Well, I certainly hope so. From what I hear those machines are indeed standalone. However, you just need one doctor with a laptop that is infected connecting directly to such a machine and mayhem ensues. Are they allowed to do that? Probably not.... Will they do it? Probably yes...:-(
Also note I was marked Overrated, just for confirming the article by personal experience. *sigh*
Medical equipment: I confirm. My cousin is an engineer for General Electric, Medical section. As far as I know he services cardiac echography equipment. From what he told me, they all run Windows. Of course, this isn't life threatening, but I do know he's hardware guy and it wouldn't be the first time he calls me for a software problem in his job.
While not in this case, a BSOD may mean real "D" these days in a hospital.... Sad, but true...
about as or more modern then a PII it runs (and installs) really fast!
Why would you do that? Windows 2000 runs fine on a PII, provided enough memory. I ran a PPro 200 (=predecessor of the PII) with 256Meg RAM with Windows 2000 as a primary desktop for years and never had problems. (Before Win2000, it ran Win NT 4.0)
Why do you call a programmer that takes care of memory leaks an "ace programmer"? Any programmer writing a program in a language supporting pointers should take care of memory leaks. Even today! I was recently tasked to write a program in C, and I took a lot of my time to check for memory leaks. I am not an ace programmer, I'm just a programmer. Of course valgrind did help me doing just that.
I keep wanting to dislike its Playschool interface, but I just can't.
I understand.... I thought I'd reformat it at once, but it really does what one expects... The Playschool of XP was cosmetic, the playschool of the EEE PC is functional.
In Space Quest I, you had dehydrated water in the survival kit from your crashed pod. You could use it to kill the Orat by throwing it at him: the Orat would swallow it and explode.
The submitter is making fun of the US.... is that so hard to understand? Back in the day when broadband was introduced in the country I live, it was 256kbps/64kbps down no caps.... Compared to other countries (with and without caps) that was pretty much just above dialup. I mean, I had ISDN before that which could do 128kbps/128kbps. The difference? Flatrate... ISDN was per minute for ADSL, I paid one fix price per month. A 900GB cap would do nothing to me because the always-on aspect to me is the most important part of broadband to me.
My dad has an A2, and I have driven it on occasion when my TT was in for maintenance. I like driving it, but you are badly informed. The A2 was discontinued at least three years ago. The main reason was that it couldn't compete in price with (for example) the Mercedes A-Class (which is also a damn fine car, my wife used to have one). Aluminum is just damned expensive and people don't think of the advantages.... (Never again rust)
Do you have a technique to sift out those people from those that live more reasonably? I mean, a few months ago I was at my local dealership for a small repair on my eight year old Audi TT. When, picking it up, I said "Well, yeah, these things happen... it becomes a tad bit old".
I pretty much expected a sales pitch... No, the guy simply asked "But, you're still happy with it, right?". I said "yes", and that was the whole conversation. I know why I'll go back there when I actually *need* a car... Of course, that might be their whole goal;-)
Also, I think many people don't know about budgets. My wife by now hates the phrase "We have no budget for $OBJECT"
Yes, *our* wallet. I'm usually an open source advocate, but unless I want to lose a client, I'd better do what they ask. For the moment those taxes pay my wage, so whatever they ask they will get.
Well, I have some news for you: being a consultant is pretty much the same as being a whore. You either do what your customer instructs you, or you say "no". It's really that simple, but I have a mortgage to pay. Guess what I do?
If you want to save EU taxes, then start by cropping the institutions themselves. These people are paid up to 2x market rate (and more!) and have additional tax advantages and can't be fired. Yet, they hire a Consultant to do their jobs. Don't you find that funny?
Also they could simply stop this crap by mandating open source everywhere, but no. They really do prefer opening their wallet.
Recently I've been charged to evaluate Alfresco (community edition) as an alternative to a propitiatory document management system (which shall remain unnamed) for a large European institution. (Aside from office politics, which made clear that the evaluation should be negative to justify the expense of the propitiatory product), I never managed to get their WAR file to run on a "virgin" installed Tomcat on Debian. Their "bundle" worked as is. Anyone know how to get Alfresco to run in an apt-get tomcat5? Heck a colleague of mine tried in Windows/Tomcat5 and didn't manage, It's probably just me that sucks...
That's indeed quite true: those AMD 2400+ MP CPU's were rated 90C each. I installed a passive NVidia FX5500 in the machine and running a games was 5 minutes okay, and then the graphics card started overheating. Never had that problem with my NVidia Ti4400, but that one was actively cooled.
Well, I bought it in March 2005. So, by now that's more than three years ago;-)
But you're right: I'm usually one of the guys that keep hardware quite long. The components were on sale and I had spare cash and couldn't wait to try out an 64-bit operating system.
Back in the day, I had my server (an AMD Athlon64 2800+), my workstation (2x AMD Athlon MP 2400+), my wifes computer (P-IV 2.6GHz HT) and a huge Colour Laser printer (Ricoh Aficio CL2000) in a 10 square metre office. All the machines were pretty much on all the time.
We never ever needed to turn on the heating in that room. Even when it was -15C outside. In the summer you couldn't stay there for more than half an hour if you dared to close the door. The machines stayed stable though....
We now cut down seriously on the amount of machines we have in our office. (Let's say that getting rid of the MP was already an immense change...)
When I saw this headline, it was the first thing that came in my mind! (I checked, you're the only one who mentioned it -- did a quick search on -1 on "Dragons")
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Well, I certainly hope so. From what I hear those machines are indeed standalone. However, you just need one doctor with a laptop that is infected connecting directly to such a machine and mayhem ensues. Are they allowed to do that? Probably not.... Will they do it? Probably yes... :-(
Also note I was marked Overrated, just for confirming the article by personal experience. *sigh*
Medical equipment: I confirm. My cousin is an engineer for General Electric, Medical section. As far as I know he services cardiac echography equipment. From what he told me, they all run Windows. Of course, this isn't life threatening, but I do know he's hardware guy and it wouldn't be the first time he calls me for a software problem in his job.
