My definition: software thats talked about, even pre-sold - that never materializes as an actual product or feature (read:bug) for one reason or another. There have been cases where vaporware is a complete contrivance - a con job designed to empty consumers pockets, then hide the assets from the presales and run with it. Microsoft kinda fits that definition...except they don't do us the favor of hiding their assets and running. Oh god I wish they would.
"The researchers calculate that a 10 cm long microwire can carry out 10 million divisions or cells and in each one of these a byte can be stored. In order to store the byte, each one of these cells is magnetised in one orientation or the other."
10mil divisions - each holds a byte. How does that make 10Gb in 10cm?
I have to say I am in complete agreement here, there is a point I would like to add -
People have survived without Windows Firewall for this long - if you have programs that have issues with port ranges/dynamic ports and so forth - just turn the damn thing off! Granted, I still don't (and won't) hook a Windows box directly to the Internet, I always have (and always will) sit them behind a firewall that has a much greater degree of configuration flexibility than Windows software "firewall" offering. Before I generate flames: I would not recommend turning it off if for some insane reason you DO connect directly (or use alot of public wap's) - in this case there are several third party packet filters you might consider if Unreal doesn't work at Starbucks.
AFA Windows domain security goes -- the clients settings can easily be modfied with logon scripts every time they hop on the domain. I set up ours to always allow the ports we need to manage the individual machines. Piece of cake.
Leave it to this crowd to come up with nothing but workarounds. I'm sure this person is aware of the multitudes of ways to console a box.
I believe what he is asking - which I'm interested in as well - is a laptop where the key/mouse/mon can be independently connected to an external device - there are laptops out now that can play dvd movies without booting an OS - this would be a similar thing. This would be even more useful if you could use a keyb shortcut (kvm-stylee) to switch back and forth between your freshly rooted server and the laptops OS. I want one.
...when you can get *relevant* results in far less time from Google? At least that has been my experience. And to put themselves on a par with Google...I guess one should remember the ant and the rubber tree plant...
"...cause he's got hi-i-igh hopes, he's got hi-i-igh hopes, he's got - high in the sky-y-y, apple pi-i-e hopes..."
I often hear people bitching about Red Hat. Sometimes it gets old, bitching about Microsoft I suppose. Not enough bitching about Apple's elitism for damn sure...
I've used RedHat since 5.2, and now I run Fedora, I still have all the functionality and features of any other distro. I'm still not running Windoze. Still compile any kernel or source I need. Still not paying for my OS. And I'm willing to bet my systems are up and running from a blank hard drive a hell of lot quicker than those of the whiners.
RedHat has done more for linux that any company out there, go dig up some stats about which distros corporations are adopting (READ: REPLACING WINDOWS SERVERS) the most. With all due respect - you are *not* going to find Gentoo or Slackware on that list. Suse is still a distant second. Where will Linux hurt the pocketbook of M$ the most? Corporate America, that's where. I'm sorry, but as a linux protagonist, that is where my priorities lie - working on curing the disease that is Microsoft
Despite it's blunders - sociopolitical or otherwise - RedHat has done a LOT for linux and for that we owe them thanks if nothing else.
I believe you are referring to "Hodgkin's Choice" or the conscious decision whether to swell or itch.
A "Hobbesian" choice as we understand it in middle America is making the decision to publicly urinate on either a Ford or a Chevy. Maybe a Dodge.
I had no idea these situations existed - I'm sorry that you are in it. Veggie's point is good - I'd like to add to it...
Servers Infrastructure = Critical to BIZ.
Monitors - be they software or hardware are critical to the maintenance and uptime of the aforementioned Infrastructure - so does your abundantly insightful CIO believe that the endpoints for recieving monitor/alert data are NOT critical and therefore the responsibility of the BIZ? Can you say Pointy-Haired?
My cellphone is an indispensable piece of hardware for my company - at least that is how they perceive it and damned well they should. The internet connection could be debated - but its a question if they want me responding and working over broadband or dialup. I'd pay the extra 10$ for a netZero acct just to fsck with them.
Sounds like you may be getting outsourced to India pretty soon...Good Luck!!!
Raid 0 (stripe) - Fast, Cheap - the more drives the faster - no redundancy
Raid 1 (mirror) - Pretty Fast, Cheap - 2 drives - redundant - most hardware raid will rebuild failed drives on the fly, performance will be affected though
Raid 5 - Redundacy is more important than speed - min 3 drives - total data space is *about* the totalof all disks minus one drive (3x36G ~ 72G R5), rebuild failed drive on fly, performance not as impacted as R1 rebuild.
