I guess what is freaking me out on this (probably too much science fiction) is the whole "creating new life" thing. I don't consider myself a deeply religious guy, so it isn't that. It is more along the lines of the fact that we can barely understand what is going on with the life that CURRENTLY exists.
That, and and the potential for this new type of life to make it into the ecosystem with unknown ramifications. Kind of like when a species from another continent hitches a ride on a cargo ship or something and decimates the native species.
I realize that there is nothing we can do to stop the wheels of progress, I just wish there were a common code of ethics that was enforceable but not constraining to research and development.
What a conundrum!
I think you may be mistaken here. As far as I can tell, (and I have been researching it a lot lately) you can't just plug any old phone into any old modem and make it work as a voip phone. You may want to check out asterisk.org for more info, but at least with Asterisk, you need specific modems to handle this.
If this will allow you to plug in your POTS phone(s) and make it work with SKYPE or any other VOIP provider, it is actually a pretty cool deal. And if it works with Asterisk and can be integrated with it, then it is even cooler.
That is, I believe, the reason behind all the "Does it work with Linux" questions. If it isn't the reason behind those questions, it should be. Asterisk is a pretty incredible piece of engineering, and gives full PBX functionality to the masses.
Yes, your argument IS going to feed the trolls.
You may note that the article discusses scientists (with some educational credibility.)
If the article was talking about some loon that had no credibility, I would buy it. But your examples make the people who may or may not be being suppressed sound like crazy people. In general, I doubt they are crazy. This is not the gnome coalition here. It's people who have education and what sound like reasonable facts to back them up.
I myself buy that there is global warming, but I am not going to trivialize the folks who have plausible arguments against it.
The tablet PC FAILED? Holy crap, someone better call all those businesses that are buying them for their employees!
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Sure, they didn't take over the laptop world, but the product is still out there and a lot of people are still buying them and using them. That's a far cry from failure.
That makes a lot of sense. My comment was meant to address the fact that, either way, the odds of mass extinction of the species due to this virus are fairly slim, or none.
This is obviously a troll, but I'll bite: Supposing your scenario comes true, it does not mean that everyone on earth is going to die. It means that the people who get sick with the flu will be at a much higher risk of death. It may mean that almost all of those people die, although my personal opinion is that this will not be the case, and you are probably looking at maybe 50% of the people, but I ain't a scientist.
However, not everyone gets the flu. And some people get the flu and it isn't nearly as bad as everyone else.
With or without air travel, if the 1918 flu killed everyone that even had contact with a person who had the flu, entire societies would have been wiped off the earth. I am pretty sure that didn't happen then, and dont think it happen now.
This is not to make light of the situation, a pandemic, if/when it occurs, will suck incredibly badly for a society and for families and measures will need to be taken to prevent the spread.
But extinction? C'mon. Get a grip. This isn't "The Stand."
Your CEO doesn't want to learn the technology, but wants the best technology.
What he needs is not only a room, but someone to facilitate it's operation. You can get the best equipment in the world, but if he from the get go has basically said he doesn't want to know how to operate it (which I interpret from the original post,) Then it is just going to be dead weight to him and a waste of money.
Long story short: Remember when you were the AV guy in high school? Welcome back.
Well... The user friendly (default) version of GMAIL uses Javascript. There is an html version but it isn't nearly as user friendly.
In other words, disabling javascript is the suck for at least one very popular, useful, website.
My recommendation is rather than just disabling javascript, use the Prefbar extension which allows you to turn off javascript, etc just by clicking a box in your toolbars and turn it back on "on the fly."
Of course, this is an extension that, to install easily, you need to install from a trusted site...
Their TS has gone to the crapper in the last three years. Especially on systems that you don't pay for their "Gold" support on.
However, if you have "thousands" of Dell PC's, then most likely you have on-site techs that are Dell certified and can get their replacement stuff without contacting dell. Most don't have that luxury.
As many of my cohorts have said lately, "Dell Smells."
