My networking guys do the job just fine. Staff at places you are handling waste a lot of time waiting on the network - don't know how much it might impact productivity where you are, but I think the numbers might be telling.
30 MB file between two systems - theoretical minimum transfer time on 100bt network - less than 3 seconds. 30 MB file between two systems - theoretical minimum transfer time on 1000bt network - less than 1 second.
100 MB file between two systems - 100bt network - 8 seconds - 1000bt network - less than 1 second.
2.3 GB file between two systems - 100bt network - 3 minutes - 1000bt network - less than 20 seconds.
If your staff is pushing around a lot of tiny (less than 2 MB) files, yeah, it probably works and people don't notice it. Larger than that and the cost of the time your staff wastes over 60 months will more than offset the cost of 1000bt gear.
No company needs 1000bt for the accounting and sales department. But there is always some moron IT guy out there that thinks they do so they scrap all their perfect 100bt gear. and I snap it up for nothign and sell it to small businesses for a profit.
I see you aren't using more recent accounting and CRM/ERP packages and don't have people pushing multi-megabyte PowerPoint and video presentations around. (or in my case - Sales pushing around vm images of a couple gig) Or people moving between desks from other parts of the company. That moron IT guy that replaces everything with 1000bt gear is sitting there going "There. Now I don't have to worry which switch the conference rooms are plugged into or if the head of HR and the CEO snag someone's office so that person goes to an empty desk to do something... "
Personally, I've always wondered if things would be more successful if done in low or high Earth orbit to remove Earth's gravity from being a factor in building a containment facility? (Of course - in this instance, I'm also a complete layman... )
Of course when you look at the socioeconomic family statistics that show 60% of the black population is middle income or lower (and 33% is within 150% of the poverty line) vs. 40% of the white population (and only 27% is within 150% of the poverty line), that should skew your analysis a bit, should it not? In addition when you look at the distribution of the populations and also when you take into account that historical data is in place for the original numbers (when black people were arrested because they were black.. ) Statistics are fun. So is looking at society and the reasons behind the numbers...
Cayenne8 - I would disagree with your assessment somewhat about the "community taking care of it internally" --- and while I absolutely agree with Mr. Cosby about individuals taking personal responsibility for their lives, you have to take into account the 300 years of American history that have played into what we see today.
1) "Level Playing Field" -- Generation "Y" (people born roughly after 1990) is really the first generation of Black children who have opportunity that was not legislatively restricted. 1964 was the first year that the government was not actively playing the part of "The Man Keeping You Down". Any successful Black person prior to that date did it *in spite of* the system. In addition, the "unwritten" social code was still deeply entrenched until the early 90s. (and still exists today, but that's another discussion) The "color barrier" that was broken to allow entry into country clubs, positions that were previously thought of as "a black person can't do" - head coach of a football team.. or quarterback for instance.
2) "Standard Intelligence Curve Applies To Community" -- Your average group of people, no matter the color of their skin, are generally going to be a couple of really smart ones, a couple of really dumb ones and a bunch of people in the middle - average. The smart ones are either going to leave a situation that is detrimental if they are able (and an unsafe community is definitely detrimental) -- the dumb ones won't be able to do anything and the average ones will split between leaving and staying.
3) "Time" -- it takes time - generations - to undo wholesale systemic marginalization. And education. And mindset change. You also have to fight the inertia of people who are happy with the way things are, both inside and outside the communities.
I can go on.. but you get the basics here. It's not a simple "hey - be responsible" problem - you have to have a place to start that allows you to be responsible individual and not everyone has the "self starter" gene (as I have to point out fairly often to my wife).
Hey -- leave Lynn Abbey out of it - she owns the rights to Thieves' World (and her partner and co-author at that time Robert Asprin is no longer amongst the living) and while I'm certain she'd have to protect her rights would be sad to take that stance.
I just posted above that I would avoid working for one individual. You, based on this posting, I would consider at least a candidate for working for.. seeing folks take the long view is missing in the tech industry.
Note to self - track down which company uncqual is a hiring manager and make sure I never apply there - places where a hiring manager has no care about work-life balance.. well I guess Foxxcomm did say they were hiring..
They changed the rules for bankruptcy for individuals a couple years ago, markdavis. It used to be as you described, but now they do a "means based" test for repaying outstanding debts versus just wiping the books clean. There's no "walk away" any more.
// // Dear maintainer: // // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine, // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was, // please increment the following counter as a warning // to the next guy: // // total_hours_wasted_here = 25 //
D-Link and Netgear sell a neat wireless bridge product. Have the rest of your network point to the wireless bridge and the wireless bridge handle connecting to your smart phone via wi-fi. Then it'll be your gateway.
