Currently, enterprises seem to be rolling out java based websphere applications, but still backending them with CICS and DB2 on z/OS platforms.
This is because having a customer not gain access to thier account because of failing java middleware is nothing compared to having a corrupt database and losses of $1m/minute. A bank simply cannot afford to have any downtime on its backend infrastructure.
Some are experimenting with Linux on z/Series hardware as the DB2 host. It will take at least 5 years for banks (and other serious database users: airlines, large inventory trackers, spooks, etc.) to understand the environment enough to be happy that they will not lose data, and have minimal downtime. This includes a full set of operator procedures, disaster recovery, etc.
This is nothing to do with email, webserving, etc.
In fact, its an honour to be accused of being near to mainstream in the data center. Windows is not even trusted to run the console emulator in these environments.
They're perfectly formed, smooth and supple, thats whats great about them.
I flex them regularly, and rub them with baby oil every evening.
Ive just ordered the book, so I will wear shorts, place the book between my perfect patellas, walk down the street, and passing people will exclaim "Cor Blimey!" and "What a fantastic threesome!".
Quite a few species rely on the presence of farm animals to graze off the competing vegetation.
In the UK most of the wildflower meadow and heathland has already disappeared beneath various regrowths (birch, gorse, rhodedendron) and improoved grassland. I expect the removal of even more grazing will make things worse.
Hedgerows will also be removed to make way for larger cereal crop fields.
No, you are selling the website to the client, not thier customers. If the client is thinking in terms of pretty pictures instead of useability and robust technology, then you give them pretty pictures.
There are still plenty of retailers that havent got a clue about the market or the technology. boo.com was the classic example, but theres plenty of retailers that are happy to give every 10th customer a sharp poke in the eye. These retailers will always be at a disadvantage and will dissappear over time.
The last one I saw was Abel and Cole selling Organic Food. Last year they were on the Google first page for 'Organic Food UK' but now thier competitors are stealing thier market. Searching for 'Able and Cole' leads to the competition, thier website lists products by code rather than product name, they used to be unusable with Mozilla. I expect they will dissappear in a few years.
Other sites I find hard to use are:
Ebay/Paypal. It took me a week to get set up to sell something. Google or Amazon will overtake them because they understand 'easy to use'.
Dabs.com Havent used them for a year, but it was so hard to find technical info that I had to go to other retailers to find out about the product.
WarehouseExpress. Horrible site, only made useable by the price, range and because they arnt as bad as Jessops.
Jessops. Already seen a dive in shareprice. Expect them to be dead by next year.
I had one of those, It locked solid the first time I tried to play an MP3 on it, and I read that the battery life was actually about 1/2 the quoted time.
So as a device for storing photos when out in the field it was spectacularly unreliable. Use a handful of 1Gb CF cards instead.
Having "great IT" isn't worth a warm bucket of spit as a key differentiator these days.
Sainsburys (a UK supermarket) will tell you differently.
They've just reported profits of £15m down from £650m. Theyve gone from the number 1 supermarket to 2nd, soon to be 3rd. The reason is a failed IT outsourcing project.
In the UK this sort of clause will be struck out as an unfair term, especially if the company is trying its very hardest to hide this term from the consumer. In effect the company has negotiated in bad faith.
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Look at ITV and Channel 5. Terrible.
And yet look at Channel 4.
The content is as good, if not better, than the BBC. There are only a couple of soaps, the news is presented in more depth and with less bias. The Science strands are not as dumbed down as Horizon (and do check out Dr Tatiana).
They are also alot more pioneering, reality TV came first to C4, they have a welsh station, they showed Anatomy for Beginners.
I dont know why C4 are so good, but I thinks its probably mostly that they have to have a broadcast licence, and the Govt sold that license with quality restrictions, plus a little bit of competion with the other quality broadcaster.
Do other governments sell airspace with quality retrictions, and have they had any sucess?
My main use for Windows is to terminal emulate onto a real operating system. Its nice that they supply a 3GHz ssystem to do it from, but in reality its nothing a firefox extention couldnt handle.
Most big businesses are running internal applications that are increasingly being supplied with browser interfaces (all the better to outsource you, my dear).
The browser wars wernt about the browser, they were about the file formats, and Microsoft lost. HTML rules the web, and MS Docs on the web are a sign of corporate incompetance.
