Whyyyy does anyone who uses a computer for business not have a backup of every piece of equipment?
Because generally, if something breaks, Newegg will have a brand new one delivered the next day. And if that's not good enough, Microcenter is half an hour away. And I don't have to look at all that old crap, which I give away on Craigslist.
Flying, when done properly will be -a lot- more safe than driving.
I think you mean, driving when done properly will be a lot safer than flying. If getting a driver's license was like getting a pilot's license, there'd be a lot lees problems on the roads.
Yeah, I live inside the DC beltway & have FIOS; one of my coworkers lives about 35 miles away, and can only get dial up. It's pretty patchy coverage, considering that she's basically between DC, Baltimore & Frederick, all of which have decent broadband. She ended up getting a Sprint MiFi, which is actually becoming a viable alternative in a lot of places & will get more so as they expand their 4G/WiMax coverage.
Hmm, I got FIOS this year, it's about $40/month for the internet portion, and I can stream HD Netflix movies which look great with no problem. So I'd say find out where Google is rolling out their fast fiber & move there;)
Let's say you're a small business that needs 25 seats.
You pay for a server license for your domain controller, and a server license for a backup domain controller. Since you're a small shop, that is also the box you run Exchange off of. For both Windows Server and Exchange, you need CALs in addition to the server licenses.
Then each end user basically needs a SEPERATE client license from the CAL, since their individual desktop OSes need a license, and for email, they need Outlook licenses.
If you're a small business that needs 25 seats you should buy SBS 2008, and the appropriate number of CALs. If you want a BDC, you buy the Premium version. You even get vm licenses. With 2008, you do need to buy Office or Outlook for Exchange access, unless your users are ok with the OWA (which is actually pretty good). I think the real money is made from larger enterprises, the SBS stuff is really pretty decently priced.
No, because the big difference is that the keyboard on this thing was sitting on top of the continuation of the screen, so when you remove it your screen real estate just doubled. Of course, it's a design concept anyway, and until affordable flexible displays are available it will remain so.
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Or, on a small business network, IPCop + URL Filter with transparent proxy on & the Ads category checked... That works well for IE & Firefox.
Yes; in Larry Gonick's excellent "Cartoon History of the Universe" I recall a bit where the Chinese scholar is trying to persuade the European to adopt Chinese script for their language. It's an interesting idea, everyone could keep speaking their native language but all written communication would be understood by everyone.
What did the shop say? I know some electronic systems can fail bak to a "limp home" mode, though that doesn't sound exactly like what you're describing.
According to the article one rep told him they supported it, if he jailbroke (what is the past tense of jailbreak?) his phone. I doubt that's the official company line. At the very least they'd want to charge you more, and they'd just enable it in the firmware rather than tell you to jailbreak.
Yep the fee is the problem for me too. They want to charge more for guide data than Netflix does to mail me DVDs & stream me all the movies I can watch. It's crazy. I'd buy one for OTA recording if they'd sell it without a subscription, but they won't so I'll get a Revo & a USB tuner card instead as soon as my Dish contract expires. I'll be happy to be done with their crappy DVR; the DirecTivo I had before was really great.
I know next to nothing about NoSQL, but what they're talking about there seems to be using BinaryMemtable for the one-time move of data. You can see that you wouldn't want to "saturate the backplane of our network" for several days while that completes, so they're using a slower method & throttling it. It will take a week to do the move, but everything else will keep working.
I second the HSA/MSA idea. If you and your family are reasonably healthy you can get a fairly low premium high deductible plan coupled with the pre-tax savings account. Unlike cafeteria plans the medical savings accounts aren't use it or lose it, they can roll over & at 65-ish they can roll over into an IRA. Most of your expenses should be dealt with from the pre-tax money, and if you hit your deductible the plan kicks in. Blue Cross has some plans which are good around here. You'll still be putting in around $10k/year for a family for a decent plan, but some of that may roll over if you're all healthy.
I switched to nearlyfreespeech.net after someone mentioned them in, I think, that 2005 slashdot article. I like their attitude (their support of free speech) and their prices. For small sites especially, they can be a real bargain; you only pay for what you use, and there's no "unlimited" with lots of restrictions nonsense. I've been happy with the speed, etc; once there was an outage that affected every site, but there was advance warning and I'm willing to handle that for the other advantages. Domain registration is under $9 & their DNS is easy to use. If you're dealing with a larger or complex site, maybe look elsewhere, but for a typical small brochure type site I think they're good.
One could argue that it makes sense to combine the phone & projector because a projector needs a battery and content, which is provided by the phone. And if you want to take a call, you use your bluetooth headset, which are pretty ubiquitous now. If they are small & cheap, why not?
