Let me guess. You have one cable box and you're splitting the signal to all of your sets. Maybe you should consider paying for a separate box per TV set.
What is the use of a high tech toilet?
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Has taking a dump really changed that much in the last few million years? Why do I need lasers toanalyze my urine? Don't forget Japan is also the nation of porn comic books and school girl's panties being sold in vending machines among other sexual deviancies. These people go to Bangkok for sex trips and people want a part of their culture here in the US? Why?
Forgot to mention. The Exchange databases will be stored on one of our EMC SAN's. In fact were looking at booting the whole thing from our Symettrix. And we just purchased a company with a Lotus Notes cluster on NT Enterprise. My guess is soon it's going to be a Win2000 Advanced Server cluster running Exchange 2000 Enterprise.
We have a Win2000 cluster running a Java app. All the problems come from the Java app.
Re:A mainframe for 700 users?
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Our Exchange 5.5 system on NT 4 runs fine. In fact it's so good that I'm forgetting Exchange since there is nothing to do on it.
My company is planning to purchase a quad Xeon CPU 4GB RAM server as part of our Exchange 2000 migration for over 1000 users at a fraction of the price. And even with the licensing it's still going to be cheaper than this Linux mainframe.
Both UPS and Fedex tell people to pack anything in enough material so it will survive a fall from a good height. Their workers handle millions of packages a day and can't be expected to give each one the loving care and individual attention it deserves. I've bought PC's and monitors and they arrived fine with Fedex and UPS. I've shipped a monitor through the USPS and made sure it was packed better than how it was originally was shipped.
If you can't follow simple instructions like that, then you're just stupid. If you think someone is going to lovingly care for you package instead of the millions of others that day, your're stupid and naive.
MS offers collaboration with netmeeting. Multiple people can edit the same document at once. It's also built into Exchange Server 2000. Other compnies must be offering similar solutions. Why aren't IT shops looking into it?
Companies don't buy brand X RAM on pricewatch. They spend the extra $$$ and buy real brand name memory that is guaranteed compatible with their systems.
This is what I learned in my years of tech support. No one person ever uses all the features of MS Office. But all the users combined use all the features. So all the features do get used. Maybe not by you, but someone does use them. THe CEO's secretary probably knows MS Word inside and out. And the finance people know Excel inside and out to run their what-if scenarios.
It's wrong, completely wrong. I use MS Word as my email editor in MS Outlook and on my win2000 box Word 2002 is using 14MB of RAM. So someone needs to get their facts straight.
This is nothing compared to our in house CRM app that is written in Java. PC's running it need 256MB of RAM. And I heard rumors that the next version is going to require 512MB RAM on the PC.
Set up a win2000 box with MS Office or any other apps you use. Configure Terminal Services as an application server. You'll need an additional license which I have heard is very expensive. I think you may also need to configure a roaming profile, but since I've never done it i'm not sure. And you're done.
Or just configure a roaming profile if you're on an NT/2000 network and try it that way. But any apps you use will need to be installed on the PC you're working from.
The rest of the US is a very big place. Atlanta and Dallas have high tech companies with only a fraction of the expenses. Just because you couldn't recruit in one location probably just means you chose a poor location. Set up shop 60 minute drive from a large populated area and you should be OK.
It's not the speed anymore, but the visual quality that matters. The Geforce4 can play games in 1600 by 1200 resolution with all effects maxed out at decent frame rates. Anything past 60 FPS doesn't really matter to a lot of real game players anymore. What matters is the visual quality of the game. How real does the smoke look? How real do the characters move? etc.
First the satellites may not be able to transmit at another frequency. Second the receivers that people use to listen may not be able to receive on another frequency.
First the software gives you a custom install option. Second it took me all of 5 seconds to turn off disk detector. Third how many average computer users will know what to do when reading a screen that tells them it has to install something. A while back Kodak thought 9 clicks to install it's software was too confusing for the average user. What about this?
MS and other companies have sold beta software in the past. They'll just label any future release post beta or something. Good enough to release, but not bug free.
When it comes to stealing music of the internet all the open source zealots make comparisons about sharing physical items with friends.
But when it's open source software that can be held liable for deficiencies it's somehow very different than physical products and it's up to the user to fix problems.
So if a company has to hire an army of QA software analysts to review the code, where do the savings come in from this supposedly free software? Just because there isn't licensing fees involved doesn't mean it's cheaper.
I learned to do that too while in the government. I never delete an email except for notifications from anti virus software. Every so often I archive to.pst and burn it to CD and take it home.
I can see a feature in the next version of Exchange where the admin can select an email and have it deleted from all mailboxes that it resides in. With Single Instance Storage it's not that big of a deal. The problem comes when people archive email to personal folders. I can see "solutions" from Veritas and some other companies for smart email archival software.
It's easier to train users not to open up certain attachments. And with the right software you can block certain attachments all together. With it's faults I still think Exchange is the best corporate messaging/groupware solution. It's fully integrated and you don't have to worry about trying to make a bunch of different products work together to give you the same functionality as Exchange.
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Let me guess. You have one cable box and you're splitting the signal to all of your sets. Maybe you should consider paying for a separate box per TV set.
