BS, MS supported it under 2003-64 for Itanium and XP-64 for Itanium, so they have the code to support EFI. They haven't supported it till now on 32 bit OS's because there was no hardware that required or supported it. Of course why they couldn't support it for Vista I have no clue, there will be plenty of 32bit and 64bit boxes with EFI during the support life of Vista that will have to use a hacked up BIOS emulation layer just because of this stupid MS decision.
Actually a 6 disk changer would add little to the cost. Of course it adds complexity to the load screen which is probably what the console makers want to avoid, but it would be nice to have your x favorite games ready without switching anything out. Heck that would be awsome for parties, have a little load screen and select the title you want to play next.
ATM's themselves aren't all that secure, it's the banking system that is secure. The ATM's rely on IBM (or other) brand hardware crypto cards to provide secure communication with the banks. The ATM cabinets are wired up to monitored alarms. Finally all of the ATM transactions are verified by the very carefully audited code at the banks and trading houses. Compared to the effort put into protecting money mere votes are nothing since we as a society have determined not to put the resources into accomplishing the same level of protection.
Once you get to the point of running two different render apps you need a job controll program. These are programs written specifically to controll how much total CPU time a job gets based on priority and/or job cost. The better ones can split your compute farm up any way you choose limited only by how well you can map policy into their language.
You can sort-of do this with Firefox Extension Backup Extension. This extension picks up all of your current extensions (and more if you tell it to) and their configuration and saves them to one archive, then on the new install you simply install this one extension and point it at the backup and voila your extensions are back the way they started. Download available here.
Actually you can also push water uphill to store electrical energy as potential mechanical energy. They do this at Niagra Falls, they pump water uphill all night so that the peak demand in NY City can be met during the day and so that the falls can still run for the tourists. If you ever see the falls late at night it's kind of eery how they almost shut it off.
Windows 2003 Standard x86 is limited to 4GB of virtual address space. 2003 Enterprise x86 is limited to 64GB. Full details available here. Personally I work with server with more than 4GB daily, though so far none of ours have more than 4GB per processor board =)
My response is that preemptive swapping on Windows can often be too agressive. If I launch a game like WoW then all of my other processes get swapped out, even though I have 1.5GB of ram and the WoW process only takes ~500MB max. This means that while I have ~700MB of free ram whenever I alt-tab my browser and other programs have to get swapped back in from disk, a slow and annoying process. Is it good to user some ram as a disk cache, yes, but at what point does it become counterproductive? Personally I wish there was some way to tune this.
I have a SAN box that fills about 1/2 of a rack and sucks down 4kVA and has a 13TB raw capacity. 3.2kVA and 120TB is awsome. Of course that's without the kind of management facilities that the Xiotech has, has none of the redundancy facilities , and doesn't have near the performance.
Actualy AFAIK touch tone is available is all areas services by an RBOC, in fact they now charge you an extra monthly fee for using pulse dialing because the equipment to understand pulse is antiquated and they want to go all digital.
That may be true for their biggest instance customers, but like most businesses I'm sure a large part of their revenue comes from mid and small sized companies. In these midsized and under companies the low level workers often have a LOT of input on what products get purchased. If an airline pisses the secretary off then it's unlikely they will get business from at least that persons boss, and often not from the company as a whole. A company that pisses me off with poor tech support is going to lose hundreds of thousands in server purchases a year. It's just not that uncommon in the majority of workplaces for someone other than upper management to have a significant input into purchasing decisions.
They will generally be fine, some small percentage will have some type of seal failure due to changes in chemistry, but that can be minimized by using s500 low sulphur diesel instead of s15 ultra low sulphur diesel.
They didn't just beat the record, they obliterated it. I'd be willing to bet that an auto speed record hasn't been beat by that kind of margin since the 1920's, if not earlier.
The black smoke hasn't been a problem for properly maintained engines ever, but much cleaner diesel's should be available in the US this fall. Refineries have been producing S15 Low Sulphur diesel since June and all retail outlets should have it by October 15th according to EPA requirements. This means that manufacturers can start importing designs from europe that are designed to run on ultra low sulphur diesel fuel. These designs are MUCH less polluting then engines designed for low grade diesel. For more info see link
I wonder if the original cast members wanted too much money, or if they simply got tired of doing the show and told the network they wouldn't do it any more. Those are the only two reasons I can think for cancelling one of your most profitable shows.
The stupid Advanced iLo packs often come in a 12"x8"x8" box that contains a bunch of padding and a padded envelope that contains a cd case that has zero value, and the license number attached. They could just email me the license number or print it on a certificate with the server or something, but no I have to fill the dumpsters and landfills with this kind of crap.
