German Landesbanken, among others. The Greeks own a lot of responsibility, but their enablers have been bailed out by the EU trying to avoid debt write downs.
The EU would have been far better off if the Germans had gotten a dose of reality by experiencing more bank failures. The average German thinks the problem is the Greeks, when it is a combination of Greeks and dumb lenders reaching for yield.
Having luggage you can manage on your own has nothing to do with nothing.
Most of my domestic flights are business. Invariably, the tickets are purchased 10 to 3 days in advance. This means, invariably, I am in the worst location on the airplane, while having paid the most.
I am the last to board, by virtue of the seating group assigned to my section on the plane, and it can be hit or miss whether I can actually carry on my carry on as the bins are full of crap from vacationeers who paid 1/6th what I did for the flight because they booked 6 months in advance.
Its got to be the IT equivalent of sports arenas (heretofore the most infamous boondoggle as a jobs creator/economic engine) - lets have a 100k sq ft thing consume far more power than 10-20 100k sq ft office parks, and we got TWO HUNDRED jobs to show for it. Fantastic.
Who in their right mind uses proxy auto config, anyway?
I'm sure there are some fringe cases where you'd need it, for example, laptops that move from one site to another within an organization, therefore need different proxy settings for each site, but really, how common is that? Common enough that they developed a proxy auto config standard.
35km line of sight for the cellular bridge station isn't bad - any wifi based technology is going to need line of sight for those same distances. Cellular means cheap GSM phones that work everywhere, as opposed to wifi phones that have limited coverage in the village, and perhaps none elsewhere (the route to the nearest urban center, and perhaps within the city itself, as it is likely already blanketed with GSM)
Read this yesterday, still don't get it. Can omni directional wifi ever compete with a cell tower's coverage range? Cellular has the advantage of insanely cheap commoditized phones.
Seems a bit like trying to use bluetooth to connect two buildings in a campus together - nominally cheap hardware, but probably cannot be coerced into doing what you seek.
The problem with Adobe is that they are Microsoft, circa 1999: adding features to drive version upgrades without thinking about security implications.
Is there a flash version that takes advantage of the security features of vista? No.
Are there delta patches for the ginormous acrobat reader install? No. Does this cause end users to decline updates? Yep. Every month or 2, another 15+ MB update, that will prompt the end user to reboot.
OS X 10.4 cannot read Windows 2003 shares on a domain controller, and perhaps all WIn2k3 servers out of the box. The only solution was to downgrade the security settings.
We are the people the sales guys have fill out the vendor audit forms, and tire of answering why all machines don't run antivirus.
Anyone who has been a sysadmin for a minimum of 6 months will not expect a truthful answer from developers as to the legality of licensing of installed software. Period.
I have a MBP at home, but have no desire to support OS X or Linux for end users at the office. I don't want to have to worry about you jetting, and having project docs in FileVault. Linux? If I did allow one in, then the complaints about distro choice begin. WSUS kills any *nix for central management of OS level security patches.
MS is taking Windows down a path for developers at the expense of system administrators. XML files? Powershell (a truly bizarre object oriented environment)?
I want to be able to edit config files in notepad - not have to find a text editor that highlights XML syntax. If I wanted to learn a scripting oriented programming language, I'd learn one used elsewhere (perl, vbscript, php, etc) in real applications, not some new take on old ideas.
No - I had the same experience. Was able to eventually get the bidirectional port 25 block lifted after numerous phone calls.
I put pass... eq 25... log rules on in and out traffic to my PIX that interfaces with the Comcast connection, and saw 0 smtp traffic in or out once the block was enacted, and mail queued for outbound in my server timed out, so no ongoing infection appeared likely. My smtp service logs had normal traffic compared to the past 6 months.
For an enormous company, growing revenue 15% is no small feat.
