Like some poster above said, there are different backups for different purposes. The problem people have is that a 300 GB drive doesn't cost much more than a tape of the same size, so they think disk is the way to go because it's faster to recover from, etc.
But there's at least three kinds of backing up:
Disaster Recovery: Fire, flood, mechanical failure. You need all of yesterday's backup. Quick Recovery: Jimmy in accounting deleted a financial document he shouldn't have. Let's get it back from the last hourly incremental/daily differential, etc. Archival: Long term storage. This is something people struggle with because they think that every piece of data that ever touches the file server needs to be archived eventually. Not true. Ideally, you'd have a structure where data is backed up nightly, but archives are done monthly and from specific locations. Completed court case documentation, email stores, finished financial transactions...anything that might need to be referred to later for offical reasons should be placed in TO BE ARCHIVED folders. Otherwise you're going to have monthly archives of ALL your data for years which isn't worth the cost.
1) Bought an HP computer for an office (so you get those restore CDs and not the full OS as Dell sends) 2) "occasional" backups? 3) Not realizing how XP keys work
It may be because you're only listening with one hear. If someone could come up with stereophonic phones (I'm guessing bluetooth implants that are actually compatible with all cell phones...hard enough to get one bluetooth earpiece that's compatible with anything at all), I'm guessing the background noise wouldn't give people the urge to talk louder. I can pretty much whisper into my cell phone and the other person hears me just fine, "Why are we whispering?"
I suppose what I meant was, like your dad, some people aren't happy without kids around to teach, to love, to help in some way. Didn't mean to sound like I was belittling anyone. There are times, however, when a person can't reasonably handle more children, and it takes away from both participants' experiences.
Does being a child mean that you get away with a heck lot just because of your age? Yep
Even if you did know that what you were doing was wrong? Can't prove they do or don't, so you say they're young and ignorant, which is generally the case.
Does something magically change when they turn 18? Nope, but that's the age when they can't blame someone else for their ignorance. Mostly, it wises them up pretty quickly. Mostly.
What about the mother? How could she claim ignorance when it was her job to educate and take care of them? Have kids. It'll enlighten you. Really. Whole different world all of a sudden. Your own entire childhood becomes clear.
Couldn't she take at least care of their Internet behavior? What about having 5 children? Come on, we live in 2006, not 1906, family planning is there, one is a mistake, after that it was her choice. I assume this one is tongue-in-cheek. But seriously, some people want to take care of children. When your children are growing up and not needing you every day, you go out and have some other child who will make you feel important again.
I was in front of this guy a few years back. He's on his cellphone, talking to his credit card company. He's trying to be quiet about it, but ends up giving them his full name, card info, mother's maiden name, and some password (I was surprised by this last one until I tried to talk to my own CC company recently...they were looking at the wrong account which apparently needed a password to access. When I gave them my account number again, my account wasn't password protected.).
So I've already had my pad of paper out for a few minutes, I jot down all his information. When my stop comes, before his, I stand up, make a show of tearing the page out of my notebook, fold it up, and hand it to him. "Be more careful," I tell him, and walk off.
And I'm not sure why some people talk so loudly on the cell phone. I don't fly often, but I agree with others...let people text or something, but no calls please.
I worked pretty extensively with the Mac OS from 7.1 to 8.5. Anything from 7.3 to 8.5 was inferior to pretty much everything Microsoft has put out except for Windows Me and first edition Windows 95 in terms of stability and usability. The 10 series of Mac OS X is relatively stable as a UNIX operating system, but I daresay that because it's UNIX, certain tasks just aren't in the GUI and that's where MS is succeeding right now. The "Do this" Wizards of Windows OS might be pervasive and annoying to techies, but they cover most bases in terms of pretty much anything you want to do with a system. The registry edit or direct profile manipulation is rare these days (unless you're an admin).
I find that most Christians are as reasonable as anyone else - which may be very, or may be not at all. I point this out merely because Christians often see themselves as living to higher moral standards than others. I would merely say in my experience they are on par
Stopping outgoing traffic is for the obsessively insane.