If you think Citrix is superfelous then you haven't used it in an environment of more than 2 servers. The management tools make it a must for managing large groups of remote access servers.
First time I tried to do high altitude climbing was on Mt Whitney. The first day we climbed to 12,500 feet. After setting up camp we prepared dinner, which turned out to be a mistake. The oxygen required to digest the food drove my blood oxygen concentration low enough that I experienced severe hypoxia. We had to break camp and climb back below 10K feet in the dark, definitly not a fun experience. After spending the next day back at 12,500 feet I managed to reach the 14,500 foot summit on day three. The next time I tried high alititude climbing I allowed a few more days for acclimating at ~10K feet.
I don't have mod points today so I'll just respond. What you have said is VERY correct. Access isn't a horrible design tool or presentation layer, it IS a horrible database. Developers who base commercial products off it should be shot and those who base internal projects off it should be educated. Anyone who's doing real development work probably already has a license to redistribute MSDE, and internal developers don't need one. I have a friend who's a programmer/DBA and probably 90% of his workload is taking messes made with Access and converting them to Access frontends to SQL/MSDE.
Nah, DoE and DoD like to spread the wealth around enough to keep a couple suppliers alive and at least somewhat healthy. They don't like the idea of only having one supplier to turn too because they know that would cost them more than throwing some contracts at the less robust suppliers. Btw it's not just in computing that this happens, but in all defense contracting.
Huh? The COLSA G5 based supercomputer which is currently ranked #21 in the world only cost $5.8 million so I wouldn't call 10x that much Ultra-cheap. The IBM JS21 at #23 is in the same balpark with a retail cost per CPU of $2500 and 2,048 processors (I couldn't find exact pricing for the unit, only the blades). Sure, breaking into the top 10 is expensive, but that's to be expected when even #10 has over 5K processors.
Nope, the NSA's budget is almost entirely black (covert). In fact one senator quipped after the NSA headquarters building was built that they spent x billion and had no clue on what.
Baggage handlers may be monkeys but the guys at the shipping companies are great apes, I am 10x more worried about packages then I am about luggage as far as damage, of course misrouting happens more often to luggage.
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BS, MS supported it under 2003-64 for Itanium and XP-64 for Itanium, so they have the code to support EFI. They haven't supported it till now on 32 bit OS's because there was no hardware that required or supported it. Of course why they couldn't support it for Vista I have no clue, there will be plenty of 32bit and 64bit boxes with EFI during the support life of Vista that will have to use a hacked up BIOS emulation layer just because of this stupid MS decision.
Actually a 6 disk changer would add little to the cost. Of course it adds complexity to the load screen which is probably what the console makers want to avoid, but it would be nice to have your x favorite games ready without switching anything out. Heck that would be awsome for parties, have a little load screen and select the title you want to play next.
ATM's themselves aren't all that secure, it's the banking system that is secure. The ATM's rely on IBM (or other) brand hardware crypto cards to provide secure communication with the banks. The ATM cabinets are wired up to monitored alarms. Finally all of the ATM transactions are verified by the very carefully audited code at the banks and trading houses. Compared to the effort put into protecting money mere votes are nothing since we as a society have determined not to put the resources into accomplishing the same level of protection.
I would mod you up but I already responded in this thread. This is EXACTLY the answer the article submitter needs!
Once you get to the point of running two different render apps you need a job controll program. These are programs written specifically to controll how much total CPU time a job gets based on priority and/or job cost. The better ones can split your compute farm up any way you choose limited only by how well you can map policy into their language.
You can sort-of do this with Firefox Extension Backup Extension. This extension picks up all of your current extensions (and more if you tell it to) and their configuration and saves them to one archive, then on the new install you simply install this one extension and point it at the backup and voila your extensions are back the way they started. Download available here.
Actually you can also push water uphill to store electrical energy as potential mechanical energy. They do this at Niagra Falls, they pump water uphill all night so that the peak demand in NY City can be met during the day and so that the falls can still run for the tourists. If you ever see the falls late at night it's kind of eery how they almost shut it off.
Windows 2003 Standard x86 is limited to 4GB of virtual address space. 2003 Enterprise x86 is limited to 64GB. Full details available here. Personally I work with server with more than 4GB daily, though so far none of ours have more than 4GB per processor board =)
My response is that preemptive swapping on Windows can often be too agressive. If I launch a game like WoW then all of my other processes get swapped out, even though I have 1.5GB of ram and the WoW process only takes ~500MB max. This means that while I have ~700MB of free ram whenever I alt-tab my browser and other programs have to get swapped back in from disk, a slow and annoying process. Is it good to user some ram as a disk cache, yes, but at what point does it become counterproductive? Personally I wish there was some way to tune this.
