As such, we can no longer sit back and allow weevil infiltration, weevil indoctrination, weevil perversion and the international weevil conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious seed storages.
I'm also not a doctor, but I've heard that the human body can also become aware of an allergen after repeated exposure... poison ivy or cat dander, for example. People who were not allergic to these things can apparently develop an allergy to something that didn't elicit a reaction before.
The product fits in cube farms where everyone needs to use Office & Outlook at a minimum (i.e. nearly everywhere on God's Green Earth).
-mobility: it can't be that difficult to move, and who cares anyway? it's meant to be install-and-forget. you don't upgrade/repair thin clients as often as PCs. that's the idea--they're appliances, not PCs.
-CPU: thin clients don't run much locally. that's the point. apps runs on the server. only the user interface stuff is done on the client (keyb, vid, mouse)
-OS: All WinCE has to to is run ICA and RDP, which it does just fine.
-IE6: Just have the users run mozilla in their terminal server session. problem solved.
-limited standalone capability is a feature, not a bug.
-price: not actually bad considering what you're getting.
-video memory: thin clients are not meant to be graphics workstations.
-resolution: 1600x1200 is (arguably) plenty for everyday office productivity use
-expansion: Most modern thin terminals support at least USB peripherals (scanners, flash memory, drives, etc) in concert with Terminal Services and Citrix; I don't see whu this one would be any different. Aside from occasional firmware updates, you don't change much on the client. You're not meant to.
No offense, but I'm continually amazed by the general ignorance of the intended application of thin clients. If it's as good as advertised, this box is a sweet thin client. Brain-dead installation, low cable mess factor, PoE ready, tiny footprint, low-power... it sounds almost too good to be true.
It shows directly that even complex small creatures originating on one planet could survive landing on another without the protection of a spacecraft."
Do I even need to say why that is specious? Um, OK: They were in canisters and they rode in a shuttle for part of re-entry.
I'm not saying panspermia's infeasible, but this event is not particularly compelling, given the circumstances.
Ms. Alba is extraordinarily gorgeous - and she despises gorgeous women. Especially strong-willed gorgeous women, and most of all strong-willed gorgeous women that fellow male executives drool over and talk about to each other within the range of this vipers hearing.
If I had clout in the industry, I would do everything I could to kill any show with Joe Rogan. Could someone with power please get rid of him somewhere outside of Las Vegas or something?
I was making nice with someone and asked him how long he's been in IT. He says: "well, I worked in an electronics store selling software right through college and grad school until I got my admin job, so it's been almost 10 years."
After that, I almost don't feel bad about making fun of gaming store archetypes.
Will the mandatory goatee and beer gut that all Electronics Boutique employees wear survive the merger? A salesman that's so addicted to gaming that he can only shave half his face is a man I can trust to help me with my game purchases.
The magnetarin question is actually in our galaxy, albeit on the other side of it... so it's hard to imagine how it was the "brightest explosion ever detected outside of the Milky Way."
I think that the supermassive black holes that tend to be at the center of galaxies would actually "emit" less energetic photons than a smaller black hole because the energy per photon emitted via the hawking radiation model is inversely proportional to the black hole's radius.
> I read the summary as if IT Department itself is a security risk
Your instincts are right. The article underrepresents this idea. An unchecked IT staff is the single greatest security risk a company typically has. Admins who don't check backups, who are not beholden to SLAs, who see themselves as excepted from policy, who are not externally required to maintain security, or who make cavalier changes are much worse than all but the most malevolent/careless users.
User education is a good idea, but it's still largely up to IT. That's our job, because we are in the best position to do it. If we don't at the very least prominently publish a policy and make it accessible (to a reasonable degree), we can't very well expect the user to intuit and follow it.
The whole concentration cubicle/punitive response idea is just stupid (it's unethical and it wouldn't work), but your other points are good.
Re: item 3... granted, we're all tempted to say this, but obviously this guy has already decided (for whatever reason) not to do this. What business is it of yours or mine?
For a small office setup, you only need a small set of literature:
- A general practical how-to guide (pick one or two from the dummies books at Barnes & Noble or whatever)
- A recent copy of a PC Connection or CDW catalog (which mostly targets small offices)
Then find a good store within 20 miles that specializes in cabling, connectors and electronics (not Radio Shack), and make nice with the guys. You can bounce ideas off them, and they are usually only too happy to give you their $0.02.
And finally: figure out what you're trying to support, for how long, and for how much $ before you start implementing a technical solution for it. This will help you set scope and expectations, and it will largely determine how successful your efforts are perceived to be in the end.
I bet back in the day, there were people going "Just who is this Jonathan Swift, anyway?" Utilitarianism is a bit out-of-vogue these days, so it should be pretty obvious (even to pseudo-insightful early poster gasbags -- no offense) that this is satire . It's soliciting an answer, not providing one (see the last sentence).
The MTU is the minimum upper limit on the frame size (a minimum maximum, if you like). The router must be able to receive 576-byte datagrams, but that doesn't mean it can't send 68-byte datagrams to its heart's content (with all of the overhead that entails on both ends).
