Really? Wow. I've never had a company claim they have a SAS70 type II (or whatever it's called now) but refuse to release the actual report... that just seems so non-sensical. Not having a SAS70 isn't the end of the world, but lying about it certainly would be.
As far as 'ohnoitsroland' goes, he seems pretty well known around here for getting many articles posted that link to his own blog, which then links to the original article. Doesn't seem to be doing that so much lately, but that's still what I think when I see his name.
The iTunes activation process is what reads the SIM card ID# and links it to your new (or old) AT&T account. For some reason I'm not privvy to, your old sim card cannot be used. You get told to put the new one back in if you try using your old sim. And unlike any other phone I've used, there really is an activation process on the iPhone. Until the phone is activated by AT&T, it's completely unusable apart from emergency calls. No iPod, no camera, no nothin'.
The real problem is that nobody at AT&T or Apple seem to really know whats going on during the process, and because both companies are involved, it's easy for their reps to blame each other. For example, my activation process took about 14 hours. About 13 hours into the process I called AT&T and was told that there was a problem with the porting of my old number (wrong acct # given by me)... but that it shouldn't affect the activation of my phone. Yet, 5 minutes after getting an e-mail saying the port was sucessful, the phone activated. In the grand scheme of things, 14 hours isn't a big deal, it's just fustrating to have the device in your hands, totally unusable.
I think most people are blaming AT&T because Apple is usually fanatical about the 'customer experience' and most phone companies act like they'd really prefer you just died.
I've seen that option on some of the hybrid NAS/SAN boxes. For example, on NetApp filers, the command is called "wafl scan reallocate". You can tell it to reallocate by NetApp volume, or just a single LUN. The option exists because you can spread multiple volumes and/or LUNs over a single group of disks.
I run Exch 5.5 today, and I can tell you that online backups are absolutely possible. The only way I could see you thinking you had to take Exchange down to do backups is if you were backing up the EDB files directly. You weren't doing that, were you?
Did you turn on circular logging because that darn Exchange wouldn't truncate those 'useless' log files?
I'll bet you that a computer room that size doesn't use small in-rack battery systems that accept standard 110 or 220. Our UPS system isn't that large (40kV) and requires 3-phase power. Some of the systems it supports also require 3-phase power.
Port 1604 is unknown? Hardly. It's the older-style ICA browsing service, used by the Citrix ICA client to find server and application lists. Modern Citrix deployments should be at least using HTTP or Secure Gateway instead of using the UDP browsing (which can be very unreliable... imagine that).
And I can attest that at least one commercial product (PacketShaper by Packeteer) can identify individual published applications and apply shaping policies accordingly.
And a network hog? ICA is a pretty dang light protocol. It's fairly sensative to latency and packet loss, but calling it a bandwidth hog isn't really fair or correct. We serve about 270 concurrent Citrix sessions, and it consumes (on average) about 1MBps of bandwidth, rarely spiking over 2MBps.
There's plenty I don't like about Citrix MetaFrame, but managability sure isn't one of them. Unless you're talking about the CMC. That fucker can go to hell.
If you were to add up the total reported size of user's mailbox, you'd get a number much larger than the actual physical size of the information store. Single instance storage isn't really something that the end user is supposed to be aware of or concerned with.
It may not seem fair, but if you send a 2 MB e-mail to 25 people, each of those people is 'charged' the 2 MB (for a total of 50 MB), even though it only takes 2 MB on disk.
I use GoodLink on a Windows Mobile cell phone, and it does do the 'push' style of e-mail (and calendar/contacts) like a BlackBerry. Sometimes the handheld manages to find out about new e-mail before Outlook does.
Why do you say that? Apple hasn't said that they are going to be using any form of 'trusted computing' or hardware-based DRM. The entire article is based on Gartner saying "they could do this".
They could also package little midgets with tommy guns in each box to watch over you and ensure you only run OS X on Intel hardware.
No, actually the digital stations are typically just MPEG2. An MPEG2 stream takes up much less bandwidth than plain 'ol analog video. It also lets the cable companies do things like overly compress the less popular channels (HURRAY FOR AT&T!) more than the popular ones.
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Really? Wow. I've never had a company claim they have a SAS70 type II (or whatever it's called now) but refuse to release the actual report ... that just seems so non-sensical. Not having a SAS70 isn't the end of the world, but lying about it certainly would be.
Hannaford tried that. Didn't work out so well.
Preview.app handles it with grace and aplomb.
Microsoft Licensing, GP does ship from Nevada. As least they do for volume license customers.
As far as 'ohnoitsroland' goes, he seems pretty well known around here for getting many articles posted that link to his own blog, which then links to the original article. Doesn't seem to be doing that so much lately, but that's still what I think when I see his name.
