Less fiddling with connectors. If I want to undock my Dell i push a button and ALL of the connectors are disconnected. I want to dock it I just drop it into place and push down a bit, it clicks and ALL the connectors are done.
I take back my complaint, I just tried it again and the charged me $5 CAD and said it'll be arriving in the mail shortly. I was logged in with my business account this time though, maybe that makes a difference.
Yay! I'm finally getting a PayPal RSA token. I can feel safer knowing my PayPal has equivalent security (on the authentication level anyway) as my Work VPN has had for years.
well, I've been trying for a year to get Paypal to send me one, I even offered to PAY them for it. Nno go. I'm in Canada, and despite the fact that I use the same PayPal.com as all the US customers and they are constantly advertising it to me they refuse to send me one.
I plan to get an eeePC someday soon. I will buy a model with a big drive and 6cell battery. That means I HAVE to take XP. I'll be upgrading it to ubuntu 8.10 right away, so that XP licence sticker just gets used to legitimize one more XP based VM on my VMware server to play around with when I'm bored. I don't need or want XP on my eeePC.
It is possible, but don't expect to get the job of your dreams right out of the gate.
I had a BA in History with what amounted to a minor in CS.
I spent the summer earning an MCSE while looking for a job.
Took a job as a Network Administrator (actually I was their whole IT department for most of my stay there) at a small company for 3 years at a low salary to gain experience and work on some other certs.
Moved to a better paying job as a Network Analyst for a municipal government nearer to my home.
No CS/Comp Eng. degree, and I'm making over $65k...but it's been 9 years since I started that first job at $32k
I don't think Apple is going to make any money off this (not directly anyway) because they don't sell DVD movies. I do think that Disney and Pixar stand to make more, and I think that Apple will have a competitive advantage when they are allowed to incorporate DVD ripping into iTunes just like they have CD ripping.
There is a lot to be learned about the GIMP that also applies to Photoshop....and these in my opinion are the skills they ought to be learning. Learn how to use layers, masks, channels, the pen tool, not which keyboard shortcut does what (you can change those anyway, this isn't 1987).
Besides, they can't take just a high school diploma to most design firms anyway, they are only just learning the basics, and design concepts that you could apply with paint and construction paper if needed. The high level nitty gritty details of how to smooth one's workflow by learning the specifics of a certain version of software isn't something they really need to worry about at this stage.
Besides, by the time they are finished their education CS3 will be just as outdated as PS7 is now, so there is no real advantage to upgrading when the features they'd gain aren't really what they should be concentrating on anyway.
Use the GIMP or use PS7 it doesn't matter really, they both have the features the kids need, but I am with the others who say using the GIMP in the classroom makes it easier for the kids to get and use the same software at home.
Don't be an ass, the Russian Space shuttle is real and I was asking an honest question, have they decommissioned it? or is there some other reason why they could not take the part up?
According to Wikipedia after the maiden flight in 1988 (which was quite successful) they couldn't afford to keep the program going and scrapped it in 1993. In 2002 a hangar collapse destroyed the shuttle.
Do the russians not fly their shuttle anymore? seems to me they had an identical shuttle that ran on kerosene. Did they scrap that? (I don't keep up on Russian space tech much)
I just use Facebook. I've actually never even seen LinkedIn. I've seen it mentioned around here a lot though. Here's my policy: My facebook is set to a little above the normal privacy settings, I don't post anything embarassing on facebook. I have only 1 guy from work on my friends list, he's a buddy. I've seen other people from work on there, but I don't ask to be their friend. If they ever asked I'd give them access to my limited (and I mean really limited) profile for a while, then remove them from my friends list. I haven't done this to co-workers yet, but I have done it to people who remember me from highschool. Facebook users don't get a notification of being removed from someone's friends list, and after seeing a basically empty profile they aren't likely to be curious enough to go back to it after a week or two.
Actually it was. My sister had a fido for a while. We lived in Oshawa, she could not get to Columbus (which is still part of Oshawa) without losing her signal. As far as Fido was concerned they only needed to cover.. lets see... Google maps says 14.6km north of the 401.
