From a search on equipment that I own:
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Last year -- I downloaded all the Compaq (now HP) SP's from their FTP site -- don't quite know what to do with them. I downloaded all of the SP's in case HP stopped supporting 'older' Compaq's (There are several of the old systems that I like for nostalgia)
Now for the big problem: HP or Dell. Dell is firing 15,000 of it's employees --- and HP's new support policy sucks (REALLY sucks).
My question is.. is this policy going to follow through with other HP equipment? I've got a HP color laser jet printer: Will I experience the same issue with that? I've got three HP scanners -- will I need to put them in the garbage? (No one will want them if they can't get even basic driver support).
I do know this much: If I need to "throw away" otherwise perfectly good equipment as HP will not provide basic user accessible support for it -- I will not replace the equipment from the same manufacturer with the same BAD policy. I have three 'old' Proliant (580, 585 & 360) servers in use now. If (when) they fail -- the equipment will not be replaced with modern equipment from HP (assuming this policy remains in place).
Mr. Gates did three week... well, one week and two bad moves.
6.0-0 - This move was done WAY to early. For one to castle is (usually) a passive move, which allows your opponent to gain an extra move
8.hxg4 - This is a clear mistake. This opens his right side rank for the queen to enter
9.Kxe5?? - This was the final nail.
IMHO, if Bill hadn't have... panicked, Carlsen left his King wide open. Also in this game, I noticed that Carlsen seem to oppressive to Bill. Responding to Bill's moves before Bill could even hit the clock.
What if Bill moved the following options:
8. B d3 to e4
- or -
8. Q d1 to e2
Thoughts... comments - other than Bill was destined to loose as he was playing the Chess Champion -- Mr. Gates quote: "The outcome is a foregone conclusion, responded Gates. ?
Several times, in several different ways I found the question asked... is it ethical to block ad's. My response: You are asking the wrong question: Is it ethical to track me without my permission? Is it ethical in inject mal-ware into my system? Is it ethical to not allow me access to information you claim is about me? Is it ethical to make money on my actions -- without a reward for me?
Stop messing with MY system, and I'll stop messing with your ad's.
(1) If you don't want to pay for an anti-virus program, at least install a free one.
If you don't have antivirus, you shouldn't have a computer. Note that AVG works fine.
(2) Save files to a folder that is automatically mirrored to the cloud, for effortless backups.
Ever hear of a USB hard drive? Get two, and rotate them; placing one in a safe-deposit box. Use "Windows Backup"... and create an emergency boot disk; keep it in the safe-deposit box.
(3) Create a non-administrator guest account, in case a friend needs to borrow the computer.
That way a hacker can have another means to get into your system!
(4) Be aware of your computer's System Restore option as a way of fixing mysterious problems that arose recently.
... or use "Windows Update" (presumption you have Windows installed)... it automatically creates a System Restore point.
Why pay for QA when we can get the coders to due that and the web site users are beta testers.
My point exactly, which is why there are so many problems (Coders are NOT QA/Test... )
The last time we had QA the PHB dropped in saw them just sitting at the same page all day long (well that is what the non tech PHB said and said we do we need this? and fired them all)
Bad leadership, bad management. If the (PHB) management can't properly handle a QA staff, it should be the (PHB) management that should be fired. Who ever took the PHB recommendation; should also be fired.
Any QA worth their salt (may chance those QA should have been replaced) should be able to justify the expense of their working. I've saved all of I've companies that I've worked for money, from errors in PM, to finding bugs ("How'd he find that one") to finding errors in process. The biggest problem that I've had is management won't listen.
"Sometimes a mistake happen"... I believe it is more frequent than you (or the company) let on, as Myer, Brick and Delta now know. I don't believe that it is "risk vs reward"; it's "risk vs Greed".
Having worked for big companies... frequently the biggest "risk" comes from short sided and an expected reward. Worked for a company that wanted to use "real" customer data for testing. I balked, and was over-ruled. Was told "there can't be a mix of test environment and real environment". Two days into the test run, we were getting customer complaints: There billing was off... shucks, they were seeing test data. About three months after my contract ended, the state AG office was investigating the company... use of real customer data for testing.
I've also heard the "10x increase of QA" chant. That is nothing but alarmist (unless they don't have QA).
