A few years ago I was stuck on a large server integration/refresh project for a major global company. For some reason they were installing Dell servers and (ahem), I got to know one of the Dell support technicians very well. He was telling me how wonderful Dell and Windows was one day when he let slip that they had installed a Dell/NT solution in to one of the shipping management centres for one of the UK's biggest ports. I questioned the logic of installing Windows on a critical system and he just laughed and said "Do you honestly think they would put it in if its that unreliable?".
"Those who ignore the past are condemned to live it again" as the saying goes....
Personally I have always been a big fan of physically shredding hard drives which have contained sensitive data. Although the risks associated with re-assembling and recovering wiped data from, say, a RAID 0+1 array is pretty minute, the cost in terms of loss of corporate image outweighs the few hundred bucks made by trading in used disks.
For starters, you don't have to "throw out" the Concorde as BA/AF are doing that for you. They even refused to sell one to Virgin Airways as Branson might find a way to make the flight profitable and would thereby kill BA/AF's hopes of pushing all of the Concorde folks into the 747 first class section.
The cabin staff have very little to do with BA's refusal to sell the Concorde fleet. The main reason is that the technical staff do not want to work for Virgin who they see as rather lax when it comes to maintenance. The skills required to maintain the Concorde fleet are very specialized and if the technical staff won't move then Branson would not be able to use the aircraft if he did buy them.
Second - is the Thames as polluted as some of the other major rivers near population centers (sorry, centres)? If so, then I damn sure wouldn't want to go hotrodding around on it in an open boat - talk about your shitty experiences!
These days the Thames is one of the cleanest rivers in Europe and is home to a large number of pollution sensitive species such as salmon and crayfish.
There are a number of companies working on this goal but they all seems to be following different strategies.
BMW and Mercedes in Europe have working prototypes which work by using cameras to visualize the centre of the lane that the car is in and sensors to prevent it driving into the car in front. Overtaking continues to be an issue though.
The US car manufacturers are basing their research on indicators implanted in the roads to keep their cars on track but they all seem to be using different systems plus the big problem will be upgrading all the roads and highways to support the system.
Ultimately it come down to price and standards (as usual). The questions whether the government or customer wants to pay for the system along with its coverage and comparability will determine which system ultimately succeeds.
Bob didn't need a mod to make him evil, he already was!
Think about it for a moment... when was the last time that you met a builder who was polite, well spoken, efficient, well dressed (no builder's bum), fixed things quickly, didn't have a copy of The Sun in his back pocket, didn't drink tea and talk football (soccer) constantly, didn't whistle at women constantly, answered the question "Can we fix it?" with anything other that "It'll cost you" and actually wore a hard hat?
One you take the talking (possessed) site equipment into consideration Bob seems very much like the Anti-Builder!
I can just imagine trying to explain to my boss that I couldn't finish my report on the train as I'd been out on the lash the night before and didn't have enough power to run my laptop;-)
How about having an XML based system which converts SMTP into XML on the local server, sends it via HTTP/HTTPS to a similarly enabled server which then re-converts it back to SMTP and pipes it to the local mail server?
Ok, I know this is a bit heavy weight but this would allow legacy servers to be secured fairly easily and remain part of the sending system until mail server software is updated to a new version which supports XML/HTTPS natively.
One thing worries me about the X-Prize and that is safety. During the cold war the space race was a matter of national security as well as national pride so huge amounts of money were spent on research and development. Dispite this huge spending there were a large number of systems failures and a number of deaths.
Although we may have advanced in a number of technical fields since the 1950s space flight has not significantly changed. Is offering people money to win a race to get into space a good thing to add to the mix of small budgets and amateur rocketry?
This seems a very odd comparison to me; when was the last time you soldered a heatsink to a hot component or used paste to assemble a circuit board? The use in chips seems a little suspect too..
I can just see the warnings now. "Do not mount vertically or internal circuits will drip out!!!":-)
Who needs a ticket for the tunnel? If you brave the radid Foxes and don't mind traveling in a little less than ecconomy class then you can travel for free.
The problem is that as long as the service providers think they can make a quick buck by selling new services and people are daft enough to buy them then you will end up with all sorts of useless junk on your phone.
Is it me or does everyone remember the obsession that people had for tiny phones... the same people who are carrying something the size of a brick around simply because it can take pictures?
This will probably never happen due to the fact that the public request different things from different models. Because of this the designers must choose a socket which suits the size of the phone they are working on, its power usage, charge time, etc.
Looks like you will be buying those different chargers for a while yet....
Why would you want a camera on a phone? It seems a bit of a waste of development time to me when they could have been working on something else more important.... like a beer pump on my desk:-)
... AMD sponsored someone like ID Games or Epic to port their games engines to 64 bit? Surely the extreme gamers would force the market open as they have done in the 3D graphics market?
Lets face it, if your online business means anything to you then you probably won't run Solaris 9 in production for at least a year until its debugged a bit more and by then, if people hate the licensing so much, Sun will have changed it.
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A few years ago I was stuck on a large server integration/refresh project for a major global company. For some reason they were installing Dell servers and (ahem), I got to know one of the Dell support technicians very well. He was telling me how wonderful Dell and Windows was one day when he let slip that they had installed a Dell/NT solution in to one of the shipping management centres for one of the UK's biggest ports. I questioned the logic of installing Windows on a critical system and he just laughed and said "Do you honestly think they would put it in if its that unreliable?".
"Those who ignore the past are condemned to live it again" as the saying goes....
