..the programmer enthuses that from a technical point of view, the elegance of the user interface and well structured internal architecture makes it an exciting development platform.
The networking consultant explains that a switch to Vista will improve network performance and data security.
The IT Managers wonder if there is a Vista Conference they can attend - somewhere abroad with decent nightlife - and they start to debate who has the highest limit on their corporate credit cards.
1) You could deliver your PowerPoint presentation in Paris from your office in San Francisco via videophone and STILL point out the interesting bits to the audience.
2) Later that night you could pick out a cinema in Paris and really piss off the audience by squiggling on the screen.
1) How about an ID exchange - you copy the file to a friend and their ID takes it over and yours stops being able to play it - or you just load it onto a cheap MP3 player owned by you (with your ID) and lend it - just as you lent someone a tape enclosed in a plastic carrying 'cassette'.
2) You release your ID from the file by assigning it to the new owner - or the files just don't have any resale value 'cos they only cost you a few pennies.
If I could implant all my media devices with a unique-to-me identifier and then transfer any content I have paid for *from any source* to any of my devices then I'd be happy with such DRM. Trouble is, this implies all companies with a vested interest in DRM cooperating and the system actually working.
Until that time, I am forced to live in a world where I can listen to an MP3 file at home on 'Player A'. I can also take and use 'Player A' in my car, round a friend's house (and let them listen!), whilst shopping, on the train, plane etc., but heaven forbid I should try and copy or move my MP3 file from 'Player A' to my in-car 'Player B' which is designed to be operated whilst driving, unlike player A which is about as big as a small box of matches and is bloody dangerous to fiddle with whilst on the move.
Some sites (like hotels and posh apartments) use small '5A round pin' sockets for things such as desk lamps - especially if the power feed includes a dimmer switch - it stops you unplugging the lamp and using the outlet for something that won't appreciate the dimmer.
In other news, Darl McBride has been studying footage of Linus Torvalds, other notable Linux developers and senior executives of IBM, Novell and other major corporates after noticing that their gait when walking shows a definite delay of several tens of milliseconds in the uplift of the left foot upon taking a normal walking stride.
Darl Explained that as part of his 'Image for SCO' policy, instigated in late 2002, he sent all his senior executives on a special course to teach them how to 'enter a room with purpose and drive', and they were taught to modify their walking pattern in a way that exaggerated their 'business swagger' when entering a room.
This so-called 'Darl McStride' was apparently developed by a team of leading psychologists and physiotherapists at a cost of several thousand dollars and, says Mr Mcbride, is the intellectual property of SCO.
"We are not totally insensitive to the accidental use of our intellectual property by those involved in road accidents, recovering from surgery or having naturally-occurring limb deformities that cause them to imitate our Business Swagger, but I take exception to profit-making organisations using it for their own gain when entering a room, and if they wish to do so they should licence the concept on a commercial basis". It has been rumoured that Rowan Atkinson, the comic actor behind such characters as the bumbling "Mr Bean" is already engaged in licensing discussions with SCO. John Cleese was unavailable for comment.
I am just evaluating a Siemens Gigaset C460 SIP/DECT Phone. So far so good - we have an Asterisk server in the office but I have taken the phone home and it's connected to both our regular land line and network, registered with the Asterisk server via ADSL - in fact, it's connected to my home network via a wireless bridge too!
The phone comes with a charging base and a separate base station to which the land line and network are connected. Cost £70+VAT in the UK.
I'd be more worried about watching episodes of Dr Who online when the cybermen are involved.."delete..delete..delete".
There's also a joke about talking too loud near your computer to a colleague named Colin who's asked you which of several designs for a new brochure you prefer - but I can't be bothered to set the scene:
Skip the over-priced, 'fanboy' stuff and get something functional like an HTC Hermes/TyTN that's a phone and can also run Tomtom in conjunction with a bluetooth/GPS dongle. Being WM5-based it can also play your music and videos, do your email etc. etc.
CRM is one of a broad range of software applications that can be purchased off the shelf, obtained through Open Source channels or implemented by a software consultancy firm that spends a lot of time with you to determine your needs, develops a draft spec, agrees a stonkingly large fee and then sends a team of developers to live with you for many months, drinking your coffee, attempting to get off with the secretaries and hacking your vending machines.