My response to both of these is: Ever hear of “QA”? Hire some. For Brick, the loss of credibility is substantial. For Delta and Brick, the loss of dollars is quite high. As a QA professional, there have been many times that I’ve more than paid for my keep by finding critical bugs in developer code. However is this era of “ship it today, we’ll fix it tomorrow” (and they never do fix it); problems such as these abound. Don’t blame the customer for you being short sighted. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the oven. For these (and more) you should fire your QA managers (or may chance hire one in the first place?). Your software development process is broken, and you need to take this as a warning. How many times have people blamed the computer (“Computer error”); when the fault is with the business process (or lack)? How many business are connected to the internet that shouldn't be - or shouldn't have been (read: Target)?
You posted it before I did. Though the article cited above was okay, good for a commentary. The website "Starring the computer" has a much better lay-out, and more comprehensive information, including better images (screen caps) for many of the computers displayed.
Issues:
1. There is no proof that he hacked.
2. Again, hacking - copying.
I added the "(minor detail)" as it was just that, a minor detail. I listed it to show that our so-called "news" can't report the basic technical information correctly, much less the details of what happened.
Also note: I'm not holding up Snowden as a hero. I have strong reservations on what he's done -- there are better ways to be a whistle blower, You cannot un-ring a bell, and we've known for some time now that the NSA has been doing things illegally. My key point -- John Miller and 60 minutes lost an opportunity.
I could only watch the first part of the lies by the NSA, and the failure of 60 minutes -- John Miller to follow up.
For starters -- Snowden didn't steal anything: he copied it (minor detail).
What Snowden did was compared to killing 10 people. Snowden didn't kill anyone.
We were told that NSA can't access information unless they had a warrant: Again, false on many occasions, some documented here on/. (Do I *really* need to provide the references?) The NSA continually provides information to law enforcement agencies w/o warrant.
Anyone else notice: They have ACTUAL phone numbers, the REAL ones. Google your own phone number some time to see about so-called meta-data.
No mention of what the NSA had been doing - in violation of court orders (only a brief and casual mention of so-called accidental overstepping). I call BS on this one.
I had hoped that 60 minutes would do an insightful - investigation into NSA. What I heard from so-called reporter John Miller was a PR fluff piece that one would expect as a former national spokesman for the FBI.
Don't remove POTS. Some key reasons:
In case of incident (Natural / man made). Here in Seattle (area), several years ago we had a large wind storm that took out most of the power in the entire region. Many areas didn't have power for over a week. Cell phone - towers died after about three days. That's right: The TOWERS failed. Also, you couldn't get gasoline; no power at the pumps (Read local generators - at homes - started giving out).
In some areas of Seattle, people have their choice of which ISP they like (DSL, Cable, fiber optic, wireless) which is all fine and good for a VOIP carrier. Ask any of the phone companies what will happen when the power goes out? You can't call... 911, the power company, anyone for any emergency service, much less a call such as "I'm alive and okay", or "need food, shelter" (in case of some emergency).
I have family in north eastern WA. Where they are at, there is not viable alternative to dial-up. No VOIP, and spotty cell phone availability.
Cell phones... great sound unless you are in a dead area (there are a lot more of these than the phone company's are willing to admit); or as noted the power is out for an extended time.
Just because it (POTS) isn't as profitable as cell - or as well regulated, doesn't men it should be dismantled.
I agree.. I have (retired) family in north-eastern WA. There are no viable options (propane/electric/gas) for them. They can't afford the comforts of so-called "clean" energy. The irony is: The particles in the burning are what are keeping the effects of green house gasses at bay.
Don't need to go that far. Just get a phone in their name. Go to the local library, sign in w/ their name, and look up some web sites that might be questionable - call them with the phone in their name. When you get tired of it, make sure the phone is "lost" at their house (or car).
There is so much that Paramount COULD have done but didn't.
In the first reboot by JJ; he crated an exciting movie, but why bother to call it ST? (The 2nd one really sucked - with the number of GLARING plot holes, errors and bad re-writes. It is the first ST move that I won't buy)
Movies that I would like to see that would require actual THOUGHT to write: The Constellation - and the the Dooms Day Device with Decker loosing his crew, Captain Kirk's Brother - when the planet they were on was invaded. One item that really tested Kirk's metal: The vampire cloud and watching Captain Garrovick die.
The list of possible good movies goes on...