But now look. see how many PDFs there are out there. Eventually corporations will start working in PDF directly, rather than farming out the PDFication of data to a specialist department. They will start liscencing Framemaker to all its staff. When that happens, MS Office starts to become duplicated functionality and will ose market share.
So thats why Adobe and MS are in competion, they both want to be the De-facto web publication format.
We have Windows Admins at our site like you. They are so used to one particular way of doing things, I.e. installing off the CD, typing in product keys, setting up firewalls and anti virus, etc that they assume thats the way things work on Linux. They also suffer from an inexplicable blindspot, thinking fedora must be the easiest to use cos its got the biggest market share.
On my home mandrake system, I just type 'urpmi apache2' to install apache2. For fedora there is up2date (I assume its similar).
I find that Linux either makes it unbeleivably easy to install and use things (E.g. Mandrake install, KDE, urpmi), or mindbogglingly difficult (E.g. getting a modem working, installing UT2004 off the CD).
Once you have a bit of experience with both OSes you will be able to appreciate the strenghts and weaknesses of both.
There are advantages to this, the slower clocked CPUs consume less power and generate less heat.
Ther is also the fact that the slower CPUs havent been tested at the higher clock rate. Overclocking can damage the CPU, so they get better yeilds at lower speeds.
So the CPU thing isnt quite the same as Software firms going out of their way to create crippleware.
However, you can block that signal with a faraday cage. TV detectors pick up the signal being rebroadcast from your arial. Quite a few office buildings have a steel frame construction that make it difficult to get signals into/outof the building.
So you could put your monitor into a place where they cannot detect it.
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Currently, enterprises seem to be rolling out java based websphere applications, but still backending them with CICS and DB2 on z/OS platforms.
This is because having a customer not gain access to thier account because of failing java middleware is nothing compared to having a corrupt database and losses of $1m/minute. A bank simply cannot afford to have any downtime on its backend infrastructure.
Some are experimenting with Linux on z/Series hardware as the DB2 host. It will take at least 5 years for banks (and other serious database users: airlines, large inventory trackers, spooks, etc.) to understand the environment enough to be happy that they will not lose data, and have minimal downtime. This includes a full set of operator procedures, disaster recovery, etc.
This is nothing to do with email, webserving, etc.
In fact, its an honour to be accused of being near to mainstream in the data center. Windows is not even trusted to run the console emulator in these environments.
When I run Nat King Cole through my music appreciation circuits, they return true values.
They're perfectly formed, smooth and supple, thats whats great about them.
I flex them regularly, and rub them with baby oil every evening.
Ive just ordered the book, so I will wear shorts, place the book between my perfect patellas, walk down the street, and passing people will exclaim "Cor Blimey!" and "What a fantastic threesome!".
Quite a few species rely on the presence of farm animals to graze off the competing vegetation.
In the UK most of the wildflower meadow and heathland has already disappeared beneath various regrowths (birch, gorse, rhodedendron) and improoved grassland. I expect the removal of even more grazing will make things worse.
Hedgerows will also be removed to make way for larger cereal crop fields.
Insects can. Maybe these computers are insect-like? Maybe your analogy was as bad as a Star Wars prequel?
I think they may mean biographies of minor dead people, old TV shows, etc.
Freezing these would stop the totally ramdom vandals who pick rarely visited pages and insert incorrect information.
No, you are selling the website to the client, not thier customers. If the client is thinking in terms of pretty pictures instead of useability and robust technology, then you give them pretty pictures.
There are still plenty of retailers that havent got a clue about the market or the technology. boo.com was the classic example, but theres plenty of retailers that are happy to give every 10th customer a sharp poke in the eye. These retailers will always be at a disadvantage and will dissappear over time.
The last one I saw was Abel and Cole selling Organic Food. Last year they were on the Google first page for 'Organic Food UK' but now thier competitors are stealing thier market. Searching for 'Able and Cole' leads to the competition, thier website lists products by code rather than product name, they used to be unusable with Mozilla. I expect they will dissappear in a few years.
Other sites I find hard to use are:
Ebay/Paypal. It took me a week to get set up to sell something. Google or Amazon will overtake them because they understand 'easy to use'.
Dabs.com Havent used them for a year, but it was so hard to find technical info that I had to go to other retailers to find out about the product.
WarehouseExpress. Horrible site, only made useable by the price, range and because they arnt as bad as Jessops.
