...and that solution is that any version of MS Windows should be automatically disqualified for even being considered for the O/S for such a "certified" system in the first place.
I read the original 1968 book way back when I was in grade school somewhere around 1977 or 78, long before I ever saw the movie, so I always thought that Japetus was the correct name. I also thought the booked rocked, and when I finally did see the movie much later when I was in high school, I thought the movie was so confusing that it stunk, and thus have never cared much for the movie.
I saw my very first implementation of a snapshot-capable filesystem in a NetApp filer way back in summer of 1996. That was eleven years ago. I'd never seen anything like it before in my I.T. career. If NetApp didn't invent it, then who did? Sun sure didn't have anything like that in 1996, they only had the plain old UFS and LVM's from DiskSuite and Veritas.
There's still that perception by business management types that a Windows-based IT shop can be staffed adequately by cheap, plentiful , easily-replaceable fresh grads right out of the local community college who have MSCE paper stuck to their foreheads. And there's still that perception that Linux/Unix qualified people are hard to find, tend to demand lots more pay, want real offices instead of an open bullpen with cubicle dividers, and that they tend to be more argumentative against the bean-counting management and they dislike strict dress codes and are less punctual when management expects them to always be there at 8:00AM sharp every morning despite whether or not they had to work until midnight the prior evening (for no overtime of course). In short, business management types prefer to keep their IT staff well under their thumbs, and squirming in fear of their positions... management hates, in the most profound way, to ever let themselves get into any position that looks like their IT people might have any kind of leverage to hold over them. Microsoft has convinced the business world that as long as they run a pure Windows-based IT operation, then their IT staff will always be a controlled commodity and easily replaceable with standard off-the-shelf "parts".
There is NOTHING wrong with a paper vote other than taking so long. Oh yeah? What about the honesty of the people who are counting those paper votes.
Ballot-stuffing and outright deliberate miscounts can and still do happen with paper votes. Even right here in the USA, and even right here in my home state of Texas not that very long ago.
Shut off the whole freakin' internet for a day in protest. I'm all for it. Everybody should at least try having a real life for at least one 24-hour period anyway.
Automotive gasolines in general aviation are utterly laughed at and incredibly discouraged, any pilot that thinks he's saving money is just spending it rebuilding his engine a couple hundred hours of flight later.
Bullcrap.
Those attitudes against mogas may have been the case a decade or longer ago, but the myths have been dispelled and the attitudes have definitely changed. Automotive gasoline runs just fine in a piston aircraft engine that has a low compression ratio. I've put almost 1000 hours on my Lyc O-320 (150hp, 7.0:1 CR) using mostly mogas and blended 100LL/mogas when I fly x-c and only 100LL is available. My engine is much cleaner inside than other planes' engines at my airport who burn 100LL exclusively. My oil stays cleaner, which will help this engine easily reach and go beyond the standard 2000 hour TBO. My spark plugs stay cleaner, the cylinders stay cleaner and my exhaust system stays cleaner. I have had zero problems with the engine valves or any part of the fuel system on my little airplane. The only detriment is that it is a bit of a hassle to hauling a pickup truck full of jerry cans of auto gas out to my airport, and people look at me with great suspicion when I'm filling them all up at once at a gas station, but I should be thankful that at least I can still buy auto gas that hasn't been contaminated with ethanol here.
I certainly would not be interested in eating a sea creature that has had over 100 years time to accumulate all sorts of man-made chemicals and heavy metal pollutants into its flesh.
(As I sit here eating my tuna fish sandwich for lunch. Mercury, Yumm! It's not just for breakfast anymore! Why is my hair falling out?)
...when will they start requiring computer professionals to have to become licensed by the govt in order to to possess and use the tools necessary for them to do their jobs?
No medicine might have saved George Washington, instead of the leeches.
The deliberate blood draining definitely killed any chance he would've had to recover... but important to note that there *was* medicine available back then that could've probably gone a long way towards healing his epiglotitis/throat infection... golden seal root was well-known by Native Americans, as well as colonial folk medicine in the 1700-1800's, to have healing powers for infections. And indeed modern science has shown it to have some fairly strong antibiotic capabilities. I've used it myself for sinus infections and strep throat, and it definitely works. Not quite as good as modern prescription antibiotics, but good enough for me.
If someone would put together a retail boxed Ubuntu with a nice users manual, and maybe a DVD disk with some how-to videos on it that the layperson could understand, and price it at about $19.95 (to cover packaging, the book, and instructional DVD)... the time is probably finally about right for the thing to actually start selling to joe sixpack at the big mega retail stores.
