Open office might be more compatable with word, but it is harder to use thatn Wordperfect. Anyone who has used MS-Word to do numbered documents, would jump for joy when they see how wordperfect does it (it does it RIGHT, that is why the lawers use it. Lots of numbered documents). With word the numbering and formatting are seemingly randomly decided
Australia is behind in almost everything from US and UK. Japan is infront of both of them. The reason is the amount we are willing to pay.
Everything technological is more expensive here. For example the laptop I just bought, in the US i could have a dvd/cdr (instead of just cd) and double the HDD, double the ram. For about US$300 less then in Australia (I converted properly). Plus the laptops are made in indonesia.
The market in australia is not as big, not as technological (only about 1 in 40 IT students have a laptop) and therefore stuff is more expensive.
Int 0D is for: IRQ5 of 8259 (reserved for hard disk XT)
The 8259 is the onboard interrupt controler, so basically an interrupt on IRQ5 is occuring and windows doesn't know what to do with it, cause something is wrong.
Check technet.microsoft.com it's the first place to look regarding windows
Optical mice work by sending out pulses (not constant) of light and analysing the way it comes back (angle, phase, brightness) and uses that do determine how the mouse has moved.
The mouse then turns this signal into a standard "mouse" signal to send to the computer. As far as the computer is concerned it doesn't care how the mouse works out how it moves. An analogy is inheritence and polymorphism in OO programming. ie, "I don't care how you implement this datastructure, as long as I can do x,y,z and get r)."
So as far as the computer is concerned it cannot tell the difference from the mouse going over a desk, barcode or picture of Claudia Schiffer. (On a side note, optical mice do not work on mat black surfaces as the light does not reflect.)
I am getting more and more annoyed at the morons that are allowed to post to slashdot, yet alone post to Ask Slashdot.
Who are Alice and Bob and why on earth are they in every example of cryptography between two people? Are they some kind of cryptography god? I know they stand for A and B but you can have: Adam, Andy, Aaron, Alishia, Amy, etc. Ben, Betty, Bronwin, etc.
Anyone who has delt with Telstra would know it would take at least a year to make a descision on the subject let alone get the work order through. Telstra is one of those companies where nothing happens fast.
I work for a small IT company and my boss has over 20 years expirience. Now we hold on to our customers because we deliver. We usually gain customers by word of mouth and usually take over from inexpirienced hacks who totaly destroyed the network.
Business and Retail are two different fields. Retail usually buys on price, they don't care that the motherboard is a piece of s*$! just it's cheap. Business on the other hand will get mighty pissed if the computer they just bought needs fixing after just one year.
Also it is unethical as a professional to pass yourself off as a consultant when you don't have the expirience. Remeber those professional ethics classes at uni? Don't pretend to be someone who has 15 years expirience when you only have 3. That's why there are so many unemployed "IT" people out there. They don't know jack. And those who do, still have a job. In our expirience it has been god-damn difficult to find someone GOOD to employ
print and Print in a programming language are not the same thing. This is a good thing as it forces the use of camel case by lazy programmers.
I think this is a mute point as "ordinary" users don't use the command line. They point and click. If they point and click the meaning between Letter.txt and letter.txt becomes meaningless.
I work for a small computer consultancy to whiteboxes. It takes me precicly 5 minuites of work to install windows. I put the CD in, the Floppy in and walk away. I come back 1 hour later and hit the enter key. Windows is installed.
It does take longer (to install windows + apps) if you consider that many more apps are installed when RH is installed. KDE, GNOME, kOffice, etc.
BUT the windows install is still simpler, no technical knowledge is needed.
The web page mentions that you may have to tweek the.cfg file to your apache server. Is it just me or does this just seem wrong.
You have a "Serious" GUI config tool that configures something as complex as apache. Now you have to dive into the config file to change some settings so it works??
Shouldn't this kind of config be GUI as well. Even though i don't particularly like windows, I don't think any windows based apps require the editing of a text file before you can run the program??
