Haven't you forgotten to buy Word and Outlook ? 10xWord + 10xOutlook might swing your calculation the other way.
Now lets add on the fact you might need a server to store the files with 10 CALS. Then you might need a copy of Exchange so that email can be managed. Suddenly your costs are rocketing in both technician time & software costs.
... and most people aren't bun vendors but bun purchasers. The bun vendors have to find something useful to do that contributes to society and everyone else got richer.
It sucks when it happens to you, but you benefit everytime it happens to someone else.
I've done this, talking to a police officer who was lamenting about some chap who got off with 'a virus did it' defence. I made him the following bet:-
Two weeks time, invite the police to survey his computer and I'll fill it with Kiddie Porn.
He refused to take the bet.
I pointed out that this was reasonable doubt so the guy in question should be found innocent.
He stuttered for a bit, realised he was in a hole and decided it might actually be a good defence.
A man who worked for the driving licence authority misused his access to their database to pass details to Animal Rights protestors about people who may be involved with Chris Hall - a breeder of guinea pigs for medical testing.
The details of 13 people were handed out and a variety of offences of criminal damage were conducted against them, including smashed windows and pushing a hosepipe through the front door to fill the house with water.
It's not just the government who'll have access to the database, it's every employee too.
Bizarre, I believe most UK ISPs won't do anything without a court order. Otherwise the user might hit them over the head with the Data Protection Act stick.
Certainly my ISP http://www.mythic-beasts.com/ won't do anything until we receive instructions from a relevant legal authority. It's less work that way.
I had an interesting conversation with my brother (a police officer at the time) about this case. He said it was ridiculous that he got off with such an easy defence and 'something must be done to stop people like him getting off again'. At which point I challenged him, I'll put child porn on his computer, and he can invite the police to check it. When he refused, I pointed out that he'd just given reasonable doubt that files on the computer meant he was guilty.
"This system would block the sitter's call to me, yet that is no less valid as an emergency than a 999 call is."
-1 Wrong.
If your kids are so important they can't be left for two hours in the hands of a trusted sitter then you need to find a better baby sitter. Your baby sitters problems are a less valid emergency than a 999 call, because if the emergency merits a 999 call it probably merits a paramedic too and you aren't going to help, and your baby sitter should call 999 and not you.
Got it yet ? If your sitter suspects your child has broken an arm while you're in the cinema, the correct thing for your sitter to do is to call an Ambulance on 999 and deal with the problem. Your sitter should not have to call you to be told to call an ambulance. If your house catches fire, your sitter should call the Fire Brigade, not you. If a nutter with a big knife attacks, call the police, not you. In the cases where you can help, it's less serious than a 999 call and your sitter will be okay for an hour or two until you come home.
To be fair, music that peaks at 120dB will probably have an RMS volume of around 100dB at that point, if this is the loudest point it's not implausible that the average volume might be 80-90dB for most of the rest which is a loud but not unreasonable listening volume.
24bits would be nice, but not very often given the highly overcompressed nature of most music.
Downloading from Telehouse in London I've managed to download at close to 30 Mbits - that's 4 cds really quite quickly. My upload rate was around 5 Mbits at the time.
Don't have any services running on any ports unless the computer owner has explicitly asked for them.
Here's a question. Suppose I buy a new computer and I want to connect it to the internet over dialup to activate my copy of Windows XP. I now have to hunt around a bunch of menus to turn on the inbuilt firewall before I can do this. Then I have to download some megabytes of patches to make it safe. At a per bit cost that's ridiculous.
You have a support contract for *n* servers. If you install this software on more than *n* servers then your support contract is invalidated and all of your servers will be unsupported.
This doesn't not restrict your ability to redistributed the software, it does restrict your ability to redistribute the software and remain supported.
The ISP of my current employer charged us a nice fee for backup on our colocated machine. On my first couple of days as the first person with sysadmin skills I had to look at it.
First thing I did was phone the ISP and ask for the most recent backup. Four hours later they told me they couldn't find any backups of our data because the guy who set it up two years ago was now in China teaching English.
I got a full refund for all the backup fees charged by the company.
My work priorities changed from 'find out how our stuff works with a view to developing further' to 'make an operation backup system in 48 hours'.
If you do have offsite backup as part of the contract, challenge the ISP to produce a recent backup at random every few months or so.
" Bioware's Linux port of Neverwinter Nights is going to become a thing of the past when game companies can't afford to put the time and resources into such a very small market share. "
If it costs n% of the total development time to port the game to an additional platform with m% market share it should always be a profitable thing to do where n m assuming the same fraction of game players buy the game on each platform.
If you wish to add an NT 4 Workstation computer to your network of NT4 machines I'm sure you'd have no problem buying the appropriate license and making sure the hardware had drivers.
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Haven't you forgotten to buy Word and Outlook ? 10xWord + 10xOutlook might swing your calculation the other way.
Now lets add on the fact you might need a server to store the files with 10 CALS. Then you might need a copy of Exchange so that email can be managed. Suddenly your costs are rocketing in both technician time & software costs.
... and most people aren't bun vendors but bun purchasers. The bun vendors have to find something useful to do that contributes to society and everyone else got richer.
It sucks when it happens to you, but you benefit everytime it happens to someone else.
Leave the poor guy alone.
He probably hates his wife and kids and would rather be at the office doing nothing than seeing them.
I've done this, talking to a police officer who was lamenting about some chap who got off with 'a virus did it' defence. I made him the following bet :-
Two weeks time, invite the police to survey his computer and I'll fill it with Kiddie Porn.
He refused to take the bet.
I pointed out that this was reasonable doubt so the guy in question should be found innocent.
