I worked as the regional it director of a financial services firm which dealt with stocks, bonds, and securities. This meant we fell under the regulatory umbrella of the National Association of Securities Dealers (among others). They are a quasi-governmental agency and have absolute power (no appeals) in their sphere.
The deal that made me lock down everything was this little policy the NASD has of fining IT staff directly. Not the company, not the department...me. Personally. Starting at $100,000 and going up for security or privacy breaches.
That'll make you think twice. Oh yeah, any publicly traded companies officer (C level) can be sent to JAIL for violating certain IT regulatory policies.
As a Comcast subscriber, I can tell you that I am getting time outs and other connection issues with web radio, http browsing, VPN connectivity...all on my supposedly 6 MB connection. None of these troubles were there just 2 months ago and I have had this connection for 3 years.
NSA measures their computer capacity by the acre. Trust me. They can do it. I remember during some of my 'travels' seeing a doc that mentioned they were gearing up for 500 exabytes of storage by the early part of the 2000's (this was back in 1998).
I have been listening to SOMA and Bartok radio for years. It's wonderful stuff and a lot better than whats on broadcast radio. It all flows together and they get new stuff inserted in there, too.
It's a lot better than listening to all my stuff I know by heart and just hitting 'shuffle'.
Acer ranks 4th in the world with revenues around $15 billion. They are the largest vendor in Taiwan. They might shoot up to three with this purchase. Remember that Gateway just bought eMachines, which still has decent sales, and that they are in the process of buying Packard Bell, which still does a good bit in Europe.
No, I mean exactly what I said. Apple sales execs pimped the IIvx for months saying it was the best thing going and what we needed for our new video and graphic design labs. What pissed off Purdue was that they had the Quadras waiting to come out all along and never presented it as an option. While we were taking delivery and setting up the IIvx's, Apple announced the Quadra and it's pricing. We basically got products that were being phased out dumped on us at a premium price, screwed at both ends, and the administration still talks about it to this day.
I was staff at Purdue when they got burned on a few hundred Mac IIvx's loaded to the gills. I believe those things were around $8,000 each with the Targa cards and Apple came out with the Quadra's at half the price and more power, memory, ect. while we were still taking delivery. A few million dolars to a public university tends to tick people off. Doing that to a top electrical engineering school is really bad. Consequently, it was years before new Macs were supported in any way (although we did have one of the first NeXT labs in the country).
Asustek and Quanta manufacture the MacBooks as whitebox machines, and the Mac Pro bits and pieces are sourced through a few different OEMs. Apple is not a manufacturer any more. It's quality and failure rates have become MUCH better now that they use mostly standard OEM PC parts.
Remember the original iMac fiasco due to manufacturing in Mexico? Ever had to do Apple directed on board soldering fixes? Remember the several "secret" recalls of power supplies, batteries, and motherboards over the years?
Apple's warranty service used to be decent. Dell's on the other hand at least offers 4-hour same day on site service. Just never buy from the home division. Always go with the Business division.
I am Dell serviceman for servers and desktops (going back 5 years) and was an Apple warranty serviceman for laptops and desktops. I was a regional technician for Donnally in the Midwest supporting over 5000 Macs for 2 years, etc., etc. I have 18 years experience, buddy, and I know my stuff inside and out.
Dell shipped 39 million PC's versus Apples 1.9 last quarter and it was a declining quarter for Dell. On the whole "a Dell is the same as an Acer is the same as an HP", you do know that Apple manufactures pretty much nothing and whiteboxes Asus and Acer just like Dell?
There is no reason you can't multicast across a large segmented network, i.e. the internet, and get good delivery. Radio, television, audio, phone, movies are all latency sensitive but not particularly bit sensitive so you can drop some packets here and there. That also means that some things would need QoS (VoIP) while others would need intelligent caching and buffering (movies, etc.).
Eugene Stoner designed the M16 and saw service with the Marines during WWII. He was a professional design engineer with Colt and also designed the current Marine Sniper rifle, the Mk 11 Mod 0, through Knights Armament.
Hyperthreading? Good lord, this is running on ancient hardware. This should be deployed on something that can use either AMD-V or Intel VT. VMWare has hyperthreading support and can show some improvement with "snappiness" but it doesn't seem to help in general throughput over the long run and may contribute to instability.