While not in this case, a BSOD may mean real "D" these days in a hospital.... Sad, but true...
Why would you do that? Windows 2000 runs fine on a PII, provided enough memory. I ran a PPro 200 (=predecessor of the PII) with 256Meg RAM with Windows 2000 as a primary desktop for years and never had problems. (Before Win2000, it ran Win NT 4.0)
Why do you call a programmer that takes care of memory leaks an "ace programmer"? Any programmer writing a program in a language supporting pointers should take care of memory leaks. Even today! I was recently tasked to write a program in C, and I took a lot of my time to check for memory leaks. I am not an ace programmer, I'm just a programmer. Of course valgrind did help me doing just that.
I understand.... I thought I'd reformat it at once, but it really does what one expects... The Playschool of XP was cosmetic, the playschool of the EEE PC is functional.
In Space Quest I, you had dehydrated water in the survival kit from your crashed pod. You could use it to kill the Orat by throwing it at him: the Orat would swallow it and explode.
The submitter is making fun of the US.... is that so hard to understand? Back in the day when broadband was introduced in the country I live, it was 256kbps/64kbps down no caps.... Compared to other countries (with and without caps) that was pretty much just above dialup. I mean, I had ISDN before that which could do 128kbps/128kbps. The difference? Flatrate... ISDN was per minute for ADSL, I paid one fix price per month. A 900GB cap would do nothing to me because the always-on aspect to me is the most important part of broadband to me.
My dad has an A2, and I have driven it on occasion when my TT was in for maintenance. I like driving it, but you are badly informed. The A2 was discontinued at least three years ago. The main reason was that it couldn't compete in price with (for example) the Mercedes A-Class (which is also a damn fine car, my wife used to have one). Aluminum is just damned expensive and people don't think of the advantages.... (Never again rust)
I love the A2, but they stopped the experiment.
Do you have a technique to sift out those people from those that live more reasonably? I mean, a few months ago I was at my local dealership for a small repair on my eight year old Audi TT. When, picking it up, I said "Well, yeah, these things happen... it becomes a tad bit old".
I pretty much expected a sales pitch... No, the guy simply asked "But, you're still happy with it, right?". I said "yes", and that was the whole conversation. I know why I'll go back there when I actually *need* a car... Of course, that might be their whole goal ;-)
Also, I think many people don't know about budgets. My wife by now hates the phrase "We have no budget for $OBJECT"
Sure, but I'm going to charge you per kilowatt you use up every day.
I call dibs on "Sol" ;-)
You nailed it. I need money, that's why I work. You don't get paid to do things you like.
Yes, *our* wallet. I'm usually an open source advocate, but unless I want to lose a client, I'd better do what they ask. For the moment those taxes pay my wage, so whatever they ask they will get.
Well, I have some news for you: being a consultant is pretty much the same as being a whore. You either do what your customer instructs you, or you say "no". It's really that simple, but I have a mortgage to pay. Guess what I do?
If you want to save EU taxes, then start by cropping the institutions themselves. These people are paid up to 2x market rate (and more!) and have additional tax advantages and can't be fired. Yet, they hire a Consultant to do their jobs. Don't you find that funny?
Also they could simply stop this crap by mandating open source everywhere, but no. They really do prefer opening their wallet.
Recently I've been charged to evaluate Alfresco (community edition) as an alternative to a propitiatory document management system (which shall remain unnamed) for a large European institution. (Aside from office politics, which made clear that the evaluation should be negative to justify the expense of the propitiatory product), I never managed to get their WAR file to run on a "virgin" installed Tomcat on Debian. Their "bundle" worked as is. Anyone know how to get Alfresco to run in an apt-get tomcat5? Heck a colleague of mine tried in Windows/Tomcat5 and didn't manage, It's probably just me that sucks...
Such odd things happen when posting drunk...
But it would be tasty, produce oxigen and it provided an aphrodisiac(*). What more do you want?
(*) I know that's bollocks..
That's indeed quite true: those AMD 2400+ MP CPU's were rated 90C each. I installed a passive NVidia FX5500 in the machine and running a games was 5 minutes okay, and then the graphics card started overheating. Never had that problem with my NVidia Ti4400, but that one was actively cooled.
That machine was one heck of a space heater.
Well, I bought it in March 2005. So, by now that's more than three years ago ;-)
But you're right: I'm usually one of the guys that keep hardware quite long. The components were on sale and I had spare cash and couldn't wait to try out an 64-bit operating system.
And if you got cold, running Seti@Home did the job ;-)
Okay, I could have Googled, yes.... Alas my last physics classes were over 13 years ago... Thanks for explaining though.
Interesting. Do you have any sources to backup that claim? (No criticism, just curious)
Back in the day, I had my server (an AMD Athlon64 2800+), my workstation (2x AMD Athlon MP 2400+), my wifes computer (P-IV 2.6GHz HT) and a huge Colour Laser printer (Ricoh Aficio CL2000) in a 10 square metre office. All the machines were pretty much on all the time.
We never ever needed to turn on the heating in that room. Even when it was -15C outside. In the summer you couldn't stay there for more than half an hour if you dared to close the door. The machines stayed stable though....
We now cut down seriously on the amount of machines we have in our office. (Let's say that getting rid of the MP was already an immense change...)
Damnit! I knew I should have used plastic vats to hide the bodies!
When I saw this headline, it was the first thing that came in my mind! (I checked, you're the only one who mentioned it -- did a quick search on -1 on "Dragons")
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