you may find that people have other things on their minds when that amount of shit hits the fan.
Really interesting point that seems to be overlooked. The CEO is concerned about getting everything back up and running (since statistically they have no heart or pulse), but the employees are more concerned about finding family members in the wreckage of their house, cleanup, watching the kids cause schools are shut down, etc..
Whatever you do, ensure it is automated as possible, and please, please, please don't forget to test. I've heard to many stories about everything looking okay, until the emergency generator runs for several hours, vibrating a connection loose and causing it to shut down. It would pass the test run every month, that was only 15 min long. "Hmm, power is out, and power poles are blown all over the streets, do I stay safely inside? Or do I brave a trip across town to try to flip a switch for my wonderful employer?"
Oh and do you have handhelds to sync? Guess what product you have to buy to sync them to Zimbra? You guessed it, Microsoft Outlook! (and Zimbra charges an extra license fee for that too).
I do believe that Zimbra includes a SyncML server, which should enable you to sync your calendar/events/contacts from anywhere you can reach the server over the internet. I have seen great SyncML clients from Synthesis, and there are several free-beer and/or free-speech syncML clients for PDA's out there..
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I found it pretty simple. They have a pre-configured VMWare image you can download and play with, I found it incredibly handy and quick to play with. Seems pretty promising, but I don't know if I like the "offline client" it is a resource hog.. I would love to see them add a plugin for the thunderbird-sunbird calendar tools.
And when you file for unemployment, and they deny your claim at first because your left voluntarily, and then you file paperwork in response that you left under duress after being ordered by a superior to do something against the law, stuff gets interesting!
Putting two and two together.. wouldn't harnessing the anger make people ANGRIER? There's no such thing as free anger!
You have apparently never met the old guy that lives down the street from me. He has freely gives out anger at any time of the day, Just step on his lawn you damn punk kid!;)
If your janitors are working hard all night long, the execs will come in, see how clean the office always is, and wonder why they have the janitors. They will fire them, (or replace them with cheap idiots) and only after the office turns into a filthy whole will they realize their mistake.
If IT is doing its job right, the normal day-to-day users should almost forget its there! Updates and upgrades are smooth and invisible, problems are fixed proactively, instead of reactively, and people will wonder why the hell were even there, since there is never a problem. And as long as were just sitting around just in case a problem ever happens (which to them never does) why not pay some guy $2.00/hour to babysit the computers/networks.
Just imagine how much your bandages would cost at the drugstore if there were laws that said the drugstore had to give bandages (and all their other drugs) to anyone that asked, and only half of them would bother to pay!
Because if your a school, textbooks now contain multimedia CD-ROMS, that have Macromedia Authorware software that is a version from the good old windows 95 days, when everyone had Admin priveleges (this includes books that were published December of 06!). Try calling a publisher, and asking why the hell their software tries to copy files to %system32% before it runs. They don't understand why it wouldn't work, they work from home, and it works on the XP home machines they developed it with! Or even newer non Authorware software that feels it needs to write to HKLM in the registry, to store its configuration. Hell, I have a textbook CD that installs Apache and Mysql to do the "interactive stuff" that sets up a local web server running on port 80(without checking if it is already used), uses a few hundred MB of ram (lots of page file swapping!), requires IE, not Firefox, and heaven help you if you use a Proxy server (the publisher of the sofware has never used one, or tested with it.. how many schools use proxies!) Sorry about the rant, just had to let it out...;) thank god for deep-freeze
Your T1 is dedicated. A DSL/Cable Modem is shared. You have 1.5Mb all the way up the chain, to the actual peering point (i guess it depends on your contract). Your 6MB Cable modem is shared among your entire neighborhood, and then all the neighborhoods share an outgoing line to the internet. (ie, they might have 45Mb for something like 100 neighborhoods, which to run every block at full speed, would require 600Mb of bandwith.)
No, you don't understand, A blog said that another blog read in an unofficial interview with "someone familiar with apple" that they wouldn't be allowing developers to write code for it. It must be true!
I wouldn't say that myspace is mostly blocked because it has no educational value, I'd say that most schools that block it do it for traffic reasons. Load up your bandwith monitor, and open a few teenager's profiles, with their streaming audio, video, and slideshows. Look how quickly a few pages can fill a 1Mb connection. I admin at a small college, and we don't block anything (and i am against any kind of censorship), but it annoys me that a relatively few students looking at myspace can saturate our connection, depriving our other students looking up things for research, papers, etc of bandwidth. For small schools, bandwidth shaping boxes and more bandwidth are pretty expensive..
I agree, there is one very obvious place where traditional sources fall flat. Go look at Britannica's website, use their search function to do some research on iSCSI. Yep, no results found. Compare to This page that flat out states it needs citations, references, etc, yet is still chock full of good information about the protocol.
