It's more about culture and individual habits. When I was a kid 25-30 years ago my sisters would spend hours on the phone almost every day. Meanwhile I would use the phone for maybe a couple minutes to find out where everyone was meeting and then we would actually get together in person. Usually we would figure it all out before hand during school. How strange.;-)
I know plenty of people of similar age that spend a ton of time on their cell phones, chatting on IM, etc. It's more a matter of how social you are and how you communicate.
The system had an interanal 'flaw' that limited it to a maximum of 32,000 changes per month before it would crash. Due to increases in size over the years and the large number of scheduling changes made during the Christmas holiday season this maximum was reached and the system crashed.
So there were really two design/coding flaws that caused the crash. First, the limit on the number of changes. Second the lack of proper error handling when the maximum number of changes was reached. So it took both of these to bring the system down in a very messy way.
I do it for my stuff, but then I am small time, about 6 small, low traffic sites. I rent server space from three different companies and have a duplicate copy of everthing on all three servers. It has happened twice in the past that I have had a server go offline for more then a day. In one case a week, I left that company. Nothing fancy though in that if there is a significant outage I manually change the DNS settings at the registrar. People that use my sites don't mind a day outage, but get upset with much more then that.
I am in a similar situation, mostly Windows with a couple of HP-UX machines that I don't have real access to. I ended up installing Mantis Bug Tracker, http://www.mantisbt.org/. It's written in PHP and install time and complexity is low.
Computers and people that build, program and support can not read your mind. Point out that the key to understanding IT and getting real help from people in IT is communication. If they communicate clearly and listen well they will have much better experiences with respect to IT.
We just got two Mirra's about a month ago. Once you get them adjusted they are great!
You should be able to get a Mirra for around $550 in standard colors. For custom color combinations expect to pay another $50 and wait 4-8 weeks.
You should able to get a basic Aeron for around $650. Again additional stuff adds cost.
One thing to realize is that a high quality chair will last a long time, unless you abuse it. Herman Miller chairs come with a 12 year warranty. When you divide the cost over the many years you will use the chair the cost isn't all that bad. So unless the cheaper chair you buy lasts just as long, you may end up paying about the same in the long run.
Because not everything gets automatically detected and/or fixed. Some stuff still needs to be done by hand. Also there are changes that may get made that are not spyware related, such as the user deleting icons.
Here, here. When we have users with serious laptop problems they just FedEx it in same or next day. The problem gets fixed sent back to them again same or next day. Time without laptop is usually 3 days, basically a long weekend.
Anyone that has allowed their PC to get infected will just have to live without it for a couple days or walk through all the steps over the phone.
Had Cingular/CellOne in the Chicago area for a few years. They were okay for our relatively low usage. Switched to T-Mobile about 8 months and have no problems with the service.
A few years ago the press covered the fact that Autozone was going to use Red Hat for their intranet and POS terminals. I would assume SCO is acting based on press announcements.
Rumor used to be that it ran about $1 million per episode. Which in the 70's was a lot of money for a TV show. For comparison here are a few movies from the 70's.
- Jaws(1975) $8 million
- Star Wars(1977) $11 million
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977) $20 million
Note according to the posting and article this limit only applies to cable and ADSL users, NOT dial-up users. Most people with such connections do not batch send email.
While I do agree that the new limits are a little low, the old limits were also too high. Somewhere in between, say around 50 emails in 10 minutes, should get the same results with fewer false positives.
Call the sales number. Almost all tech sales people know what a datahseet is and how to get them. They may not be able to decipher them, but they know how to get them.
Speaking of plenums, if you have forced air heating/cooling do NOT run your cable insdie the ductwork. I have known people who have because it was easy. There are two problems with this, and I have seen both happen.
First, it is not up to code in most places in North America and can be a problem when attempting to sell your home later.
Second, if you have an outside service come in and clean your duct work they will probably end up srewing up your wiring becuase they do not expect it to be there.
"Programming for Linux" would be even better because it specifies the target environment. I can program "under" or "in" Linux or Unix without the target being Linux or Unix. So the best choose would really be "Programming for Linux using Linux".
Try a Mercedes. They give out special badges for your front grill at 150,000 mile increments. Personally knew someone with 3 of these badges.
With regular maintenance, decent care and no abuse many Mercedes pass the 500,000 mile mark. The long lived ones are all diesels btw. There is even one that has gone over 1 million miles, although the original engine only lasted about 900,000 miles.