More importantly, the author shows his breathtaking stupidity by discussing MSFT's cash position - he points to 6/30/04, which was before MSFT's one time $3/share special dividend announced summer of 04. Currently MSFT has over 9.3 billion shares outstanding - that special dividend was a 27 billion cash outlay if we guesstimate that there were 9bill outstanding in 04.
MSFT bought acquantive for 5.9 billion, and yet their recent 10q shows around 20-21B in cash/equivalents, similar to 6/30/07, so this is a company generating a lot of free cash flow.
Admins can have client PCs pull IE updates through automatic updates on the client, and WSUS as the distribution source. This works on the client side with system services accounts - no client privs required.
I can assign.msi packages through active directory, but those only get installed at boot time, when attached to the network - so scripting a forced reboot of client machines works for desktops, but is unlikely to catch all laptops. I am doing this to keep flash and acrobat up to date.
Looking at my WSUS 3.0 console, I see 4 windows desktop search 3.01 (2003 and XP, 32 and 64bits) released on 10/23. All "not approved". They are categorized as "Updates", just like the.net framework, windows media player 11, and remote desktop 6 - i.e, non critical, non security updates that admins may want to centrally manage to ensure standardization.
If this autodeployed in a managed environment, you have a sysadmin problem.
There is a societal cost in having law enforcement officials arresting/interrogating people and inspecting devices. If we let people pretend they are artists at airports, then we need to budget 20% overhead in airport policing to maintain the previously desired policing level (pre-pretend artists). I tend to think society is not willing to pay that cost.
Windows 2003 and XP still do not have rfc 1323 options enabled by default. This means a tcp window size of 2^32 bytes maximum, which is problematic for high bandwidth high latency links.
they do - a lot of the cards that require a molex power connector will work without it in windows, but fire up a 3d game, and your system crashes. I believe my x800 xt agp runs at 200 or 300mhz in windows, 500mhz in games.
Yeah, I probably could have spent a month of my time crafting an Asterisk solution, but I wanted something that worked day one. The desktop software works brilliantly in conjunction with the desk phones (the softphone is a license option that is available through the desktop software, we went all deskphone).
Everything is pretty well thought out: the trunk testing tool on your pc server shows all activity in real time, and is very very impressive. All admin is done through a localhost IIS install ASP driven interface. It works very well for my needs - apparently there are some defiencies in templates for advanced soft button programming, but we don't have the need. Desktop software - the call history, Outlook integration are all very nice.
The E1505 is over an inch thick, probably over 1.25. The E1505 always weighs over 6lbs. It does not compare aesthetically with anything Apple makes.
That said, we got some Latitude D620's - 1440x900 screen, 2GB ram, Xp Pro, 7200 rpm hdd (60 or 80GB), 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo, 3 year idiot proof warranty (you break it, Dell owns it) for $1700ish. You can get the same config with a base warranty for $1475ish.
So, there is somewhat of an Apple tax, but Apple's out of the box software experience is infinity better - you can burn ISOs OOTB - Dell has a ouija board that dictates which cut down "special edition" burning software you have ILife no timebombed norton/security installs no quickbooks demo edition that will continue to assualt you after it is removed (this wasnt a problem on Latitudes, has been on other models).
MS cannot implement more pdf functionality in Office because Adobe runs to the EU MS has to allow McAfee and Symantec, two notorious vendors of terrible software, deeper access to the Vista
Will HP have a packaged cluster with shared scsi and 2 core 2 duo duo systems? Is there a SKU for that? That would be cool for exchange, but for sql, you might want 2 2 core 2 duo duo systems, if you need the extra cpu horsepower.
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Who lent the Greeks the money?
German Landesbanken, among others. The Greeks own a lot of responsibility, but their enablers have been bailed out by the EU trying to avoid debt write downs.
The EU would have been far better off if the Germans had gotten a dose of reality by experiencing more bank failures. The average German thinks the problem is the Greeks, when it is a combination of Greeks and dumb lenders reaching for yield.
