Using mixtures of arsenic and zinc to waterproof wood has been a common practice since the 1600's. Dutch Settlers in upstate NY used these methods... which is why 350-450 year old barns and houses aren't that uncommon.
The fact is the notion that everything "leeches" into the soil is pure bunk. Tyvek doesn't eliminate ventilation -- it eliminates leaks. If you want to vent the air -- try opening a window!
Cedar and redwood are great woods, but they are not exactly in great supply. The traits that give these woods their excellent properties are largely becauase they are slow-growth trees that take decades or centuries to replace.
You really need to disavow the conspiracy theories regarding building materials and construction techniques. I'm sure your mom is a great lady with good intentions, but her theories and interpetations of things are just off base.
Running any remote desktop from a client to a windows server requires one user license per active session. If 50 people need to use the app at the same time, you need 50 licenses.
Those licenses are not available for Windows 9x, but you could probaly purchase Windows 2000/XP terminal access licenses and not be considered in violation.
It does not matter where the processing is being done -- a user is a user.
You would be better off advising your customer to either ditch the legacy app, or bite the bullet and buy 50 Windows XP Pro licenses at about $100/per.
When they compare what you are charging them to build & support this terminal server system, Microsoft is prolly cheaper.
If you plan to design operating systems for Sun or compilers for Intel, you had better hope that you hail from Bangalore or Shanghai -- because that's where that work is being done now.
The only growth industry in america is police and rent-a-cops.
I think the main problem that the European Commission has with Echelon is that it allows the US to detect companies like Dassault and Airbus dump and/or bribe foreign officials to purchase their jets.
This is why really crappy military hardware like the Ententard attack aircraft and Mirage fighters managed to be exported anywhere.
At most large companies, you are not a human being, but a "resource".
If a Windows build takes 12 hours, and you don't come in until 8, that means the build won't be build for a minimum of 24 hours.
Alot of Microsoft people have become really rich by virtue of the stock options from Microsoft. Those people decide to forsake things like a normal life for the prospect of retirement at 35 and plenty of cash.
They chose to keep some useful employes employed during a industry implosion, and cut the fat. (like $20/hour intens...)
Personally, that makes the place look more appealing to me. At my job, several professional people in IT, Accounting and Legal are going away. But we hired 5 more cleaning people and are bringing in a gaggle of interns to get in the way this summer.
The only difference between the tech market and clothing, shoes, steel, rail and other industries is the day the pink slips went out and the doors shuttered.
We started using Director on xSeries hardware, and it seems to work alot better than insight manager.
The SNMP traps (or Tivoli TEC events in our case) are alot more intuitive and useful than the crap that insight manager sent out, and the agent seems to be more reliable. You can use a "Director Server" or a product like Nagios or OpenView for alerting.
Keep in mind that "Systems Management" in the pc/unix world is a black hole that consumes time & money. You might be better off using something like VMware GSX server on big Intel hardware or even an IBM zseries and use virtual hosts.
One of the advantages of big, expensive hardware is that they often come with service processors that phone home or page you when problems occur. At our shop, several admins have been suprised when an IBM repairman calls to schedule replacement of a failed disk or fan that they were unaware of -- the service call was generated automatically.
The cell phone carriers spent billions buying all of the appropriate licenses from the FCC. Unless you have the cash to purchase a phone company, it ain't gonna happen.
Get an analog bag phone or be out of touch for a few minutes.
IBM and HP/Compaq make rack mounted servers that have a service processor that allow you to access the system at the BIOS level remotely.
At the place where we work, electricians wire racks, plug systems in, and turn them on. We use Tivoli and IBM software to remotely install images and whatever software bundles the systems need unattended. Of course we also spent gazillions of dollars to do that.
You can also get KVM switches that work over ethernet. They are expensive too.
I am not questioning whether the weather is different today than it was 30 or 50 or 80 years ago. If you were 90 years old you could not prove that there are no naturally occuring climate changes.
I am questioning whether human behavior has anything to do with it.
Scientists use predictive models to track climate change. I question the validity of this data when only about 150 years of temperature data and only about 60 years of complete data is available.
Lebanon was once lush forest and North Africa was the breadbasket of Rome 2000 years ago. Did Roman smelters alter the climate of the Mediterranean? With the exception of sporadic tree-ring data, there is no way to reliably glean ANY weather data for more than about 200 years in the past.
Give me some proof that changes in weather patterns and climate is not a natural phenomenon. Without any pre-industrial data, you cannot.
If climate change is a normal process of nature (like the seasonal cycle) then we will need to adapt to the changes as they come.
Skilled earth scientists cannot accurately predict whether there will be rain or snow tomorrow with lots of expertise in local weather patterns and very accurate data. How can we expect long-range predictions of data to be correct without reliable historical data. Tree ring analysis is useful in showing periods of drought, but drought does not yield precise temperature data.
"Doing" something about a problem we cannot define doesn't really accomplish anything. How can we measure the effect of our actions on the environment when we do not understand the problem and do not know what "normal" conditions are?
