Ahh I see you are truly familiar with McKesson's systems.. Slow, buggy, convoluted, stubbornly integrates with other systems (IE Non McKesson systems)
If you think that is fun try getting involved with the sales weasels. Most of the systems run a Unix back end on AS/400 or RS600 so moving to Linux isn't a huge jump for them. I just see this as another move to sell new Hardware and support contracts..
In the end the client side will still be windows..
I manage the spam firewalls where I work and track spam statistics every week,
2 months ago we received 20 million messages pr week and passed about 800,000 as legitimate mail
Last week we saw 41 million and the same 800,000 passed as legitimate messages.. that's 98% spam!!!
to break it down more.. 41 million recieved 32 million rejections on RBL lists 9 million passed onto the spam filters.. 10% of that gets through. This is for 1 week.
We keep seeing spam double every 2 months.. It's gota stop growing at some point right??
I don't think so.. Google maps rocks.. the mobile version is killer if you have a java enabled phone.. If you are on Verizon that means you are screwed since they Hacked out java. Maybe all he's used is yahoo maps on his phone.. Thats about as painful as hacking your arm off with a dull butter knife.. it sucks!
I use my Windows Mobile phone all the time for doing web searches, looking up addresses and all kinda of other stuff.
If the Gphone has a good browser like Mini Mo,GPS, can sync Gmail it'll be good..
If it can't do active sync with exchange over the network it'll never catch on with big business.. Not a huge deal there.. the Iphone is doing quite well without them.
So far these numbers are right on for what we see here at my company. Last year we were running about 80% spam In July 07 we were at 90-92% August-07 we reached 95% Looking at the numbers this morning we hit 96% for the week.
Numbers rounded to the thousands We run a cluster of 4 Eprism 2000 Appliances for inbound mail This week we received 21,490,000 total inbound messages We rejected 15,757,000 on RBL and Block lists 6,591,000 were passed through for spam filtering. 858,000 were passed as clean.
We only saw 200 infected messages because the Firewall is doing virus scanning and drops the packets before they reach the Spam appliances. Without that our overall numbers would be slightly higher.
Sounds like your block numbers are about the same as ours..
We run a 2 layer system with a cluster of St Bernard Eprism 2000 appliances and a software filter on the mailbox servers.
Right now we reject 10 million a week on RBL Another 4.5 million in spam filters We pass about 400,000 as legitimate mail.. Our virus rate is only 400 but the firewall is also doing AV filtering so I don't see what it's catching.
The false positive rate is very low with the Borderware RBL list the Eprism devices use..
I have more false positives on the software based filtering using List.dsbl.org and spamhaus.
The really interesting this is the jump in the RBL blocks in the last 2 weeks.. It jumped from 8 million to 10 million in 4 days.
If anyone is looking to implement RBL's with this kind of volume be sure your DNS servers are up to the job and think about setting up your own RBL servers in house. Slow DNS resolution can cause some big mailfow problems.
The crazy thing is it is hurting businesses but they don't care much. Management kept shooting down out requests for anti-spam appliances until the CEO got some highly offensive spam. Then they came screaming asking why we don't have better anti-spam systems.. Simple.. you keep cutting it out of the budget. Within the week we had PO's signed for new systems.
Now we pay for support on 2 anti spam solutions to have a double layer defense. We get 5 million message a pr week. 90% is spam.. Thats a big chunk of bandwidth Half the support tickets I get each week are either I got spam or the filters ate my mail.
All this adds up to a good chunk of $$.. probably enough to hire 2 more people. Management does not see it as a big issue.. they think the small amount that gets through is "the big problem"
I think once a month we should have spam Friday.. Turn off all the filters for 24 hours so they can get a feel for the true nightmare we hold back for them every day.
You said it.. I got an Oki C5200N color laser 2 years ago for $275 I'm still on the demo toner and I've done lots pf printing. That replaced a HP 4+ laser I got for $20.. I had that for 3 years and NEVER ran out of toner.
My dad's old HP 4p laser will get 3000 pages on a toner cartrige.. Way back I had a Lexmark L10 with a 9500 page HD toner cartrige.. That thing put out some serous heat though.