So, let's think about this... The dimension is "cutting edge" technology. You purchase 300 of them now. Then you need 25 more two weeks from now and call your sales rep: "I'm sorry, that exact motherboard, NIC, video, etc configuration is no longer offered."
So, the nice disk image you made to worked on the original 300 is no longer good... and now you have to spend the same amount of time getting a good image for 25 systems as you did for the first 300. In other words, not a good investment of an IT person's time... (which equates to money.)
The reason the dimension is so inexpensive is because it is the newest stuff (read "constantly changing") and they get the equipment at a low rate (read one-time bulk purchases or builds.)
I do agree, Dell Smells, and am switching vendors because of their pricing and crap-ass support, but your PHB was right and not wrong... and I probably would have fired you too if I was his shoes. If you refuse to do your job (support the computer systems) then you choose to leave the company.
"The Exchange Server 2003 user CAL is required for each user gaining access to the server and entitles access rights to both editions of Exchange Server. Each Exchange Server 2003 CAL also includes Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Entourage X for Mac and permits access from Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile Access, Exchange Server ActiveSync, or any standard Internet-messaging client."
Before you mod me down, here is what I was thinking:
Get an older 640x480 or better projector with decent lumens and hook it up to your computer for a display. Before you say "His shadow will not allow him to get close to the screen" try this: Instead of the child looking at his maps from in front of the screen, he looks at them from the back-- in other words the projector is on one side of the screen, the child is on another. Use a semi-opaque screen as opposed to a standard screen so that he can see it. For example, a white sheet hung from the ceiling.
The trick is that everything is reversed for the viewer. However, I seem to recall that some projectors have the ability to reverse the image for just this scenario for home theatre buffs. There may actually be software that has this capability.
The beauty of it is that the size of the screen the child would be able to look at is based on the size of the room the projector is in. Regardless, the kid is going to get a much larger screen than 21 inches.
I used to love the "Tinker" swiss army knife to, well, tinker around the house, but then I got the Cybertool swiss army knife. It kicks all kinds of butt over the tinker.
It has interchangeable bits that it stores, including two sizes of phillips and torx bits. Plus a probe for setting dip switches, pliers, a smaller screwdriver that goes in the corkscrew for eyeglasses, and all the other stuff I always wanted.
This puppy actually has replaced almost all of the tools in my computer repair toolkit-- and I carry it with me all the time (3 years at least.)
I like mine so much I gave one to my techie brother. He digs it too. (As has most other computer geeks that have seen it.)
Yep, Swiss Army knives are pretty darn useful, and not as big as a leatherman. I just don't want to carry something as big as even a medium sized leatherman on me all the time.
Having A USB drive on it would be pretty cool, but I probably would hesitate to take it camping with me like I do this one-- I tend to be pretty rough on mine-- I have a nasty melted burn on one side of mine when I stupidly used it to hold a soldering iron -- I doubt the USB drive would have handled that.
Huh? What are yout talking about? Have you ever used one? My TC1100 from HP is as powerful as a laptop and much lighter. Sure, the screen is smaller, but I can do exactly EVERYTHING I could do on my laptop with it. As a sysadmin, it is wonderful for remote connections and, when I do need a keyboard, it is right there. And it is lighter than most notebooks.
I think that you will see that in the future, more and more laptops will add the functionality of the tablet- Physical rotation, writing on screen, etc. Is it a PDA/Laptop killer? No, it is a laptop that has additional functionality. And if you are in a lot of meetings, then it is really nice to be able to write on documents as necessary that you receive-- you can print anything you can print regularly to a digital format, and have your way with those.
Yes, it was more expensive than a laptop. About 400 dollars more than the laptop I would have picked out for myself. I think you will see the price drop more and more as it becomes more mainstream.
BTW, the short battery life is not true. I get very good battery life out of mine.
I will say this: Use one for a while, a good one, and you will like the additional functionality. Trust me, more and more "laptops" will start behaving like tablets pretty soon.