I'm not sure I understand what I said that you are objecting to. Techsavvy, like you said pays Bell $20.50/customer plus GigE or other backbone services, and the only support Bell has to deal with is real internet connectivity issues forwarded to them by the smaller ISP.
Techsavvy fields all the calls that relate to the end user wanting software recommendations, or someone to hand hold them through installing something, or not knowing how to clear cookies, update software, plug in the keyboard, etc. And no, I'm not kidding about the plug in the keyboard, I dealt with that when I was manning a small ISP.
Bell would probably rather do this wholesale agreement than charge end users $29 to compete and have to deal with all the crappy mundane support stuff that only the end user thinks an ISP should be responsible for. It's worthwhile letting someone else pocket a little bit of the retail price and have them deal with the crap calls.
I would be shocked if a phone company came along with the balls to say "our coverage area will only be in the golden horse shoe".
We used to call that phone company Fido, then Rogers bought them and the coverage expanded to cover what a normal cell phone co covers. Clearnet used to be pretty much like that too, except with Clearnet you had coverage outside the cities as long as you stayed on a major highway.
Actually Bell's making out nicely on that. TekSavvy.com is paying bell a wholesale rate for the DSL and providing you support with whatever they have left over.
Bell still gets a nice cut of the pie and they don't have to deal with support issues.
That's exactly where Asterisk would do best. Get into the small businesses with 3-4 extensions and voice mail. This box is more than enough and costs about the same as a good set. If people started setting up phone businesses around Asterisk and actively pursuing the SMB markets by offering features that the Nortel small business offerings can't compete with (voice mail e-mailed to you?) Asterisk would really take off.
I'm in the process of setting up trixbox in a VM for my small business. (I had set up a debian Asterisk a couple years ago just for fun)
Sure they can, as long as they follow the scientific process and break it down into smaller testable parts (as opposed to the SETI process which would involve simply putting a bunch of things together in a box, looking for a fusion reaction, and if it doesn't occur move on to another combination).
Wait are you saying that the only way to find alien life is to create it ourselves? I think we are well on the road to doing that, but I also believe it possible that someone else has already done it for us.
I don't understand you comment. The parent post was saying, in response to a post asking how well these would work as swap drives, that it would be cheaper to just buy more RAM than buy one of these to use for swap. I don't see how keeping your motherboard powered up all the time makes a difference here, swap, like RAM is not meant to be persistent. I agree with the parent post. Why use an expensive solid state drive to simulate RAM when you could just buy a heck of a lot of RAM?
Well, I know of at least one enterprise level product that used to use RHEL in their pre-packaged VMWare virtual appliance distribution option that has recently switched to CentOS simply to avoid licensing issues with the try before you buy appliance they were pushing.
I imagine that other software companies that only supported their product on RHEL will probably also follow this trend as virtualization becomes more popular.
Low resolution like HDTV? I wish my PC could do 1920x1080 I'm stuck at 1280x1024 on my general purpose computer monitor. I really need an upgrade, but almost all the general purpose computer monitors out there are lower res than the HDTVs, and those that are better I think will be niche for a while as most folks seem happy with 1024x768 or less.
SQL isn't a geek tool, it's an everyday tool that ordinary people use all the time without realizing it. It's so popular that a large number of manufacturers produce their own. Yes it takes a specialist to maintain it but everyday joes use it all the time.
I'd compare it to the combustion engine. It takes a specialist (mechanic) to maintain it, but almost everyone uses one to get to work every day. I wouldn't call it a grease monkey's tool.
...and do it at Walmart. There are a few resons for this... #1 walmart will always give you a refund or exchange #2 it's a hassle for Walmart too (2 birds 1 stone) #3 if Walmart tells Sony they won't carry it anymore Sony will cave.
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Less fiddling with connectors. If I want to undock my Dell i push a button and ALL of the connectors are disconnected. I want to dock it I just drop it into place and push down a bit, it clicks and ALL the connectors are done.
I thought it was 1 or 2 depending on the context. ...maybe even 0 or a negative...lets not get into fractions.
I take back my complaint, I just tried it again and the charged me $5 CAD and said it'll be arriving in the mail shortly. I was logged in with my business account this time though, maybe that makes a difference.