This is exactly why I quit using inkject a few years ago. I was so pissed off with the cost of ink and the failure rate of the printers. One time I went to get new cartriges for the HP at Target. They had HP printers on clearence for $15. Half the cost of the #$@#$ ink!! Thats was it.. No more ink for me!
I got a kller deal on an Oki C5200n Color laser and put the inkjets on the curb with a litte sign that siad "Free???" Whomever took it spent more than it was worth replacing the ink.
I've had the Oki for 2 years now.. I'm on the original "demo" toner and it's still doing fine. Maybe I don't print enough.. I've gone through about 1500 pages of paper but then kids keep pillaging the peper tray. I don't have a good count of what I've used.
This was exciting and appeared to work much better when I saw it for the first time last year. Check out the Jeff Han video from last year then watch the MS video.. The original is a much smoother interface. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
Yeah MS added some fluff by making it interact with devices placed on top the the basic idea is not some new "Top Secret" project
When Galaxy 4 died it took out 80% of the pagers in the US plus several video feeds used by the major networks (I worked for CBS at the time)
This was 2 years before the 2000 Solar max when solar activity was ramping up. More storms in 2003 took out power in parts of Switzerland and killed 2 Satellites
There were several solar flare warnings around that time.
July 14, 2000 -- This morning NOAA satellites and the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recorded one of the most powerful solar flares of the current solar cycle. Space weather forecasters had been predicting for days that an intense flare might erupt from the large sunspot group 9077, and today one did.
The sixth in an unprecedented series of strong space storms dished out by the Sun over a 10-day period plowed past Earth Thursday, apparently cutting power to 20,000 Swedish customers. The powerful series of outbursts also claimed two satellites as casualties while fueling a host of minor disruptions to radio broadcasts and airline flight plans.
A very intense flux of electrons, evident in the magnetosphere earlier this year, may have caused a satellite failure (or at least exacerbated the situation) leading to the loss of telephone pager service to 45 million customers, research has shown. The electrons, known as highly relativistic electrons (HREs), were especially numerous in the weeks preceding the failure. Researchers say HREs have triggered spacecraft anomalies in the past when fluxes are elevated. They therefore believe this energetic electron event could have been behind the failure of the attitude control system of the Galaxy 4 spacecraft at 2200 UT on May 19, 1998. A backup system also failed, either at the same time or earlier, so operators were unable to maintain a stable Earth link.
Galaxy 4 is a heavily used communication satellite at geostationary orbit*. Its sudden failure caused not only widespread loss of pager service but also numerous other communication outages. Using a wide array of datasets, our team of scientists analyzed the space environment for the times in question and found evidence of highly disturbed solar, solar wind*, and geomagnetic conditions in late April and early May. The combination of coronal mass ejections*, solar flares*, and high speed solar wind streams led to a powerful sequence of interplanetary disturbances that hit the Earth. These disturbances produced a deep, powerful, and long-lasting enhancement of the HRE population throughout the outer Van Allen radiation zone. The kinds of disturbances witnessed are indicative of the types of events that may commonly occur during the approaching peak in solar activity in the years 2000 and 2001. It will be most important to determine how well space systems can stand up to the multifaceted effects of the space environment over the next several years.
Next time your cell phone drops acall, don't rush to blame your service provider. The culprit may well be anangry Sun.
A new study of 40 years of solardata shows that during peaks in activity, bursts of energy from the Sun canpotentially cause dropped calls for some cell phone users across wide areastwice per week. The problem is caused when radio waves associated with thebursts hit cell phone towers, creating static that overwhelms the signal at thetower, where calls are relayed.
The old basic bucket with bricks, wheels windows and doors is still alive and well at your local Wal-Mart or target store. Hell it's the only one I see in stock all the time year round.
Take a few basic tubs and mix in a technic kit or two and the kids can build about anything.
When I was a kid, we had to use our imagination
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I knew I was getting old when I first realized that these kids today with their modern legos have it too easy, what with all those crazy custom pieces. Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build stuff.Thats how I felt a couple years ago.. Almost every Lego kit I looked at would only build what was on the cover..
My step sons new Technic 8288 Mobile Crane and a bunch of the kits out now remind me more of the old Lego I remember.
