I work at a big 12 college. We typically use the "misallocation of resources" rules that are written by the state. It says (here in my state) that materials, goods, and infrastructure paid for by the state, will not be used for personal use.
We tell our users that it is the same thing as not being allowed to take a State vehicle to your childs softball game.
Within reason, most people seem to understand, although Its probably a safe bet to say that 1/2 of our bandwidth is used by our students/staff for downloads that do not meet w/ our Terms of Service.
Take a look at a few college (they have been on the forefront of these troubles) many of them have very good policy statements on their websites
I bought a case of drives for work machine upgrades all where the IBM drives in question. If you want to talk stats I can tell you simply this.
20 drives. Add 365 days, 7 working drives. Now these machines are all older Dell Optiplex GX1's. The users are only in the office 8ish-6ish 5 days a week. All drive exibited the same behavior. Intermitent problems (we would reimage them to make sure it was not a system OS problem).. Shortly after the sporadic lockups, the drives would die.
OEM. Of course I bought OEM, that's what the OEM market is for! They wouldn't have the market if they didn't sell a LOT of product through it(with a cost savings on packaging). So would you buy 20 Harddrives in nice glossy cardboard at some UBERSTORE Computer Warehouse kinda place for $50 above retail each. Or would you buy a case, just like a PC Build shop does and save money, time, and wasteful packaging that is made to look pretty to my grandmother?
Nothing wrong with OEMs. If there was, the white box computer industry in the US is gonna have trouble fast. Do you think Dell or HP buys drives in happy catchy marketable boxes? If your buying them for home for a game machine thats one thing but others have serious work to do and rely on supply line chains that IBM setup for good product.. Result? Almost 100 hours of wasted staff time, installing images, making RMA calls, checking on lost packages, installing new drives, imaging new drives. I didn't sign up for this with IBM
I went hrough a VERY similar experience with IBM recently... I've RMA'd 7 times with 4 different drives.. maybe that doesn't sound too bad but we only bought 10 total for our workstations.. ALMOST each time i've gotten a "serviceable part" i've had to RMA those too.
I thought for sure it was cables or HD controlers... maybe even power.. but with our workstations... it seems pretty independent (e.g. I went through the trouble of putting the new drives in a machine that had a good drive in it... double checking the fitness of the drive against the machine)
The World Trade Center
Height: 1,368 and 1,362 feet (417 and 415 meters)
Owners: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth and Sons consulting
Engineer: John Skilling and Leslie Robertson of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson
Ground Breaking: August 5, 1966
Opened: 1970-73; April 4, 1973 ribbon cutting
The World Trade Center is more than its signature twin towers: it is a complex of seven buildings on 16-acres, constructed and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). The towers, One and Two World Trade Center, rise at the heart of the complex, each climbing more than 100 feet higher than the silver mast of the Empire State Building.
Construction of a world trade facility had been under consideration since the end of WWII. In the late 1950s the Port Authority took interest in the project and in 1962 fixed its site on the west side of Lower Manhattan on a superblock bounded by Vesey, Liberty, Church and West Streets. Architect Minoru Yamasaki was selected to design the project; architects Emery Roth & Sons handled production work, and, at the request of Yamasaki, the firm of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson served as engineers.
The Port Authority envisioned a project with a total of 10 million square feet of office space. To achieve this, Yamasaki considered more than a hundred different building configurations before settling on the concept of twin towers and three lower-rise structures. Designed to be very tall to maximize the area of the plaza, the towers were initially to rise to only 80-90 stories. Only later was it decided to construct them as the world's tallest buildings, following a suggestion said to have originated with the Port Authority's public relations staff.
Yamasaki and engineers John Skilling and Les Robertson worked closely, and the relationship between the towers' design and structure is clear. Faced with the difficulties of building to unprecedented heights, the engineers employed an innovative structural model: a rigid "hollow tube" of closely spaced steel columns with floor trusses extending across to a central core. The columns, finished with a silver-colored aluminum alloy, were 18 3/4" wide and set only 22" apart, making the towers appear from afar to have no windows at all.
Also unique to the engineering design were its core and elevator system. The twin towers were the first supertall buildings designed without any masonry. Worried that the intense air pressure created by the buildings' high speed elevators might buckle conventional shafts, engineers designed a solution using a drywall system fixed to the reinforced steel core. For the elevators, to serve 110 stories with a traditional configuration would have required half the area of the lower stories be used for shaftways. Otis Elevators developed an express and local system, whereby passengers would change at "sky lobbies" on the 44th and 78th floors, halving the number of shaftways.
