Once again we have proof of the value of a disaster recovery plan.
I would have thought a money mill like that would use an Active/Active failover rather than a cold standby site, but I suppose they have to consider risks versus costs like anybody.
Was the ISS designed to tolerate the Van Allen radiation belts (potentially for an extended duration)? Since travel to the moon probably wasn't on the requirements list, it probably wasn't.
That, along with the already mentioned servicing logistics make this little more than a pie-in-the-sky idea.
"Do you deny that your client, LaserJet 4250dn 23JU6450, did knowingly and habitually engage in illegal file downloading and sharing?"
"The defense would like to point out that while their client is a network device, it is also just a printer. As such it is entirely incapable both of downloading and sharing copyrighted material of its volition, but in fact has no volition to speak of?"
"Your honor, the prosecution intends to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendent meets all of the criteria of a peer to peer file sharer under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The defendent not only had the ability to receive and make illegal copies of files, but used a hacker language called Post-Script to communicate copyrighted material to other illegal file traders."
Don't they know that it takes years of loyal service to lull us into a false sense of security? They can't just turn on us right away; they'll never establish a foothold that way. No, they need to bide their time and wait until we're already pretty much under their control because of all the ways they've entered our lives. Then they can throw off the illusion and the shackles of human dominance once and for all.
No, it really did. That's your first clue that it isn't done yet.:)
Firefox is developing more quickly because it doesn't have all of the baggage. It has its hurdles to overcome like and project, but they don't have to worry about making their browser render any page written in Netscape Composer properly. IE still has to make all those FrontPage sites look like the code wasn't shat out of some third graders science project on the effects of mold on diodes.
With good developers, lots of money, and as much savvy as anyone, Microsoft has the ability to produce all kinds of amazing software. Once they've made some great software (like a browser that renders Acid 2 properly), that's when they start adding in all of the backwards compatibility that effectively crushes the product.
I believe that Windows could be every bit as polished as OS X, as lean as Linux, and as secure as BSD if they didn't bend over backwards to maintain compatibility with every in-house-developed Visual Basic app that accesses odbc.ini, has hard coded requirements to be at the root of C:, and writes user preferences to HKLM.
Mirosoft needs to learn that sometimes things shouldn't work with their new OS. That isn't to say that Apple doesn't do this to the other extreme, breaking things with every point release and forcing developers to come out with updates to all of their software every year or two just so that it won't run in some degraded mode, but there's a happy medium in there where you do a lifecycle on the components of your OS. If they could ease people along, explain the benefits of the new way of doing something, and make a clean break instead of using hacked together tangled bundles of cruft, we'd all be in a better place.
Ok, so I strayed off topic. Anyway, I use Opera. : )
You might try Opera if you haven't already. You can read a page by pressing 'v', though you have to download and install the voice component after the rest of the browser.
"We're taking small arms fire, possible RPG position sighted!"
"Ballistics are non-responsive! The whole thing is locked up! Possible enemy infiltration of system... wait, no, it's installing new DATs. 28% complete... 29%... RPG fire! Cover!"
Compare an Exchange installation at ~500MB (and some fairly considerable resource requirements) to CommuniGate Pro, which uses around ~30MB and is very light weight to run as well, despite its extensive list of features.
Maybe they could just build a big umbrella over the launch site.
Seriously though, a retractable canopy wouldn't be temperature and humidity controlled, but snow, freezing rain, hail, and the like wouldn't be nearly as big a problem. Obviously you have to weigh the costs and engineering challenges of building a retractable canopy versus making the shuttle and tanks fully weather-proof, but I suspect it would be a pretty quick calculation.
It would be nice if it were that simple. Take, for example, a cell phone billing system since that is referenced in the article. When bill processing happens, the actual time of the call needs to be on the bill. Customers wouldn't be too happy if all the call times were in GMT, would they? So the GMT values stored in the database need to be compared against a table that tells it what offset to apply to the time, based on the time and date the call was made. If that table isn't updated with new start and end dates, not only does the customer see the wrong time on the bill, and say "I didn't call anyone at 7pm!", but they got may have been billed for it at the wrong rate.
