SUS is tailor-made for the situation you're talking about. Assuming you've got a domain in your library, put a proposal together to get another box, throw a flavor of Server 2K3 on it, and get SUS. SUS will synch to the Windows Update site, so anything available there will be available to you internally. Then you approve the patches you want to push, and Bob's your uncle.
Assuming you can get the approval for the server + software bits, you'll achieve what it is you're trying to do - not soak your 'Net connection and still keep a reasonable level of patchedness for your lab machines.
Redhawk
PS - If you're not on a domain, then SUS likely won't fly for you, as it ties into Active Directory and all those goodies.
There's only one problem with this...
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Ex post facto laws (making laws retroactive) are illegal as per the Constitution.
Although, given the reparations for slavery case, maybe I'm mistaken.
I support the solution that the original author cites, but making them retroactive is gonna be difficult.
Approx. 10 years ago there was a fire in an office tower in the middle of Philly. The middle 3 floors were affected, but they twisted the floors above it by only a few degrees. That was enough to have the building perm. evacuated and necessitated ripping it down. They're still trying to take that building apart.
They're done now. I work right across the street from the building you mention, and it's quite gone now.
"I've also heard that with some cablemodem services, they put you behind NAT and don't give you a real IP. I don't know which ones do that, or really if they do that, but that's what a guy who used to install for Comcast told me they did."
I'm with Adelphia 2-Way Cable, and they do this. Drives me _nuts_. No IP addy, no DNS server numbers, no _nothing_.
OTOH, the service works, and is reasonably speedy. I sure would be willing to drop another couple of bucks if it meant that I could have a static IP, with real DNS numbers to look stuff up against.
Been there, done that. I worked for D1 in the mid-90s.
God, what a pesthole. It's a body-shop, pure and simple. Get 'em in, chew 'em up, spit 'em out.
I lasted almost a year, IIRC. The scripts were useless, the information out of date, and there's nothing finer then listening to people scream at you all day long for stuff that's way, way out of your control.
Ohh, so just because the IOC wants a few more bucks I'm going to miss the TKD and Judo prelims and lower ranked bouts. They only show the final few rounds of the Martial arts competitions if even that much. I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing some of the people I've competed with fight in the Olympics this year, and If I miss them because of this I'm gonna be pissed.
Kintanon
A-flonqing-men!
I hold a belt in TKD (black stripe) and I _REALLY_ would love to see the Olympic TKD competiton.
But I won't. Because it's not swimming, it's not track-and-field, and it's not gymnastics.
And I'm irritated highly. Probably going to give the entire Olympics a miss because of it.
I'd also love to see the fencing bouts. Or Olympic Judo. Won't see either one.
School scene, with St. John Allerdyce (PYRO!) and Bobby, where Bobby makes Rogue the ice-rose.
See the Chinese girl in the yellow trenchcoat?
That's Jubilee.
Piotr's a little tougher to spot, but he's there.
In the scene when they're looking outside, and Xavier's doing the voiceover thing... the camera flashes past a big dark-haired kid with a sketchpad, drawing.
That would be Piotr. No Colossus armored-form, unfortunately (sayeth the Rasputin fanboy) but I'll take what I can get.
Cypher, AKA Doug Ramsey, was killed, as you well know.
They buried him, and when Warlock died in the beginning of the X-Tinction Agenda (I think) they placed his T-O ashes on Doug's grave.
And that was fine.
Then Marvel couldn't leave well enough alone, and brough Douglock into being, as a concatenation of Doug and Warlock, made into a new techno-organic being.
It's a long, sad, painful story, and not one of Marvel's brightest ideas.
Most anime annoys the bloody fsck out of me, but there's some I've found tolerable.
For starters, you have to go with the classics. Check out Akira.
And for Ghod's sake, stay AWAY from the cute anime! That stuff'll have you tossing your cookies on the rug in sheer diabetic shock and diusgust before you can get dunked in hot water.
I'm referring specifically to Ranma 1/2 and Oh My Goddess!
I don't like Gaiman. I never have. It's my belief that he's vastly, vastly overrated. I could tell when he started writing in Good Omens, because Pratchett's otherwise excellent prose started dropping in quality.
Obviously, I'm in the minority here. That's OK.
