1) A light bulb heating the ceiling does bugger all good to me on my couch. There's a reason they put heating vents on the floor next to exterior walls, not on the ceiling.
2) There are lots of places in the US where they spend much more energy on cooling than heating.
A few years later they upgraded, the new dinosaur was 1/4 the size and didn't produce enough heat to really matter.
I haven't worked for that shop in quite a while, but I expect the plumbing is still intact, so they're probably making good use of the heat from all those racks of x86 peecees.
If you worked in an outbound call center you'd be told to fuck off several times a day. You'd have to cuss pretty fierce to offend the poor bastard on the other end of the phone.
> You're talking about displacing 5,000 other people from their job, their > primary source of income (most likely), and you think that it warrants a "now > that's more like it"? > > I'll bet you'd be a lot less glib about it (and way more pissed off) if it was > your job on the line. Especially if you saw people making comments like that!
You're 100% correct, if you need direct hardware access you run as admin. I'll go out on a limb and predict this guy's sister isn't using that sort of software.
> I have yet to hear a coherent explanation of why writing to my own.INI file > under \program files\appname is a security risk.
It isn't a security risk, but INI files in application directories have been causing problems since WinNT, you'd think developers would have noticed by now.
The Official Windows Way of storing app config data is the registry, and has been for over a decade. Microsoft has a bunch of "Designed for Windows" documents on their website, they describe recommended (and supported!) ways to do things. Somewhere in there is a list of ways to make your program play nicely when run by non-admin users.
I hate the registry as much as the next guy, but every platform has braindead crap you have to put up with.
Make her run as a dumb user - now she can't install stupid shit.
Test each of her apps to make sure they still work without admin access.
If an app breaks, you can troubleshoot with regmon and filemon, i.e. many apps need r/w perms in their own directory for some retarded reason.
If she has a fast internet connection, set things up so you can RDP or VNC into her machine for the few times she'll legitimately need to install new software.
Maybe he should keep copies at home, everyone will be very impressed when he does the happy dance on the smoking ruins of the building, waving his memo and screaming "I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO!"
> hey won't respect their court rulings, but they allow not just one, but > multiple, back doors to be programmed in? And why would they do that? What > is Microsoft getting out of the deal?
> A browser that started faster, responded faster, loaded pages faster, didn't > consume vast amounts of my precious system memory, and using a platform > native interface
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In climates where the ground freezes, you won't find many houses on slabs.
If the ground doesn't freeze where you live, I bet heat isn't a huge cost for you.
1) A light bulb heating the ceiling does bugger all good to me on my couch. There's a reason they put heating vents on the floor next to exterior walls, not on the ceiling.
2) There are lots of places in the US where they spend much more energy on cooling than heating.
I've seen it done with a mainframe.
A few years later they upgraded, the new dinosaur was 1/4 the size and didn't produce enough heat to really matter.
I haven't worked for that shop in quite a while, but I expect the plumbing is still intact, so they're probably making good use of the heat from all those racks of x86 peecees.
A return of 4.9% *over a few days* is damn lucrative, you could do a couple of buy-spam-sell cycle per month.
> does that extra 24gb of ladies' naked bodies
> really make a difference anyway?
Yes. Yes it does.
He might have been a beekeeper feeding his hives, i.e. he stole all the honey they'd laid up for winter, the poor buggers have to eat something.
If you worked in an outbound call center you'd be told to fuck off several times a day. You'd have to cuss pretty fierce to offend the poor bastard on the other end of the phone.
ME TOO!!!!!!
> You're talking about displacing 5,000 other people from their job, their
> primary source of income (most likely), and you think that it warrants a "now
> that's more like it"?
>
> I'll bet you'd be a lot less glib about it (and way more pissed off) if it was
> your job on the line. Especially if you saw people making comments like that!
Your mom must be very proud.
> each instance uses a specific virtual COM port
.INI file
You're 100% correct, if you need direct hardware access you run as admin. I'll go out on a limb and predict this guy's sister isn't using that sort of software.
> I have yet to hear a coherent explanation of why writing to my own
> under \program files\appname is a security risk.
It isn't a security risk, but INI files in application directories have been causing problems since WinNT, you'd think developers would have noticed by now.
The Official Windows Way of storing app config data is the registry, and has been for over a decade. Microsoft has a bunch of "Designed for Windows" documents on their website, they describe recommended (and supported!) ways to do things. Somewhere in there is a list of ways to make your program play nicely when run by non-admin users.
I hate the registry as much as the next guy, but every platform has braindead crap you have to put up with.
Make her run as a dumb user - now she can't install stupid shit.
Test each of her apps to make sure they still work without admin access.
If an app breaks, you can troubleshoot with regmon and filemon, i.e. many apps need r/w perms in their own directory for some retarded reason.
If she has a fast internet connection, set things up so you can RDP or VNC into her machine for the few times she'll legitimately need to install new software.
> They'd go up in flames along with the building
Excellent point.
Maybe he should keep copies at home, everyone will be very impressed when he does the happy dance on the smoking ruins of the building, waving his memo and screaming "I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO!"
Relax, you've made your objections in writing, right?
Right?
Are you /sure/ you need 3 UPSs and not 1 big one?
Just because you have a big ergo chair now, do you really need to keep it?
PS - you're insane if you put 3 desktop sized servers in that room. Replace 'em with 3 rackmounted servers and a 1U LCD/keyboard/trackball/KVM.
Nifty. Here's someone using graphviz for a similar situation - dependencies for apps in the FreeBSD ports system.
CS
> College is hard work
You're doing it wrong!
Go to all your classes, do all your assignments, get Bs.
That leaves lots of time for partying.
DARPA paid for the BSD TCP/IP stack waaaay back in the day.
> hey won't respect their court rulings, but they allow not just one, but
> multiple, back doors to be programmed in? And why would they do that? What
> is Microsoft getting out of the deal?
(dons tinfoil hat)
A free ride on the court rulings?
> You wouldn't complain to the shredder company because the shredder doesn't
> have an undo button.
I wouldn't, but my users probably would.
The first XCOM had some creepy bits. I remember the first time I found an "examination room" in a UFO.
The general ambience was just plain spooky, especially the night terror missions.
> A browser that started faster, responded faster, loaded pages faster, didn't
> consume vast amounts of my precious system memory, and using a platform
> native interface
Lynx?
> I have to ask, what is making you throw out your old hardware?
Lack of space?
Finite number of inputs into my TV?
Following up to myself, here's a scan of IBM promotional material about their brand new super exciting virtualization technology, circa 1972.
Grooovy fonts, baby.
> While I do like virtualization, I think it is still in it's infancy.
You kids are so cute, they've been doing this on mainframes for at least 20 years, probably a lot longer.