Yeah the bricks are different.. most are just sticks with holes you link together but they open up new ways to build.
I remember the Technic 8860 set I had as a kid. It built a car with working suspension, steering, rear differential, a 2 speed shifting transmission, 4 cylinder engine with a crank and pistons that turned when the car moved.
Some of the stuff I see today is almost as cool as I remember that set was. I gave what I had left to the kids.. over half the sets are missing but they still have fun with em.
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Ahh I see you are truly familiar with McKesson's systems..
Slow, buggy, convoluted, stubbornly integrates with other systems (IE Non McKesson systems)
If you think that is fun try getting involved with the sales weasels.
Most of the systems run a Unix back end on AS/400 or RS600 so moving to Linux isn't a huge jump for them.
I just see this as another move to sell new Hardware and support contracts..
In the end the client side will still be windows..
I don't know about 1987 but in 95 it was $100 for 2 years
I found this on Wikipedia.. It says the same price was in effect in 1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
Wow 2 years and not one person thought to register a porn site?
What am I thinking.. it's 1987.. ASCII porn never really caught on.
I manage the spam firewalls where I work and track spam statistics every week,
2 months ago we received 20 million messages pr week and passed about 800,000 as legitimate mail
Last week we saw 41 million and the same 800,000 passed as legitimate messages.. that's 98% spam!!!
to break it down more..
41 million recieved
32 million rejections on RBL lists
9 million passed onto the spam filters.. 10% of that gets through.
This is for 1 week.
We keep seeing spam double every 2 months.. It's gota stop growing at some point right??
To understand the true effects of a Nuclear accident do some light reading about Chernobyl.
Here's a good place to Start
http://www.iaea.or.at/NewsCenter/Features/Chernobyl-15/cherno-faq.shtml
Areas as far as 500km from the site were considered contaminated.
The Exclusion zone is 30km circle around the site.
This is a great site about one lady's motorcycle trips through the Chernobyl "dead zone"
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
I don't think so.. Google maps rocks.. the mobile version is killer if you have a java enabled phone..
If you are on Verizon that means you are screwed since they Hacked out java.
Maybe all he's used is yahoo maps on his phone.. Thats about as painful as hacking your arm off with a dull butter knife.. it sucks!
I use my Windows Mobile phone all the time for doing web searches, looking up addresses and all kinda of other stuff.
If the Gphone has a good browser like Mini Mo,GPS, can sync Gmail it'll be good..
If it can't do active sync with exchange over the network it'll never catch on with big business..
Not a huge deal there.. the Iphone is doing quite well without them.
So far these numbers are right on for what we see here at my company.
Last year we were running about 80% spam
In July 07 we were at 90-92%
August-07 we reached 95%
Looking at the numbers this morning we hit 96% for the week.
Numbers rounded to the thousands
We run a cluster of 4 Eprism 2000 Appliances for inbound mail
This week we received 21,490,000 total inbound messages
We rejected 15,757,000 on RBL and Block lists
6,591,000 were passed through for spam filtering.
858,000 were passed as clean.
We only saw 200 infected messages because the Firewall is doing virus scanning and drops the packets before they reach the Spam appliances. Without that our overall numbers would be slightly higher.
I forgot a few points..
Every new Block list you add adds another DNS lookup for each message you receive.
You can configure a linux box running RBLDNSD to sync multiple block lists and perform a single lookup against all those lists on a singe Query..
The down side to that is you won't know what list did the blocking but it's great for taking some load off the DNS server.
Sounds like your block numbers are about the same as ours..
We run a 2 layer system with a cluster of St Bernard Eprism 2000 appliances and a software filter on the mailbox servers.
Right now we reject 10 million a week on RBL
Another 4.5 million in spam filters
We pass about 400,000 as legitimate mail..
Our virus rate is only 400 but the firewall is also doing AV filtering so I don't see what it's catching.
The false positive rate is very low with the Borderware RBL list the Eprism devices use..
I have more false positives on the software based filtering using List.dsbl.org and spamhaus.
The really interesting this is the jump in the RBL blocks in the last 2 weeks.. It jumped from 8 million to 10 million in 4 days.
