A lot of you are missing the point - by operations they mean people who don't know anything about the business side of things. They only know how to build a server and install vendor's or in-house software. Thanks to automation (scripted and imaged installed), companies don't need to have droves of installers, troubleshooters, tape swappers and hardware builders)
Need a server built? Pop a card into a blade system (HP) that can hold more than a dozen of them, plug into the network, image it and you are done. One of them is not behaving right because of corrupt software? Re-image it in 20 mins. HW problems? Send card back to manufacturer or throw it out.
Majority of IT people 20 years from now will need to understand company's processes, business logic and dataflow. Knowing what will be affected by the latest software upgrade will be more important than knowing how to install it. Does the new patch modify the database? Was its schema or stored procedured and functions affected? What's the bottom line? Are calculations now incorrect and will it impact your company's billing or payment cycle? Will you lose clients', patients' or customer's history records by changing the system? Future admins, (today's architects) will need to know all of this.
The best and most recent catastrophic example of failure that resulted (or helped) in a sale of the company is the Local Number Portability upgrade at AT&T Wireless. If you have time, look it up.
Sony has a $70k projector that is PERFECT. But for those of us who cannot afford something like that or even $1k projector, this is perfect. Now what nerd doesn't have a stack of old laptops that couldn't be used for anything...until now. 15" TFT LCD can be had for less than $300. keep checking slickdeals.net - they just had a 15" lcd for less than $200. Or check ebay.
Hey, I am sure they are doing it in the name of national security! Their plan to catch Osama was to flood Afghanistan with cheap Lexmark printers and hope that he or one of his buddies buys one. Then wait until Osama or one of his followers prints his digital camera pics on one of those printers. [Assume anyone in Afghanistan who can afford such a printer has Internet access as well] It should not be that hard to match and existing [reference]photo of Osama's face (embedded in that DLL file) with one in a solo or group photo. It's not that hard to track someone down once you have their IP address. Don't forget about the $20million reward! The right way to do this would be to trigger data upload only if match was found, otherwise sit quiet. OK, that was movie-of-the-week fantasy, but what they could have really done is monitor anyone scaning or printing $20 or $100 dollar bills. Doesn't Photoshop alert you if you are trying to scan US currency? (or is that another urban legend?)
Buffalo is pretty good. Have you seen their Japanese website? http://www.buffalo.jp/ They have 1 GIGAbit network storage available where in US only 100mbit version is avail right now. Also, they have some interesting DVD players that stream from external HD. (which btw looks WAY too much like my LiteOn dvd/divx/mpeg player) I guess it's true that Japan is the best test market for gadgets, electronics and toys.
I use it at work, home and school. Since only management gets color blackberries, this is a cheaper alternative (Amazon had it for $50 if you signed up for a year) Also, all Instant Messaging conversations are logged at work. Same goes for email. Inside and outside the house - friends can always IM me, send e-mail,etc. Movie times, restaurant finder, directions, web browsing,etc. - all useful stuff. In school I use it as a dictionary and an encyclopedia.
www.mini-box.com m100 I bought one for my car. It's energy efficient and quiet. However, it's not fast enough to play games. No problems running winamp, navigation software and web browser/802.11 at the same time
Hehe, one of my teachers used an analogy yesterday to make a point and help students relate to what should be common sense - Upgrading your PC with the most expensive and top of the line CPU, motherboard, sound card, HD, etc. but buying the cheapest video card (or keeping your old one from 3 years ago), is like putting a $300 Aiwa stereo into a $150,000 Bentley.
In Microsoft's case, they found perfect partner to match their "quality"
Money that China would have spent on space/moon exploration will be spent on pacifying Taiwan instead.
While this is bad news for Taiwanese people, I applaud China's dictator/president on concentrating on things that affect China. Here, in USA, Bush is concentrating on problems millions of miles away. For example, how to make drinkable water on Mars...once and IF we get there. How about working on cleaning our lakes and rivers here on Earth, so that everyone can drink tap water without fear. Same goes for air quality.
Engineering universities will most likely require that you complete at least Calculus I, II and III. Also linear algebra, statistics,etc. Why? Tenured professors who don't want to learn anything new, school's need to keep you busy for 4 years, school's need to make $ or get state funding, etc.
If you went to college that didn't have any engineering or science programs, you would be taking a lot of humanities, writing, literature, business, management and word processing classes. It's whatever they have a lot of.
