There's a big double edged sword when it comes to moving to cloud based stuff (We have a fair amount of SAAS). It's when some back ho operator gets a bit to dig happy and attenuates your line. Getting two different ISPs that can both handle the load and have two different ingress/egress routes can be awfully expensive. We lost services for 18 hours when a construction crew got a large capacity fibre line that took out both our main route and apparently, our backup line was moved by our ISP and went over the black fibre of the same group.
Also.. good luck trying to get tickets responded to in a timely manner. When you have a large problem, for instance permission issues across all 280 Office 365 accounts, and your ticket has already been open for over a week, it sucks.
Cloud has it's advantages, and it's got some giant sticking points. I wouldn't be so rushed to the cloud unless you are trying to reduce CapX or have such rapid expansion that you need to provide services faster then your internal staff can keep up.
This sucks. Our workflow was developed outside of the Adobe infrastructure (xinet) and have been upgrading fairly religiously (except 6 due to integration problems/growth) and we have little to need for some of the collaboration tools included with the suite. We have seen our costs increase a minimum of 230% (Depends if we go Team or Individual CC licenses). I'm not happy about that at all, but what really bugs me is the fact that this handcuffs my budget.
I can no longer, delay, skip or schedule my investments to when it makes sense for the company. My CapX budget gets reduced as all my money gets tied up into OpX. If my company has a soft year budget wise, I can't make budgetary decisions that will put us into the best situation possible. We simply have to pay this massive OpX increase or stop making widgets.
We could run on a creative suite platform for a number of years before we simply have to upgrade. While we try not to do that we all know the reality of the budget some times makes us do it.
I hate speadsheets. We have an epidemic here. The problem is, it seems that universities are teaching everything in Excel, so when people get into the real world, they use what they know. Excel. What we need to do is teach them how to, forgive me, "leverage" their ERP systems instead of exporting all the data out of the ERP System, then into Excel, to get their data. My wifes finishing up her MBA, and I keep wondering when they are going to get to the section on how to get what you need out of ERP systems instead of excel.
No no you guys have it all wrong. The Flying Spaghetti Monster reached down his noodley appendage and created a Mountain, Trees and a Midget. This ape business are lies spread by the non-FSM Believers. They shall never know what heaven is like, with it's stripper factory and beer volcano!
Using different headphones is not sneaky, it's neccesity. The ear buds are flag, muddy sounding headphones that you should throw away right now! Might I suggest some fantastic Etymotic headphones.
Good for the community? Yes. Good for the company? No. They want to sell their engine to other game companies, just like how id does. Money makes the world go round.
I thought that ATI did the same with their Radeon 8500 drivers 2 years ago, making their Quake 3 scores look better by "cheating". Isn't that just status quo in the video card manufactoring world.
Why again aren't people blocking.scr,.pif,.com and.exe files? I don't know about you, but at work, we block all of these files at the internet mail gateway. If you want to send us an exe, zip it first.
Depending on his cable box, he can just use an alternate "video in" connection from his cable box, and watch un-tivoed programing. (What's the point then?)
I love my dual tuner DirecTiVos, if Cable came out with a dual tuner, I'd think about switching off of DirecTV service.
Good god, a loaf of bread can act better then Ben Afleck. Unless JLow teaches him some acting (Which is doubtfull, have you seen her act?), I wouldn't go see the movie.
The only movie he was good in, was Goodwill Hunting, and Dogma (Even though he wasn't that great), but acted enough to keep it alive.
Currently TiVO Does offer Dual Tuners, but only in the Direct TV models. The problem with building a dual tuner SA (Stand alone) TiVO is, processor speed (Encoding and Decoding each stream, a DTiVO only has to decode what you are watching, it just copies the DTV mpeg stream), and the more difficult, how are you going to control both inputs to two identical cable boxes? IR Blasters won't work, the only way they can really do it would be to intergrate into the cable box, but since Cable companies aren't universal in their formats, you are kinda screwed. Also, they do make a Hack for controling your cable box using a serial connection (if your cable box controls it).
