You laugh, but isn't that whole point of Intel? to sell ever more powerful CPU's? If you make powerful graphics cards, who is going to use cores 7 & 8 on the CPU...
Do we need a 1:1 correspondence between women and sexist comments? ie, If 10% of the kernel Developers are Black, do you have to have the evil "N" word in 10% of the posts, in order to make the kernel list full of Racist bastards?
Ummm.. Troll slashdot at -1, and see how many "OMG, A GIRL READS SLASHDOT" posts are there after a gender identifying post, or "OMG, A MARRIED GEEK"... It kinda embarrasses me to see so many who define the stereotype of the geek.
Yes, you should be denied some unemployment for fixing a friends PC on the side. Remember, its your obligation to report taxable income. however, having it completely remove all of your unemployment is silly, this lady the article is about, was being honest, and it backfired on her. But yes, you should certainly claim that income. If you start doing more and more repair work, at what point do you think that you should start reporting the income?
Hell man, the IRS has regulations in place to pay taxes on the value of things you have stolen, since that is income to you!
However, Signed DNS entries will go a long way towards fully verifying that a web site is who they say they are.. which is what 80% of SSL certs are used for anyways..
Was talking to a mechanic at a party one day a few years ago.. I kinda jokingly asked him what he drove.. his reponse was awesome: "I love Ford and Chevy, they both give me guarantee me 40 hours a week of work, but when I get home from spending all day working on cars, I don't want to work on my car, I want to use my car, so I drive a Toyota."
I couldn't better sum up my move to Linux only 3 years ago. (after 5 years of dual booting)
True, but how much more money and brain power does Google have to invest in datacenter design and disaster recovery than your local college?
Seriously.. I worked at one.. All our stuff was on "next day parts" from Dell.. We had a single internet connection to the campus, single linux based sendmail email server, etc.
Granted, I had tapes up the wazoo, and could retrieve any file for the past X years, but downtime is still downtime.
Then you have Google, with multiple sites, multiple connections, replication, Load balancers, etc.
Not only do they have more to invest, but when they call up a vendor and say "we are Google, we have an outage, and we need some things from you" I bet those vendors jump a little faster than when a local school IT guy calls them up..
Also, most ID Software games work on both Linux and Windows. I've been playing "Enemy Terriroty:Quake Wars" for the last 2 years or so on my linux box, and it actually ran faster in linux than it did in windows when I used to Dual boot.
I have never understood that for years, you have been able to create a folder with a space at the end of its name in a script. Try, just try, to delete that folder.. You can't create it in explorer, you can't delete it in explorer.. in fact, the only way to fix that I have found, is hope to god its a long file name, drop to a command prompt, and delete it with "Del folder~1"
Years and years...
Speaking of which, I got to try that in server 2008, and Windows 7.. Its a fun way to use 3 lines of script to really piss off your IT co-workers...
thats more than 10 errors per day... That is excessive, no matter the load they put on their servers, or how many DIMMS there are.. And their memory loads aren't all that excessive in the day of 1U boxes holding 128GB of ram for Virtual Machines...
any exchange/trading house/equity firm/etc that is using Windows is insane IMHO
You mean like an exchange that was the cornerstone of MS's advertisements for 2 years? About how.NET was so scalable, it was used in the exchange, and SQL Server was so wonderful, it was used in the exchange...
Well, it was the cornerstone of advertising until the exchange had a few day long technical outtage a year or so ago.. That left people in the dark, and they had to suspend all trading for a few days.. suddenly, the ads stopped.
Yes, but when the cost of digitally storing it is SIGNIFICANTLY less than storing paper copies of it (facilities, insurance, duplication, manpower, transporting it to and from the warehouse, etc, its kinda being a Dick to charge for reproducing the document.
They store them to meet federal archiving rules, in a way that is most effective for them. After that, the cost of reproduction is essentially zero. Especially when others are offering to host the files for free, and pay the costs of infrastructure and bandwidth for you..
Bonus points for 60's protest song reference. If he read Slashdot (and who knows, maybe he does) Arlo Guthrie would probably dig it...I used up my mod points yesterday darnit!
Its scary when a Tom Cruise movie quote gets rated 3-interesting... Strange things are happening.. We're jolly green giants, walking the earth, with guns!
Even more than the CEO, the members of the board of a corporation are the direct representatives of the shareholders, usually voted in by the shareholders. THey then appoint the CEO.
So, lock up the boardmembers.. Or, force them to give LARGE amounts of stock to their victims, so they can choose new board members..
Or, for the really, really nasty stuff, just revoke the articles of incorporation (or charter or whatever), its tax ID, and its stock, all overnight. The company would completely cease to exist..
I used them for two reasons.. Application Isolation, and Disaster recovery..
