Agreed. NTP was started by two patent lawyers in Chicago (and believe that is about all they still are). What I am still waiting for is that Congress runs on Blackberries and a ruling was made last year to have ALL of NTP's patents reviewed. Only about 15% of patents reviewed survive. I wonder what happened to that review?
You guys do know this device is close to EOL and is being replaced with a MUCH better unit. The replacement to it's little brother is already out (the Carbon). Rio is really good at listening to people and they fixed all the issues with the Nitrus (which the Carbon replaced). The replacement for the Karma (the Chroma) should be here soon.
This old error was from the use of a 32 bit 1 ms increment timer (comes out to 49.7 days until rollover). AFAIK, this was fixed in Win2k and above when the timer got bumped to 64 bit. Maybe whoever set up LAX was using some ancient legacy middleware that used the old timer. This is just bizarre. In both locations that I have worked the last three years, none of the Win2k or Win2k3 servers went down ever. Sounds like bad consultants.
I worked on a project where we had to remove every USB, firewire, CDROM, and floppy drive along with sheathing all the plugs and sealing all the connections on hundreds of computers to satisfy some of the more stringent controls required in HIPAA (HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1996) that no unauthorised persons be able to access restricted documents. It was cheaper than using control software (trusted computing platforms and certification is wicked expensive).
Whoa there fella, Apple doesn't manufacture anything. At best, they assemble. Hell, even Dell doesn't manufacturer anything anymore and they are nearly 30 times the size of Apple. What you meant to say is that Apple licensed it's design to HP and allowed its contracted manufacturers to sell to HP.
Also, you should really check the history of Rio. They came first by nearly a decade. Apple copied them. That design and interface on the Rio's is from a long, long time ago.
Not a chance in hell...they developed their own next gen graphics layer and window manager(Quartz, Quartz Extreme, and Aqua). Personally, I would kill for linux to switch to Apples way of thinking for a GUI, but it'll never happen. I got into an argument years and years ago with Torvald (along with tons of other people) about including GGI into the kernal and got my ass kicked. Never been with linux since.
Katie Jones can assert her copyright of the works and the name at any time. Just because someone else doesn't do their due diligence and wraps their business up in a name does not mean the original owner has to cough it up. A little advice for Katie Tarbox's lawyer(s): even IF you get the name awarded, it will be tied up in court for a long time, probably longer than the value you have attached to it will last if not immediately established, and secondly, any decent judge will force you to pay through the nose to compensate the original owner. Good luck. You should make her a seven figure offer if it is so important to your business model.
I finally have ammunition to ditch our exchange servers! Now, if only somebody can make something equivalent to iManage that plugs into both OpenOffice and MS Office, I can ditch Windows entirely at the office...oh, happy days!
The only one I know of is Plex86 and they abandoned any hope of virtualizing anything except linux due to complexity (well, Win4Lin, too, but they are about dead). It can virtualize linux hosts, but not much else (I think they have DOS and maybe some unix-like OS's). Fact is, this is really difficult stuff to make. I was holding out on VMWares IPO as I thought that it was going to be one fo the hottest companies going in the next 3-5 years, but they sold themselves to EMC right before the IPO. Vitualization is going to be one of the big things in computing in the next couple of years, especially in the server space.
You do realise that many of the current Crays are made from proprietary massively parallel AMD Opteron clusters, right?
BTW, Cray got its ass handed to it when Thinking Machines,et al. switched from large scale esoteric vector processor based systems to massively parallel ones.
The next big thing will be either analog elliptical, quantum, or multi-state based. Can't wait.
VIA has had several lawsuits going with Intel over their P4 chipsets. VIA says it has a license from when it bought S3 (the video card company) and Intel says, no, hence the lawsuits. Also, Intel used to make most of its own motherboards and chipsets up until the PIII when they started licensing. The Taiwanese chewed them up on chipset and motherboard business and generally ignored the scope and letter of the licensing agreements. When Intel went with the P4, they really clamped down on the license.
The Hammer based chips run cooler than their older AthlonXP brothers. They also add cool-n-quiet for power management. My Athlon 64 laptop (with a DTR chip) rarely gets very warm and the lower power portable Athlon 64 chips are extremely cool (nearly in the G3 - G4 power range which is really impressive for an x86 chip). The P4 based laptops, however, can literally burn you. If you go the Intel route, the Centrino platform is excellent and one of the best chips ever by Intel.
I worked on a HIPAA compliance prject were we had to build the computers so that they had no ability to move information off them into a tranportable media. No floppy, cd-rw, USB, serial ports, etc...nothing. My boss was laughing because we basically reinvented the terminal.
I looked on Drudge Report and it seems a couple of Representitives have requested UN oversight in the next election. It's Drudge, so who knows how accurate it is, but it would be wild to have UN observers validating the election. Personally, I think the elections should last a week and for an independent (publicly funded) group make sure every single eligible person votes. Or better yet, cast your vote on your tax form...heh.
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Agreed. NTP was started by two patent lawyers in Chicago (and believe that is about all they still are). What I am still waiting for is that Congress runs on Blackberries and a ruling was made last year to have ALL of NTP's patents reviewed. Only about 15% of patents reviewed survive. I wonder what happened to that review?
Actually, the #1 selling enterprise anti-spam device (the Barracuda line) is a SpamAssassing core device.
You guys do know this device is close to EOL and is being replaced with a MUCH better unit. The replacement to it's little brother is already out (the Carbon). Rio is really good at listening to people and they fixed all the issues with the Nitrus (which the Carbon replaced). The replacement for the Karma (the Chroma) should be here soon.