While these programs are noted as "personal", most sys admins make sure their networks are crunchy on the outside and on the inside both, so firewalls at the borders and on the clients are useful. Messy egress traffic is often best stopped at the client level through access privileges set by these programs or within Windows. With limited bandwidth (it's always limited no matter your connection) you don't want people with peer-to-peer programs, itunes, etc clogging the tubes. You also don't want people to return from a business trip with an infected laptop to start an internal worm, so you whitelist outgoing ports instead of blocking malicious outgoing ports.
Blocking outgoing traffic is good to stem infections, control bandwidth usage, etc. You might not need it at home, but all the zombified home computers wouldn't be an issue if everyone opened up just port 80, 8080, and instant messenger, and maybe Battle for Middle Earth. Not World of Warcraft though. That's a malicious trojan of timesink if ever there was one...
You can make a perfectly safe car, but it's really cost prohibitive as well as limiting to what the driver can do. Same with a perfectly safe America. The government and its systems can't protect Americans from everything. Americans should do their part as well: keep aware. If you're on a long flight, be a little anxious. Don't freak out, but be aware and consider your options if something did happen. You do it for crash landings, you may as well add:
"In the event some lunatic stands up in the aisle screaming "Death to all infidels!" please allow your airline staff direct access to said person while making staff aware of any other suspicious activities during the incident. And for choosing our bankrupt airline, we say thank you and have a nice flight."
Friendly. The analogy was trying to make it clear the difference the original poster was making. Whether you're stealing or infringing copyright, it's illegal either way. Copyright laws have their uses, and so does the RIAA, but I don't agree with the huge deal the RIAA is making out of sharing music for free. But it doesn't mean that, as it's written in law, that it's not illegal, and you can't tell people that it isn't and expect to further your argument.
If I'm wrong here, please tell me, but don't call me an asshat.
And what portion of that goes to slashdot or any other site you visit?
Which begs the question: Why even run Slashdot then? If it's not profitable, why have it? (Yes, of course it's a loaded question.) You could make the argument that Slashdot survives on donations or Slashdot T-Shirt purchases, but that wouldn't answer the question.
Sure spammers scan sites and lists for email addresses to use. But one thing that even white lists won't avoid is when you opt into Barnes and Noble's book of the month email list, and then B&N, per terms of the opt-in agreement, can sell your email address to affiliate parties (i.e. anyone who wants to pay).
My thoughts: for announcements, go to the web site; everything else, put on a white list. No one gets in unless you've allowed them. Pain in the ass? You betcha. But if you want less spam, it's the way to go.
I disagree.:-) I guess I'm comparing Total War: Medieval or Warcraft with BFME. In those you have a cavalry "charge", but all they do is ride down and stop at the enemy infantry and just do more damage. You can't ride through or over.
And C&C had nothing of the sort...driving a tank over an infantry unit to see a flattened corpse is different than crashing through the ranks with cavalry and knocking the infantry either down or *away*, to get up again if they were particularly tough or to just lie dead. Seeing trolls swing trees and knock people away (not just swing, and have the people fall over), catapult rocks hit the ground and roll through armies, have Gandalf blast everything off the screen...
Maybe other games have the individual physics, but I've yet to see it, and that alone makes BFME enjoyable to play (it's not just a graphical enhancement).
Sure, it's not "stealing" music. But both stealing and copyright infringement are criminal acts. You argue like you're trying to convince us that because your victim isn't dead, only severely beaten, you're innocent of murder so you should be let go.
EA might be huge and unwieldy, but they do make some good games. Battle for Middle-Earth comes to mind. In the over-populated RTS world, they broke new ground in a few areas. I still consider the individual unit physics and the ability for horses to ride through and over troops a mandatory feature in any medieval-type RTS I play, and I haven't seen another game that has this, so I still play BFME.
I played the first scenario of a turn-based strategy game called Age of Wonders II: Shadow Magic. Great game, reminiscent of the Master of Magic series from the 90s. There were, I guess, 16 scenarios, but the first one was so involved, long, showed off all the powers and creatures you could encounter, felt so epic...that when I finally finished it after a few days (a total of 5 hours maybe), I was done with the game, feeling very satisfied but knowing it was just more of the same after that.