Well, I have an HFS-100 hd camcorder, and I use a Kingston class 4 SDHC card in it just fine. I'm not sure if 3+ RAW photos a second is more than 24 Mbps, but if not, I'd say you should be good. Maybe I just got lucky, but if even a class 4 card is ok I'd bet that a class 6 would work for something a bit faster.
The WSJ gave more details: "Researchers at two centers, in England and Belgium, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests on 54 patients with severe brain injury. Of these patients, 31 were diagnosed as being in a minimally conscious state, meaning they showed intermittent signs of awareness such as laughing or crying. The other 23 were diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, meaning they were considered unresponsive and unaware of their surroundings."
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against a space program that includes, say, a manned trip to Mars. I just don't think that it should be viewed as a way to escape problems on Earth. I also think that going back to the moon is not a sensible way to get to Mars, so rethinking things is not necessarily a bad idea.
There's not going to be a rationale for a "mass migration" in the next couple of hundred years - where do you plan on going? What reason is there to go there? There will always be a few people willing to sign up for going somewhere else, but a migration even on the scale of Europeans to North America is just not on the cards. As bad as we could possibly screw Earth up, it's still going to be way more hospitable than any options which are reachable.
The Economist doesn't anymore - I'm a subscriber, but I haven't bothered to tell the website that because it doesn't seem to matter. Except recently they've been putting little popup "Become a Subscriber" ads, so I might register just to make those go away.
I don't know anything about Newsday, but I do think there may be a niche for ultra local newspapers; they can give stuff that the big news sources can't - parades, school sports, local government issues, zoning etc. For an example see http://gazette.net/ - they break MD down to the community level, and still seem to be doing ok.
I think you'd set the call up over the web, but then Google Voice will call you, then connect you to whoever you're trying to reach. I think the downside for AT&T is that on some plans you can pick 5 or so numbers that don't count towards your minutes, so if you make your Google voice number one of those you'd have unlimited calling & never touch your minutes. (Except for people not on your list who call you, I guess.)
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Whyyyy does anyone who uses a computer for business not have a backup of every piece of equipment?
Because generally, if something breaks, Newegg will have a brand new one delivered the next day. And if that's not good enough, Microcenter is half an hour away. And I don't have to look at all that old crap, which I give away on Craigslist.
Flying, when done properly will be -a lot- more safe than driving.
I think you mean, driving when done properly will be a lot safer than flying. If getting a driver's license was like getting a pilot's license, there'd be a lot lees problems on the roads.
Yeah, I live inside the DC beltway & have FIOS; one of my coworkers lives about 35 miles away, and can only get dial up. It's pretty patchy coverage, considering that she's basically between DC, Baltimore & Frederick, all of which have decent broadband. She ended up getting a Sprint MiFi, which is actually becoming a viable alternative in a lot of places & will get more so as they expand their 4G/WiMax coverage.
Hmm, I got FIOS this year, it's about $40/month for the internet portion, and I can stream HD Netflix movies which look great with no problem. So I'd say find out where Google is rolling out their fast fiber & move there ;)
Let's say you're a small business that needs 25 seats.
You pay for a server license for your domain controller, and a server license for a backup domain controller. Since you're a small shop, that is also the box you run Exchange off of. For both Windows Server and Exchange, you need CALs in addition to the server licenses.
Then each end user basically needs a SEPERATE client license from the CAL, since their individual desktop OSes need a license, and for email, they need Outlook licenses.
If you're a small business that needs 25 seats you should buy SBS 2008, and the appropriate number of CALs. If you want a BDC, you buy the Premium version. You even get vm licenses. With 2008, you do need to buy Office or Outlook for Exchange access, unless your users are ok with the OWA (which is actually pretty good). I think the real money is made from larger enterprises, the SBS stuff is really pretty decently priced.
No, because the big difference is that the keyboard on this thing was sitting on top of the continuation of the screen, so when you remove it your screen real estate just doubled. Of course, it's a design concept anyway, and until affordable flexible displays are available it will remain so.
Or, on a small business network, IPCop + URL Filter with transparent proxy on & the Ads category checked... That works well for IE & Firefox.
Yes; in Larry Gonick's excellent "Cartoon History of the Universe" I recall a bit where the Chinese scholar is trying to persuade the European to adopt Chinese script for their language. It's an interesting idea, everyone could keep speaking their native language but all written communication would be understood by everyone.
What did the shop say? I know some electronic systems can fail bak to a "limp home" mode, though that doesn't sound exactly like what you're describing.
According to the article one rep told him they supported it, if he jailbroke (what is the past tense of jailbreak?) his phone. I doubt that's the official company line. At the very least they'd want to charge you more, and they'd just enable it in the firmware rather than tell you to jailbreak.
