in a few years when there is mass adoption of HD-DVD this won't matter because the early adopters will buy the cheaper and better players that will be out. Just like they did when DVD first came out
i'm a dba in a sql2000 shop and we have servers that serve over 1 million hits a day with very little problems
database design is your biggest challenge no matter what you use. you can spend $1 million on orcale, but if you build it wrong then you are wasting your money.
build a read/write design where your writable servers don't serve reporting or similar queries. A long select can cause locks for people trying to update data. force people to use the reporting servers for report and other data generation
use the right data type for the data. don't use bigint's where an int will do since it will cause your storage needs to grow and the data involved in each query will increase as well
build the hardware right. don't use RAID5 on files where you are going to have a lot of writes
we have someone in our company that is a middle ground between the dba's/IT and the dev's. He is a coder by training but he supports the code the developers write, deploys it, checks for problems after QA signs off on it, etc.
there is a special team from the FBI, CIA, NSA, Commerce and a few other departments that looks at any merger where a foreign company buys a US company. They look at the national security aspects and either put conditions on the merger or kill it. Nothing you can do since there is a law that lets the government do this.
users are always demanding most storage to store their MP3's and vacation pictures. And they want new servers, but their departments aren't willing to pay for it. If you want something, talk to your own department management and have them pay for your projects
I read One up on Wall Street some years back. It was written by one of the best mutual fund managers in history. It's a natural cycle and the only real winners are the investment banks that get fees in every transaction.
a normal TV is less than 640x480 resolution where a PC is usually 1024x768 minimum. It takes a lot more horsepower to make graphics on a PC monitor compared to a TV. HDTV is around 1024x768, but a lot of the new PC graphics cards can play at 1600x1200. Do the math to see what the difference in pixels is.
you can google historic temp changes and see that they vary by a few degrees every 1500 years or so. Why did temps drop in the medieval ages? why did they go up before? Did the romans have SUV?
Funding. Why was one of those supercollider things cancelled? Because no one cares about spending $15 billion for general research that may not prove useful economically for decades. If scientists ask for $20 billion to study the climate or the weather or something similar than no one is going to listen to them.
Now if you predict the end of the world unless you get funding, than it's another story. You will get a lot of funding since the weather and climate is so close to home.
Ask yourself, there are a lot more cancer patients than AIDS patients. Which gets more funding? Why is that?
Going to Intel and buying PC and handheld chips from them will give Apple a single vendor to purchase from. This will cut parts costs, engineering costs and a ton of other costs. Intel is big enough that it can also provide engineering support so Apple doesn't have to design chipsets from scratch. Apple is about the experience and software. They don't care what the hardware is under the hood. Just like Microsoft.
The studios make a lot of money selling entire seasons of shows on DVD free of ads. Advertising isn't the issue here. The studios don't want free shows on the internet when they are trying to sell DVD's of what they broadcast on TV sometimes decades ago.
If you use Outlook with Exchange Server you can press shift and then delete the email. The deleted messages would then not go into deleted items and will not be in deleted item retention.
Maybe MS ordered everyone involved to destroy all the emails?
Of course if the email was on the server during at least one backup cycle it would be possible to restore it.
I have seen people put a server into production running some app and maybe 10% of the CPU and RAM is used at most. Try to consolidate your servers to run multiple tasks, but don't go as far as breaking the vendor's recomendations.
Another suggestion is run the right tool for the job. Not every database requires Oracle. my company runs on MS SQL server and we are looking at Oracle in the future as we grow. If SQL is too much look at MySQL or some other lower end database.
Don't upgrade unless you need to. We run Windows 2000 and we are looking at 2003 only because we are merging with another company at the moment.
Control resources. I always have people yelling for more mailbox space and file storage space. Tell them to have their department buy it and they STFU.
Do some legwork. Projects and needs come up and it usually means a new server is bought. After a while there is a clusterfcuk of servers running different things. take time out and consolidate servers.
they would give traditional media good competition
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I think it's a good idea if they merge. Their real compatition is not each other, but traditional radio. Clearchannel knows this and that is why they own a large percentage of one of the companies. XM I think.
