Maxtor (and Western Digital) are pretty bad these days. We quit using them in our servers at all awhile back (I work for a VAR). IBM and Seagate (with a couple of notable individual model exceptions) are the best. Quantum being middle-of-the-road of course, though that may change since Maxtor bought them a year or so ago.
This guy wrote all of those Radio Shack books and a good many more besides. They're what I started on and durned if I've ever seen anything better. He's dead now but RatShack still carries 'em.
...when you use a mechanical switch box! And I've hunted through the code to figure out how to make it auto-reset when it gets bogus input (like Windows does automatically) and that is some nasty code!!
So no, I wouldn't recommend a manual switchbox without having a separate mouse for each workstation!
Heinz would, in fact, have some legal standing if they had to rewrite the "ketchup code" for each of the other vendors.
So it's really not the same at all.
(And how the heck can I delete an accidental post anyway? That AC above is me and I need/want the karma points!:)
Adding a bit more as I wait for 2 minutes...
As for legality, the DMCA would have us believe it's not legal at all, however, I believe that depends on the manner of reverse-engineering. The code itself is apparently off-limits, but I wouldn't think the file-format couldn't be poked and prodded to the same end.
IANAL, ITALITH (Is There A Lawyer In The House) who can refute this?
I'm giving you top links rather than deep ones because these sites have a LOT of other good info which it would behoove you to run across on your way to finding them.:)
Actually, many of the Joes on the street I run into (I work for a VAR) think that they use "Office" or "Microsoft". There is rarely any differentiation between the company or its products in the average home user's mind.
My Uncle's got the Dutch military version of the Mog. We got it stuck in a swamp one time.
He just put it in the lowest gear and we left for lunch. Came back an hour and a half later and it was just crawling out the other side.
Only thing that sucks is parts. That series isn't made any more and if something breaks it has to be custom fab'd at a local machine shop.
But what about the other 90-some-odd percent of the population which doesn't have a computer?!?
Sounds like some politicos felt the pinch and decided that was a good way to exempt themselves from the problem.
Wonder how much cash is headed for the Bahamas/Belize/Luxembour through those "electronic transactions" right now?
TSIA.
The fact is there's a niche between small business (Microsoft products) and Fortune 100 (*Nix) where Novell's products reside quite comfortably.
And eDirectory is a full-featured LDAP implementation in its own right. Not to mention the free version for Linux! (Registration required).
Hey, whad'ya know, I see that/. is filtering out the quotes in the link.
Here it is again in plain text for your cut'n'pasting pleasure:
https://download.novell.com/ICSLogin/?"http://do wn load.novell.com/download.jsp?cat=NDS&pid=646&targe t=sdExpLic.jsp"
You're right on the Johnny Mnemonic thing, but hey, if I could plug a module in my head that stored an entire encyclopedia and be able to access it like it were an adjunct to my own memory think what a benefit that would be in so many environments!!
Need to repair that aircraft engine you've never seen before? Plug the chip in! S'long as one has a foundation of basic skills and knowledge, the minutiae of many fields could be placed on a chip, saving (potentially) years of study.
If we could interface a neuronal structure (our brain) to a silicon structure (ROM) it would totally revolutionise the way we conduct our entire existence.
Not to mention the potential for interfacing. (DOOM the way it was meant to be! And other, er, "entertainment":)
I've heard it said that mechanic spends 10% of his time diagnosing the problem and the other 90% doing the sweat-work to fix it.
An IT guy has it the other way around.
Sweat or not, I'd rather have my brain engaged 90% of the time, so I work with computers instead of cars.
Also, if you look at what you pay for a mechanic vs what you can get paid consulting, your time is much better spent on computer problems!
But if you actively enjoy getting grungy, hey, go for it...
Egads, how could you mention SMS in the same sentence as any other Enterprise management suite? I can't count how many companies I've helped rip out SMS and replace it with anything else.
SMS only works in huge corporations where MS feels like enough money is being spent that they are willing to send a team of SMS developers over.
(If anyone's interested, that's also how they got NT 3.x/4.x into Fortune 100 co's like AT&T, UPRR, BellAtlantic, etc. The big boys which MS lists as using NT aren't using the same NT that you and I buy. Fortunately that's pretty much, finally, changed as of Win2k).
Not to mention SMS doesn't support Linux and so isn't even on-topic for the question above.
Geez...
:)
And just to be on-topic myself - go with Tivoli. My answer would have been OpenView as the best of a bad bunch a few years ago, but Tivoli's really come along since then.
Netware 3.x (way prior to '96!) had several patches which loaded at run-time. Some of them fixed problems with memory allocation. Not sure where you'd get good evidence but an email to their tech-support might yield some results.
Novell is one of the few companies who actually has their programmers do tech-support on a rotating basis. Just ask that the email be forwarded to one of the OS programmers and they'd probably be willing to at least make a statement to that effect.