You are right - the summary should say "the law bans educators from using any tool not provided by the State for communications" as anything that doesn't allow parents to have access to all electronic communications between teachers and students is forbidden by the new statue. And being there are no exceptions, it makes it kind of hard to use any social networking site, now doesn't it?
Thanks Rob, for getting this place going. I've been hanging around here for.. yeah too many years. Even the flames and trolls are actually well done around here, and there's been too many times that I learned a trick or two, or found a solution to a problem... in any event, as in the main post. So Long, And Thanks For All The Fishwrappers!
You might want to look at what the "50%" number is in raw data before tossing it around more. To save you some searching, if you are in the 50% that doesn't pay Federal Income Tax category, you make less than 33k/yr. (That means less than 15.86/hr for a 40 hour week)
Microsoft did this same sort of thing - it turned out to cost them a bit of money. See Stacker for a prime example. Hope Apple doesn't mind writing a few checks.
For those of us who were on the support side of things - we missed DV and DV/X too. Lots of good memories - and it's lead to me being able to explain all the VMWare stuff to coworkers and friends in a fashion that clicks a lot easier. In addition, the same problems that would cause DESQview issues are invariably the same type of stuff that showed up in VMs. The more it changes, the more it stays the same...
Meanwhile, in other news - in April, the U.S. Government released the uncensored / unerased Watergate tapes for only one time - and it was being streamed live to a server in California from an undisclosed location in Washington. Isn't it strange that the 18 minutes that were missing in the release to the public is the same 18 minutes that the Internet went through China?
Umm, you're incorrect about it being a single PC vendor, unless you're holding to the 8086 code (and it's successors). AMD and Cyrix made compatible chips, so you didn't have to only buy Intel. Digital Research and IBM had differing views on the OS you ran on a PC. (And that doesn't count CP/M or GEOS or..)
Marketing had something to do with it - but frankly, it was the applications that were available for the systems and the powerhouse that IBM was in helping businesses select computers.
Ah, so you want to go to other hardware to restore a file that you have a snapshot of on your local hardware? And that fileset happens to be oh say a few hundred gigabytes. Out of curiosity, do you manage production fileservers with end users that are able to do stupid things?
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My networking guys do the job just fine. Staff at places you are handling waste a lot of time waiting on the network - don't know how much it might impact productivity where you are, but I think the numbers might be telling.
30 MB file between two systems - theoretical minimum transfer time on 100bt network - less than 3 seconds.
30 MB file between two systems - theoretical minimum transfer time on 1000bt network - less than 1 second.
100 MB file between two systems - 100bt network - 8 seconds - 1000bt network - less than 1 second.
2.3 GB file between two systems - 100bt network - 3 minutes - 1000bt network - less than 20 seconds.
If your staff is pushing around a lot of tiny (less than 2 MB) files, yeah, it probably works and people don't notice it. Larger than that and the cost of the time your staff wastes over 60 months will more than offset the cost of 1000bt gear.
No company needs 1000bt for the accounting and sales department. But there is always some moron IT guy out there that thinks they do so they scrap all their perfect 100bt gear. and I snap it up for nothign and sell it to small businesses for a profit.
I see you aren't using more recent accounting and CRM/ERP packages and don't have people pushing multi-megabyte PowerPoint and video presentations around. (or in my case - Sales pushing around vm images of a couple gig) Or people moving between desks from other parts of the company. That moron IT guy that replaces everything with 1000bt gear is sitting there going "There. Now I don't have to worry which switch the conference rooms are plugged into or if the head of HR and the CEO snag someone's office so that person goes to an empty desk to do something... "
Personally, I've always wondered if things would be more successful if done in low or high Earth orbit to remove Earth's gravity from being a factor in building a containment facility? (Of course - in this instance, I'm also a complete layman... )
Of course when you look at the socioeconomic family statistics that show 60% of the black population is middle income or lower (and 33% is within 150% of the poverty line) vs. 40% of the white population (and only 27% is within 150% of the poverty line), that should skew your analysis a bit, should it not? In addition when you look at the distribution of the populations and also when you take into account that historical data is in place for the original numbers (when black people were arrested because they were black.. ) Statistics are fun. So is looking at society and the reasons behind the numbers...
Talk about thread drift... but
Cayenne8 - I would disagree with your assessment somewhat about the "community taking care of it internally" --- and while I absolutely agree with Mr. Cosby about individuals taking personal responsibility for their lives, you have to take into account the 300 years of American history that have played into what we see today.
1) "Level Playing Field" -- Generation "Y" (people born roughly after 1990) is really the first generation of Black children who have opportunity that was not legislatively restricted. 1964 was the first year that the government was not actively playing the part of "The Man Keeping You Down". Any successful Black person prior to that date did it *in spite of* the system. In addition, the "unwritten" social code was still deeply entrenched until the early 90s. (and still exists today, but that's another discussion) The "color barrier" that was broken to allow entry into country clubs, positions that were previously thought of as "a black person can't do" - head coach of a football team.. or quarterback for instance.
