Guess you haven't installed SP2 on a spyware infested PC then. Because MS specifically doesn't (and can't) support spyware infected PC's they failed to test with a computer as it exists in the real world. So about 10-20% of pc's upgraded to XP SP2 just fail to come up at boot time, and another 10% or so fail to connect to the network after login. That's a really high failure rate, and unlike a university situation where you just make a new image and push it out to the machines in most small and medium businesses that's just not an option as the users scream bloody murder if they have to reinstall stuff.
No kidding, I'm in Ohio and we charge out our net admins (helpdesk level stuff) at ~$75/hour. Engineers go between $120-$200 depending on volume of business the client does with us and how able they are to pay.
except that they often have to pay a LARGE lump sum payment to the temp agency if they bring you on full time. I was hired temp-to-perm with the understanding that I would be brought on perm rather quickly due to paperwork hassles with hiring new perm employees and the customers immediate needs. Well when my boss found out what the lump sum payoff was to the temp agency he had to delay my hire for a quarter so he could budget for it, the payoff was 1/3rd my anual salary! This resulted in me getting benifits on monday of the week in which my wife had our son on a friday, talk about close calls!
uh, he was stating that you should expect to be compensated at $100/hour as a contractor if you were making $100k/year as a regular employee in a similar position. This is a classic estimate but it probably understimates the loss of benifits like 401k match that many better employers offer.
The formula we use is 1/3rd of billings=commision. This factors in taxes for the employer side of things, overhead (not a factor for a single consultant unless you are going to pay professionals to do things like taxes which is probably a good idea), and a modest profit for the founder and owner. A very non-conservative estimate would be to double your base salary to cover payroll taxes and insurance. Don't think that being a consultant will mean flex time, there are MANY situations where you are a consultant in name and tax status only. Btw the employer can only legally use you as a single consultant for two years so if you are getting to around 18 months and they haven't brought you on full time start to worry, they are either going to dump you or they don't know what they are doing and something is going to blow up eventually.
That's because the work is split dynamically between the cards based on scene complexity, so if you have a simple skymap taking up the top 1/4 of the screen the cards will probably split the screen 5/8-3/8 so that they are both doing the same amount of work. This is vastly superior to limiting performance to the slowest card.
As another poster pointed out the current generation of consumer cards are 64bit already. The Quadro line is 128bit, which is what you'd really want for raytracing. Btw with the C like shader languages already around it should be relativly easy to write a raytracer for modern (DX9 level) cards.
Why not buy a $120 card now which will play any game at decent resolution and framerate and another newer card in 18 months or so when the next round of demanding games come out? You're still spending way less than one top of the line card and the only thing you can't do is turn on all of the eye candy or play at insane resolutions. (the one counterargument that I can think of is needing good framerates for a large lcd's native resolution, but I play turn based strategy games so what do I know =)
I haven't seen any boards with more than two x4+ slots yet, are there any? If only there was some way to split the x16 slot, since according to this article not even an ATI X800 really stresses a x4 slot.
With UPC codes invidual items can't be tracked. Most retailers break lots up at a regional warehouse and have no way to know to which store a particular item went. Surveilance video is usually kept for a week or two unless it is specifically pulled for evidence reasons. This can of course can change with the addition of RFID chips to individual items and cheap digital cameras and storage space making archiving of video a trivial expense. Besides, if you're a smart criminal you pay some lowlife to buy the printer for you and offer him several time what the printer cost if he returns with it so that he doesn't just run off with the $.
Dude, the most serious counterfeiters that we need to worry about are hostile foreign governments which produce billions of dollars in fake greenbacks each year, and our own central bank should it be convinced to go down the road of hyperinflation that our current deficit and trade imbalance are leading us towards. Btw the grandparent was talking about using real offset presses identical (or nearly so) to the ones the US mint uses to produce authentic currency. That is the method used by anyone serious about counterfeiting. The idiots that would use a color laser to counterfeit are probably also too stupid to use the right paper which will of course lead to these advanced countermeasures being wholy unncessary. The only generally available paper that even comes close to matching US currency is Crane's #21477 Fluorescent White 24lb. Wove which runs about $1 per 8.5"x11" page. Btw if you want to really get your resume noticed use this paper as it feels like money =)
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For a vodkaphile on a budget nothing beats pearl vodka, it's smoother than Grey Goose and costs only ~$20/750ml. Hell I'm not on a budget anymore but I still see no reason to waste $30 per bottle =) Itgoest through A "five-time distillation and six-time filtration process" which makes it exceptionally smooth.