MMORPGs people play for years and I wager more because of the community than the gameplay (because the gameplay usually pales when compared to single player RPGs).
I enjoyed half-life 2 and FEAR...both those could have gone on a little longer but the story, as it was, came to an end so I felt satisfied. But again, as far as expansion packs go...I know it's just more of the same so I might not pick it up.
Of course, if you ever waited through the original Bard's Tale on 5 1/4" floppy, you can play anything...
Well, it's the recording industry. What does it do? Records the music well, copies it to CD, markets the band via radio, commercials, full color posters in Borders, MTV, etc. If musicians can somehow foot the bill (somewhere around $10K for great quality music recording and mixing for one CD), throw it on the internet, and let the people decide who's good or not. Top 100 internet songs in this category, that category, etc. Popular bands, likely the good ones not just the RIAA-pushed catchy ones, will draw larger concert venues, etc.
End result? You don't need a huge marketing conglomerate behind you. Most musicians are starving anyway, this may actually give the non-millionaires a fighting chance because they'll be marketed on talent, not advertising.
We had a professor here with a bad lower back who rearranged his office for standing while working. His back (through exercises and not sitting, etc) has improved over the past couple years, so now...he's sitting again.
My doctor is an armchair anthropologist and is more than happy to ramble on about how the human musculatory, skeletal, and even pulmonary systems are designed for standing and walking, not for sitting. I'm guessing our fat butts are evolutionary from millennia of presiding over lesser beings from a big throne (the people on my TV are so small...).
Maybe if they made floors all soft and squishy like our sofas, we'd be happier standing? Or better, make computer interfaces use more body parts - standing forever is a pain, but if were doing little tapdances and knee bends the whole day, I bet you could go for hours (okay...maybe not but...).
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Don't quote me, but I think he said his project was Clippy....
Like some poster above said, there are different backups for different purposes. The problem people have is that a 300 GB drive doesn't cost much more than a tape of the same size, so they think disk is the way to go because it's faster to recover from, etc.
But there's at least three kinds of backing up:
Disaster Recovery: Fire, flood, mechanical failure. You need all of yesterday's backup.
Quick Recovery: Jimmy in accounting deleted a financial document he shouldn't have. Let's get it back from the last hourly incremental/daily differential, etc.
Archival: Long term storage. This is something people struggle with because they think that every piece of data that ever touches the file server needs to be archived eventually. Not true. Ideally, you'd have a structure where data is backed up nightly, but archives are done monthly and from specific locations. Completed court case documentation, email stores, finished financial transactions...anything that might need to be referred to later for offical reasons should be placed in TO BE ARCHIVED folders. Otherwise you're going to have monthly archives of ALL your data for years which isn't worth the cost.
An appalling Catch 22 if ever I've seen one...
The author sets up offices "all the time" but...
1) Bought an HP computer for an office (so you get those restore CDs and not the full OS as Dell sends)
2) "occasional" backups?
3) Not realizing how XP keys work
And that's just the first few paragraphs...
CNET Reviews don't agree that Ferrari laptops are top of the line. What's Microsoft up to? Anyone missing any underpants?
Anyone notice that when you click on a reply, when you get back to the main tree of posts, there's a checkmark noting you've looked at it.
"You, with the keyboard! Yes, you! Go back and mod that post up!"
It may be because you're only listening with one hear. If someone could come up with stereophonic phones (I'm guessing bluetooth implants that are actually compatible with all cell phones...hard enough to get one bluetooth earpiece that's compatible with anything at all), I'm guessing the background noise wouldn't give people the urge to talk louder. I can pretty much whisper into my cell phone and the other person hears me just fine, "Why are we whispering?"
I suppose what I meant was, like your dad, some people aren't happy without kids around to teach, to love, to help in some way. Didn't mean to sound like I was belittling anyone. There are times, however, when a person can't reasonably handle more children, and it takes away from both participants' experiences.
Does being a child mean that you get away with a heck lot just because of your age?
Yep
Even if you did know that what you were doing was wrong?
Can't prove they do or don't, so you say they're young and ignorant, which is generally the case.
Does something magically change when they turn 18?
Nope, but that's the age when they can't blame someone else for their ignorance. Mostly, it wises them up pretty quickly. Mostly.