I use the prismiq and like it a lot. Unfortunately, you have to have a television hooked up to it, and the media interface isn't the best in the world. However, they run linux on it, it is wired or wireless (your wireless card), they publish the source, it can play internet radio, rhapsody, mp3, slideshows, divx, vobs, and other.avi, you can program your own plugins for decoding, and is, in general, pretty cool. And surf the web. From what I understand, the PC does most of the transcoding then sends it to the media player. Bunch of good reviews from various magazine sources.
Check out www.prismiq.com and www. prismiq.org.
And, no, I don't work for the company.
Darn straight. I use one and home and it rocks. Wireless 802.11a works fine on it for streaming DVD and Divx. I understand G does as well, also runs fine playing music on 802.11b but not movies. Frankly, I love mine.
I specifically heard from our licensing vendor that the have rarely ever sold "Software Assurance" for microsoft products. They only recommended it if you were purchasing products and KNEW (read 100% certain) that a new release was going to come out in three years. With that in mind, it was best to pick and choose the products that you go this on. At 50% of the cost of the license itself, it relly isn't worth it in 99% of the situations. She also said that MS was actually reviewing the contract, since so few people were purchasing it. I guess that it wasn't as hugely profitable as expected. I also guess that it shows that most people who have to purchase MS Licenses aren't complete idiots-- they know that they have to spend the money, but will get the best deal they can in the situation.
I was about to post the EXACT thing you just said. I can't believe anyone is taking this post seriously. If you didn't chuckle at the first part of the post, then at least figure it out when it says " the powerful pirate lobby"
It's a pirate of a post about being pirated. If that ain't funny, I don't know what is!
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I guess what is freaking me out on this (probably too much science fiction) is the whole "creating new life" thing. I don't consider myself a deeply religious guy, so it isn't that. It is more along the lines of the fact that we can barely understand what is going on with the life that CURRENTLY exists. That, and and the potential for this new type of life to make it into the ecosystem with unknown ramifications. Kind of like when a species from another continent hitches a ride on a cargo ship or something and decimates the native species. I realize that there is nothing we can do to stop the wheels of progress, I just wish there were a common code of ethics that was enforceable but not constraining to research and development. What a conundrum!
I think you may be mistaken here. As far as I can tell, (and I have been researching it a lot lately) you can't just plug any old phone into any old modem and make it work as a voip phone. You may want to check out asterisk.org for more info, but at least with Asterisk, you need specific modems to handle this. If this will allow you to plug in your POTS phone(s) and make it work with SKYPE or any other VOIP provider, it is actually a pretty cool deal. And if it works with Asterisk and can be integrated with it, then it is even cooler. That is, I believe, the reason behind all the "Does it work with Linux" questions. If it isn't the reason behind those questions, it should be. Asterisk is a pretty incredible piece of engineering, and gives full PBX functionality to the masses.
Yes, your argument IS going to feed the trolls. You may note that the article discusses scientists (with some educational credibility.) If the article was talking about some loon that had no credibility, I would buy it. But your examples make the people who may or may not be being suppressed sound like crazy people. In general, I doubt they are crazy. This is not the gnome coalition here. It's people who have education and what sound like reasonable facts to back them up. I myself buy that there is global warming, but I am not going to trivialize the folks who have plausible arguments against it.
The tablet PC FAILED? Holy crap, someone better call all those businesses that are buying them for their employees!
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Sure, they didn't take over the laptop world, but the product is still out there and a lot of people are still buying them and using them. That's a far cry from failure.
That makes a lot of sense. My comment was meant to address the fact that, either way, the odds of mass extinction of the species due to this virus are fairly slim, or none.
This is obviously a troll, but I'll bite:
Supposing your scenario comes true, it does not mean that everyone on earth is going to die. It means that the people who get sick with the flu will be at a much higher risk of death. It may mean that almost all of those people die, although my personal opinion is that this will not be the case, and you are probably looking at maybe 50% of the people, but I ain't a scientist.
However, not everyone gets the flu. And some people get the flu and it isn't nearly as bad as everyone else.
