That's true it that loosing data does burn a whole lot more then a replacement drive but you should be doing regular tests on critical backups if for example they're worth 100k.
The drive replacement just smooths out the whole process. When I RMA a drive with Maxtor, WD, Hitachi or Seagate I'm doing it because we'd still be down a spare drive. 5 years is amazing, we just purchased 6 SATA 10k rpm Raptor drives from Seagate and they came with the 5 year warranty.
Well, for what it matters I've always found ID to make the best performing games for their minimum requirements. I had a 233mhz for running Quake 3 and that was even low for back when it was released, but it still ran and well I must say (30fps or so, with low res options).
Just think what Half-Life (3?), or any other major FPS's requirements will be at the time.
The current building I work was built back in the 50's, it's one of the oldest buisness buildings in the whole city. When we moved in to the office we were told we were not allowed to put up pact poles for power/network cabling.
Upon furthur discovery we found there were large amounts of asbestos in the walls/ceiling. The building management company tried to say it was contained (which it was not) and then told us not to go to the WCB by threatening us with issues with our lease. We did go to the WCB and the building was closed (all 7 floors, yet we were on just 1 floor) to have the asbestos sealed/contained.
As this was all discovered we were still in the process of moving (only myself and 1 other guy were in the new place to setup the enviroment), so it didn't cause many problems it just delayed our move by a couple of days. I also filed with the WCB for record I've been exposed, I was told the odds of having any harm done from only a month of exposure is rare if none, but it's still recorded just in case for later in life.
We're still in the building to this day with the sealed asbestos and nothing happened with the management company and their idle threat.
I work on my personal site ryanclark.org which I learn from to help with my work. My company likes the idea and I have no problems with using my site for beta testing my new ideas.
I also run a buddies site of mine on the same box trevorbryan.com, which is the cleaner production of my work for him to use.
I mainly learned a large amount of PHP from this as well as helped with many monitoring suites like OSSIM (Open Source Security Information Management) which is an awesome IDS suite which uses most of the major open source IDS tools. I also, play around with MySQL, Apache projects like Maven.
About a month ago a manager at my work installed some sypware on their machine. The problem was that Seek and Destroy and Adware didn't even see it. Also, the manager was off site and was not heading back in to the office for a few weeks.
The sypware was a BHO which was installed for all browser windows, not just in IE. When it tried to load the spyware it would hang the system and explorer.exe would crash due to the fact the site it was pulling the data from was no longer available.
I found a rather long fix to the problem, we tried many of the steps but it's hard to tell over the phone what the user is actually doing. So, when he came back to the office we just re-formatted the machine.
You can't just force your customers to change broswers. As far as they know you're just recommending what you like or think is safer for the average user.
I hear about the Tech Support at my office and they commonly have to deal with sypware issues and customers fully expect that to be apart of their support for our products. They mainly point them to Adware, Sypware Seek & Destroy, and Stinger (NAI free lightweight scanner).
About 2 months ago my boss came to the MIS team and asked us to seriously consider rolling out our new workstations in the office with Firefox and removing IE. Which was amazing, due to the fact we've been using it for 6 months in our team.
To help staff in the office get used to it were helping them download and install it. The auto migration is priceless for us in the time that is saves.
Also, we've been tighning our GPO's with IE to be even more strict with what can be viewed IE: activeX and java.
It may take some time but we've even won over some sales people. Now we just need some of the toolbars that exist migrated to Firefox (other then the google toolbar).
In Canada we have Furtue Shop which is owned by Best Buy.
A month ago I went to Future Shop to help my girlfriend to pick up a digital camera (she had me come to help deal with the used car sales assiocates). We found a couple of camera's and were looking for some help (due to the labels not matching the actual cameras). I flagged down one of the sales staff who said he would help me in a minute and went over to chat with another associate. We he finally came over to help us he would only push the items that were on sale. (I have a friend who works for them, and how it works is when spepcific items are on sale for example, some of them give a larger commision then others, so they'll promote the crap out of them even if it's not the right solution for your needs)
So, we found a camera and picked up a memorey stick for it as well. The sales associate tried to force us to purchase the more expensive memorey stick because it was the name brand for the camera. I said we'd take the SanDisk one cause it was $15 cheaper. He them claimed it would not work as well with it. I told him that they're made based on a standard and it doesn't matter what brand.