Calendar appointments in your PIM could all be shifted an hour (or not shifted an hour) and you'd miss your doctors appointment. Java contains a copy of the offset tables as well, so admins need to make sure they've got the Java TZ Updater rolling to every copy of the JRE in every Java-based program on every computer in their organization (plus the actual standard JRE install).
My point is that this isn't a nothing problem, and a lot of administrators, programmers, companies, and universities have to scramble to get everything fixed correctly.
After getting feedback that the majority of their users have Spyware installed on their systems, Microsoft decided to incorporate spyware directly into the OS (embrace and extend). With the release of Microsoft Vista, your computer will come with software that runs silently in the background, regularly checks in with their network, and can be completely disabled remotely, similar to botnet software produced by others.
While this system is not pre-configured to send spam or generate DDOS attacks like many other botnets, it does have the ability to download new functionality in the background through Windows Update, so this capability could be added at a later date if enough customers continue to install third party botnets. This means that while your Vista computer is already part of a botnet out of the box, it's fairly dormant. As an indication of the omnionous potential of this enhanced system, Microsoft is calling it 'Windows Activation'.
Aren't you being hard on that poor stereo? I mean, it has to power an infrared receiver so that the remote control will work. According to this government study, the IR receiver alone uses 0.05 watts all by itself! Once you factor in the overhead, all the wires and circuits and ohms and such, 22 watts makes complete sense.
I've been running Communigate on my home system for years for myself and friends and it just works, with a small footprint and lots of features. Granted I have not run it in an enterprise environment, but I am familiar with Outlook and Exchange, and Communigate gives you what you need. Plus it can either integrate with or run its own LDAP directory, providing a lot of the same abilities as Exchange if it is run in a mostly MS or even non-MS shop.
The interface is entirely web-based, it runs on all the major operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, and others. The webmail system supports custom skins, so if you don't like it, change it, or just make it look like the rest of your company's website. Finally, they have a free trial version that doesn't expire. The only feature limitation is that it appends outgoing messages with a 'this is trial software' message.
Am I missing something, or does this not actually make any difference? You'd still have to have a UPS for your hub and your Cable/DSL modem, it just means your IP phone could be somewhere else in the house. Now if we had a PoE connection from the phone company or something, that would be different, but that 100MBps ethernet drop from SBC hasn't been installed yet.
If further research into tabletop fusion results in decent efficiency, ITER may be obsolete before they finish building it.
Granted we are not yet to the prototype powerplant scale of ITER with these proof of concept sized devices, but the difficulty in controlling plasma with magnets is far greater than bombarding something with neutrons and letting it do the work itself.
As a registered none of the above, I agree with all your points. The Democrats did reasonably well in policy while in power, but recently in attitude they are petulant, in candidates wanting, and in understanding the dynamics of the political landscape, clueless. For having a degree of savvy, I will give the Republicans credit, though their policies have found little purchase in my esteem.
This dramtic oversimplification brought to you by the American Black and White Idealism Committee, bringing you opinions void of thought for over two hundred years.
I won't claim objectivity, since anyone that does so is lying or fooling themselves, but George Bush is the least compromising individual I have ever witnessed in a position of authority. Some call it "staying the course", and "determined leadership", but it is really just euphemistic for "don't confuse me with facts, I've already made up my mind".
The idea that every branch of our federal government can now be dominated by the agendas and members of the far conservative right, especially after Rehnquist finally bites it, with nothing to temper it towards a moderate stance, should be deeply concerning to anyone that doesn't buy into the same beliefs as the staunch conservatives and the fire and brimstone Christians. Even for conservatives, this may well lead us to a government too far right for comfort.
Add to this the continued Republican policies of deficit spending, something they have decried the now oddly fiscally responsible Democrats for years about, and you have a recipe for the alienation and fracture of American society and America as a respected world power, not to mention the economic disaster that the current financial policy puts in our future.