Many of the apps we used (hello, Oracle Colaboration suite, looking at you) require really messing with system files to make work decent. This makes other programs very unhappy, so apps like these really need to run on their own box. Since it wasn't disk or CPU intensive, it was easy enough to just stick in a VM, so I could do other things with the server too. Secondly, its kinda nice when you need to restart a machine to fix a problem with a service or application, and you don't have to worry about any other applications or services running on the same machine that might also go down. For instance, our backup software really only ran outside of work hours.. If I needed to reboot the backup server, I did not have to reboot the calendar server (which was really only used during the day) that ran on the same machine, in a different VM.
For Disaster recovery.. If your building goes up in smoke, its nice to know you have backups, however, if you don't have the same exact hardware, loading the applications can be a very, very long process to recover from. With VM's, you abstract away the hardware dependancies... We could technically run our web server on a cheap desktop if we needed to in a disaster.. it would run slow, but it would still run.. This is also helpful when you have a critical app running on an older machine.. its normally a pain to get a new server setup just right, migrate the data over, test the crap out of it, run them both at the same time until you trust the new one, then cut over. With VM's, you get the new machine running Xen, or VMWare, or whatever, copy the VM over, and start it up. Then, you can retire the old machine.
Israel is confident that the US would back it up in any action (indeed, Israeli bombers would need to pass over US controlled airspace to carry out the attacks as I understand it, which would make the US complicit even if it didn't supply military aid beyond the tech and money over previous years)..</p></quote>
Once upon a time, Iraq thought that the US would support its invasion of a little country named Kuwait, because of how much we had supported them with money and weapons in their war against Iran. Heck, they even told our Embassador to Iraq before they invaded...
My office is 90% laptops. (5000 of them). We are obsessive about boot times, because people travel to a client site, then boot up the machine to get to work. When they have to wait 10 minutes to have a usable computer, and they might be going to 2-3 (sometimes more) client sites in a day.. that adds up real quick. But then again, you have to have encryption software, AV software, etc. Its a constant battle.
I worked IT at a college, we had desktops with projectors already, and we went with hitachi Starboard monitors. They were roughly in your budget, but they will last a bit longer, since they don't have to be replaced every few years because they get slow. We had the exact same needs, teaching math in an interactive way, that we could save the teachers lecture notes, and play back later online for students that were home.
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You laugh, but isn't that whole point of Intel? to sell ever more powerful CPU's? If you make powerful graphics cards, who is going to use cores 7 & 8 on the CPU...
Do we need a 1:1 correspondence between women and sexist comments? ie, If 10% of the kernel Developers are Black, do you have to have the evil "N" word in 10% of the posts, in order to make the kernel list full of Racist bastards?
Ummm.. Troll slashdot at -1, and see how many "OMG, A GIRL READS SLASHDOT" posts are there after a gender identifying post, or "OMG, A MARRIED GEEK"... It kinda embarrasses me to see so many who define the stereotype of the geek.
You're unemployed. A friend gives you $20 to help move some furniture. You've now received money and are no longer unemployed.
Yeah...that makes sense...
does it make sense, No
is it the law, Yes. (although I've never heard of a state that didn't pro-rate your unemployment)
Yes, you should be denied some unemployment for fixing a friends PC on the side. Remember, its your obligation to report taxable income. however, having it completely remove all of your unemployment is silly, this lady the article is about, was being honest, and it backfired on her. But yes, you should certainly claim that income. If you start doing more and more repair work, at what point do you think that you should start reporting the income?
Hell man, the IRS has regulations in place to pay taxes on the value of things you have stolen, since that is income to you!
However, Signed DNS entries will go a long way towards fully verifying that a web site is who they say they are.. which is what 80% of SSL certs are used for anyways..
Was talking to a mechanic at a party one day a few years ago.. I kinda jokingly asked him what he drove.. his reponse was awesome:
"I love Ford and Chevy, they both give me guarantee me 40 hours a week of work, but when I get home from spending all day working on cars, I don't want to work on my car, I want to use my car, so I drive a Toyota."
I couldn't better sum up my move to Linux only 3 years ago. (after 5 years of dual booting)
True, but how much more money and brain power does Google have to invest in datacenter design and disaster recovery than your local college?
Seriously.. I worked at one.. All our stuff was on "next day parts" from Dell.. We had a single internet connection to the campus, single linux based sendmail email server, etc.
Granted, I had tapes up the wazoo, and could retrieve any file for the past X years, but downtime is still downtime.
Then you have Google, with multiple sites, multiple connections, replication, Load balancers, etc.
Not only do they have more to invest, but when they call up a vendor and say "we are Google, we have an outage, and we need some things from you" I bet those vendors jump a little faster than when a local school IT guy calls them up..
Also, most ID Software games work on both Linux and Windows. I've been playing "Enemy Terriroty:Quake Wars" for the last 2 years or so on my linux box, and it actually ran faster in linux than it did in windows when I used to Dual boot.
