There less parts drift between lines. On the consumer stuff, they may change the chipsets or other minor things based on supply or supplier cost. Two identical machine models may have internal differences that requires different drivers and/or make spare parts harder to find. It's also harder to get spare parts second hand, both because a consumer line may only be around for 6 months before it changes and because the manufacturer doesn't stock as many.
business lines have the same components on the same models. Drivers will always be identical on identical models, maybe some options for graphic or wireless. Parts are interchangeable for a longer time, they only do complete redesigns every three or four years, in between the model changes, but they make sure that peripherals are compatible (not battery). Spare parts are also easier to find both because by the time I'm looking for spare parts, companies are retiring their fleets of laptops, and the manufacturer stocks more.
Why the hate for Dell, I buy them for my company, price is good, quality is good, they stand behind their warranty, I often buy complete care and have seen them replace some serious user f*ups, no questions asked.
I don't work for dell, but I do recommend them to a lot of people. I often recommend that notebook users get the latitude line, their business class offerings are pretty reliable.
How about some convoluted rules discussed only in the vacuum of Slashdot that would ultimately be fair, but would also take a flow-chart the size of Texas to understand...
To paraphrase Machiavelli, it's easier to make them hate then love, that's why both parties concentrate so much on what is wrong with the other party and pay very little attention to making things right with their own party.
Anyway, limiting your fertility is cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you want your genes to continue you need enough out there when the inevitable killing off comes. It is inevitable... Even if you don't care about your genes, your children or other family members will be at a disadvantage because their "tribe" will not have the numbers to come out on top of any situation, be it riots, government, disease, or something else.
It's a moot point. Have you ever seen anything collapse in a non-catastrophic manner? You can't just stop the growth. Besides, the US has some of the lowest population density in the world. We have tons of room to grow. Europe can slow down, but then they will have their neighbors population crash down on them with nothing to cushion the shock.
What would you prefer our children inherit. A world with enough diversity and growth that there is some hope that we will continue to innovate our way out of problems, or a stangnant world with no growth? The worst option would be a world where the "free" world's population stabalized or decreased enough to be destroyed or enslaved by the less free parts of the world. It could happen.
I'm definitely not a linux noob. But I was trying out Linux Mint at work (I use it at home and on some office laptops) in my docking station, it was hell. Linux doesn't seem to have a simple way to detect external monitors or change the resolution for widescreen.
It rarely makes sense to upgrade old servers wholesale. At the very least you should buy new disks and retain the old ones for quick back-out. Generally for a core piece of infrastructure, you should build the new system in tandem with the old and cut over to it.
Especially going from something afew years old in the current climate, most servers then did not support the amount of memory you can get in current x64 servers.
for a multi-vendor environment, take a look at Unitrends. I use them and they are really sweet, disk to disk, any OS, bare-metal windows (and linux), hot swappable off-site drive or off-site vaulting. Plus, there is no charge for clients if you want to backup a database, or exchange server. It's all inclusive, even the open file client.
In my experience, getting open files backed up is the hardest thing in a 24/7 environment.
offensive, yes,
selfish, probably
ignorant, no
It's "an inconvenient truth", the days of retire at 65 are over for most people. Only the top 5% or so can really manage that.
I think you are complementing my writing ability? If so, thanks, if not...
AS, worked my way up from helpdesk to Network Admin. Aim for medium companies, larger 100+ server companies want a BS, but don't really pay more.
I jumped from helpdesk to field tech to Network Admin. That first Network Admin job will probably be at a relatively small company, under 10 servers. Do a damn good job and move on after a year or so, repeat with slightly larger companies.
Another good options is to aim for contract work 6 month here, a year there. It helps you make industry contacts and if you do good work you will be noticed.
Try mint. They should have their 9.04 based version out soon, but 6 works pretty nice. Hulu and youtube out of the box, not to mention, DVD playback and everything else. Plus you get to use Ubuntu repositories for other packages.
Best desktop distribution IMHO.
Tort reform is a straw man argument. It's like me complaining that the streets have two many potholes so you pass a law that requires 17 inch tires. It doesn't address the problem, it's just a sneaky way to jam someone's agenda into the national debate.
