Oh, I agree entirely. The company in question is very backward in its IT practises and they should get the cleu in a few years, probably at about the same time that they migrate the email system from Notes 5.
On the other hand though, getting people to leave their machines on overnight is counter to alleged 'green' policies, and even if it's only once a month or even once a year, the culture of non-communication in the company makes it impossible to tell people to leave their machines on. I'm a contractor by the way. I wouldn't work for them full time.
One of the joys of working for a big company is the splendid way in which a large patch distribution nails network bandwidth and pulls down every machine in the office while it is installed. I'm not sure who's at fault here but they sure ain't the sharpest tool in the box.
But by '2GB image' does it mean deploying a new Ghost image for machine upgrades or builds? And would desktops be deployed in place across an office network or on a dedicated replication network? I would say that that is a logistics problem - the greater problem is the migration training.
that looked into the future of household technology. It foresaw a digital playback system that used the same binary format as the compact disc but the media was credit card shaped. From what I remember (and we're talking 25 years since I last looked at it) the player would still spin to read the data on the card, which made the scanning area about 8" (20cm) in diameter and would require far more oversampling than exists in the best CD players. It can only have been a few years before the first CDs appeared.
Root is only really needed for system updates and drivers that modify the kernel, so it won't be necessary at the moment and system updates will probably use sudo, which will be set to be transparent for the 'mobile' user. I'm sure someone will come up with the hacks *looks at watch* Real Soon Now.
It happens in every aspect of IT, or certainly the ones I have been involved in. As manpower increases, the longest served ops, sysadmins, programmers, whatever, get more responsibility pushed on them and therefore do more managing and less of what they were hired to do. Linux is a classic case of a large scale software project and I would expect the 'names' of the project to do less, perhaps even against their wishes. Someone mentioned Git, which is a very good way of managing this kind of project, but I guess that would take a form of its own and end up with some people managing and others contributing code. So the wheel goes on...
Why would the voting database be available online? That is exactly the reason why it shouldn't be. The main part of secret ballot is secret and the electoral authority should take all steps possible to make sure it's secret. A key pair would produce a checksum to confirm that someone had voted but except in the case of provable electoral fraud should never divulge how someone voted.
Google has to be very risk averse so I can't see them settling in SA. There is an issue around recruitment in that there are quotas that have to be filled by black candidates (not too sure of the details) and there just aren't the candidates to fill the jobs. Many companies work around this by being based in the Maldives or somewhere and hiring in 'contractors' but this isn't a solution for long term operations. In addition, while the general political situation is nowhere near as bad as Zimbabwe, SA's cities are viewed as being increasingly lawless and unstable, something which is also not in Google's (or any big company's) interest. A technologically savvy, cheap, flexible employment base must be a number of ticks on Google's shopping list as well as good infrastructure or potential for good infrastructure, stability and those emolients that bring business in. This could make Nairobi a key location on the communications map.
You don't need fossil fuels to create steam, that's the point. The power unit could burn pretty much anything to heat water. I don't know much about current fuel technology where steam engines are concerned but I don't think that this car will be hauling a coal tender.
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A friend worked for Lloyds at the start of the 90s and ATMs were effectively terminals using SNA or X500 pads to mainframes. These days they all seem to use Windows so it's probably all over IP. ATMs in shops can still use ISDN or even good old fashioned modems - it's always a bit disconcerting to hear one dial up.
Mandrake 10 was appallingly flaky. I could never upgrade a machine with it, just do a clean install, and different parts of the installer failed with different versions on the same machine. I gave up on desktop Linux for a while until Ubuntu matured because of it.
From a brief stint at a very big consultancy company (three letters, not beginning with I): Me: Where does *** stand on OSS? Them: We don't use it, it hasn't been proved enough.
Of course... Here you go. And this although ethernet support under Windows requires WinPCAP, which suggests that it might have been around for some time. With a bit of work, they could probably be compiled for Linux on something portable, or even Windows Mobile and you *could* have a PDP-11 on your phone.