The playing field is all of media, not just satellite radio. It would be really nice if Sirius merged with XM and then another merger with Direct TV or Dish Network. The combined company would be big enough to be able to fund some really nice services. You think MyFi is nice, how about a handheld player where you can receive radio and TV at once?
For those that rant against "big corporations" this is a capital intensive business. Satellites cost a lot of money. Launching them is expensive. If something goes wrong, the entire company can go out of business. Being big is an advantage since it means you can fund redundancy and survive a catastrophe.
Someone told me that Microsoft pissed him off with a software audit and a fine. He promised to convert his business to Linux and did it in a few years. Supossedly everything in the company now runs on Linux.
Our company ran up our credit with some other big supplier whose name eludes me at the moment until they cut us off. Now that telecom is getting better, we are making money and we are paying for our stuff to CDW.
For whatever reason we went with Compaq over Dell a few years ago and now it's HP. That was before my time. The good thing is that HP is better servers than you can build yourself because of the remote management features. And one point of contact for support is always better than playing the blame game of which part is responsible for the problem.
My company is big enough to get good pricing on HP servers from CDW. We have our personal sales rep that also helps out with support issues and since we are big enough we get a nice return policy.
HP's are good servers and rock solid. The ilo lights out capability is nice too since it allows us to do a cold boot remotely over the LAN if the OS locks up to where access over pc anywhere, terminal services or the raritan kvn is no good.
there is one point of contact for tech support which makes things easier. Parts are shipped next day air most times with pre-paid return shipping.
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in a few years when there is mass adoption of HD-DVD this won't matter because the early adopters will buy the cheaper and better players that will be out. Just like they did when DVD first came out
sql 2005 everything is in the box
with oracle almost everything is an extra add on from the base product
SQL2005 supports this now. We looked at Oracle, but it was too expensive compared to SQL 2005
i'm a dba in a sql2000 shop and we have servers that serve over 1 million hits a day with very little problems
database design is your biggest challenge no matter what you use. you can spend $1 million on orcale, but if you build it wrong then you are wasting your money.
build a read/write design where your writable servers don't serve reporting or similar queries. A long select can cause locks for people trying to update data. force people to use the reporting servers for report and other data generation
use the right data type for the data. don't use bigint's where an int will do since it will cause your storage needs to grow and the data involved in each query will increase as well
build the hardware right. don't use RAID5 on files where you are going to have a lot of writes
anyone know? On my Time Warner HD channels most shows are pretty good but a lot of times you can see pixels
we have someone in our company that is a middle ground between the dba's/IT and the dev's. He is a coder by training but he supports the code the developers write, deploys it, checks for problems after QA signs off on it, etc.
MOD THIS UP - FUNNY
MS does this
.NET in the late 1990's.
they give someone some money and a place to work and leave them alone
I first read about them working on something similar to
there is a special team from the FBI, CIA, NSA, Commerce and a few other departments that looks at any merger where a foreign company buys a US company. They look at the national security aspects and either put conditions on the merger or kill it. Nothing you can do since there is a law that lets the government do this.
users are always demanding most storage to store their MP3's and vacation pictures. And they want new servers, but their departments aren't willing to pay for it. If you want something, talk to your own department management and have them pay for your projects
If you buy a home PC from Dell/HP it will either have the basic version of Vista or some of the upgraded versions if it's a "HTPC". No confusion.
Maybe this was for law enforcement or some other agency to track "people of interest."
I read One up on Wall Street some years back. It was written by one of the best mutual fund managers in history. It's a natural cycle and the only real winners are the investment banks that get fees in every transaction.
a normal TV is less than 640x480 resolution where a PC is usually 1024x768 minimum. It takes a lot more horsepower to make graphics on a PC monitor compared to a TV. HDTV is around 1024x768, but a lot of the new PC graphics cards can play at 1600x1200. Do the math to see what the difference in pixels is.
you can google historic temp changes and see that they vary by a few degrees every 1500 years or so. Why did temps drop in the medieval ages? why did they go up before? Did the romans have SUV?
