"(v) publish or provide any Software benchmark or comparison test results"
So if I am an IT services provider looking after systems for my Customers and need to patch this... then the first thing they will ask is "what performance impact did your testing of the patch show?"... which I can't now tell them as it would be providing them with comparison test results between a system before and after patching...
Without providing this then they will not agree to the change being made... which means the system will have to remain unpatched and vulnerable.
... and myPlex is completely optional to use. you don't need to have an account on it nor log an installed Plex server into it (I set up Plex for my Dad over the Christmas holidays and his system is not configured talk to myPlex at all).
Works fine for him (and for my own slightly more sophisticated setup) despite some of the rants against it in this thread...
I'm in the UK and have ordered DVDs from Amazon in the US, Canada and Japan as well as the UK with zero problems. Their electronic offering may be locked to a single territory but I've never had issues ordering DVDs
I would agree with this, having used various of the products mentioned, with the following comments...
1. Be aware that TSM is quite expensive! 2. If you go with TSM get decent training for it. I have worked with several systems which have been setup incorrectly because the person(s) setting up the TSM system had not had sufficient training in order to configure things properly. 3. (Related to 2), make sure you know how to recover your TSM system in the event of a full DR, (not difficult if you know what you are doing but can beinteresting if you don't).
I would have to agree with this and the other reply to the post. If you have the money and the time to set it up properly then a 3584 teamed with TSM produces a very very good backup environment.
But make sure that you have it configured correctly and that you understand what it is doing. Also do not reply on vendor consultants to set it up for you as... well... in my experience we had three over time and we got refunds on two of them as they did not do anything and knew less about the products they were supposedly expert in than we did. Also knowing other people who are currently using TSM where it has been setup by the vendor it is not necessarily set up correctly (i was shocked at the configuration).
So its a great combo, but make sure you know what you are doing with it and are able to cope in a DR when you have lost your TSM server and onsite library and pools.
Theres lots of posts saying that you should place books in alphabetical order by author. I would disagree with this. For fiction books I group all the books by an author together and any individual books by other authors next to others within the same genre. The order of the Authors is fairly random in my main library but i do have several other bookcases around the house which contain the books by my favourite authors which i am likely to read regularly* Non-fiction gets sorted by subject and sub-subject, (e.g. web is seperated into css, html and php which leads onto mysql etc...).
This means that I can off the top of my head locate any book to within 1 or 2 6 shelf bookcases which means it takes about 30 secs to find. I am cataloging, when i have time, using OpenDB but that is really so i can remember all of the authors i like and which books of theirs i have so i (a) don't buy duplicates and (b) know what names to look for.
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* for those people who are advocating reading books once and then getting rid of them or getting rid of books you havent read in the last 3 months.... are you insane? I reread books i have bought, its one nice thing about them not having any DRM.... I can reread them when i want in time spans over years without having to worry about how to access them. Some books actual improve the more times you read them as you pick up nuances which you may not have noticed the first time as you didn't know as much about the characters then.
I'd agree with OpenDB, (haven't tried DLP). I use OpenDB to catalog both my book and dvd colections, (thanks to virtual servers under apache bookdb and dvddb hostnames on my home network take may straight to them from anything on the network).
The other nice thing with OpenDB is that once its set up it is very easy to use, even for non-technical people.
Digital Video Recorders may not be able to be completely switched off but they can be hibernated until needed. I run GBPVR under winxp on a AthlonXP2500+ powered Shuttle box.
This hibernates itself if it is not doing anytihng for 5mins and then wakes itself up the next time some comes on to be recorded.
I had a dictionary word for an email address at a previous company.... this a is quite a few years back now but they seemed to be using first initial plus first two letters of surname... at least my mail id was the@........
The mail was on PrimOS i think, (Text/Memo?), and it meant that i frequently got strange emails where someone internally would start typing the subject line in the wrong field and if they had a "the" in it then i was copied on the mail!
My Dad's around the same age and he got early retirement and then was laid off from somewhere else. So he decided that he'd do sometihng different and ended up as a part time pallbearer and herse driver!
Its not just hearing songs on the radio... i've been watching a program on the TV, say a sitcom for instance, and a snippit of music comes on in the background which i've liked.