Ah, cable companies pay for almost EVERY channel they carry, including broadcast! Many of them come in bundles for the distributor so the cable company (like their customers) is forced to take the bad crap with the channels that they actually want, including a raise in fees when another channel is added to the bundle. That's why most of us don't like ads, we end up paying for the ads anyways through increased branding costs, we'd rather just pay for cable what it costs. What I'd really like is to have a free market with al a carte pricing and a delivery cost like I have with my water and gas bills, but that's just dreaming. If that were reality then stupid crap like Oxygen would die off if their production costs were higher than their limited audience was willing to pay, no law says that we have to have 500 channels of crap subsidised by hidden costs on the general economy.
Why not just get a pair of 147GB drives and run in a raid1?
Because in anything where you are worried about performance a simple RAID-1 is going to suck completely? Sure you get some advantages on reads with a decent controller but that's it. For performance critical systems a large RAID5 with a good controller or a RAID-10 across one or more controllers is definitly the way to go. For database type operation with a heavy write load (the most common load where this level of optimization is necessary) present the general rule is the more spindles the better. Of course if you have the cash the real answer is to get a Netapp or EMC box and a vendor consultant and have them tell you what you need.
Don't forget the fact that Verizon can also roam onto Sprint's coverage area
If you want to pay out the nose. The ATT/Cingular roaming is free of charge. I have been roaming between the two networks for the last couple months and have not seen any mention of it on my bill (all of the roaming was inside my local coverage area, just roaming to the stronger tower). From a customer perspective I have to say that this has been one very smooth transition so far with nothing but improved service quality.
These new Virtual Folders (mail's not really moved into them, but it's a view over all your mail based on criteria you specify). I use Outlook 2002 (XP) at work and I don't see any way to do the same without creating rules to copy mail to folders.
Outlook 2003 has them, they are called search folders. In fact there is a default one called unread mail that includes all unread mail regardless of folder (I wish they had an option to not change the read state for items in that view as it's a really easy way to lose a message), usefull if you have rules filtering your email to subfolders and you want to check all of your new mail.
is Chariot test suite from netiq. It works VERY well for simulating real world loads since it basically plays back captured streams of real traffic including combining multiple streams. It then measures the performance of link(s). Another tool they used was a hardware load simulator which I can't remember the name of at the moment. They were almost like a 4U modular switch with different modules you could insert for connecting to different media for testing.
Freedos plus the free Citrix DOS client works well for all of my clients where I have implemented it. It takes a bit of work to get the DHCP and TCP/IP working but it's about as lightweight as you are going to get. It's a nice solution because it can turn any machine into a thin terminal, of course due to moving parts it also ends up costing something to maintain vs nothing for real thinterms.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM for XP and
C:\WINNT\system32\config\SAM for Windows 2000
There are tools out there like PWDUMP from SAMBA that can extract the hash from a SAM file.
however, for backward compatibility with older Windows 9x machines some companies still use NTLMv1.
Actually by default all passwords shorter than 14 characters are stored as BOTH LMv2 AND LMv1 hashes in the registry and both are valid for authentication if they are present. This is true for both Windows Server 2000 and Server 2003. You CAN disable the storage of LMv1 hashes but that does not remove any existing hashes from the SAM, you would also need to force LMv2 authentication and even then someone who could steal the SAM file could get the plaintext.
There ARE QAM-capable tuner cards for US cable on the market now, but since almost all U.S. cable channels are encrypted, they're not very useful.
This should not be a problem soon as CabelCard is now a universal standard (as of a few weeks ago). I expect to see a PC QAM card which has an included CableCard slot for decrypting digital cable withing 6 months.
Uh, 30/5 for $199 is DAMN cheap. I got quotes recently for a client with a bunch of sites and 1.5Mb SDSL is around $350/month for business class with a weak SLA. If you want an actual T1 with accompanying SLA it is closer to $650/month and thats for 1/20th the download and less than 1/3rd the upload! Hell that download is 2/3rds of a T3 which is going to cost the provider a hell of a lot more than $199 no matter how big they are.
Actually as IBM is trying to prove with Blue Gene/L thermal density is a limiting factor in compute power. Also roughly 2/3rds of the cost of a supercomputer is operating budget which includes electricity both for the devices and ~3x as much for cooling, plus the cost of the facilities upgrade. In fact I know several academic institutions that have turned down one generation old supercomputers that would have been free because the facilities upgrade and operating costs were too high for their budget.