I just did a quick bit of research and found that while iCal and Mozilla Calendar share the same file format, iCal still doesn't share calendars over webDAV or FTP, which will be a stumbling block for collaborative use, so while Google Calendar wants to keep its users in the browser, the technology isn't quite there for a genuinely open collaborative calendar. I went through this a few months ago when planning a holiday with a friend in Taiwan - we ended up planning on a shared Google calendar, which I then exported to iCal and then synced to my Nokia E61. Anything to avoid using pen and paper...
The server system I mean - I seem to recall them being available in the UK in 1999-2000 but reliant on GPRS. It's only been in the last couple of years that they have been embraced by corporate IT, and largely because of a 'me too' culture that passes like a virus around meetings and conferences. One place I worked earlier this year rolled them out with full server support to their executives over about a month after a VP was converted. The iPhone isn't designed as a corporate product - yet. It *should* provide the same open standards that iCal and iSync work with, which will mean synchronisation with the Mac desktop and indeed Google Calendar among other things, so if there is the demand, and Steve can see outside the living room for a minute, there would be a nice little market for an Xserve based synchronisation server. The problem is that neither it nor the iPhone would still play nice with Exchange without some third party software - it exists but it's presently not 'Mac' enough. But give the iPhone time. At the moment it's Insanely Great but without a huge amount of market penetration and the option of true integration the corporate world won't even look at it for a couple of years.
Yes, there are standard Imperial weights and measures. I seem to recall that one set are on display at the Tower of London. However, the pound now seems to be legally defined as 0.453 592 37 kilogram.
Ted should never be forgotten, especially now when we need something like transclusion more than ever. However, Ted seems to have wandered back into academia, and progress on Xanadu and its associated technologies seems to have ground to a halt.
Before someone in say, the Trade Department, realises that every stupid patent awarded, every 10 year old summonsed by the RIAA and every stupid copyright restriction imposed or self-imposed on websites is adversely affecting the trading position of the USA in the world? It's not to say that real world issues should be ignored by the Internet but there has to be some common sense applied and less of this blind gold rush. Ebay's response could be as simple as lifting their servers and moving them somewhere where software patents don't exist, which would probably be cheaper than paying whatever stupid licencing price these parasites want to impose. It's a shame that Neal Stephenson's Kinakuta doesn't yet exist, as every big US online company that has been screwed over by the cretinous US patenting system, and every company that has fallen foul of the ridiculous protectionist policies of the current government would be falling over themselves to set up there. Anyone got a spare island?
HTML, CSS and javascript are for display purposes. You are confusing them with SGML, of which HTML is a subset. Formatting documents for good old fashioned paper printing or indeed common display is a lot more complex than what is possible in Ajax, simply due to the limitations of the browser. The adoption of XML based formats in Word and Word-type applications has been a step forward but the issue of implementation still remains a problem.
Word quite simply isn't very good at addressing modern publishing requirements. I'm suffering from this at the moment in having to write quite a few documents based on templates that haven't been made very well and are often impossible to fix once they have been populated. A search finds ways to fix these things, such as trying to make numbering do what you want it to but very often it's a case of 'can't get there from here'. This problem spreads to OpenOffice et al because they have to emulate Word and the habits that users develop from using Word, which perpetuates the errors and problems without finding a solution. Personally, if I ever get around to doing any serious writing I will do it LaTeX. Until then I'm stuck with Word and its slightly less idiot cousins.
To those who say it's just an extension of road tax: it certainly isn't in the UK. Cooking oil is classified as a food and is therefore exempt from VAT (Value Added Tax - our flat rate for almost everything). When it's used in a car, Revenue, Customs and Excise have now decided that it should be subject to VAT and Fuel Duty, making it about 20p per litre cheaper than diesel. I suppose that isn't whole point, as the 'green' aspects are still there, but as usual the government runs to take its bit without any consideration or encouragement for change.
In the end, I suppose Starbucks isn't part of a megacorp that sells weapons, but the very fact that they're extending into the music business makes me feel itchy. Then again, I doubt that the new Mars Volta LP will be released by them.
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Oh, I agree entirely. The company in question is very backward in its IT practises and they should get the cleu in a few years, probably at about the same time that they migrate the email system from Notes 5.