I have never understood that for years, you have been able to create a folder with a space at the end of its name in a script. Try, just try, to delete that folder.. You can't create it in explorer, you can't delete it in explorer.. in fact, the only way to fix that I have found, is hope to god its a long file name, drop to a command prompt, and delete it with "Del folder~1"
Years and years...
Speaking of which, I got to try that in server 2008, and Windows 7.. Its a fun way to use 3 lines of script to really piss off your IT co-workers...
thats more than 10 errors per day... That is excessive, no matter the load they put on their servers, or how many DIMMS there are.. And their memory loads aren't all that excessive in the day of 1U boxes holding 128GB of ram for Virtual Machines...
any exchange/trading house/equity firm/etc that is using Windows is insane IMHO
You mean like an exchange that was the cornerstone of MS's advertisements for 2 years? About how .NET was so scalable, it was used in the exchange, and SQL Server was so wonderful, it was used in the exchange...
Well, it was the cornerstone of advertising until the exchange had a few day long technical outtage a year or so ago.. That left people in the dark, and they had to suspend all trading for a few days.. suddenly, the ads stopped.
Yes, but when the cost of digitally storing it is SIGNIFICANTLY less than storing paper copies of it (facilities, insurance, duplication, manpower, transporting it to and from the warehouse, etc, its kinda being a Dick to charge for reproducing the document.
They store them to meet federal archiving rules, in a way that is most effective for them. After that, the cost of reproduction is essentially zero. Especially when others are offering to host the files for free, and pay the costs of infrastructure and bandwidth for you..
Wow!
Bonus points for 60's protest song reference. If he read Slashdot (and who knows, maybe he does) Arlo Guthrie would probably dig it...I used up my mod points yesterday darnit!
Its scary when a Tom Cruise movie quote gets rated 3-interesting... Strange things are happening.. We're jolly green giants, walking the earth, with guns!
Even more than the CEO, the members of the board of a corporation are the direct representatives of the shareholders, usually voted in by the shareholders. THey then appoint the CEO.
So, lock up the boardmembers.. Or, force them to give LARGE amounts of stock to their victims, so they can choose new board members..
Or, for the really, really nasty stuff, just revoke the articles of incorporation (or charter or whatever), its tax ID, and its stock, all overnight. The company would completely cease to exist..
Is it as cool as having 6000 friends on myspace?
Its like Nuclear Fusion.. The technology of Tomorrow, and always will be!
Even more than that.. I want to see the eyes of the nurse that doesn't know her condition when she checks her blood pressure...
I used them for two reasons.. Application Isolation, and Disaster recovery..
Many of the apps we used (hello, Oracle Colaboration suite, looking at you) require really messing with system files to make work decent. This makes other programs very unhappy, so apps like these really need to run on their own box. Since it wasn't disk or CPU intensive, it was easy enough to just stick in a VM, so I could do other things with the server too. Secondly, its kinda nice when you need to restart a machine to fix a problem with a service or application, and you don't have to worry about any other applications or services running on the same machine that might also go down. For instance, our backup software really only ran outside of work hours.. If I needed to reboot the backup server, I did not have to reboot the calendar server (which was really only used during the day) that ran on the same machine, in a different VM.
For Disaster recovery.. If your building goes up in smoke, its nice to know you have backups, however, if you don't have the same exact hardware, loading the applications can be a very, very long process to recover from. With VM's, you abstract away the hardware dependancies... We could technically run our web server on a cheap desktop if we needed to in a disaster.. it would run slow, but it would still run.. This is also helpful when you have a critical app running on an older machine.. its normally a pain to get a new server setup just right, migrate the data over, test the crap out of it, run them both at the same time until you trust the new one, then cut over. With VM's, you get the new machine running Xen, or VMWare, or whatever, copy the VM over, and start it up. Then, you can retire the old machine.
My office is 90% laptops. (5000 of them). We are obsessive about boot times, because people travel to a client site, then boot up the machine to get to work. When they have to wait 10 minutes to have a usable computer, and they might be going to 2-3 (sometimes more) client sites in a day.. that adds up real quick. But then again, you have to have encryption software, AV software, etc. Its a constant battle.
I worked IT at a college, we had desktops with projectors already, and we went with hitachi Starboard monitors. They were roughly in your budget, but they will last a bit longer, since they don't have to be replaced every few years because they get slow. We had the exact same needs, teaching math in an interactive way, that we could save the teachers lecture notes, and play back later online for students that were home.
There is no replacement for redundancy..
Sorry, I had to add a 3rd one to repeat.. I'm a bit more risk averse than you!
Why go with a huge, multiple 9's datacenter, when you can go the way of google, and have a RAID:
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Datacenters..
Is really better to have 1000 machines in a 5-9's location, or 500 systems each in a 4-9's, with extra cash in hand?