I work for a small consulting firm and have a 100% coverage on most things $20 prescription medical plan. I never said you had to go solo =) Besides most areas of the country have some form of collective bargaining for small companies, around here it's Cleveland Organization of Smaller Enterprises.
Become a conslutant =) Once you have a certain amount of knowledge you become too valuable for all but the largest of companies to retain you full time so you go on to helping lots of companies who are willing to pay the higher rate you deserve to get their specific problem(s) solved in a limited amount of time.
How are you going to push that 30" monster?!?!? The Cinema Display HD already pushes the DVI spec for available bandwidth and there are only 2 KVM's that I know of that can handle the HD, this thing will be insane. I guess they might go the route of using dual DVI ports since the spec supports that but then driver support will become unbelievably difficult since nothing else uses that kind of setup (well there is that IBM display that uses like 4 connectors but that's a purpose built system not a general purpose computer and display)
The horrible cold kills the battery and the red dust was predicted to steal enough energy from the solar cells to make it impossible to keep them warm, once they are frozen it will be all over as they will never recover enough to make it through the next night cycle without freezing again, and after a few days the battery will be completely destroyed. Luckily the red dust phenomenom has been less sever then past missions experienced so the rovers are still kicking. Personally I think it's a real shame that this should even be an issue. A perfectly safe nuclear battery could have been used which would have assured that the cold would not have been an issue for the energy source.
Ah, but with modern disk drives it's basically impossible to be sure that you are writing to the same physical location. The magnetic domains are so small with GMR that temperature fluctuations of just a few degrees can throw off the alignment enough to ensure that complete erasure is not possible.
There is no such thing as a secure deletion. To be sure that data is irretrievable you need to physically destroy the disk, which includes at least chopping up the platters and preferably melting them down. Here's a quote from the definitive paper on data recovery by Peter Gutmann:
For this reason it is effectively impossible to sanitise storage locations by simple overwriting them, no matter how many overwrite passes are made or what data patterns are written.
Actually that number includes all of their partners in that area.
In 2003, IBM received 3,415 U.S. patents from the USPTO. This is the eleventh consecutive year that IBM has received more U.S. patents than any other company in the world. linky.
So not quite 6K, but more than I thought (almost 10 a day!) Their 10 year average is closer to 7 a day, and if you go back 26 years I'm sure it's even lower. Of course the rediculous number makes my point even more clear that fighting IBM in a patent battle is sheer stupidity.
Dude, no one competes with IBM on patents, they have averaged more than a patent a day for as long as any currently enforceable patent has been in existance. That is one game even Gates won't try. It would be like trying to win a land war in China, you might suceed for a while but eventually the sheer mass of your opponent will wear you down.
I was doing expirements of buckminsterfullerenes back in 1996-97, it shouldn't be suprising that a superior material made it to market in 8-10 years after the start of expiremental evaluation. I doubt it took that long to develop nylon, rayon, or any of the other wonder fibers into products for sale.
We started with RIM's provider then moved to Cingular, both sucked. And this was for data network, we didn't have the luxury of phone service. Also it may be true that newer units can handle map sites but with the horrible speeds I was getting downloading text only sites before they wiped out the browser to make room for our corporate code I can't imagine what trying to grab a map would be like!
The blackberry is basically a limited PDA environment with build in cellular data service (and voice too on a couple of the really expensive models). How they ever got to be so popular I have no clue. We used them at IBM for dispatching calls to us field techs but the coverage was really poor and any PDA with a cellular addon would have been tons more usefull (like say for accessing map sites since we were driving to new locations every day). My only guess is that RIM/Cingular is able to make private networks for large customers that make them feel more secure then a general IP solution would.
On the flipside I can enjoy new works of art almost daily if I choose by going to sites like dpchallenge. Compare this to going to an art museum every couple years to see a new photo expo that may or may not be all that great (and I live near one of the worlds best art museum's Cleveland Art Museum). Digital photography not only makes the art side cheaper it also makes it cheaper and easier for me to enjoy the art that is being created.
Reminds me of watching a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit special. The photographer that got the cover used a bag of disposable 35mm point and click camera's. It was all about proportion, shading, framing, and other aspects of composition combined with getting lucky with the photons that happened to be hitting the film at the moment he pressed the button.
Hmm, half the PhD's at a former client were hired through monster, the other half were referals of other employees. Don't underestimate the breadth of jobs covered by monster, I've seen CEO, CIO, and COO positions posted!
Google is proof that using a smarter aproach is often the best way to solve a problem. If Google tried to use the naive clustering model their expenses would have massivly higher and their scalability and fault tolerance would have been much lower. It seems that Google realizes that the best way to hire and retain the people that will continue to come up with the smarter aproaches is to offer them things that not many other employers are, time to do what intellectually stimulates them for instance.