What about the mother? How could she claim ignorance when it was her job to educate and take care of them?
Have kids. It'll enlighten you. Really. Whole different world all of a sudden. Your own entire childhood becomes clear.
Couldn't she take at least care of their Internet behavior? What about having 5 children? Come on, we live in 2006, not 1906, family planning is there, one is a mistake, after that it was her choice.
I assume this one is tongue-in-cheek. But seriously, some people want to take care of children. When your children are growing up and not needing you every day, you go out and have some other child who will make you feel important again.
I was in front of this guy a few years back. He's on his cellphone, talking to his credit card company. He's trying to be quiet about it, but ends up giving them his full name, card info, mother's maiden name, and some password (I was surprised by this last one until I tried to talk to my own CC company recently...they were looking at the wrong account which apparently needed a password to access. When I gave them my account number again, my account wasn't password protected.).
So I've already had my pad of paper out for a few minutes, I jot down all his information. When my stop comes, before his, I stand up, make a show of tearing the page out of my notebook, fold it up, and hand it to him. "Be more careful," I tell him, and walk off.
And I'm not sure why some people talk so loudly on the cell phone. I don't fly often, but I agree with others...let people text or something, but no calls please.
They've never had a better product than Apple
I worked pretty extensively with the Mac OS from 7.1 to 8.5. Anything from 7.3 to 8.5 was inferior to pretty much everything Microsoft has put out except for Windows Me and first edition Windows 95 in terms of stability and usability. The 10 series of Mac OS X is relatively stable as a UNIX operating system, but I daresay that because it's UNIX, certain tasks just aren't in the GUI and that's where MS is succeeding right now. The "Do this" Wizards of Windows OS might be pervasive and annoying to techies, but they cover most bases in terms of pretty much anything you want to do with a system. The registry edit or direct profile manipulation is rare these days (unless you're an admin).
Most Christians are quite reasonable people
I find that most Christians are as reasonable as anyone else - which may be very, or may be not at all. I point this out merely because Christians often see themselves as living to higher moral standards than others. I would merely say in my experience they are on par
Stopping outgoing traffic is for the obsessively insane.
While these programs are noted as "personal", most sys admins make sure their networks are crunchy on the outside and on the inside both, so firewalls at the borders and on the clients are useful. Messy egress traffic is often best stopped at the client level through access privileges set by these programs or within Windows. With limited bandwidth (it's always limited no matter your connection) you don't want people with peer-to-peer programs, itunes, etc clogging the tubes. You also don't want people to return from a business trip with an infected laptop to start an internal worm, so you whitelist outgoing ports instead of blocking malicious outgoing ports.
Blocking outgoing traffic is good to stem infections, control bandwidth usage, etc. You might not need it at home, but all the zombified home computers wouldn't be an issue if everyone opened up just port 80, 8080, and instant messenger, and maybe Battle for Middle Earth. Not World of Warcraft though. That's a malicious trojan of timesink if ever there was one...
You can make a perfectly safe car, but it's really cost prohibitive as well as limiting to what the driver can do. Same with a perfectly safe America. The government and its systems can't protect Americans from everything. Americans should do their part as well: keep aware. If you're on a long flight, be a little anxious. Don't freak out, but be aware and consider your options if something did happen. You do it for crash landings, you may as well add:
"In the event some lunatic stands up in the aisle screaming "Death to all infidels!" please allow your airline staff direct access to said person while making staff aware of any other suspicious activities during the incident. And for choosing our bankrupt airline, we say thank you and have a nice flight."
Friendly. The analogy was trying to make it clear the difference the original poster was making. Whether you're stealing or infringing copyright, it's illegal either way. Copyright laws have their uses, and so does the RIAA, but I don't agree with the huge deal the RIAA is making out of sharing music for free. But it doesn't mean that, as it's written in law, that it's not illegal, and you can't tell people that it isn't and expect to further your argument.
If I'm wrong here, please tell me, but don't call me an asshat.
And what portion of that goes to slashdot or any other site you visit?
