This is why most modern fans have RPM monitors, and most motherboards have built-in support to alarm and/or shutdown when RPM's fall below a certain level. Beyond that, most current CPU's also have temperature sensors, so that if a fan fails, and temperatures begin to rise, the system will either shutdown, or simply halt.
I'm not sure if "I haven't read the thread here" refers to the article, or the slashdot comments, but if you did actually read the article you would see where he specifically mentions being given this exact same story, and explaining why it was not the problem.
I've recently gone through tech support from a few different companies that use voice recognition based menus. I don't know what the problem is, but I have a deep voice, and every time I try to get somewhere with these menus, they seem completely unable to recognize what I'm saying. Hence, I'm sure with this system implemented, and assuming it actually works, I would have been transferred to a real person to get assistance much earlier.
Of course, if the voice recognition system doesn't know what I'm saying, maybe the stress level detection will be confused as well.
I don't see the majority of Linux users switching to a Microsoft product if SCO somehow succeeds. There are too many alternatives that are closer to the Linux "lifestyle" - *BSD comes to mind first, but there's always OS X (perhaps a downfall of Linux could persuade Apple to port OS X to x86?). There might even be a swing to BeOS. Bottom line, there are plenty of alternatives to Linux which keep a user in the *nix space, which is where I would prefer to be if I lost all my Linux systems to a $700 license fee.
While Bruce raises a good point, and none of us in the open source community should be praising the attack on SCO's systems, it is stated that this attack does more harm to the internet as a whole than it does to the SCO as an entity. So let's think about that for a second - if we're worried about the internet as a whole, shouldn't we be more concerned with the root cause of this - Windows? It's Windows systems that are being infected and distributing the worm, as well as performing the attack on the SCO website.
I suspect someone in the Microsoft PR department is wiping the sweat off their forehead. While it's truly all their systems which are at fault, nobody seems to notice. Let's hear it for Windows Security!
I work for a large Canadian telco, and reading through this list I see a lot of things which I've either had implemented upon my machines from another group, or have been implementing myself in our group. We all have personal firewalls, we have a corporate policy for flash drives (and that is, they're allowed - for now), we've begun a corporate roll-out of Wi-Fi services - this being done means the corp-sec guys are 99.9% sure we're secure on that front, so it'll be interesting to see if we have a breakin on that front. To top that all off, I just finished building an internal corporate IM service based on Microsoft's Live Communication Server (LCS, formerly RTC). Sometimes I feel like we're in the dark ages here, but it's refreshing to see a company giving predictions about things coming in 2004, and knowing that we're already there.
We just bought two of the 6800's at the company I work for. They're sweet. But now they go and release the 15k's on us! Damnit! Here I am stuck with only 24 processors and 4 domains... *pout* oh well, I guess I'll survive... the pair of the 6800's make a nice set of book-ends.
Is this the same type of "keyboard" that is on a court-recorder's "typewriter"? I can't say I've ever been to court, but when you see the shows on TV, they have this little thing that looks like an old-school adding machine, and they're hitting key combinations and stuff to make words, I assume. Can anybody explain that to me?
Did anybody get the demo and try it out? It took me 15 seconds to get used to pressing spacebar to get the other half of the keyboard, and another 15 seconds for my fingers to figure out what keys to be hitting. It's amazingly quite a cool product.
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"It's going to be a matter of what the consumer will be willing to pay for a quiet computer," he said.
Are these guys not familliar with items like this? Somehow I don't see these fans costing that much.
This is why most modern fans have RPM monitors, and most motherboards have built-in support to alarm and/or shutdown when RPM's fall below a certain level. Beyond that, most current CPU's also have temperature sensors, so that if a fan fails, and temperatures begin to rise, the system will either shutdown, or simply halt.
I'm not sure if "I haven't read the thread here" refers to the article, or the slashdot comments, but if you did actually read the article you would see where he specifically mentions being given this exact same story, and explaining why it was not the problem.
Obviously you're moving along a bit too quickly.
I do believe you meant SEDENTARY. Unless you're some form of mineral/rock, I don't believe you're living a sedimentary lifestyle.
I'm sorry, but along with the other reply to this parent, this post doesn't deserve an Insightful mod at all...
I've recently gone through tech support from a few different companies that use voice recognition based menus. I don't know what the problem is, but I have a deep voice, and every time I try to get somewhere with these menus, they seem completely unable to recognize what I'm saying. Hence, I'm sure with this system implemented, and assuming it actually works, I would have been transferred to a real person to get assistance much earlier.
Of course, if the voice recognition system doesn't know what I'm saying, maybe the stress level detection will be confused as well.
I don't see the majority of Linux users switching to a Microsoft product if SCO somehow succeeds. There are too many alternatives that are closer to the Linux "lifestyle" - *BSD comes to mind first, but there's always OS X (perhaps a downfall of Linux could persuade Apple to port OS X to x86?). There might even be a swing to BeOS. Bottom line, there are plenty of alternatives to Linux which keep a user in the *nix space, which is where I would prefer to be if I lost all my Linux systems to a $700 license fee.
While Bruce raises a good point, and none of us in the open source community should be praising the attack on SCO's systems, it is stated that this attack does more harm to the internet as a whole than it does to the SCO as an entity. So let's think about that for a second - if we're worried about the internet as a whole, shouldn't we be more concerned with the root cause of this - Windows? It's Windows systems that are being infected and distributing the worm, as well as performing the attack on the SCO website.
I suspect someone in the Microsoft PR department is wiping the sweat off their forehead. While it's truly all their systems which are at fault, nobody seems to notice. Let's hear it for Windows Security!
I work for a large Canadian telco, and reading through this list I see a lot of things which I've either had implemented upon my machines from another group, or have been implementing myself in our group. We all have personal firewalls, we have a corporate policy for flash drives (and that is, they're allowed - for now), we've begun a corporate roll-out of Wi-Fi services - this being done means the corp-sec guys are 99.9% sure we're secure on that front, so it'll be interesting to see if we have a breakin on that front. To top that all off, I just finished building an internal corporate IM service based on Microsoft's Live Communication Server (LCS, formerly RTC). Sometimes I feel like we're in the dark ages here, but it's refreshing to see a company giving predictions about things coming in 2004, and knowing that we're already there.
We just bought two of the 6800's at the company I work for. They're sweet. But now they go and release the 15k's on us! Damnit! Here I am stuck with only 24 processors and 4 domains... *pout* oh well, I guess I'll survive... the pair of the 6800's make a nice set of book-ends.
Bentley has ProjectWise, which when administered well, is a good document control system. http://projectwise.bentley.com/
Is this the same type of "keyboard" that is on a court-recorder's "typewriter"? I can't say I've ever been to court, but when you see the shows on TV, they have this little thing that looks like an old-school adding machine, and they're hitting key combinations and stuff to make words, I assume. Can anybody explain that to me?
Did anybody get the demo and try it out? It took me 15 seconds to get used to pressing spacebar to get the other half of the keyboard, and another 15 seconds for my fingers to figure out what keys to be hitting. It's amazingly quite a cool product.