I'm selfish because I use something that works.?
I shouldn't have to buy 10 different brands and see which ones are acceptable. I can walk into any hardware store or gas station and grab an incandescent bulb that will just work fine, there may be some variation in light color, but it won't buzz, it won't dimm, and it will turn on when I flick the switch.
When I can grab a CFL off the shelf and have even one out of three of those guaranteed I will be happy to switch. We aren't there yet. The last one I tried was a GE bulb from target and it had a horrible high pitched buzz that irritated the shit out of me. It didn't start doing it immediately either, so it took me awhile to figure out what was going on. I'm not going to drop $50 so I can "try out" a dozen different brands, I'm just going to avoid something that doesn't work.
The top DSL tier is currently 6 down / 768 up. I get speedtests around 5 or 6 down and 650k up. I get torrents around 30k and my VPN just feels faster. Downloads have consistant speeds and longer downloads will maintain the speed or sometimes get a little faster.
when I had cable I was on the 10M down / 3M up plan and I never tested above 2M down and 1M up. However when I actually downloaded things it would start fast and slow down fairly quickly. Torrents rarely exceeded 10k.
I could be spoiled because I have a DS3 to the colo and 1mb burstable to 100 to the internet. I also live in an apartment.
You know I fell for the Cable is much faster then DSL garbage for a long time. On paper, that is true. Now that I have DSL, I can genuinely say it feels much faster. I get consistantly faster torrents and downloads. My VPN is more responsive.
I do miss my "sticky" IP, it changes alot more w/ DSL, but that's easy to work around.
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There less parts drift between lines. On the consumer stuff, they may change the chipsets or other minor things based on supply or supplier cost. Two identical machine models may have internal differences that requires different drivers and/or make spare parts harder to find. It's also harder to get spare parts second hand, both because a consumer line may only be around for 6 months before it changes and because the manufacturer doesn't stock as many.
business lines have the same components on the same models. Drivers will always be identical on identical models, maybe some options for graphic or wireless. Parts are interchangeable for a longer time, they only do complete redesigns every three or four years, in between the model changes, but they make sure that peripherals are compatible (not battery). Spare parts are also easier to find both because by the time I'm looking for spare parts, companies are retiring their fleets of laptops, and the manufacturer stocks more.
Why the hate for Dell, I buy them for my company, price is good, quality is good, they stand behind their warranty, I often buy complete care and have seen them replace some serious user f*ups, no questions asked.
I don't work for dell, but I do recommend them to a lot of people. I often recommend that notebook users get the latitude line, their business class offerings are pretty reliable.
How about some convoluted rules discussed only in the vacuum of Slashdot that would ultimately be fair, but would also take a flow-chart the size of Texas to understand...
To paraphrase Machiavelli, it's easier to make them hate then love, that's why both parties concentrate so much on what is wrong with the other party and pay very little attention to making things right with their own party.
The US has a pretty low population density compared to other parts of the world. When we look like Europe, or Asia, I'll worry.
Most of the western hemisphere has room for growth.
reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density
Anyway, limiting your fertility is cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you want your genes to continue you need enough out there when the inevitable killing off comes. It is inevitable...
Even if you don't care about your genes, your children or other family members will be at a disadvantage because their "tribe" will not have the numbers to come out on top of any situation, be it riots, government, disease, or something else.
It's a moot point. Have you ever seen anything collapse in a non-catastrophic manner? You can't just stop the growth. Besides, the US has some of the lowest population density in the world. We have tons of room to grow. Europe can slow down, but then they will have their neighbors population crash down on them with nothing to cushion the shock.
What would you prefer our children inherit. A world with enough diversity and growth that there is some hope that we will continue to innovate our way out of problems, or a stangnant world with no growth? The worst option would be a world where the "free" world's population stabalized or decreased enough to be destroyed or enslaved by the less free parts of the world. It could happen.
Mine was sluggish on my 486 w/ 16 MB of RAM, so I had my Unicorn fart on it and that thing is blazing!
As in melted into a charred pile, don't mess around with Unicorn farts...
excuse me while I do some cartwheels down the hall...