Yeah, but there was no possible optical imagery of the LEM landings. The idea that we're going to smash a (much more remote) non-terrestrial object and possibly see some results with our own eyes is pretty damned exciting from a pure entertainment perspective. It's popcorn astronomy at its finest yet!
If you agree so strongly, then you'd probably appreciate having your post critiqued.
> spelling/grammar This isn't a technically appropriate use of the solidus.
> pervasive throughout every aspect This is a "needless redundancy";)
> coherence was no longer important... I'm assuming that you wouldn't use the ellipsis in such a non-standard unless you already knew its actual purpose.
> when we as a society decided You might want to learn of another punctuation mark we use: It's called the "comma," and it looks like this --->,
> I've known many techs that not only It's preferable to use "who" instead of "that" for restricive clauses referring to persons.
> intolerant of errors), The rule is that one uses either parentheses or commas to set off a phrase or clause from the rest of the sentence. Here, you're using one comma when two would be called for. That would be bad enough, if it weren't for the fact that you decided to make it a parenthetical phrase. If you use parentheses, you must use no additional punctuation. So this one is doubly wrong.
> his own native human language. Surely, you mean spoken language.
I kid, but I also mean to illustrate a point. Your post was, for its own purposes, just fine. Complaints about your post, in the context of slashdot, would be tantamount to nothing less than pedantry. It takes a lot of effort to approach technical writing perfection, and it's common for people to disagree on how much effort is called for in any given circumstance. I would argue that the key skills required for a computer technician might imply that the foundation for achieving a very high technical proficiency as a writer lies within him; but technical writing is something that need not be too vigorously pursued.
It's also worth repeating the oft-heard notion that technical proficiency is not all it takes to be a good communicator.
I bought a black box that detects power, humidity, and temperature changes and calls me. It's programmable by DTMF, it's cheap, and you can tweak the threshold parameters to your heart's content. The ones I use were purchased from Microtechnologies, Inc. in CT. It woke me up after a bunch of power outages last night. Some might prefer something more exotic or flexible, but this is quick, dirty, and it works (4+ years).
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JIHS comes to mind.
As such, we can no longer sit back and allow weevil infiltration, weevil indoctrination, weevil perversion and the international weevil conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious seed storages.
I'm also not a doctor, but I've heard that the human body can also become aware of an allergen after repeated exposure... poison ivy or cat dander, for example. People who were not allergic to these things can apparently develop an allergy to something that didn't elicit a reaction before.
The product fits in cube farms where everyone needs to use Office & Outlook at a minimum (i.e. nearly everywhere on God's Green Earth).
-mobility: it can't be that difficult to move, and who cares anyway? it's meant to be install-and-forget. you don't upgrade/repair thin clients as often as PCs. that's the idea--they're appliances, not PCs.
-CPU: thin clients don't run much locally. that's the point. apps runs on the server. only the user interface stuff is done on the client (keyb, vid, mouse)
-OS: All WinCE has to to is run ICA and RDP, which it does just fine.
-IE6: Just have the users run mozilla in their terminal server session. problem solved.
-limited standalone capability is a feature, not a bug.
-price: not actually bad considering what you're getting.
-video memory: thin clients are not meant to be graphics workstations.
-resolution: 1600x1200 is (arguably) plenty for everyday office productivity use
-expansion: Most modern thin terminals support at least USB peripherals (scanners, flash memory, drives, etc) in concert with Terminal Services and Citrix; I don't see whu this one would be any different. Aside from occasional firmware updates, you don't change much on the client. You're not meant to.
No offense, but I'm continually amazed by the general ignorance of the intended application of thin clients. If it's as good as advertised, this box is a sweet thin client. Brain-dead installation, low cable mess factor, PoE ready, tiny footprint, low-power... it sounds almost too good to be true.
It shows directly that even complex small creatures originating on one planet could survive landing on another without the protection of a spacecraft."
Do I even need to say why that is specious? Um, OK: They were in canisters and they rode in a shuttle for part of re-entry.
I'm not saying panspermia's infeasible, but this event is not particularly compelling, given the circumstances.
Ms. Alba is extraordinarily gorgeous - and she despises gorgeous women. Especially strong-willed gorgeous women, and most of all strong-willed gorgeous women that fellow male executives drool over and talk about to each other within the range of this vipers hearing.
If I had clout in the industry, I would do everything I could to kill any show with Joe Rogan. Could someone with power please get rid of him somewhere outside of Las Vegas or something?
I was making nice with someone and asked him how long he's been in IT. He says: "well, I worked in an electronics store selling software right through college and grad school until I got my admin job, so it's been almost 10 years."
After that, I almost don't feel bad about making fun of gaming store archetypes.
Will the mandatory goatee and beer gut that all Electronics Boutique employees wear survive the merger? A salesman that's so addicted to gaming that he can only shave half his face is a man I can trust to help me with my game purchases.
The magnetarin question is actually in our galaxy, albeit on the other side of it... so it's hard to imagine how it was the "brightest explosion ever detected outside of the Milky Way."