Funding. Why was one of those supercollider things cancelled? Because no one cares about spending $15 billion for general research that may not prove useful economically for decades. If scientists ask for $20 billion to study the climate or the weather or something similar than no one is going to listen to them.
Now if you predict the end of the world unless you get funding, than it's another story. You will get a lot of funding since the weather and climate is so close to home.
Ask yourself, there are a lot more cancer patients than AIDS patients. Which gets more funding? Why is that?
Lobbying and predicting the end of the world.
Going to Intel and buying PC and handheld chips from them will give Apple a single vendor to purchase from. This will cut parts costs, engineering costs and a ton of other costs. Intel is big enough that it can also provide engineering support so Apple doesn't have to design chipsets from scratch. Apple is about the experience and software. They don't care what the hardware is under the hood. Just like Microsoft.
The studios make a lot of money selling entire seasons of shows on DVD free of ads. Advertising isn't the issue here. The studios don't want free shows on the internet when they are trying to sell DVD's of what they broadcast on TV sometimes decades ago.
If you use Outlook with Exchange Server you can press shift and then delete the email. The deleted messages would then not go into deleted items and will not be in deleted item retention.
Maybe MS ordered everyone involved to destroy all the emails?
Of course if the email was on the server during at least one backup cycle it would be possible to restore it.
I have seen people put a server into production running some app and maybe 10% of the CPU and RAM is used at most. Try to consolidate your servers to run multiple tasks, but don't go as far as breaking the vendor's recomendations.
Another suggestion is run the right tool for the job. Not every database requires Oracle. my company runs on MS SQL server and we are looking at Oracle in the future as we grow. If SQL is too much look at MySQL or some other lower end database.
Don't upgrade unless you need to. We run Windows 2000 and we are looking at 2003 only because we are merging with another company at the moment.
Control resources. I always have people yelling for more mailbox space and file storage space. Tell them to have their department buy it and they STFU.
Do some legwork. Projects and needs come up and it usually means a new server is bought. After a while there is a clusterfcuk of servers running different things. take time out and consolidate servers.
I think it's a good idea if they merge. Their real compatition is not each other, but traditional radio. Clearchannel knows this and that is why they own a large percentage of one of the companies. XM I think.
The playing field is all of media, not just satellite radio. It would be really nice if Sirius merged with XM and then another merger with Direct TV or Dish Network. The combined company would be big enough to be able to fund some really nice services. You think MyFi is nice, how about a handheld player where you can receive radio and TV at once?
For those that rant against "big corporations" this is a capital intensive business. Satellites cost a lot of money. Launching them is expensive. If something goes wrong, the entire company can go out of business. Being big is an advantage since it means you can fund redundancy and survive a catastrophe.
Someone told me that Microsoft pissed him off with a software audit and a fine. He promised to convert his business to Linux and did it in a few years. Supossedly everything in the company now runs on Linux.
Our company ran up our credit with some other big supplier whose name eludes me at the moment until they cut us off. Now that telecom is getting better, we are making money and we are paying for our stuff to CDW.
For whatever reason we went with Compaq over Dell a few years ago and now it's HP. That was before my time. The good thing is that HP is better servers than you can build yourself because of the remote management features. And one point of contact for support is always better than playing the blame game of which part is responsible for the problem.
My company is big enough to get good pricing on HP servers from CDW. We have our personal sales rep that also helps out with support issues and since we are big enough we get a nice return policy.
HP's are good servers and rock solid. The ilo lights out capability is nice too since it allows us to do a cold boot remotely over the LAN if the OS locks up to where access over pc anywhere, terminal services or the raritan kvn is no good.
there is one point of contact for tech support which makes things easier. Parts are shipped next day air most times with pre-paid return shipping.
I forgot where I read it, but on the 14th on the http://www.irs.gov/ they will post a full list of where you can file an electronic return for free.