Construction began in 1966 and cost an estimated $1.5 billion. One World Trade Center was ready for its first tenants in late 1970, though the upper stories were not completed until 1972; Two World Trade Center was finished in 1973. Excavation to bedrock 70 feet below produced the material for the Battery Park City landfill project in the Hudson River. When complete, the Center met with mixed reviews, but at 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world's tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower surpassed them both in 1974.
I read this book quite a few years ago just after it was release. Ken Alibek has some damn interesting things to say about how bio and chem warfare agents are produced and kept in check... and how you hide the factories.
All in all, pretty scary book that'll make you think (especially think about where all the seed viruses and see bacteria went after the USSR went flop).
Great book a must read for any science minded conspiracy theorist
It looks like CHIC does make a wireless Optical mouse but you have to charge it 8hours every three days... SEEEEESH! But I figured if someone made on it'd be about that bad... Wait for fuel cells 8)
Klrnsdme
(Killer Inside Me)
This isn't going to happen in the near future, I've read up on it and an optical mouse takes a lot of Juice to run it. Wheel mice take very little, so in a wireless configuration you can use batteries. The optical (which takes hundereds of "Pictures" a second and has a processor just sucks too much juice is my understanding. I looked, because I like you have the same problems. What am i going to do mail off my mouse every three months and wait for it to be warranteed?
Just FYI for all y'all I spent quite a bit of time beta testing some of the first flat panels.. and I really got into the Apple stuff (it was tre' nice).. but then I thought... huh... lemme t'ink bout dis here.. I called around to a friend of mine @ a high-quality monitor company (the one I buy from 8p) he then went on to inform me that up until a few months ago there where three companies that made about 80% of the TFT on earth!!
Most companies (including most major Monitor shops) just buy it from them in sheets (sometimes even pre cut). It seems that they only make it in one size then cut it down to fit the aspect. The bigger the piece the more x'pensive not only cause it's bigger but cause you have to throw away a bunch of the rest of the sheet because it's too small to use for another monitor.
So, I know that some of it's based on the actual product line of the TFT (e.g. some is shitty laptop, some is nice desktop and some is SUPER FLY desktop) but reguardless, most all TFT comes from the same place.. Thus Apple uses the same TFT as Sony etc (although they may get a higher end film.. I donno)
Peace
KLRNSDME
-Killer Inside Me-
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They want to license by the number of full time staff on our campus. We are talking almost 6 times the number of workstations we have.
ONO!
I work at a big 12 college. We typically use the "misallocation of resources" rules that are written by the state. It says (here in my state) that materials, goods, and infrastructure paid for by the state, will not be used for personal use.
We tell our users that it is the same thing as not being allowed to take a State vehicle to your childs softball game.
Within reason, most people seem to understand, although Its probably a safe bet to say that 1/2 of our bandwidth is used by our students/staff for downloads that do not meet w/ our Terms of Service.
Take a look at a few college (they have been on the forefront of these troubles) many of them have very good policy statements on their websites
Hell be bought a lot of them, they ran great!... I'm very very upset that I can't buy a nice Dell PowerEdge with Linux on it anymore... what a shame
I was just making inroads with management about the viability of Linux in the workplace server arena
Oi!
I bought a case of drives for work machine upgrades all where the IBM drives in question. If you want to talk stats I can tell you simply this.
20 drives. Add 365 days, 7 working drives. Now these machines are all older Dell Optiplex GX1's. The users are only in the office 8ish-6ish 5 days a week. All drive exibited the same behavior. Intermitent problems (we would reimage them to make sure it was not a system OS problem).. Shortly after the sporadic lockups, the drives would die.
OEM. Of course I bought OEM, that's what the OEM market is for! They wouldn't have the market if they didn't sell a LOT of product through it(with a cost savings on packaging). So would you buy 20 Harddrives in nice glossy cardboard at some UBERSTORE Computer Warehouse kinda place for $50 above retail each. Or would you buy a case, just like a PC Build shop does and save money, time, and wasteful packaging that is made to look pretty to my grandmother?
Nothing wrong with OEMs. If there was, the white box computer industry in the US is gonna have trouble fast. Do you think Dell or HP buys drives in happy catchy marketable boxes? If your buying them for home for a game machine thats one thing but others have serious work to do and rely on supply line chains that IBM setup for good product.. Result? Almost 100 hours of wasted staff time, installing images, making RMA calls, checking on lost packages, installing new drives, imaging new drives. I didn't sign up for this with IBM
I went hrough a VERY similar experience with IBM recently... I've RMA'd 7 times with 4 different drives.. maybe that doesn't sound too bad but we only bought 10 total for our workstations.. ALMOST each time i've gotten a "serviceable part" i've had to RMA those too.
I thought for sure it was cables or HD controlers... maybe even power.. but with our workstations... it seems pretty independent (e.g. I went through the trouble of putting the new drives in a machine that had a good drive in it... double checking the fitness of the drive against the machine)
Ugh I feel yer' pain!