I love my TiVO (I own 3 of them), and will never watch live TV Again (Except sports). TiVO has really and honestly changed my viewing habits, and the habits of 3 other people I convinced.
From an inside source (Won't mention names), it happened during the maintenance windows last night, a major router was misconfigured, and well, the meltdown happened because of that. They currently have most of their routes fixed (Atleast no PL) and are working to get it more "smoothed" out.
The Space to time calculations seemed fairly accurate for a SA (Stand Alone) Tivo. If he had a 60hour DTivo he would have probably in the 50 hour mark of recording time since you don't need to have all the overhead mpeg junk since your DTivo just records the compressed signal directly off the bird.
Tivo does allow you to "archive" programs to tape, you manually have to hit the VCR Record button unless you are sporting a Sony DTivo with a Sony VCR w/ SLink control, then it'll do it automagically. My suggestion for an upgrade was a "Tivo Net" (no not the hack) but the ability to connect several tivos together and have them all work on one massive season pass and allow you to watch it from any tivo in the network.
I _WAS_ a Speakeasy.net subscriber, until Covad starting screwing me. After about 2 Months of perfect, fast and latent free (for the most part) service, Covad started to screw me. Every 2 weeks, almost on the dot, my DSL would go "wonky". I'd get a 296ms first hop, (usually 5ms). I'd have to call them and they'd deprovision, and reprovision my DSL. It worked. It was a hastle, but it worked... for two months. Then Covad filled Chpt 11 and I was screwed. Same thing happens, and Covad _REFUSES_ to do anything for me. Something about you need 400+ms or 30% PL Before they'll have someone look into it. I promptly canceled my DSL, and went with Road Runner WI. I've had no problems (besides some Ahole garbage truck driver pull my cable line off the pole). I really did like my DSL Tho, it was more stable. But the bandwidth with RR is amazing.
I guess Covad just killed all their customer service people to cut overhead and increase profites. To bad I'll NEVER suggest anyone to use Covad. Their loss.
Because a TiVo SA will cost you 299.99+ and a subscription cost of 250 lifetime or 10/month. (I myself own 3 TiVos, but DTiVos) You already have the box (I assume it's part of a package) and don't need to go ahead purchase new hardware/subscriptions.
TiVo did sign a big contract with Time Warner AOL awhile back, wonder if it'll be running TiVo software.
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I recently moved, and had to get my cable modem activated at the new place. What they do now, is put on a filter to block "tv" access. It's this cigar looking filter that sits on the poll. So it looks like it's slowly getting phased out.
One bad thing about this filter is that it really degrades your signal strength, and can cause your cable modem to desync sometimes. Hell, they even unfilter it if you are having alot of problems.
Sleeping sickness is an infectious parasitic disease carried by tsetse flies from the Trypanosoma brucei family of parasites and characterized by inflammation of the brain and the covering of the brain (meninges).
Alternative names African trypanosomiasis
Causes, incidences, and risk factors Sleeping sickness is caused by two organisms, Trypanosoma bruceri rhodesiense and Trypanosoma bruceri gambiense. Rhodesiense produces the most severe form of the illness.
After a person is bitten by an infected fly, a red painful swelling develops at the site of the fly bite, similar to that seen in Chagas disease. From this site of inoculation, the parasite invades the blood stream causing episodes of fever, headache, sweating, and generalized enlargement of the lymph nodes. Parasites then invade the central nervous system (early with rhodesiense and later with gambiense) where they produce the symptoms typical of sleeping sickness.
Ultimately the parasites invade the brain, causing first behavioral changes such as fear and mood swings followed by headache, fever, and weakness. Simultaneously, the patient may develop myocarditis.
Death may occur within 6 months from cardiac failure or infection if the person is infected with rhodesiense. Gambiense infection may require up to 2 years before symptoms of infection in the central nervous system appear.