Forget incrementals, if the data is worth backing up its worth backing up correctly. You main expenses will be in the drive/changer and manpower. Tapes are kind of expensive but not as expensive as losing your data, 90% of businesses that suffer a catastrophic loss of data go out of business within 5 years. As for server solutions a pair of 2U Dell's with RAID5 and redundant PSU's can be had for under $10K, unless this is an unprofitable company that is cheap. I have quite a few companies with 35-50 employees with a lot more servers than just 2.
China was never really communist, and they aren't even playing at it anymore. Witness the recent vote by the parliment to reinstate private property rights and which gives some basic human rights back to the people. China is already such a huge economic engine that it has raised world steel prices by between 50 and 100% since the beginning of this year. Other metals such as Zinc have seen nearly 200% rises! The scary part for the developed countries is that concievably China could grow at this rate for 100 years and still not have their entire population up to our current standard of living!
Add Silent Storm to that list, it's not terribly fast on a AMD 2700+ and GeForce FX 5700 with eye candy turned up even at only 1280*1024. The game is awsome but it sure is amazingly demanding (things like seeing the sparks from a ricochet bullet hitting a metal pole).
I can almost guarentee you that WebSphere MQ was NOT the problem. MQ might be a little complex to learn but the code is rock solid stable and tested. The majority of the worlds financial transactions probably pass through MQ, and I've never heard of a serious problem being attributed to it. To give you an idea of how stable it is a search for websphere MQ crash only returns 888 documents from google, using quotes brings it down to zero!
You obviously missed the quotes around "healthy"! Just because it's served over a bed of lettuce does not make anything at McD's healthy. Btw I know about being active and eating a lot of calories, I used to be on swim team. We would swim 5+ miles a day and consume around 5,000 calories a day. Though I rarely at crap like McDonalds, it was more like massive servings of spagheti with heavy meat sauce.
Generally the new electronics smell is caused by either volatile compounds left from the plastic manufacturing process or the burning of solder flux on the heated solder joints.
What are you talking about, at least on Windows there most certainly ARE documented methods for doing voice through modems. For Windows 9x that's Unimodem/V for 2k+ it's Unimodem/5 and both are Telephony Service Providers for TAPI (Telephony API). I know this because unfortunatly the voice addon for WhatsUpGold only supports Unimodem/V not Unimodem/5 so I would have to run it on an unstable OS to get that functionality and an unstable OS is a poor choice for a network monitoring station.
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I work for a small consulting firm and have a 100% coverage on most things $20 prescription medical plan. I never said you had to go solo =) Besides most areas of the country have some form of collective bargaining for small companies, around here it's Cleveland Organization of Smaller Enterprises.
Nah, just a little term I picked up from the monestary. It's so accurate that I use it all the time for non-professional communication =)
Become a conslutant =)
Once you have a certain amount of knowledge you become too valuable for all but the largest of companies to retain you full time so you go on to helping lots of companies who are willing to pay the higher rate you deserve to get their specific problem(s) solved in a limited amount of time.
How are you going to push that 30" monster?!?!? The Cinema Display HD already pushes the DVI spec for available bandwidth and there are only 2 KVM's that I know of that can handle the HD, this thing will be insane. I guess they might go the route of using dual DVI ports since the spec supports that but then driver support will become unbelievably difficult since nothing else uses that kind of setup (well there is that IBM display that uses like 4 connectors but that's a purpose built system not a general purpose computer and display)
The horrible cold kills the battery and the red dust was predicted to steal enough energy from the solar cells to make it impossible to keep them warm, once they are frozen it will be all over as they will never recover enough to make it through the next night cycle without freezing again, and after a few days the battery will be completely destroyed. Luckily the red dust phenomenom has been less sever then past missions experienced so the rovers are still kicking. Personally I think it's a real shame that this should even be an issue. A perfectly safe nuclear battery could have been used which would have assured that the cold would not have been an issue for the energy source.
Ah, but with modern disk drives it's basically impossible to be sure that you are writing to the same physical location. The magnetic domains are so small with GMR that temperature fluctuations of just a few degrees can throw off the alignment enough to ensure that complete erasure is not possible.
There is no such thing as a secure deletion. To be sure that data is irretrievable you need to physically destroy the disk, which includes at least chopping up the platters and preferably melting them down. Here's a quote from the definitive paper on data recovery by Peter Gutmann:
For this reason it is effectively impossible to sanitise storage locations by simple overwriting them, no matter how many overwrite passes are made or what data patterns are written.
Actually that number includes all of their partners in that area.
In 2003, IBM received 3,415 U.S. patents from the USPTO. This is the eleventh consecutive year that IBM has received more U.S. patents than any other company in the world.
linky.
So not quite 6K, but more than I thought (almost 10 a day!) Their 10 year average is closer to 7 a day, and if you go back 26 years I'm sure it's even lower. Of course the rediculous number makes my point even more clear that fighting IBM in a patent battle is sheer stupidity.
