The air traffic CONTROL system was NOT affected. The controllers could watch the planes "near miss" on their radar scopes. The *radio* / communications system was hosed; controllers could not contact the planes by voice.
2^32.... reboots, schmeboots.... the system was down for *5 HOURS*. Not even a crapped-all-over-itself Windoze 95 box takes that long to come back up and load its app. This is obviously a SERIOUSLY FLAWED system that could not restore itself, and all backups failed (for a time) too.
"Delta, go around..." -- (message to Flight 191 as it was crashing in a thunderstorm, Dallas, 1989)
Or, get the hell out of the way and let those won't-go-away lawsuits grab what is left of the "company"...? The article said that the original investors were still being sued. Let the plaintiffs take the near-dead carcass of the buisiness. I'm not usually very insightful, but this looks like a calculated legal defense move to me, with a hint of that "Hail Mary pass - It Could Work" angle too.
Most Baby-Bell land lines tot up to maybe $25 / month even after all the taxes and crammed charges. Of course, they tout it as "$11.50 / month basic service", but you have to add extended area calling and such...
Screw 'em, cancel that land line, provided your cell service is reliable at home (mine isn't, unless I change carriers... cell site is way across town).
Yes! Not funny! It's been 4 years since I had to beat the street for a job, but I was APPALLED at the lack of simple professional courtesy, even after interviews... and this was not for entry-level. I guess I've taken to heart a column I once read that basically said "yeah, it sucks that no one replies anymore... Get used to it".
It's been my experience that human resources departments are often the most understaffed, yet underskilled departments in a company.
It's my experience that our friends in the United Kingdom use plural verbs following the names of companies. I imagine this is due to the fact that companies are usually composed of many people...
To those young-uns who don't realize just Who this man and his band are/were, here's some of John's words inviting you to take up where they leave off...
I know you young and dumb
I know where you're comin' from
Don't know where you're goin' to
but I bin there same as you ...
I know you middle age
same song, different page
I know what you're going through
made the same mistakes as you ... It's your turn, step up and take it
If you've got the guts to hang on
you can make it
Come on, take it!
Huh? 90% of all CDs issued lose money? They make obscene profits off of 10% of the artists' releases? This sounds like Enron-style accounting in reverse. There's no way they'd take a chance on ANY non-established artist if it had a 1 in 10 chance of making them any money. Oh that's right, the recording companies are really in the business just because they love music...
Hopefully the poster can get DSL, but I would hope s/he checked into that already... One of my Wisconsin offices uses their DSL. Being a business, it's $99 a month I think. Had serious reliability problems until they replaced the Westell router which had bad firmware. Since then there's been the standard ISP downtime of maybe one hour a month, with acceptable tech support.
Quick Animations -- yes! Such items can really get a point across well. As many have stated, avoiding glitzy, stroboscopic presentations is vital. But, I'm often amazed how, when watching documentary and history programs on cable TV, new concepts are plainly revealed via active diagrams featuring simple outline animations... for example, spacecraft landing on other planets, or the inner workings of an engine.
I'm sure with clever writing, policy issues can be communicated well with gently moving block diagrams, visually underscoring interrelationships among people, government, and business.
Dell's refurbished on-line store sells machines without an OS, and some servers can be had sans Windoze.
I've purchased a a dozen or so Windoze desktops (new) from Dell. When I needed a SCO server, I configured it (new, not refurb) with no OS and loaded SCO myself.
Surf their refurbished store. Notebooks, desktops, servers, some with and some without an OS, but all with a decent warranty. My new Red Hat 7.1 company server was a "No-OS" refurb on which I loaded a store-bought copy of Professional Server with no problems. You can save some good bucks, BUT ya gotta shop just like with anything else, and sometimes surf through DOZENS of similar models with different specs.
I'm probably jinxing it, but with all these Dell machines I've had just one bad CD-ROM (tech support shipped a replacement) and a bad embedded network card (I replaced it with a $15 Linksys).
Better get back to tweaking that RH7 box.
-- jedbone works Madison, Wisconsin
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The air traffic CONTROL system was NOT affected. The controllers could watch the planes "near miss" on their radar scopes. The *radio* / communications system was hosed; controllers could not contact the planes by voice.