Gambiense-infected people develop drowsiness during the day, but insomnia at night. Sleep becomes uncontrollable as the disease progresses until the patient becomes comatose.
Risk factors include living in those parts of Africa where the disease is found and being bit by tsetse flies. The incidence is extremely low in the U.S., and is only found in travelers from those areas.
Prevention Pentamidine injections protect against gambiense, but have not yet been demonstrated as effective against rhodesiense. Insect control could help prevent the spread of sleeping sickness.
Symptoms Swollen red painful nodule at site of inoculation Generalized lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes all over the body) Headache Fever Sweating Anxiety Increased sleepiness Insomnia at night Mood changes Drowsiness Uncontrollable urge to sleep
Signs and tests Physical examination may show signs of meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and meninges).
Tests Peripheral blood smear (demonstrates motile trypanosomes in blood) Lymph node aspiration (demonstrates motile trypanosomes in node material) CSF (demonstrates motile trypanosomes in CSF) Low red blood cell count in blood Elevated globulin levels Low albumin leverls Elevated ESR Antibody and antigen test are not very helpful
There is current betaing of 2.5 and some people have gotten 2.5n (Non-beta). Expect it VERY soon. And it totally rocks. (Please don't remove me from the beta tivo! What nda?:0 )
Known about this since Sunday. When I went thro my error_log file on my apache box and found this.
Tue Aug 7 05:37:56 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:38:45 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:38:54 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:40:21 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:42:01 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:42:15 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:42:20 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:48:55 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:49:13 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
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There's a big double edged sword when it comes to moving to cloud based stuff (We have a fair amount of SAAS). It's when some back ho operator gets a bit to dig happy and attenuates your line. Getting two different ISPs that can both handle the load and have two different ingress/egress routes can be awfully expensive. We lost services for 18 hours when a construction crew got a large capacity fibre line that took out both our main route and apparently, our backup line was moved by our ISP and went over the black fibre of the same group.
Also.. good luck trying to get tickets responded to in a timely manner. When you have a large problem, for instance permission issues across all 280 Office 365 accounts, and your ticket has already been open for over a week, it sucks.
Cloud has it's advantages, and it's got some giant sticking points. I wouldn't be so rushed to the cloud unless you are trying to reduce CapX or have such rapid expansion that you need to provide services faster then your internal staff can keep up.
This sucks. Our workflow was developed outside of the Adobe infrastructure (xinet) and have been upgrading fairly religiously (except 6 due to integration problems/growth) and we have little to need for some of the collaboration tools included with the suite. We have seen our costs increase a minimum of 230% (Depends if we go Team or Individual CC licenses). I'm not happy about that at all, but what really bugs me is the fact that this handcuffs my budget.
I can no longer, delay, skip or schedule my investments to when it makes sense for the company. My CapX budget gets reduced as all my money gets tied up into OpX. If my company has a soft year budget wise, I can't make budgetary decisions that will put us into the best situation possible. We simply have to pay this massive OpX increase or stop making widgets.
We could run on a creative suite platform for a number of years before we simply have to upgrade. While we try not to do that we all know the reality of the budget some times makes us do it.
I hate speadsheets. We have an epidemic here. The problem is, it seems that universities are teaching everything in Excel, so when people get into the real world, they use what they know. Excel. What we need to do is teach them how to, forgive me, "leverage" their ERP systems instead of exporting all the data out of the ERP System, then into Excel, to get their data. My wifes finishing up her MBA, and I keep wondering when they are going to get to the section on how to get what you need out of ERP systems instead of excel.
Because in that case it's true! Or rather Miller Light tastes like something, bud light tastes like nothing!
No no you guys have it all wrong. The Flying Spaghetti Monster reached down his noodley appendage and created a Mountain, Trees and a Midget. This ape business are lies spread by the non-FSM Believers. They shall never know what heaven is like, with it's stripper factory and beer volcano!
