we use them here for medical electronic data capture carts. they'll sell you all the mouting brackets, arms, trolleys etc that you could possibly need. they aren't cheap, but they are good. i particularly like their "command post" system for putting pc workstations in hostile industrial environments...
if your AC fails, you have a surpringly short time before heat will become a major problem. A portable aircon unit or 5 and some door wedges, combined with your largest sysadmins on guard duty, could save your bacon...
worst case I've seen (and admittedly some of it was down to my hamfistedness) involved an expensive WD raptor drive in an expensive Antec 900 case. Due to the motherboard position, it was a really tight fit to get the SATA plug in. One slip and some lateral force (not much, but evidently enough) got applied to the inserted SATA plug. Result? Snapped the 2mm thick plastic SATA socket surround off the WD drive. Completely ruined the drive until I hotglued the plug in: which isn't exactly ideal for a RAID 0 system! Not my finest moment...
...suck balls. Whoever designed the SATA data and power connectors should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves - they're terrible. They don't lock, they're flimsy and they break if a lateral force is applied to the cable. At least IDE's bulletproof.
Jesus, Amiga fanboys still exist. FWIW, I *had* several Amigas. I preferred them to STs, too, and you're completely correct they had superior features. However, for music - specifically midi sequencing back in the early days of doing this on a computer - the ST was better out of the box as it had both the hardware (midi ports, high res mac-style greyscale monitor that displayed enough info to legibly use cubase) and it had cubase itself.
There's still some around in recording studios now as they kind of never really stopped being useful.
I wasn't knocking the Amiga at all, just pointing out an area that the ST excelled in.
Your full page rant at a passing comment suggests maybe you should get out more, and stop obsessing about dead computers. And that's coming from a geek.
If you're buying a used phone, get a new battery right away. Phone batteries fade off rapidly after a couple of years, in how long they'll hold a charge.
Nah. All the Euro phones on ebay'll be quite recent - we get new phones every year and sell the older ones on ebay. I've had loads off ebay (got to love those early adopters subsiding my smartphone habit!) - I've never killed a phone battery or experienced noticeably degraded performance since we got rid on NiCad batteries on the early GSM handsets - and I've had a *lot* of GSM handsets...
...if it's a GSM phone, just buy a euro one off ebay. Just make it clear that you're not asking for it to be posted to Nigeria, and you're not intending to pay with Western Union!
In the UK, we change our phones often. If you're on contract, you can get the latest and greatest as a free upgrade every year. Prices for calls on such a contract are not worse than pricing for pay-as-you-go calls. Sure, the subsidised ones are usually locked, but unlocking a GSM phone's trivial - a lot you can do yourself with a bit of googling, others you pay the price of a slice of pizza to someone over the phone or internet and they unlock it for you.
...it's because the increase in accuracy is *expensive*. survey-grade GPS, such as that supplied by Trimble, also use differential GPS and land beacons to get the accuracy down to inches. This isn't practical for consumer grade navigation units, or indeed necessary. Such devices aren't licenced or restricted, they're just expensive.
You either put up with a bad situation, or you do something about it.
If you want to do something about it, make the business case for change. Put in simple terms the risks to the companies bottom line if they continue as they are doing. Let the numbers talk for you - this shouldn't be an emotive issue.
No company wants to spend more than they have to on IT or any other resource: the point is that your job is to make it very, very clear what the minimum budget is for continued operations at an agreed level of risk.
That's *exactly* what you should be doing. Step up to it and do your job properly. Build a preproduction environment. Test on it. Write test scripts and automate as much as you can, but if you're calling something a "production environment" and you're letting it get autopatched without testing, you're not a system administrator. You're a disaster waiting to happen.
...and well, no.
The "analogue hole" can be made such a PITA that people don't bother. For example, someone could mandate that your video camera have a digital watermark detector built into it, that would detect you attempting to record the screen of copyright material. It's an extreme example, sure, but then again the World's most popular OS has just been updated primarily to do pretty much exactly this to all data passing through its signal path, so maybe not *that* extreme an example...