I'm definitely not a linux noob. But I was trying out Linux Mint at work (I use it at home and on some office laptops) in my docking station, it was hell. Linux doesn't seem to have a simple way to detect external monitors or change the resolution for widescreen.
I'm going to see if OpenSUSE is any better.
I'm no expert, but if it crosses with another strain, would the current vaccine even be effective against this new strain?
I thought viruses were self replicating, how does it go about "crossing"?
ding ding ding!!!
It rarely makes sense to upgrade old servers wholesale. At the very least you should buy new disks and retain the old ones for quick back-out. Generally for a core piece of infrastructure, you should build the new system in tandem with the old and cut over to it.
Especially going from something afew years old in the current climate, most servers then did not support the amount of memory you can get in current x64 servers.
for a multi-vendor environment, take a look at Unitrends. I use them and they are really sweet, disk to disk, any OS, bare-metal windows (and linux), hot swappable off-site drive or off-site vaulting. Plus, there is no charge for clients if you want to backup a database, or exchange server. It's all inclusive, even the open file client.
In my experience, getting open files backed up is the hardest thing in a 24/7 environment.
oh yeah, I've been trolling with that sig forever, didn't think anyone noticed it?
offensive, yes,
selfish, probably
ignorant, no
It's "an inconvenient truth", the days of retire at 65 are over for most people. Only the top 5% or so can really manage that.
I think you are complementing my writing ability? If so, thanks, if not...
AS, worked my way up from helpdesk to Network Admin. Aim for medium companies, larger 100+ server companies want a BS, but don't really pay more.
I jumped from helpdesk to field tech to Network Admin. That first Network Admin job will probably be at a relatively small company, under 10 servers. Do a damn good job and move on after a year or so, repeat with slightly larger companies.
Another good options is to aim for contract work 6 month here, a year there. It helps you make industry contacts and if you do good work you will be noticed.
...big wet titty?...
I'm intrigued...
I would love to see more information about this.
Try mint. They should have their 9.04 based version out soon, but 6 works pretty nice. Hulu and youtube out of the box, not to mention, DVD playback and everything else. Plus you get to use Ubuntu repositories for other packages.
Best desktop distribution IMHO.
Tort reform is a straw man argument. It's like me complaining that the streets have two many potholes so you pass a law that requires 17 inch tires. It doesn't address the problem, it's just a sneaky way to jam someone's agenda into the national debate.
Slate article
supporting information
If you must collaborate...
stop and listen first...
no, but that's the combination to my luggage...
stop posting it in public
wrinkly...?
woah tiger...
I'm selfish because I use something that works.?
I shouldn't have to buy 10 different brands and see which ones are acceptable. I can walk into any hardware store or gas station and grab an incandescent bulb that will just work fine, there may be some variation in light color, but it won't buzz, it won't dimm, and it will turn on when I flick the switch.
When I can grab a CFL off the shelf and have even one out of three of those guaranteed I will be happy to switch. We aren't there yet. The last one I tried was a GE bulb from target and it had a horrible high pitched buzz that irritated the shit out of me. It didn't start doing it immediately either, so it took me awhile to figure out what was going on. I'm not going to drop $50 so I can "try out" a dozen different brands, I'm just going to avoid something that doesn't work.
The top DSL tier is currently 6 down / 768 up. I get speedtests around 5 or 6 down and 650k up. I get torrents around 30k and my VPN just feels faster. Downloads have consistant speeds and longer downloads will maintain the speed or sometimes get a little faster.
when I had cable I was on the 10M down / 3M up plan and I never tested above 2M down and 1M up. However when I actually downloaded things it would start fast and slow down fairly quickly. Torrents rarely exceeded 10k.
I could be spoiled because I have a DS3 to the colo and 1mb burstable to 100 to the internet. I also live in an apartment.
You know I fell for the Cable is much faster then DSL garbage for a long time. On paper, that is true. Now that I have DSL, I can genuinely say it feels much faster. I get consistantly faster torrents and downloads. My VPN is more responsive.
I do miss my "sticky" IP, it changes alot more w/ DSL, but that's easy to work around.