What I want to know is WHERE did they take those photos - they look industrial and abandoned! Look at the desk - it has paint splattered all over it, the floor is filthy, old furniture. Move over WeirdNJ, time for Weird Sweden!
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Stick plumber's plunger and a wisk on it and you've got yourself a Darlek!
Hehe, this guy is funny. First, he puts pictures on kde-look.org and then bitches that HIS work ends up on other people's websites. He should have signed all of his wallpapers and drawings. Then if someone used his art and removed the signature, he would have a strong case.
However, Lindows should still credit him somewhere on the site or hire him to redo the demo to make it look more professional.
The following is another David vs Goliath type of case. Follow link for the full story of Microsoft vs Lemon Dog. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_comp any_fi le/277890.stm
best part: 'Microsoft denied in its defence that the dogs were similar, and noted that Rocky had a tail. Furthermore, Microsoft claimed that Rocky had a predecessor called Rover, who pre-dated Lemon Dog, in a product called Bob.'
Hehe, if I were Bill, I would rather fork over $ than admit that there was a MS product called BOB.
someone is going to make a nice mp3 player out of it.
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Check out New Jersey's renewable energy program - http://www.njcleanenergy.com State will GIVE you back 70% of what you spend on all hardware and labor.
What's even more exciting, is the venture capital fund that will give your business 5 to 500k recoverable grant to expand your renewable energy business development. This money could help you buy installation equipment, trucks, warehouse space, help hire additional staff,etc. Unfortunately, this fund is only 5 million is size. If a lot of companies apply, there won't be enough for everyone.
I think any experienced roofer would be crazy not to at least consider doing solar installations. I mean if they are already ripping an entire roof and replacing shingles, why not offer to install some solar panels or tile south side of the roof with solar shingles?
BUT he's still not as crazy as the Peter Pan dude who won 2001 Webby award! Check it out! http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/ I couldn't stop laughing for 30 minutes!
mod up! Excellent article about DeBeers scumbags http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82feb/ 8202diamon d1.htm
Wired had an article about artificial/cultured diamonds; decent read. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/di amond.h tml
Also, if you care about exploited children in Africa, watch Child Soldiers. It's really depressing; Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone, etc. use diamond money to buy weapons and send kids to war.
I guess DeBeers' would defend themselves by saying that those kids would otherwise have too much free time on their hands and get in trouble hanging out at schools, playgrounds and working on their families' farms.
I haven't watched TechTV for the last two years and was shocked when I saw their new "lineup"! Every single show had girls with big breasts that were prominently displayed. Girls with smaller breasts looked like they were stuffing and wearing push-up bras. I guess they misunderstood new management's directive to "keep abreast of science and technology"
You can look as cool as Batman.. wearing T-Mobile Sidekick(tm) on your "utility belt".
It's not really a cell phone, more of a PDA that's always connected to the Internet. You can IM, telnet, read mail, and browse. If anyone asks, tell them it's a palmtop computer.
Sure, you can use it to make phone calls but NO ONE else needs to know that.
Make sure T-mobile is service is available in your BUILDING. Even though my Sidekick works outside, it doesn't work at my desk. (thick walls and no cell tower nearby) www.danger.com - maker's of. www.amazon.com - good place to get it.
There are TONS of smart and attractive Indian women with MDs and PhDs trying to get into this (USA) country...
So what you do is the following:
Go on a trip to India and get married to a doctor.
Come back w/ wife or come back alone and file all the necessary paperwork to allow your new wife enter US legally. Why not just send her a visa? Fiance visa will probably be investigated and visitor visa for her to enter US will definitely be denied, especially from India. So you will have to get off your ass and actually visit the country (you plan on living and working there eventually, don't you?) and get married there.
Support your wife for 6 months or more in US until she passes US medical licensing exam and has her MD degree recognized in this country. Then she will have to complete her residency at a hospital and hope that they will hire her.
Once she's set, you can move to India buy a nice condo for $30k. Get a job as a programmer or whatever it is you do. Beg your wife not to divorce you and beg her to send you more money:)
If things work out, she may even visit you once a year...how does next January sound?
Learn to enjoy cricket, hot weather, spicy food, long soap-opera-like movies where everyone will suddenly stop whatever they are doing and dance in the rain...