If anyone is looking to implement RBL's with this kind of volume be sure your DNS servers are up to the job and think about setting up your own RBL servers in house. Slow DNS resolution can cause some big mailfow problems.
The crazy thing is it is hurting businesses but they don't care much.
Management kept shooting down out requests for anti-spam appliances until the CEO got some highly offensive spam.
Then they came screaming asking why we don't have better anti-spam systems.. Simple.. you keep cutting it out of the budget.
Within the week we had PO's signed for new systems.
Now we pay for support on 2 anti spam solutions to have a double layer defense.
We get 5 million message a pr week. 90% is spam.. Thats a big chunk of bandwidth
Half the support tickets I get each week are either I got spam or the filters ate my mail.
All this adds up to a good chunk of $$.. probably enough to hire 2 more people.
Management does not see it as a big issue.. they think the small amount that gets through is "the big problem"
I think once a month we should have spam Friday.. Turn off all the filters for 24 hours so they can get a feel for the true nightmare we hold back for them every day.
You said it..
I got an Oki C5200N color laser 2 years ago for $275
I'm still on the demo toner and I've done lots pf printing.
That replaced a HP 4+ laser I got for $20.. I had that for 3 years and NEVER ran out of toner.
My dad's old HP 4p laser will get 3000 pages on a toner cartrige..
Way back I had a Lexmark L10 with a 9500 page HD toner cartrige..
That thing put out some serous heat though.
This is exactly why I quit using inkject a few years ago.
I was so pissed off with the cost of ink and the failure rate of the printers.
One time I went to get new cartriges for the HP at Target.
They had HP printers on clearence for $15. Half the cost of the #$@#$ ink!!
Thats was it.. No more ink for me!
I got a kller deal on an Oki C5200n Color laser and put the inkjets on the curb with a litte sign that siad "Free???"
Whomever took it spent more than it was worth replacing the ink.
I've had the Oki for 2 years now.. I'm on the original "demo" toner and it's still doing fine.
Maybe I don't print enough.. I've gone through about 1500 pages of paper but then kids keep pillaging the peper tray. I don't have a good count of what I've used.
Thanks for the link.. 0 avaliable in the 39 stores in my area
We regularly shop at 3 different Target stores.
I check every time we go.. So far I've never seen one at Target.
Hey they have a ton of PS3's though..
Ya know I'd be happy if i could find a Wii to buy at the current price.
I saw one at Wal-mart 2 months ago.. I haven't seen one since.
Someone else posted this link AC.
It really shows haw far he's gone with it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysEVYwa-vHM
This was exciting and appeared to work much better when I saw it for the first time last year.
Check out the Jeff Han video from last year then watch the MS video.. The original is a much smoother interface.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
Yeah MS added some fluff by making it interact with devices placed on top the the basic idea is not some new "Top Secret" project
Hey man nobody made you get a 180,000,000 HP vehicle
You just had to have something better than your neighbors corvette didn't ya?
Honey can you fire up the LOX generator? I need to go to the store..
No I won't drive the $%#$ minivan!
It's the Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park
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Here's the official website
http://www.bs-amusement-park.com/
Epcot dome
http://www.bs-amusement-park.com/ChinaIn/huanle.h
Castle
http://www.bs-amusement-park.com/ChinaIn/huanle-b
how long have these flat tvs been on the market? i seem to remember them advertised 8 years ago, so where the heck are the AFFORDABLE ones!
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What a 20x drop in Plasma prices over 10 years isn't good enough for you?
The first Phillips 42" plasma sold for $20,000
I can pick up a 42 plasma or LCD at Costco today for $999
I spent more than that on a 50" rear projection TV in 2001 and that technology has been around since the 40's! http://www.cedmagic.com/history/rca-first-project
Funny how people forget..
When Galaxy 4 died it took out 80% of the pagers in the US plus several video feeds used by the major networks (I worked for CBS at the time)
This was 2 years before the 2000 Solar max when solar activity was ramping up.
