And have a badly implemented network for their trouble. Windows has a ton of stuff defaulted wrong out of the box. You can get away with it in a some little ten-person shop maybe, but not in the real world...
It's also not that complicated, just submerge a big old titanium heat exchanger out in the water and let convection do its thing. On the hot side you run distilled water, glycol, or whatever's the latest "green" fluid.
Iridum is a good start.
But take that, a generic WIFI card, whatever 3G service you like, and heck, anything else you can think of, and glue it all together with pfSense.
Only time you'll have trouble is if you're actually in motion and have a secure connection established (e.g. VPN or SSL), and you lose the active connection, the other end will see you on a different IP and you'll have to re-authenticate.
(Oh, did I mention that pfSense is awesome?:)
Just because Siebel hasn't been able to change with the times does NOT mean that there is any less opportunity. If anything quite the opposite is the case, (and I speak from 20+ years experience in the industry).
I know we should never excuse ignorance for malice but in this case, I think it was malice. IT appears what he said doesn't match the story summery.
True enough, but this quote: "Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting." is there, and it portrays his ignorance as much as anything. The margins have been in advertising for decades now.
Eh, beat me to it!
And there have been incremental increases in efficiency across a whole range of cell technologies on a regular basis, including the use of quantum wells, (and other quantum effects), in other materials. In fact, the only reason it's even possible to insinuate any big hoopla about GaAs cells is that they've been around so long a lot of experimenters have stopped trying to improve them. Badly worded article/summary for sure...
I should clarify a little - don't take that to mean it's okay to be pretentious, and yes, sometimes you do have to talk down to somebody else's level. (In fact, depending on your level of native intelligence, you may have to do that pretty much all day, every day!) But the take-away is to start "normal", (high), and only fall back if you have to. I've known more than a few people who worked very menial, boring jobs suggesting an IQ in the mid double digits but who were in fact highly intelligent and would not appreciate being condescended to. Their choice of work and mode of life is simply due to having a different set of priorities.
Actually, there is one church that geeks fit into pretty well. It's the Unitarian Universalists. I'll just say they started in Transylvania and let you Google the rest.:)
One bit of additional info, which you may not find online, they are a truly democratic church and each congregation very much sets the tone. I.e. if you have several of them in your area you'll probably want to try them all out and see which one fits best.
Mods on crack!
We have hundreds of clients with a broad range of quality of workstation and server hardware from in-house-built white-box crud to Tier-1 (HP, IBM).
Obviously there is variation from one production model to the next, the best Western Digital is certainly far better than the worst Seagate, and Western Digital has held the performance edge for a long time, (though that may change once Seagate has finally finished absorbing Maxtors patent portfolio).
But in the main, the post above is not a troll, it is based on direct observation of failure rates in the field.
"think that Western Digital is going to be OK with near 100% failure of their drives in a RAID 5 array?"
Given that WD's 5-year failure rate is ~20%, yes, they do appear to be okay with something like that.
And when you compare that with Seagate's ~2% failure rate in the same period I suspect that such pwn3rz-ation of the marketplace has already happened.
And tech idiots never look at the business cases...
Where I work we actually like downturns in the economy. We do IT consulting and while our clients do spend significantly less overall during a downturn a sufficient percentage of the budget shifts from hardware with no margin to services, (high margin), keeping the old important stuff running that we actually come out better for it!
...an unnatural person, congealed into existence in the dark quagmires of the legal landscape...
As amusing as this may sound, it is technically quite close to the truth. The choice of phrase is due to the fact that corporations are legal entities, technically "corporate persons", unto themselves. Such an entity legally is, in fact, an "unnatural person".
The difference is that even after SP1 Vista still has major problems with blue/black screens of death which require a full reinstall to "cure". Windows XP was more stable than Vista from the beginning and after 20mo was actually usable in a corporate environment.
The more apt comparison is between Vista and Windows ME...
I'll make it easy, here's a hand-dandy wire gauge calculator/ and AWG size reference chart.
Plug any normal residential electrical load into it for both 120v and 12v, keep the voltage drop to ~2v (acceptable to most 12v devices, including inverters) and you'll find that in all but the most extreme cases you'll need a max difference of 3X wire diameter between 12v and 120v and that just for the primary feeds coming in from the power source and normal wiring suffices for all but the longest secondaries.
10X diameter is just ridiculous, (in fact with AWG only going to 000000 you wouldn't even be on an AWG chart any more).
The marine reference was simply for sourcing equipment. We had 60W-100W lights throughout the house. Generator and battery bank were about 50ft away in a separate shed. Longest run was about 100ft total. We had other misc small appliances, (toaster, blender, hot-wire foam/glass cutter, soldering iron, inverter-powered microwave, fans etc).
We had friends down the road with a similar setup only larger house/generator/load. Some of their runs were close to 200ft from their battery bank.
In no case did we have to deviate from normal wire gauge standards. Why? Because the math doesn't change. There seems to be some confusion between amperage and power. Amps are only half the equation. (Indeed, one should do the math! Just make sure you use the right formula!:)
Glad to hear you have such fantastically over-provisioned wiring though. Used to be the goal was a chicken in every pot, maybe now it's a machine-shop in every room!!:):)
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And have a badly implemented network for their trouble. Windows has a ton of stuff defaulted wrong out of the box. You can get away with it in a some little ten-person shop maybe, but not in the real world...
Notes?!? You have got to be kidding...
It's also not that complicated, just submerge a big old titanium heat exchanger out in the water and let convection do its thing. On the hot side you run distilled water, glycol, or whatever's the latest "green" fluid.
