Well, I personally know of quite a few PDPs still in use in industrial settings. I don't know the age of the particular machines I was working on but that model is 31 years old.
Heck, we had to reconfigure a few things last year and one of the configuration files I was updating hadn't been modified since 1991.
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HP has the Jornada line in PDAs. Not as successful as the iPaq perhaps, but still in there.
I spoke to a Telstra support guy a little earlier.
He said that the account details were obtained by a trojan that claimed to remove the new 3GB/month cap on downloads. This would explain why it is only a few broadband accounts with the problem.
Of course the problem is that they still haven't sent out a message to all the ADSL users warning them about this.
Until fairly recently I was working for a large Australian company that required 24x7 support of some for many of its systems. (In fact it could get very dangerous for some of the blue-collar guys if the computer systems went down)
Anyhow, fortnightly or non-salaried staff used to get 5% of their hourly wage for every hour they had to carry a pager. They also got paid overtime rates for any call-outs. In exchange for this, the employee was not to leave town, get drunk etc.
There was also a rule where an employee couldn't spend more than 2 weeks out of every three on call (this was often bent though)
Salaried employees on the other hand ended up with $50 for every time they got called. Salaried employees in a support role usually received a higher salary than developers though.
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Well, I personally know of quite a few PDPs still in use in industrial settings. I don't know the age of the particular machines I was working on but that model is 31 years old.
Heck, we had to reconfigure a few things last year and one of the configuration files I was updating hadn't been modified since 1991.
HP has the Jornada line in PDAs. Not as successful as the iPaq perhaps, but still in there.
They are still doing desktops too.
SCC is 60Gbps and is primarily used by Optus.
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I spoke to a Telstra support guy a little earlier.
He said that the account details were obtained by a trojan that claimed to remove the new 3GB/month cap on downloads. This would explain why it is only a few broadband accounts with the problem.
Of course the problem is that they still haven't sent out a message to all the ADSL users warning them about this.
Until fairly recently I was working for a large Australian company that required 24x7 support of some for many of its systems. (In fact it could get very dangerous for some of the blue-collar guys if the computer systems went down)
Anyhow, fortnightly or non-salaried staff used to get 5% of their hourly wage for every hour they had to carry a pager. They also got paid overtime rates for any call-outs. In exchange for this, the employee was not to leave town, get drunk etc.
There was also a rule where an employee couldn't spend more than 2 weeks out of every three on call (this was often bent though)
Salaried employees on the other hand ended up with $50 for every time they got called. Salaried employees in a support role usually received a higher salary than developers though.