I can re-image 60 in a day myself if I stop and talk to people, screw around throwing nerf darts, and riding the electric moped around the office looking for cold pizza.. more if I had more USB sticks or time to make more Boot CD's. I think the network here will eat it's self if I try to re-image 200 or more, the Image server is only 100Bt.
Pop in CD or USB drive, reboot, click yes, go to next one, repeat, go to next one, repeat. DO about 10 go back and walk past them to make sure everything is running, start at 11, repeat.... Really easy. I did 800 machines in a weekend with a team of 5 working 24/7 upgrading from Windows 2000 to XP. It's really easy if the IT department is competent and prepared. Hell even using commercial apps like Deploy center this is really easy. we used a simple linux based setup. I used to have a fully scripted XP install CD, that took a month to craft but would install right on 30 different hardware variations automatically.
WEll unless your IT director is a complete tool that buys a mish mash of gear only 3-4 at a time. 100 dell laptops now 5 are the same model, 30 HP laptops, 20 acers, 60 different desktops. an then he shows up with a batch of new Desktops that he bought at Staples.... Then you are completely hosed. Hopefully the IT director had a clue and they have some semblance of uniformity. Even with 800 machines if there is only 80 different images it's easy to pick the right image file on the server.
That requires skilled IT workers. Hell I can build a linux boot CD or USB drive that will boot up, mount the NTFS partition and copy all *.doc, *.xls, *.ppt, etc files to a waiting fileserver. You could recover all the data on 800 machine in one weekend. add in a simple prompt to ask for the pc name or username for that user and no need to even sort through the files.
Heck if you did your imaging right, the same disk can also start the reimage of the drive from the image repository on the network so It's all automatic. 8 IT grunts and 1 admin working a really long weekend, 2, 12 hour shifts each day.
You got it. it's also a great example of how incompetent most City's IT staff are, Hey municipalities... you get what you pay for. How's those $25,000 a year IT staff working out for ya?
at those speeds, hydrogen buildup is the least of your worries. One speck of sand will rip through all your shielding, the hull, all the contents, and blow out the rear of the craft and still sit there going "huh? What was that?" It's why one of the most realistic space weapons would be a sandcaster. Simply get in the path of your target and shoot out sand. They will not be able to detect it, AND it will shred even a ship with 100mm thick titanium hulls.
we can also ignore the fact that the Parts worked perfectly, it's the SOFTWARE that was screwed up. That was made by Toyota, tested by toyota, and Approved by toyota.
As to the GP, GM "pieces of shit' are mostly china parts assembled in mexico or Canada. You cant buy an American car anymore. They dont exist.
You know until we fix the relativity thing, I think we need to just ignore all the other silly problems of near light travel.
Hell that pesky E=Mc2 formula makes even getting to 1/2 the speed of light a massive pain in the ass.
Scientific though experiments are fun and all, but I'd rather they figure out a propulsion system that can generate enough power to get a 1 person spacecraft hit 1/4 the speed of light without needing nearly the energy of an entire planet.
"I'm on the return trip, let's suck up jupiter so we can make it home before supper."
Honestly, MythTV as a frontend sucks. I use it as a backend recorder ONLY and use xbmc for the frontends elsewhere in the house. Far better media management and a UI that is actually spouse friendly.
I so wish the guys making mythtv would abandon their ugly and hard to use frontend and simply write a plugin for XBMC and call it done.
I have a Via C7 motherboard recording HD channels. recording them takes ZERO horsepower. playing them back or transcoding from the huge Mpeg2 stream to a reasonable Mpeg4 is what takes a crapload of horsepower.
Now the HD-PVR you mention is a better solution, BUT does not have a native tuner therefore needs a $10.00 a month rental of a HD cable box to record with. That part sucks. I want a mpeg2 -> H264 encoding card that is linux compatable. I'd love to offload encoding to hardware that is designed to do it.
Problem is my old 3.8ghz P4 with a nvidia 7800 AGP card plays all the games that the quad core monster next to it with a current Nvidia card can. It also rips BluRay and HDDVD disks just as fast as the quad core monster.
Why? most software today is STILL NOT written for multiple cores. the incredibly old P4 I have runs as fast as the new hardware because software still does not take advantage of the extra cores.