Cities all over the USA have been mounting 2.4GHz wireless mesh nodes onto streetlamp poles for several years now. It's bloody expensive to cover an entire city with these, you need about 20 nodes per square mile for decent coverage and the technology doesn't scale very well and tends to implode under stress and large number of nodes.
...in the D/FW Texas "Metroplex". I don't think they're in business anymore, but they used to be one of the pioneer ISPs there. One of my former employers back in the ancient days had one of the very first 56K frame relay commercial Internet feeds sold by Texas Metronet.
...is either 9th or 10th place in the world, depending on how you are calculating it, and is roughly tied for one of those two positions with Russia. And because of that, Brazil does indeed have a rather strong influence in the overall world economy.
I have an old LaserJet 4+ that I rescued from a dumpster for free. A little time spent cleaning years worth of impacted office dirt out of it (no repair parts needed) and it was working like new again. A 3rd-party refilled toner cartridge for it cost me less than $50 at Office Depot and I've been printing on this same cartridge for nearly five years now and it is still going strong.
Yes, the old LJ4+ is a bit on the slow side, but print quality is excellent and the machine is a juggernaut.
A CEO of an S&P 500, S&P MidCap, S&P SmallCap, etc. corporation is not going to risk his publicly traded corporation's entire infrastructure (the "heart" of the communications between all co-workers) to a 5 year old company (is Ubuntu even a corporation?) that also has many, many competitors.
Oh yeah?
Never forget that's the very same CEO who will in a heartbeat, outsource his entire IT infrastructure... including *you* and all the rest of your fellow senior IT staff (with the exception of a handful of the lowest-paid desktop support monkeys), to a 5-year old company in Bangalore, India.
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...and that solution is that any version of MS Windows should be automatically disqualified for even being considered for the O/S for such a "certified" system in the first place.
I read the original 1968 book way back when I was in grade school somewhere around 1977 or 78, long before I ever saw the movie, so I always thought that Japetus was the correct name. I also thought the booked rocked, and when I finally did see the movie much later when I was in high school, I thought the movie was so confusing that it stunk, and thus have never cared much for the movie.
I saw my very first implementation of a snapshot-capable filesystem in a NetApp filer way back in summer of 1996. That was eleven years ago. I'd never seen anything like it before in my I.T. career. If NetApp didn't invent it, then who did? Sun sure didn't have anything like that in 1996, they only had the plain old UFS and LVM's from DiskSuite and Veritas.
Was it found stuck under the top of a 5000 yr old desk?
Maybe the Billborg logo finally has a successor...
Heaven forbid Slashdot using a Borg icon with large knockers and wearing a spandex cat suit.
There's still that perception by business management types that a Windows-based IT shop can be staffed adequately by cheap, plentiful , easily-replaceable fresh grads right out of the local community college who have MSCE paper stuck to their foreheads. And there's still that perception that Linux/Unix qualified people are hard to find, tend to demand lots more pay, want real offices instead of an open bullpen with cubicle dividers, and that they tend to be more argumentative against the bean-counting management and they dislike strict dress codes and are less punctual when management expects them to always be there at 8:00AM sharp every morning despite whether or not they had to work until midnight the prior evening (for no overtime of course). In short, business management types prefer to keep their IT staff well under their thumbs, and squirming in fear of their positions... management hates, in the most profound way, to ever let themselves get into any position that looks like their IT people might have any kind of leverage to hold over them. Microsoft has convinced the business world that as long as they run a pure Windows-based IT operation, then their IT staff will always be a controlled commodity and easily replaceable with standard off-the-shelf "parts".
There is NOTHING wrong with a paper vote other than taking so long.
Oh yeah? What about the honesty of the people who are counting those paper votes.
Ballot-stuffing and outright deliberate miscounts can and still do happen with paper votes. Even right here in the USA, and even right here in my home state of Texas not that very long ago.
Shut off the whole freakin' internet for a day in protest.
I'm all for it. Everybody should at least try having a real life for at least one 24-hour period anyway.
Automotive gasolines in general aviation are utterly laughed at and incredibly discouraged, any pilot that thinks he's saving money is just spending it rebuilding his engine a couple hundred hours of flight later.
Bullcrap.