Usually, the limiter in this type of setup would be IO. When one virtualizes such a setup, you must reconfigure your application to minimize disk IO (with web servers we cache like crazy and really jack up the ram. 16-64 GB is my norm if it is a highly transactional site). 2GB is definitely not enough for IIS & Server 2003 doing anything more than serving static pages.
Frankly, MediaPortal and the new Vista MCE are heads and shoulders about the rest and have the added benefit of being able to use Windows drivers which means everything on the planet is and will be supported.
The GP means to join a Mac to the AD domain, not just authenticate to it. Huge difference.
I, as an admin, would be seeking full and total control over the machine attached to the domain. Mean: the split second you join it to the domain I am the lord master and god of all local access and files on that machine.
You are incorrect on your second count, too. Until you get above 128Kb rates Ogg beats AAC and MP3. Above this rate, most people cannot tell the difference between any of them.
On a side note, the AAC-HE encoder from Apple is excellent and on par with the best available for lossy encoding.
AMD and IBM have a long term joint development business that started in 2003 and goes through 2011 to develop IC processes down to 22nm. It would be silly for IBM to purchase AMD when they are still shedding divisions (Lenovo, their hard drive division, etc).
No, I guess the only thing they have a is a consistant look and feel maintaned across most if not all applications and parts of the OS. Oh, that and a stable ABI so drivers have a single target.
The big deal here is that nobody who wants to virtualize OS X wants to do so on Apple hardware. One of the main selling points of virtualization is consolidation and hardware ambiguity, i.e. I would want to be able to run multiple instances of OS X server on the cheapest, largest server I can find and I garauntee you it is not going to be one with an Apple logo on it!
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I worked as the regional it director of a financial services firm which dealt with stocks, bonds, and securities. This meant we fell under the regulatory umbrella of the National Association of Securities Dealers (among others). They are a quasi-governmental agency and have absolute power (no appeals) in their sphere.
The deal that made me lock down everything was this little policy the NASD has of fining IT staff directly. Not the company, not the department...me. Personally. Starting at $100,000 and going up for security or privacy breaches.
That'll make you think twice. Oh yeah, any publicly traded companies officer (C level) can be sent to JAIL for violating certain IT regulatory policies.
So yeah, there is a reason for the control.
As a Comcast subscriber, I can tell you that I am getting time outs and other connection issues with web radio, http browsing, VPN connectivity...all on my supposedly 6 MB connection. None of these troubles were there just 2 months ago and I have had this connection for 3 years.
I thought the whole point of creationism was the deliberate ignoring and denying of prior art?
NSA measures their computer capacity by the acre. Trust me. They can do it. I remember during some of my 'travels' seeing a doc that mentioned they were gearing up for 500 exabytes of storage by the early part of the 2000's (this was back in 1998).
I have been listening to SOMA and Bartok radio for years. It's wonderful stuff and a lot better than whats on broadcast radio. It all flows together and they get new stuff inserted in there, too.
It's a lot better than listening to all my stuff I know by heart and just hitting 'shuffle'.
Acer ranks 4th in the world with revenues around $15 billion. They are the largest vendor in Taiwan. They might shoot up to three with this purchase. Remember that Gateway just bought eMachines, which still has decent sales, and that they are in the process of buying Packard Bell, which still does a good bit in Europe.
Huh, polystyrene coated iron oxide? Did they just re-invent toner?
No, I mean exactly what I said. Apple sales execs pimped the IIvx for months saying it was the best thing going and what we needed for our new video and graphic design labs. What pissed off Purdue was that they had the Quadras waiting to come out all along and never presented it as an option. While we were taking delivery and setting up the IIvx's, Apple announced the Quadra and it's pricing. We basically got products that were being phased out dumped on us at a premium price, screwed at both ends, and the administration still talks about it to this day.
I was staff at Purdue when they got burned on a few hundred Mac IIvx's loaded to the gills. I believe those things were around $8,000 each with the Targa cards and Apple came out with the Quadra's at half the price and more power, memory, ect. while we were still taking delivery. A few million dolars to a public university tends to tick people off. Doing that to a top electrical engineering school is really bad. Consequently, it was years before new Macs were supported in any way (although we did have one of the first NeXT labs in the country).