Traditional methods of publishing lag by significant time. Want to research the Darfur Crisis, Try to find out about it in the books in your library, oh, wait, none there, I guess we can't write the paper for another 5-10 years till the school board decides to buy new history books, where it Might get a paragraphs mention.
If my modpoints hadn't ran out yesterday, I'd mod you up. Regardless of my opinion on the issue, Slashdot is a place for discussion, not a place for pushing a single side of any topic. I hate seeing people get modded flamebait on controversial issues, or just because the moderator disagrees. Good for you speaking up, way to use those rights that were defended by soldiers..
Screw CA. I live in southern OR. I have watched home prices double here in the last 2 years, cause people sold their 2 bedroom, 1 bath home for $750k and moved up north, where it was cheaper (they could buy a ranch with acreage for that amount here). California caused all their own problems, from massive amounts of interest only loans (the attitude of: I can afford a more expensive place, cause I'm not paying anything towards its balance, i'll just cross my fingers, and hope that interest rates don't go up to where I can't afford the payments anymore, or that I'll sell my home for insane money, cause its always going to increase this much) and the fact that while people were selling homes like crazy, they were buying other homes as "investments" or taking out huge home equity loans to buy nice cars, boats, etc.
Here is the sad part to think about, if your landlord is smart, and bought the place your living in a while ago, and didn't borrow heavily against it, they're making mad money. IE, they borrowed 100k for the house, with a mortgage of $600/month, and the house next door was bought last year for 400k, with a mortgage of $2400/month. They rent the house next door for $2600/month, so your landlord goes with a similar amount, pocketing $2200 a month!
The Trains that amtrak runs from LA to seattle average out to 30MPH. They stop at every stinking town of 500 along the tracks, and have to pull over to let any cargo train go by, since amtrak doesn't own the tracks, the cargo companies do. I would love a Train that could hit 100+MPH, and stay that fast. I hate the restrictions and burdens of flying, and gas prices are a pain in the ass.
NO, CA emissions rules suck. Oregon and Washington are looking at adopting California's Emissions requirements. That would mean several freakish things. Namely, no personal Diesel vehicles. You cannot buy a VW diesel or a Jeep liberty Diesel in CA new. Diesels in the state of CA have to be over a certain weight. That is getting rather outdated. You can buy a 7000lb Hummer that burns gas like no tomorrow, tears up the highways with its weight (and even get a tax credit, since because of its weight, its considered a "business delivery vehicle) but I can't buy a VW that gets 55MPG burning biodiesel.
Actually, they stick with their naming convention of NW Rivers, namely, the Nehalem River in Oregon. Right smack in the Middle (up and down wise) of the state, on the coast. Very near Tillamook, where they make awesome cheese.
For those with limited knowledge or attention spans, (or politicians)
We have 2 choices for every X number of years each Nuclear power plant runs:
(A) Store 10,000 pounds of Spent fuel for 25,000 years safely, taking into account rising sea levels, earthquakes, movement of the earths crust, etc.
(B) Store 15 pounds of Spent fuel for 300 years safely, protect/monitor/gaurd the "recycled" parts, because they could be used to make weapons.
So, for sake of argument, lets say I setup a site with Girls in business suits but no shoes stomping on grapes. That is the subject of the entire site. Its just barefoot ladies, so it shouldn't be porn, right? What if its setup and marketed as a "fetish" site, does that make it porn? What if I also own a winery, and want to use the same site full of pictures for my.com, and.xxx, would this be allowed?
There is an old saying: "A bank never makes a mistake in your favor".
If they screw up, and put someone else's money into your account, (had friends that have had this happen), they yank it right back out. If they screw up and charge you some fees you shouldn't have been charged, you have to bring receipts, statements, (even though they should have them) and spend lots of time getting it corrected.
RIAA: Its not that our music sucks, its cause of PIRATES!
Ford: Its not that our Cars are crap, and expensive, its cause the Japanese imports are utilizing a weak Yen
Sub-Prime loan companies: its not our fault these loosers we gave $500,000 to buy a 2 bedroom house with an interest only loan are defaulting, its the Federal Reserve for raising the interest rates!
Blame is everywhere, its not technology, its the data. The reports he's questioning came from a computer. If "Ted" had tabulated the results, your boss would force 2 other people to double check the data in the report, cause maybe "Ted" screwed up a decimal place somewhere, even though Ted has a masters in statistics.
I agree.. How much Jet fuel is used to Power the heating/AC, Power ports, TV's lights, etc. When they pull a plane to the gate, they hook it up to a power system to keep the AC, lights, etc, running, without wasting fuel. How much could be saved both fuel and electricity at the airports?
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you may find that people have other things on their minds when that amount of shit hits the fan.
Really interesting point that seems to be overlooked. The CEO is concerned about getting everything back up and running (since statistically they have no heart or pulse), but the employees are more concerned about finding family members in the wreckage of their house, cleanup, watching the kids cause schools are shut down, etc..