We also picked up a case for the camera (was about $15). He then began to push the PSP plan for the warranty. I took a look at the package and saw 2 years parts and 90 days for defects. He claimed they could not honour this. I disreguarded him and at this point had said no 2 times about a PSP plan. He then began to say he could give us the case for free if we purchase the $75 plan for 3 year warranty. Again, I said no.
When my girlfriend gave her Future Shop card to purchase the camera and additions, the associate had the gaul to question her about the card being hers (it was signed and her name was on it). Well, funny thing is that she was headed off to Portugul for a month the very next day and had every peice of know ID she ever had (Passport, Drivers Licence, Birth Cirtificate, SS card), so she showed her passport that was brand new. He then took the card and called their credit divison for no particular reason. As he was on the phone I demaned to know what this was all about, he didn't answer. So I unplugged his phone. (I was amazed that no one noticed or came over at this point) He then said it was not clear if the card was hers, yet it had her name on it signed matching the passport, which also had phone ID.
My girlfriend was about to jump over the counter and kick the associates ass. He then quickly seemed to be able to put through the order and was so shaken from us he almost forgot to have her sign for it.
The only reason we took the camera was she was leaving the very next day and didn't have any time to spare. We will both never shop their again. I was able to rate our experience on their site based on the recipt information. I rated is soo poorly I was called and my girlfriend was given a $50 gift card. It seems that customer reviews are at least read by Future Shop.
I've taken part in the survey 3 times now. I've been emailed directly from a real person at SAGE about unusual answers that I've submitted. If you don't reply they ignore that data from your survey.
So, if the trolls try and skew the answer pool they'd have to answer email as well (if they even put a real address in).
I wonder with it having 802.11 if it will have web support...:) As well as support for any applications like Palms, PocketPC's, Blackberry's, etc.. that would make it more then a gaming unit but I may be getting ahead of myself here.
Also, this opens up a huge chance of having GB games to be multiplayable over the internet! I'm really impressed by the sounds of this being the next gen for the GB.
If you've survived the chopping block 1 or more times there's probaly a good reason for why you are still around.
I've been around for 2 major cutbacks in the last 2 years, which have totaled over 20% of the company being let go. In my team that was as many as 4 has been cut down to 2 of us. We're keeping on top of things just fine. People understand if we're a little slower, but just as long as we keep on top of the task at hand everyone stays happy and polite with you.
The $3.27 was just for the Mayoral San Francisco vote.
The estimated price for the US so far for the electronic machines is around 3.9 billion. That's over a couple of years, or $10 per citizen. That's just over 5x more then the Canada cost.
Elections Canada only spent 57 million (US Dollars) for voting in the entire country!
For a toolkit you'd bring around the home/office I use/have a $15 toolbox that has a main bucket with a top compartment section with various smaller notches.
What I put in it is:
IDE/Floppy Cables
Power Drill (About $25 bucks) with flatheat/phillips/robertson bits
Ethernet cables (crossover included)
Various nuts/bolts for cases/drives/periferals
CD-Rom they're great, I've had my troubles with em so it's worth having an extra
Floppy disks/CD's: Linux BBC/Memtest, Maxtor PowerMax (for drive testing), Windows password recovery, ghost multicard boot disk
That should cost all about $50-$70 bucks and is a great addon for any helpdesk/sysadmin/home machine worker.
We use APC Ups's in the server rooms I maintain. They have SmartSlot slot built into all rackmount systems that can have a network managment card put into it.
They pull SNMP data from the UPS as well as tempature information from the room.
Check it out: http://apcc.com/products/configure/index.cfm?base_ sku=SU3000RM3U&totalwatts=50#
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That's true it that loosing data does burn a whole lot more then a replacement drive but you should be doing regular tests on critical backups if for example they're worth 100k.
The drive replacement just smooths out the whole process. When I RMA a drive with Maxtor, WD, Hitachi or Seagate I'm doing it because we'd still be down a spare drive. 5 years is amazing, we just purchased 6 SATA 10k rpm Raptor drives from Seagate and they came with the 5 year warranty.