He stuttered for a bit, realised he was in a hole and decided it might actually be a good defence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/3 951945.stm
A man who worked for the driving licence authority misused his access to their database to pass details to Animal Rights protestors about people who may be involved with Chris Hall - a breeder of guinea pigs for medical testing.
The details of 13 people were handed out and a variety of offences of criminal damage were conducted against them, including smashed windows and pushing a hosepipe through the front door to fill the house with water.
It's not just the government who'll have access to the database, it's every employee too.
Bizarre, I believe most UK ISPs won't do anything without a court order. Otherwise the user might hit them over the head with the Data Protection Act stick.
Certainly my ISP http://www.mythic-beasts.com/ won't do anything until we receive instructions from a relevant legal authority. It's less work that way.
I had an interesting conversation with my brother (a police officer at the time) about this case. He said it was ridiculous that he got off with such an easy defence and 'something must be done to stop people like him getting off again'. At which point I challenged him, I'll put child porn on his computer, and he can invite the police to check it. When he refused, I pointed out that he'd just given reasonable doubt that files on the computer meant he was guilty.
Correct. I don't have kids. Should I have kids I suspect I'll follow your example and move from reasoned discourse to argument by patronisation.
Crikey, how do you cope with planes, tunnels, hospitals, underground buildings and large buildings with poor reception?
Must be a real bugger to come up to a subway when walking through town and know that you can't use it.
"This system would block the sitter's call to me, yet that is no less valid as an emergency than a 999 call is."
-1 Wrong.
If your kids are so important they can't be left for two hours in the hands of a trusted sitter then you need to find a better baby sitter. Your baby sitters problems are a less valid emergency than a 999 call, because if the emergency merits a 999 call it probably merits a paramedic too and you aren't going to help, and your baby sitter should call 999 and not you.
Got it yet ? If your sitter suspects your child has broken an arm while you're in the cinema, the correct thing for your sitter to do is to call an Ambulance on 999 and deal with the problem. Your sitter should not have to call you to be told to call an ambulance. If your house catches fire, your sitter should call the Fire Brigade, not you. If a nutter with a big knife attacks, call the police, not you. In the cases where you can help, it's less serious than a 999 call and your sitter will be okay for an hour or two until you come home.
To be fair, music that peaks at 120dB will probably have an RMS volume of around 100dB at that point, if this is the loudest point it's not implausible that the average volume might be 80-90dB for most of the rest which is a loud but not unreasonable listening volume.
24bits would be nice, but not very often given the highly overcompressed nature of most music.
Downloading from Telehouse in London I've managed to download at close to 30 Mbits - that's 4 cds really quite quickly. My upload rate was around 5 Mbits at the time.
How about :-
Don't have any services running on any ports unless the computer owner has explicitly asked for them.
Here's a question. Suppose I buy a new computer and I want to connect it to the internet over dialup to activate my copy of Windows XP. I now have to hunt around a bunch of menus to turn on the inbuilt firewall before I can do this. Then I have to download some megabytes of patches to make it safe. At a per bit cost that's ridiculous.
That's just not acceptable.
"Of course it doesn't help that people we've helped in the past by emailing them fixes, solutions, and patches..."
There's nothing like convincing people to open random excutable attachments to keep your job safe.
No they aren't, they say
You have a support contract for *n* servers. If you install this software on more than *n* servers then your support contract is invalidated and all of your servers will be unsupported.
This doesn't not restrict your ability to redistributed the software, it does restrict your ability to redistribute the software and remain supported.
Okay, so we have persistent connections so that each apache process holds on to a database connection to speed up database queries.
a: Why does an apache process serving an image/pdf/whatever need to hold on to a database connection?
b: What happens when the number of apache processes becomes larger than the number of database connections?
c: Why are neither of these a problem with connection pools?
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I cant imagine what SUN really paid for since they already have cleaned out hte shop before.
"
How about
Drivers from SCO Unix to be ported into Solaris x86?
Other x86 specific stuff in SCO Unix required for Solaris x86?
Yeah, admittedly I'm doing well, but I'm 25, been in my second job 6 months and I get 30 days holiday, 8 days public holidays + 10 days paid sick pay.
I'm in the UK which typically does worse than the rest of europe - if I was in France I'd work 5 hours / week less too.
Er, yeah.
The ISP of my current employer charged us a nice fee for backup on our colocated machine. On my first couple of days as the first person with sysadmin skills I had to look at it.
First thing I did was phone the ISP and ask for the most recent backup. Four hours later they told me they couldn't find any backups of our data because the guy who set it up two years ago was now in China teaching English.
I got a full refund for all the backup fees charged by the company.
My work priorities changed from 'find out how our stuff works with a view to developing further' to 'make an operation backup system in 48 hours'.
If you do have offsite backup as part of the contract, challenge the ISP to produce a recent backup at random every few months or so.
That's a fantastic page
:
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in the spec
Operating system
Mandrake Linux 9.1
and at the bottom
Evesham PCs use genuine Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
www.microsoft.com/piracy/howtotell
Does this mean that resetting the clock on your PC will become an offence or will be disabled?
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Bioware's Linux port of Neverwinter Nights is going to become a thing of the past when game companies can't afford to put the time and resources into such a very small market share.
"
If it costs n% of the total development time to port the game to an additional platform with m% market share it should always be a profitable thing to do where n m assuming the same fraction of game players buy the game on each platform.
No it isn't,
1: I have five computers. A sixth person joins my company so I buy them a new computer to use.
2: I have five computers. One of them breaks and needs to be replaced.
In both cases they'll need the same OS as the other machines even if they have newer physical hardware.
I'm sure it doesn't.
If you wish to add an NT 4 Workstation computer to your network of NT4 machines I'm sure you'd have no problem buying the appropriate license and making sure the hardware had drivers.
How about
:-)
1: gone
2: cone
3: scone
Two of those are pronounced the same but which two is not clear