Dude, no one competes with IBM on patents, they have averaged more than a patent a day for as long as any currently enforceable patent has been in existance. That is one game even Gates won't try. It would be like trying to win a land war in China, you might suceed for a while but eventually the sheer mass of your opponent will wear you down.
I was doing expirements of buckminsterfullerenes back in 1996-97, it shouldn't be suprising that a superior material made it to market in 8-10 years after the start of expiremental evaluation. I doubt it took that long to develop nylon, rayon, or any of the other wonder fibers into products for sale.
We started with RIM's provider then moved to Cingular, both sucked. And this was for data network, we didn't have the luxury of phone service. Also it may be true that newer units can handle map sites but with the horrible speeds I was getting downloading text only sites before they wiped out the browser to make room for our corporate code I can't imagine what trying to grab a map would be like!
The blackberry is basically a limited PDA environment with build in cellular data service (and voice too on a couple of the really expensive models). How they ever got to be so popular I have no clue. We used them at IBM for dispatching calls to us field techs but the coverage was really poor and any PDA with a cellular addon would have been tons more usefull (like say for accessing map sites since we were driving to new locations every day). My only guess is that RIM/Cingular is able to make private networks for large customers that make them feel more secure then a general IP solution would.
On the flipside I can enjoy new works of art almost daily if I choose by going to sites like dpchallenge. Compare this to going to an art museum every couple years to see a new photo expo that may or may not be all that great (and I live near one of the worlds best art museum's Cleveland Art Museum). Digital photography not only makes the art side cheaper it also makes it cheaper and easier for me to enjoy the art that is being created.
Reminds me of watching a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit special. The photographer that got the cover used a bag of disposable 35mm point and click camera's. It was all about proportion, shading, framing, and other aspects of composition combined with getting lucky with the photons that happened to be hitting the film at the moment he pressed the button.
Hmm, half the PhD's at a former client were hired through monster, the other half were referals of other employees. Don't underestimate the breadth of jobs covered by monster, I've seen CEO, CIO, and COO positions posted!
Google is proof that using a smarter aproach is often the best way to solve a problem. If Google tried to use the naive clustering model their expenses would have massivly higher and their scalability and fault tolerance would have been much lower. It seems that Google realizes that the best way to hire and retain the people that will continue to come up with the smarter aproaches is to offer them things that not many other employers are, time to do what intellectually stimulates them for instance.
Windows Server 2003 supports versioning, although their solution isn't nearly as flexible as say NetApp's.
Forget incrementals, if the data is worth backing up its worth backing up correctly. You main expenses will be in the drive/changer and manpower. Tapes are kind of expensive but not as expensive as losing your data, 90% of businesses that suffer a catastrophic loss of data go out of business within 5 years. As for server solutions a pair of 2U Dell's with RAID5 and redundant PSU's can be had for under $10K, unless this is an unprofitable company that is cheap. I have quite a few companies with 35-50 employees with a lot more servers than just 2.
China was never really communist, and they aren't even playing at it anymore. Witness the recent vote by the parliment to reinstate private property rights and which gives some basic human rights back to the people. China is already such a huge economic engine that it has raised world steel prices by between 50 and 100% since the beginning of this year. Other metals such as Zinc have seen nearly 200% rises! The scary part for the developed countries is that concievably China could grow at this rate for 100 years and still not have their entire population up to our current standard of living!
Add Silent Storm to that list, it's not terribly fast on a AMD 2700+ and GeForce FX 5700 with eye candy turned up even at only 1280*1024. The game is awsome but it sure is amazingly demanding (things like seeing the sparks from a ricochet bullet hitting a metal pole).
I can almost guarentee you that WebSphere MQ was NOT the problem. MQ might be a little complex to learn but the code is rock solid stable and tested. The majority of the worlds financial transactions probably pass through MQ, and I've never heard of a serious problem being attributed to it. To give you an idea of how stable it is a search for websphere MQ crash only returns 888 documents from google, using quotes brings it down to zero!
You obviously missed the quotes around "healthy"! Just because it's served over a bed of lettuce does not make anything at McD's healthy. Btw I know about being active and eating a lot of calories, I used to be on swim team. We would swim 5+ miles a day and consume around 5,000 calories a day. Though I rarely at crap like McDonalds, it was more like massive servings of spagheti with heavy meat sauce.
Especially since the active people more attracted to the "healthy" meals are more likely to have a portable mp3 player for exercising.
Generally the new electronics smell is caused by either volatile compounds left from the plastic manufacturing process or the burning of solder flux on the heated solder joints.
What are you talking about, at least on Windows there most certainly ARE documented methods for doing voice through modems. For Windows 9x that's Unimodem/V for 2k+ it's Unimodem/5 and both are Telephony Service Providers for TAPI (Telephony API). I know this because unfortunatly the voice addon for WhatsUpGold only supports Unimodem/V not Unimodem/5 so I would have to run it on an unstable OS to get that functionality and an unstable OS is a poor choice for a network monitoring station.