If my 5 year old takes my 3 year old's toy he gets less punishment than if I caught him stealing from some other family. That's not bias. That's common sense.
If the role was reversed, I'd hope that you blokes in the UK would ream the hell out of a 'mercan who gained unauthorized access to your defence establishment's network.
You buy the car. You forget a payment. You're driving down the road and stop at a light next to a woman who looks like the type to appreciate a man in a brand-new Lexus when, all of a sudden, the car starts yelling, I'M GAY! HUNG LIKE A CHIPMUNK, TOO! I'M A THIEF!
that if the car senses a collision is imminent, regardless of its attempts to prevent it, that it just explodes so it can maintain it's "collision proof" claim.
Replying to state that the unit they reviewed, the mv2020, is compatible with MAC, Linux, and Windows, as shown below:
* Min Operating system Linux, Apple MacOS , Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
More from the review:...the Media Vault is quite a speed demon at both reading and writing. In the CNET Labs' tests, it averaged 15 minutes, 12 seconds to write a 5GB folder of mixed file types from the PC to the Media Vault. It read the same folder back in 13 minutes, 25 seconds. None of the other NAS units we've tested beat the Media Vault's read or write times.
I have to echo FPs mention of the installer being a complete PITA. It was so much of a pain that I loaded (*gasp*)Vista Media Center instead.
While I like the new interface of MythTV, I'm going to find it more than a bit difficult to switch now that I'm used to the interface in Vista Media Center. It's relatively simple, it's uncluttered, and it just works. Oh...it was a snap to install as well.
$700 for a video card solution. Unless I'm going SLI, then it's like $1200 or so for two cards because you gotta get 'em the day they're released...NOT after the inevitable price drop. Of course, you gotta throw in extra for the water blocks and pump, and tubes, and reservoir and such, so in reality I never spend more than like $850 each...Unless I am buying for my Tri-SLI capable board...then it's like $2450, and add like $250 for a 1200watt PSU and like $550 for three water blocks and stuff, so it's like close to, but under $3000 for video cards...wait...why is there only Raman Noodles in the cupboard?
Not trying to change the subject here, mind you. Just pointing out that while I have seen many stories on the local news and internet about this change over to digital, I've seen comparatively few stories about tax payers up in arms over the proposed bailout which will basically mortgage the future of the next several generations of americans...
It is proof that the brainwashing of america has, thus far, been pretty successful.
We don't generally seem to give a crap about that, but we want our cheap gas and first-run entertainment, and we want it N-O-W!
How the cracking software got onto the restore DVD as well as why it was even present at Asus in the first place.
I can't imagine why a company like Asus would even "need" to crack software keys when they can, most likely, get it at a discount. I mean, it's not like Asus is a barely-scraping-by company that is unable to afford even simple tools.
Actually, if your wife's computer runs 24/7 it would be less susceptible to the problem since the problem they are experiencing is exacerbated by thermal cycling. fewer cycles of heating up and cooling down = less of a chance to fail.
Remove their heads from their collective rectum and correct the damn problems they have with their video cards and motherboard chipsets.
I've been a loyal nVidia customer since the good old days of the Diamond V550 TNT card through the 8800GTX but they have really hosed up lately.
My 780i board has major data coruption problems on the IDE channel and my laptop is one of the ones affected by their recall so I am not too pleased with their ability to execute lately...
This isn't the first time they've been caught doing something "odd" with their code and it likely won't be the last.
That said, keep in mind it's a 3 year old benchmark. Whatever relevance this benchmarking program has today is far more lessened by its age than by any results shown from this research. Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending Futuremark at all. I don't particularly like their suite of benchmarking tools, and not just because of the "odd" results.
How well a platform scores in Futuremark is less relevant than how well it plays your games or movies or compiles your code or rips your movies/CDs. It's my humble belief that a proper benchmark of a system is how well it will perform in the role you want to use the computer.
If I can play GRID at 1920x1200 at the maximum settings possible with playable frame rates I'm happy. If I can play Crysis at the same resolution and settings, cool. If AOC runs well at those settings, then I built a nice system.
Curiosity for certain aspects of network management is far different than "snooping" on employees.
As has been stated, Reading their email or watching them surf does nothing to increase the security of the network.
(on a windows network)
You wanna be curious? Fine. Go pull a listing of the 8000+ databases on the network share and check their properties to see if they are secured correctly so the HR data contained in some of them isn't available to be seen by the "everyone" group.
Go search for old, out dated data files that haven't been accessed in 5 years, or personal multimedia files sitting on your shared space because the users want to listen to music all day long but are too cheap to bring in a $6 radio.
These are some of the things a decent Admin would and should look for (among others) but that power does not justify snooping on people because you're too bored to crack open a tech manual of some sort or read a tech-site online
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"Captain" is your biblical name?
In our ever-increasing need to "dumb down" all things related to computers, this will only result in more bloated, slow code.
*sigh*
I for one look forward to our "21 freaking seconds to access BIOS?!" overlords.
that it still only scored 4.7 on the Vista Performance Index...
Think of it in this context
If my 5 year old takes my 3 year old's toy he gets less punishment than if I caught him stealing from some other family. That's not bias. That's common sense.
If the role was reversed, I'd hope that you blokes in the UK would ream the hell out of a 'mercan who gained unauthorized access to your defence establishment's network.
So maybe they too can ask for a bailout of say...$50,000,000, perhaps?
it's also quite possible to have an adaptive and modular personality with a "core" that is "you".
I fall into this final category.
My mother thinks i'm one person, my friends think im another, my boss thinks i'm another.
You're Gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you. Just thought you should know.