I am looking forward to seeing this, by the people the care about ST!
The Intel 8088 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 8086. Introduced on... run at up to 16 MHz. When announced, the list price of the 8088 was US $124.80.
I believe the price has come down on them.
The price of CPU's will always come down. We can hope that software development can keep up with the better CPU's. When makers have better CPU's... customers will then demand better software to go with the better CPU's.
Given that the telecoms are taking the cost of the phones anyway, the entire market is falsely driven anyway.
And here is the problem: A fundamental lack of understanding of QA/Test can/is supposed to do. You expected developers to do their own testing. NEWS FLASH: Developers (Designers, PM's) don't know how to test. They are developers (designers, PM's), not QA/Test. It's not their job!
Irony/funny: After reading this item in your post: ...worked in the telecommunications market... and this article: "How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped?"... referencing a bad telco device.
not quite sure what you mean by "notorious for it's quality control" in this story/context. Notoriously bad? Yep, I agree with that one.
As for the comment "your developers suck and so do your designers"... you are right, which is why this article was posted, and why I'm continually up to my eyes with work needing to be done, writing defects, re-running tests that shouldn't need to be run...
(and "Android marketplace..." No)
People are running for this garbage. I would rather wait for something that works -- then spend endless hours on tech support trying to recover my lost image of my murdered daughter - that cannot be replaced.
My initial response -- then why doesn't Qualcomm say "users of our software don't need" rather than "8 cores.."?
Given that mobile devices contain many software... issues (see earlier/. article "How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped?"); I am not surprised that people such as you don't see the need more than two cores.
As for "significant power cost", this has long been since resolved by "good" CPU design; and shutting down areas of the CPU that are not in use. Don't need eight CPU's right now? The OS 'can' shut down 2 (or 4).
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The announcement affects all Proliant equipment.
From a search on equipment that I own:
Important note: HP ProLiant Server firmware access
Starting February 2014, an active warranty or contract is required to access HP ProLiant Server firmware updates. View your existing contracts & warranties or get help linking contracts or warranties to your HP Support Center user profile. To obtain additional support coverage, please contact your local HP office, HP representative, or visit Contact HP. Click here for more information.
Last year -- I downloaded all the Compaq (now HP) SP's from their FTP site -- don't quite know what to do with them. I downloaded all of the SP's in case HP stopped supporting 'older' Compaq's (There are several of the old systems that I like for nostalgia)
.. is this policy going to follow through with other HP equipment? I've got a HP color laser jet printer: Will I experience the same issue with that? I've got three HP scanners -- will I need to put them in the garbage? (No one will want them if they can't get even basic driver support).
Now for the big problem: HP or Dell. Dell is firing 15,000 of it's employees --- and HP's new support policy sucks (REALLY sucks).
My question is
I do know this much: If I need to "throw away" otherwise perfectly good equipment as HP will not provide basic user accessible support for it -- I will not replace the equipment from the same manufacturer with the same BAD policy. I have three 'old' Proliant (580, 585 & 360) servers in use now. If (when) they fail -- the equipment will not be replaced with modern equipment from HP (assuming this policy remains in place).
Mr. Gates did three week... well, one week and two bad moves.
... panicked, Carlsen left his King wide open. Also in this game, I noticed that Carlsen seem to oppressive to Bill. Responding to Bill's moves before Bill could even hit the clock.
6.0-0 - This move was done WAY to early. For one to castle is (usually) a passive move, which allows your opponent to gain an extra move
8.hxg4 - This is a clear mistake. This opens his right side rank for the queen to enter
9.Kxe5?? - This was the final nail.
IMHO, if Bill hadn't have
What if Bill moved the following options:
8. B d3 to e4
- or -
8. Q d1 to e2
Thoughts... comments - other than Bill was destined to loose as he was playing the Chess Champion -- Mr. Gates quote: "The outcome is a foregone conclusion, responded Gates. ?
Several times, in several different ways I found the question asked ... is it ethical to block ad's. My response: You are asking the wrong question: Is it ethical to track me without my permission? Is it ethical in inject mal-ware into my system? Is it ethical to not allow me access to information you claim is about me? Is it ethical to make money on my actions -- without a reward for me?
Stop messing with MY system, and I'll stop messing with your ad's.
(1) If you don't want to pay for an anti-virus program, at least install a free one.