Volvo also has long lived cars, including the Guiness record holder at over 1.5 million miles and is still driven on a regular basis by the original owner who bought it in the mid 60's. Volvo gives out grill badges every 100,000 miles.
Satellites are expensive. A decent communication satellite will cost you $200-500 million to put in orbit. For the arctic you would need 2or more satellites for good coverage. So it could easily cost over $1 billion to get what you need.
If having a 'career' is important to you, yes you need to deside what you want to be doing in twenty years now. By career I mean a progression of jobs that lead to an ultimate goal, such as CEO of a Fortune 500 company, director of Finance, VP of IT, etc, blacksmith, profession sculptor, etc. The reason is that most of these positions require many years of specific experience and training to achieve. Most people in such positions did not get them overnight.
If you do not really want such a 'career', like myself, but still want to work in a specific area, then you do not need to plan in the same way. If all you want to do is write code, be a welder, paint cars, etc. your time frame is much shorter and requires much less planning. Although there is still some experience and training involved, but you can get such in only a few years.
On the other hand you may not want to plan out anything and just live from day to day. It mostly has to do with what you want to do.
Assuming all the PC's are networked, map a common drive letter for everyone's 'personal', say P:, and drive letter for a shared directory, say S:. Then make everyone save everything to the server.
If you need to limit the size of the local drive partition to just barely enough to hold what it must, i.e. Windows and applications. This will force them to use the file server as they will have no room on their local drive. You can use something like Partion Magic or Ranish Partition Manager to do this.
Make sure the server has plenty of drive space that is on a mirrored drive array. Back up the server every day.
Having everything important in one place makes the backup process a lot easier then trying to get every user to do it.
If you have laptop users that must have files on their local drive you will have to teach them to copy stuff to the file server and back. Possibly using the Windows breifcase feature.
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It's more about culture and individual habits. When I was a kid 25-30 years ago my sisters would spend hours on the phone almost every day. Meanwhile I would use the phone for maybe a couple minutes to find out where everyone was meeting and then we would actually get together in person. Usually we would figure it all out before hand during school. How strange. ;-)
I know plenty of people of similar age that spend a ton of time on their cell phones, chatting on IM, etc. It's more a matter of how social you are and how you communicate.
The system had an interanal 'flaw' that limited it to a maximum of 32,000 changes per month before it would crash. Due to increases in size over the years and the large number of scheduling changes made during the Christmas holiday season this maximum was reached and the system crashed.
So there were really two design/coding flaws that caused the crash. First, the limit on the number of changes. Second the lack of proper error handling when the maximum number of changes was reached. So it took both of these to bring the system down in a very messy way.
Yeah, you won't find these features in an HR system. You will find them in a time and attendance system.
I do it for my stuff, but then I am small time, about 6 small, low traffic sites. I rent server space from three different companies and have a duplicate copy of everthing on all three servers. It has happened twice in the past that I have had a server go offline for more then a day. In one case a week, I left that company. Nothing fancy though in that if there is a significant outage I manually change the DNS settings at the registrar. People that use my sites don't mind a day outage, but get upset with much more then that.
I am in a similar situation, mostly Windows with a couple of HP-UX machines that I don't have real access to. I ended up installing Mantis Bug Tracker, http://www.mantisbt.org/. It's written in PHP and install time and complexity is low.
Computers and people that build, program and support can not read your mind. Point out that the key to understanding IT and getting real help from people in IT is communication. If they communicate clearly and listen well they will have much better experiences with respect to IT.
We just got two Mirra's about a month ago. Once you get them adjusted they are great!
You should be able to get a Mirra for around $550 in standard colors. For custom color combinations expect to pay another $50 and wait 4-8 weeks.
You should able to get a basic Aeron for around $650. Again additional stuff adds cost.
One thing to realize is that a high quality chair will last a long time, unless you abuse it. Herman Miller chairs come with a 12 year warranty. When you divide the cost over the many years you will use the chair the cost isn't all that bad. So unless the cheaper chair you buy lasts just as long, you may end up paying about the same in the long run.
Because not everything gets automatically detected and/or fixed. Some stuff still needs to be done by hand. Also there are changes that may get made that are not spyware related, such as the user deleting icons.
Here, here. When we have users with serious laptop problems they just FedEx it in same or next day. The problem gets fixed sent back to them again same or next day. Time without laptop is usually 3 days, basically a long weekend.