The best programming books come from O'Rielies (spelling is wrong). I've bought a few and basically they assume you know something. So the book on C# I bought assumed I was well practiced in Programming and wanted to know how I could apply my knowledge in programming with c#. It didn't teach basic programming techniques and theory, except for a very light section to introduce the language
These are great laptops. We have a client who is in the business of mobile tax returns. They are also very tight with money. Now they have been using these laptops for 7 years without a problem. Nothing wrong with the physical construction and the components are still spinning
oh, plus you can't beat Toshibia's 3 year warrenty
RAID Level 0
RAID Level 0 is not redundant, hence does not truly fit the "RAID" acronym. In Level 0, data is split across drives, resulting in higher data throughput. Since no redundant information is stored, performance is very good, but the failure of any disk in the array results in all data loss. This level is commonly referred to as striping.
RAID Level 1
RAID Level 1 is commonly referred to as mirroring with 2 hard drives. It provides redundancy by duplicating all data from one drive on another drive. The performance of a Level 1 array is slightly better than a single drive, but if either drive fails, no data is lost. This is a good entry-level redundant system, since only two drives are required. However, since one drive is used to store a duplicate of the data, the cost per megabyte is high.
I quote from:
http://www.acc.umu.se/~sagge/scsi_ide/#comparison
SCSI vs ATA
Multi device
This scenario is common in high-end desktop computers and servers where you connect multiple devices to one or more interface adapters. This is where SCSI has major advantages compared to ATA:
Connectivity: The ATA interface can only address two devices while SCSI can address eight devices (Narrow SCSI), 16 devices (Wide SCSI), 32 (Very Wide SCSI) or 126 (FireWire). There are also many peripherals available to SCSI only and not ATA.
Bandwidth: The demand for high transfer rates in servers can not be met using current ATA interfaces based on the two devices per adapter limit and even if it could carry more devices there simply isn't enough bandwidth and flexibility available for serious server application.
Efficiency: The ATA devices lacks the intelligence to perform command queuing like their SCSI counterparts which can queue up to 256 commands per logical unit. Many SCSI hard disk drives aimed at the server market use extra logic to reschedule commands to minimize seek times and maximize throughput. This may not be evident by looking at desktop benchmarks but under heavy server loads, command queuing gives performance benefits.
Dependability: Most high-end SCSI hard drives are quite expensive but there are good reasons for it. They can sustain higher temperatures and stay mechanically functional despite the expansion of the metal parts and and generelly have better build quality. The net result is that they are the natural choice for server applications.
SCSI vs IDE 1) SCSI drives have low seek times and higher transfer rate for three reasons. 1.1) The SCSI bus operates faster (around 160mb/s) 1.2) SCSI drives spin faster 1.3) SCSI does not use the CPU to transfer data. It uses DMA
2) Hard vs soft Hardware raid is invisible to the OS (almost). So in recovery situations it is better. Plus hotswap is just cool.
There are some rules you must follow: 1) If you have a server NEVER EVER EVER used IDE for Harddrives!! SCSI consumes a lot less resources than IDE and it is fast. IDE raid will never be ready for realworld servers as it uses the CPU too much, SCSI has it's own CPU. 2) Software RAID is evil. It is too unpredictable. Use a good quality (read Adaptec) SCSI RAID controler, we use the Adaptec 2100S 3) Don't skimp on hardware for servers, they may cost a lot but it's better to spend now than later. If you are using M$ windows, invest in a REAL server motherboard (Intel), ECC RAM, SCSI RAID, IBM Hot Swap, Harddrives, good backup tape drive.
The one rule I have learnt with servers is that when the server goes down at 9:30am, you want good hardware not the cheap piece of crap.
Intel motherboards are the bees knees of motherboards. They almost never fail, are over engineered, and have the best management features around.
I think what the guy is most concerned about is having to listen to that pathetic marketing on his voicemail. Something that he pays for!! The editor misses the point IMHO
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Open office might be more compatable with word, but it is harder to use thatn Wordperfect. Anyone who has used MS-Word to do numbered documents, would jump for joy when they see how wordperfect does it (it does it RIGHT, that is why the lawers use it. Lots of numbered documents). With word the numbering and formatting are seemingly randomly decided
Australia is behind in almost everything from US and UK. Japan is infront of both of them. The reason is the amount we are willing to pay.
Everything technological is more expensive here. For example the laptop I just bought, in the US i could have a dvd/cdr (instead of just cd) and double the HDD, double the ram. For about US$300 less then in Australia (I converted properly). Plus the laptops are made in indonesia.
The market in australia is not as big, not as technological (only about 1 in 40 IT students have a laptop) and therefore stuff is more expensive.