If you don't have antivirus, you shouldn't have a computer. Note that AVG works fine.
(2) Save files to a folder that is automatically mirrored to the cloud, for effortless backups.
Ever hear of a USB hard drive? Get two, and rotate them; placing one in a safe-deposit box. Use "Windows Backup" ... and create an emergency boot disk; keep it in the safe-deposit box.
(3) Create a non-administrator guest account, in case a friend needs to borrow the computer.
That way a hacker can have another means to get into your system!
(4) Be aware of your computer's System Restore option as a way of fixing mysterious problems that arose recently.
Why pay for QA when we can get the coders to due that and the web site users are beta testers.
My point exactly, which is why there are so many problems (Coders are NOT QA/Test... )
The last time we had QA the PHB dropped in saw them just sitting at the same page all day long (well that is what the non tech PHB said and said we do we need this? and fired them all)
Bad leadership, bad management. If the (PHB) management can't properly handle a QA staff, it should be the (PHB) management that should be fired. Who ever took the PHB recommendation; should also be fired.
Any QA worth their salt (may chance those QA should have been replaced) should be able to justify the expense of their working. I've saved all of I've companies that I've worked for money, from errors in PM, to finding bugs ("How'd he find that one") to finding errors in process. The biggest problem that I've had is management won't listen.
"Sometimes a mistake happen"... I believe it is more frequent than you (or the company) let on, as Myer, Brick and Delta now know. I don't believe that it is "risk vs reward"; it's "risk vs Greed".
... frequently the biggest "risk" comes from short sided and an expected reward. Worked for a company that wanted to use "real" customer data for testing. I balked, and was over-ruled. Was told "there can't be a mix of test environment and real environment". Two days into the test run, we were getting customer complaints: There billing was off... shucks, they were seeing test data. About three months after my contract ended, the state AG office was investigating the company... use of real customer data for testing.
Having worked for big companies
I've also heard the "10x increase of QA" chant. That is nothing but alarmist (unless they don't have QA).
My response to both of these is: Ever hear of “QA”? Hire some. For Brick, the loss of credibility is substantial. For Delta and Brick, the loss of dollars is quite high. As a QA professional, there have been many times that I’ve more than paid for my keep by finding critical bugs in developer code. However is this era of “ship it today, we’ll fix it tomorrow” (and they never do fix it); problems such as these abound. Don’t blame the customer for you being short sighted. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the oven. For these (and more) you should fire your QA managers (or may chance hire one in the first place?). Your software development process is broken, and you need to take this as a warning. How many times have people blamed the computer (“Computer error”); when the fault is with the business process (or lack)? How many business are connected to the internet that shouldn't be - or shouldn't have been (read: Target)?
You posted it before I did. Though the article cited above was okay, good for a commentary. The website "Starring the computer" has a much better lay-out, and more comprehensive information, including better images (screen caps) for many of the computers displayed.
Issues:
1. There is no proof that he hacked.
2. Again, hacking - copying.
I added the "(minor detail)" as it was just that, a minor detail. I listed it to show that our so-called "news" can't report the basic technical information correctly, much less the details of what happened.
Also note: I'm not holding up Snowden as a hero. I have strong reservations on what he's done -- there are better ways to be a whistle blower, You cannot un-ring a bell, and we've known for some time now that the NSA has been doing things illegally. My key point -- John Miller and 60 minutes lost an opportunity.
I could only watch the first part of the lies by the NSA, and the failure of 60 minutes -- John Miller to follow up.
/. (Do I *really* need to provide the references?) The NSA continually provides information to law enforcement agencies w/o warrant.
For starters -- Snowden didn't steal anything: he copied it (minor detail).
What Snowden did was compared to killing 10 people. Snowden didn't kill anyone.
We were told that NSA can't access information unless they had a warrant: Again, false on many occasions, some documented here on
Anyone else notice: They have ACTUAL phone numbers, the REAL ones. Google your own phone number some time to see about so-called meta-data.
No mention of what the NSA had been doing - in violation of court orders (only a brief and casual mention of so-called accidental overstepping). I call BS on this one.
I had hoped that 60 minutes would do an insightful - investigation into NSA. What I heard from so-called reporter John Miller was a PR fluff piece that one would expect as a former national spokesman for the FBI.