On the other hand though, getting people to leave their machines on overnight is counter to alleged 'green' policies, and even if it's only once a month or even once a year, the culture of non-communication in the company makes it impossible to tell people to leave their machines on. I'm a contractor by the way. I wouldn't work for them full time.
One of the joys of working for a big company is the splendid way in which a large patch distribution nails network bandwidth and pulls down every machine in the office while it is installed. I'm not sure who's at fault here but they sure ain't the sharpest tool in the box.
But by '2GB image' does it mean deploying a new Ghost image for machine upgrades or builds? And would desktops be deployed in place across an office network or on a dedicated replication network? I would say that that is a logistics problem - the greater problem is the migration training.
that looked into the future of household technology. It foresaw a digital playback system that used the same binary format as the compact disc but the media was credit card shaped. From what I remember (and we're talking 25 years since I last looked at it) the player would still spin to read the data on the card, which made the scanning area about 8" (20cm) in diameter and would require far more oversampling than exists in the best CD players. It can only have been a few years before the first CDs appeared.
We'll be seeing him in internet court.
Root is only really needed for system updates and drivers that modify the kernel, so it won't be necessary at the moment and system updates will probably use sudo, which will be set to be transparent for the 'mobile' user. I'm sure someone will come up with the hacks *looks at watch* Real Soon Now.
It happens in every aspect of IT, or certainly the ones I have been involved in. As manpower increases, the longest served ops, sysadmins, programmers, whatever, get more responsibility pushed on them and therefore do more managing and less of what they were hired to do. Linux is a classic case of a large scale software project and I would expect the 'names' of the project to do less, perhaps even against their wishes. Someone mentioned Git, which is a very good way of managing this kind of project, but I guess that would take a form of its own and end up with some people managing and others contributing code. So the wheel goes on...
I'll have 0000000000001 because it was my idea.
Why would the voting database be available online? That is exactly the reason why it shouldn't be. The main part of secret ballot is secret and the electoral authority should take all steps possible to make sure it's secret. A key pair would produce a checksum to confirm that someone had voted but except in the case of provable electoral fraud should never divulge how someone voted.
Google has to be very risk averse so I can't see them settling in SA. There is an issue around recruitment in that there are quotas that have to be filled by black candidates (not too sure of the details) and there just aren't the candidates to fill the jobs. Many companies work around this by being based in the Maldives or somewhere and hiring in 'contractors' but this isn't a solution for long term operations. In addition, while the general political situation is nowhere near as bad as Zimbabwe, SA's cities are viewed as being increasingly lawless and unstable, something which is also not in Google's (or any big company's) interest. A technologically savvy, cheap, flexible employment base must be a number of ticks on Google's shopping list as well as good infrastructure or potential for good infrastructure, stability and those emolients that bring business in. This could make Nairobi a key location on the communications map.
You don't need fossil fuels to create steam, that's the point. The power unit could burn pretty much anything to heat water. I don't know much about current fuel technology where steam engines are concerned but I don't think that this car will be hauling a coal tender.
A friend worked for Lloyds at the start of the 90s and ATMs were effectively terminals using SNA or X500 pads to mainframes. These days they all seem to use Windows so it's probably all over IP. ATMs in shops can still use ISDN or even good old fashioned modems - it's always a bit disconcerting to hear one dial up.
is that cal.gov are having to legislate on this because some HR person has seriously considered it...
Mandrake 10 was appallingly flaky. I could never upgrade a machine with it, just do a clean install, and different parts of the installer failed with different versions on the same machine. I gave up on desktop Linux for a while until Ubuntu matured because of it.
From a brief stint at a very big consultancy company (three letters, not beginning with I):
Me: Where does *** stand on OSS?
Them: We don't use it, it hasn't been proved enough.
Apart from OpenSSH, perl, gcc...
Of course... Here you go. And this although ethernet support under Windows requires WinPCAP, which suggests that it might have been around for some time.
With a bit of work, they could probably be compiled for Linux on something portable, or even Windows Mobile and you *could* have a PDP-11 on your phone.