Try to get along with her family...unless they disowned her or moved to US as well:)
Live long and prosper... and hope that one day your dual citizenship will let you vote.
Blue Mountain coffee from Jamaica About $25 per pound. IMHO, the best coffee on the planet. I save it for special occasions like birthdays, holidays and parties. Even people who don't like coffee agree that it's pretty good. Don't confuse it with Green Mountain coffee company - it's just a name, where Blue Mountain describes where it comes from. Dunkin Donuts coffee w/ milk is pretty good for every day drinking. Starbucks is only good in latte and cappuccino form. With 550mg of caffeine per shot, it will make an addict out of anyone in no time.
I call "shenanigans"!
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The reason they are in trouble is because of their poor vision of the future. We (company of 40,000) looked at their multicasting technology and news delivery in 1997. We liked what we saw and wanted to license or buy it for the entire company. They said "NO" - Real still wanted access to our desktops in the form of ads. I guess they thought there was a lot of money in that.
Think logically, why would any CIO sign off on a product to keep his employees busy watching ads instead of doing real work?
They did crawl back (at least a year later) and try to sell just the engine piece but no one was interested. There was better stuff available out there and cheaper by the time they realized their mistake.
This is getting beyond utter stupidity! The only thing Bank of America would have to do is remove any offending code or recompile their apps without using offending libraries. It's not that hard.
So far we haven't seen a single line of proprietary code from SCO - anything and everything they have shown us was and still is available in public domain. Just because they copied it from public domain and put it in their shitty product doesn't make it their invention.
As far as BoA is concerned, I think Darl remembered he had an account with them where he stashed his millions. Talk about sticky situation:
Darl: All your Linux are belong to us!
BoA: OK, *click*, all your assets have been frozen until further notice...
Yeah, one chopper taking out 50 tanks, 20 ground to air missile launchers, 10 buildings and about 500 soldiers...that's realistic:) someone forgot to tell the general that unlimited ammo and no damage cheats were left ON on his "simulator" (cardboard box with 3 monitors)
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A lot of you are missing the point - by operations they mean people who don't know anything about the business side of things. They only know how to build a server and install vendor's or in-house software. Thanks to automation (scripted and imaged installed), companies don't need to have droves of installers, troubleshooters, tape swappers and hardware builders)
Need a server built? Pop a card into a blade system (HP) that can hold more than a dozen of them, plug into the network, image it and you are done. One of them is not behaving right because of corrupt software? Re-image it in 20 mins. HW problems? Send card back to manufacturer or throw it out.
Majority of IT people 20 years from now will need to understand company's processes, business logic and dataflow. Knowing what will be affected by the latest software upgrade will be more important than knowing how to install it. Does the new patch modify the database? Was its schema or stored procedured and functions affected? What's the bottom line? Are calculations now incorrect and will it impact your company's billing or payment cycle? Will you lose clients', patients' or customer's history records by changing the system? Future admins, (today's architects) will need to know all of this.
The best and most recent catastrophic example of failure that resulted (or helped) in a sale of the company is the Local Number Portability upgrade at AT&T Wireless. If you have time, look it up.
Sony has a $70k projector that is PERFECT.
But for those of us who cannot afford something like that or even $1k projector, this is perfect.
Now what nerd doesn't have a stack of old laptops that couldn't be used for anything...until now.
15" TFT LCD can be had for less than $300.
keep checking slickdeals.net - they just had a 15" lcd for less than $200. Or check ebay.
Hey, I am sure they are doing it in the name of national security!
Their plan to catch Osama was to flood Afghanistan with cheap Lexmark printers and hope that he or one of his buddies buys one. Then wait until Osama or one of his followers prints his digital camera pics on one of those printers. [Assume anyone in Afghanistan who can afford such a printer has Internet access as well] It should not be that hard to match and existing [reference]photo of Osama's face (embedded in that DLL file) with one in a solo or group photo.
It's not that hard to track someone down once you have their IP address.
Don't forget about the $20million reward!
The right way to do this would be to trigger data upload only if match was found, otherwise sit quiet.
OK, that was movie-of-the-week fantasy, but what they could have really done is monitor anyone scaning or printing $20 or $100 dollar bills.
Doesn't Photoshop alert you if you are trying to scan US currency? (or is that another urban legend?)