...with the recent release of LOTR, Alan Turing has been found to be the originator of DNS and somewhat megalomaniac, as evidenced by this inscription:
One Rule Turing them all
One Find Turing them,
One Bring Turing them all
And in the darkness BIND them
(Who knew Tolkien was secretly dyslexic?)
Score=Funny - Right on!
Score=Offtopic - Oh yeah? Let's see you post something better!:)
The turning off is a valid point, but just as with car engines and computers, the heating and cooling cycle does damage to a bulb as well. I don't know of a good rule of thumb (and I'm sure it varies from one type of bulb/projector to the next) but if I'm not using it for only ten minutes or so I probably wouldn't.
Over a half-hour, then definitely.
Twenty-minutes? That's a toss-up...
LCD projectors are actually extremely picky about bulbs. Not only is all of the above true, but the spectrum of light is especially critical as projector manufacturers "tune" the LCD based on the light they expect to have coming through it.
This is why a cheap (off-brand)replacement bulb will sometimes cause a slight tint in the picture no matter how much you play with the color controls.
You could, in theory, redefine the light parameters used by the projector, but I've never heard of anyone even trying.
Only two drops per room?!? Not even close to enough! I would do two drops per wall (8 per room) at a minimum, and possibly 4 (2 pair) on rooms with longer walls (as many as 16 drops per room).
The rationale is simple. You never know when/where you'll need 'em, and s'long as you've got the wall open anyway it doesn't cost any more (beyond a few dollars extra cable anyway).
Dunno 'bout cases (rather doubt there's sufficient market), but you could have an expansion chassis facing forward easily enough to get the cards around.
Or, cheaper but more difficult (due to having to do your own cabling) you could use an external drive chassis the same way.
...duh! You've probably never seen a real BMW either (the ones with the Werke symbol on the corner of the trunk).
Lots of guys in the service get stationed overseas, pick up sweet Euro cars and bring 'em home. (And they can make a killing shipping American muscle cars over there too).
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Maxtor (and Western Digital) are pretty bad these days. We quit using them in our servers at all awhile back (I work for a VAR). IBM and Seagate (with a couple of notable individual model exceptions) are the best. Quantum being middle-of-the-road of course, though that may change since Maxtor bought them a year or so ago.
This guy wrote all of those Radio Shack books and a good many more besides. They're what I started on and durned if I've ever seen anything better. He's dead now but RatShack still carries 'em.
...when you use a mechanical switch box! And I've hunted through the code to figure out how to make it auto-reset when it gets bogus input (like Windows does automatically) and that is some nasty code!!
So no, I wouldn't recommend a manual switchbox without having a separate mouse for each workstation!
Heinz would, in fact, have some legal standing if they had to rewrite the "ketchup code" for each of the other vendors.
:)
So it's really not the same at all.
(And how the heck can I delete an accidental post anyway? That AC above is me and I need/want the karma points!
Adding a bit more as I wait for 2 minutes...
As for legality, the DMCA would have us believe it's not legal at all, however, I believe that depends on the manner of reverse-engineering. The code itself is apparently off-limits, but I wouldn't think the file-format couldn't be poked and prodded to the same end.
IANAL, ITALITH (Is There A Lawyer In The House) who can refute this?
...because they'd still be running on a couple of D-cells. :)
...a SPORK!
Guru.com
:)
Techrepublic.Com
I'm giving you top links rather than deep ones because these sites have a LOT of other good info which it would behoove you to run across on your way to finding them.
Actually, many of the Joes on the street I run into (I work for a VAR) think that they use "Office" or "Microsoft". There is rarely any differentiation between the company or its products in the average home user's mind.
My Uncle's got the Dutch military version of the Mog. We got it stuck in a swamp one time.
He just put it in the lowest gear and we left for lunch. Came back an hour and a half later and it was just crawling out the other side.
Only thing that sucks is parts. That series isn't made any more and if something breaks it has to be custom fab'd at a local machine shop.
But what about the other 90-some-odd percent of the population which doesn't have a computer?!?
Sounds like some politicos felt the pinch and decided that was a good way to exempt themselves from the problem.
Wonder how much cash is headed for the Bahamas/Belize/Luxembour through those "electronic transactions" right now?
If Asterix
Had Mobilix
Just think of
All the benefix!
'Course if Obelix
Had Mobilix
All the tech-support-nix
Would be pulling
Out their battle-ix...
[pause]
(Sotto voce) - That's the plural of battle-axe...
[/pause]
...And removing his appendix!
TSIA.
/. is filtering out the quotes in the link.
o wn load.novell.com/download.jsp?cat=NDS&pid=646&targe t=sdExpLic.jsp"
The fact is there's a niche between small business (Microsoft products) and Fortune 100 (*Nix) where Novell's products reside quite comfortably.
And eDirectory is a full-featured LDAP implementation in its own right. Not to mention the free version for Linux! (Registration required).