Raid 10 Fast, Expensive, Redundant - 4 drives min.
Striped Mirror Set. IMHO the way to go if you have the dinero.
Pretty sure this will get modded as redundant:)
I can explain that - I didn't look those numbers up - they were off the top of my head - guess when you've been in a place for as long as I've been here you just assume you know the numbers..(geez I wasn't off by *much*...)
I'm glad you brought up Pflugerville. It is an excellent place to live if you don't mind a 12 to 27 mile commute, depending on where in Austin you work. I'd hardly call it a "suburb". Round Rock and Sunset Valley are suburbs.
North Austin is cheaper than the rest. I will give you that one. Aesthetically desolate, but cheaper.
East Austin - yes it is cheaper. It is also a good place to get your car stolen. Or listen to the airliners flying into ABIA all night.
And those places that you mention that are ridiculously overpriced? Well that covers about all of central Austin (save the East Side) doesn't it? And you could add Tarrytown, Hyde Park and a good portion of the SoCo (the Heights) area to round out that list.
When the original poster wrote "Austin" I naturally assumed he meant "Austin"
One last point - I live in one of those "ridiculously overpriced areas" and I'm
- walking distance to the Springs, Zilker Park and the Greenbelt
- 10 minutes from my job downtown (10 minutes to most of the major music venues. Mopac? I35? HAH!)
So - in a nutshell - yes - the City of Austin generally has a very high cost of living and yes just like anything you get what you pay for.
My original point - Sorry Charlie, Austin ain't got no low cost of living - still stands:)
Austin Texas - easily the most cultured city in Texas (100,000+ students out of 550,000 approx pop, metro and surrounding areas approach 1 million), "Live Music Capital of the World" (self-proclaimed but not without reason), film industry second only to LA, lots and lots of big tech (AMD, Motrola, IBM, etc), beautiful countryside, hills, trees, springs - awesome... and probably the HIGHEST COST OF LIVING IN THE SOUTHWEST. Compared to Austin.... Dallas, San Antonio and Houston are dirt cheap.
And IMHO worth every penny. I leave Austin, I leave Texas.
I'm sorry. I felt the need to educate.
God please let this be a TREND.
I also would submit that the Samba group would be the next logical bitch slap in the gauntlet that SCO has so nicely laid before themselves. Losing that would really hurt.
Thanks for lessening my frustration with Salon's "Day Pass, Register or Die" site...
I swear I have worked for the company this guy is writing about. Amazing that this is so widespread and continuing for so many years..
1995 AUGUST - I'm employed by Unisys as outsourced tech support for Microsofts new Windows 95. Three months later the results from 6 partner companies are tallied. Who was number one in Cust satisfaction and resolution? Unisys' team was. Who had the average _longest_ call times - Unisys. Who did Microsoft cut as a partner in Dec of 95 (putting 350 techs back onto the street)? You guessed right. Unisys.
I guess my point is: This isn't really a new trend - but it is a very accurate view into this particular little bubble of corporate despair. The only thing overlooked is lately the trend has been not only to outsource, but to outsource to India. And from my experience, english isn't necessarily a job requirement for these folks. So add another whole 'nother level of frustration for the customer in this loathsome situation when you have to ask them to repeat everything they say one, two or even three times.
How to escape? Service is more important than software. Service is more important than hardware. Service is more important than damned near anything. For several years now, I base my vendor decisions on that precept and I find I'm reasonably satisified with things. You just have to be willing to do lots and lots of research.
In my snail mail. AOL 9.0 in a tin box. I wonder how much they spent on these tin boxes. I also wonder if it was worth the jobs of 450 people.
The idiocy of some corporations new cease to amaze me.
troll? perhaps. but ballmer is nothing but a lip flapping cocksucker figurehead for a company whos only "innovations" have been taken from other people, either bought borrowed or stolen. I recently sat through a Windows 2003 "Bootcamp" and every single "new" feature I was privvy to was something they ripped directly from the open source community. perfect example - "IIS 6.0 is 140% percent faster, with HTTPD.SYS running from the kernel layer rather than the application layer." Uh, hello - TUX?! whatever. those guys piss me off to no end.