Soon, the consultancy company realises they have underestimated the complexity of your requirements and that it is going to take much longer to implement, but they demand more money and time on the basis that YOU have changed the spec. After an extended period of development, a highly-personalised software application is handed over to you and you soon discover that it works pretty much to specification but with quite a few rough edges that will be "dealt with as part of the 5-year snags process".
The system is so complex to manage that the only people who can support it are the original developers - but they are mostly working elsewhere on other projects by now or have left to become 'independent consultants' advising other customers who are having terrible problems getting their CRM system to work properly due to poor implementation.
Even though the software consultancy firm cannot support your system to your satisfaction, you are locked into a support contract that means you pay an annual fee to them for the rest of your life. Eventually you begin to abandon parts of the software "'cos it's quicker and easier to do it in a spreadsheet".
I once had to lash up a computer in the Channel Islands (Jersey) so that its screen could be seen during a presentation in the Natural History Museum in London. I confirmed there was a phone socket next to the computer and flew out to Jersey with a US Robotics modem and some remote s/w (probably PC Anywhere or the like - it was about 1989).
Anyway, things went well-ish until the modem started to smoke. I quickly turned it off and did some investigating. It turned out that the phone switch in that part of the building was an old 'Plessey' system with a standing DC voltage on the line which was frying the modem's isolating transformer. After a quick walk round, I found a 'generic' outside line two floors up. The computer couldn't be moved as it was built into the desk and was also a 'server' (Netware Lite!) and running an LED board display system - the viewers in London were to see the display software in action, but it wouldn't fire up and work unless connected to the display - which was about 10ft square and mounted high on a wall. I despatched my junior colleague to buy some long phone extension cords/reels......After about two hours, he came back with several bulging carrier bags - he'd been to the local hardware superstore but they only had a few 2m cords so he'd been to every electrical shop he could find buying up short cords. We sat down and linked about 30-40 together to reach the phone outlet! The cords were taped to floors, walls etc. to get to the phone socket. The modem still worked - but smelled kinda burnt!
1) The computer room floor built with a 4 foot void rather than 4 inches because the builder read the plans wrong. Mid you, there was room for a lot of kit in this 'split level' computer room.
2) The Netware 3.x file server which was a Toshiba T3200 plasma screen laptop locked inside a filing cabinet (a very secure solution on a military base). While I was working on it, a telephone began to ring in the next drawer up. I mentioned this to someone as nobody seemed to have heard it and the reply was "Oh, we don't answer that one"
3) The Olivetti M24 (AT&T 6300) that lived in a milking shed in the middle of a dusty field that eventually died and had to have a 2-3 inch layer of 'field' vacuumed out.
4) The computer room built with the existing radiators walled in but not turned off - took ages for the aircon guys to figure out why the room never cooled to the calculated temp.
5) The installation test of a new halon system (with a cylinder of CO2) where the engineers had not properly screwed the nozzle onto the 'j' pipe in the centre of the room. When the system was fired, the nozzle shot through the false ceiling, the gas followed it and the pressure blew down all the ceiling ties - the computer room looked like a scene from Die Hard.
6) The school network that comprised 5+ 'backbones' of 10Base2, each with around 20-30 D-Link *hubs* wired directly to cat5 outlets. Netware servers strategically placed round the building acted as repeaters with 2-3 NICs in each. We also found some Cat4 cable buried directly into the walls (no trunking).
7) 140m of Ethernet coax buried below a school field to link two buildings.
8) The over-length Token Ring network that included specially designed and developed repeaters that had to be 'tuned' using a screwdriver to adjust variable resistors to get the timing 'just right' so that the whole thing worked.
I have to add that I was *always* the support person brought in to sort things out - not the one creating the mess.
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Making your own language eh - that's a legal minefield right there for a start. Does anyone at SCO know about this?
..the programmer enthuses that from a technical point of view, the elegance of the user interface and well structured internal architecture makes it an exciting development platform.
The networking consultant explains that a switch to Vista will improve network performance and data security.
The IT Managers wonder if there is a Vista Conference they can attend - somewhere abroad with decent nightlife - and they start to debate who has the highest limit on their corporate credit cards.
Ah, April 1st - the day when I seriously contemplate checking out Digg but generally end up at Fark or doing some work.
Is that anything like fuzzy logic?