A quick google and I can usually discover what it is and then i can find out if its available on cd/itunes/whatever...
Without being able to google it then I'd probably forget about it entirely....
... it was all fairly civilized. Contractually we were expected to give 3 months notice of leaving but in actual fact that was normally negotiated down to around 4-6 weeks. The person would work that time finishing off anything they were working on and handing over anything they counldn't finish to the staff that remained. We never had any attempts to sabotage anything, mainly because the team got on well together and didn't want to screw over their friends but also because they were professionals.
Usual thing was on the last day, normally a Friday, everyone would go out down the pub at lunch time and the person leaving would not have to return and would struggle home under a pile of leaving gifts. As soon as they had left the office for the pub their accounts would be disabled and all administrative users they had access to would have their passwords changed.
StumbleUpon is truely evil software. I would highly recommend against installing it if you value your time at all. I have it installed and every time I use it then its suddenly 40 minutes later!!!
Just kidding, its great to find strange sites you would not normally see but its very addictive...
... the best manager i've had was a techie and then was promoted up. This meant that he understood what was involved in the work we were doing and hence would make every attempt possible to prevent obviously unrealistic timescales or work getting through to us.
He also gave us a reasonable amount of freedom to be able to look at what we thought was best for the estate, subject to change control, as long as the things that had to be done were. He knew that if I was sitting at my desk and staring off into the distance i was noramlly:) thinking about something which would be relavent and may turn into a useful service improvement.
In fact over the yesrs we worked for him we cut the number of uncontrolled incidents coming in by a significant extent by putting measures in place to handle things more pro-actively and also stream lined the daily necessary grunt work so that it could be handles more easily and more accurately. We were looking after significantly more servers than the next largest Unix team in our company with a third of the staff and no where near the nunmber of incidents or callouts, (our record was 5 weeks on a 80 system estate with no callouts at all).
But don't get me wrong, you were expected to be able to demonstrate if asked that you were doing something relavent to your job and if something had to be done then he would make sure that you did do it. (Although if you were slacking off then the chances were you'd be chewed out by the rest of the team anyway).
Fortuantly you could also have standup rows with him and everything would return to normal within a short while. Unfortuantly he is no longer my manager, he took a job doing sometihng else in our company, but I still class him as a friend.
So I would say, be amanager to your staff and protect them from external forces where needed. Be flexible towards them but make sure that they arent abusing that and make sure they are doing everything that is expected of them. Do not coddle them with lots of perks and goodies but make sure they do have what they need in order to do their work in a reasonable manner.
... I've used Zazzle.com for several years, (as other people have pointed out they have been around in beta form for longer than stated above).
I have used them to produce tshirts and posters and while they may not be the cheapest I have had no arguements with their quality or speed of shipping, (I'm in the UK). In fact I have several pictures around my house which I have brought from their web store, (note that I have not used their framing services due to international shipping... its easier to get things sent adn then deal with that here). The one thing that kept me from using them more is complete lack of any form of artistic talent... something they can't really be blamed for!
For those who immediately compare them to Cafepress... thanks, I'd never heard of that site so will have to go for a browse:)
... the BBC news site says the following on the problems people are having trying to contact people in London by mobile phone...
"A spokesman for Vodafone said emergency services were being given priority access to the mobile phone network which was causing problems for other users."
I use various people including the two mentioned above. For harddisks though I only use Dabs as they are the only online vendor I deal with who actually ship drives in proper padded boxes instead of in a bundle of bubble wrap....
How are you not receiving broadcast services when you are getting when you say your are getting your episode of Dr Who via digital broadcast, (DVB-T I assume)?
Looking at the EyeTV product page it has got a tuner for broadcast reception, whether that is analogue or digital doesnt matter, and hence it's quite possible that the TV licensing people are right and you are still liable to pay.
... would be nice if you could use adblock style filtering on Google search results, then if you wanted to get rid of certain results, (i.e. from blog or "sales" sites), you could block their domains.
Probably wouldnt be that difficult to get around it but might help a bit
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So if I am an IT services provider looking after systems for my Customers and need to patch this ... then the first thing they will ask is "what performance impact did your testing of the patch show?" ... which I can't now tell them as it would be providing them with comparison test results between a system before and after patching ...