Whatever you do, ensure it is automated as possible, and please, please, please don't forget to test. I've heard to many stories about everything looking okay, until the emergency generator runs for several hours, vibrating a connection loose and causing it to shut down. It would pass the test run every month, that was only 15 min long. "Hmm, power is out, and power poles are blown all over the streets, do I stay safely inside? Or do I brave a trip across town to try to flip a switch for my wonderful employer?"
Oh and do you have handhelds to sync? Guess what product you have to buy to sync them to Zimbra? You guessed it, Microsoft Outlook! (and Zimbra charges an extra license fee for that too).
I do believe that Zimbra includes a SyncML server, which should enable you to sync your calendar/events/contacts from anywhere you can reach the server over the internet. I have seen great SyncML clients from Synthesis, and there are several free-beer and/or free-speech syncML clients for PDA's out there..
I found it pretty simple. They have a pre-configured VMWare image you can download and play with, I found it incredibly handy and quick to play with. Seems pretty promising, but I don't know if I like the "offline client" it is a resource hog.. I would love to see them add a plugin for the thunderbird-sunbird calendar tools.
And when you file for unemployment, and they deny your claim at first because your left voluntarily, and then you file paperwork in response that you left under duress after being ordered by a superior to do something against the law, stuff gets interesting!
Putting two and two together.. wouldn't harnessing the anger make people ANGRIER? There's no such thing as free anger!
;)
You have apparently never met the old guy that lives down the street from me. He has freely gives out anger at any time of the day, Just step on his lawn you damn punk kid!
If your janitors are working hard all night long, the execs will come in, see how clean the office always is, and wonder why they have the janitors. They will fire them, (or replace them with cheap idiots) and only after the office turns into a filthy whole will they realize their mistake.
If IT is doing its job right, the normal day-to-day users should almost forget its there! Updates and upgrades are smooth and invisible, problems are fixed proactively, instead of reactively, and people will wonder why the hell were even there, since there is never a problem. And as long as were just sitting around just in case a problem ever happens (which to them never does) why not pay some guy $2.00/hour to babysit the computers/networks.
Just imagine how much your bandages would cost at the drugstore if there were laws that said the drugstore had to give bandages (and all their other drugs) to anyone that asked, and only half of them would bother to pay!
Because if your a school, textbooks now contain multimedia CD-ROMS, that have Macromedia Authorware software that is a version from the good old windows 95 days, when everyone had Admin priveleges (this includes books that were published December of 06!). Try calling a publisher, and asking why the hell their software tries to copy files to %system32% before it runs. They don't understand why it wouldn't work, they work from home, and it works on the XP home machines they developed it with! Or even newer non Authorware software that feels it needs to write to HKLM in the registry, to store its configuration. Hell, I have a textbook CD that installs Apache and Mysql to do the "interactive stuff" that sets up a local web server running on port 80(without checking if it is already used), uses a few hundred MB of ram (lots of page file swapping!), requires IE, not Firefox, and heaven help you if you use a Proxy server (the publisher of the sofware has never used one, or tested with it.. how many schools use proxies!) Sorry about the rant, just had to let it out... ;) thank god for deep-freeze
I used to hear that expression all the time, never do anymore
Wow, Tubes, in a conversation about internet bandwidth, in a way that is completely unlike the stupid lame slashdot joke..
If I had mod points, I'd give them to you!
Your T1 is dedicated. A DSL/Cable Modem is shared. You have 1.5Mb all the way up the chain, to the actual peering point (i guess it depends on your contract). Your 6MB Cable modem is shared among your entire neighborhood, and then all the neighborhoods share an outgoing line to the internet. (ie, they might have 45Mb for something like 100 neighborhoods, which to run every block at full speed, would require 600Mb of bandwith.)
No, you don't understand, A blog said that another blog read in an unofficial interview with "someone familiar with apple" that they wouldn't be allowing developers to write code for it. It must be true!
I wouldn't say that myspace is mostly blocked because it has no educational value, I'd say that most schools that block it do it for traffic reasons. Load up your bandwith monitor, and open a few teenager's profiles, with their streaming audio, video, and slideshows. Look how quickly a few pages can fill a 1Mb connection. I admin at a small college, and we don't block anything (and i am against any kind of censorship), but it annoys me that a relatively few students looking at myspace can saturate our connection, depriving our other students looking up things for research, papers, etc of bandwidth. For small schools, bandwidth shaping boxes and more bandwidth are pretty expensive..
I agree, there is one very obvious place where traditional sources fall flat. Go look at Britannica's website, use their search function to do some research on iSCSI. Yep, no results found. Compare to This page that flat out states it needs citations, references, etc, yet is still chock full of good information about the protocol.