"A compiler is a piece of software that takes the text version of the script and converts it into something that can actually run."
Glad that's all cleared up!
1) You could deliver your PowerPoint presentation in Paris from your office in San Francisco via videophone and STILL point out the interesting bits to the audience.
2) Later that night you could pick out a cinema in Paris and really piss off the audience by squiggling on the screen.
Only if you use 399000000000BaseT cable
Elite Hackorz just keep quiet about these kind of things!
1) How about an ID exchange - you copy the file to a friend and their ID takes it over and yours stops being able to play it - or you just load it onto a cheap MP3 player owned by you (with your ID) and lend it - just as you lent someone a tape enclosed in a plastic carrying 'cassette'.
2) You release your ID from the file by assigning it to the new owner - or the files just don't have any resale value 'cos they only cost you a few pennies.
If I could implant all my media devices with a unique-to-me identifier and then transfer any content I have paid for *from any source* to any of my devices then I'd be happy with such DRM. Trouble is, this implies all companies with a vested interest in DRM cooperating and the system actually working.
Until that time, I am forced to live in a world where I can listen to an MP3 file at home on 'Player A'. I can also take and use 'Player A' in my car, round a friend's house (and let them listen!), whilst shopping, on the train, plane etc., but heaven forbid I should try and copy or move my MP3 file from 'Player A' to my in-car 'Player B' which is designed to be operated whilst driving, unlike player A which is about as big as a small box of matches and is bloody dangerous to fiddle with whilst on the move.
Ooh look - three replies in a row - parallel!! - explaining the definition of a term related to parallel processing.
Is something going to explode now?
Some sites (like hotels and posh apartments) use small '5A round pin' sockets for things such as desk lamps - especially if the power feed includes a dimmer switch - it stops you unplugging the lamp and using the outlet for something that won't appreciate the dimmer.
dutchpipe.org:
/just sayin'
The DutchPIPE server is down
socket_create(): unable to connect [61]: Connection refused
In other news, Darl McBride has been studying footage of Linus Torvalds, other notable Linux developers and senior executives of IBM, Novell and other major corporates after noticing that their gait when walking shows a definite delay of several tens of milliseconds in the uplift of the left foot upon taking a normal walking stride.
Darl Explained that as part of his 'Image for SCO' policy, instigated in late 2002, he sent all his senior executives on a special course to teach them how to 'enter a room with purpose and drive', and they were taught to modify their walking pattern in a way that exaggerated their 'business swagger' when entering a room.
This so-called 'Darl McStride' was apparently developed by a team of leading psychologists and physiotherapists at a cost of several thousand dollars and, says Mr Mcbride, is the intellectual property of SCO.
"We are not totally insensitive to the accidental use of our intellectual property by those involved in road accidents, recovering from surgery or having naturally-occurring limb deformities that cause them to imitate our Business Swagger, but I take exception to profit-making organisations using it for their own gain when entering a room, and if they wish to do so they should licence the concept on a commercial basis". It has been rumoured that Rowan Atkinson, the comic actor behind such characters as the bumbling "Mr Bean" is already engaged in licensing discussions with SCO. John Cleese was unavailable for comment.
Wot, no Halliburton?
I am just evaluating a Siemens Gigaset C460 SIP/DECT Phone. So far so good - we have an Asterisk server in the office but I have taken the phone home and it's connected to both our regular land line and network, registered with the Asterisk server via ADSL - in fact, it's connected to my home network via a wireless bridge too!
The phone comes with a charging base and a separate base station to which the land line and network are connected. Cost £70+VAT in the UK.
http://tinyurl.com/25mwkv (link to broadbandtuff.co.uk)
Worth a look
I think that should have been "What ho, Gromit - bit of a whoosh there, eh, lad?"
I'd be more worried about watching episodes of Dr Who online when the cybermen are involved.."delete..delete..delete".
There's also a joke about talking too loud near your computer to a colleague named Colin who's asked you which of several designs for a new brochure you prefer - but I can't be bothered to set the scene:
"Format C, Colin"
Skip the over-priced, 'fanboy' stuff and get something functional like an HTC Hermes/TyTN that's a phone and can also run Tomtom in conjunction with a bluetooth/GPS dongle. Being WM5-based it can also play your music and videos, do your email etc. etc.
Glad to be of service!