Without providing this then they will not agree to the change being made ... which means the system will have to remain unpatched and vulnerable.
... and myPlex is completely optional to use. you don't need to have an account on it nor log an installed Plex server into it (I set up Plex for my Dad over the Christmas holidays and his system is not configured talk to myPlex at all).
Works fine for him (and for my own slightly more sophisticated setup) despite some of the rants against it in this thread ...
The Australian programme I believe is Nothing to Declare. There is also a NZ equivalent called Passport Patrol.
One of the lesser digital channels in the UK broadcasts both shows (normally multiple times a day)
I think you'll find you are on my lawn ....
Not in the slightest ...
Sorry but that is rubbish.
I'm in the UK and have ordered DVDs from Amazon in the US, Canada and Japan as well as the UK with zero problems. Their electronic offering may be locked to a single territory but I've never had issues ordering DVDs
I would agree with this, having used various of the products mentioned, with the following comments ...
1. Be aware that TSM is quite expensive!
2. If you go with TSM get decent training for it. I have worked with several systems which have been setup incorrectly because the person(s) setting up the TSM system had not had sufficient training in order to configure things properly.
3. (Related to 2), make sure you know how to recover your TSM system in the event of a full DR, (not difficult if you know what you are doing but can beinteresting if you don't).
t
.... and whatever you do, don't wear a red sweatshirt. :)
t
Its "Coupling" not "Couples"
t
I would have to agree with this and the other reply to the post. If you have the money and the time to set it up properly then a 3584 teamed with TSM produces a very very good backup environment.
... well ... in my experience we had three over time and we got refunds on two of them as they did not do anything and knew less about the products they were supposedly expert in than we did. Also knowing other people who are currently using TSM where it has been setup by the vendor it is not necessarily set up correctly (i was shocked at the configuration).
But make sure that you have it configured correctly and that you understand what it is doing. Also do not reply on vendor consultants to set it up for you as
So its a great combo, but make sure you know what you are doing with it and are able to cope in a DR when you have lost your TSM server and onsite library and pools.
t
Theres lots of posts saying that you should place books in alphabetical order by author. I would disagree with this. For fiction books I group all the books by an author together and any individual books by other authors next to others within the same genre. The order of the Authors is fairly random in my main library but i do have several other bookcases around the house which contain the books by my favourite authors which i am likely to read regularly* Non-fiction gets sorted by subject and sub-subject, (e.g. web is seperated into css, html and php which leads onto mysql etc ...).
.... are you insane? I reread books i have bought, its one nice thing about them not having any DRM .... I can reread them when i want in time spans over years without having to worry about how to access them. Some books actual improve the more times you read them as you pick up nuances which you may not have noticed the first time as you didn't know as much about the characters then.
This means that I can off the top of my head locate any book to within 1 or 2 6 shelf bookcases which means it takes about 30 secs to find. I am cataloging, when i have time, using OpenDB but that is really so i can remember all of the authors i like and which books of theirs i have so i (a) don't buy duplicates and (b) know what names to look for.
t
* for those people who are advocating reading books once and then getting rid of them or getting rid of books you havent read in the last 3 months
I'd agree with OpenDB, (haven't tried DLP). I use OpenDB to catalog both my book and dvd colections, (thanks to virtual servers under apache bookdb and dvddb hostnames on my home network take may straight to them from anything on the network).
The other nice thing with OpenDB is that once its set up it is very easy to use, even for non-technical people.
t
Digital Video Recorders may not be able to be completely switched off but they can be hibernated until needed. I run GBPVR under winxp on a AthlonXP2500+ powered Shuttle box.
This hibernates itself if it is not doing anytihng for 5mins and then wakes itself up the next time some comes on to be recorded.
t
I had a dictionary word for an email address at a previous company .... this a is quite a few years back now but they seemed to be using first initial plus first two letters of surname ... at least my mail id was the@........
The mail was on PrimOS i think, (Text/Memo?), and it meant that i frequently got strange emails where someone internally would start typing the subject line in the wrong field and if they had a "the" in it then i was copied on the mail!
t
My Dad's around the same age and he got early retirement and then was laid off from somewhere else. So he decided that he'd do sometihng different and ended up as a part time pallbearer and herse driver!
t
Its not just hearing songs on the radio ... i've been watching a program on the TV, say a sitcom for instance, and a snippit of music comes on in the background which i've liked.
