Since it comes as default on the corporate IT build at a lot of companies, which happen to also be sticking to Windows XP. Employees, not wanting the wrath of the BOFH (IT people) stick with what's given to them.
I'm sure if IE8 / IE9 were in the corporate IT build, or IT forced the upgrades more people would be using it as a default browser, unless the person has a preference to any of the other browsers.
Some of the older websites on the company's intranet require that you use Internet Explorer.
Stick with what works but have SOLID network security, that should help most of the time, except when you download bad Mcafee DAT files...
If you stayed late yesterday and got your update for yesterday's dat, at least you won't be affected with the millions of people that were affected when they powered up their systems this morning. By now, they would have disabled automatic DAT update and you'll get to skip this caustic update.
I guess it pays to stay late, or at least arrive late to work!:p
For Cisco equipment you can get the Dynamips emulator. You must provide the Cisco IOS - which must be licensed from Cisco for your use. You can then emulate pretty much the whole range of Cisco switches/routers on your PC. It's pretty good for a small test lab, but I'm not sure for a full production test lab
Is your boss the one doing the programming? Ask him to code to distractions, not PowerPoints and Excel and see what his outcome is.
Anyway, I'd still use the headphones. It's not a grounds for firing at least!
So, this is $60/mo in ADDITION to the voice plan which is probably another $40/mo at least. $100/mo for phone service. AT&T provides this for ~$75/mo on iPhones. I think T-mobile is about $65/mo with the Android G1.
I did this like 6 years ago with my Sony Ericcson T610 and a laptop with bluetooth. Definitely impresses. It was much cooler when everyone didn't have an iPhone or an iPod touch.
How about you sign up for the Open licensing. Buy a ton of computers, donate your old computers at the end of the year (to not increase the number of licenses) and continue on the next year paying the same Open Licensing fee. Do the same thing for year 2 and 3.
This will essentially give you a fixed cost for the licenses over the 3 years - and a few tax breaks i guess. Probably not the most efficient use of capital, but a good way to screw M$ if you are forced to pay for the licenses!
I am currently testing DDR3 1600 ECC and non-ECC DIMMs in my lab, currently not available on the market yet, but direct samples from the vendors. Those Kingston DIMMs actually use Elpida parts, similar to the Crucial memory using Micron parts.
Dell is known to buy the cheapest memory available to them, so the worst vendor could be any vendor at their time of purchase!
In my test environment people have told me, historically Elpida has had the worst margins on their parts.
I'm sure we all disable the POST memory test which pretty much only tests for stuck bits. I agree constant blue-screens can be caused by bad RAM chips, but the likely hood of a bad ram chip reaching and end user consumer is pretty small. Running into a case where that particular RAM module doesn't handle power management correctly is WAY more common, and of course the board design matters a whole lot!
A quick clarification on ECC RAM being "better quality." I do not believe that is true. The only difference between an ECC DIMM and a non-ECC DIMM is the 9th DRAM chip that is on the ECC DIMM.
I also commend the quality of this whole discussion vs the ZDNET discussion where gamers are quarreling over whether a memory error will end up wiping your drive. In theory yes, but the probability is miniscule. We have fault handlers and Machine Check Architecture on our side to prevent it.
The company I work for does make good boards that are tested adequately. We use a multitude of internal and external tools to make sure that logic and electricals are within margin. We work with different DIMM vendors to ensure that our BIOSes work with all vendors. We have even added a DIMM training mechanism to our hardware to ensure the best margin for EACH cold boot.
I do also prefer games with keyboard and depth, unfortunately I have noticed these days that console ports are making it to the PC.
Two examples are Need For Speed Most Wanter & Burnout Paradise.
Burnout Paradise is rediculous... I have no idea how to quit the game, the menu system is horrific. F1 for this, F2 for that, F3 for stats... It is as if i have to power cycle my machine to quit the game...
No I am not willing to give up video gaming, but I will refuse to purchase new games. I'll stick with older games with LAN play or go with the Abandonware games that I haven't tried, or even good ol' emulation
SSDs are more abundant these days. At least they're shockproof;-)
I had an external drive that I used for backup, and I forgot it was connected to my laptop when I yanked my laptop away from the desk:-(
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Wow... I actually have this problem that crept up last week... Went to IT and they had no knowledge of this. Very happy that this article and response to the article was on Slashdot!
Now I can get back to surfing pr0n with no jerkiness!
If Seagate validated the firmware before releasing they would save lots of time wasted on customer issues post-firmware update.
Seagate has been solid, but I think now it had plunged into the water
A simple logic gate as mentioned in the summary would be AND, OR, XOR, NAND, NOR, XNOR, INVERTER.
The positive logic gates (AND, OR, not sure about XOR) take 4 transistors to implement, while the negative logic gates take 2 to implement. The INVERTEr also takes two transistors to implement.
How can 30 atoms replace 14 transistors to create a "simple logic gate" ? To me, it doesn't get simpler than the logic gates mentioned above.
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Now that you've learned how to tie a knot. You have to learn how to virtualize your real life actions probably with the Sailing job on Puzzle Pirates
Since it comes as default on the corporate IT build at a lot of companies, which happen to also be sticking to Windows XP. Employees, not wanting the wrath of the BOFH (IT people) stick with what's given to them.
I'm sure if IE8 / IE9 were in the corporate IT build, or IT forced the upgrades more people would be using it as a default browser, unless the person has a preference to any of the other browsers.
Some of the older websites on the company's intranet require that you use Internet Explorer. Stick with what works but have SOLID network security, that should help most of the time, except when you download bad Mcafee DAT files...