Iridum is a good start. But take that, a generic WIFI card, whatever 3G service you like, and heck, anything else you can think of, and glue it all together with pfSense. Only time you'll have trouble is if you're actually in motion and have a secure connection established (e.g. VPN or SSL), and you lose the active connection, the other end will see you on a different IP and you'll have to re-authenticate. (Oh, did I mention that pfSense is awesome? :)
> You call 1% rare?
Yes
ROFL! Mod parent up! :)
Just because Siebel hasn't been able to change with the times does NOT mean that there is any less opportunity. If anything quite the opposite is the case, (and I speak from 20+ years experience in the industry).
I know we should never excuse ignorance for malice but in this case, I think it was malice. IT appears what he said doesn't match the story summery.
True enough, but this quote: "Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting." is there, and it portrays his ignorance as much as anything. The margins have been in advertising for decades now.
"Uhhhhh....I thought that the whole point of XP Mode [wincert.net] on Win 7 was to fix problems like that?" :):):)
Wow! That's my laugh for the day!
Eh, beat me to it! And there have been incremental increases in efficiency across a whole range of cell technologies on a regular basis, including the use of quantum wells, (and other quantum effects), in other materials. In fact, the only reason it's even possible to insinuate any big hoopla about GaAs cells is that they've been around so long a lot of experimenters have stopped trying to improve them. Badly worded article/summary for sure...
I should clarify a little - don't take that to mean it's okay to be pretentious, and yes, sometimes you do have to talk down to somebody else's level. (In fact, depending on your level of native intelligence, you may have to do that pretty much all day, every day!) But the take-away is to start "normal", (high), and only fall back if you have to. I've known more than a few people who worked very menial, boring jobs suggesting an IQ in the mid double digits but who were in fact highly intelligent and would not appreciate being condescended to. Their choice of work and mode of life is simply due to having a different set of priorities.
Don't worry about the speech thing. As long as you don't talk like a robot it's a good initial filter for intelligence when first meeting someone.
Actually, there is one church that geeks fit into pretty well. It's the Unitarian Universalists. I'll just say they started in Transylvania and let you Google the rest. :)
One bit of additional info, which you may not find online, they are a truly democratic church and each congregation very much sets the tone. I.e. if you have several of them in your area you'll probably want to try them all out and see which one fits best.
Is that the milk Schroedinger's cat drank? (Or did it?)
You are in a maze of twisty little analogies, all alike...
Mods on crack!
We have hundreds of clients with a broad range of quality of workstation and server hardware from in-house-built white-box crud to Tier-1 (HP, IBM).
Obviously there is variation from one production model to the next, the best Western Digital is certainly far better than the worst Seagate, and Western Digital has held the performance edge for a long time, (though that may change once Seagate has finally finished absorbing Maxtors patent portfolio).
But in the main, the post above is not a troll, it is based on direct observation of failure rates in the field.
"think that Western Digital is going to be OK with near 100% failure of their drives in a RAID 5 array?"
Given that WD's 5-year failure rate is ~20%, yes, they do appear to be okay with something like that.
And when you compare that with Seagate's ~2% failure rate in the same period I suspect that such pwn3rz-ation of the marketplace has already happened.
Cisco...saving money?!?! Right.
No kidding, especially since it's all just HP gear rebranded and marked up several hundred percent.
Don't know if it's still in print but Rosch's Hardware Bible used to be a pretty good stand-alone resource.
And tech idiots never look at the business cases...
Where I work we actually like downturns in the economy. We do IT consulting and while our clients do spend significantly less overall during a downturn a sufficient percentage of the budget shifts from hardware with no margin to services, (high margin), keeping the old important stuff running that we actually come out better for it!
Well, I think you'll probably pick up those best practices as part of your "training".
Yeh, sounds like he's got a good head start on things already:
the last 3 years of support desk gives me the business sense
ROFLMAO!
...an unnatural person, congealed into existence in the dark quagmires of the legal landscape...
As amusing as this may sound, it is technically quite close to the truth. The choice of phrase is due to the fact that corporations are legal entities, technically "corporate persons", unto themselves. Such an entity legally is, in fact, an "unnatural person".
Gee, sounds pretty close to HIPAA, which has only been mandated at the federal level for years now! Egads, no wonder NV has problems...
What's the difference?
The difference is that even after SP1 Vista still has major problems with blue/black screens of death which require a full reinstall to "cure". Windows XP was more stable than Vista from the beginning and after 20mo was actually usable in a corporate environment.
The more apt comparison is between Vista and Windows ME...
I'll make it easy, here's a hand-dandy wire gauge calculator/ and AWG size reference chart.
Plug any normal residential electrical load into it for both 120v and 12v, keep the voltage drop to ~2v (acceptable to most 12v devices, including inverters) and you'll find that in all but the most extreme cases you'll need a max difference of 3X wire diameter between 12v and 120v and that just for the primary feeds coming in from the power source and normal wiring suffices for all but the longest secondaries.
10X diameter is just ridiculous, (in fact with AWG only going to 000000 you wouldn't even be on an AWG chart any more).
The marine reference was simply for sourcing equipment. We had 60W-100W lights throughout the house. Generator and battery bank were about 50ft away in a separate shed. Longest run was about 100ft total. We had other misc small appliances, (toaster, blender, hot-wire foam/glass cutter, soldering iron, inverter-powered microwave, fans etc). :) :):)
We had friends down the road with a similar setup only larger house/generator/load. Some of their runs were close to 200ft from their battery bank.
In no case did we have to deviate from normal wire gauge standards. Why? Because the math doesn't change. There seems to be some confusion between amperage and power. Amps are only half the equation. (Indeed, one should do the math! Just make sure you use the right formula!
Glad to hear you have such fantastically over-provisioned wiring though. Used to be the goal was a chicken in every pot, maybe now it's a machine-shop in every room!!