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Guess you haven't installed SP2 on a spyware infested PC then. Because MS specifically doesn't (and can't) support spyware infected PC's they failed to test with a computer as it exists in the real world. So about 10-20% of pc's upgraded to XP SP2 just fail to come up at boot time, and another 10% or so fail to connect to the network after login. That's a really high failure rate, and unlike a university situation where you just make a new image and push it out to the machines in most small and medium businesses that's just not an option as the users scream bloody murder if they have to reinstall stuff.
No kidding, I'm in Ohio and we charge out our net admins (helpdesk level stuff) at ~$75/hour. Engineers go between $120-$200 depending on volume of business the client does with us and how able they are to pay.
except that they often have to pay a LARGE lump sum payment to the temp agency if they bring you on full time. I was hired temp-to-perm with the understanding that I would be brought on perm rather quickly due to paperwork hassles with hiring new perm employees and the customers immediate needs. Well when my boss found out what the lump sum payoff was to the temp agency he had to delay my hire for a quarter so he could budget for it, the payoff was 1/3rd my anual salary! This resulted in me getting benifits on monday of the week in which my wife had our son on a friday, talk about close calls!
uh, he was stating that you should expect to be compensated at $100/hour as a contractor if you were making $100k/year as a regular employee in a similar position. This is a classic estimate but it probably understimates the loss of benifits like 401k match that many better employers offer.
The formula we use is 1/3rd of billings=commision. This factors in taxes for the employer side of things, overhead (not a factor for a single consultant unless you are going to pay professionals to do things like taxes which is probably a good idea), and a modest profit for the founder and owner. A very non-conservative estimate would be to double your base salary to cover payroll taxes and insurance. Don't think that being a consultant will mean flex time, there are MANY situations where you are a consultant in name and tax status only. Btw the employer can only legally use you as a single consultant for two years so if you are getting to around 18 months and they haven't brought you on full time start to worry, they are either going to dump you or they don't know what they are doing and something is going to blow up eventually.
That's because the work is split dynamically between the cards based on scene complexity, so if you have a simple skymap taking up the top 1/4 of the screen the cards will probably split the screen 5/8-3/8 so that they are both doing the same amount of work. This is vastly superior to limiting performance to the slowest card.
As another poster pointed out the current generation of consumer cards are 64bit already. The Quadro line is 128bit, which is what you'd really want for raytracing. Btw with the C like shader languages already around it should be relativly easy to write a raytracer for modern (DX9 level) cards.
Why not buy a $120 card now which will play any game at decent resolution and framerate and another newer card in 18 months or so when the next round of demanding games come out? You're still spending way less than one top of the line card and the only thing you can't do is turn on all of the eye candy or play at insane resolutions. (the one counterargument that I can think of is needing good framerates for a large lcd's native resolution, but I play turn based strategy games so what do I know =)
I haven't seen any boards with more than two x4+ slots yet, are there any? If only there was some way to split the x16 slot, since according to this article not even an ATI X800 really stresses a x4 slot.
With UPC codes invidual items can't be tracked. Most retailers break lots up at a regional warehouse and have no way to know to which store a particular item went. Surveilance video is usually kept for a week or two unless it is specifically pulled for evidence reasons. This can of course can change with the addition of RFID chips to individual items and cheap digital cameras and storage space making archiving of video a trivial expense. Besides, if you're a smart criminal you pay some lowlife to buy the printer for you and offer him several time what the printer cost if he returns with it so that he doesn't just run off with the $.
Dude, the most serious counterfeiters that we need to worry about are hostile foreign governments which produce billions of dollars in fake greenbacks each year, and our own central bank should it be convinced to go down the road of hyperinflation that our current deficit and trade imbalance are leading us towards. Btw the grandparent was talking about using real offset presses identical (or nearly so) to the ones the US mint uses to produce authentic currency. That is the method used by anyone serious about counterfeiting. The idiots that would use a color laser to counterfeit are probably also too stupid to use the right paper which will of course lead to these advanced countermeasures being wholy unncessary. The only generally available paper that even comes close to matching US currency is Crane's #21477 Fluorescent White 24lb. Wove which runs about $1 per 8.5"x11" page. Btw if you want to really get your resume noticed use this paper as it feels like money =)
For a vodkaphile on a budget nothing beats pearl vodka, it's smoother than Grey Goose and costs only ~$20/750ml. Hell I'm not on a budget anymore but I still see no reason to waste $30 per bottle =) Itgoest through A "five-time distillation and six-time filtration process" which makes it exceptionally smooth.