Has taking a dump really changed that much in the last few million years? Why do I need lasers toanalyze my urine? Don't forget Japan is also the nation of porn comic books and school girl's panties being sold in vending machines among other sexual deviancies. These people go to Bangkok for sex trips and people want a part of their culture here in the US? Why?
Forgot to mention. The Exchange databases will be stored on one of our EMC SAN's. In fact were looking at booting the whole thing from our Symettrix. And we just purchased a company with a Lotus Notes cluster on NT Enterprise. My guess is soon it's going to be a Win2000 Advanced Server cluster running Exchange 2000 Enterprise.
We have a Win2000 cluster running a Java app. All the problems come from the Java app.
Our Exchange 5.5 system on NT 4 runs fine. In fact it's so good that I'm forgetting Exchange since there is nothing to do on it.
My company is planning to purchase a quad Xeon CPU 4GB RAM server as part of our Exchange 2000 migration for over 1000 users at a fraction of the price. And even with the licensing it's still going to be cheaper than this Linux mainframe.
Both UPS and Fedex tell people to pack anything in enough material so it will survive a fall from a good height. Their workers handle millions of packages a day and can't be expected to give each one the loving care and individual attention it deserves. I've bought PC's and monitors and they arrived fine with Fedex and UPS. I've shipped a monitor through the USPS and made sure it was packed better than how it was originally was shipped.
If you can't follow simple instructions like that, then you're just stupid. If you think someone is going to lovingly care for you package instead of the millions of others that day, your're stupid and naive.
MS offers collaboration with netmeeting. Multiple people can edit the same document at once. It's also built into Exchange Server 2000. Other compnies must be offering similar solutions. Why aren't IT shops looking into it?
They are probably going to minimize the compression ratio for the ultimate in sound and picture quality. Just like the Superbit series.
Companies don't buy brand X RAM on pricewatch. They spend the extra $$$ and buy real brand name memory that is guaranteed compatible with their systems.
This is what I learned in my years of tech support. No one person ever uses all the features of MS Office. But all the users combined use all the features. So all the features do get used. Maybe not by you, but someone does use them. THe CEO's secretary probably knows MS Word inside and out. And the finance people know Excel inside and out to run their what-if scenarios.
It's wrong, completely wrong. I use MS Word as my email editor in MS Outlook and on my win2000 box Word 2002 is using 14MB of RAM. So someone needs to get their facts straight.
This is nothing compared to our in house CRM app that is written in Java. PC's running it need 256MB of RAM. And I heard rumors that the next version is going to require 512MB RAM on the PC.
Why pay Citrix twice? MS already licenses their software and calls it terminal server.
Set up a win2000 box with MS Office or any other apps you use. Configure Terminal Services as an application server. You'll need an additional license which I have heard is very expensive. I think you may also need to configure a roaming profile, but since I've never done it i'm not sure. And you're done.
Or just configure a roaming profile if you're on an NT/2000 network and try it that way. But any apps you use will need to be installed on the PC you're working from.
I guess it's going to be enough space for a full install of the latest Red Hat distro.
The rest of the US is a very big place. Atlanta and Dallas have high tech companies with only a fraction of the expenses. Just because you couldn't recruit in one location probably just means you chose a poor location. Set up shop 60 minute drive from a large populated area and you should be OK.
It's not the speed anymore, but the visual quality that matters. The Geforce4 can play games in 1600 by 1200 resolution with all effects maxed out at decent frame rates. Anything past 60 FPS doesn't really matter to a lot of real game players anymore. What matters is the visual quality of the game. How real does the smoke look? How real do the characters move? etc.
First the satellites may not be able to transmit at another frequency. Second the receivers that people use to listen may not be able to receive on another frequency.
I think Real Player is the king of unwanted components. And when you turn them off from running in the system tray, they turn back on. Unbelievable.
First the software gives you a custom install option. Second it took me all of 5 seconds to turn off disk detector. Third how many average computer users will know what to do when reading a screen that tells them it has to install something. A while back Kodak thought 9 clicks to install it's software was too confusing for the average user. What about this?
And what is this new.net thing?
MS and other companies have sold beta software in the past. They'll just label any future release post beta or something. Good enough to release, but not bug free.
When it comes to stealing music of the internet all the open source zealots make comparisons about sharing physical items with friends.
But when it's open source software that can be held liable for deficiencies it's somehow very different than physical products and it's up to the user to fix problems.
So if a company has to hire an army of QA software analysts to review the code, where do the savings come in from this supposedly free software? Just because there isn't licensing fees involved doesn't mean it's cheaper.
I learned to do that too while in the government. I never delete an email except for notifications from anti virus software. Every so often I archive to .pst and burn it to CD and take it home.
I can see a feature in the next version of Exchange where the admin can select an email and have it deleted from all mailboxes that it resides in. With Single Instance Storage it's not that big of a deal. The problem comes when people archive email to personal folders. I can see "solutions" from Veritas and some other companies for smart email archival software.
It's easier to train users not to open up certain attachments. And with the right software you can block certain attachments all together. With it's faults I still think Exchange is the best corporate messaging/groupware solution. It's fully integrated and you don't have to worry about trying to make a bunch of different products work together to give you the same functionality as Exchange.