The main reason I dislike Gaiman's works is that I don't like dealing with cosmic entities and vast melodrama in my comics. I can't relate to them, they hold no interest for me. Not my cup of tea. This is the same reason I vastly dislike Green Lantern and the Silver Surfer, to pick on Marvel and DC both.
And his portrayal of Death _offends_ me. I mean, c'mon! A Goth chick? What's next, a bouncing beeble? I happen to think the visual representation he's chosen is really an insult to the personification of Death.
I _LIKE_ the skeleton-in-a-black-robe-with-a-scythe. It works, it's universal, and it doesn't drag the whole Goth angle into it.
This may also be impacted by my vast dislike of Goths.
Ah well. Lots of people like Gaiman and his works, and the man has sparked a renaissance in thinking, intelligent comics.
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Nice try.
/user:administrator
runas
From the command line.
Let's ding them for their legit flaws, not stuff we make up.
SUS is tailor-made for the situation you're talking about. Assuming you've got a domain in your library, put a proposal together to get another box, throw a flavor of Server 2K3 on it, and get SUS. SUS will synch to the Windows Update site, so anything available there will be available to you internally. Then you approve the patches you want to push, and Bob's your uncle.
Assuming you can get the approval for the server + software bits, you'll achieve what it is you're trying to do - not soak your 'Net connection and still keep a reasonable level of patchedness for your lab machines.
Redhawk
PS - If you're not on a domain, then SUS likely won't fly for you, as it ties into Active Directory and all those goodies.
Ex post facto laws (making laws retroactive) are illegal as per the Constitution.
Although, given the reparations for slavery case, maybe I'm mistaken.
I support the solution that the original author cites, but making them retroactive is gonna be difficult.
Redhawk
Actually...
Mark Hamill does some very excellent voice-over work. He's the voice of the Joker in the Batman animated series and its associated spinoffs.
Just so you know.
Redhawk
Actually, IIRC, Lex is currently President of the United States in the DCU.
So if anybody's gonna get Billy-boy off the hook, it's Lex!
Redhawk
Or maybe, just maybe, it's because ClearChannel doesn't OWN any hip-hop/rap/what-have-you stations?
Sheesh. Read the Salon article. Urban Radio's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
Redhawk
Regarding this:
Approx. 10 years ago there was a fire in an office tower in the middle of Philly. The middle 3 floors were affected, but they twisted the floors above it by only a few degrees. That was enough to have the building perm. evacuated and necessitated ripping it down. They're still trying to take that building apart.
They're done now. I work right across the street from the building you mention, and it's quite gone now.
Just in case you wanted to know.
Redhawk
"I've also heard that with some cablemodem services, they put you behind NAT and don't give you a real IP. I don't know which ones do that, or really if they do that, but that's what a guy who used to install for Comcast told me they did."
I'm with Adelphia 2-Way Cable, and they do this. Drives me _nuts_. No IP addy, no DNS server numbers, no _nothing_.
OTOH, the service works, and is reasonably speedy. I sure would be willing to drop another couple of bucks if it meant that I could have a static IP, with real DNS numbers to look stuff up against.
Redhawk
DecisionOne?
Been there, done that. I worked for D1 in the mid-90s.
God, what a pesthole. It's a body-shop, pure and simple. Get 'em in, chew 'em up, spit 'em out.
I lasted almost a year, IIRC. The scripts were useless, the information out of date, and there's nothing finer then listening to people scream at you all day long for stuff that's way, way out of your control.
Redhawk
TO be honest, this was the _first_ thing I thought of.
:)
:)
Magneto's force-bubbles.
Nice to know Real Life imitates art. Although, somehow, I don't think he's filling them with plasma, as even Magnus needs to _breathe_.
Damn, I am a Marvel Comics Geek.
Redhawk
I was right there with you ... until you mentioned the lack-of-crowds.
I too am about 6'4, and I take Amtrak to Virginia all the time to visit my girlfriend.
And the seats are _truly_ lovely (especially compared to airline travel!) and it's reasonably quick.
But the Philly-to-DC-and-parts-south run is usually ALWAYS packed! On a typical day, it's SRO until at LEAST Wilmington, if not BWI!
But that's a quibble. I concur otherwhise most wholeheartedly - Amtrak is a pretty nice way to travel.