With or without air travel, if the 1918 flu killed everyone that even had contact with a person who had the flu, entire societies would have been wiped off the earth. I am pretty sure that didn't happen then, and dont think it happen now.
This is not to make light of the situation, a pandemic, if/when it occurs, will suck incredibly badly for a society and for families and measures will need to be taken to prevent the spread.
But extinction? C'mon. Get a grip. This isn't "The Stand."
That was a crap sandwich. It would have been less insulting if they had just not bothered to respond.
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Uhmmm.... I am pretty sure there's only one way to keep your virginity.
Your CEO doesn't want to learn the technology, but wants the best technology.
What he needs is not only a room, but someone to facilitate it's operation. You can get the best equipment in the world, but if he from the get go has basically said he doesn't want to know how to operate it (which I interpret from the original post,) Then it is just going to be dead weight to him and a waste of money.
Long story short: Remember when you were the AV guy in high school? Welcome back.
Well... The user friendly (default) version of GMAIL uses Javascript. There is an html version but it isn't nearly as user friendly.
In other words, disabling javascript is the suck for at least one very popular, useful, website.
My recommendation is rather than just disabling javascript, use the Prefbar extension which allows you to turn off javascript, etc just by clicking a box in your toolbars and turn it back on "on the fly."
Of course, this is an extension that, to install easily, you need to install from a trusted site...
Now there's a vicious little circle.
Or, alternatively if you are not running Firefox or not using Adblock, add an entry to your host file of 127.0.0.1 for ad1.hardware.no .
Their TS has gone to the crapper in the last three years. Especially on systems that you don't pay for their "Gold" support on. However, if you have "thousands" of Dell PC's, then most likely you have on-site techs that are Dell certified and can get their replacement stuff without contacting dell. Most don't have that luxury. As many of my cohorts have said lately, "Dell Smells."
"Using zip, nowadays, is simply due to habit and culture."
Kinda like using windows, Huh?
So, let's think about this... The dimension is "cutting edge" technology. You purchase 300 of them now. Then you need 25 more two weeks from now and call your sales rep: "I'm sorry, that exact motherboard, NIC, video, etc configuration is no longer offered."
So, the nice disk image you made to worked on the original 300 is no longer good... and now you have to spend the same amount of time getting a good image for 25 systems as you did for the first 300. In other words, not a good investment of an IT person's time... (which equates to money.)
The reason the dimension is so inexpensive is because it is the newest stuff (read "constantly changing") and they get the equipment at a low rate (read one-time bulk purchases or builds.)
I do agree, Dell Smells, and am switching vendors because of their pricing and crap-ass support, but your PHB was right and not wrong... and I probably would have fired you too if I was his shoes. If you refuse to do your job (support the computer systems) then you choose to leave the company.
Sorry for replying to my own post!
From Microsofts Website:
"The Exchange Server 2003 user CAL is required for each user gaining access to the server and entitles access rights to both editions of Exchange Server. Each Exchange Server 2003 CAL also includes Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Entourage X for Mac and permits access from Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile Access, Exchange Server ActiveSync, or any standard Internet-messaging client."
Last time I looked, (and it was last week) you get the Outlook client included with the exchange server CAL you have to purchase with each user.
In other words, if a user has a mailbox on an exchange server, you have to buy a CAL. The CAL includes Outlook.
So, while I agree that there will be security holes with Outlook, there is no cost benefit when using Outlook with Exchange Server.
Before you mod me down, here is what I was thinking:
Get an older 640x480 or better projector with decent lumens and hook it up to your computer for a display. Before you say "His shadow will not allow him to get close to the screen" try this: Instead of the child looking at his maps from in front of the screen, he looks at them from the back-- in other words the projector is on one side of the screen, the child is on another. Use a semi-opaque screen as opposed to a standard screen so that he can see it. For example, a white sheet hung from the ceiling.
The trick is that everything is reversed for the viewer. However, I seem to recall that some projectors have the ability to reverse the image for just this scenario for home theatre buffs. There may actually be software that has this capability.