Personally I have always been a big fan of physically shredding hard drives which have contained sensitive data. Although the risks associated with re-assembling and recovering wiped data from, say, a RAID 0+1 array is pretty minute, the cost in terms of loss of corporate image outweighs the few hundred bucks made by trading in used disks.
For starters, you don't have to "throw out" the Concorde as BA/AF are doing that for you. They even refused to sell one to Virgin Airways as Branson might find a way to make the flight profitable and would thereby kill BA/AF's hopes of pushing all of the Concorde folks into the 747 first class section.
The cabin staff have very little to do with BA's refusal to sell the Concorde fleet. The main reason is that the technical staff do not want to work for Virgin who they see as rather lax when it comes to maintenance. The skills required to maintain the Concorde fleet are very specialized and if the technical staff won't move then Branson would not be able to use the aircraft if he did buy them.
Second - is the Thames as polluted as some of the other major rivers near population centers (sorry, centres)? If so, then I damn sure wouldn't want to go hotrodding around on it in an open boat - talk about your shitty experiences!
These days the Thames is one of the cleanest rivers in Europe and is home to a large number of pollution sensitive species such as salmon and crayfish.
I'll only be impressed when it flies.
;-)
(sorry, couldn't resist that one)
There are a number of companies working on this goal but they all seems to be following different strategies.
BMW and Mercedes in Europe have working prototypes which work by using cameras to visualize the centre of the lane that the car is in and sensors to prevent it driving into the car in front. Overtaking continues to be an issue though.
The US car manufacturers are basing their research on indicators implanted in the roads to keep their cars on track but they all seem to be using different systems plus the big problem will be upgrading all the roads and highways to support the system.
Ultimately it come down to price and standards (as usual). The questions whether the government or customer wants to pay for the system along with its coverage and comparability will determine which system ultimately succeeds.
The tilting technique can also be used to sweep large virtual pages across the phone's screen
Why did an Etch-a-sketch spring to mind when I read that?
from the mid 90s with a Lion on them which advertised NetWare? If I remember rightly the slogan read "We've taken the lions share by keeping quiet".
Time for an update with a dodo on it?
Bob didn't need a mod to make him evil, he already was!
Think about it for a moment... when was the last time that you met a builder who was polite, well spoken, efficient, well dressed (no builder's bum), fixed things quickly, didn't have a copy of The Sun in his back pocket, didn't drink tea and talk football (soccer) constantly, didn't whistle at women constantly, answered the question "Can we fix it?" with anything other that "It'll cost you" and actually wore a hard hat?
One you take the talking (possessed) site equipment into consideration Bob seems very much like the Anti-Builder!
They don't happen to live next door to the Chernobyl reactor by any chance do they?
I can just imagine trying to explain to my boss that I couldn't finish my report on the train as I'd been out on the lash the night before and didn't have enough power to run my laptop ;-)
PS Lash = British extreme drinking session
How about having an XML based system which converts SMTP into XML on the local server, sends it via HTTP/HTTPS to a similarly enabled server which then re-converts it back to SMTP and pipes it to the local mail server?
;-)
Ok, I know this is a bit heavy weight but this would allow legacy servers to be secured fairly easily and remain part of the sending system until mail server software is updated to a new version which supports XML/HTTPS natively.
Oh, and the name? I quite like KMTP
There is already a solid state hard drive for PCs called the QikDrive:
:-)
http://www.platypus.net/products/qikdrive.asp
Its based on standard RAM and luckily it has its own UPS connection
All that useful software I've always wanted on my Linux desktop! Wonderful software sch as:
;-)
* Groupwise connector for Evolution.
* Directory Services for Linux.
* ZenWorks for Gnome
I can't wait!
One thing worries me about the X-Prize and that is safety. During the cold war the space race was a matter of national security as well as national pride so huge amounts of money were spent on research and development. Dispite this huge spending there were a large number of systems failures and a number of deaths.
Although we may have advanced in a number of technical fields since the 1950s space flight has not significantly changed. Is offering people money to win a race to get into space a good thing to add to the mix of small budgets and amateur rocketry?
Cue the linux port project ;-)
This seems a very odd comparison to me; when was the last time you soldered a heatsink to a hot component or used paste to assemble a circuit board? The use in chips seems a little suspect too..
:-)
I can just see the warnings now. "Do not mount vertically or internal circuits will drip out!!!"
Who needs a ticket for the tunnel? If you brave the radid Foxes and don't mind traveling in a little less than ecconomy class then you can travel for free.
;-)
Hundreds of asylum seekers do it every day
The problem is that as long as the service providers think they can make a quick buck by selling new services and people are daft enough to buy them then you will end up with all sorts of useless junk on your phone.
Is it me or does everyone remember the obsession that people had for tiny phones... the same people who are carrying something the size of a brick around simply because it can take pictures?
This will probably never happen due to the fact that the public request different things from different models. Because of this the designers must choose a socket which suits the size of the phone they are working on, its power usage, charge time, etc.
Looks like you will be buying those different chargers for a while yet....
Why would you want a camera on a phone? It seems a bit of a waste of development time to me when they could have been working on something else more important.... like a beer pump on my desk :-)
'A good programmer should be able to do anything with 1K of memory'
Wasn't this a quote from a certain William Gates Esquire?
... AMD sponsored someone like ID Games or Epic to port their games engines to 64 bit? Surely the extreme gamers would force the market open as they have done in the 3D graphics market?
Lets face it, if your online business means anything to you then you probably won't run Solaris 9 in production for at least a year until its debugged a bit more and by then, if people hate the licensing so much, Sun will have changed it.
Whats the problem?