Windows clients can't even logon to an Active Directory Domain if their clocks are out by more than five minutes (from the Domain time).
This is a problem if your clients are so damn old that their battery backup on the motherboard has run down, and you don't have the budget to replace them:(
I'm guessing the OP isn't taking the external HDD with him because it's something else to carry and/or loose, and it's also his backup drive.
Having a backup of your laptop isn't going to help in a lot of situations if you keep the backup in the same bag as the laptop.
Ah, so by marginally useful you mean offering more than enough power for a standard office worker.
You don't like thin clients, we get it, but contrary to what you thing they are useful, and used, in many places.
You might be joking, but lets face it, that would be AWSOME!.
I was lucky enough to live near a guy who owned, and regularly flew a Spitfire, and the sound of one of those babies flying over still gives me shivers.
Quick thought experiment:
Say it takes 1 minute to put 20 litres of petrol in my car (I suspect fuel pumps are a bit faster than this, but it's a nice round number).
If the energy density of Petrol is about 30MJ/l that's the equivalent of 10MJ/s == 10MW
To transfer the same amount of electrical power, let's assume we can use three phase at 400V, that would be a current of 25,000A, which would require some bloody thick cabling.
So yeah, replacing the whole battery pack looks a bit more feasible than charging a battery in under 5 minutes (just how long are you willing to wait in a service station?). Of course, as pointed out below, if you can plug your car in at home and let it charge overnight, you can get away with much lower current draw.
A USB cable won't work, but it will fit, as one of my users managed to show me.
It did actually take me a minute or two to to work out why the USB device wasn't showing up, because it was a nice snug fit.
Mind you, the one that depresses me is the people who will type a single capital letter by pressing Caps Lock, typing one letter, then turning Caps off, rather than just holding down the shift key. Well, that and using the mouse to select the next dialogue, rather than TAB, although that's a user education thing.
Personally I've always found man pages to be either far too brief, or far too long, and always resorted to a quick web search instead, but then I'm more of a windows admin day to day.
Interestingly, one of the few communities of commenters that I can put up with are on Jalopnik.com, which is a gawker blog. By and large they're both informative and funny.
I think their daily 'comment of the day' feature does a good job of highlighting the good stuff in the community.
Yup, I'm gradually going through the members of the Royal Society, so we have newton, hooke, stirling, wren, poleni etc.
Of course, I have less than 20 servers (real and VM) so silly alphanumeric designations aren't necessary.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any way that I could tell that someone had booted one of our laptops into a LiveCD, even if I was watching before hand.
If you're not even mounting the HDD then the only record will be in the BIOS power logs as far as I know.
Although some of my users would probably manage to get the CD stuck in the drive or something. Sometimes I think they break things just for the attention.
I'm pretty sure that my iphone takes about as long to startup from being off as a fast windows laptop with an SSD takes to boot, and definitely less time than my android phone takes to boot.
I would run some tests and present numbers, but I'm lazy. And this whole issue is about the user's perception of time. But mainly because I'm lazy.
This is why I update the images I curate every month or so, so at the most, there's only a couple of months worth of updates to do on a freshly imaged machine. (and those come from a WSUS server at Gb speeds)
"I think parents should be able to chose what is best for their children"
Why? Some people can barely look after themselves, let alone children. I say go with the trained professionals.
Clearly they were thinking of the health of the poor IT techs who would otherwise have to set up wireless networks that would cope with 500 little shi^^^^ children all trying to connect to a wireless access point at the same time. Probably with several different devices each.
Wires FTW!
The really weird thing is that the apparent size of the moon from the surface of the earth, is almost exactly the same as the apparent size of the sun. Hence why, during eclipses, the moon fits perfectly 'over' the sun.
As far as I know this is just luck that we're at the point in time when this is true (the moon is getting very slowly closer).
Well, that's the idea, and I think it works a bit, but don't underestimate the impact of people who don't give a fuck about other people.
ie crimes over here are committed by addicts, the mentally ill, and fuckers.
Maybe that's why the UK has more variety, as everywhere in the country is relatively close to a large city (ie everywhere on the mainland uk is within 12 hours of London, ish).