...are they shipping an A2DP bluetooth chip and a surface-mount soldering system in the box with Leopard, so that I can put in my Macbook to replace the existing one that *doesn't* support A2DP?
I'm assuming the lack of the stereo bluetooth protocol A2DP is what the OP was referring to. This is *really* irritating. My Macbook doesn't have it either, and I can only presume that Apple deliberately don't add this feature because they think it'll reduce sales of Apple TV or something by allowing you to stream audio to your hifi or similar.
Seriously, A2DP on phones is great. Add a stereo bluetooth car kit to your motor and you can stream your tunes into your car stereo in fairly high quality...
They'll charge a "reasonable fee" for the unlocking when you're out of contract. This will be a non-trivial amount of money, and your contract may well lock you in for upto 2 years anyway so they don't *have* to SIM-unlock it during that period to protect their revenue. When unlocked, your iPhone will function on a competitors GSM network, but will probably lack operator-specific iPhone enhancements such as Visual Voicemail.
Bottom-line - it'll make little difference to them. They're almost certainly getting a sweet deal from the operators they choose, who will sell them like hotcakes, and they're getting money on the hardware. Sure, there'll be some churn, but it's not going to exactly worry them...
"Right, and how many people drive diesels compared to gasoline engines?"
Around 50% of us in Europe, thanks.
My 5m-long Skoda Superb has a VW/Audi 1.9 liter TDI engine, and with a simple remap puts out 193BHP and 312 foot/pounds of torque. It also gets 50 miles to the UK gallon (around 41 mpg in US gallons...
"My own personal experience with being bullied in school didn't make me want to do it to other people"
And yet you disagree with the poster who said "Surely, if you want to make men of boys, there must be better ways than bullying, which mostly teaches the lesson that you don't need to think for yourself if you join a pack of dumbfucks.".
Isn't the logical inference that you were bullied, and now you don't see anything wrong with others being bullied? I.e. bullying begets bullying?
A 0.3mm paint fleck nearly penetrated an armoured glass window. A ball bearing sized projectile is going to penetrate *any* conventional armour. If you were able to launch a spaceship that *did* have 10m thick armour in order to resist a ball bearing, then an attacker could use a bunch of projectiles the size of an apple. And so on. The point is that it doesn't scale: an attacker always has a huge advantage and it's easy and cheap for them to outgun you with something that'll put a hole in your assets...
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we use them here for medical electronic data capture carts. they'll sell you all the mouting brackets, arms, trolleys etc that you could possibly need. they aren't cheap, but they are good. i particularly like their "command post" system for putting pc workstations in hostile industrial environments...
if your AC fails, you have a surpringly short time before heat will become a major problem. A portable aircon unit or 5 and some door wedges, combined with your largest sysadmins on guard duty, could save your bacon...
The previous N770 models are on sale at Expansys and the like in the UK for around 80UKP at the moment. Just saying...
...a definite answer!
worst case I've seen (and admittedly some of it was down to my hamfistedness) involved an expensive WD raptor drive in an expensive Antec 900 case. Due to the motherboard position, it was a really tight fit to get the SATA plug in. One slip and some lateral force (not much, but evidently enough) got applied to the inserted SATA plug. Result? Snapped the 2mm thick plastic SATA socket surround off the WD drive. Completely ruined the drive until I hotglued the plug in: which isn't exactly ideal for a RAID 0 system! Not my finest moment...
...suck balls. Whoever designed the SATA data and power connectors should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves - they're terrible. They don't lock, they're flimsy and they break if a lateral force is applied to the cable. At least IDE's bulletproof.
There's still some around in recording studios now as they kind of never really stopped being useful.
I wasn't knocking the Amiga at all, just pointing out an area that the ST excelled in.
Your full page rant at a passing comment suggests maybe you should get out more, and stop obsessing about dead computers. And that's coming from a geek.
...it came with midi, Cubase, and that dinky little high-res greyscale monitor...
Nah. All the Euro phones on ebay'll be quite recent - we get new phones every year and sell the older ones on ebay. I've had loads off ebay (got to love those early adopters subsiding my smartphone habit!) - I've never killed a phone battery or experienced noticeably degraded performance since we got rid on NiCad batteries on the early GSM handsets - and I've had a *lot* of GSM handsets...