I think that the supermassive black holes that tend to be at the center of galaxies would actually "emit" less energetic photons than a smaller black hole because the energy per photon emitted via the hawking radiation model is inversely proportional to the black hole's radius.
> I read the summary as if IT Department itself is a security risk
Your instincts are right. The article underrepresents this idea. An unchecked IT staff is the single greatest security risk a company typically has. Admins who don't check backups, who are not beholden to SLAs, who see themselves as excepted from policy, who are not externally required to maintain security, or who make cavalier changes are much worse than all but the most malevolent/careless users.
User education is a good idea, but it's still largely up to IT. That's our job, because we are in the best position to do it. If we don't at the very least prominently publish a policy and make it accessible (to a reasonable degree), we can't very well expect the user to intuit and follow it.
The whole concentration cubicle/punitive response idea is just stupid (it's unethical and it wouldn't work), but your other points are good.
You're right, but you also forgot to mention that Paris Hilton isn't nearly as vain as Tsutomu "Takedown" Shimomura.
This particular toool relies on guessed or known keys, so the crytpo and a more associativity scheme don't make any difference (in this case).
Re: item 3... granted, we're all tempted to say this, but obviously this guy has already decided (for whatever reason) not to do this. What business is it of yours or mine?
For a small office setup, you only need a small set of literature:
- A general practical how-to guide (pick one or two from the dummies books at Barnes & Noble or whatever)
- A recent copy of a PC Connection or CDW catalog (which mostly targets small offices)
Then find a good store within 20 miles that specializes in cabling, connectors and electronics (not Radio Shack), and make nice with the guys. You can bounce ideas off them, and they are usually only too happy to give you their $0.02.
And finally: figure out what you're trying to support, for how long, and for how much $ before you start implementing a technical solution for it. This will help you set scope and expectations, and it will largely determine how successful your efforts are perceived to be in the end.
I bet back in the day, there were people going "Just who is this Jonathan Swift, anyway?" Utilitarianism is a bit out-of-vogue these days, so it should be pretty obvious (even to pseudo-insightful early poster gasbags -- no offense) that this is satire . It's soliciting an answer, not providing one (see the last sentence).
> we'll realize that you Don't Need Pervasive Internet Everywhere...it's
> just another fantasy us Geeks have.
I have a hunch that in 20 years or so, you'll marvel at how you survived without an omnipresent global network.
The MTU is the minimum upper limit on the frame size (a minimum maximum, if you like). The router must be able to receive 576-byte datagrams, but that doesn't mean it can't send 68-byte datagrams to its heart's content (with all of the overhead that entails on both ends).
Yeah, but there was no possible optical imagery of the LEM landings. The idea that we're going to smash a (much more remote) non-terrestrial object and possibly see some results with our own eyes is pretty damned exciting from a pure entertainment perspective. It's popcorn astronomy at its finest yet!
So he was saying Java tanked over the last decade? That doesn't seem very humorous to me.
> (Sun CEO) McNealy: We absolutely underhyped [Java].
Uh, Scott; that's not the way the rest of us remember it.
It was stuck in my head in the first place because in French, amen is said as ainsi soit-il (literally: so be it)
I was about to say "amen," but that literally means "so be it." God knows I'd get pummeled in this thread.
Anyways, amen to that. On slashdot, the bar is (appropriately) a bit lower than that of a professional writing forum.
If you agree so strongly, then you'd probably appreciate having your post critiqued.
;)
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> spelling/grammar
This isn't a technically appropriate use of the solidus.
> pervasive throughout every aspect
This is a "needless redundancy"
> coherence was no longer important...
I'm assuming that you wouldn't use the ellipsis in such a non-standard unless you already knew its actual purpose.
> when we as a society decided
You might want to learn of another punctuation mark we use: It's called the "comma," and it looks like this --->
> I've known many techs that not only
It's preferable to use "who" instead of "that" for restricive clauses referring to persons.
> intolerant of errors),
The rule is that one uses either parentheses or commas to set off a phrase or clause from the rest of the sentence. Here, you're using one comma when two would be called for. That would be bad enough, if it weren't for the fact that you decided to make it a parenthetical phrase. If you use parentheses, you must use no additional punctuation. So this one is doubly wrong.
> his own native human language.
Surely, you mean spoken language.
I kid, but I also mean to illustrate a point. Your post was, for its own purposes, just fine. Complaints about your post, in the context of slashdot, would be tantamount to nothing less than pedantry. It takes a lot of effort to approach technical writing perfection, and it's common for people to disagree on how much effort is called for in any given circumstance. I would argue that the key skills required for a computer technician might imply that the foundation for achieving a very high technical proficiency as a writer lies within him; but technical writing is something that need not be too vigorously pursued.
It's also worth repeating the oft-heard notion that technical proficiency is not all it takes to be a good communicator.
I bought a black box that detects power, humidity, and temperature changes and calls me. It's programmable by DTMF, it's cheap, and you can tweak the threshold parameters to your heart's content. The ones I use were purchased from Microtechnologies, Inc. in CT. It woke me up after a bunch of power outages last night. Some might prefer something more exotic or flexible, but this is quick, dirty, and it works (4+ years).