Buffalo is pretty good. Have you seen their Japanese website? http://www.buffalo.jp/
They have 1 GIGAbit network storage available where in US only 100mbit version is avail right now. Also, they have some interesting DVD players that stream from external HD. (which btw looks WAY too much like my LiteOn dvd/divx/mpeg player)
I guess it's true that Japan is the best test market for gadgets, electronics and toys.
I use it at work, home and school.
Since only management gets color blackberries, this is a cheaper alternative (Amazon had it for $50 if you signed up for a year)
Also, all Instant Messaging conversations are logged at work. Same goes for email.
Inside and outside the house - friends can always IM me, send e-mail,etc. Movie times, restaurant finder, directions, web browsing,etc. - all useful stuff.
In school I use it as a dictionary and an encyclopedia.
www.mini-box.com m100
I bought one for my car.
It's energy efficient and quiet.
However, it's not fast enough to play games.
No problems running winamp, navigation software and web browser/802.11 at the same time
Hehe, one of my teachers used an analogy yesterday to make a point and help students relate to what should be common sense -
Upgrading your PC with the most expensive and top of the line CPU, motherboard, sound card, HD, etc. but buying the cheapest video card (or keeping your old one from 3 years ago), is like putting a $300 Aiwa stereo into a $150,000 Bentley.
In Microsoft's case, they found perfect partner to match their "quality"
Money that China would have spent on space/moon exploration will be spent on pacifying Taiwan instead.
While this is bad news for Taiwanese people, I applaud China's dictator/president on concentrating on things that affect China.
Here, in USA, Bush is concentrating on problems millions of miles away. For example, how to make drinkable water on Mars...once and IF we get there. How about working on cleaning our lakes and rivers here on Earth, so that everyone can drink tap water without fear. Same goes for air quality.
Engineering universities will most likely require that you complete at least Calculus I, II and III. Also linear algebra, statistics,etc.
Why? Tenured professors who don't want to learn anything new, school's need to keep you busy for 4 years, school's need to make $ or get state funding, etc.
If you went to college that didn't have any engineering or science programs, you would be taking a lot of humanities, writing, literature, business, management and word processing classes. It's whatever they have a lot of.
big Swedish hands...better to massage you with!
What I want to know is WHERE did they take those photos - they look industrial and abandoned!
Look at the desk - it has paint splattered all over it, the floor is filthy, old furniture.
Move over WeirdNJ, time for Weird Sweden!
Stick plumber's plunger and a wisk on it and you've got yourself a Darlek!
Hehe, this guy is funny. First, he puts pictures on kde-look.org and then bitches that HIS work ends up on other people's websites. He should have signed all of his wallpapers and drawings. Then if someone used his art and removed the signature, he would have a strong case.p any_fi le/277890.stm
However, Lindows should still credit him somewhere on the site or hire him to redo the demo to make it look more professional.
The following is another David vs Goliath type of case. Follow link for the full story of Microsoft vs Lemon Dog.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_com
best part:
'Microsoft denied in its defence that the dogs were similar, and noted that Rocky had a tail. Furthermore, Microsoft claimed that Rocky had a predecessor called Rover, who pre-dated Lemon Dog, in a product called Bob.'
Hehe, if I were Bill, I would rather fork over $ than admit that there was a MS product called BOB.
Sun, sun, sun, in the 80s all week!
someone is going to make a nice mp3 player out of it.
Check out New Jersey's renewable energy program - http://www.njcleanenergy.com
State will GIVE you back 70% of what you spend on all hardware and labor.
What's even more exciting, is the venture capital fund that will give your business 5 to 500k recoverable grant to expand your renewable energy business development. This money could help you buy installation equipment, trucks, warehouse space, help hire additional staff,etc. Unfortunately, this fund is only 5 million is size. If a lot of companies apply, there won't be enough for everyone.
I think any experienced roofer would be crazy not to at least consider doing solar installations. I mean if they are already ripping an entire roof and replacing shingles, why not offer to install some solar panels or tile south side of the roof with solar shingles?
BUT he's still not as crazy as the Peter Pan dude who won 2001 Webby award! Check it out!
http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/
I couldn't stop laughing for 30 minutes!
mod up!/ 8202diamon d1.htm
i amond.h tml
Excellent article about DeBeers scumbags
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82feb
Wired had an article about artificial/cultured diamonds; decent read.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/d
Also, if you care about exploited children in Africa, watch Child Soldiers. It's really depressing; Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone, etc. use diamond money to buy weapons and send kids to war.