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Windows clients can't even logon to an Active Directory Domain if their clocks are out by more than five minutes (from the Domain time). This is a problem if your clients are so damn old that their battery backup on the motherboard has run down, and you don't have the budget to replace them :(
There's shitty internet, and there's no internet. OP may be heading for the latter?
I'm guessing the OP isn't taking the external HDD with him because it's something else to carry and/or loose, and it's also his backup drive.
Having a backup of your laptop isn't going to help in a lot of situations if you keep the backup in the same bag as the laptop.
Or possibly it's some guys strangely interested in trying to bring balance by submitting stories with cops acting normally...
Or even, see here. (doh)
Er, yeah, there is an ARM version of Office 15 see here. (but the rest of your points stand)
Ah, so by marginally useful you mean offering more than enough power for a standard office worker.
You don't like thin clients, we get it, but contrary to what you thing they are useful, and used, in many places.
RTFA, it has graphs.
There's still not much security on bizjets.
You might be joking, but lets face it, that would be AWSOME!.
I was lucky enough to live near a guy who owned, and regularly flew a Spitfire, and the sound of one of those babies flying over still gives me shivers.
Say it takes 1 minute to put 20 litres of petrol in my car (I suspect fuel pumps are a bit faster than this, but it's a nice round number).
If the energy density of Petrol is about 30MJ/l that's the equivalent of 10MJ/s == 10MW
To transfer the same amount of electrical power, let's assume we can use three phase at 400V, that would be a current of 25,000A, which would require some bloody thick cabling.
So yeah, replacing the whole battery pack looks a bit more feasible than charging a battery in under 5 minutes (just how long are you willing to wait in a service station?). Of course, as pointed out below, if you can plug your car in at home and let it charge overnight, you can get away with much lower current draw.
A USB cable won't work, but it will fit, as one of my users managed to show me.
It did actually take me a minute or two to to work out why the USB device wasn't showing up, because it was a nice snug fit.
Mind you, the one that depresses me is the people who will type a single capital letter by pressing Caps Lock, typing one letter, then turning Caps off, rather than just holding down the shift key. Well, that and using the mouse to select the next dialogue, rather than TAB, although that's a user education thing.
Personally I've always found man pages to be either far too brief, or far too long, and always resorted to a quick web search instead, but then I'm more of a windows admin day to day.
Interestingly, one of the few communities of commenters that I can put up with are on Jalopnik.com, which is a gawker blog. By and large they're both informative and funny.
I think their daily 'comment of the day' feature does a good job of highlighting the good stuff in the community.
Yup, I'm gradually going through the members of the Royal Society, so we have newton, hooke, stirling, wren, poleni etc. Of course, I have less than 20 servers (real and VM) so silly alphanumeric designations aren't necessary.
If you're not even mounting the HDD then the only record will be in the BIOS power logs as far as I know.
Although some of my users would probably manage to get the CD stuck in the drive or something. Sometimes I think they break things just for the attention.
I would run some tests and present numbers, but I'm lazy. And this whole issue is about the user's perception of time. But mainly because I'm lazy.
This is why I update the images I curate every month or so, so at the most, there's only a couple of months worth of updates to do on a freshly imaged machine. (and those come from a WSUS server at Gb speeds)
Or a really steady hand and a magnetised needle.
"I think parents should be able to chose what is best for their children"
Why? Some people can barely look after themselves, let alone children. I say go with the trained professionals.
Clearly they were thinking of the health of the poor IT techs who would otherwise have to set up wireless networks that would cope with 500 little shi^^^^ children all trying to connect to a wireless access point at the same time. Probably with several different devices each. Wires FTW!
I am already ashamed of myself for that comment :(
As far as I know this is just luck that we're at the point in time when this is true (the moon is getting very slowly closer).
Well, that's the idea, and I think it works a bit, but don't underestimate the impact of people who don't give a fuck about other people. ie crimes over here are committed by addicts, the mentally ill, and fuckers.
Maybe that's why the UK has more variety, as everywhere in the country is relatively close to a large city (ie everywhere on the mainland uk is within 12 hours of London, ish).