My personal opinion is that deregulating any sort of utility is bad. This includes the breakup of AT&T, electric deregulation, airline deregulation, etc.
All of these companies price to the point where they are eating their young, so to speak. Are we really any better off?
And before you go ranting about airline deregulation, my point of view is the weekly business traveler. I don't care about discount rates (although my company does to an extent) because all of my travel is to customer premises where I have to be there at a specific time (so I normally book full fare). I would rather have airelines that are financially healthy, and not cutting service to the bone.
I'd be curious what the uplink speed is. I pay about $50/month for Comcast cable. This price includes all taxes and a fee for a separate bill (from my cable) so I can expense it. My speed is 3Mbps/256Kbps. So, it is definitely competitve if it is an async type connection, and very competitive if it a sync type connection.
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Frankly I think it is easier to just use a UPS for the customer premises infrastructure (VoIP hardware plus network infrastructure needed).
You might try better earbuds or headphones. I listen to my iPod (3G 40gig) through Etymotic ER-4S and a Total Airhead amp and have no complaints. It sounds awesome. I just picked up the iPod about a month ago, but from the descriptions it doesn't sound like the 4 generation iPod is going to be something I'm missing out on.
I travel weekly. My main gripe is having to remove my shoes. My shoes are airport friendly, but my orthotics (for my flat feet) are not. It is not apparent from this article whether that annoying procedure will go away or not. If not, I see no reason to participate (unless the lines are really short). As several other readers have posted, I empty my pockets of everything and remove my shoes. I don't set off the detectors, am polite, and am allowed to go on my way without any fanfare. It would be so nice to not have to remove my shoes.
I use a USB flash drive to store my Quicken data. It is always in my pocket with me (instant offsite). It is encrypted. I have Quicken set to backup to the flash drive whenever I exit it.
If you are going to be heavy write, forget software RAID-5. You will be very disappointed (i.e. performance sucks). This is due to having to calculate the parity. Hardware RAID-5 will be much better (e.g. 3ware), since parity calculations are offloaded from your CPU. If you need screaming write performance you will need to do RAID-1+0 or RAID-0+1 (software RAID is perfectly acceptable for this).
If you are predominantly read, software RAID-5 would be tolerable.
I have to disagree with this particular fragment:
cheap Xenix boxes from Radio Shack... so you wouldn't have to scramble for a real operating system
I cut my teeth (for Unix) on SCO Xenix 86 and later 286. They were real multi-user OS's. This was back in 1986. Any shortcomings were more processor related than Xenix. I agree with the rest of the article though.
EllTee, take it from an old former Army Captain...
Listen to your NCO's, take care of your troops (shield them from the bullsh*t that will roll your way) and in about 20 years you will be an O-5 (and deciding whether to continue or plan to retire)... My buddies who are still in are in that position now.
Watch your six for the pretty-boy Officers (like Wesley Clark). They will eat their young to move up. Don't be one of the eaten (and don't become one of screw-everyone-else predators - you will be despised).
Godspeed! Your new career is enjoyable and you will get more out of it than you put in.
I have a customer facing job as a consultant. You can't outsource that to India (and hope to sell more software). You are quite correct that it should be "if," however I was trying to be optimistic.
I read most of the posts here and to summarize, we geeks are fed up to the top of our heads with the current state of affairs. Namely, corporations that don't give a damn about us. Unfortunately, most of us are indentured servants to our corporate masters at this time.
On the bright side, when the job market comes back these same corporate masters are going to wonder what hit them. Widespread walkouts, or extortion (large retention bonuses, immediate promotions/raises). If the idiot CxO's don't get a clue now, they are going to watch their companies implode as the brain drain hits them.
These sentiments mirror those of my colleagues. Our company had better get a clue too, or it won't be pretty.
I hope he prevails. Perhaps it will give other prosecutors pause, to think out their case. If you have a weak case and know you are going to have to pay all cases, you might decide to forego prosecution and use your resources on cases which aren't weak. This benefits the society as a whole.
No they didn't buy into any "fake" system. If you had bothered to look at the link, you will see at the bottom in specs, that they define:
1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
So, they are upfront with what they are giving you, and they also point out in another footnote that your space will be even less once you format a filesystem.
If you don't like what they are giving, don't buy. Please don't go around saying they are "shortchanging" anybody, because they aren't.
I tried Fedora in my VMware instance prior to switching to SuSE. When I would try to update it using up2date (and yes I edited the config files) I would see the three channels (one for 2.6 kernel, one for Fedora Core, and one for Fedora updates). I would select the updates channel, get all the updates queued and start the process. I was pointing to the default update server. I would get gpg complaining about the signature of glibc (and sometimes bash). I could either abort the update or ignore it. If I ignored it the update would chug along and then fail installing glibc. At that point in time my rpm database had also been hosed. I tried a couple of times, before moving on to SuSE.
Has this happened to anybody else? Any ideas what is going on or what I was doing wrong?
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My personal opinion is that deregulating any sort of utility is bad. This includes the breakup of AT&T, electric deregulation, airline deregulation, etc. All of these companies price to the point where they are eating their young, so to speak. Are we really any better off? And before you go ranting about airline deregulation, my point of view is the weekly business traveler. I don't care about discount rates (although my company does to an extent) because all of my travel is to customer premises where I have to be there at a specific time (so I normally book full fare). I would rather have airelines that are financially healthy, and not cutting service to the bone.