If you stayed late yesterday and got your update for yesterday's dat, at least you won't be affected with the millions of people that were affected when they powered up their systems this morning. By now, they would have disabled automatic DAT update and you'll get to skip this caustic update. I guess it pays to stay late, or at least arrive late to work! :p
Newzbin is not providing material for download, but instead just providing information. Google does the same thing... Clicking the first link on google from the search 'office 2007 download warez' this website showed up:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/11/13/download-microsoft-office-2007-system-enterprise-edition-final-rtm-full-suite-retail-cd-with-bt-torrent/ They're offering Office 2007 as a torrent file
For Cisco equipment you can get the Dynamips emulator. You must provide the Cisco IOS - which must be licensed from Cisco for your use. You can then emulate pretty much the whole range of Cisco switches/routers on your PC. It's pretty good for a small test lab, but I'm not sure for a full production test lab
Is your boss the one doing the programming? Ask him to code to distractions, not PowerPoints and Excel and see what his outcome is. Anyway, I'd still use the headphones. It's not a grounds for firing at least!
So, this is $60/mo in ADDITION to the voice plan which is probably another $40/mo at least. $100/mo for phone service. AT&T provides this for ~$75/mo on iPhones. I think T-mobile is about $65/mo with the Android G1.
Just move into a studio apartment. Problem solved.
LOL, that was great quip
I did this like 6 years ago with my Sony Ericcson T610 and a laptop with bluetooth. Definitely impresses. It was much cooler when everyone didn't have an iPhone or an iPod touch.
How about you sign up for the Open licensing. Buy a ton of computers, donate your old computers at the end of the year (to not increase the number of licenses) and continue on the next year paying the same Open Licensing fee. Do the same thing for year 2 and 3. This will essentially give you a fixed cost for the licenses over the 3 years - and a few tax breaks i guess. Probably not the most efficient use of capital, but a good way to screw M$ if you are forced to pay for the licenses!
I am currently testing DDR3 1600 ECC and non-ECC DIMMs in my lab, currently not available on the market yet, but direct samples from the vendors. Those Kingston DIMMs actually use Elpida parts, similar to the Crucial memory using Micron parts.
Dell is known to buy the cheapest memory available to them, so the worst vendor could be any vendor at their time of purchase! In my test environment people have told me, historically Elpida has had the worst margins on their parts.
I'm sure we all disable the POST memory test which pretty much only tests for stuck bits. I agree constant blue-screens can be caused by bad RAM chips, but the likely hood of a bad ram chip reaching and end user consumer is pretty small. Running into a case where that particular RAM module doesn't handle power management correctly is WAY more common, and of course the board design matters a whole lot!
A quick clarification on ECC RAM being "better quality." I do not believe that is true. The only difference between an ECC DIMM and a non-ECC DIMM is the 9th DRAM chip that is on the ECC DIMM. I also commend the quality of this whole discussion vs the ZDNET discussion where gamers are quarreling over whether a memory error will end up wiping your drive. In theory yes, but the probability is miniscule. We have fault handlers and Machine Check Architecture on our side to prevent it.
The company I work for does make good boards that are tested adequately. We use a multitude of internal and external tools to make sure that logic and electricals are within margin. We work with different DIMM vendors to ensure that our BIOSes work with all vendors. We have even added a DIMM training mechanism to our hardware to ensure the best margin for EACH cold boot.
I do also prefer games with keyboard and depth, unfortunately I have noticed these days that console ports are making it to the PC.
Two examples are Need For Speed Most Wanter & Burnout Paradise.
Burnout Paradise is rediculous... I have no idea how to quit the game, the menu system is horrific. F1 for this, F2 for that, F3 for stats... It is as if i have to power cycle my machine to quit the game...
No I am not willing to give up video gaming, but I will refuse to purchase new games. I'll stick with older games with LAN play or go with the Abandonware games that I haven't tried, or even good ol' emulation
SSDs are more abundant these days. At least they're shockproof ;-)
I had an external drive that I used for backup, and I forgot it was connected to my laptop when I yanked my laptop away from the desk :-(
The Hobbit was one of those games for the C64, but it had graphics so I guess it doesn't count... One game that I played as a kid was: African Adventure: In Search of Dr. Livingston.. http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D4076 About all I can remember is spears being thrown at me!
Wake up america, YOU ARE FREE TO DO AS WE TELL YOU - an excerpt from Adam Freeland's "We Want Your Soul"
Haha... Isn't it 13 Herbs and Spices? How does the game progress if you don't know what the secret herbs and spices are!?
Wow... I actually have this problem that crept up last week... Went to IT and they had no knowledge of this. Very happy that this article and response to the article was on Slashdot! Now I can get back to surfing pr0n with no jerkiness!
If Seagate validated the firmware before releasing they would save lots of time wasted on customer issues post-firmware update. Seagate has been solid, but I think now it had plunged into the water
Here's a map of all the google data center locations... How top secret are they now? I believe the ones in OR/WA are in "The Dalles" which is close to the Bonneville dam? maybe that data center is hydroelectric powered. http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/
A simple logic gate as mentioned in the summary would be AND, OR, XOR, NAND, NOR, XNOR, INVERTER. The positive logic gates (AND, OR, not sure about XOR) take 4 transistors to implement, while the negative logic gates take 2 to implement. The INVERTEr also takes two transistors to implement. How can 30 atoms replace 14 transistors to create a "simple logic gate" ? To me, it doesn't get simpler than the logic gates mentioned above.