Redhawk
As far as Jordan goes, I won't argue that there's been a rather large decline in quality over the last 2-3 books.
But goddammit, he's still got the best-realized world I've seen in a long, long time, the best political landscape, and the most logical backstory.
I personally think the poor man's getting bogged down under the weight of his own complexity.
I just hope George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series doesn't fall into the same trap.
Redhawk
Ohh, so just because the IOC wants a few more bucks I'm going to miss the TKD and Judo prelims and lower ranked bouts. They only show the final few rounds of the Martial arts competitions if even that much. I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing some of the people I've competed with fight in the Olympics this year, and If I miss them because of this I'm gonna be pissed.
Kintanon
A-flonqing-men!
I hold a belt in TKD (black stripe) and I _REALLY_ would love to see the Olympic TKD competiton.
But I won't. Because it's not swimming, it's not track-and-field, and it's not gymnastics.
And I'm irritated highly. Probably going to give the entire Olympics a miss because of it.
I'd also love to see the fencing bouts. Or Olympic Judo. Won't see either one.
*sigh*
Redhawk
Look again.
... the camera flashes past a big dark-haired kid with a sketchpad, drawing.
School scene, with St. John Allerdyce (PYRO!) and Bobby, where Bobby makes Rogue the ice-rose.
See the Chinese girl in the yellow trenchcoat?
That's Jubilee.
Piotr's a little tougher to spot, but he's there.
In the scene when they're looking outside, and Xavier's doing the voiceover thing
That would be Piotr. No Colossus armored-form, unfortunately (sayeth the Rasputin fanboy) but I'll take what I can get.
Redhawk
Oh, God, PLEASE NO!
NOT AGE OF APOCALYPSE!
I _HATED_ that plotline! Dropped the entire X-book run for the duration because I just couldn't stand it anymore.
But you do make a valid point - the disassociation from canon would make things easier on the flatscans.
I, for one, would dearly love to see them do God Loves, Man Kills, or the Weapon-X saga that the flick so clearly set up.
Redhawk
Cypher, AKA Doug Ramsey, was killed, as you well know.
:)
They buried him, and when Warlock died in the beginning of the X-Tinction Agenda (I think) they placed his T-O ashes on Doug's grave.
And that was fine.
Then Marvel couldn't leave well enough alone, and brough Douglock into being, as a concatenation of Doug and Warlock, made into a new techno-organic being.
It's a long, sad, painful story, and not one of Marvel's brightest ideas.
Redhawk, X-fan.
Actually ...
:)
if I remember correctly, Magneto was the White King, playing opposite Sebastian Shaw's Black King.
I think the Gray King stuff came right at the end of his association with the Lords Cardinal (ie, Inferno).
Redhawk, fanfic writer and X-geek.
Most anime annoys the bloody fsck out of me, but there's some I've found tolerable.
For starters, you have to go with the classics. Check out Akira.
And for Ghod's sake, stay AWAY from the cute anime! That stuff'll have you tossing your cookies on the rug in sheer diabetic shock and diusgust before you can get dunked in hot water.
I'm referring specifically to Ranma 1/2 and Oh My Goddess!
Redhawk
Easily.
I don't like Gaiman. I never have. It's my belief that he's vastly, vastly overrated. I could tell when he started writing in Good Omens, because Pratchett's otherwise excellent prose started dropping in quality.
Obviously, I'm in the minority here. That's OK.
The main reason I dislike Gaiman's works is that I don't like dealing with cosmic entities and vast melodrama in my comics. I can't relate to them, they hold no interest for me. Not my cup of tea. This is the same reason I vastly dislike Green Lantern and the Silver Surfer, to pick on Marvel and DC both.
And his portrayal of Death _offends_ me. I mean, c'mon! A Goth chick? What's next, a bouncing beeble? I happen to think the visual representation he's chosen is really an insult to the personification of Death.
I _LIKE_ the skeleton-in-a-black-robe-with-a-scythe. It works, it's universal, and it doesn't drag the whole Goth angle into it.
This may also be impacted by my vast dislike of Goths.
Ah well. Lots of people like Gaiman and his works, and the man has sparked a renaissance in thinking, intelligent comics.
More power to him.
Redhawk