Asustek and Quanta manufacture the MacBooks as whitebox machines, and the Mac Pro bits and pieces are sourced through a few different OEMs. Apple is not a manufacturer any more. It's quality and failure rates have become MUCH better now that they use mostly standard OEM PC parts.
Remember the original iMac fiasco due to manufacturing in Mexico? Ever had to do Apple directed on board soldering fixes? Remember the several "secret" recalls of power supplies, batteries, and motherboards over the years?
Apple's warranty service used to be decent. Dell's on the other hand at least offers 4-hour same day on site service. Just never buy from the home division. Always go with the Business division.
I am Dell serviceman for servers and desktops (going back 5 years) and was an Apple warranty serviceman for laptops and desktops. I was a regional technician for Donnally in the Midwest supporting over 5000 Macs for 2 years, etc., etc. I have 18 years experience, buddy, and I know my stuff inside and out.
Try an ad hominem somewhere else.
Dell shipped 39 million PC's versus Apples 1.9 last quarter and it was a declining quarter for Dell. On the whole "a Dell is the same as an Acer is the same as an HP", you do know that Apple manufactures pretty much nothing and whiteboxes Asus and Acer just like Dell?
There is no reason you can't multicast across a large segmented network, i.e. the internet, and get good delivery. Radio, television, audio, phone, movies are all latency sensitive but not particularly bit sensitive so you can drop some packets here and there. That also means that some things would need QoS (VoIP) while others would need intelligent caching and buffering (movies, etc.).
Eugene Stoner designed the M16 and saw service with the Marines during WWII. He was a professional design engineer with Colt and also designed the current Marine Sniper rifle, the Mk 11 Mod 0, through Knights Armament.
Hyperthreading? Good lord, this is running on ancient hardware. This should be deployed on something that can use either AMD-V or Intel VT. VMWare has hyperthreading support and can show some improvement with "snappiness" but it doesn't seem to help in general throughput over the long run and may contribute to instability.
Usually, the limiter in this type of setup would be IO. When one virtualizes such a setup, you must reconfigure your application to minimize disk IO (with web servers we cache like crazy and really jack up the ram. 16-64 GB is my norm if it is a highly transactional site). 2GB is definitely not enough for IIS & Server 2003 doing anything more than serving static pages.
Frankly, MediaPortal and the new Vista MCE are heads and shoulders about the rest and have the added benefit of being able to use Windows drivers which means everything on the planet is and will be supported.
Thanks! That does look like a useful product. I'll read up on it and add it to my catalog of useful software.
The GP means to join a Mac to the AD domain, not just authenticate to it. Huge difference.
I, as an admin, would be seeking full and total control over the machine attached to the domain. Mean: the split second you join it to the domain I am the lord master and god of all local access and files on that machine.
Not quite. AAC is both patent AND license encumbered. You don't have to pay anyone to distribute or stream in AAC format, but you sure do if you want to make a decoder or an encoder. Incidentally, fraunhaufer and others made AAC.
You are incorrect on your second count, too. Until you get above 128Kb rates Ogg beats AAC and MP3. Above this rate, most people cannot tell the difference between any of them.
On a side note, the AAC-HE encoder from Apple is excellent and on par with the best available for lossy encoding.
Yes, it works if all the bells and whistles are turned on. At least one of the launcher bar apps out there supports running video on Vista, also.
That feature would be a little useless considering Windows apps gain and lose focus as a single window.
AMD and IBM have a long term joint development business that started in 2003 and goes through 2011 to develop IC processes down to 22nm. It would be silly for IBM to purchase AMD when they are still shedding divisions (Lenovo, their hard drive division, etc).
No, I guess the only thing they have a is a consistant look and feel maintaned across most if not all applications and parts of the OS. Oh, that and a stable ABI so drivers have a single target.
The big deal here is that nobody who wants to virtualize OS X wants to do so on Apple hardware. One of the main selling points of virtualization is consolidation and hardware ambiguity, i.e. I would want to be able to run multiple instances of OS X server on the cheapest, largest server I can find and I garauntee you it is not going to be one with an Apple logo on it!
All I want to know is it better than iManage. If it is, you can save me about $50K and rid the last piece of infrastructure tying me to Microsoft.