As opposed to all the NEW Giant Meteors we have been getting lately?
Int 0D is for:
IRQ5 of 8259 (reserved for hard disk XT)
The 8259 is the onboard interrupt controler, so basically an interrupt on IRQ5 is occuring and windows doesn't know what to do with it, cause something is wrong.
Check technet.microsoft.com it's the first place to look regarding windows
Optical mice work by sending out pulses (not constant) of light and analysing the way it comes back (angle, phase, brightness) and uses that do determine how the mouse has moved.
The mouse then turns this signal into a standard "mouse" signal to send to the computer. As far as the computer is concerned it doesn't care how the mouse works out how it moves. An analogy is inheritence and polymorphism in OO programming. ie, "I don't care how you implement this datastructure, as long as I can do x,y,z and get r)."
So as far as the computer is concerned it cannot tell the difference from the mouse going over a desk, barcode or picture of Claudia Schiffer. (On a side note, optical mice do not work on mat black surfaces as the light does not reflect.)
I am getting more and more annoyed at the morons that are allowed to post to slashdot, yet alone post to Ask Slashdot.
Now even if it could work (which it wouldn't) It would be cheaper buying a scanner then writing the software to so this sort of thing.
Who are Alice and Bob and why on earth are they in every example of cryptography between two people? Are they some kind of cryptography god? I know they stand for A and B but you can have:
Adam, Andy, Aaron, Alishia, Amy, etc.
Ben, Betty, Bronwin, etc.
WHY???
Anyone who has delt with Telstra would know it would take at least a year to make a descision on the subject let alone get the work order through. Telstra is one of those companies where nothing happens fast.
Anyone thought that it would be cheaper to buy a faster processor than overcocking a cheaper one and buying and expensive cooling system?
I work for a small IT company and my boss has over 20 years expirience. Now we hold on to our customers because we deliver. We usually gain customers by word of mouth and usually take over from inexpirienced hacks who totaly destroyed the network.
Business and Retail are two different fields. Retail usually buys on price, they don't care that the motherboard is a piece of s*$! just it's cheap. Business on the other hand will get mighty pissed if the computer they just bought needs fixing after just one year.
Also it is unethical as a professional to pass yourself off as a consultant when you don't have the expirience. Remeber those professional ethics classes at uni? Don't pretend to be someone who has 15 years expirience when you only have 3. That's why there are so many unemployed "IT" people out there. They don't know jack. And those who do, still have a job. In our expirience it has been god-damn difficult to find someone GOOD to employ
What kind of programmer would be writing database software and not know about ODBC..?
damn slashdot
it shoudl read:
If(ExpenseYear.isLessThan(ProfitBenifit) {
Here is how to show the cost of IT:
ExpenseYear = TotalCost / LifetimeOfSystem;
EmployeeBenifitYear = EmployeeSavedTimeHours * EmployeeHourlyRate * 52 + CostOfEmployeesNoLongerNeeded;
ProfitBenifit = ProfitSystemWillGenerateYearly;
TotalBenifit = EmployeeBenifitYearly + ProfitBenifit;
If (ExpenseYear TotalBenifit) {
Buy();
} else {
wait(1year);
reevaluate();
}
print and Print in a programming language are not the same thing. This is a good thing as it forces the use of camel case by lazy programmers.
I think this is a mute point as "ordinary" users don't use the command line. They point and click. If they point and click the meaning between Letter.txt and letter.txt becomes meaningless.
I work for a small computer consultancy to whiteboxes. It takes me precicly 5 minuites of work to install windows. I put the CD in, the Floppy in and walk away. I come back 1 hour later and hit the enter key. Windows is installed.
It does take longer (to install windows + apps) if you consider that many more apps are installed when RH is installed. KDE, GNOME, kOffice, etc.
BUT the windows install is still simpler, no technical knowledge is needed.
The web page mentions that you may have to tweek the .cfg file to your apache server. Is it just me or does this just seem wrong.
You have a "Serious" GUI config tool that configures something as complex as apache. Now you have to dive into the config file to change some settings so it works??
Shouldn't this kind of config be GUI as well. Even though i don't particularly like windows, I don't think any windows based apps require the editing of a text file before you can run the program??
