Does anyone know the long term (or even medium-term) effects of leaving the protective bubble of Earth's magnetic field and being bombarded with all the subatomic particles spewed by the sun? The only humans so far who have done this were only out there for a week or so. From what I understand, high-orbit satellites suffer greatly from this problem and they have to use special electronics designed to deal with it. Normal silicon chips die pretty quickly out there.
I don't have it all in front of me, but some of the MetaData functions return new values that they didn't before. Basic users of JDBC don't care so much, but things like object serialization and code generators are affected.
1. If the dog eats a student's email, you can easily cut them a CD with all of their email on it, for a modest charge. 2. Throw in free football tickets or whatever as an incentive. 3. Think outside the inbox and provide services that gmail doesn't. 4. Promise them you won't read their email unless the gummint makes them. Go ahead, try to get that promise out of gmail or hotmail. 5. Set aside some of the profits toward a needy cause at the school and make people feel good for contributing. 6. When (not if) Verizon falls down, you (and the rest of the school!) are still humming and the gmail users are SOL.
You are so right. Really, the only way to measure a person's worth is to do a Google search on what you think is their name.
I don't see the words "typical" or "average" in what I quoted. You've fabricated "meaning in average in aggregate..." on your own.
I was also an MIT employee for a year, and MIT paid me back ALL that I paid to them in four years.
True story: my boss and I were messing with the web cams on our spiffy SGI workstations very late one night. After maybe two or three minutes, there was a LOUD knock on the door. It was a guy from MIT Networking, from the other end of campus, complaining that the subnet mask on one of the machines was not set right.
I know IMAP. I worked for a VERY BIG email company. You can use quotas. Use Cyrus IMAP and you can keep all the account info (including quotas) in an LDAP database so you don't need a zillion entries in/etc/passwd. If you want something Really Robust, talk to OpenWave.
You CAN force people to download their email and clear it from the server with IMAP. Like I said, you can make a school operation like this pay for itself by providing barebones service for free and charging for extra storage space.
We simply can't provide 5 GB of storage to an account.
You don't have to do that. Use IMAP with a low quota and make the students store their own mail on their own computers. You can sell extra capacity for those who prefer to store email on the server, and turn your email operation into a revenue stream.
Apple integrates their Java into the OS, but a standalone JDK exists within its own directory tree and doesn't interfere with anything else. I have 4 different JDKs installed on my machines and they don't interfere with each other or the resident JDK.
People are talking about collectors for working stuff, but I have a rather remarkable pile of old Western Digital and DeathStar hard drives, all dead as doornails. All my Seagate drives are all still working, even the really old 1 Gb SCSI drives, so I learned my lesson there. I also have dead monitors, burned-out power supplies, etc. Nobody wants this crap! It's not good for anything!
1. They are too fragile. 2. The internal guts are too hard to work with. Anything more than a RAM upgrade is a nightmare of tiny screws and shielding tape. 3. Operating systems are targeted for desktops and servers, they don't make it easy to set up a laptop the way you want, with encrypted partitions, network configuration, etc. Sure these features are there for the tinkering, but I don't want to mess around, I just want to get to work. 4. Laptop hard drives are so slow! You would think there could be a slightly larger drive form factor that would allow for a drive whose speed approaches that of a standard hard drive. 5. The batteries are all different. Hard drives, RAM, etc. are interchangeable to some extent, why not batteries? 6. Those tiny little laptop cooling fans drive me batty. I really hate the high-pitched whine. 7. While I appreciate the small size, I would gladly trade a pound or so and a quarter inch of thickness for less whiney fans and a faster hard drive. If it's too big to fit in my pocket, it should be a real computer. 8. Not much to be done about it, but it's not possible to use one in comfort; the ergonomics inherently suck.
Not every program has the option to only listen on specific interfaces; it has to be coded into the program. You need a firewall if you want to run one of these programs without exposing it.
Maybe it wasn't a disaster, but there was a terrible incident at a plant in Connecticut where a worker spilled stuff on the floor and did not clean it up. It got tracked into the parking lot and washed into a nearby stream. The clean-up cost was incredible. Nobody learned anything from it, except how expensive it is to clean up nuclear waste.
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Why do I suddenly feel an urgent need to rush to the store to buy some Lightspeed Briefs?
Does anyone know the long term (or even medium-term) effects of leaving the protective bubble of Earth's magnetic field and being bombarded with all the subatomic particles spewed by the sun? The only humans so far who have done this were only out there for a week or so. From what I understand, high-orbit satellites suffer greatly from this problem and they have to use special electronics designed to deal with it. Normal silicon chips die pretty quickly out there.
I don't have it all in front of me, but some of the MetaData functions return new values that they didn't before. Basic users of JDBC don't care so much, but things like object serialization and code generators are affected.
1. If the dog eats a student's email, you can easily cut them a CD with all of their email on it, for a modest charge.
2. Throw in free football tickets or whatever as an incentive.
3. Think outside the inbox and provide services that gmail doesn't.
4. Promise them you won't read their email unless the gummint makes them. Go ahead, try to get that promise out of gmail or hotmail.