Hey, whad'ya know, I see that
Here it is again in plain text for your cut'n'pasting pleasure:
https://download.novell.com/ICSLogin/?"http://d
I've got it running on an old 7300 with an XLR8 G4 module and 168M and it runs just fine.
You're right on the Johnny Mnemonic thing, but hey, if I could plug a module in my head that stored an entire encyclopedia and be able to access it like it were an adjunct to my own memory think what a benefit that would be in so many environments!! :)
Need to repair that aircraft engine you've never seen before? Plug the chip in! S'long as one has a foundation of basic skills and knowledge, the minutiae of many fields could be placed on a chip, saving (potentially) years of study.
If we could interface a neuronal structure (our brain) to a silicon structure (ROM) it would totally revolutionise the way we conduct our entire existence.
Not to mention the potential for interfacing. (DOOM the way it was meant to be! And other, er, "entertainment"
I've heard it said that mechanic spends 10% of his time diagnosing the problem and the other 90% doing the sweat-work to fix it.
An IT guy has it the other way around.
Sweat or not, I'd rather have my brain engaged 90% of the time, so I work with computers instead of cars.
Also, if you look at what you pay for a mechanic vs what you can get paid consulting, your time is much better spent on computer problems!
But if you actively enjoy getting grungy, hey, go for it...
Egads, how could you mention SMS in the same sentence as any other Enterprise management suite? I can't count how many companies I've helped rip out SMS and replace it with anything else.
:)
SMS only works in huge corporations where MS feels like enough money is being spent that they are willing to send a team of SMS developers over.
(If anyone's interested, that's also how they got NT 3.x/4.x into Fortune 100 co's like AT&T, UPRR, BellAtlantic, etc. The big boys which MS lists as using NT aren't using the same NT that you and I buy. Fortunately that's pretty much, finally, changed as of Win2k).
Not to mention SMS doesn't support Linux and so isn't even on-topic for the question above.
Geez...
And just to be on-topic myself - go with Tivoli. My answer would have been OpenView as the best of a bad bunch a few years ago, but Tivoli's really come along since then.
Netware 3.x (way prior to '96!) had several patches which loaded at run-time. Some of them fixed problems with memory allocation. Not sure where you'd get good evidence but an email to their tech-support might yield some results.
Novell is one of the few companies who actually has their programmers do tech-support on a rotating basis. Just ask that the email be forwarded to one of the OS programmers and they'd probably be willing to at least make a statement to that effect.
...with the recent release of LOTR, Alan Turing has been found to be the originator of DNS and somewhat megalomaniac, as evidenced by this inscription:
:)
One Rule Turing them all
One Find Turing them,
One Bring Turing them all
And in the darkness BIND them
(Who knew Tolkien was secretly dyslexic?)
Score=Funny - Right on!
Score=Offtopic - Oh yeah? Let's see you post something better!
You only need as many hubs/ports as you have live connections. Leave the rest disconnected.
Or do other things with them:
- intercom
- security system
- bundle pairs (to get enough wire-gauge) and have whole-house audio
- data-collection (e.g. thermostat, weather-station etc.)
Cat-5 provides good, clean signal over a variety of wavelengths - the possibilities are endless.
The turning off is a valid point, but just as with car engines and computers, the heating and cooling cycle does damage to a bulb as well. I don't know of a good rule of thumb (and I'm sure it varies from one type of bulb/projector to the next) but if I'm not using it for only ten minutes or so I probably wouldn't.
Over a half-hour, then definitely.
Twenty-minutes? That's a toss-up...
LCD projectors are actually extremely picky about bulbs. Not only is all of the above true, but the spectrum of light is especially critical as projector manufacturers "tune" the LCD based on the light they expect to have coming through it.
This is why a cheap (off-brand)replacement bulb will sometimes cause a slight tint in the picture no matter how much you play with the color controls.
You could, in theory, redefine the light parameters used by the projector, but I've never heard of anyone even trying.
Only two drops per room?!? Not even close to enough! I would do two drops per wall (8 per room) at a minimum, and possibly 4 (2 pair) on rooms with longer walls (as many as 16 drops per room).
The rationale is simple. You never know when/where you'll need 'em, and s'long as you've got the wall open anyway it doesn't cost any more (beyond a few dollars extra cable anyway).
Dunno 'bout cases (rather doubt there's sufficient market), but you could have an expansion chassis facing forward easily enough to get the cards around.
Or, cheaper but more difficult (due to having to do your own cabling) you could use an external drive chassis the same way.
...I'd be pissed!
We don' need no steenkin' "meatball lapel pins". We haven't seen a woman in six months! Where's the pr0n?!?
...duh! You've probably never seen a real BMW either (the ones with the Werke symbol on the corner of the trunk).
Lots of guys in the service get stationed overseas, pick up sweet Euro cars and bring 'em home. (And they can make a killing shipping American muscle cars over there too).