Yay! I'm finally getting a PayPal RSA token. I can feel safer knowing my PayPal has equivalent security (on the authentication level anyway) as my Work VPN has had for years.
well, I've been trying for a year to get Paypal to send me one, I even offered to PAY them for it. Nno go. I'm in Canada, and despite the fact that I use the same PayPal.com as all the US customers and they are constantly advertising it to me they refuse to send me one.
I agree with 4im.
I plan to get an eeePC someday soon.
I will buy a model with a big drive and 6cell battery. That means I HAVE to take XP. I'll be upgrading it to ubuntu 8.10 right away, so that XP licence sticker just gets used to legitimize one more XP based VM on my VMware server to play around with when I'm bored. I don't need or want XP on my eeePC.
It is possible, but don't expect to get the job of your dreams right out of the gate.
I had a BA in History with what amounted to a minor in CS.
I spent the summer earning an MCSE while looking for a job.
Took a job as a Network Administrator (actually I was their whole IT department for most of my stay there) at a small company for 3 years at a low salary to gain experience and work on some other certs.
Moved to a better paying job as a Network Analyst for a municipal government nearer to my home.
No CS/Comp Eng. degree, and I'm making over $65k...but it's been 9 years since I started that first job at $32k
Where do you think you can get a service that allows you to accept CC payments without paying them a transaction fee?
Merchant Visa/MC accounts with your bank will charge fees too. How do you think they make their money?
I don't think Apple is going to make any money off this (not directly anyway) because they don't sell DVD movies.
I do think that Disney and Pixar stand to make more, and I think that Apple will have a competitive advantage when they are allowed to incorporate DVD ripping into iTunes just like they have CD ripping.
There is a lot to be learned about the GIMP that also applies to Photoshop. ...and these in my opinion are the skills they ought to be learning. Learn how to use layers, masks, channels, the pen tool, not which keyboard shortcut does what (you can change those anyway, this isn't 1987).
Besides, they can't take just a high school diploma to most design firms anyway, they are only just learning the basics, and design concepts that you could apply with paint and construction paper if needed. The high level nitty gritty details of how to smooth one's workflow by learning the specifics of a certain version of software isn't something they really need to worry about at this stage.
Besides, by the time they are finished their education CS3 will be just as outdated as PS7 is now, so there is no real advantage to upgrading when the features they'd gain aren't really what they should be concentrating on anyway.
Use the GIMP or use PS7 it doesn't matter really, they both have the features the kids need, but I am with the others who say using the GIMP in the classroom makes it easier for the kids to get and use the same software at home.
Don't be an ass, the Russian Space shuttle is real and I was asking an honest question, have they decommissioned it? or is there some other reason why they could not take the part up?
...and yes, the rocket that carried it into space was Kerosene/Oxygen propelled, as opposed to the more dangerous, but more powerful (and more expensive) Oxygen& Hydrogen mix the US shuttle uses.
Here is a drawing for you of the Russian Buran shuttle next to the American Shuttle.
http://www.buran.ru/htm/compare.htm
According to Wikipedia after the maiden flight in 1988 (which was quite successful) they couldn't afford to keep the program going and scrapped it in 1993. In 2002 a hangar collapse destroyed the shuttle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_program
Do the russians not fly their shuttle anymore? seems to me they had an identical shuttle that ran on kerosene. Did they scrap that? (I don't keep up on Russian space tech much)
I just use Facebook. I've actually never even seen LinkedIn. I've seen it mentioned around here a lot though.
Here's my policy: My facebook is set to a little above the normal privacy settings, I don't post anything embarassing on facebook. I have only 1 guy from work on my friends list, he's a buddy.
I've seen other people from work on there, but I don't ask to be their friend. If they ever asked I'd give them access to my limited (and I mean really limited) profile for a while, then remove them from my friends list. I haven't done this to co-workers yet, but I have done it to people who remember me from highschool. Facebook users don't get a notification of being removed from someone's friends list, and after seeing a basically empty profile they aren't likely to be curious enough to go back to it after a week or two.
Actually it was.
My sister had a fido for a while. We lived in Oshawa, she could not get to Columbus (which is still part of Oshawa) without losing her signal. As far as Fido was concerned they only needed to cover.. lets see... Google maps says 14.6km north of the 401.