The beauty of it is that the size of the screen the child would be able to look at is based on the size of the room the projector is in. Regardless, the kid is going to get a much larger screen than 21 inches.
I used to love the "Tinker" swiss army knife to, well, tinker around the house, but then I got the Cybertool swiss army knife. It kicks all kinds of butt over the tinker.
It has interchangeable bits that it stores, including two sizes of phillips and torx bits. Plus a probe for setting dip switches, pliers, a smaller screwdriver that goes in the corkscrew for eyeglasses, and all the other stuff I always wanted.
This puppy actually has replaced almost all of the tools in my computer repair toolkit-- and I carry it with me all the time (3 years at least.)
I like mine so much I gave one to my techie brother. He digs it too. (As has most other computer geeks that have seen it.)
Yep, Swiss Army knives are pretty darn useful, and not as big as a leatherman. I just don't want to carry something as big as even a medium sized leatherman on me all the time.
Having A USB drive on it would be pretty cool, but I probably would hesitate to take it camping with me like I do this one-- I tend to be pretty rough on mine-- I have a nasty melted burn on one side of mine when I stupidly used it to hold a soldering iron -- I doubt the USB drive would have handled that.
Huh? What are yout talking about? Have you ever used one?
My TC1100 from HP is as powerful as a laptop and much lighter. Sure, the screen is smaller, but I can do exactly EVERYTHING I could do on my laptop with it. As a sysadmin, it is wonderful for remote connections and, when I do need a keyboard, it is right there. And it is lighter than most notebooks.
I think that you will see that in the future, more and more laptops will add the functionality of the tablet- Physical rotation, writing on screen, etc. Is it a PDA/Laptop killer? No, it is a laptop that has additional functionality. And if you are in a lot of meetings, then it is really nice to be able to write on documents as necessary that you receive-- you can print anything you can print regularly to a digital format, and have your way with those.
Yes, it was more expensive than a laptop. About 400 dollars more than the laptop I would have picked out for myself. I think you will see the price drop more and more as it becomes more mainstream.
BTW, the short battery life is not true. I get very good battery life out of mine.
I will say this: Use one for a while, a good one, and you will like the additional functionality. Trust me, more and more "laptops" will start behaving like tablets pretty soon.
I use the prismiq and like it a lot. Unfortunately, you have to have a television hooked up to it, and the media interface isn't the best in the world. However, they run linux on it, it is wired or wireless (your wireless card), they publish the source, it can play internet radio, rhapsody, mp3, slideshows, divx, vobs, and other .avi, you can program your own plugins for decoding, and is, in general, pretty cool. And surf the web. From what I understand, the PC does most of the transcoding then sends it to the media player. Bunch of good reviews from various magazine sources.
Check out www.prismiq.com and www. prismiq.org.
And, no, I don't work for the company.
Yes, but if: Silicon = Silicone and Silicone = Funny then Silicon = Funny
Darn straight. I use one and home and it rocks. Wireless 802.11a works fine on it for streaming DVD and Divx. I understand G does as well, also runs fine playing music on 802.11b but not movies.
Frankly, I love mine.
I specifically heard from our licensing vendor that the have rarely ever sold "Software Assurance" for microsoft products. They only recommended it if you were purchasing products and KNEW (read 100% certain) that a new release was going to come out in three years.
With that in mind, it was best to pick and choose the products that you go this on. At 50% of the cost of the license itself, it relly isn't worth it in 99% of the situations.
She also said that MS was actually reviewing the contract, since so few people were purchasing it. I guess that it wasn't as hugely profitable as expected.
I also guess that it shows that most people who have to purchase MS Licenses aren't complete idiots-- they know that they have to spend the money, but will get the best deal they can in the situation.
I was about to post the EXACT thing you just said. I can't believe anyone is taking this post seriously. If you didn't chuckle at the first part of the post, then at least figure it out when it says " the powerful pirate lobby"
It's a pirate of a post about being pirated. If that ain't funny, I don't know what is!