The iTunes activation process is what reads the SIM card ID# and links it to your new (or old) AT&T account. For some reason I'm not privvy to, your old sim card cannot be used. You get told to put the new one back in if you try using your old sim. And unlike any other phone I've used, there really is an activation process on the iPhone. Until the phone is activated by AT&T, it's completely unusable apart from emergency calls. No iPod, no camera, no nothin'.
... but that it shouldn't affect the activation of my phone. Yet, 5 minutes after getting an e-mail saying the port was sucessful, the phone activated. In the grand scheme of things, 14 hours isn't a big deal, it's just fustrating to have the device in your hands, totally unusable.
The real problem is that nobody at AT&T or Apple seem to really know whats going on during the process, and because both companies are involved, it's easy for their reps to blame each other. For example, my activation process took about 14 hours. About 13 hours into the process I called AT&T and was told that there was a problem with the porting of my old number (wrong acct # given by me)
I think most people are blaming AT&T because Apple is usually fanatical about the 'customer experience' and most phone companies act like they'd really prefer you just died.
You mean like this?
That describes my bank (a credit union) pretty darn well!
Nope, Verizon uses EV-DO. It uses it's own IP network instead of using the existing SS7 voice network.
I've seen that option on some of the hybrid NAS/SAN boxes. For example, on NetApp filers, the command is called "wafl scan reallocate". You can tell it to reallocate by NetApp volume, or just a single LUN. The option exists because you can spread multiple volumes and/or LUNs over a single group of disks.
I run Exch 5.5 today, and I can tell you that online backups are absolutely possible. The only way I could see you thinking you had to take Exchange down to do backups is if you were backing up the EDB files directly. You weren't doing that, were you?
Did you turn on circular logging because that darn Exchange wouldn't truncate those 'useless' log files?
I'll bet you that a computer room that size doesn't use small in-rack battery systems that accept standard 110 or 220. Our UPS system isn't that large (40kV) and requires 3-phase power. Some of the systems it supports also require 3-phase power.
Port 1604 is unknown? Hardly. It's the older-style ICA browsing service, used by the Citrix ICA client to find server and application lists. Modern Citrix deployments should be at least using HTTP or Secure Gateway instead of using the UDP browsing (which can be very unreliable ... imagine that).
And I can attest that at least one commercial product (PacketShaper by Packeteer) can identify individual published applications and apply shaping policies accordingly.
And a network hog? ICA is a pretty dang light protocol. It's fairly sensative to latency and packet loss, but calling it a bandwidth hog isn't really fair or correct. We serve about 270 concurrent Citrix sessions, and it consumes (on average) about 1MBps of bandwidth, rarely spiking over 2MBps.
There's plenty I don't like about Citrix MetaFrame, but managability sure isn't one of them. Unless you're talking about the CMC. That fucker can go to hell.
Yes, I just noticed that. I'm curious if it's because I have no workstations running 4715 (I hope!), or if they've just made it a non-person.
If you were to add up the total reported size of user's mailbox, you'd get a number much larger than the actual physical size of the information store. Single instance storage isn't really something that the end user is supposed to be aware of or concerned with.
It may not seem fair, but if you send a 2 MB e-mail to 25 people, each of those people is 'charged' the 2 MB (for a total of 50 MB), even though it only takes 2 MB on disk.
Exchange only removes an item from the information store once there are no more references to it.
I use GoodLink on a Windows Mobile cell phone, and it does do the 'push' style of e-mail (and calendar/contacts) like a BlackBerry. Sometimes the handheld manages to find out about new e-mail before Outlook does.
Yup, but they don't care because password expiration is just another item on their checklist.
Please read the article next time.
K, thx.
Don't forget to repair your permissions and rebuild your desktop! Ha ha ha!
Oh, wait, no, that last one was the magic-fix-all for OS 9. My bad.
Why do you say that? Apple hasn't said that they are going to be using any form of 'trusted computing' or hardware-based DRM. The entire article is based on Gartner saying "they could do this".
They could also package little midgets with tommy guns in each box to watch over you and ensure you only run OS X on Intel hardware.
A president whose facial expressions are hilarious?
He only makes those expressions because Blair's nose keeps tickling his prostate.
Even worse is getting them out of the tape library once the little tape robot has jammed itself on one.
Christ, if you're not going to read the article, at least read the summary.
"The Register is reporting that in a few short months a proposal to tax all MP3 players in the Netherlands
No, actually the digital stations are typically just MPEG2. An MPEG2 stream takes up much less bandwidth than plain 'ol analog video. It also lets the cable companies do things like overly compress the less popular channels (HURRAY FOR AT&T!) more than the popular ones.