Infoprint 4100s run AIX on a RS6000. Xerox uses Solaris boxes, and Oce boxes run on Windows NT embedded.
You'd be amazed at how slow the 4100s boot, it's horrible.
Using different headphones is not sneaky, it's neccesity. The ear buds are flag, muddy sounding headphones that you should throw away right now! Might I suggest some fantastic Etymotic headphones.
Be a man and don't hide behind Anonymous Coward. You sir are ignorant and a smuck.
But what about US Citizens over seas? They still have a right to vote, but can't look at Bush's "views".
Good for the community? Yes. Good for the company? No. They want to sell their engine to other game companies, just like how id does. Money makes the world go round.
Anyone have a bittorent link?
I thought that ATI did the same with their Radeon 8500 drivers 2 years ago, making their Quake 3 scores look better by "cheating". Isn't that just status quo in the video card manufactoring world.
Why again aren't people blocking .scr, .pif, .com and .exe files? I don't know about you, but at work, we block all of these files at the internet mail gateway. If you want to send us an exe, zip it first.
Depending on his cable box, he can just use an alternate "video in" connection from his cable box, and watch un-tivoed programing. (What's the point then?)
I love my dual tuner DirecTiVos, if Cable came out with a dual tuner, I'd think about switching off of DirecTV service.
Good god, a loaf of bread can act better then Ben Afleck. Unless JLow teaches him some acting (Which is doubtfull, have you seen her act?), I wouldn't go see the movie.
The only movie he was good in, was Goodwill Hunting, and Dogma (Even though he wasn't that great), but acted enough to keep it alive.
Currently TiVO Does offer Dual Tuners, but only in the Direct TV models. The problem with building a dual tuner SA (Stand alone) TiVO is, processor speed (Encoding and Decoding each stream, a DTiVO only has to decode what you are watching, it just copies the DTV mpeg stream), and the more difficult, how are you going to control both inputs to two identical cable boxes? IR Blasters won't work, the only way they can really do it would be to intergrate into the cable box, but since Cable companies aren't universal in their formats, you are kinda screwed. Also, they do make a Hack for controling your cable box using a serial connection (if your cable box controls it).
I love my TiVO (I own 3 of them), and will never watch live TV Again (Except sports). TiVO has really and honestly changed my viewing habits, and the habits of 3 other people I convinced.
From an inside source (Won't mention names), it happened during the maintenance windows last night, a major router was misconfigured, and well, the meltdown happened because of that. They currently have most of their routes fixed (Atleast no PL) and are working to get it more "smoothed" out.
The Space to time calculations seemed fairly accurate for a SA (Stand Alone) Tivo. If he had a 60hour DTivo he would have probably in the 50 hour mark of recording time since you don't need to have all the overhead mpeg junk since your DTivo just records the compressed signal directly off the bird.
Tivo does allow you to "archive" programs to tape, you manually have to hit the VCR Record button unless you are sporting a Sony DTivo with a Sony VCR w/ SLink control, then it'll do it automagically. My suggestion for an upgrade was a "Tivo Net" (no not the hack) but the ability to connect several tivos together and have them all work on one massive season pass and allow you to watch it from any tivo in the network.
I _WAS_ a Speakeasy.net subscriber, until Covad starting screwing me. After about 2 Months of perfect, fast and latent free (for the most part) service, Covad started to screw me. Every 2 weeks, almost on the dot, my DSL would go "wonky". I'd get a 296ms first hop, (usually 5ms). I'd have to call them and they'd deprovision, and reprovision my DSL. It worked. It was a hastle, but it worked... for two months. Then Covad filled Chpt 11 and I was screwed. Same thing happens, and Covad _REFUSES_ to do anything for me. Something about you need 400+ms or 30% PL Before they'll have someone look into it. I promptly canceled my DSL, and went with Road Runner WI. I've had no problems (besides some Ahole garbage truck driver pull my cable line off the pole). I really did like my DSL Tho, it was more stable. But the bandwidth with RR is amazing.