...
....
A quick google and I can usually discover what it is and then i can find out if its available on cd/itunes/whatever
Without being able to google it then I'd probably forget about it entirely
t
... it was all fairly civilized. Contractually we were expected to give 3 months notice of leaving but in actual fact that was normally negotiated down to around 4-6 weeks. The person would work that time finishing off anything they were working on and handing over anything they counldn't finish to the staff that remained. We never had any attempts to sabotage anything, mainly because the team got on well together and didn't want to screw over their friends but also because they were professionals.
Usual thing was on the last day, normally a Friday, everyone would go out down the pub at lunch time and the person leaving would not have to return and would struggle home under a pile of leaving gifts. As soon as they had left the office for the pub their accounts would be disabled and all administrative users they had access to would have their passwords changed.
t
The Email address field seems to be non-mandatory ... at least it let me through with out anything in it ....
t
StumbleUpon is truely evil software. I would highly recommend against installing it if you value your time at all. I have it installed and every time I use it then its suddenly 40 minutes later!!!
...
Just kidding, its great to find strange sites you would not normally see but its very addictive
t
... the best manager i've had was a techie and then was promoted up. This meant that he understood what was involved in the work we were doing and hence would make every attempt possible to prevent obviously unrealistic timescales or work getting through to us.
:) thinking about something which would be relavent and may turn into a useful service improvement.
He also gave us a reasonable amount of freedom to be able to look at what we thought was best for the estate, subject to change control, as long as the things that had to be done were. He knew that if I was sitting at my desk and staring off into the distance i was noramlly
In fact over the yesrs we worked for him we cut the number of uncontrolled incidents coming in by a significant extent by putting measures in place to handle things more pro-actively and also stream lined the daily necessary grunt work so that it could be handles more easily and more accurately. We were looking after significantly more servers than the next largest Unix team in our company with a third of the staff and no where near the nunmber of incidents or callouts, (our record was 5 weeks on a 80 system estate with no callouts at all).
But don't get me wrong, you were expected to be able to demonstrate if asked that you were doing something relavent to your job and if something had to be done then he would make sure that you did do it. (Although if you were slacking off then the chances were you'd be chewed out by the rest of the team anyway).
Fortuantly you could also have standup rows with him and everything would return to normal within a short while. Unfortuantly he is no longer my manager, he took a job doing sometihng else in our company, but I still class him as a friend.
So I would say, be amanager to your staff and protect them from external forces where needed. Be flexible towards them but make sure that they arent abusing that and make sure they are doing everything that is expected of them. Do not coddle them with lots of perks and goodies but make sure they do have what they need in order to do their work in a reasonable manner.
t
... I've used Zazzle.com for several years, (as other people have pointed out they have been around in beta form for longer than stated above).
... its easier to get things sent adn then deal with that here). The one thing that kept me from using them more is complete lack of any form of artistic talent ... something they can't really be blamed for!
... thanks, I'd never heard of that site so will have to go for a browse :)
I have used them to produce tshirts and posters and while they may not be the cheapest I have had no arguements with their quality or speed of shipping, (I'm in the UK). In fact I have several pictures around my house which I have brought from their web store, (note that I have not used their framing services due to international shipping
For those who immediately compare them to Cafepress
t
... the BBC news site says the following on the problems people are having trying to contact people in London by mobile phone ...
"A spokesman for Vodafone said emergency services were being given priority access to the mobile phone network which was causing problems for other users."
t
I use various people including the two mentioned above. For harddisks though I only use Dabs as they are the only online vendor I deal with who actually ship drives in proper padded boxes instead of in a bundle of bubble wrap ....
t
How are you not receiving broadcast services when you are getting when you say your are getting your episode of Dr Who via digital broadcast, (DVB-T I assume)?
Looking at the EyeTV product page it has got a tuner for broadcast reception, whether that is analogue or digital doesnt matter, and hence it's quite possible that the TV licensing people are right and you are still liable to pay.
... would be nice if you could use adblock style filtering on Google search results, then if you wanted to get rid of certain results, (i.e. from blog or "sales" sites), you could block their domains.
Probably wouldnt be that difficult to get around it but might help a bit
t