5. Set aside some of the profits toward a needy cause at the school and make people feel good for contributing.
6. When (not if) Verizon falls down, you (and the rest of the school!) are still humming and the gmail users are SOL.
I wish there were more sys admins like you.
set up by an IT staff that had all been fired
Your problem is not IT staff, it's clueless administration. It's too bad they can't outsource that.
Wow, angry much? Ever heard of a laugh?
You are so right. Really, the only way to measure a person's worth is to do a Google search on what you think is their name.
I don't see the words "typical" or "average" in what I quoted. You've fabricated "meaning in average in aggregate..." on your own.
I was also an MIT employee for a year, and MIT paid me back ALL that I paid to them in four years.
True story: my boss and I were messing with the web cams on our spiffy SGI workstations very late one night. After maybe two or three minutes, there was a LOUD knock on the door. It was a guy from MIT Networking, from the other end of campus, complaining that the subnet mask on one of the machines was not set right.
"Anonymous Coward" pretty well sums it up.
I know IMAP. I worked for a VERY BIG email company. You can use quotas. Use Cyrus IMAP and you can keep all the account info (including quotas) in an LDAP database so you don't need a zillion entries in /etc/passwd. If you want something Really Robust, talk to OpenWave.
You CAN force people to download their email and clear it from the server with IMAP. Like I said, you can make a school operation like this pay for itself by providing barebones service for free and charging for extra storage space.
We simply can't provide 5 GB of storage to an account.
You don't have to do that. Use IMAP with a low quota and make the students store their own mail on their own computers. You can sell extra capacity for those who prefer to store email on the server, and turn your email operation into a revenue stream.
Higher Ed. Has below average skills in handling their own IT Infrastructure.
Speak for yourself, buddy.
Fran Taylor, MIT '89
"If I accidentally buy too many Wii's from Amazon"
You must be one of those REALLY compulsive shoppers. Turn off one-click if you haven't had your coffee yet.
Where are the Java 6 apps out there that make this necessary? Java 6 introduces incompatible changes to JDBC, so new database drivers are necessary.
Okay, developers need it, but why not develop on Linux, which has had Java 6 for some time now?
"Write once, test everywhere"
Probably not. This is only good news if you need JDK 6.
Apple integrates their Java into the OS, but a standalone JDK exists within its own directory tree and doesn't interfere with anything else. I have 4 different JDKs installed on my machines and they don't interfere with each other or the resident JDK.
Oh, that's an easy one. Take advantage of the garbage collection and the JIT compiler. Why write your own when you can use what already exists?
De gustibus non est disputandem.
The power supply I'm talking about is mostly black inside. Many parts are burnt to a crisp. You don't even want to open it.
More non-answers! Apparently I'm not the only one who is at a loss here.
Exactly my point. My town is just chucking the stuff. I want to do better than that.
Yes, I know about the fun magnets. Big deal. That's about 0.01% of my crap. What about the rest?
People are talking about collectors for working stuff, but I have a rather remarkable pile of old Western Digital and DeathStar hard drives, all dead as doornails. All my Seagate drives are all still working, even the really old 1 Gb SCSI drives, so I learned my lesson there. I also have dead monitors, burned-out power supplies, etc. Nobody wants this crap! It's not good for anything!
My problems with laptops:
1. They are too fragile.
2. The internal guts are too hard to work with. Anything more than a RAM upgrade is a nightmare of tiny screws and shielding tape.
3. Operating systems are targeted for desktops and servers, they don't make it easy to set up a laptop the way you want, with encrypted partitions, network configuration, etc. Sure these features are there for the tinkering, but I don't want to mess around, I just want to get to work.
4. Laptop hard drives are so slow! You would think there could be a slightly larger drive form factor that would allow for a drive whose speed approaches that of a standard hard drive.
5. The batteries are all different. Hard drives, RAM, etc. are interchangeable to some extent, why not batteries?
6. Those tiny little laptop cooling fans drive me batty. I really hate the high-pitched whine.
7. While I appreciate the small size, I would gladly trade a pound or so and a quarter inch of thickness for less whiney fans and a faster hard drive. If it's too big to fit in my pocket, it should be a real computer.
8. Not much to be done about it, but it's not possible to use one in comfort; the ergonomics inherently suck.
Not every program has the option to only listen on specific interfaces; it has to be coded into the program. You need a firewall if you want to run one of these programs without exposing it.
Sessions can be recorded and cracked later when cpu is even more plentiful.
Encryption keys can be demanded by the government, they'll throw you in jail for not complying.
Keep your dirty laundry out of your computer.
The government doesn't think that your data is something that should be protected from unreasonable search, you shouldn't either.
Backing up is easy, it's the restoring part that's hard.
Maybe it wasn't a disaster, but there was a terrible incident at a plant in Connecticut where a worker spilled stuff on the floor and did not clean it up. It got tracked into the parking lot and washed into a nearby stream. The clean-up cost was incredible. Nobody learned anything from it, except how expensive it is to clean up nuclear waste.
You don't have to make an atomic bomb out of it. Pulverize it and get it into the atmosphere and you can kill a lot of people.