...if it's a GSM phone, just buy a euro one off ebay. Just make it clear that you're not asking for it to be posted to Nigeria, and you're not intending to pay with Western Union!
In the UK, we change our phones often. If you're on contract, you can get the latest and greatest as a free upgrade every year. Prices for calls on such a contract are not worse than pricing for pay-as-you-go calls. Sure, the subsidised ones are usually locked, but unlocking a GSM phone's trivial - a lot you can do yourself with a bit of googling, others you pay the price of a slice of pizza to someone over the phone or internet and they unlock it for you.
...it's because the increase in accuracy is *expensive*. survey-grade GPS, such as that supplied by Trimble, also use differential GPS and land beacons to get the accuracy down to inches. This isn't practical for consumer grade navigation units, or indeed necessary. Such devices aren't licenced or restricted, they're just expensive.
If you want to do something about it, make the business case for change. Put in simple terms the risks to the companies bottom line if they continue as they are doing. Let the numbers talk for you - this shouldn't be an emotive issue.
No company wants to spend more than they have to on IT or any other resource: the point is that your job is to make it very, very clear what the minimum budget is for continued operations at an agreed level of risk.
That's *exactly* what you should be doing. Step up to it and do your job properly. Build a preproduction environment. Test on it. Write test scripts and automate as much as you can, but if you're calling something a "production environment" and you're letting it get autopatched without testing, you're not a system administrator. You're a disaster waiting to happen.
I really hope this is true: I'd be very happy if my MB could stream via A2DP. Fingers crossed!
...and well, no.
The "analogue hole" can be made such a PITA that people don't bother. For example, someone could mandate that your video camera have a digital watermark detector built into it, that would detect you attempting to record the screen of copyright material. It's an extreme example, sure, but then again the World's most popular OS has just been updated primarily to do pretty much exactly this to all data passing through its signal path, so maybe not *that* extreme an example...
That's the whole point of the "protected signal path" idea.
...are they shipping an A2DP bluetooth chip and a surface-mount soldering system in the box with Leopard, so that I can put in my Macbook to replace the existing one that *doesn't* support A2DP?
Seriously, A2DP on phones is great. Add a stereo bluetooth car kit to your motor and you can stream your tunes into your car stereo in fairly high quality...
They'll charge a "reasonable fee" for the unlocking when you're out of contract. This will be a non-trivial amount of money, and your contract may well lock you in for upto 2 years anyway so they don't *have* to SIM-unlock it during that period to protect their revenue. When unlocked, your iPhone will function on a competitors GSM network, but will probably lack operator-specific iPhone enhancements such as Visual Voicemail.
Bottom-line - it'll make little difference to them. They're almost certainly getting a sweet deal from the operators they choose, who will sell them like hotcakes, and they're getting money on the hardware. Sure, there'll be some churn, but it's not going to exactly worry them...
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"Right, and how many people drive diesels compared to gasoline engines?"
Around 50% of us in Europe, thanks. My 5m-long Skoda Superb has a VW/Audi 1.9 liter TDI engine, and with a simple remap puts out 193BHP and 312 foot/pounds of torque. It also gets 50 miles to the UK gallon (around 41 mpg in US gallons...
And yet you disagree with the poster who said "Surely, if you want to make men of boys, there must be better ways than bullying, which mostly teaches the lesson that you don't need to think for yourself if you join a pack of dumbfucks.".
Isn't the logical inference that you were bullied, and now you don't see anything wrong with others being bullied? I.e. bullying begets bullying?
A 0.3mm paint fleck nearly penetrated an armoured glass window. A ball bearing sized projectile is going to penetrate *any* conventional armour. If you were able to launch a spaceship that *did* have 10m thick armour in order to resist a ball bearing, then an attacker could use a bunch of projectiles the size of an apple. And so on. The point is that it doesn't scale: an attacker always has a huge advantage and it's easy and cheap for them to outgun you with something that'll put a hole in your assets...