Those attitudes against mogas may have been the case a decade or longer ago, but the myths have been dispelled and the attitudes have definitely changed. Automotive gasoline runs just fine in a piston aircraft engine that has a low compression ratio. I've put almost 1000 hours on my Lyc O-320 (150hp, 7.0:1 CR) using mostly mogas and blended 100LL/mogas when I fly x-c and only 100LL is available. My engine is much cleaner inside than other planes' engines at my airport who burn 100LL exclusively. My oil stays cleaner, which will help this engine easily reach and go beyond the standard 2000 hour TBO. My spark plugs stay cleaner, the cylinders stay cleaner and my exhaust system stays cleaner. I have had zero problems with the engine valves or any part of the fuel system on my little airplane. The only detriment is that it is a bit of a hassle to hauling a pickup truck full of jerry cans of auto gas out to my airport, and people look at me with great suspicion when I'm filling them all up at once at a gas station, but I should be thankful that at least I can still buy auto gas that hasn't been contaminated with ethanol here.
...what's the packet loss percentage? ;-)
I certainly would not be interested in eating a sea creature that has had over 100 years time to accumulate all sorts of man-made chemicals and heavy metal pollutants into its flesh.
(As I sit here eating my tuna fish sandwich for lunch. Mercury, Yumm! It's not just for breakfast anymore! Why is my hair falling out?)
...is that the worst threats to your network do not necessarily come from outside.... they almost always come from your very own moronic employees.
...when will they start requiring computer professionals to have to become licensed by the govt in order to to possess and use the tools necessary for them to do their jobs?
I'm all for it if they want to only tax spam.
Who is it making it safer for?
The cops.
No medicine might have saved George Washington, instead of the leeches.
The deliberate blood draining definitely killed any chance he would've had to recover... but important to note that there *was* medicine available back then that could've probably gone a long way towards healing his epiglotitis/throat infection... golden seal root was well-known by Native Americans, as well as colonial folk medicine in the 1700-1800's, to have healing powers for infections. And indeed modern science has shown it to have some fairly strong antibiotic capabilities. I've used it myself for sinus infections and strep throat, and it definitely works. Not quite as good as modern prescription antibiotics, but good enough for me.
If someone would put together a retail boxed Ubuntu with a nice users manual, and maybe a DVD disk with some how-to videos on it that the layperson could understand, and price it at about $19.95 (to cover packaging, the book, and instructional DVD)... the time is probably finally about right for the thing to actually start selling to joe sixpack at the big mega retail stores.
Cities all over the USA have been mounting 2.4GHz wireless mesh nodes onto streetlamp poles for several years now. It's bloody expensive to cover an entire city with these, you need about 20 nodes per square mile for decent coverage and the technology doesn't scale very well and tends to implode under stress and large number of nodes.
...in the D/FW Texas "Metroplex". I don't think they're in business anymore, but they used to be one of the pioneer ISPs there. One of my former employers back in the ancient days had one of the very first 56K frame relay commercial Internet feeds sold by Texas Metronet.
...is either 9th or 10th place in the world, depending on how you are calculating it, and is roughly tied for one of those two positions with Russia. And because of that, Brazil does indeed have a rather strong influence in the overall world economy.
I have an old LaserJet 4+ that I rescued from a dumpster for free. A little time spent cleaning years worth of impacted office dirt out of it (no repair parts needed) and it was working like new again. A 3rd-party refilled toner cartridge for it cost me less than $50 at Office Depot and I've been printing on this same cartridge for nearly five years now and it is still going strong.
Yes, the old LJ4+ is a bit on the slow side, but print quality is excellent and the machine is a juggernaut.
A CEO of an S&P 500, S&P MidCap, S&P SmallCap, etc. corporation is not going to risk his publicly traded corporation's entire infrastructure (the "heart" of the communications between all co-workers) to a 5 year old company (is Ubuntu even a corporation?) that also has many, many competitors.
Oh yeah?
Never forget that's the very same CEO who will in a heartbeat, outsource his entire IT infrastructure... including *you* and all the rest of your fellow senior IT staff (with the exception of a handful of the lowest-paid desktop support monkeys), to a 5-year old company in Bangalore, India.
Because the biggest airliner in the world probably also has the tiniest bathrooms and they're afraid to admit that ;-)
After all, MS software (Windows as the underlying operating system) is used to facilitate like probably 99% of all Internet music piracy.
only problem is the vomit comit doesn't have a handicapped accessable bathroom
I'm sure NASA will issue him an adequate supply of their now-famous adult diapers.