I have a SAN box that fills about 1/2 of a rack and sucks down 4kVA and has a 13TB raw capacity. 3.2kVA and 120TB is awsome. Of course that's without the kind of management facilities that the Xiotech has, has none of the redundancy facilities , and doesn't have near the performance.
Some telcos now charge an extra monthly fee to users of pulse dial telephones.
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Actualy AFAIK touch tone is available is all areas services by an RBOC, in fact they now charge you an extra monthly fee for using pulse dialing because the equipment to understand pulse is antiquated and they want to go all digital.
That may be true for their biggest instance customers, but like most businesses I'm sure a large part of their revenue comes from mid and small sized companies. In these midsized and under companies the low level workers often have a LOT of input on what products get purchased. If an airline pisses the secretary off then it's unlikely they will get business from at least that persons boss, and often not from the company as a whole. A company that pisses me off with poor tech support is going to lose hundreds of thousands in server purchases a year. It's just not that uncommon in the majority of workplaces for someone other than upper management to have a significant input into purchasing decisions.
They will generally be fine, some small percentage will have some type of seal failure due to changes in chemistry, but that can be minimized by using s500 low sulphur diesel instead of s15 ultra low sulphur diesel.
They didn't just beat the record, they obliterated it. I'd be willing to bet that an auto speed record hasn't been beat by that kind of margin since the 1920's, if not earlier.
The black smoke hasn't been a problem for properly maintained engines ever, but much cleaner diesel's should be available in the US this fall. Refineries have been producing S15 Low Sulphur diesel since June and all retail outlets should have it by October 15th according to EPA requirements. This means that manufacturers can start importing designs from europe that are designed to run on ultra low sulphur diesel fuel. These designs are MUCH less polluting then engines designed for low grade diesel. For more info see link
I wonder if the original cast members wanted too much money, or if they simply got tired of doing the show and told the network they wouldn't do it any more. Those are the only two reasons I can think for cancelling one of your most profitable shows.
The stupid Advanced iLo packs often come in a 12"x8"x8" box that contains a bunch of padding and a padded envelope that contains a cd case that has zero value, and the license number attached. They could just email me the license number or print it on a certificate with the server or something, but no I have to fill the dumpsters and landfills with this kind of crap.
If you think Citrix is superfelous then you haven't used it in an environment of more than 2 servers. The management tools make it a must for managing large groups of remote access servers.
First time I tried to do high altitude climbing was on Mt Whitney. The first day we climbed to 12,500 feet. After setting up camp we prepared dinner, which turned out to be a mistake. The oxygen required to digest the food drove my blood oxygen concentration low enough that I experienced severe hypoxia. We had to break camp and climb back below 10K feet in the dark, definitly not a fun experience. After spending the next day back at 12,500 feet I managed to reach the 14,500 foot summit on day three. The next time I tried high alititude climbing I allowed a few more days for acclimating at ~10K feet.
I don't have mod points today so I'll just respond. What you have said is VERY correct. Access isn't a horrible design tool or presentation layer, it IS a horrible database. Developers who base commercial products off it should be shot and those who base internal projects off it should be educated. Anyone who's doing real development work probably already has a license to redistribute MSDE, and internal developers don't need one. I have a friend who's a programmer/DBA and probably 90% of his workload is taking messes made with Access and converting them to Access frontends to SQL/MSDE.
Nah, DoE and DoD like to spread the wealth around enough to keep a couple suppliers alive and at least somewhat healthy. They don't like the idea of only having one supplier to turn too because they know that would cost them more than throwing some contracts at the less robust suppliers. Btw it's not just in computing that this happens, but in all defense contracting.
Huh? The COLSA G5 based supercomputer which is currently ranked #21 in the world only cost $5.8 million so I wouldn't call 10x that much Ultra-cheap. The IBM JS21 at #23 is in the same balpark with a retail cost per CPU of $2500 and 2,048 processors (I couldn't find exact pricing for the unit, only the blades). Sure, breaking into the top 10 is expensive, but that's to be expected when even #10 has over 5K processors.
Nope, the NSA's budget is almost entirely black (covert). In fact one senator quipped after the NSA headquarters building was built that they spent x billion and had no clue on what.
Baggage handlers may be monkeys but the guys at the shipping companies are great apes, I am 10x more worried about packages then I am about luggage as far as damage, of course misrouting happens more often to luggage.