More storms in 2003 took out power in parts of Switzerland and killed 2 Satellites
There were several solar flare warnings around that time.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast14jul_2 m.htm
July 14, 2000 -- This morning NOAA satellites and the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recorded one of the most powerful solar flares of the current solar cycle. Space weather forecasters had been predicting for days that an intense flare might erupt from the large sunspot group 9077, and today one did.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/power_outage _031031.html
The sixth in an unprecedented series of strong space storms dished out by the Sun over a 10-day period plowed past Earth Thursday, apparently cutting power to 20,000 Swedish customers. The powerful series of outbursts also claimed two satellites as casualties while fueling a host of minor disruptions to radio broadcasts and airline flight plans.
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/articles/eisbaker.html
A very intense flux of electrons, evident in the magnetosphere earlier this year, may have caused a satellite failure (or at least exacerbated the situation) leading to the loss of telephone pager service to 45 million customers, research has shown. The electrons, known as highly relativistic electrons (HREs), were especially numerous in the weeks preceding the failure. Researchers say HREs have triggered spacecraft anomalies in the past when fluxes are elevated. They therefore believe this energetic electron event could have been behind the failure of the attitude control system of the Galaxy 4 spacecraft at 2200 UT on May 19, 1998. A backup system also failed, either at the same time or earlier, so operators were unable to maintain a stable Earth link.
Galaxy 4 is a heavily used communication satellite at geostationary orbit*. Its sudden failure caused not only widespread loss of pager service but also numerous other communication outages. Using a wide array of datasets, our team of scientists analyzed the space environment for the times in question and found evidence of highly disturbed solar, solar wind*, and geomagnetic conditions in late April and early May. The combination of coronal mass ejections*, solar flares*, and high speed solar wind streams led to a powerful sequence of interplanetary disturbances that hit the Earth. These disturbances produced a deep, powerful, and long-lasting enhancement of the HRE population throughout the outer Van Allen radiation zone. The kinds of disturbances witnessed are indicative of the types of events that may commonly occur during the approaching peak in solar activity in the years 2000 and 2001. It will be most important to determine how well space systems can stand up to the multifaceted effects of the space environment over the next several years.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/ cell_phone_020306.html
Next time your cell phone drops acall, don't rush to blame your service provider. The culprit may well be anangry Sun.
A new study of 40 years of solardata shows that during peaks in activity, bursts of energy from the Sun canpotentially cause dropped calls for some cell phone users across wide areastwice per week. The problem is caused when radio waves associated with thebursts hit cell phone towers, creating static that overwhelms the signal at thetower, where calls are relayed.
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The Milwaukee tools use a Molicel
http://www.molienergy.com/
It's a Lithium manganese oxide Li-Ion Cell.
Pros are higher discharge rates and faster re-charge then a Li-poly cell
Cons are the watts/Kg is lower. (li-poly of the same capacity is lighter)
Some people are using them as a cheep alternative to Li-Poly cells in Electric R/C Aircraft.
The Weight is the big trade off though.
The old basic bucket with bricks, wheels windows and doors is still alive and well at your local Wal-Mart or target store.
Hell it's the only one I see in stock all the time year round.
Take a few basic tubs and mix in a technic kit or two and the kids can build about anything.
I knew I was getting old when I first realized that these kids today with their modern legos have it too easy, what with all those crazy custom pieces. Why, when I was a kid, we had to use our imagination to build stuff.Thats how I felt a couple years ago.. Almost every Lego kit I looked at would only build what was on the cover..
My step sons new Technic 8288 Mobile Crane and a bunch of the kits out now remind me more of the old Lego I remember.
Yeah the bricks are different.. most are just sticks with holes you link together but they open up new ways to build.
I remember the Technic 8860 set I had as a kid.
It built a car with working suspension, steering, rear differential, a 2 speed shifting transmission, 4 cylinder engine with a crank and pistons that turned when the car moved.
Some of the stuff I see today is almost as cool as I remember that set was.
I gave what I had left to the kids.. over half the sets are missing but they still have fun with em.
In my word application uptime should be better than any singe server uptime.
A single point of failure in a large critical system should not be allowed.
Any one of the application tiers can be clustered or load balanced in a way that provide near 100% application uptime.
We shoot for 99.95% SERVER uptime.. Application level outages are rare