I guess DeBeers' would defend themselves by saying that those kids would otherwise have too much free time on their hands and get in trouble hanging out at schools, playgrounds and working on their families' farms.
He should leased the car instead and written off its $800 per month payments as business expense.
47k for a Boxster S? He must have 14" rims, no navigation system, no heated seats, crappy sound, etc.
I haven't watched TechTV for the last two years and was shocked when I saw their new "lineup"!
Every single show had girls with big breasts that were prominently displayed. Girls with smaller breasts looked like they were stuffing and wearing push-up bras.
I guess they misunderstood new management's directive to "keep abreast of science and technology"
You can look as cool as Batman.. wearing T-Mobile Sidekick(tm) on your "utility belt".
It's not really a cell phone, more of a PDA that's always connected to the Internet.
You can IM, telnet, read mail, and browse. If anyone asks, tell them it's a palmtop computer.
Sure, you can use it to make phone calls but NO ONE else needs to know that.
Make sure T-mobile is service is available in your BUILDING. Even though my Sidekick works outside, it doesn't work at my desk. (thick walls and no cell tower nearby)
www.danger.com - maker's of.
www.amazon.com - good place to get it.
There are TONS of smart and attractive Indian women with MDs and PhDs trying to get into this (USA) country... :) :)
So what you do is the following:
Go on a trip to India and get married to a doctor.
Come back w/ wife or come back alone and file all the necessary paperwork to allow your new wife enter US legally. Why not just send her a visa?
Fiance visa will probably be investigated and visitor visa for her to enter US will definitely be denied, especially from India. So you will have to get off your ass and actually visit the country (you plan on living and working there eventually, don't you?) and get married there.
Support your wife for 6 months or more in US until she passes US medical licensing exam and has her MD degree recognized in this country.
Then she will have to complete her residency at a hospital and hope that they will hire her.
Once she's set, you can move to India buy a nice condo for $30k. Get a job as a programmer or whatever it is you do. Beg your wife not to divorce you and beg her to send you more money
If things work out, she may even visit you once a year...how does next January sound?
Learn to enjoy cricket, hot weather, spicy food, long soap-opera-like movies where everyone will suddenly stop whatever they are doing and dance in the rain...
Try to get along with her family...unless they disowned her or moved to US as well
Live long and prosper... and hope that one day your dual citizenship will let you vote.
Blue Mountain coffee from Jamaica
About $25 per pound.
IMHO, the best coffee on the planet.
I save it for special occasions like birthdays, holidays and parties.
Even people who don't like coffee agree that it's pretty good.
Don't confuse it with Green Mountain coffee company - it's just a name, where Blue Mountain describes where it comes from.
Dunkin Donuts coffee w/ milk is pretty good for every day drinking. Starbucks is only good in latte and cappuccino form. With 550mg of caffeine per shot, it will make an addict out of anyone in no time.
The reason they are in trouble is because of their poor vision of the future.
We (company of 40,000) looked at their multicasting technology and news delivery in 1997. We liked what we saw and wanted to license or buy it for the entire company. They said "NO" - Real still wanted access to our desktops in the form of ads. I guess they thought there was a lot of money in that.
Think logically, why would any CIO sign off on a product to keep his employees busy watching ads instead of doing real work?
They did crawl back (at least a year later) and try to sell just the engine piece but no one was interested. There was better stuff available out there and cheaper by the time they realized their mistake.
This is getting beyond utter stupidity! The only thing Bank of America would have to do is remove any offending code or recompile their apps without using offending libraries. It's not that hard.
So far we haven't seen a single line of proprietary code from SCO - anything and everything they have shown us was and still is available in public domain. Just because they copied it from public domain and put it in their shitty product doesn't make it their invention.
As far as BoA is concerned, I think Darl remembered he had an account with them where he stashed his millions. Talk about sticky situation:
Darl: All your Linux are belong to us!
BoA: OK, *click*, all your assets have been frozen until further notice...
Yeah, one chopper taking out 50 tanks, 20 ground to air missile launchers, 10 buildings and about 500 soldiers...that's realistic :)
someone forgot to tell the general that unlimited ammo and no damage cheats were left ON on his "simulator" (cardboard box with 3 monitors)