Scientists who claim that they can accurately predict global weather trends with about 150 years of reasonable accurate data are kidding themselves.
We do not know what the daily average temperature was in 1812 or 1534. Western society was not even aware that California, Texas or Australia existed in the 1600's.
We have no scientific data available to determine how climates changed before the industrial era. So how can we assume that a periodic cooling/warming cycle is not normal.
I have an education which included a study of economics, which you apparently lack. Before calling me ignorant, you may want to read something other than green propaganda and work on improving your English language skills.
Where is your proof that oil is causing Australian & Americans forests and homes to burn?
In the United States, lightning strikes and dry forest conditions have led to forest fires for centuries. The only difference is that in the past, the nomadic natives simply moved to other regions during the dry season.
Why do you think the Great Plains of the US never turned into forest? Because massive fires charred the landscape annually. Some pine trees need the high temperatures of fires in order for their seeds to germinate.
Human settlement in forest fire areas is the problem. If you build a house on the beach, you should be prepared to have it wash away in a hurricane. Likewise, if you build a house in dry grassland or forest, be prepared to have it burn away.
My countrymen chose to establish homes in wilderness areas prone to fire. They did this in spite of the fact that insurance companies refused to write insurance against the high risk of fire. They made a poor choice, and I pay for their stupidity through confiscatory taxes.
The fact is, there is no viable alternative to oil, nor will there ever be an alternative fuel to enable the suburban lifestyle that Western nations have adopted. When oil supplies begin to wane, you'll start to see a migration back to cities, where mass transportation can absorb the high cost and low efficency of fuel cells or run off electric power.
Massive changes in lifestyle cannot be achieved by decree. When someone decides to attempt that, the result is Stalinist or Maoist barbarism.
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Using mixtures of arsenic and zinc to waterproof wood has been a common practice since the 1600's. Dutch Settlers in upstate NY used these methods... which is why 350-450 year old barns and houses aren't that uncommon.
The fact is the notion that everything "leeches" into the soil is pure bunk. Tyvek doesn't eliminate ventilation -- it eliminates leaks. If you want to vent the air -- try opening a window!
Cedar and redwood are great woods, but they are not exactly in great supply. The traits that give these woods their excellent properties are largely becauase they are slow-growth trees that take decades or centuries to replace.
You really need to disavow the conspiracy theories regarding building materials and construction techniques. I'm sure your mom is a great lady with good intentions, but her theories and interpetations of things are just off base.
That depends on the app though...
If you have a call center or some other environment where time is important, that solution won't work.
The school prolly had the lab donated to them.
Also, recruiters don't give a shit about software licensing. They are there for the warm bodies.
Running any remote desktop from a client to a windows server requires one user license per active session. If 50 people need to use the app at the same time, you need 50 licenses.
Those licenses are not available for Windows 9x, but you could probaly purchase Windows 2000/XP terminal access licenses and not be considered in violation.
It does not matter where the processing is being done -- a user is a user.
You would be better off advising your customer to either ditch the legacy app, or bite the bullet and buy 50 Windows XP Pro licenses at about $100/per.
When they compare what you are charging them to build & support this terminal server system, Microsoft is prolly cheaper.
If you are willing to go through the fallout that will result from you causing alot of trouble in your department, speak to the proper authorities.
Otherwise, shut up like everyone else.
Hahaha... you're pretty funny.
If you plan to design operating systems for Sun or compilers for Intel, you had better hope that you hail from Bangalore or Shanghai -- because that's where that work is being done now.
The only growth industry in america is police and rent-a-cops.
I think the main problem that the European Commission has with Echelon is that it allows the US to detect companies like Dassault and Airbus dump and/or bribe foreign officials to purchase their jets.
This is why really crappy military hardware like the Ententard attack aircraft and Mirage fighters managed to be exported anywhere.
I guess he writes books...
Too bad this "interview" contains no background and no way for anyone except for a few slashdot editors to figure out wtf is going on.
At most large companies, you are not a human being, but a "resource".
If a Windows build takes 12 hours, and you don't come in until 8, that means the build won't be build for a minimum of 24 hours.
Alot of Microsoft people have become really rich by virtue of the stock options from Microsoft. Those people decide to forsake things like a normal life for the prospect of retirement at 35 and plenty of cash.
Not at Microsoft.
If some overachiever finds a bug in code you are responsible for at 2:30 AM Sunday morning, you get paged.
Why would you never do business with them?
They chose to keep some useful employes employed during a industry implosion, and cut the fat. (like $20/hour intens...)
Personally, that makes the place look more appealing to me. At my job, several professional people in IT, Accounting and Legal are going away. But we hired 5 more cleaning people and are bringing in a gaggle of interns to get in the way this summer.
The real impact of this is that it will usher in the end of air power as we know it.
If a 747 with a high-energy laser can kill ICBMs, it can also kill strike aircraft.
The only difference between the tech market and clothing, shoes, steel, rail and other industries is the day the pink slips went out and the doors shuttered.