You buy the car. You forget a payment. You're driving down the road and stop at a light next to a woman who looks like the type to appreciate a man in a brand-new Lexus when, all of a sudden, the car starts yelling, I'M GAY! HUNG LIKE A CHIPMUNK, TOO! I'M A THIEF!
that if the car senses a collision is imminent, regardless of its attempts to prevent it, that it just explodes so it can maintain it's "collision proof" claim.
Replying to state that the unit they reviewed, the mv2020, is compatible with MAC, Linux, and Windows, as shown below:
* Min Operating system Linux, Apple MacOS , Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
More from the review: ...the Media Vault is quite a speed demon at both reading and writing. In the CNET Labs' tests, it averaged 15 minutes, 12 seconds to write a 5GB folder of mixed file types from the PC to the Media Vault. It read the same folder back in 13 minutes, 25 seconds. None of the other NAS units we've tested beat the Media Vault's read or write times.
According to the CNET reviews I saw,located at http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/hp-media-vault-mv2020/4505-3190_7-32104518-2.html the actual 5GB copy tests they did show it being faster than the rest, even one other system using RAID5
I have to echo FPs mention of the installer being a complete PITA. It was so much of a pain that I loaded (*gasp*)Vista Media Center instead.
While I like the new interface of MythTV, I'm going to find it more than a bit difficult to switch now that I'm used to the interface in Vista Media Center. It's relatively simple, it's uncluttered, and it just works. Oh...it was a snap to install as well.
Answer:
"See Cost Benefit Analysis of DBA. If the computers aren't up, he can't do shit. So, it's that amount + $1 MINIMUM.
Now leave me alone so I can go back to reading /."
He may wanna go out and get a copy of GTA for the insurance discount. I hear he's looking to save money after being disbarred.
$700 for a video card solution. Unless I'm going SLI, then it's like $1200 or so for two cards because you gotta get 'em the day they're released...NOT after the inevitable price drop. Of course, you gotta throw in extra for the water blocks and pump, and tubes, and reservoir and such, so in reality I never spend more than like $850 each...Unless I am buying for my Tri-SLI capable board...then it's like $2450, and add like $250 for a 1200watt PSU and like $550 for three water blocks and stuff, so it's like close to, but under $3000 for video cards...wait...why is there only Raman Noodles in the cupboard?
Not trying to change the subject here, mind you. Just pointing out that while I have seen many stories on the local news and internet about this change over to digital, I've seen comparatively few stories about tax payers up in arms over the proposed bailout which will basically mortgage the future of the next several generations of americans...
It is proof that the brainwashing of america has, thus far, been pretty successful.
We don't generally seem to give a crap about that, but we want our cheap gas and first-run entertainment, and we want it N-O-W!
whoosh...
So much for the ocscure reference to Bob & Doug MacKenzie and the Great White North...
Since the standard conversion formula is to (X * 2) +30 all you have to do is (X / 2) -30 for US measurements.
That equals -24.5 so they've already been there and passed it!
Must've been a guy controlling the rover...we never ask directions.
How the cracking software got onto the restore DVD as well as why it was even present at Asus in the first place.
I can't imagine why a company like Asus would even "need" to crack software keys when they can, most likely, get it at a discount. I mean, it's not like Asus is a barely-scraping-by company that is unable to afford even simple tools.
Actually, if your wife's computer runs 24/7 it would be less susceptible to the problem since the problem they are experiencing is exacerbated by thermal cycling. fewer cycles of heating up and cooling down = less of a chance to fail.
Remove their heads from their collective rectum and correct the damn problems they have with their video cards and motherboard chipsets.
I've been a loyal nVidia customer since the good old days of the Diamond V550 TNT card through the 8800GTX but they have really hosed up lately.
My 780i board has major data coruption problems on the IDE channel and my laptop is one of the ones affected by their recall so I am not too pleased with their ability to execute lately...
This isn't the first time they've been caught doing something "odd" with their code and it likely won't be the last.
That said, keep in mind it's a 3 year old benchmark. Whatever relevance this benchmarking program has today is far more lessened by its age than by any results shown from this research. Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending Futuremark at all. I don't particularly like their suite of benchmarking tools, and not just because of the "odd" results.
How well a platform scores in Futuremark is less relevant than how well it plays your games or movies or compiles your code or rips your movies/CDs. It's my humble belief that a proper benchmark of a system is how well it will perform in the role you want to use the computer.
If I can play GRID at 1920x1200 at the maximum settings possible with playable frame rates I'm happy.
If I can play Crysis at the same resolution and settings, cool.
If AOC runs well at those settings, then I built a nice system.
If Futuremark runs well...so?
Ken! This is Jesus. Stop touching yourself!
Hate to sound like an advertisement, but this unit runs Linux and gets pretty darned good reviews.
If I get another NAS unit, this will be the one I buy.
Duke Nukem Forever.
This software should have been freed up years ago.
Too little, too late, IMHO.
Curiosity for certain aspects of network management is far different than "snooping" on employees.
As has been stated, Reading their email or watching them surf does nothing to increase the security of the network.
(on a windows network)
You wanna be curious? Fine. Go pull a listing of the 8000+ databases on the network share and check their properties to see if they are secured correctly so the HR data contained in some of them isn't available to be seen by the "everyone" group.
Go search for old, out dated data files that haven't been accessed in 5 years, or personal multimedia files sitting on your shared space because the users want to listen to music all day long but are too cheap to bring in a $6 radio.
These are some of the things a decent Admin would and should look for (among others) but that power does not justify snooping on people because you're too bored to crack open a tech manual of some sort or read a tech-site online