PhotoShop CS2 lists for $599. I think Adobe could probably afford to pay the licensing that Nikon is asking for, rather than just complaining about it to the media. Sorry if I'm not sympathetic to a multi-billion dollar corporation having to deal with another multi-billion dollar corporation's licensing fees.
I use some pattern-based passwords because they are easy to remember and difficult to crack unless you've got a keysniffer. Add in some key shifting, and it gets even stronger.
By pattern-based, I mean that I make patterns on the keyboard that don't actually have meaning. They are fast to type and conducive to finger memory, and sometimes even I couldn't even tell you what they are without seeing a keyboard! How's that for secure?
They hav testimonials!. No fake product could possibly have a testimonial. Just read this one from their site:
"In today's virtual workplace, one's cellphone is a veritable lifeline to the office. As the office model continues to move towards remote settings, the role, and importance of the cell phone, and its battery life is critical to "working on the move." I have spent countless days at airports, watching in horror as my phone battery life, diminished in the midst of a critical phone call. Batmax reduces charging time, increases the battery life, and does so without cumbersome cables and attachments, in a non-intrusive fashion. As we become more reliant on cellphones, Batmax is a critical tool in enhancing the overall use, and performance of your cellphone."
-Joshua P. Bratter, Attorney, Miami FL
I have often, read in horror, the overuse of commas. Fortunately, I have an amazing solution to those affected. Using a revolutionary "bio-symptamatic" material you affix to the underside of your keyboard, combined with the proven technology of magnetic bracelets, provide you with a mild tactile feedback when unnecessary commas are used! Order now!
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Once again we have proof of the value of a disaster recovery plan.
I would have thought a money mill like that would use an Active/Active failover rather than a cold standby site, but I suppose they have to consider risks versus costs like anybody.
Was the ISS designed to tolerate the Van Allen radiation belts (potentially for an extended duration)? Since travel to the moon probably wasn't on the requirements list, it probably wasn't.
That, along with the already mentioned servicing logistics make this little more than a pie-in-the-sky idea.
"Do you deny that your client, LaserJet 4250dn 23JU6450, did knowingly and habitually engage in illegal file downloading and sharing?"
"The defense would like to point out that while their client is a network device, it is also just a printer. As such it is entirely incapable both of downloading and sharing copyrighted material of its volition, but in fact has no volition to speak of?"
"Your honor, the prosecution intends to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendent meets all of the criteria of a peer to peer file sharer under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The defendent not only had the ability to receive and make illegal copies of files, but used a hacker language called Post-Script to communicate copyrighted material to other illegal file traders."
Don't they know that it takes years of loyal service to lull us into a false sense of security? They can't just turn on us right away; they'll never establish a foothold that way. No, they need to bide their time and wait until we're already pretty much under their control because of all the ways they've entered our lives. Then they can throw off the illusion and the shackles of human dominance once and for all.
No, it really did. That's your first clue that it isn't done yet. :)
Firefox is developing more quickly because it doesn't have all of the baggage. It has its hurdles to overcome like and project, but they don't have to worry about making their browser render any page written in Netscape Composer properly. IE still has to make all those FrontPage sites look like the code wasn't shat out of some third graders science project on the effects of mold on diodes.
With good developers, lots of money, and as much savvy as anyone, Microsoft has the ability to produce all kinds of amazing software. Once they've made some great software (like a browser that renders Acid 2 properly), that's when they start adding in all of the backwards compatibility that effectively crushes the product.
I believe that Windows could be every bit as polished as OS X, as lean as Linux, and as secure as BSD if they didn't bend over backwards to maintain compatibility with every in-house-developed Visual Basic app that accesses odbc.ini, has hard coded requirements to be at the root of C:, and writes user preferences to HKLM.