I guess Covad just killed all their customer service people to cut overhead and increase profites. To bad I'll NEVER suggest anyone to use Covad. Their loss.
Because a TiVo SA will cost you 299.99+ and a subscription cost of 250 lifetime or 10/month. (I myself own 3 TiVos, but DTiVos) You already have the box (I assume it's part of a package) and don't need to go ahead purchase new hardware/subscriptions.
TiVo did sign a big contract with Time Warner AOL awhile back, wonder if it'll be running TiVo software.
I recently moved, and had to get my cable modem activated at the new place. What they do now, is put on a filter to block "tv" access. It's this cigar looking filter that sits on the poll. So it looks like it's slowly getting phased out.
One bad thing about this filter is that it really degrades your signal strength, and can cause your cable modem to desync sometimes. Hell, they even unfilter it if you are having alot of problems.
Sleeping sickness is an infectious parasitic disease carried by tsetse flies from the Trypanosoma brucei family of parasites and characterized by inflammation of the brain and the covering of the brain (meninges).
Alternative names
African trypanosomiasis
Causes, incidences, and risk factors
Sleeping sickness is caused by two organisms, Trypanosoma bruceri rhodesiense and Trypanosoma bruceri gambiense. Rhodesiense produces the most severe form of the illness.
After a person is bitten by an infected fly, a red painful swelling develops at the site of the fly bite, similar to that seen in Chagas disease. From this site of inoculation, the parasite invades the blood stream causing episodes of fever, headache, sweating, and generalized enlargement of the lymph nodes. Parasites then invade the central nervous system (early with rhodesiense and later with gambiense) where they produce the symptoms typical of sleeping sickness.
Ultimately the parasites invade the brain, causing first behavioral changes such as fear and mood swings followed by headache, fever, and weakness. Simultaneously, the patient may develop myocarditis.
Death may occur within 6 months from cardiac failure or infection if the person is infected with rhodesiense. Gambiense infection may require up to 2 years before symptoms of infection in the central nervous system appear.
Gambiense-infected people develop drowsiness during the day, but insomnia at night. Sleep becomes uncontrollable as the disease progresses until the patient becomes comatose.
Risk factors include living in those parts of Africa where the disease is found and being bit by tsetse flies. The incidence is extremely low in the U.S., and is only found in travelers from those areas.
Prevention
Pentamidine injections protect against gambiense, but have not yet been demonstrated as effective against rhodesiense. Insect control could help prevent the spread of sleeping sickness.
Symptoms
Swollen red painful nodule at site of inoculation
Generalized lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes all over the body)
Headache
Fever
Sweating
Anxiety
Increased sleepiness
Insomnia at night
Mood changes
Drowsiness
Uncontrollable urge to sleep
Signs and tests
Physical examination may show signs of meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and meninges).
Tests
Peripheral blood smear (demonstrates motile trypanosomes in blood)
Lymph node aspiration (demonstrates motile trypanosomes in node material)
CSF (demonstrates motile trypanosomes in CSF)
Low red blood cell count in blood
Elevated globulin levels
Low albumin leverls
Elevated ESR
Antibody and antigen test are not very helpful
There is current betaing of 2.5 and some people have gotten 2.5n (Non-beta). Expect it VERY soon. And it totally rocks. (Please don't remove me from the beta tivo! What nda? :0 )
Known about this since Sunday. When I went thro my error_log file on my apache box and found this.
Tue Aug 7 05:37:56 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:38:45 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:38:54 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:40:21 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:42:01 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:42:15 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:42:20 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:48:55 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
[Tue Aug 7 05:49:13 2001] [error] [client 64.4.13.230] File does not exist:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/default.ida
64.4.13.230 is msgr-cs20.msgr.hotmail.com
You'd figure they'd patch themselves.