decent professional society (read union) we might have some negotiating strength. The problem is all of us are convinced that we are better that all the others (All the kids are above average), so we think that a union drags us down to the level of everyone else.
In reality a union might fix the situation where the new guy makes 20% more that the current staff and the only way to get a decent raise is to leave for a new job.
I would have to agree. I liken this to the old saying Windows isn't done until 1-2-3 won't run. Why should a vendor be allowed to deliberately modify software so that another vendors product will not run. I do not believe that the I-tunes UELA says that I have to have an Apple device to use the software.
I recently worked on a government program that had some of the same requirements that you describe. Lockheed-Martin proposed that they create a custom protocol to do this at the cost of about a zillon dollars. Some research turned up SCTP "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol" which is now available in Windows. We were using an implementation for Solaris.
So sue the government because the tornado hits your house. Please explain to me how having analog TV would make the tornado miss your house???
Ever hear of a radio, government even has stations dedicated to telling you to get into the basement. Storm gets bad, funnel cloud forms, head for the basement. not too hard to figure out
Why does one care about how big the pixels are? A larger pixel has more light-gathering area, which means the light signal is stronger over a given interval of time.
This usually results in an improved signal to noise ratio (SNR), which creates a smoother and more detailed image. Furthermore, the dynamic range of the images (range of light to dark which the camera can capture without becoming either black or clipping highlights) also increases with larger pixels. This is because each pixel well can contain more photons before it fills up and becomes completely white.
Google is your friend.
It doesn't take much heat to generate digital noise and all you need to do is look at the small digital handhelds that have really tiny sensors and very small pixels to see how much more noisy small pixels are.
Light gathering for a digital camera is slightly more complicated. Total light is the speed of the lens but each pixel also has to gather light and the bigger the individual pixel the more light it can gather.
More pixels in a given area means smaller pixels which means more heat which means more noise in your photo.
Bigger pixels can also get more light into each pixel for better low-light performance.
Yeah sure we do until that nice ice storm comes thru and takes them all down. Underground might be expensive to put in but sure saves a hell of a lot of money when you have the kind of weather you get here. Nice to not worry about power outages while new cable and poles are installed.
For once someone that gets the bonus thing. The bonus is tied to working for the company until a certain date, for example, work here for 1 year and receive a specified bonus at the end of the year. The amounts on Wall St. are obscene but are not tied to performance of the company.
Companies use the same thing for contractors to go to Iraq or Afghanistan. You have a base salary and receive a bonus for staying a year or more.
Um, no Cheyenne Mountain is not closed. I would argue that whether or not a public facing site has a current certificate has nothing to do with the security of the rest of the installation.
It might not hurt to contact the WebMaster and bring it to his/her attention, or maybe I will as I currently work in CMAFS.
Check out this site. I walked into the processing facility at Cavalier AFS (aka PAR) and these computers are still running with some of the code originally designed and implemented in 1972. Most of the peripherals have been upgraded but the core is original. In fact they just took the 80-column card reader out of service last year.
http://srmsc.org/dps1000.html [srmsc.org]