Mirosoft needs to learn that sometimes things shouldn't work with their new OS. That isn't to say that Apple doesn't do this to the other extreme, breaking things with every point release and forcing developers to come out with updates to all of their software every year or two just so that it won't run in some degraded mode, but there's a happy medium in there where you do a lifecycle on the components of your OS. If they could ease people along, explain the benefits of the new way of doing something, and make a clean break instead of using hacked together tangled bundles of cruft, we'd all be in a better place.
Ok, so I strayed off topic. Anyway, I use Opera. : )
You might try Opera if you haven't already. You can read a page by pressing 'v', though you have to download and install the voice component after the rest of the browser.
"We're taking small arms fire, possible RPG position sighted!"
"Ballistics are non-responsive! The whole thing is locked up! Possible enemy infiltration of system... wait, no, it's installing new DATs. 28% complete... 29%... RPG fire! Cover!"
Compare an Exchange installation at ~500MB (and some fairly considerable resource requirements) to CommuniGate Pro, which uses around ~30MB and is very light weight to run as well, despite its extensive list of features.
Maybe they could just build a big umbrella over the launch site.
Seriously though, a retractable canopy wouldn't be temperature and humidity controlled, but snow, freezing rain, hail, and the like wouldn't be nearly as big a problem. Obviously you have to weigh the costs and engineering challenges of building a retractable canopy versus making the shuttle and tanks fully weather-proof, but I suspect it would be a pretty quick calculation.
It would be nice if it were that simple. Take, for example, a cell phone billing system since that is referenced in the article. When bill processing happens, the actual time of the call needs to be on the bill. Customers wouldn't be too happy if all the call times were in GMT, would they? So the GMT values stored in the database need to be compared against a table that tells it what offset to apply to the time, based on the time and date the call was made. If that table isn't updated with new start and end dates, not only does the customer see the wrong time on the bill, and say "I didn't call anyone at 7pm!", but they got may have been billed for it at the wrong rate.
Calendar appointments in your PIM could all be shifted an hour (or not shifted an hour) and you'd miss your doctors appointment. Java contains a copy of the offset tables as well, so admins need to make sure they've got the Java TZ Updater rolling to every copy of the JRE in every Java-based program on every computer in their organization (plus the actual standard JRE install).
My point is that this isn't a nothing problem, and a lot of administrators, programmers, companies, and universities have to scramble to get everything fixed correctly.
After getting feedback that the majority of their users have Spyware installed on their systems, Microsoft decided to incorporate spyware directly into the OS (embrace and extend). With the release of Microsoft Vista, your computer will come with software that runs silently in the background, regularly checks in with their network, and can be completely disabled remotely, similar to botnet software produced by others.
While this system is not pre-configured to send spam or generate DDOS attacks like many other botnets, it does have the ability to download new functionality in the background through Windows Update, so this capability could be added at a later date if enough customers continue to install third party botnets. This means that while your Vista computer is already part of a botnet out of the box, it's fairly dormant. As an indication of the omnionous potential of this enhanced system, Microsoft is calling it 'Windows Activation'.
Aren't you being hard on that poor stereo? I mean, it has to power an infrared receiver so that the remote control will work. According to this government study, the IR receiver alone uses 0.05 watts all by itself! Once you factor in the overhead, all the wires and circuits and ohms and such, 22 watts makes complete sense.
Yep. Complete sense...
Let me get this straight: A half-billion years ago, outside our galaxy, for half an hour, there was some unusual gamma radiation.
Yep, NASA detects Nearby Mystery Explosion certainly didn't pique my interest for what turns out to be of only vague academic value. No, sir!
Anyone else reminded of the Fifth Element, when they are building Leeloo?
Surgeon on Earth - "Damn lag!"
I've been running Communigate on my home system for years for myself and friends and it just works, with a small footprint and lots of features. Granted I have not run it in an enterprise environment, but I am familiar with Outlook and Exchange, and Communigate gives you what you need. Plus it can either integrate with or run its own LDAP directory, providing a lot of the same abilities as Exchange if it is run in a mostly MS or even non-MS shop.
