I said that myself once. "Anything with that much hype can't possibly be any good." Except that then someone whose opinion I respected convinced me to read the first book, and I was hooked. They really are good books, hype notwithstanding.
So does anyone have any mirrors of this software? Unlike similar past situations, it would appear that it was removed from the main site before the big splash; but you'd think some other Aibo owner may have copies....
I bought a Belkin 2 port unit a long while back. It required a wall wart (which sucked) and would periodically get hosed/stuck, which required a power cycle (aka pull it out and plug it in).
I decided I needed a 4 port, and decided not to go with the Belkin next up unit (for price as well as the problems with the 2 port). Browsing Fry's, I found a LinkSys 4 port self-powered (from keyboard power, and since one of my machines is never off except in a power outage, it stays on all the time) that had a good price (under or close to $200, and this was somewhere around or over a year ago) that works great.
It does have the cabling mess drawback; it's kind of flat lozenge shaped and has 2 system port sets on each side and the master ports out the back. But I haven't had any serious problems with it (any time I've gotten "no keyboard" it's been when I've switched right at the wrong moment in a boot). And it supports keyboard shortcuts to switch, so I don't even have to reach up to hit the button (maybe that's common now, but I was tired of whacking the button on the Belkin, and I'd only see this feature on "serious" kvm managers in data centers prior to getting this unit).
It's the "4 port compact KVM switch" and I'd recommend it pretty strongly.
That's a laugh. Even if it is a "valid" remove instruction, 9 times out of ten, they claim it's not SPAM because "I requested to be on the list". Since I NEVER request to be on such lists, such obvious misrepresentation of the facts should be actionable in and of itself. Of course no one who could actually do anything about it gives a damn.
Some of us are less interested in all our private email traversing our company networks (where there are typically specific policies in place that say they WILL look through my email) than in having it traversing an ISP's network (where I'm paying them presumably at least in part for privacy). I'm going to have a lot more legal recourse against an ISP for abuse of my private email than against my employer.
(for those who may be suspicious of how "I" can be a machine "elmegil.bradley.edu" in one of those links, that machine was my personal workstation when I worked at Bradley University).
Any chances they could just mount monolithic crystals or something between components? This ought to provide a "standard" reflection, the right surface characteristics would help lock out "stray" light sources, etc. A big chunk of optical material would still be easier to manage than traces....
It's supposed to be called Fibre, because they didn't want people to get hung up on the actual interconnect media. At least that's the story. Note that you can run Fibre Channel over copper lines.
I setup a hotmail account for "elmegil@hotmail.com" (that I do not actually use, so Spammers have fun wasting MS disk space...) that was promptly filled up with SPAM.
I have never seen the name "elmegil" in use in any way by anyone but myself. QED.
But if you saved a copy, you now have a free barcode scanner with no worries. In fact, I'd be REALLY surprised if you couldn't find copies of most of them out there now, given the lack of a threat that D::C now poses.
Funny, Solaris works very similarly to what you describe in your last paragraph. Customer buys server, license for latest copy of Solaris, copy of media. Customer then buys support contract; part of that cost is a "subscription" to new releases of the software, which doesn't have to be purchased outright.
This doesn't seem to address the CIO's concern, which has more to do with not being "forced" to upgrade. For example, if a customer has some obscure bug in Solaris 2.5.1, do you really think that, even if they have a support contract, they're going to be able to get it fixed as promptly as they can with a bug that's in Solaris 8? If it's already been fixed in Solaris 8, it's going to take a Really Big Stick [tm] to get Sun to fix it in 2.5.1 rather than recommending an upgrade--and since the customer has a support contract, the media cost isn't going to be the issue, the cost of actually migrating the OS is.
I can understand their position, but it's 1) not arguing for MS subscription services despite the many claims here that it is and 2) realistically not likely to get very far. It might give some smaller companies bigger sticks than they otherwise would have had, but generally speaking it's still going to take a big stick to get vendors to backport fixes (and there rationally are cases where it's simply impractical for a vendor to do so).
I find it helps to "get it" if you look at the shaft rotating, and only watch the plate from the corner of your eye. This helps make it clear that the plate isn't really "wobbling", it's simply mounted onto the sphere in such a way that when you have rotation along the shaft, the plate appears to wobble. If you took a quarter, punched a hole through it, and glued it onto a pencil at a 30 degree angle or so, rotating the pencil would give the same effect.
So his rotary must produce a lot of torque which
is not usually a characteristic of automotive rotaries, again compare the high revving but relatively slow off the line RX-7
to the big Detroit iron Vettes, Vipers and Mustangs.
Um...last time I checked, I was pretty sure that Rotaries gave MORE torque than a standard piston engine. My parents had a Mazda RX-2 micro wagon that I learned to drive on, with a rotary, and I could crank that baby in nothing flat. Nowhere near what I could get out of the piston engine of an equivalently sized car. Sure, I could have gotten more torque out of a 350 or a 400 in a Nova SS, but that engine was twice as big!