This old error was from the use of a 32 bit 1 ms increment timer (comes out to 49.7 days until rollover). AFAIK, this was fixed in Win2k and above when the timer got bumped to 64 bit. Maybe whoever set up LAX was using some ancient legacy middleware that used the old timer. This is just bizarre. In both locations that I have worked the last three years, none of the Win2k or Win2k3 servers went down ever. Sounds like bad consultants.
I worked on a project where we had to remove every USB, firewire, CDROM, and floppy drive along with sheathing all the plugs and sealing all the connections on hundreds of computers to satisfy some of the more stringent controls required in HIPAA (HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1996) that no unauthorised persons be able to access restricted documents. It was cheaper than using control software (trusted computing platforms and certification is wicked expensive).
Considering this is licensed music, the rips would come straight from the labels, probably Sony.
Whoa there fella, Apple doesn't manufacture anything. At best, they assemble. Hell, even Dell doesn't manufacturer anything anymore and they are nearly 30 times the size of Apple. What you meant to say is that Apple licensed it's design to HP and allowed its contracted manufacturers to sell to HP.
Also, you should really check the history of Rio. They came first by nearly a decade. Apple copied them. That design and interface on the Rio's is from a long, long time ago.
Haven't been...wow...pardon my grammar. ;-)
Not a chance in hell...they developed their own next gen graphics layer and window manager(Quartz, Quartz Extreme, and Aqua). Personally, I would kill for linux to switch to Apples way of thinking for a GUI, but it'll never happen. I got into an argument years and years ago with Torvald (along with tons of other people) about including GGI into the kernal and got my ass kicked. Never been with linux since.
Katie Jones can assert her copyright of the works and the name at any time. Just because someone else doesn't do their due diligence and wraps their business up in a name does not mean the original owner has to cough it up. A little advice for Katie Tarbox's lawyer(s): even IF you get the name awarded, it will be tied up in court for a long time, probably longer than the value you have attached to it will last if not immediately established, and secondly, any decent judge will force you to pay through the nose to compensate the original owner. Good luck. You should make her a seven figure offer if it is so important to your business model.
I finally have ammunition to ditch our exchange servers! Now, if only somebody can make something equivalent to iManage that plugs into both OpenOffice and MS Office, I can ditch Windows entirely at the office...oh, happy days!
The only one I know of is Plex86 and they abandoned any hope of virtualizing anything except linux due to complexity (well, Win4Lin, too, but they are about dead). It can virtualize linux hosts, but not much else (I think they have DOS and maybe some unix-like OS's). Fact is, this is really difficult stuff to make. I was holding out on VMWares IPO as I thought that it was going to be one fo the hottest companies going in the next 3-5 years, but they sold themselves to EMC right before the IPO. Vitualization is going to be one of the big things in computing in the next couple of years, especially in the server space.
It has extensions but it is far far far from being 64 bit all the way. Now I remember why I quit at Apple...good lord people.
You do realise that many of the current Crays are made from proprietary massively parallel AMD Opteron clusters, right?
BTW, Cray got its ass handed to it when Thinking Machines,et al. switched from large scale esoteric vector processor based systems to massively parallel ones.
The next big thing will be either analog elliptical, quantum, or multi-state based. Can't wait.
VIA has had several lawsuits going with Intel over their P4 chipsets. VIA says it has a license from when it bought S3 (the video card company) and Intel says, no, hence the lawsuits. Also, Intel used to make most of its own motherboards and chipsets up until the PIII when they started licensing. The Taiwanese chewed them up on chipset and motherboard business and generally ignored the scope and letter of the licensing agreements. When Intel went with the P4, they really clamped down on the license.
The Hammer based chips run cooler than their older AthlonXP brothers. They also add cool-n-quiet for power management. My Athlon 64 laptop (with a DTR chip) rarely gets very warm and the lower power portable Athlon 64 chips are extremely cool (nearly in the G3 - G4 power range which is really impressive for an x86 chip). The P4 based laptops, however, can literally burn you. If you go the Intel route, the Centrino platform is excellent and one of the best chips ever by Intel.
Uh...you can order several single and dual processor Dells with Red Hat Enterprise preloaded. Dell Workstations
Wow...2001 called and wants its Intel fanboy humor back.
Seriously, it's the P4 that is the torch now as the Hammer based chips run 15 - 25 degrees celcius cooler. Wake up.
Don't believe the hype, I can assure you we (Americans) are currently living in a fascist country. Look up the definition if you do not believe me.
Thanks, Bush...assbag.
looks like there is about 1600 people on the waiting list.
I worked on a HIPAA compliance prject were we had to build the computers so that they had no ability to move information off them into a tranportable media. No floppy, cd-rw, USB, serial ports, etc...nothing. My boss was laughing because we basically reinvented the terminal.
I looked on Drudge Report and it seems a couple of Representitives have requested UN oversight in the next election. It's Drudge, so who knows how accurate it is, but it would be wild to have UN observers validating the election. Personally, I think the elections should last a week and for an independent (publicly funded) group make sure every single eligible person votes. Or better yet, cast your vote on your tax form...heh.
Get GoBack off NOW! Turn in your badge and go home. Bad, bad admin...
Good Lord...I am getting too old for this shit.
Actually, if insurance or medical records are involved, HIPAA laws apply and the fines are big enough to make any company shudder.
I tell you, if a company discloses any personal info of mine even with a subpeona involved, they can expect one heck of a long and vicious lawsuit.
Freudian slip?