Ah, cable companies pay for almost EVERY channel they carry, including broadcast! Many of them come in bundles for the distributor so the cable company (like their customers) is forced to take the bad crap with the channels that they actually want, including a raise in fees when another channel is added to the bundle. That's why most of us don't like ads, we end up paying for the ads anyways through increased branding costs, we'd rather just pay for cable what it costs. What I'd really like is to have a free market with al a carte pricing and a delivery cost like I have with my water and gas bills, but that's just dreaming. If that were reality then stupid crap like Oxygen would die off if their production costs were higher than their limited audience was willing to pay, no law says that we have to have 500 channels of crap subsidised by hidden costs on the general economy.
Why not just get a pair of 147GB drives and run in a raid1?
Because in anything where you are worried about performance a simple RAID-1 is going to suck completely? Sure you get some advantages on reads with a decent controller but that's it. For performance critical systems a large RAID5 with a good controller or a RAID-10 across one or more controllers is definitly the way to go. For database type operation with a heavy write load (the most common load where this level of optimization is necessary) present the general rule is the more spindles the better. Of course if you have the cash the real answer is to get a Netapp or EMC box and a vendor consultant and have them tell you what you need.
Don't forget the fact that Verizon can also roam onto Sprint's coverage area
If you want to pay out the nose. The ATT/Cingular roaming is free of charge. I have been roaming between the two networks for the last couple months and have not seen any mention of it on my bill (all of the roaming was inside my local coverage area, just roaming to the stronger tower). From a customer perspective I have to say that this has been one very smooth transition so far with nothing but improved service quality.
on space weapons and why they might not be a good idea see the union of concerned scientist's page on space weapons.
These new Virtual Folders (mail's not really moved into them, but it's a view over all your mail based on criteria you specify). I use Outlook 2002 (XP) at work and I don't see any way to do the same without creating rules to copy mail to folders.
Outlook 2003 has them, they are called search folders. In fact there is a default one called unread mail that includes all unread mail regardless of folder (I wish they had an option to not change the read state for items in that view as it's a really easy way to lose a message), usefull if you have rules filtering your email to subfolders and you want to check all of your new mail.
Uh, they served over 1 million copies of the Firefox preview in under 100 hours, I don't think Slashdot is really that big of a worry for them.
is Chariot test suite from netiq. It works VERY well for simulating real world loads since it basically plays back captured streams of real traffic including combining multiple streams. It then measures the performance of link(s). Another tool they used was a hardware load simulator which I can't remember the name of at the moment. They were almost like a 4U modular switch with different modules you could insert for connecting to different media for testing.
Freedos plus the free Citrix DOS client works well for all of my clients where I have implemented it. It takes a bit of work to get the DHCP and TCP/IP working but it's about as lightweight as you are going to get. It's a nice solution because it can turn any machine into a thin terminal, of course due to moving parts it also ends up costing something to maintain vs nothing for real thinterms.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM for XP and
C:\WINNT\system32\config\SAM for Windows 2000
There are tools out there like PWDUMP from SAMBA that can extract the hash from a SAM file.
however, for backward compatibility with older Windows 9x machines some companies still use NTLMv1.
Actually by default all passwords shorter than 14 characters are stored as BOTH LMv2 AND LMv1 hashes in the registry and both are valid for authentication if they are present. This is true for both Windows Server 2000 and Server 2003. You CAN disable the storage of LMv1 hashes but that does not remove any existing hashes from the SAM, you would also need to force LMv2 authentication and even then someone who could steal the SAM file could get the plaintext.
There ARE QAM-capable tuner cards for US cable on the market now, but since almost all U.S. cable channels are encrypted, they're not very useful.
This should not be a problem soon as CabelCard is now a universal standard (as of a few weeks ago). I expect to see a PC QAM card which has an included CableCard slot for decrypting digital cable withing 6 months.
Uh, 30/5 for $199 is DAMN cheap. I got quotes recently for a client with a bunch of sites and 1.5Mb SDSL is around $350/month for business class with a weak SLA. If you want an actual T1 with accompanying SLA it is closer to $650/month and thats for 1/20th the download and less than 1/3rd the upload! Hell that download is 2/3rds of a T3 which is going to cost the provider a hell of a lot more than $199 no matter how big they are.
Actually as IBM is trying to prove with Blue Gene/L thermal density is a limiting factor in compute power. Also roughly 2/3rds of the cost of a supercomputer is operating budget which includes electricity both for the devices and ~3x as much for cooling, plus the cost of the facilities upgrade. In fact I know several academic institutions that have turned down one generation old supercomputers that would have been free because the facilities upgrade and operating costs were too high for their budget.