To be fair, most brits at least use both systems.
Well, we tend to use metric for weights and volumes more than in the US (it's hard to argue that pounds and ounces are easier to use than [kilo]grams), but we still use imperial interchangeably for length/distance measurements.
There's some road junctions in the UK where you'll pass a sign informing you that it's 1/2 mile to the junction, and the next sign will tell you that it's 400m. Somehow no one seems to mind or have problems with this.
Except that non-google devices that get rooted often end up with slick installers to root them with one click, where as for a Nexus device you end up having to download the SDK and all sorts.
Although I'd still recommend getting a google device anyway.
Weirdly, I found rooting my Nexus Galaxy slightly harder than my old HTC Desire. I had to install the Android SDK, which required the Java JDK,
(but only the 32 bit version, 64 bit was right out), and then futz about in a shell pushing files to the device. The process on the Desire was, plug in phone, click button.
Basically, hackers who root devices seem to have pride in their work and like to make things streamlined, whereas Google just made sure that it was possible and left it at that.
If it helps, most humans have more bacterial cells inside them, than they do human cells, and approximately half your faecal is made up of dead bacteria.
I'm not sure how that will help but there's a joke in there somewhere.
Only in the very expensive, top-tier data centers have I ever not seen non rackmount kit shoved into racks.
I was in a datacenter recently where we have three racks, and whilst wandering round the room waiting for an install, I don't think I saw a single rack that didn't have stuff piled on top of racked stuff. In our racks it's just external HDDs and spare screws/tools/parts, but I did see a small desktop case with a fedex box on top acting as a shelf for some networking gear.
I've just read TFA and I'd like to bring back the parent's question: Who is this bloke and why does he think that anyone will care about his opinion?
He's complaining about ALL other tablet/phone GUIs, and says he prefers a GUI that does not run on any tablets, and that he tested on a workstation.
If you dislike every single mobile OS, then you clearly have quite specialised tastes and needs, so what you think is a good interface will probably not be of any use to the rest of us.
Last year I looked into upgrading the 4Gb of DDR2 I had to 8Gb. Because I'd bought a motherboard that had both DDR2 and DDR3 slots (not intentionally, it just happened to have other features I wanted at the right price), and it turned out to be cheaper to buy 8Gb of DDR3 than to buy DDR2 used. Which of course meant selling my DDR2 on fleabay actually made me a profit:)
I am windows admin (personally fan isn't the word I'd use), and I just got hired into an almost exclusively Linux shop. When I was interviewed, I was lightly teased about pretty much only knowing Windows stuff (you've heard all the jokes right here on/.) but now I'm here, there's still the windows jokes, but I'm respected for my knowledge of systems that they don't know about, so it swings both ways really.
Also, the OP is doing the right thing by looking for a Windows admin, turns out Linux guys know shit about looking after a Windows domain;)
I'd guess the OP didn't make any of those decisions, he was probably sat in his office one day quite happily until his boss walked in and dumped the whole project on the OP's desk, only stopping to demand that it be up and running by next week.
Oh, and there's a budget of $0.
If you get to make the sensible choices in things you work on then I envy you, a lot of us just get existing problems dumped in our laps because "you're the computer person right?"
Hey! I used to be that Joe Admin, and even then I never had a problem restoring even from our oldest backups.
Tape is still a good choice for archival backup of large data sets. Although, I can imagine that changing in the next 5 years, we'll have to wait and see.
Shockingly (to some), Microsoft actually use this good idea. In an AD domain, the domain controller(s) is/are the time source for all client computers, and should be then configured to check their own time against a reliable source. I use the uk.pool.ntp.org servers myself.
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(that joke make more sense if you live in the uk)
There's some road junctions in the UK where you'll pass a sign informing you that it's 1/2 mile to the junction, and the next sign will tell you that it's 400m. Somehow no one seems to mind or have problems with this.
See that .co.uk in the URL?
That means that there's a chance of irony and sarcasm being deployed.
To play rounders of course!
It's not a hammer, it's a "forceful screwdriver".
Actually, we do have a mallet in our tool drawer, and it has come in handy for assembling racking.
Except that non-google devices that get rooted often end up with slick installers to root them with one click, where as for a Nexus device you end up having to download the SDK and all sorts.
Although I'd still recommend getting a google device anyway.
Weirdly, I found rooting my Nexus Galaxy slightly harder than my old HTC Desire. I had to install the Android SDK, which required the Java JDK, (but only the 32 bit version, 64 bit was right out), and then futz about in a shell pushing files to the device. The process on the Desire was, plug in phone, click button. Basically, hackers who root devices seem to have pride in their work and like to make things streamlined, whereas Google just made sure that it was possible and left it at that.
If it helps, most humans have more bacterial cells inside them, than they do human cells, and approximately half your faecal is made up of dead bacteria. I'm not sure how that will help but there's a joke in there somewhere.
I was in a datacenter recently where we have three racks, and whilst wandering round the room waiting for an install, I don't think I saw a single rack that didn't have stuff piled on top of racked stuff. In our racks it's just external HDDs and spare screws/tools/parts, but I did see a small desktop case with a fedex box on top acting as a shelf for some networking gear.
If it works, it'll do.
I've just read TFA and I'd like to bring back the parent's question: Who is this bloke and why does he think that anyone will care about his opinion? He's complaining about ALL other tablet/phone GUIs, and says he prefers a GUI that does not run on any tablets, and that he tested on a workstation.
If you dislike every single mobile OS, then you clearly have quite specialised tastes and needs, so what you think is a good interface will probably not be of any use to the rest of us.
Last year I looked into upgrading the 4Gb of DDR2 I had to 8Gb. Because I'd bought a motherboard that had both DDR2 and DDR3 slots (not intentionally, it just happened to have other features I wanted at the right price), and it turned out to be cheaper to buy 8Gb of DDR3 than to buy DDR2 used. Which of course meant selling my DDR2 on fleabay actually made me a profit :)
Two months late is where the code reviewers are, but still there.
Not sure if trolling or just bad at spelling...
It's worse than that, they used Delphi. (Seriously!)
I can imagine Win 8 will turn out quite usable after a service pack.
Total overkill, but very nice to go visit.
On the other hand their 'server room' is basically a cupboard under the stairs, but it's got room for one rack, and they only have three main servers.
ditto
Also, the OP is doing the right thing by looking for a Windows admin, turns out Linux guys know shit about looking after a Windows domain ;)
Do you mean £? I thought you were talking about Lira for a minute. And yeah, a pre- Decimalisation quid could buy you a lot more back then.
In the same way that Mars Science Laboratory is the entire mission, and Curiosity is the rover.
Compression. A string of data from a sensor is probably going to be pretty compressible, and might easily bring those data sizes down by 10x.
Oh, and there's a budget of $0.
If you get to make the sensible choices in things you work on then I envy you, a lot of us just get existing problems dumped in our laps because "you're the computer person right?"
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Tape is still a good choice for archival backup of large data sets. Although, I can imagine that changing in the next 5 years, we'll have to wait and see.
Shockingly (to some), Microsoft actually use this good idea. In an AD domain, the domain controller(s) is/are the time source for all client computers, and should be then configured to check their own time against a reliable source. I use the uk.pool.ntp.org servers myself.