I work for Cat dealer and I was told about this some months ago by our Agriculture Manager. It's already offered in the Challenger MT700 models. In fact there are already quite a few in operation. And oh by the way, John Deere (enemy!), is also offering it in some models.
Depending on how much you want to spend on these tractors you can have an accuracy down to 8 inches per pass in the field.
Of course when he told me this all I could think of was Evil Plan #234.
1. Hack the Omnistar system. 2. Assume control of all Challenger tractors in Indiana. 3. Plow under Terre Haute.
Can anyone point to a good place to read more about all the idiot ideas floating around in Congress? I'd like to get a better handle on who the real bozos are who float this kind of stupid shit.
I think you may be tackling that from the wrong end. I'm sure you'll save yourself a lot of time if you try to find out which ones aren't the bozos.
The proposal cleared a crucial hurdle earlier Wednesday when a House of Representatives committee voted to give the FTC the power to collect fees from telemarketers to pay for the list.
So they're making them pay for it too?
Hot damn. If I ever meet an FTC member they're getting a hug.
I had a similar situation to that some months ago except it was a tad worse.
One of my Citrix users in a remote branch managed to install Hotbar (I won't link to this particular piece of scumware) into her Outlook. What's amazing about this is that i have specifically locked them out of installing anything through policies but yet this little jewel managed to get through.
To make things worse I first noticed it when I logged into the box from home and found that I had it. And so did the other 150 users.
Talk about pissed. I punted everyone out of the system until I could manually go through every user's registry settings and nuke the little bastard which was the only way to get rid of it.
I would think that in situations like this, that a tiered pricing approach might be better than applying a flat rate.
But it's not.
Even if you ignore the technical aspects of monitoring bandwidth usage and tying it to individual accounts you then run into the business cost overhead increase of changing your billing method.
Which is easier and/or cheaper? Flat-rate billing all of your customers regardless of bandwidth usage or doing it as they suggest and charging the bandwidth pigs extra?
As the overhead goes up that cost gets passed along to the customers as well.
Since you imply that your company has lost control of the local machine settings and your Help Desk is, as you implied, somewhat incompetent... this is Citrix's fault.
Amen on the printer support. Especially in the XP version. That doesn't work anywhere near like they advertise. There are workarounds though.
But I'll have to disagree with you on the single server part. I have three of them here that are load-balanced into one farm. It actually works well that way. As long as I don't get a user doing something to hog processor time.
You are correct though when you say you need powerful servers. Some java sessions inside IE will take up 30M of memory. If I get 10 people doing that on a single box it won't take long for the box to go into vapor lock.
The cable company is betting consumers will see the value of one-stop shopping. But first Time Warner Cable will have get customers past the sticker shock of seeing $230 on their bill.
Isn't that the same bet that fired off the dot com craze?
Slashdot Mirror
Got one upstairs somewhere. Still works and still sounds good.
Our guys use Phoenix ImageCast (formerly StorageSoft) and they don't seem to have any problems with it.
Or at least if they do they don't report it to me.
One way of looking at this is that AOL is simply taking Microsoft's quality issues into their own hands.
That may very well be the scariest thing I've read in years.
I work for Cat dealer and I was told about this some months ago by our Agriculture Manager. It's already offered in the Challenger MT700 models. In fact there are already quite a few in operation. And oh by the way, John Deere (enemy!), is also offering it in some models.
Depending on how much you want to spend on these tractors you can have an accuracy down to 8 inches per pass in the field.
Of course when he told me this all I could think of was Evil Plan #234.
1. Hack the Omnistar system.
2. Assume control of all Challenger tractors in Indiana.
3. Plow under Terre Haute.
Hey we all have our own little dreams...
I enjoyed that IBM started porting Linux to the S390, found that hugely amusing. I thought, OK, somebody has done a few too many drugs.
Alright that made me laugh out loud. And confirmed the fact to the wife that I'm a geek because it did.
Damn you Torvalds...
*dives for the bunker*
You know you can't say something like that around here!
Not only that but look at the topic icon(s) at the top of the page.
Somehow they've managed to stack both the Mozilla and The Internet icons.
Is this the new standard for "We know it's a dupe" or is it just me?
One more time Taco. Post this just ONE MORE TIME and the penguin gets it!
Oh and Happy April Fool's Day to you too. You bastage.
Can anyone point to a good place to read more about all the idiot ideas floating around in Congress? I'd like to get a better handle on who the real bozos are who float this kind of stupid shit.
I think you may be tackling that from the wrong end. I'm sure you'll save yourself a lot of time if you try to find out which ones aren't the bozos.
And I'm only half joking about this.
Google cache of mirrors
Enjoy them while they last.
The proposal cleared a crucial hurdle earlier Wednesday when a House of Representatives committee voted to give the FTC the power to collect fees from telemarketers to pay for the list.
So they're making them pay for it too?
Hot damn. If I ever meet an FTC member they're getting a hug.
I had a similar situation to that some months ago except it was a tad worse.
One of my Citrix users in a remote branch managed to install Hotbar (I won't link to this particular piece of scumware) into her Outlook. What's amazing about this is that i have specifically locked them out of installing anything through policies but yet this little jewel managed to get through.
To make things worse I first noticed it when I logged into the box from home and found that I had it. And so did the other 150 users.
Talk about pissed. I punted everyone out of the system until I could manually go through every user's registry settings and nuke the little bastard which was the only way to get rid of it.
Two come to mind for me.
:)
Peter F. Hamilton. I really enjoyed his Confederate Universe series. Looking at your list above you probably would too.
John Varley. Very entertaining. Also notice my sig.
That's it.
We need a +1:Henpecked mod category.
The Friday after the U.S. Thanksgiving. Traditionally the biggest shopping day in the States.
I think it's the duplicity that the government is showing is what everyone has a problem with.
"DoS'ing people is bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. Oh wait a minute... except for them."
It's just another instance of someone trying to have it both ways.
But it's not.
Even if you ignore the technical aspects of monitoring bandwidth usage and tying it to individual accounts you then run into the business cost overhead increase of changing your billing method.
Which is easier and/or cheaper? Flat-rate billing all of your customers regardless of bandwidth usage or doing it as they suggest and charging the bandwidth pigs extra?
As the overhead goes up that cost gets passed along to the customers as well.
As far as CS and UT go, I don't play those but I do play TFC.
/.
I said this the last time this thing was posted on
Play sniper with this dot on your forehead and imagine this situation.
"Nid what the Hell are you aiming at? You missed that last guy by half the map."
"STFU! I've got the damned hiccups!"
Since you imply that your company has lost control of the local machine settings and your Help Desk is, as you implied, somewhat incompetent... this is Citrix's fault.
Sorry but you've lost me.
Because Terminal Server alone won't let you do everything that Metaframe does.
Amen on the printer support. Especially in the XP version. That doesn't work anywhere near like they advertise. There are workarounds though.
But I'll have to disagree with you on the single server part. I have three of them here that are load-balanced into one farm. It actually works well that way. As long as I don't get a user doing something to hog processor time.
You are correct though when you say you need powerful servers. Some java sessions inside IE will take up 30M of memory. If I get 10 people doing that on a single box it won't take long for the box to go into vapor lock.
Citrix Metaframe running on top of Terminal Server.
Oh c'mon. Go for it all.
Give me one of those Universal Providers that the Kiint had.
Congratulations. He's yours to mold now as you see fit. :)
Isn't that the same bet that fired off the dot com craze?
And we all know how well that worked out.