The interface is entirely web-based, it runs on all the major operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, and others. The webmail system supports custom skins, so if you don't like it, change it, or just make it look like the rest of your company's website. Finally, they have a free trial version that doesn't expire. The only feature limitation is that it appends outgoing messages with a 'this is trial software' message.
What, is this the new DRM enhanced version? The extra 'r' makes it uncrackable!
Am I missing something, or does this not actually make any difference? You'd still have to have a UPS for your hub and your Cable/DSL modem, it just means your IP phone could be somewhere else in the house. Now if we had a PoE connection from the phone company or something, that would be different, but that 100MBps ethernet drop from SBC hasn't been installed yet.
If further research into tabletop fusion results in decent efficiency, ITER may be obsolete before they finish building it.
Granted we are not yet to the prototype powerplant scale of ITER with these proof of concept sized devices, but the difficulty in controlling plasma with magnets is far greater than bombarding something with neutrons and letting it do the work itself.
As a registered none of the above, I agree with all your points. The Democrats did reasonably well in policy while in power, but recently in attitude they are petulant, in candidates wanting, and in understanding the dynamics of the political landscape, clueless. For having a degree of savvy, I will give the Republicans credit, though their policies have found little purchase in my esteem.
This dramtic oversimplification brought to you by the American Black and White Idealism Committee, bringing you opinions void of thought for over two hundred years.
I won't claim objectivity, since anyone that does so is lying or fooling themselves, but George Bush is the least compromising individual I have ever witnessed in a position of authority. Some call it "staying the course", and "determined leadership", but it is really just euphemistic for "don't confuse me with facts, I've already made up my mind".
The idea that every branch of our federal government can now be dominated by the agendas and members of the far conservative right, especially after Rehnquist finally bites it, with nothing to temper it towards a moderate stance, should be deeply concerning to anyone that doesn't buy into the same beliefs as the staunch conservatives and the fire and brimstone Christians. Even for conservatives, this may well lead us to a government too far right for comfort.
Add to this the continued Republican policies of deficit spending, something they have decried the now oddly fiscally responsible Democrats for years about, and you have a recipe for the alienation and fracture of American society and America as a respected world power, not to mention the economic disaster that the current financial policy puts in our future.
PhotoShop CS2 lists for $599. I think Adobe could probably afford to pay the licensing that Nikon is asking for, rather than just complaining about it to the media. Sorry if I'm not sympathetic to a multi-billion dollar corporation having to deal with another multi-billion dollar corporation's licensing fees.
Yeah, just like if Firefox weren't around you'd just use IE, and if computers weren't around you'd just use a pen and paper, right?
I use some pattern-based passwords because they are easy to remember and difficult to crack unless you've got a keysniffer. Add in some key shifting, and it gets even stronger.
By pattern-based, I mean that I make patterns on the keyboard that don't actually have meaning. They are fast to type and conducive to finger memory, and sometimes even I couldn't even tell you what they are without seeing a keyboard! How's that for secure?
They hav testimonials!. No fake product could possibly have a testimonial. Just read this one from their site:
"In today's virtual workplace, one's cellphone is a veritable lifeline to the office. As the office model continues to move towards remote settings, the role, and importance of the cell phone, and its battery life is critical to "working on the move." I have spent countless days at airports, watching in horror as my phone battery life, diminished in the midst of a critical phone call. Batmax reduces charging time, increases the battery life, and does so without cumbersome cables and attachments, in a non-intrusive fashion. As we become more reliant on cellphones, Batmax is a critical tool in enhancing the overall use, and performance of your cellphone."
-Joshua P. Bratter, Attorney, Miami FL
I have often, read in horror, the overuse of commas. Fortunately, I have an amazing solution to those affected. Using a revolutionary "bio-symptamatic" material you affix to the underside of your keyboard, combined with the proven technology of magnetic bracelets, provide you with a mild tactile feedback when unnecessary commas are used! Order now!