CRM is one of a broad range of software applications that can be purchased off the shelf, obtained through Open Source channels or implemented by a software consultancy firm that spends a lot of time with you to determine your needs, develops a draft spec, agrees a stonkingly large fee and then sends a team of developers to live with you for many months, drinking your coffee, attempting to get off with the secretaries and hacking your vending machines.
Soon, the consultancy company realises they have underestimated the complexity of your requirements and that it is going to take much longer to implement, but they demand more money and time on the basis that YOU have changed the spec. After an extended period of development, a highly-personalised software application is handed over to you and you soon discover that it works pretty much to specification but with quite a few rough edges that will be "dealt with as part of the 5-year snags process".
The system is so complex to manage that the only people who can support it are the original developers - but they are mostly working elsewhere on other projects by now or have left to become 'independent consultants' advising other customers who are having terrible problems getting their CRM system to work properly due to poor implementation.
Even though the software consultancy firm cannot support your system to your satisfaction, you are locked into a support contract that means you pay an annual fee to them for the rest of your life. Eventually you begin to abandon parts of the software "'cos it's quicker and easier to do it in a spreadsheet".
Meh,
I immediately reformatted my newly-purchased Acer's hard disk, installed DR-DOS and Crosstalk and do all my computing on a VAX 11/750.
Next...
Well, if only the NASA scientists had studied these 'historical documents' of which you speak then they would have done a better job.
I once had to lash up a computer in the Channel Islands (Jersey) so that its screen could be seen during a presentation in the Natural History Museum in London. I confirmed there was a phone socket next to the computer and flew out to Jersey with a US Robotics modem and some remote s/w (probably PC Anywhere or the like - it was about 1989).
...After about two hours, he came back with several bulging carrier bags - he'd been to the local hardware superstore but they only had a few 2m cords so he'd been to every electrical shop he could find buying up short cords. We sat down and linked about 30-40 together to reach the phone outlet! The cords were taped to floors, walls etc. to get to the phone socket. The modem still worked - but smelled kinda burnt!
Anyway, things went well-ish until the modem started to smoke. I quickly turned it off and did some investigating. It turned out that the phone switch in that part of the building was an old 'Plessey' system with a standing DC voltage on the line which was frying the modem's isolating transformer. After a quick walk round, I found a 'generic' outside line two floors up. The computer couldn't be moved as it was built into the desk and was also a 'server' (Netware Lite!) and running an LED board display system - the viewers in London were to see the display software in action, but it wouldn't fire up and work unless connected to the display - which was about 10ft square and mounted high on a wall. I despatched my junior colleague to buy some long phone extension cords/reels...
1) The computer room floor built with a 4 foot void rather than 4 inches because the builder read the plans wrong. Mid you, there was room for a lot of kit in this 'split level' computer room.
2) The Netware 3.x file server which was a Toshiba T3200 plasma screen laptop locked inside a filing cabinet (a very secure solution on a military base). While I was working on it, a telephone began to ring in the next drawer up. I mentioned this to someone as nobody seemed to have heard it and the reply was "Oh, we don't answer that one"
3) The Olivetti M24 (AT&T 6300) that lived in a milking shed in the middle of a dusty field that eventually died and had to have a 2-3 inch layer of 'field' vacuumed out.
4) The computer room built with the existing radiators walled in but not turned off - took ages for the aircon guys to figure out why the room never cooled to the calculated temp.
5) The installation test of a new halon system (with a cylinder of CO2) where the engineers had not properly screwed the nozzle onto the 'j' pipe in the centre of the room. When the system was fired, the nozzle shot through the false ceiling, the gas followed it and the pressure blew down all the ceiling ties - the computer room looked like a scene from Die Hard.
6) The school network that comprised 5+ 'backbones' of 10Base2, each with around 20-30 D-Link *hubs* wired directly to cat5 outlets. Netware servers strategically placed round the building acted as repeaters with 2-3 NICs in each. We also found some Cat4 cable buried directly into the walls (no trunking).
7) 140m of Ethernet coax buried below a school field to link two buildings.
8) The over-length Token Ring network that included specially designed and developed repeaters that had to be 'tuned' using a screwdriver to adjust variable resistors to get the timing 'just right' so that the whole thing worked.
I have to add that I was *always* the support person brought in to sort things out - not the one creating the mess.