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My definition: software thats talked about, even pre-sold - that never materializes as an actual product or feature (read:bug) for one reason or another. There have been cases where vaporware is a complete contrivance - a con job designed to empty consumers pockets, then hide the assets from the presales and run with it. Microsoft kinda fits that definition...except they don't do us the favor of hiding their assets and running. Oh god I wish they would.
The term 'vaporware' comes to mind...
Heh - good point! This article must have been written by Dan Rather...
"The researchers calculate that a 10 cm long microwire can carry out 10 million divisions or cells and in each one of these a byte can be stored. In order to store the byte, each one of these cells is magnetised in one orientation or the other."
10mil divisions - each holds a byte.
How does that make 10Gb in 10cm?
I have to say I am in complete agreement here, there is a point I would like to add -
People have survived without Windows Firewall for this long - if you have programs that have issues with port ranges/dynamic ports and so forth - just turn the damn thing off! Granted, I still don't (and won't) hook a Windows box directly to the Internet, I always have (and always will) sit them behind a firewall that has a much greater degree of configuration flexibility than Windows software "firewall" offering. Before I generate flames: I would not recommend turning it off if for some insane reason you DO connect directly (or use alot of public wap's) - in this case there are several third party packet filters you might consider if Unreal doesn't work at Starbucks.
AFA Windows domain security goes -- the clients settings can easily be modfied with logon scripts every time they hop on the domain. I set up ours to always allow the ports we need to manage the individual machines. Piece of cake.
Leave it to this crowd to come up with nothing but workarounds. I'm sure this person is aware of the multitudes of ways to console a box.
I believe what he is asking - which I'm interested in as well - is a laptop where the key/mouse/mon can be independently connected to an external device - there are laptops out now that can play dvd movies without booting an OS - this would be a similar thing. This would be even more useful if you could use a keyb shortcut (kvm-stylee) to switch back and forth between your freshly rooted server and the laptops OS. I want one.
...when you can get *relevant* results in far less time from Google? At least that has been my experience. And to put themselves on a par with Google...I guess one should remember the ant and the rubber tree plant...
"...cause he's got hi-i-igh hopes, he's got hi-i-igh hopes, he's got - high in the sky-y-y, apple pi-i-e hopes..."
I often hear people bitching about Red Hat. Sometimes it gets old, bitching about Microsoft I suppose. Not enough bitching about Apple's elitism for damn sure...
I've used RedHat since 5.2, and now I run Fedora, I still have all the functionality and features of any other distro. I'm still not running Windoze. Still compile any kernel or source I need. Still not paying for my OS. And I'm willing to bet my systems are up and running from a blank hard drive a hell of lot quicker than those of the whiners.
RedHat has done more for linux that any company out there, go dig up some stats about which distros corporations are adopting (READ: REPLACING WINDOWS SERVERS) the most. With all due respect - you are *not* going to find Gentoo or Slackware on that list. Suse is still a distant second. Where will Linux hurt the pocketbook of M$ the most? Corporate America, that's where. I'm sorry, but as a linux protagonist, that is where my priorities lie - working on curing the disease that is Microsoft
Despite it's blunders - sociopolitical or otherwise - RedHat has done a LOT for linux and for that we owe them thanks if nothing else.
RedHat is not the enemy.
I believe you are referring to "Hodgkin's Choice" or the conscious decision whether to swell or itch. A "Hobbesian" choice as we understand it in middle America is making the decision to publicly urinate on either a Ford or a Chevy. Maybe a Dodge.
I had no idea these situations existed - I'm sorry that you are in it. Veggie's point is good - I'd like to add to it... Servers Infrastructure = Critical to BIZ. Monitors - be they software or hardware are critical to the maintenance and uptime of the aforementioned Infrastructure - so does your abundantly insightful CIO believe that the endpoints for recieving monitor/alert data are NOT critical and therefore the responsibility of the BIZ? Can you say Pointy-Haired? My cellphone is an indispensable piece of hardware for my company - at least that is how they perceive it and damned well they should. The internet connection could be debated - but its a question if they want me responding and working over broadband or dialup. I'd pay the extra 10$ for a netZero acct just to fsck with them. Sounds like you may be getting outsourced to India pretty soon...Good Luck!!!