Which begs the question: Why even run Slashdot then? If it's not profitable, why have it? (Yes, of course it's a loaded question.) You could make the argument that Slashdot survives on donations or Slashdot T-Shirt purchases, but that wouldn't answer the question.
Sure spammers scan sites and lists for email addresses to use. But one thing that even white lists won't avoid is when you opt into Barnes and Noble's book of the month email list, and then B&N, per terms of the opt-in agreement, can sell your email address to affiliate parties (i.e. anyone who wants to pay).
My thoughts: for announcements, go to the web site; everything else, put on a white list. No one gets in unless you've allowed them. Pain in the ass? You betcha. But if you want less spam, it's the way to go.
However, non-spam advertising tends to cover (or help cover) the costs of whatever it is you're consuming (website, TV program, train ride)
Yes, because my $140 monthly cable/internet bill just doesn't seem to be enough...
I disagree. :-) I guess I'm comparing Total War: Medieval or Warcraft with BFME. In those you have a cavalry "charge", but all they do is ride down and stop at the enemy infantry and just do more damage. You can't ride through or over.
And C&C had nothing of the sort...driving a tank over an infantry unit to see a flattened corpse is different than crashing through the ranks with cavalry and knocking the infantry either down or *away*, to get up again if they were particularly tough or to just lie dead. Seeing trolls swing trees and knock people away (not just swing, and have the people fall over), catapult rocks hit the ground and roll through armies, have Gandalf blast everything off the screen...
Maybe other games have the individual physics, but I've yet to see it, and that alone makes BFME enjoyable to play (it's not just a graphical enhancement).
Sure, it's not "stealing" music. But both stealing and copyright infringement are criminal acts. You argue like you're trying to convince us that because your victim isn't dead, only severely beaten, you're innocent of murder so you should be let go.
EA might be huge and unwieldy, but they do make some good games. Battle for Middle-Earth comes to mind. In the over-populated RTS world, they broke new ground in a few areas. I still consider the individual unit physics and the ability for horses to ride through and over troops a mandatory feature in any medieval-type RTS I play, and I haven't seen another game that has this, so I still play BFME.
I played the first scenario of a turn-based strategy game called Age of Wonders II: Shadow Magic. Great game, reminiscent of the Master of Magic series from the 90s. There were, I guess, 16 scenarios, but the first one was so involved, long, showed off all the powers and creatures you could encounter, felt so epic...that when I finally finished it after a few days (a total of 5 hours maybe), I was done with the game, feeling very satisfied but knowing it was just more of the same after that.
MMORPGs people play for years and I wager more because of the community than the gameplay (because the gameplay usually pales when compared to single player RPGs).
I enjoyed half-life 2 and FEAR...both those could have gone on a little longer but the story, as it was, came to an end so I felt satisfied. But again, as far as expansion packs go...I know it's just more of the same so I might not pick it up.
Of course, if you ever waited through the original Bard's Tale on 5 1/4" floppy, you can play anything...
Well, it's the recording industry. What does it do? Records the music well, copies it to CD, markets the band via radio, commercials, full color posters in Borders, MTV, etc. If musicians can somehow foot the bill (somewhere around $10K for great quality music recording and mixing for one CD), throw it on the internet, and let the people decide who's good or not. Top 100 internet songs in this category, that category, etc. Popular bands, likely the good ones not just the RIAA-pushed catchy ones, will draw larger concert venues, etc.
End result? You don't need a huge marketing conglomerate behind you. Most musicians are starving anyway, this may actually give the non-millionaires a fighting chance because they'll be marketed on talent, not advertising.
We had a professor here with a bad lower back who rearranged his office for standing while working. His back (through exercises and not sitting, etc) has improved over the past couple years, so now...he's sitting again.
My doctor is an armchair anthropologist and is more than happy to ramble on about how the human musculatory, skeletal, and even pulmonary systems are designed for standing and walking, not for sitting. I'm guessing our fat butts are evolutionary from millennia of presiding over lesser beings from a big throne (the people on my TV are so small...).
Maybe if they made floors all soft and squishy like our sofas, we'd be happier standing? Or better, make computer interfaces use more body parts - standing forever is a pain, but if were doing little tapdances and knee bends the whole day, I bet you could go for hours (okay...maybe not but...).