DUH, most of us that have been running SMP machines for a long time (My first was a dual processor P-II) have known that the multi-core trend will actually do nothing for computing speeds until software makers pull their heads out of their butts and start using them.
I like the movie for one reason... they actually had a competent sound engineer mixing the surround sound.
Many movies today have incredibly bad surround like they threw it in last minute by offering a sound guy free lunch to assemble the side and rear tracks.
chaotic-neutral? not a chance, pay attention to the storyline, he did some really bad things.
riddick at his heart is a chaotic-evil. He is out for himself and himself alone, they ruined that in the second movie making him into a superhero.
He is a ruthless killer with street skillz. he NEEDED the others in pitch black to survive. Honestly, if you really look at it, he needed the others as bait for the creatures so he could get to where he wanted to go.
Turning him into a flicking epic hero with save the universe intentions was a spit in the face of the original.
The second movie sucked because they did way too much.
Movie 2 needed to be Riddick being hunted on the Ice planet, movie 3 him at the Prison...... ect...
Honestly, they could have easily made the ice planet part and the prison part movies on their own if they hired decent writers,(and honestly someone who can act) and desired to make something epic.
Now you got it stretched out to a 5 movie string for the low budget level and you get a foaming at the mouth fanbase like Matrix and Harry potter had.
Hollywood has nobody left that has a clue how to make good movies or even a good series of films.
Most 1% er's people see are actually posers. I've been an official photographer for most of the BIG motorcycle events in the eastern half of the USA and real bikers that are real 1%er's are far and few between.. Most of the time you have a 1%er poser. someone that wants to look like a badass but in reality is a big pussy that wants attention. Problem is at Sturgis these posers get their asses kicked by the real 1%ers because they try and pull their bullshit in front of them.
a Real 1%er when you find one will let you know. I've met a few of them, and I steer clear after I buy them a drink and they let me know of who to steer clear of.
So that loser riding his shiny new 2010 harley all leathered up with harley jeans, harley shirt and skull print face mask... He is, in fact, a poser. 1%er's don't have new bikes and dress in all that branded crap at the hardly store.
A real 1%er has a jacket that has road rash on it and looks like he at one time was ran over by a truck, because they typically lead incredibly hard lives. I have almost lost a camera to a 1%er. I gladly handed it over, saying "I'm sorry, here you go".. surprisingly he stopped, asked how to remove the card and threw me the camera back grunting, "NO PICTURES".
You don't screw with a 1%er. In fact I don't even raise my camera in their general direction. After the 6 years of shooting at Sturgis and other big events I can spot them easily.
There are only a few fabs in the world, so anything from a Westinghouse store brand to a Bang and Oluffsen uber-TV will have very similar panels.
Um no. your example comparing Westinghouse to B&O may be accurate as B&O is garbage when it comes to video and their audio stuff is falling out of favor as well, this is NOT the case with know high end lines.
Pioneer Elite plasmas or LCD's are very different from a el-cheapo brand. I've been inside a bunch of different brands and types and yes there are some that are identical except for plastic and label, and there are others that are in fact very different. Panasonic Tv's are far different from Vitzo and other crap brands. Sony as well.
My wife has tried that. She holds a CPA and cant get a job flipping burgers. Why? the "overqualified" bullshit response. They know that the second a real job comes along she will bolt and run. Honestly you have to outright lie to employers today. Hide your experience and education if you might be overqualified.
News flash: They all intentionally suck when there is no direct competition.
The ONLY places I have seen cable not suck is the rare community where there are two cable providers. Most of the time the likes of Comcast search out a franchise agreement with the city to make competition "illegal" or very expensive.
Feed aggregator? just use yahoo pipes and create a custom one.
That's what I did, I simply filter my own facebook feed to give me friends feeds, as well as twitter and the like. works great and I have 100% control.
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I can re-image 60 in a day myself if I stop and talk to people, screw around throwing nerf darts, and riding the electric moped around the office looking for cold pizza.. more if I had more USB sticks or time to make more Boot CD's. I think the network here will eat it's self if I try to re-image 200 or more, the Image server is only 100Bt.