Anyone that has allowed their PC to get infected will just have to live without it for a couple days or walk through all the steps over the phone.
Had Cingular/CellOne in the Chicago area for a few years. They were okay for our relatively low usage. Switched to T-Mobile about 8 months and have no problems with the service.
A few years ago the press covered the fact that Autozone was going to use Red Hat for their intranet and POS terminals. I would assume SCO is acting based on press announcements.
Rumor used to be that it ran about $1 million per episode. Which in the 70's was a lot of money for a TV show. For comparison here are a few movies from the 70's.
- Jaws(1975) $8 million
- Star Wars(1977) $11 million
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977) $20 million
Note according to the posting and article this limit only applies to cable and ADSL users, NOT dial-up users. Most people with such connections do not batch send email.
While I do agree that the new limits are a little low, the old limits were also too high. Somewhere in between, say around 50 emails in 10 minutes, should get the same results with fewer false positives.
Call the sales number. Almost all tech sales people know what a datahseet is and how to get them. They may not be able to decipher them, but they know how to get them.
My HP LaserJet 4L is still going strong for almost 10 years.
I have a couple of ~10 year old floppy drives that just won't die.
I use an old 2GB hard drive as the boot drive for my 300MHz Celeron, NT 4 file server. Which also has an old Trident 2MB PCI VGA card.
I also have a bunch of 10-20 year old microprocessor boards that I play around with. 8080/85, 8086/186, 8031/51, etc.
Oh yeah, and a 23 year old black and white TV.
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Speaking of plenums, if you have forced air heating/cooling do NOT run your cable insdie the ductwork. I have known people who have because it was easy. There are two problems with this, and I have seen both happen.
First, it is not up to code in most places in North America and can be a problem when attempting to sell your home later.
Second, if you have an outside service come in and clean your duct work they will probably end up srewing up your wiring becuase they do not expect it to be there.
Don't you mean Visual Pascal.Net. ;)
"Programming for Linux" would be even better because it specifies the target environment. I can program "under" or "in" Linux or Unix without the target being Linux or Unix. So the best choose would really be "Programming for Linux using Linux".
Try a Mercedes. They give out special badges for your front grill at 150,000 mile increments. Personally knew someone with 3 of these badges.
With regular maintenance, decent care and no abuse many Mercedes pass the 500,000 mile mark. The long lived ones are all diesels btw. There is even one that has gone over 1 million miles, although the original engine only lasted about 900,000 miles.
Volvo also has long lived cars, including the Guiness record holder at over 1.5 million miles and is still driven on a regular basis by the original owner who bought it in the mid 60's. Volvo gives out grill badges every 100,000 miles.
That would be the smaller Spring Comdex in Chicago, not the big one in Vegas.
Satellites are expensive. A decent communication satellite will cost you $200-500 million to put in orbit. For the arctic you would need 2or more satellites for good coverage. So it could easily cost over $1 billion to get what you need.
But Podunk, Iowa isn't offering to pay $250 million, or anything even close, to get broadband.
If having a 'career' is important to you, yes you need to deside what you want to be doing in twenty years now. By career I mean a progression of jobs that lead to an ultimate goal, such as CEO of a Fortune 500 company, director of Finance, VP of IT, etc, blacksmith, profession sculptor, etc. The reason is that most of these positions require many years of specific experience and training to achieve. Most people in such positions did not get them overnight.
If you do not really want such a 'career', like myself, but still want to work in a specific area, then you do not need to plan in the same way. If all you want to do is write code, be a welder, paint cars, etc. your time frame is much shorter and requires much less planning. Although there is still some experience and training involved, but you can get such in only a few years.
On the other hand you may not want to plan out anything and just live from day to day. It mostly has to do with what you want to do.
Assuming all the PC's are networked, map a common drive letter for everyone's 'personal', say P:, and drive letter for a shared directory, say S:. Then make everyone save everything to the server.
If you need to limit the size of the local drive partition to just barely enough to hold what it must, i.e. Windows and applications. This will force them to use the file server as they will have no room on their local drive. You can use something like Partion Magic or Ranish Partition Manager to do this.
Make sure the server has plenty of drive space that is on a mirrored drive array. Back up the server every day.
Having everything important in one place makes the backup process a lot easier then trying to get every user to do it.
If you have laptop users that must have files on their local drive you will have to teach them to copy stuff to the file server and back. Possibly using the Windows breifcase feature.