We started using Director on xSeries hardware, and it seems to work alot better than insight manager.
The SNMP traps (or Tivoli TEC events in our case) are alot more intuitive and useful than the crap that insight manager sent out, and the agent seems to be more reliable. You can use a "Director Server" or a product like Nagios or OpenView for alerting.
Keep in mind that "Systems Management" in the pc/unix world is a black hole that consumes time & money. You might be better off using something like VMware GSX server on big Intel hardware or even an IBM zseries and use virtual hosts.
One of the advantages of big, expensive hardware is that they often come with service processors that phone home or page you when problems occur. At our shop, several admins have been suprised when an IBM repairman calls to schedule replacement of a failed disk or fan that they were unaware of -- the service call was generated automatically.
The cell phone carriers spent billions buying all of the appropriate licenses from the FCC. Unless you have the cash to purchase a phone company, it ain't gonna happen.
Get an analog bag phone or be out of touch for a few minutes.
Sendmail always has been and always will be a security risk.
Superior alternatives exist... so why is anyone still using sendmail???
Is very stable, I used them for over one year on my PCjr in 1984. Unfortunately, I could not install Oracle on the PCjr.
Read through the documentation with the info browser or browse the source!
It's linux, so you can join the thousands of hackers and coders and code your own NFS!
Depending on how many your distribute and other factors, licensing can be very cheap.
IBM and HP/Compaq make rack mounted servers that have a service processor that allow you to access the system at the BIOS level remotely.
At the place where we work, electricians wire racks, plug systems in, and turn them on. We use Tivoli and IBM software to remotely install images and whatever software bundles the systems need unattended. Of course we also spent gazillions of dollars to do that.
You can also get KVM switches that work over ethernet. They are expensive too.
You should have "told" her that good wives don't sit their fat asses on the couch watching TV and lecturing their husbands.
After that you could have "asked" her to scrub the bathroom and do the laundry.
You wouldn't have been laid for a few days, but it might encourage her to keep her preachy bitchiness to herself.
Why don't you shut up and read.
I am not questioning whether the weather is different today than it was 30 or 50 or 80 years ago. If you were 90 years old you could not prove that there are no naturally occuring climate changes.
I am questioning whether human behavior has anything to do with it.
Scientists use predictive models to track climate change. I question the validity of this data when only about 150 years of temperature data and only about 60 years of complete data is available.
Lebanon was once lush forest and North Africa was the breadbasket of Rome 2000 years ago. Did Roman smelters alter the climate of the Mediterranean?
With the exception of sporadic tree-ring data, there is no way to reliably glean ANY weather data for more than about 200 years in the past.
Give me some proof that changes in weather patterns and climate is not a natural phenomenon. Without any pre-industrial data, you cannot.
I never said that "natural" == good.
If climate change is a normal process of nature (like the seasonal cycle) then we will need to adapt to the changes as they come.
Skilled earth scientists cannot accurately predict whether there will be rain or snow tomorrow with lots of expertise in local weather patterns and very accurate data. How can we expect long-range predictions of data to be correct without reliable historical data. Tree ring analysis is useful in showing periods of drought, but drought does not yield precise temperature data.
"Doing" something about a problem we cannot define doesn't really accomplish anything. How can we measure the effect of our actions on the environment when we do not understand the problem and do not know what "normal" conditions are?
When did global warming start?
Scientists who claim that they can accurately predict global weather trends with about 150 years of reasonable accurate data are kidding themselves.
We do not know what the daily average temperature was in 1812 or 1534. Western society was not even aware that California, Texas or Australia existed in the 1600's.
We have no scientific data available to determine how climates changed before the industrial era. So how can we assume that a periodic cooling/warming cycle is not normal.
I have an education which included a study of economics, which you apparently lack. Before calling me ignorant, you may want to read something other than green propaganda and work on improving your English language skills.
Where is your proof that oil is causing Australian & Americans forests and homes to burn?
In the United States, lightning strikes and dry forest conditions have led to forest fires for centuries. The only difference is that in the past, the nomadic natives simply moved to other regions during the dry season.
Why do you think the Great Plains of the US never turned into forest? Because massive fires charred the landscape annually. Some pine trees need the high temperatures of fires in order for their seeds to germinate.
Human settlement in forest fire areas is the problem. If you build a house on the beach, you should be prepared to have it wash away in a hurricane. Likewise, if you build a house in dry grassland or forest, be prepared to have it burn away.
My countrymen chose to establish homes in wilderness areas prone to fire. They did this in spite of the fact that insurance companies refused to write insurance against the high risk of fire. They made a poor choice, and I pay for their stupidity through confiscatory taxes.
The fact is, there is no viable alternative to oil, nor will there ever be an alternative fuel to enable the suburban lifestyle that Western nations have adopted. When oil supplies begin to wane, you'll start to see a migration back to cities, where mass transportation can absorb the high cost and low efficency of fuel cells or run off electric power.
Massive changes in lifestyle cannot be achieved by decree. When someone decides to attempt that, the result is Stalinist or Maoist barbarism.