2^32.... reboots, schmeboots.... the system was down for *5 HOURS*. Not even a crapped-all-over-itself Windoze 95 box takes that long to come back up and load its app. This is obviously a SERIOUSLY FLAWED system that could not restore itself, and all backups failed (for a time) too.
"Delta, go around..." -- (message to Flight 191 as it was crashing in a thunderstorm, Dallas, 1989)
* Sell off the unprofitable unit and let it die.
Or, get the hell out of the way and let those won't-go-away lawsuits grab what is left of the "company"...? The article said that the original investors were still being sued. Let the plaintiffs take the near-dead carcass of the buisiness. I'm not usually very insightful, but this looks like a calculated legal defense move to me, with a hint of that "Hail Mary pass - It Could Work" angle too.
Say *WHAT*? $38.00 ??? Good ol' Verizon...
Most Baby-Bell land lines tot up to maybe $25 / month even after all the taxes and crammed charges. Of course, they tout it as "$11.50 / month basic service", but you have to add extended area calling and such...
Screw 'em, cancel that land line, provided your cell service is reliable at home (mine isn't, unless I change carriers... cell site is way across town).
Yes! Not funny! It's been 4 years since I had to beat the street for a job, but I was APPALLED at the lack of simple professional courtesy, even after interviews... and this was not for entry-level. I guess I've taken to heart a column I once read that basically said "yeah, it sucks that no one replies anymore... Get used to it".
It's been my experience that human resources departments are often the most understaffed, yet underskilled departments in a company.
It's my experience that our friends in the United Kingdom use plural verbs following the names of companies. I imagine this is due to the fact that companies are usually composed of many people...
>> whereas a turbojet/turbofan is quite happy running all day long without moving
Sounds like the last time I was stuck all day on an airport taxiway due to weather delay
To those young-uns who don't realize just Who this man and his band are/were, here's some of John's words inviting you to take up where they leave off...
I know you young and dumb
I know where you're comin' from
Don't know where you're goin' to
but I bin there same as you
I know you middle age
same song, different page
I know what you're going through
made the same mistakes as you
It's your turn, step up and take it
If you've got the guts to hang on
you can make it
Come on, take it!
(from the album "It's Hard")
Huh? 90% of all CDs issued lose money? They make obscene profits off of 10% of the artists' releases? This sounds like Enron-style accounting in reverse. There's no way they'd take a chance on ANY non-established artist if it had a 1 in 10 chance of making them any money. Oh that's right, the recording companies are really in the business just because they love music...
Hopefully the poster can get DSL, but I would hope s/he checked into that already... One of my Wisconsin offices uses their DSL. Being a business, it's $99 a month I think. Had serious reliability problems until they replaced the Westell router which had bad firmware. Since then there's been the standard ISP downtime of maybe one hour a month, with acceptable tech support.
Quick Animations -- yes! Such items can really get a point across well. As many have stated, avoiding glitzy, stroboscopic presentations is vital. But, I'm often amazed how, when watching documentary and history programs on cable TV, new concepts are plainly revealed via active diagrams featuring simple outline animations... for example, spacecraft landing on other planets, or the inner workings of an engine.
I'm sure with clever writing, policy issues can be communicated well with gently moving block diagrams, visually underscoring interrelationships among people, government, and business.
Dell's refurbished on-line store sells machines without an OS, and some servers can be had sans Windoze. I've purchased a a dozen or so Windoze desktops (new) from Dell. When I needed a SCO server, I configured it (new, not refurb) with no OS and loaded SCO myself. Surf their refurbished store. Notebooks, desktops, servers, some with and some without an OS, but all with a decent warranty. My new Red Hat 7.1 company server was a "No-OS" refurb on which I loaded a store-bought copy of Professional Server with no problems. You can save some good bucks, BUT ya gotta shop just like with anything else, and sometimes surf through DOZENS of similar models with different specs. I'm probably jinxing it, but with all these Dell machines I've had just one bad CD-ROM (tech support shipped a replacement) and a bad embedded network card (I replaced it with a $15 Linksys). Better get back to tweaking that RH7 box. -- jedbone works Madison, Wisconsin