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I said that myself once. "Anything with that much hype can't possibly be any good." Except that then someone whose opinion I respected convinced me to read the first book, and I was hooked. They really are good books, hype notwithstanding.
Anyone?
It can't just be OS's that have IE for them either, because there is an IE for Solaris available.
Sounds to me like ATI's behavior is a response to that, and so is unethical.
I'd say that if you call viruses terrorism, Microsoft is an Accessory to terrorists because they make them SO G*Damn easy.
I decided I needed a 4 port, and decided not to go with the Belkin next up unit (for price as well as the problems with the 2 port). Browsing Fry's, I found a LinkSys 4 port self-powered (from keyboard power, and since one of my machines is never off except in a power outage, it stays on all the time) that had a good price (under or close to $200, and this was somewhere around or over a year ago) that works great.
It does have the cabling mess drawback; it's kind of flat lozenge shaped and has 2 system port sets on each side and the master ports out the back. But I haven't had any serious problems with it (any time I've gotten "no keyboard" it's been when I've switched right at the wrong moment in a boot). And it supports keyboard shortcuts to switch, so I don't even have to reach up to hit the button (maybe that's common now, but I was tired of whacking the button on the Belkin, and I'd only see this feature on "serious" kvm managers in data centers prior to getting this unit).
It's the "4 port compact KVM switch" and I'd recommend it pretty strongly.
pls mod this up. That algorithm is right on the money.
That's a laugh. Even if it is a "valid" remove instruction, 9 times out of ten, they claim it's not SPAM because "I requested to be on the list". Since I NEVER request to be on such lists, such obvious misrepresentation of the facts should be actionable in and of itself. Of course no one who could actually do anything about it gives a damn.
Some of us are less interested in all our private email traversing our company networks (where there are typically specific policies in place that say they WILL look through my email) than in having it traversing an ISP's network (where I'm paying them presumably at least in part for privacy). I'm going to have a lot more legal recourse against an ISP for abuse of my private email than against my employer.
(for those who may be suspicious of how "I" can be a machine "elmegil.bradley.edu" in one of those links, that machine was my personal workstation when I worked at Bradley University).
And guess what! Those are all me. With no reason to assume that they are in any way linked to a hotmail email account....
Any chances they could just mount monolithic crystals or something between components? This ought to provide a "standard" reflection, the right surface characteristics would help lock out "stray" light sources, etc. A big chunk of optical material would still be easier to manage than traces....
It's supposed to be called Fibre, because they didn't want people to get hung up on the actual interconnect media. At least that's the story. Note that you can run Fibre Channel over copper lines.
I setup a hotmail account for "elmegil@hotmail.com" (that I do not actually use, so Spammers have fun wasting MS disk space...) that was promptly filled up with SPAM.
I have never seen the name "elmegil" in use in any way by anyone but myself. QED.
But if you saved a copy, you now have a free barcode scanner with no worries. In fact, I'd be REALLY surprised if you couldn't find copies of most of them out there now, given the lack of a threat that D::C now poses.
I didn't say it was less true for $$$ware than OSS did I?
This doesn't seem to address the CIO's concern, which has more to do with not being "forced" to upgrade. For example, if a customer has some obscure bug in Solaris 2.5.1, do you really think that, even if they have a support contract, they're going to be able to get it fixed as promptly as they can with a bug that's in Solaris 8? If it's already been fixed in Solaris 8, it's going to take a Really Big Stick [tm] to get Sun to fix it in 2.5.1 rather than recommending an upgrade--and since the customer has a support contract, the media cost isn't going to be the issue, the cost of actually migrating the OS is.
I can understand their position, but it's 1) not arguing for MS subscription services despite the many claims here that it is and 2) realistically not likely to get very far. It might give some smaller companies bigger sticks than they otherwise would have had, but generally speaking it's still going to take a big stick to get vendors to backport fixes (and there rationally are cases where it's simply impractical for a vendor to do so).
OSS upgrade is free for media. It is no more free for integration and testing than CSS. And that's where the big costs frequently are.
Simple definitions are always wrong.
You need to get your facts straight. The inhaled cases are in *one* geographic region.
Because without the CTO or CIO's approval and backing, you can't get a damn thing done.
I find it helps to "get it" if you look at the shaft rotating, and only watch the plate from the corner of your eye. This helps make it clear that the plate isn't really "wobbling", it's simply mounted onto the sphere in such a way that when you have rotation along the shaft, the plate appears to wobble. If you took a quarter, punched a hole through it, and glued it onto a pencil at a 30 degree angle or so, rotating the pencil would give the same effect.
Um...last time I checked, I was pretty sure that Rotaries gave MORE torque than a standard piston engine. My parents had a Mazda RX-2 micro wagon that I learned to drive on, with a rotary, and I could crank that baby in nothing flat. Nowhere near what I could get out of the piston engine of an equivalently sized car. Sure, I could have gotten more torque out of a 350 or a 400 in a Nova SS, but that engine was twice as big!
When is our government going to wake up and realize that lying is what gets you into these situations?
well said.