Pop in CD or USB drive, reboot, click yes, go to next one, repeat, go to next one, repeat. DO about 10 go back and walk past them to make sure everything is running, start at 11, repeat.... Really easy. I did 800 machines in a weekend with a team of 5 working 24/7 upgrading from Windows 2000 to XP. It's really easy if the IT department is competent and prepared. Hell even using commercial apps like Deploy center this is really easy. we used a simple linux based setup. I used to have a fully scripted XP install CD, that took a month to craft but would install right on 30 different hardware variations automatically.
WEll unless your IT director is a complete tool that buys a mish mash of gear only 3-4 at a time.
100 dell laptops now 5 are the same model, 30 HP laptops, 20 acers, 60 different desktops. an then he shows up with a batch of new Desktops that he bought at Staples.... Then you are completely hosed. Hopefully the IT director had a clue and they have some semblance of uniformity. Even with 800 machines if there is only 80 different images it's easy to pick the right image file on the server.
That requires skilled IT workers. Hell I can build a linux boot CD or USB drive that will boot up, mount the NTFS partition and copy all *.doc, *.xls, *.ppt, etc files to a waiting fileserver. You could recover all the data on 800 machine in one weekend. add in a simple prompt to ask for the pc name or username for that user and no need to even sort through the files.
Heck if you did your imaging right, the same disk can also start the reimage of the drive from the image repository on the network so It's all automatic. 8 IT grunts and 1 admin working a really long weekend, 2, 12 hour shifts each day.
You got it. it's also a great example of how incompetent most City's IT staff are, Hey municipalities... you get what you pay for. How's those $25,000 a year IT staff working out for ya?
at those speeds, hydrogen buildup is the least of your worries. One speck of sand will rip through all your shielding, the hull, all the contents, and blow out the rear of the craft and still sit there going "huh? What was that?" It's why one of the most realistic space weapons would be a sandcaster. Simply get in the path of your target and shoot out sand. They will not be able to detect it, AND it will shred even a ship with 100mm thick titanium hulls.
we can also ignore the fact that the Parts worked perfectly, it's the SOFTWARE that was screwed up. That was made by Toyota, tested by toyota, and Approved by toyota.
As to the GP, GM "pieces of shit' are mostly china parts assembled in mexico or Canada. You cant buy an American car anymore. They dont exist.
You know until we fix the relativity thing, I think we need to just ignore all the other silly problems of near light travel.
Hell that pesky E=Mc2 formula makes even getting to 1/2 the speed of light a massive pain in the ass.
Scientific though experiments are fun and all, but I'd rather they figure out a propulsion system that can generate enough power to get a 1 person spacecraft hit 1/4 the speed of light without needing nearly the energy of an entire planet.
"I'm on the return trip, let's suck up jupiter so we can make it home before supper."
for playback it's worthless for transcoding jobs.
Honestly, MythTV as a frontend sucks. I use it as a backend recorder ONLY and use xbmc for the frontends elsewhere in the house. Far better media management and a UI that is actually spouse friendly.
I so wish the guys making mythtv would abandon their ugly and hard to use frontend and simply write a plugin for XBMC and call it done.
I have a Via C7 motherboard recording HD channels. recording them takes ZERO horsepower. playing them back or transcoding from the huge Mpeg2 stream to a reasonable Mpeg4 is what takes a crapload of horsepower.
Now the HD-PVR you mention is a better solution, BUT does not have a native tuner therefore needs a $10.00 a month rental of a HD cable box to record with. That part sucks.
I want a mpeg2 -> H264 encoding card that is linux compatable. I'd love to offload encoding to hardware that is designed to do it.
Problem is my old 3.8ghz P4 with a nvidia 7800 AGP card plays all the games that the quad core monster next to it with a current Nvidia card can. It also rips BluRay and HDDVD disks just as fast as the quad core monster.
Why? most software today is STILL NOT written for multiple cores. the incredibly old P4 I have runs as fast as the new hardware because software still does not take advantage of the extra cores.
DUH, most of us that have been running SMP machines for a long time (My first was a dual processor P-II) have known that the multi-core trend will actually do nothing for computing speeds until software makers pull their heads out of their butts and start using them.
I like the movie for one reason... they actually had a competent sound engineer mixing the surround sound.