"free, competitive marketplace"
If I need to fly Boston to Newark, what are my options?
Hint - the only direct flight is Continental, which is the same if I fly out of Providence.
Having luggage you can manage on your own has nothing to do with nothing.
Most of my domestic flights are business. Invariably, the tickets are purchased 10 to 3 days in advance. This means, invariably, I am in the worst location on the airplane, while having paid the most.
I am the last to board, by virtue of the seating group assigned to my section on the plane, and it can be hit or miss whether I can actually carry on my carry on as the bins are full of crap from vacationeers who paid 1/6th what I did for the flight because they booked 6 months in advance.
This model is insane.
Its got to be the IT equivalent of sports arenas (heretofore the most infamous boondoggle as a jobs creator/economic engine) - lets have a 100k sq ft thing consume far more power than 10-20 100k sq ft office parks, and we got TWO HUNDRED jobs to show for it. Fantastic.
I had 7 tabs open last night, 3 PDFs in them (each under 5MB apiece) - firefox 3 VM size was at 622MB this AM.
I'm sure there are some fringe cases where you'd need it, for example, laptops that move from one site to another within an organization, therefore need different proxy settings for each site, but really, how common is that? Common enough that they developed a proxy auto config standard.
35km line of sight for the cellular bridge station isn't bad - any wifi based technology is going to need line of sight for those same distances. Cellular means cheap GSM phones that work everywhere, as opposed to wifi phones that have limited coverage in the village, and perhaps none elsewhere (the route to the nearest urban center, and perhaps within the city itself, as it is likely already blanketed with GSM)
Read this yesterday, still don't get it. Can omni directional wifi ever compete with a cell tower's coverage range? Cellular has the advantage of insanely cheap commoditized phones.
Seems a bit like trying to use bluetooth to connect two buildings in a campus together - nominally cheap hardware, but probably cannot be coerced into doing what you seek.
The problem with Adobe is that they are Microsoft, circa 1999: adding features to drive version upgrades without thinking about security implications.
Is there a flash version that takes advantage of the security features of vista? No.
Are there delta patches for the ginormous acrobat reader install? No. Does this cause end users to decline updates? Yep. Every month or 2, another 15+ MB update, that will prompt the end user to reboot.
OS X 10.4 cannot read Windows 2003 shares on a domain controller, and perhaps all WIn2k3 servers out of the box. The only solution was to downgrade the security settings.
We are the people the sales guys have fill out the vendor audit forms, and tire of answering why all machines don't run antivirus.
Anyone who has been a sysadmin for a minimum of 6 months will not expect a truthful answer from developers as to the legality of licensing of installed software. Period.
I have a MBP at home, but have no desire to support OS X or Linux for end users at the office. I don't want to have to worry about you jetting, and having project docs in FileVault. Linux? If I did allow one in, then the complaints about distro choice begin. WSUS kills any *nix for central management of OS level security patches.
One offs in IT are a huge time sink.
MS is taking Windows down a path for developers at the expense of system administrators. XML files? Powershell (a truly bizarre object oriented environment)?
I want to be able to edit config files in notepad - not have to find a text editor that highlights XML syntax.
If I wanted to learn a scripting oriented programming language, I'd learn one used elsewhere (perl, vbscript, php, etc) in real applications, not some new take on old ideas.
ostiguy
No - I had the same experience. Was able to eventually get the bidirectional port 25 block lifted after numerous phone calls.
... eq 25... log rules on in and out traffic to my PIX that interfaces with the Comcast connection, and saw 0 smtp traffic in or out once the block was enacted, and mail queued for outbound in my server timed out, so no ongoing infection appeared likely. My smtp service logs had normal traffic compared to the past 6 months.
I put pass
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For an enormous company, growing revenue 15% is no small feat.