Traditional methods of publishing lag by significant time. Want to research the Darfur Crisis, Try to find out about it in the books in your library, oh, wait, none there, I guess we can't write the paper for another 5-10 years till the school board decides to buy new history books, where it Might get a paragraphs mention.
If my modpoints hadn't ran out yesterday, I'd mod you up. Regardless of my opinion on the issue, Slashdot is a place for discussion, not a place for pushing a single side of any topic. I hate seeing people get modded flamebait on controversial issues, or just because the moderator disagrees. Good for you speaking up, way to use those rights that were defended by soldiers..
Screw CA. I live in southern OR. I have watched home prices double here in the last 2 years, cause people sold their 2 bedroom, 1 bath home for $750k and moved up north, where it was cheaper (they could buy a ranch with acreage for that amount here). California caused all their own problems, from massive amounts of interest only loans (the attitude of: I can afford a more expensive place, cause I'm not paying anything towards its balance, i'll just cross my fingers, and hope that interest rates don't go up to where I can't afford the payments anymore, or that I'll sell my home for insane money, cause its always going to increase this much) and the fact that while people were selling homes like crazy, they were buying other homes as "investments" or taking out huge home equity loans to buy nice cars, boats, etc.
Here is the sad part to think about, if your landlord is smart, and bought the place your living in a while ago, and didn't borrow heavily against it, they're making mad money. IE, they borrowed 100k for the house, with a mortgage of $600/month, and the house next door was bought last year for 400k, with a mortgage of $2400/month. They rent the house next door for $2600/month, so your landlord goes with a similar amount, pocketing $2200 a month!
The Trains that amtrak runs from LA to seattle average out to 30MPH. They stop at every stinking town of 500 along the tracks, and have to pull over to let any cargo train go by, since amtrak doesn't own the tracks, the cargo companies do. I would love a Train that could hit 100+MPH, and stay that fast. I hate the restrictions and burdens of flying, and gas prices are a pain in the ass.
Why? After all, the geek campaign to convince people to not use the word "HACKER" to mean a malicious computer attacker was so successful, right?
Sorry, couldn't resist!
NO, CA emissions rules suck. Oregon and Washington are looking at adopting California's Emissions requirements. That would mean several freakish things. Namely, no personal Diesel vehicles. You cannot buy a VW diesel or a Jeep liberty Diesel in CA new. Diesels in the state of CA have to be over a certain weight. That is getting rather outdated. You can buy a 7000lb Hummer that burns gas like no tomorrow, tears up the highways with its weight (and even get a tax credit, since because of its weight, its considered a "business delivery vehicle) but I can't buy a VW that gets 55MPG burning biodiesel.
Actually, they stick with their naming convention of NW Rivers, namely, the Nehalem River in Oregon. Right smack in the Middle (up and down wise) of the state, on the coast. Very near Tillamook, where they make awesome cheese.
For those with limited knowledge or attention spans, (or politicians)
We have 2 choices for every X number of years each Nuclear power plant runs:
(A) Store 10,000 pounds of Spent fuel for 25,000 years safely, taking into account rising sea levels, earthquakes, movement of the earths crust, etc.
(B) Store 15 pounds of Spent fuel for 300 years safely, protect/monitor/gaurd the "recycled" parts, because they could be used to make weapons.
Our government has chosen (A)
So, for sake of argument, lets say I setup a site with Girls in business suits but no shoes stomping on grapes. That is the subject of the entire site. Its just barefoot ladies, so it shouldn't be porn, right? What if its setup and marketed as a "fetish" site, does that make it porn? What if I also own a winery, and want to use the same site full of pictures for my .com, and .xxx, would this be allowed?
There is an old saying: "A bank never makes a mistake in your favor".
If they screw up, and put someone else's money into your account, (had friends that have had this happen), they yank it right back out. If they screw up and charge you some fees you shouldn't have been charged, you have to bring receipts, statements, (even though they should have them) and spend lots of time getting it corrected.
RIAA: Its not that our music sucks, its cause of PIRATES!
Ford: Its not that our Cars are crap, and expensive, its cause the Japanese imports are utilizing a weak Yen
Sub-Prime loan companies: its not our fault these loosers we gave $500,000 to buy a 2 bedroom house with an interest only loan are defaulting, its the Federal Reserve for raising the interest rates!
Blame is everywhere, its not technology, its the data. The reports he's questioning came from a computer. If "Ted" had tabulated the results, your boss would force 2 other people to double check the data in the report, cause maybe "Ted" screwed up a decimal place somewhere, even though Ted has a masters in statistics.
I agree.. How much Jet fuel is used to Power the heating/AC, Power ports, TV's lights, etc. When they pull a plane to the gate, they hook it up to a power system to keep the AC, lights, etc, running, without wasting fuel. How much could be saved both fuel and electricity at the airports?