2) "Standard Intelligence Curve Applies To Community" -- Your average group of people, no matter the color of their skin, are generally going to be a couple of really smart ones, a couple of really dumb ones and a bunch of people in the middle - average. The smart ones are either going to leave a situation that is detrimental if they are able (and an unsafe community is definitely detrimental) -- the dumb ones won't be able to do anything and the average ones will split between leaving and staying.
3) "Time" -- it takes time - generations - to undo wholesale systemic marginalization. And education. And mindset change. You also have to fight the inertia of people who are happy with the way things are, both inside and outside the communities.
I can go on .. but you get the basics here. It's not a simple "hey - be responsible" problem - you have to have a place to start that allows you to be responsible individual and not everyone has the "self starter" gene (as I have to point out fairly often to my wife).
Hey -- leave Lynn Abbey out of it - she owns the rights to Thieves' World (and her partner and co-author at that time Robert Asprin is no longer amongst the living) and while I'm certain she'd have to protect her rights would be sad to take that stance.
Unfortunately DeathFrom... this link is a factual piece of reporting - not an Op/Ed column.
fyngyzr,
I just posted above that I would avoid working for one individual. You, based on this posting, I would consider at least a candidate for working for.. seeing folks take the long view is missing in the tech industry.
Note to self - track down which company uncqual is a hiring manager and make sure I never apply there - places where a hiring manager has no care about work-life balance.. well I guess Foxxcomm did say they were hiring..
They changed the rules for bankruptcy for individuals a couple years ago, markdavis. It used to be as you described, but now they do a "means based" test for repaying outstanding debts versus just wiping the books clean. There's no "walk away" any more.
Depends on the size of the company and how many accounts. RIM got smart and put out a "SMB" freebie BES server for under 50 users.
A post at bash.org:
Yes we can -- they're Brown neutrinos
D-Link and Netgear sell a neat wireless bridge product. Have the rest of your network point to the wireless bridge and the wireless bridge handle connecting to your smart phone via wi-fi. Then it'll be your gateway.
You are right - the summary should say "the law bans educators from using any tool not provided by the State for communications" as anything that doesn't allow parents to have access to all electronic communications between teachers and students is forbidden by the new statue. And being there are no exceptions, it makes it kind of hard to use any social networking site, now doesn't it?
Thanks Rob, for getting this place going. I've been hanging around here for.. yeah too many years. Even the flames and trolls are actually well done around here, and there's been too many times that I learned a trick or two, or found a solution to a problem... in any event, as in the main post. So Long, And Thanks For All The Fishwrappers!
You might want to look at what the "50%" number is in raw data before tossing it around more. To save you some searching, if you are in the 50% that doesn't pay Federal Income Tax category, you make less than 33k/yr. (That means less than 15.86/hr for a 40 hour week)
"Those who don't study history... "
Microsoft did this same sort of thing - it turned out to cost them a bit of money. See Stacker for a prime example. Hope Apple doesn't mind writing a few checks.
Main store is on a MAC
Can't store a lot of data in 6 bytes...
It's compressed... a lot.
9 days. :)
For those of us who were on the support side of things - we missed DV and DV/X too. Lots of good memories - and it's lead to me being able to explain all the VMWare stuff to coworkers and friends in a fashion that clicks a lot easier. In addition, the same problems that would cause DESQview issues are invariably the same type of stuff that showed up in VMs. The more it changes, the more it stays the same...
(formerly bryant@qdeck.com)
Meanwhile, in other news - in April, the U.S. Government released the uncensored / unerased Watergate tapes for only one time - and it was being streamed live to a server in California from an undisclosed location in Washington. Isn't it strange that the 18 minutes that were missing in the release to the public is the same 18 minutes that the Internet went through China?
Umm, you're incorrect about it being a single PC vendor, unless you're holding to the 8086 code (and it's successors). AMD and Cyrix made compatible chips, so you didn't have to only buy Intel. Digital Research and IBM had differing views on the OS you ran on a PC. (And that doesn't count CP/M or GEOS or..)
Marketing had something to do with it - but frankly, it was the applications that were available for the systems and the powerhouse that IBM was in helping businesses select computers.
Luckily, I friended *everybody* on MySpace and Facebook. Let's see 'em find someone I don't know.
Okay, someone please turn my meds back on now?
Ah, so you want to go to other hardware to restore a file that you have a snapshot of on your local hardware? And that fileset happens to be oh say a few hundred gigabytes. Out of curiosity, do you manage production fileservers with end users that are able to do stupid things?