Yep the fee is the problem for me too. They want to charge more for guide data than Netflix does to mail me DVDs & stream me all the movies I can watch. It's crazy. I'd buy one for OTA recording if they'd sell it without a subscription, but they won't so I'll get a Revo & a USB tuner card instead as soon as my Dish contract expires. I'll be happy to be done with their crappy DVR; the DirecTivo I had before was really great.
I know next to nothing about NoSQL, but what they're talking about there seems to be using BinaryMemtable for the one-time move of data. You can see that you wouldn't want to "saturate the backplane of our network" for several days while that completes, so they're using a slower method & throttling it. It will take a week to do the move, but everything else will keep working.
The traffic still goes over your OS, so if it's compromised, you've lost.
The compromised OS might be logging keystrokes, but the actual traffic should at least be ssl so the host wouldn't have access to it.
I second the HSA/MSA idea. If you and your family are reasonably healthy you can get a fairly low premium high deductible plan coupled with the pre-tax savings account. Unlike cafeteria plans the medical savings accounts aren't use it or lose it, they can roll over & at 65-ish they can roll over into an IRA. Most of your expenses should be dealt with from the pre-tax money, and if you hit your deductible the plan kicks in. Blue Cross has some plans which are good around here. You'll still be putting in around $10k/year for a family for a decent plan, but some of that may roll over if you're all healthy.
Sounds like you should check out nearlyfreespeech.net - they seem to be pretty good at not caving to crappy demands.
I switched to nearlyfreespeech.net after someone mentioned them in, I think, that 2005 slashdot article. I like their attitude (their support of free speech) and their prices. For small sites especially, they can be a real bargain; you only pay for what you use, and there's no "unlimited" with lots of restrictions nonsense. I've been happy with the speed, etc; once there was an outage that affected every site, but there was advance warning and I'm willing to handle that for the other advantages. Domain registration is under $9 & their DNS is easy to use. If you're dealing with a larger or complex site, maybe look elsewhere, but for a typical small brochure type site I think they're good.
As always YMMV, but I'm a happy customer.
One could argue that it makes sense to combine the phone & projector because a projector needs a battery and content, which is provided by the phone. And if you want to take a call, you use your bluetooth headset, which are pretty ubiquitous now. If they are small & cheap, why not?
Well, I have an HFS-100 hd camcorder, and I use a Kingston class 4 SDHC card in it just fine. I'm not sure if 3+ RAW photos a second is more than 24 Mbps, but if not, I'd say you should be good. Maybe I just got lucky, but if even a class 4 card is ok I'd bet that a class 6 would work for something a bit faster.
The WSJ gave more details:
"Researchers at two centers, in England and Belgium, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests on 54 patients with severe brain injury. Of these patients, 31 were diagnosed as being in a minimally conscious state, meaning they showed intermittent signs of awareness such as laughing or crying. The other 23 were diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, meaning they were considered unresponsive and unaware of their surroundings."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704259304575043494009308442.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against a space program that includes, say, a manned trip to Mars. I just don't think that it should be viewed as a way to escape problems on Earth. I also think that going back to the moon is not a sensible way to get to Mars, so rethinking things is not necessarily a bad idea.
There's not going to be a rationale for a "mass migration" in the next couple of hundred years - where do you plan on going? What reason is there to go there? There will always be a few people willing to sign up for going somewhere else, but a migration even on the scale of Europeans to North America is just not on the cards. As bad as we could possibly screw Earth up, it's still going to be way more hospitable than any options which are reachable.
The Economist doesn't anymore - I'm a subscriber, but I haven't bothered to tell the website that because it doesn't seem to matter. Except recently they've been putting little popup "Become a Subscriber" ads, so I might register just to make those go away.
I don't know anything about Newsday, but I do think there may be a niche for ultra local newspapers; they can give stuff that the big news sources can't - parades, school sports, local government issues, zoning etc. For an example see http://gazette.net/ - they break MD down to the community level, and still seem to be doing ok.
I think you'd set the call up over the web, but then Google Voice will call you, then connect you to whoever you're trying to reach. I think the downside for AT&T is that on some plans you can pick 5 or so numbers that don't count towards your minutes, so if you make your Google voice number one of those you'd have unlimited calling & never touch your minutes. (Except for people not on your list who call you, I guess.)
The way to fight piracy is offering added value at the legit copies, not subtracted value, and they got that right.
Except they didn't, because the DRM subtracts more value than the extra content adds.
Except that one cable to rule them all requires a ridiculously expensive cable to replace
I bet monoprice will have them cheap ;)