Jessops. Already seen a dive in shareprice. Expect them to be dead by next year.
You need to brush up on yours, theres forts and whatnot near aberdeen, and they mapped the Orkneys.
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http://www.roman-britain.org/places/_roman_britai
I had one of those, It locked solid the first time I tried to play an MP3 on it, and I read that the battery life was actually about 1/2 the quoted time.
So as a device for storing photos when out in the field it was spectacularly unreliable. Use a handful of 1Gb CF cards instead.
Uhh, Its an obviously auto-generated text, you are talking to a machine.
Sainsburys (a UK supermarket) will tell you differently.
They've just reported profits of £15m down from £650m. Theyve gone from the number 1 supermarket to 2nd, soon to be 3rd. The reason is a failed IT outsourcing project.
In the UK this sort of clause will be struck out as an unfair term, especially if the company is trying its very hardest to hide this term from the consumer. In effect the company has negotiated in bad faith.
Look at ITV and Channel 5. Terrible.
And yet look at Channel 4.
The content is as good, if not better, than the BBC. There are only a couple of soaps, the news is presented in more depth and with less bias. The Science strands are not as dumbed down as Horizon (and do check out Dr Tatiana).
They are also alot more pioneering, reality TV came first to C4, they have a welsh station, they showed Anatomy for Beginners.
I dont know why C4 are so good, but I thinks its probably mostly that they have to have a broadcast licence, and the Govt sold that license with quality restrictions, plus a little bit of competion with the other quality broadcaster.
Do other governments sell airspace with quality retrictions, and have they had any sucess?
My main use for Windows is to terminal emulate onto a real operating system. Its nice that they supply a 3GHz ssystem to do it from, but in reality its nothing a firefox extention couldnt handle.
Most big businesses are running internal applications that are increasingly being supplied with browser interfaces (all the better to outsource you, my dear).
Other sites indicate its part of an side to a freind , not part of the actual speech.
Google is your freind.
Agree about the horrors of Framemaker, and the problems of the spec.
But it is in Adobes hands to fix these problems, which leaves Microsoft vulnerable.
They are competitors.
The browser wars wernt about the browser, they were about the file formats, and Microsoft lost. HTML rules the web, and MS Docs on the web are a sign of corporate incompetance.
But now look. see how many PDFs there are out there. Eventually corporations will start working in PDF directly, rather than farming out the PDFication of data to a specialist department. They will start liscencing Framemaker to all its staff. When that happens, MS Office starts to become duplicated functionality and will ose market share.
So thats why Adobe and MS are in competion, they both want to be the De-facto web publication format.
Ive been using partimage, as it drops the unused parts of the filesystem. Never had to do a restore but did test one once.
Im about to start using subversion for backups of my home directory, and syncing my laptop with my desktop.
We have Windows Admins at our site like you. They are so used to one particular way of doing things, I.e. installing off the CD, typing in product keys, setting up firewalls and anti virus, etc that they assume thats the way things work on Linux. They also suffer from an inexplicable blindspot, thinking fedora must be the easiest to use cos its got the biggest market share.
On my home mandrake system, I just type 'urpmi apache2' to install apache2. For fedora there is up2date (I assume its similar).
I find that Linux either makes it unbeleivably easy to install and use things (E.g. Mandrake install, KDE, urpmi), or mindbogglingly difficult (E.g. getting a modem working, installing UT2004 off the CD).
Once you have a bit of experience with both OSes you will be able to appreciate the strenghts and weaknesses of both.
There are advantages to this, the slower clocked CPUs consume less power and generate less heat.
Ther is also the fact that the slower CPUs havent been tested at the higher clock rate. Overclocking can damage the CPU, so they get better yeilds at lower speeds.
So the CPU thing isnt quite the same as Software firms going out of their way to create crippleware.
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2 Also applies, nobility of purpose. He could have sold out to industry but chose to write some really big books instead.
However, you can block that signal with a faraday cage. TV detectors pick up the signal being rebroadcast from your arial. Quite a few office buildings have a steel frame construction that make it difficult to get signals into/outof the building. So you could put your monitor into a place where they cannot detect it.
Smuggling was big in England too, with the fortunes of some modern day companies being founded on smuggling, Avery being one of them.
Its been discussed on last nights news and the Today Program. It probably been and gone from the Web page.