I'd be curious what the uplink speed is. I pay about $50/month for Comcast cable. This price includes all taxes and a fee for a separate bill (from my cable) so I can expense it. My speed is 3Mbps/256Kbps. So, it is definitely competitve if it is an async type connection, and very competitive if it a sync type connection.
Frankly I think it is easier to just use a UPS for the customer premises infrastructure (VoIP hardware plus network infrastructure needed).
You might try better earbuds or headphones. I listen to my iPod (3G 40gig) through Etymotic ER-4S and a Total Airhead amp and have no complaints. It sounds awesome. I just picked up the iPod about a month ago, but from the descriptions it doesn't sound like the 4 generation iPod is going to be something I'm missing out on.
I travel weekly. My main gripe is having to remove my shoes. My shoes are airport friendly, but my orthotics (for my flat feet) are not. It is not apparent from this article whether that annoying procedure will go away or not. If not, I see no reason to participate (unless the lines are really short). As several other readers have posted, I empty my pockets of everything and remove my shoes. I don't set off the detectors, am polite, and am allowed to go on my way without any fanfare. It would be so nice to not have to remove my shoes.
Read the article more carefully. This is a *pilot* program.
I use a USB flash drive to store my Quicken data. It is always in my pocket with me (instant offsite). It is encrypted. I have Quicken set to backup to the flash drive whenever I exit it.
If you are going to be heavy write, forget software RAID-5. You will be very disappointed (i.e. performance sucks). This is due to having to calculate the parity. Hardware RAID-5 will be much better (e.g. 3ware), since parity calculations are offloaded from your CPU. If you need screaming write performance you will need to do RAID-1+0 or RAID-0+1 (software RAID is perfectly acceptable for this). If you are predominantly read, software RAID-5 would be tolerable.
I switched to Opera 7.51 for Windows from Firefox 0.8 and am enjoying it too.
Actually, the I stands for Independent now.
It looks like SureTrak only runs on Windows. I'm not sure about the full blown product, but it doesn't look like OS X is an option.
Hmmm, I have vi on SFU 3.5...
Welcome to the Interix UNIX utilities.
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
$ which vi
C:\SFU\bin\vi
Ahhh... then we are definite agreement, not disagreement. It is a shame that didn't play out.
I have to disagree with this particular fragment: cheap Xenix boxes from Radio Shack... so you wouldn't have to scramble for a real operating system
I cut my teeth (for Unix) on SCO Xenix 86 and later 286. They were real multi-user OS's. This was back in 1986. Any shortcomings were more processor related than Xenix. I agree with the rest of the article though.
ROTFLMAO... Uncle Fester... I love it!!! I'd mod you funny if I had some mod points. GIANT HEAD is pretty good too.
Slum Lord!!! :-D :-D
EllTee, take it from an old former Army Captain...
Listen to your NCO's, take care of your troops (shield them from the bullsh*t that will roll your way) and in about 20 years you will be an O-5 (and deciding whether to continue or plan to retire)... My buddies who are still in are in that position now.
Watch your six for the pretty-boy Officers (like Wesley Clark). They will eat their young to move up. Don't be one of the eaten (and don't become one of screw-everyone-else predators - you will be despised).
Godspeed! Your new career is enjoyable and you will get more out of it than you put in.
I have a customer facing job as a consultant. You can't outsource that to India (and hope to sell more software). You are quite correct that it should be "if," however I was trying to be optimistic.
You must work for a big software company.
I read most of the posts here and to summarize, we geeks are fed up to the top of our heads with the current state of affairs. Namely, corporations that don't give a damn about us. Unfortunately, most of us are indentured servants to our corporate masters at this time.
On the bright side, when the job market comes back these same corporate masters are going to wonder what hit them. Widespread walkouts, or extortion (large retention bonuses, immediate promotions/raises). If the idiot CxO's don't get a clue now, they are going to watch their companies implode as the brain drain hits them.
These sentiments mirror those of my colleagues. Our company had better get a clue too, or it won't be pretty.
s/pay all cases/pay all costs/
I hope he prevails. Perhaps it will give other prosecutors pause, to think out their case. If you have a weak case and know you are going to have to pay all cases, you might decide to forego prosecution and use your resources on cases which aren't weak. This benefits the society as a whole.
No they didn't buy into any "fake" system. If you had bothered to look at the link, you will see at the bottom in specs, that they define:
1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
So, they are upfront with what they are giving you, and they also point out in another footnote that your space will be even less once you format a filesystem.
If you don't like what they are giving, don't buy. Please don't go around saying they are "shortchanging" anybody, because they aren't.
Thanks for the info.
I tried Fedora in my VMware instance prior to switching to SuSE. When I would try to update it using up2date (and yes I edited the config files) I would see the three channels (one for 2.6 kernel, one for Fedora Core, and one for Fedora updates). I would select the updates channel, get all the updates queued and start the process. I was pointing to the default update server. I would get gpg complaining about the signature of glibc (and sometimes bash). I could either abort the update or ignore it. If I ignored it the update would chug along and then fail installing glibc. At that point in time my rpm database had also been hosed. I tried a couple of times, before moving on to SuSE. Has this happened to anybody else? Any ideas what is going on or what I was doing wrong?