From skyscraper.org
World Trade Center History and Stats
The World Trade Center
Height: 1,368 and 1,362 feet (417 and 415 meters)
Owners: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth and Sons consulting
Engineer: John Skilling and Leslie Robertson of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson
Ground Breaking: August 5, 1966
Opened: 1970-73; April 4, 1973 ribbon cutting
The World Trade Center is more than its signature twin towers: it is a complex of seven buildings on 16-acres, constructed and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). The towers, One and Two World Trade Center, rise at the heart of the complex, each climbing more than 100 feet higher than the silver mast of the Empire State Building.
Construction of a world trade facility had been under consideration since the end of WWII. In the late 1950s the Port Authority took interest in the project and in 1962 fixed its site on the west side of Lower Manhattan on a superblock bounded by Vesey, Liberty, Church and West Streets. Architect Minoru Yamasaki was selected to design the project; architects Emery Roth & Sons handled production work, and, at the request of Yamasaki, the firm of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson served as engineers.
The Port Authority envisioned a project with a total of 10 million square feet of office space. To achieve this, Yamasaki considered more than a hundred different building configurations before settling on the concept of twin towers and three lower-rise structures. Designed to be very tall to maximize the area of the plaza, the towers were initially to rise to only 80-90 stories. Only later was it decided to construct them as the world's tallest buildings, following a suggestion said to have originated with the Port Authority's public relations staff.
Yamasaki and engineers John Skilling and Les Robertson worked closely, and the relationship between the towers' design and structure is clear. Faced with the difficulties of building to unprecedented heights, the engineers employed an innovative structural model: a rigid "hollow tube" of closely spaced steel columns with floor trusses extending across to a central core. The columns, finished with a silver-colored aluminum alloy, were 18 3/4" wide and set only 22" apart, making the towers appear from afar to have no windows at all.
Also unique to the engineering design were its core and elevator system. The twin towers were the first supertall buildings designed without any masonry. Worried that the intense air pressure created by the buildings' high speed elevators might buckle conventional shafts, engineers designed a solution using a drywall system fixed to the reinforced steel core. For the elevators, to serve 110 stories with a traditional configuration would have required half the area of the lower stories be used for shaftways. Otis Elevators developed an express and local system, whereby passengers would change at "sky lobbies" on the 44th and 78th floors, halving the number of shaftways.
Construction began in 1966 and cost an estimated $1.5 billion. One World Trade Center was ready for its first tenants in late 1970, though the upper stories were not completed until 1972; Two World Trade Center was finished in 1973. Excavation to bedrock 70 feet below produced the material for the Battery Park City landfill project in the Hudson River. When complete, the Center met with mixed reviews, but at 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world's tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower surpassed them both in 1974.
I read this book quite a few years ago just after it was release. Ken Alibek has some damn interesting things to say about how bio and chem warfare agents are produced and kept in check... and how you hide the factories.
All in all, pretty scary book that'll make you think (especially think about where all the seed viruses and see bacteria went after the USSR went flop). Great book a must read for any science minded conspiracy theorist
good point....
KLRNSDME
(Killer Inside Me)
It looks like CHIC does make a wireless Optical mouse but you have to charge it 8hours every three days... SEEEEESH! But I figured if someone made on it'd be about that bad... Wait for fuel cells 8) Klrnsdme (Killer Inside Me)
This isn't going to happen in the near future, I've read up on it and an optical mouse takes a lot of Juice to run it. Wheel mice take very little, so in a wireless configuration you can use batteries. The optical (which takes hundereds of "Pictures" a second and has a processor just sucks too much juice is my understanding. I looked, because I like you have the same problems. What am i going to do mail off my mouse every three months and wait for it to be warranteed?
Just FYI for all y'all I spent quite a bit of time beta testing some of the first flat panels.. and I really got into the Apple stuff (it was tre' nice).. but then I thought... huh... lemme t'ink bout dis here.. I called around to a friend of mine @ a high-quality monitor company (the one I buy from 8p) he then went on to inform me that up until a few months ago there where three companies that made about 80% of the TFT on earth!! Most companies (including most major Monitor shops) just buy it from them in sheets (sometimes even pre cut). It seems that they only make it in one size then cut it down to fit the aspect. The bigger the piece the more x'pensive not only cause it's bigger but cause you have to throw away a bunch of the rest of the sheet because it's too small to use for another monitor. So, I know that some of it's based on the actual product line of the TFT (e.g. some is shitty laptop, some is nice desktop and some is SUPER FLY desktop) but reguardless, most all TFT comes from the same place.. Thus Apple uses the same TFT as Sony etc (although they may get a higher end film.. I donno) Peace KLRNSDME -Killer Inside Me-