Many movies today have incredibly bad surround like they threw it in last minute by offering a sound guy free lunch to assemble the side and rear tracks.
chaotic-neutral? not a chance, pay attention to the storyline, he did some really bad things.
riddick at his heart is a chaotic-evil. He is out for himself and himself alone, they ruined that in the second movie making him into a superhero.
He is a ruthless killer with street skillz. he NEEDED the others in pitch black to survive. Honestly, if you really look at it, he needed the others as bait for the creatures so he could get to where he wanted to go.
Turning him into a flicking epic hero with save the universe intentions was a spit in the face of the original.
The second movie sucked because they did way too much.
Movie 2 needed to be Riddick being hunted on the Ice planet, movie 3 him at the Prison...... ect...
Honestly, they could have easily made the ice planet part and the prison part movies on their own if they hired decent writers,(and honestly someone who can act) and desired to make something epic.
Now you got it stretched out to a 5 movie string for the low budget level and you get a foaming at the mouth fanbase like Matrix and Harry potter had.
Hollywood has nobody left that has a clue how to make good movies or even a good series of films.
Most 1% er's people see are actually posers. I've been an official photographer for most of the BIG motorcycle events in the eastern half of the USA and real bikers that are real 1%er's are far and few between.. Most of the time you have a 1%er poser. someone that wants to look like a badass but in reality is a big pussy that wants attention. Problem is at Sturgis these posers get their asses kicked by the real 1%ers because they try and pull their bullshit in front of them.
a Real 1%er when you find one will let you know. I've met a few of them, and I steer clear after I buy them a drink and they let me know of who to steer clear of.
So that loser riding his shiny new 2010 harley all leathered up with harley jeans, harley shirt and skull print face mask... He is, in fact, a poser. 1%er's don't have new bikes and dress in all that branded crap at the hardly store.
A real 1%er has a jacket that has road rash on it and looks like he at one time was ran over by a truck, because they typically lead incredibly hard lives. I have almost lost a camera to a 1%er. I gladly handed it over, saying "I'm sorry, here you go".. surprisingly he stopped, asked how to remove the card and threw me the camera back grunting, "NO PICTURES".
You don't screw with a 1%er. In fact I don't even raise my camera in their general direction. After the 6 years of shooting at Sturgis and other big events I can spot them easily.
Furries biker gangs?
Holy crap Australians are kinky!
It's a requirement for aussie politicians.
I believe it's a part of their constitution.
There's an app for that.
I'm anti flash sucking up all my processor.
Come on, they can fix the resource hog that flash has become, they choose not to.
Most people turn off swap on Flash drives.
There are only a few fabs in the world, so anything from a Westinghouse store brand to a Bang and Oluffsen uber-TV will have very similar panels.
Um no. your example comparing Westinghouse to B&O may be accurate as B&O is garbage when it comes to video and their audio stuff is falling out of favor as well, this is NOT the case with know high end lines.
Pioneer Elite plasmas or LCD's are very different from a el-cheapo brand. I've been inside a bunch of different brands and types and yes there are some that are identical except for plastic and label, and there are others that are in fact very different. Panasonic Tv's are far different from Vitzo and other crap brands. Sony as well.
My wife has tried that. She holds a CPA and cant get a job flipping burgers. Why? the "overqualified" bullshit response. They know that the second a real job comes along she will bolt and run. Honestly you have to outright lie to employers today. Hide your experience and education if you might be overqualified.
Yet the scumbags at AIG and the financial institutions robbed most americans blind and they were given end of the year bonuses!
Because most of their areas they are a monopoly.
your choice is Nothing or Comcast, pick one.
Ohhh, AOL dialup is still available! or you can get $299.00 a month dsl speeds with 600ms latency with satellite broadband....
Comcast makes most of it's profit from the Porn channels.
I am not making that up. It's the top grossing income stream.
News flash: They all intentionally suck when there is no direct competition.
The ONLY places I have seen cable not suck is the rare community where there are two cable providers. Most of the time the likes of Comcast search out a franchise agreement with the city to make competition "illegal" or very expensive.
Feed aggregator? just use yahoo pipes and create a custom one.
That's what I did, I simply filter my own facebook feed to give me friends feeds, as well as twitter and the like. works great and I have 100% control.