Well, for what it matters I've always found ID to make the best performing games for their minimum requirements. I had a 233mhz for running Quake 3 and that was even low for back when it was released, but it still ran and well I must say (30fps or so, with low res options).
Just think what Half-Life (3?), or any other major FPS's requirements will be at the time.
The current building I work was built back in the 50's, it's one of the oldest buisness buildings in the whole city. When we moved in to the office we were told we were not allowed to put up pact poles for power/network cabling.
Upon furthur discovery we found there were large amounts of asbestos in the walls/ceiling. The building management company tried to say it was contained (which it was not) and then told us not to go to the WCB by threatening us with issues with our lease. We did go to the WCB and the building was closed (all 7 floors, yet we were on just 1 floor) to have the asbestos sealed/contained.
As this was all discovered we were still in the process of moving (only myself and 1 other guy were in the new place to setup the enviroment), so it didn't cause many problems it just delayed our move by a couple of days. I also filed with the WCB for record I've been exposed, I was told the odds of having any harm done from only a month of exposure is rare if none, but it's still recorded just in case for later in life.
We're still in the building to this day with the sealed asbestos and nothing happened with the management company and their idle threat.
XMLMind works with WebDAV and is great for DocBook. We use it for all of our documentation.
Other useful validators:
W3C CSS Validator
XHTML Validator
And.. HTML Tidy to clean up code.
I work on my personal site ryanclark.org which I learn from to help with my work. My company likes the idea and I have no problems with using my site for beta testing my new ideas.
I also run a buddies site of mine on the same box trevorbryan.com, which is the cleaner production of my work for him to use.
I mainly learned a large amount of PHP from this as well as helped with many monitoring suites like OSSIM (Open Source Security Information Management) which is an awesome IDS suite which uses most of the major open source IDS tools. I also, play around with MySQL, Apache projects like Maven.
About a month ago a manager at my work installed some sypware on their machine. The problem was that Seek and Destroy and Adware didn't even see it. Also, the manager was off site and was not heading back in to the office for a few weeks.
The sypware was a BHO which was installed for all browser windows, not just in IE. When it tried to load the spyware it would hang the system and explorer.exe would crash due to the fact the site it was pulling the data from was no longer available.
I found a rather long fix to the problem, we tried many of the steps but it's hard to tell over the phone what the user is actually doing. So, when he came back to the office we just re-formatted the machine.
You can't just force your customers to change broswers. As far as they know you're just recommending what you like or think is safer for the average user.
I hear about the Tech Support at my office and they commonly have to deal with sypware issues and customers fully expect that to be apart of their support for our products. They mainly point them to Adware, Sypware Seek & Destroy, and Stinger (NAI free lightweight scanner).
Anyone have a cached link for this?
Their site is getting hammered.
About 2 months ago my boss came to the MIS team and asked us to seriously consider rolling out our new workstations in the office with Firefox and removing IE. Which was amazing, due to the fact we've been using it for 6 months in our team.
To help staff in the office get used to it were helping them download and install it. The auto migration is priceless for us in the time that is saves.
Also, we've been tighning our GPO's with IE to be even more strict with what can be viewed IE: activeX and java.
It may take some time but we've even won over some sales people. Now we just need some of the toolbars that exist migrated to Firefox (other then the google toolbar).
In Canada we have Furtue Shop which is owned by Best Buy.
A month ago I went to Future Shop to help my girlfriend to pick up a digital camera (she had me come to help deal with the used car sales assiocates). We found a couple of camera's and were looking for some help (due to the labels not matching the actual cameras). I flagged down one of the sales staff who said he would help me in a minute and went over to chat with another associate. We he finally came over to help us he would only push the items that were on sale. (I have a friend who works for them, and how it works is when spepcific items are on sale for example, some of them give a larger commision then others, so they'll promote the crap out of them even if it's not the right solution for your needs)
So, we found a camera and picked up a memorey stick for it as well. The sales associate tried to force us to purchase the more expensive memorey stick because it was the name brand for the camera. I said we'd take the SanDisk one cause it was $15 cheaper. He them claimed it would not work as well with it. I told him that they're made based on a standard and it doesn't matter what brand. We also picked up a case for the camera (was about $15). He then began to push the PSP plan for the warranty. I took a look at the package and saw 2 years parts and 90 days for defects. He claimed they could not honour this. I disreguarded him and at this point had said no 2 times about a PSP plan. He then began to say he could give us the case for free if we purchase the $75 plan for 3 year warranty. Again, I said no.