Droyad
The best programming books come from O'Rielies (spelling is wrong). I've bought a few and basically they assume you know something. So the book on C# I bought assumed I was well practiced in Programming and wanted to know how I could apply my knowledge in programming with c#. It didn't teach basic programming techniques and theory, except for a very light section to introduce the language
Toshibia
These are great laptops. We have a client who is in the business of mobile tax returns. They are also very tight with money. Now they have been using these laptops for 7 years without a problem. Nothing wrong with the physical construction and the components are still spinning
oh, plus you can't beat Toshibia's 3 year warrenty
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/markedito rial.html?sess=no&prodkey=quick_explanation_of_rai d
RAID Level 0
RAID Level 0 is not redundant, hence does not truly fit the "RAID" acronym. In Level 0, data is split across drives, resulting in higher data throughput. Since no redundant information is stored, performance is very good, but the failure of any disk in the array results in all data loss. This level is commonly referred to as striping.
RAID Level 1
RAID Level 1 is commonly referred to as mirroring with 2 hard drives. It provides redundancy by duplicating all data from one drive on another drive. The performance of a Level 1 array is slightly better than a single drive, but if either drive fails, no data is lost. This is a good entry-level redundant system, since only two drives are required. However, since one drive is used to store a duplicate of the data, the cost per megabyte is high.
touche
I quote from: http://www.acc.umu.se/~sagge/scsi_ide/#comparison SCSI vs ATA Multi device This scenario is common in high-end desktop computers and servers where you connect multiple devices to one or more interface adapters. This is where SCSI has major advantages compared to ATA: Connectivity: The ATA interface can only address two devices while SCSI can address eight devices (Narrow SCSI), 16 devices (Wide SCSI), 32 (Very Wide SCSI) or 126 (FireWire). There are also many peripherals available to SCSI only and not ATA. Bandwidth: The demand for high transfer rates in servers can not be met using current ATA interfaces based on the two devices per adapter limit and even if it could carry more devices there simply isn't enough bandwidth and flexibility available for serious server application. Efficiency: The ATA devices lacks the intelligence to perform command queuing like their SCSI counterparts which can queue up to 256 commands per logical unit. Many SCSI hard disk drives aimed at the server market use extra logic to reschedule commands to minimize seek times and maximize throughput. This may not be evident by looking at desktop benchmarks but under heavy server loads, command queuing gives performance benefits. Dependability: Most high-end SCSI hard drives are quite expensive but there are good reasons for it. They can sustain higher temperatures and stay mechanically functional despite the expansion of the metal parts and and generelly have better build quality. The net result is that they are the natural choice for server applications.
SCSI vs IDE
1) SCSI drives have low seek times and higher transfer rate for three reasons.
1.1) The SCSI bus operates faster (around 160mb/s)
1.2) SCSI drives spin faster
1.3) SCSI does not use the CPU to transfer data. It uses DMA
2) Hard vs soft
Hardware raid is invisible to the OS (almost). So in recovery situations it is better. Plus hotswap is just cool.
1) IDE drives usually spin at 7500RPM, SCSI 15000rpm
2) IDE ~60mb/s, SCSI 160mb/Sec
3) SCSI to SCSI copy is many many times faster than IDE to IDE
4) You nitwit!! RAID 1 (mirror) is just as fast (in hardware RAID) as non-raid. RAID 5, striping is FASTER!!
There are some rules you must follow:
1) If you have a server NEVER EVER EVER used IDE for Harddrives!! SCSI consumes a lot less resources than IDE and it is fast. IDE raid will never be ready for realworld servers as it uses the CPU too much, SCSI has it's own CPU.
2) Software RAID is evil. It is too unpredictable. Use a good quality (read Adaptec) SCSI RAID controler, we use the Adaptec 2100S
3) Don't skimp on hardware for servers, they may cost a lot but it's better to spend now than later. If you are using M$ windows, invest in a REAL server motherboard (Intel), ECC RAM, SCSI RAID, IBM Hot Swap, Harddrives, good backup tape drive.
The one rule I have learnt with servers is that when the server goes down at 9:30am, you want good hardware not the cheap piece of crap.
Intel motherboards are the bees knees of motherboards. They almost never fail, are over engineered, and have the best management features around.
I think what the guy is most concerned about is having to listen to that pathetic marketing on his voicemail. Something that he pays for!! The editor misses the point IMHO