I just did a quick bit of research and found that while iCal and Mozilla Calendar share the same file format, iCal still doesn't share calendars over webDAV or FTP, which will be a stumbling block for collaborative use, so while Google Calendar wants to keep its users in the browser, the technology isn't quite there for a genuinely open collaborative calendar. I went through this a few months ago when planning a holiday with a friend in Taiwan - we ended up planning on a shared Google calendar, which I then exported to iCal and then synced to my Nokia E61. Anything to avoid using pen and paper...
The server system I mean - I seem to recall them being available in the UK in 1999-2000 but reliant on GPRS. It's only been in the last couple of years that they have been embraced by corporate IT, and largely because of a 'me too' culture that passes like a virus around meetings and conferences. One place I worked earlier this year rolled them out with full server support to their executives over about a month after a VP was converted.
The iPhone isn't designed as a corporate product - yet. It *should* provide the same open standards that iCal and iSync work with, which will mean synchronisation with the Mac desktop and indeed Google Calendar among other things, so if there is the demand, and Steve can see outside the living room for a minute, there would be a nice little market for an Xserve based synchronisation server. The problem is that neither it nor the iPhone would still play nice with Exchange without some third party software - it exists but it's presently not 'Mac' enough. But give the iPhone time. At the moment it's Insanely Great but without a huge amount of market penetration and the option of true integration the corporate world won't even look at it for a couple of years.
Oh, sorry *waves iPhone* oooo, shiny.
Yes, there are standard Imperial weights and measures. I seem to recall that one set are on display at the Tower of London. However, the pound now seems to be legally defined as 0.453 592 37 kilogram.
Ted should never be forgotten, especially now when we need something like transclusion more than ever. However, Ted seems to have wandered back into academia, and progress on Xanadu and its associated technologies seems to have ground to a halt.
Before someone in say, the Trade Department, realises that every stupid patent awarded, every 10 year old summonsed by the RIAA and every stupid copyright restriction imposed or self-imposed on websites is adversely affecting the trading position of the USA in the world? It's not to say that real world issues should be ignored by the Internet but there has to be some common sense applied and less of this blind gold rush. Ebay's response could be as simple as lifting their servers and moving them somewhere where software patents don't exist, which would probably be cheaper than paying whatever stupid licencing price these parasites want to impose. It's a shame that Neal Stephenson's Kinakuta doesn't yet exist, as every big US online company that has been screwed over by the cretinous US patenting system, and every company that has fallen foul of the ridiculous protectionist policies of the current government would be falling over themselves to set up there. Anyone got a spare island?
HTML, CSS and javascript are for display purposes. You are confusing them with SGML, of which HTML is a subset. Formatting documents for good old fashioned paper printing or indeed common display is a lot more complex than what is possible in Ajax, simply due to the limitations of the browser. The adoption of XML based formats in Word and Word-type applications has been a step forward but the issue of implementation still remains a problem.
Word quite simply isn't very good at addressing modern publishing requirements. I'm suffering from this at the moment in having to write quite a few documents based on templates that haven't been made very well and are often impossible to fix once they have been populated. A search finds ways to fix these things, such as trying to make numbering do what you want it to but very often it's a case of 'can't get there from here'. This problem spreads to OpenOffice et al because they have to emulate Word and the habits that users develop from using Word, which perpetuates the errors and problems without finding a solution. Personally, if I ever get around to doing any serious writing I will do it LaTeX. Until then I'm stuck with Word and its slightly less idiot cousins.
Probably not. The blog server is probably running on an old P2 under someone's desk. And is currently leaking magic smoke.
To those who say it's just an extension of road tax: it certainly isn't in the UK. Cooking oil is classified as a food and is therefore exempt from VAT (Value Added Tax - our flat rate for almost everything). When it's used in a car, Revenue, Customs and Excise have now decided that it should be subject to VAT and Fuel Duty, making it about 20p per litre cheaper than diesel. I suppose that isn't whole point, as the 'green' aspects are still there, but as usual the government runs to take its bit without any consideration or encouragement for change.
In the end, I suppose Starbucks isn't part of a megacorp that sells weapons, but the very fact that they're extending into the music business makes me feel itchy. Then again, I doubt that the new Mars Volta LP will be released by them.