More importantly, the author shows his breathtaking stupidity by discussing MSFT's cash position - he points to 6/30/04, which was before MSFT's one time $3/share special dividend announced summer of 04. Currently MSFT has over 9.3 billion shares outstanding - that special dividend was a 27 billion cash outlay if we guesstimate that there were 9bill outstanding in 04.
MSFT bought acquantive for 5.9 billion, and yet their recent 10q shows around 20-21B in cash/equivalents, similar to 6/30/07, so this is a company generating a lot of free cash flow.
Full disclosure - no position in MSFT
Admins can have client PCs pull IE updates through automatic updates on the client, and WSUS as the distribution source. This works on the client side with system services accounts - no client privs required.
.msi packages through active directory, but those only get installed at boot time, when attached to the network - so scripting a forced reboot of client machines works for desktops, but is unlikely to catch all laptops. I am doing this to keep flash and acrobat up to date.
I can assign
Looking at my WSUS 3.0 console, I see 4 windows desktop search 3.01 (2003 and XP, 32 and 64bits) released on 10/23. All "not approved". They are categorized as "Updates", just like the .net framework, windows media player 11, and remote desktop 6 - i.e, non critical, non security updates that admins may want to centrally manage to ensure standardization.
If this autodeployed in a managed environment, you have a sysadmin problem.
There is a societal cost in having law enforcement officials arresting/interrogating people and inspecting devices. If we let people pretend they are artists at airports, then we need to budget 20% overhead in airport policing to maintain the previously desired policing level (pre-pretend artists). I tend to think society is not willing to pay that cost.
I believe it was .60 that added serial support, so no more using hyperterminal until you get ssh working on the router. Woot!
Windows 2003 and XP still do not have rfc 1323 options enabled by default. This means a tcp window size of 2^32 bytes maximum, which is problematic for high bandwidth high latency links.
that will making a Belkin KVM work properly.
Ever hear of 5 9s reliability? Belkin KVMs are a single 9 solution, and sometime I doubt they even hit that.
they do - a lot of the cards that require a molex power connector will work without it in windows, but fire up a 3d game, and your system crashes. I believe my x800 xt agp runs at 200 or 300mhz in windows, 500mhz in games.
Yeah, I probably could have spent a month of my time crafting an Asterisk solution, but I wanted something that worked day one. The desktop software works brilliantly in conjunction with the desk phones (the softphone is a license option that is available through the desktop software, we went all deskphone).
Everything is pretty well thought out:
the trunk testing tool on your pc server shows all activity in real time, and is very very impressive.
All admin is done through a localhost IIS install ASP driven interface. It works very well for my needs - apparently there are some defiencies in templates for advanced soft button programming, but we don't have the need.
Desktop software - the call history, Outlook integration are all very nice.
The E1505 is over an inch thick, probably over 1.25. The E1505 always weighs over 6lbs. It does not compare aesthetically with anything Apple makes.
That said, we got some Latitude D620's - 1440x900 screen, 2GB ram, Xp Pro, 7200 rpm hdd (60 or 80GB), 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo, 3 year idiot proof warranty (you break it, Dell owns it) for $1700ish. You can get the same config with a base warranty for $1475ish.
So, there is somewhat of an Apple tax, but Apple's out of the box software experience is infinity better -
you can burn ISOs OOTB - Dell has a ouija board that dictates which cut down "special edition" burning software you have
ILife
no timebombed norton/security installs
no quickbooks demo edition that will continue to assualt you after it is removed (this wasnt a problem on Latitudes, has been on other models).
Look at how the regulation manifests itself:
MS cannot implement more pdf functionality in Office because Adobe runs to the EU
MS has to allow McAfee and Symantec, two notorious vendors of terrible software, deeper access to the Vista
How does this help consumers at all?
Will HP have a packaged cluster with shared scsi and 2 core 2 duo duo systems? Is there a SKU for that? That would be cool for exchange, but for sql, you might want 2 2 core 2 duo duo systems, if you need the extra cpu horsepower.