Don't remove POTS. Some key reasons:
In case of incident (Natural / man made). Here in Seattle (area), several years ago we had a large wind storm that took out most of the power in the entire region. Many areas didn't have power for over a week. Cell phone - towers died after about three days. That's right: The TOWERS failed. Also, you couldn't get gasoline; no power at the pumps (Read local generators - at homes - started giving out).
In some areas of Seattle, people have their choice of which ISP they like (DSL, Cable, fiber optic, wireless) which is all fine and good for a VOIP carrier. Ask any of the phone companies what will happen when the power goes out? You can't call... 911, the power company, anyone for any emergency service, much less a call such as "I'm alive and okay", or "need food, shelter" (in case of some emergency).
I have family in north eastern WA. Where they are at, there is not viable alternative to dial-up. No VOIP, and spotty cell phone availability.
Cell phones... great sound unless you are in a dead area (there are a lot more of these than the phone company's are willing to admit); or as noted the power is out for an extended time.
Just because it (POTS) isn't as profitable as cell - or as well regulated, doesn't men it should be dismantled.
AC .. you beat me to it. How can we backup the skin / skin database before the web site shuts down?
I agree .. I have (retired) family in north-eastern WA. There are no viable options (propane/electric/gas) for them. They can't afford the comforts of so-called "clean" energy. The irony is: The particles in the burning are what are keeping the effects of green house gasses at bay.
I would love to know which gas / propane / electric company bought this rule....
Don't need to go that far. Just get a phone in their name. Go to the local library, sign in w/ their name, and look up some web sites that might be questionable - call them with the phone in their name. When you get tired of it, make sure the phone is "lost" at their house (or car).
Just cut off your fingertip...it's about the same thing.
Can't wait for new corporate security policies mandating that you change your fingerprints every 3 months.
There is so much that Paramount COULD have done but didn't.
In the first reboot by JJ; he crated an exciting movie, but why bother to call it ST? (The 2nd one really sucked - with the number of GLARING plot holes, errors and bad re-writes. It is the first ST move that I won't buy)
Movies that I would like to see that would require actual THOUGHT to write: The Constellation - and the the Dooms Day Device with Decker loosing his crew, Captain Kirk's Brother - when the planet they were on was invaded. One item that really tested Kirk's metal: The vampire cloud and watching Captain Garrovick die.
The list of possible good movies goes on...
I am looking forward to seeing this, by the people the care about ST!
If you stopped reading at ... "adieu" -- then technically - he got it right. Other than it might have read "with all the adieu" ... ?
The Intel 8088 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 8086. Introduced on ... run at up to 16 MHz. When announced, the list price of the 8088 was US $124.80.
... customers will then demand better software to go with the better CPU's.
I believe the price has come down on them.
The price of CPU's will always come down. We can hope that software development can keep up with the better CPU's. When makers have better CPU's
Given that the telecoms are taking the cost of the phones anyway, the entire market is falsely driven anyway.
NOW THAT'S FUNNY!!!
Depeds on the code. Use a brain - if possible.
And here is the problem: A fundamental lack of understanding of QA/Test can/is supposed to do. You expected developers to do their own testing. NEWS FLASH: Developers (Designers, PM's) don't know how to test. They are developers (designers, PM's), not QA/Test. It's not their job!
...worked in the telecommunications market... and this article: "How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped?" ... referencing a bad telco device.
... you are right, which is why this article was posted, and why I'm continually up to my eyes with work needing to be done, writing defects, re-running tests that shouldn't need to be run...
Irony/funny: After reading this item in your post:
not quite sure what you mean by "notorious for it's quality control" in this story/context. Notoriously bad? Yep, I agree with that one.
As for the comment "your developers suck and so do your designers"
Have you ever considered that they're right?
No.
(and "Android marketplace..." No)
People are running for this garbage. I would rather wait for something that works -- then spend endless hours on tech support trying to recover my lost image of my murdered daughter - that cannot be replaced.
My initial response -- then why doesn't Qualcomm say "users of our software don't need" rather than "8 cores.."?
... issues (see earlier /. article "How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped?"); I am not surprised that people such as you don't see the need more than two cores.
Given that mobile devices contain many software
As for "significant power cost", this has long been since resolved by "good" CPU design; and shutting down areas of the CPU that are not in use. Don't need eight CPU's right now? The OS 'can' shut down 2 (or 4).