Raid 0 (stripe) - Fast, Cheap - the more drives the faster - no redundancy Raid 1 (mirror) - Pretty Fast, Cheap - 2 drives - redundant - most hardware raid will rebuild failed drives on the fly, performance will be affected though Raid 5 - Redundacy is more important than speed - min 3 drives - total data space is *about* the totalof all disks minus one drive (3x36G ~ 72G R5), rebuild failed drive on fly, performance not as impacted as R1 rebuild. Raid 10 Fast, Expensive, Redundant - 4 drives min. Striped Mirror Set. IMHO the way to go if you have the dinero. Pretty sure this will get modded as redundant :)
In this case I'm willing to bet the answer is................42
Frequently Utilized Disinformation? Fscked Up Diatribe? Fantastically Understated Danger? Inquiring minds want to know.
I'm glad you brought up Pflugerville. It is an excellent place to live if you don't mind a 12 to 27 mile commute, depending on where in Austin you work. I'd hardly call it a "suburb". Round Rock and Sunset Valley are suburbs.
North Austin is cheaper than the rest. I will give you that one. Aesthetically desolate, but cheaper. East Austin - yes it is cheaper. It is also a good place to get your car stolen. Or listen to the airliners flying into ABIA all night.
And those places that you mention that are ridiculously overpriced? Well that covers about all of central Austin (save the East Side) doesn't it? And you could add Tarrytown, Hyde Park and a good portion of the SoCo (the Heights) area to round out that list.When the original poster wrote "Austin" I naturally assumed he meant "Austin"
One last point - I live in one of those "ridiculously overpriced areas" and I'm- walking distance to the Springs, Zilker Park and the Greenbelt
- 10 minutes from my job downtown (10 minutes to most of the major music venues. Mopac? I35? HAH!)
So - in a nutshell - yes - the City of Austin generally has a very high cost of living and yes just like anything you get what you pay for.
My original point - Sorry Charlie, Austin ain't got no low cost of living - still stands :)
...and call it Lindoze?
..but can they stream?
Austin Texas - easily the most cultured city in Texas (100,000+ students out of 550,000 approx pop, metro and surrounding areas approach 1 million), "Live Music Capital of the World" (self-proclaimed but not without reason), film industry second only to LA, lots and lots of big tech (AMD, Motrola, IBM, etc), beautiful countryside, hills, trees, springs - awesome... and probably the HIGHEST COST OF LIVING IN THE SOUTHWEST. Compared to Austin.... Dallas, San Antonio and Houston are dirt cheap. And IMHO worth every penny. I leave Austin, I leave Texas. I'm sorry. I felt the need to educate.
God please let this be a TREND. I also would submit that the Samba group would be the next logical bitch slap in the gauntlet that SCO has so nicely laid before themselves. Losing that would really hurt.
I swear I have worked for the company this guy is writing about. Amazing that this is so widespread and continuing for so many years..
1995 AUGUST - I'm employed by Unisys as outsourced tech support for Microsofts new Windows 95. Three months later the results from 6 partner companies are tallied. Who was number one in Cust satisfaction and resolution? Unisys' team was. Who had the average _longest_ call times - Unisys. Who did Microsoft cut as a partner in Dec of 95 (putting 350 techs back onto the street)? You guessed right. Unisys.
I guess my point is: This isn't really a new trend - but it is a very accurate view into this particular little bubble of corporate despair. The only thing overlooked is lately the trend has been not only to outsource, but to outsource to India. And from my experience, english isn't necessarily a job requirement for these folks. So add another whole 'nother level of frustration for the customer in this loathsome situation when you have to ask them to repeat everything they say one, two or even three times.
How to escape? Service is more important than software. Service is more important than hardware. Service is more important than damned near anything. For several years now, I base my vendor decisions on that precept and I find I'm reasonably satisified with things. You just have to be willing to do lots and lots of research.
And this will affect 90% percent of searches made how?
How bout steeper penalties for those who post duplicate stories on /.?
In my snail mail. AOL 9.0 in a tin box. I wonder how much they spent on these tin boxes. I also wonder if it was worth the jobs of 450 people. The idiocy of some corporations new cease to amaze me.
troll? perhaps. but ballmer is nothing but a lip flapping cocksucker figurehead for a company whos only "innovations" have been taken from other people, either bought borrowed or stolen. I recently sat through a Windows 2003 "Bootcamp" and every single "new" feature I was privvy to was something they ripped directly from the open source community. perfect example - "IIS 6.0 is 140% percent faster, with HTTPD.SYS running from the kernel layer rather than the application layer." Uh, hello - TUX?! whatever. those guys piss me off to no end.