I'm not sure I understand what I said that you are objecting to.
Techsavvy, like you said pays Bell $20.50/customer plus GigE or other backbone services, and the only support Bell has to deal with is real internet connectivity issues forwarded to them by the smaller ISP.
Techsavvy fields all the calls that relate to the end user wanting software recommendations, or someone to hand hold them through installing something, or not knowing how to clear cookies, update software, plug in the keyboard, etc. And no, I'm not kidding about the plug in the keyboard, I dealt with that when I was manning a small ISP.
Bell would probably rather do this wholesale agreement than charge end users $29 to compete and have to deal with all the crappy mundane support stuff that only the end user thinks an ISP should be responsible for. It's worthwhile letting someone else pocket a little bit of the retail price and have them deal with the crap calls.
I would be shocked if a phone company came along with the balls to say "our coverage area will only be in the golden horse shoe".
We used to call that phone company Fido, then Rogers bought them and the coverage expanded to cover what a normal cell phone co covers.
Clearnet used to be pretty much like that too, except with Clearnet you had coverage outside the cities as long as you stayed on a major highway.
Actually Bell's making out nicely on that.
TekSavvy.com is paying bell a wholesale rate for the DSL and providing you support with whatever they have left over.
Bell still gets a nice cut of the pie and they don't have to deal with support issues.
Drive drawers. http://www.amazon.com/Startech-DRW110ATA-Removable-Drive-Drawer/dp/B00008AZ6X
They can't read a disk that's not connected to the machine.
That's exactly where Asterisk would do best.
Get into the small businesses with 3-4 extensions and voice mail. This box is more than enough and costs about the same as a good set.
If people started setting up phone businesses around Asterisk and actively pursuing the SMB markets by offering features that the Nortel small business offerings can't compete with (voice mail e-mailed to you?) Asterisk would really take off.
I'm in the process of setting up trixbox in a VM for my small business. (I had set up a debian Asterisk a couple years ago just for fun)
Sure they can, as long as they follow the scientific process and break it down into smaller testable parts (as opposed to the SETI process which would involve simply putting a bunch of things together in a box, looking for a fusion reaction, and if it doesn't occur move on to another combination).
Wait are you saying that the only way to find alien life is to create it ourselves?
I think we are well on the road to doing that, but I also believe it possible that someone else has already done it for us.
I don't understand you comment.
The parent post was saying, in response to a post asking how well these would work as swap drives, that it would be cheaper to just buy more RAM than buy one of these to use for swap.
I don't see how keeping your motherboard powered up all the time makes a difference here, swap, like RAM is not meant to be persistent.
I agree with the parent post. Why use an expensive solid state drive to simulate RAM when you could just buy a heck of a lot of RAM?
Well, I know of at least one enterprise level product that used to use RHEL in their pre-packaged VMWare virtual appliance distribution option that has recently switched to CentOS simply to avoid licensing issues with the try before you buy appliance they were pushing.
I imagine that other software companies that only supported their product on RHEL will probably also follow this trend as virtualization becomes more popular.
Low resolution like HDTV? I wish my PC could do 1920x1080 I'm stuck at 1280x1024 on my general purpose computer monitor.
I really need an upgrade, but almost all the general purpose computer monitors out there are lower res than the HDTVs, and those that are better I think will be niche for a while as most folks seem happy with 1024x768 or less.
You missed a few.
Vista: too many editions
XP: Home, Pro, 64bit
OSX (Tiger): desktop or server
Ubuntu: Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu server, Edubuntu, or Kubuntu
SQL isn't a geek tool, it's an everyday tool that ordinary people use all the time without realizing it.
It's so popular that a large number of manufacturers produce their own.
Yes it takes a specialist to maintain it but everyday joes use it all the time.
I'd compare it to the combustion engine.
It takes a specialist (mechanic) to maintain it, but almost everyone uses one to get to work every day.
I wouldn't call it a grease monkey's tool.
...and do it at Walmart.
There are a few resons for this...
#1 walmart will always give you a refund or exchange
#2 it's a hassle for Walmart too (2 birds 1 stone)
#3 if Walmart tells Sony they won't carry it anymore Sony will cave.