When my girlfriend gave her Future Shop card to purchase the camera and additions, the associate had the gaul to question her about the card being hers (it was signed and her name was on it). Well, funny thing is that she was headed off to Portugul for a month the very next day and had every peice of know ID she ever had (Passport, Drivers Licence, Birth Cirtificate, SS card), so she showed her passport that was brand new. He then took the card and called their credit divison for no particular reason. As he was on the phone I demaned to know what this was all about, he didn't answer. So I unplugged his phone. (I was amazed that no one noticed or came over at this point) He then said it was not clear if the card was hers, yet it had her name on it signed matching the passport, which also had phone ID.
My girlfriend was about to jump over the counter and kick the associates ass. He then quickly seemed to be able to put through the order and was so shaken from us he almost forgot to have her sign for it.
The only reason we took the camera was she was leaving the very next day and didn't have any time to spare. We will both never shop their again. I was able to rate our experience on their site based on the recipt information. I rated is soo poorly I was called and my girlfriend was given a $50 gift card. It seems that customer reviews are at least read by Future Shop.
PEBKAC
:)
Problems Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
I've taken part in the survey 3 times now. I've been emailed directly from a real person at SAGE about unusual answers that I've submitted. If you don't reply they ignore that data from your survey.
So, if the trolls try and skew the answer pool they'd have to answer email as well (if they even put a real address in).
..Maple Walnut Dip
8. GKrellM,
Um, is it me or is GKrellm only for *nix systems?
The task manager is very simlar for system stats for a Windows 2k/XP machine.
I must say from years of FPS, side scrollers, etc... I've become very quick and acurate with my hand to eye (and even foot) skills.
I have played sports for my hole life (hockey, golf, baseball) and I can't deny the relation between the two but I'd have to say it didn't hurt me.
I wonder with it having 802.11 if it will have web support... :) As well as support for any applications like Palms, PocketPC's, Blackberry's, etc.. that would make it more then a gaming unit but I may be getting ahead of myself here.
Also, this opens up a huge chance of having GB games to be multiplayable over the internet! I'm really impressed by the sounds of this being the next gen for the GB.
If you've survived the chopping block 1 or more times there's probaly a good reason for why you are still around.
I've been around for 2 major cutbacks in the last 2 years, which have totaled over 20% of the company being let go. In my team that was as many as 4 has been cut down to 2 of us. We're keeping on top of things just fine. People understand if we're a little slower, but just as long as we keep on top of the task at hand everyone stays happy and polite with you.
Any idea of what Apple's current earnings are right now?
I wonder if these new iPod mini's will have replaceable batteries.
:)
Maybe that's why they're priced so closely
Actually,
The $3.27 was just for the Mayoral San Francisco vote.
The estimated price for the US so far for the electronic machines is around 3.9 billion. That's over a couple of years, or $10 per citizen. That's just over 5x more then the Canada cost.
Elections Canada only spent 57 million (US Dollars) for voting in the entire country!
Do the math yourself an see who's on top.
I've played Myrradel. for over 3 years now. It's a great mud with subclasses and a good pbase.
It's also has an active immortal staff that makes the mud fun and interactive to give ideas to.
What I put in it is:
IDE/Floppy Cables
Power Drill (About $25 bucks) with flatheat/phillips/robertson bits
Ethernet cables (crossover included)
Various nuts/bolts for cases/drives/periferals
CD-Rom they're great, I've had my troubles with em so it's worth having an extra
Floppy disks/CD's: Linux BBC/Memtest, Maxtor PowerMax (for drive testing), Windows password recovery, ghost multicard boot disk
That should cost all about $50-$70 bucks and is a great addon for any helpdesk/sysadmin/home machine worker.
We use APC Ups's in the server rooms I maintain. They have SmartSlot slot built into all rackmount systems that can have a network managment card put into it.
_ sku=SU3000RM3U&totalwatts=50#
They pull SNMP data from the UPS as well as tempature information from the room.
Check it out: http://apcc.com/products/configure/index.cfm?base