I was told by a local Cisco engineer that when Best Buy built their new HQ in a southern suburb of Minneapolis a few years ago they went wireless in a bunch of the areas to save on future recabling. They put them in high density and low power... so talk to your Cisco rep and ask them about that. If nothing else they can chat with the Minneapolis office about it...
Over the years I have had a Newton MessagePad (the best of all, IMHO), Palm III, Palm VII, and a Toshiba e710.
Every one of them (with the exception of the Newton) broke. The wireless in the Palm VII broke. Twice. The Toshiba kept hard resetting itself for no good reason, so I'd have to reload it again and again, then finally the battery gave out. So for now I've given up on PDA's
I don't have time for a porable tool like a PDA, phone or music player that doesn't just work, do what I want it to do, and do it well. That's why I love my iPod mini. It works well and does what I want it to do with a simple, clean interface and long battery life. I use it to store and play music, period. I keep basic contacts either in my phone or the appropriate email account.
While I'd love to have a single, unified device that brought together everything, I don't think it's possible right now to do that and have a reasonable form factor, battery life and user interface that was worth anything. I am happy having a phone separate from my music player.
I buy almost all of my personal gear from ZipZoomFly. I have used them for years and have always been quite happy with their prices and shipping. I have converted several friends, co-workers and customers to them as well.
With ZZF, very few things DON'T come with free 2-day FedEx shipping. A $9 item does, just heavy things like cases don't seem to.
My only complaints with them are their website's search function isn't the greatest, and sometimes the sorts aren't what I wanted, but for those prices I can live with that.
I have never had to execute a return or exchange with them so I can't vouch for their ease of use in those departments.
I get in trouble at work just for correcting people on their incorrect word usage.
People in high-visibility positions (not high ranking, just their communications go out to several thousand employees a week) should know the difference between "do to" and "due to", or "que" and "queue", and seem to take offense when they are informed (nicely even) that the word they used was incorrect... really want to see them blow, include the definition or the link to dictionary.com...:-)
Absolutely!! I used NetBotz to great success in my former server rooms for those very purposes.
After having one too many holidays runied by failed air conditioners I bought two of them, one for each server room. They come with temp and airflow sensors, microphones, cameras, all sorts of great stuff. You configure it with a web interface to alert you on various threshholds, from temp to airflow to motion on the camera to loud noises, and it can page you, email you, etc.
I just made sure that it was positioned so I could see useful stuff throught he camera, that air was hitting it for airflow detection, and even hung a flag from one of the vents so I could see the airflow if I wanted. I set temp alerts so I could catch an A/C emergency long before it got to "bake" temps, and put in the on-call pager number to page me.
They paid for themselves numerous times in saved trips and saved gear, giving me time to call facilities management in or deal with power issues, whatever they detected.
I eat breakfast at the computer every day, with two pieces of toast. Not that white wonder-crap either, some nice, heavy whole-grain toast, toasted fairly dark. Makes it somewhat crunchy.
Every bite is a crumb-bonanza. I have to clean under/around the keyboard every few weeks.
I think the keyboard is due for cleaning or replacement soon...
I've never had a Maxtor drive NOT go bad. I have always considered them to be junk. If a customer has a bad drive it is always a Maxtor I find when I crack the case.
I've only had one WD die in the last 10 or so years, and that was a LONG time ago, when drive capacities weren't measured in gigabytes. That's why I will only put WD drives in my personal machines at this point.
Most of the time I wind up replacing them with higher capacity drives before they have time to wear out.
At the same time, any important data is on a mirrored volume, and some of that data is backed up off-site. I can't back up the 10+ 11-Gb dumps of the video tapes of my kid, but a raid controller and second drive for a mirror is relatively inexpensive considering how long it takes to pull the data back off the video tape, or to edit the movie again...
Look in your phone book or other directory of choice for a local shredding service. In the Twin Cities (MN) one of the services (I can't remember which, maybe Shred-It) will occasionally send a truck around to do free shredding. They park it someplace, you give then your documents and watch it go into the super-shredder in the truck. Otherwise I'm sure for a box or two of paper they won't charge very much to do the shredding.
Personally I just have a nice fine cross-cut shredder (about $100) and occasionally have a shredding day and shred tons of stuff. May take an hour or two but it is kind of fun to shred away the parts of your life that have gone by.
Both of my banks also allow PDF delivery of their statements, and have for a few years. I stopped getting paper statements then.
They can't always speak, or don't always know where they are.
When I was in EMT training we got to hear quite a few 911 calls and go through the case. More than once the person started to call for help (generally due to herat attack or the like) and couldn't get as far as their name before they collapsed with the phone off the hook. Fortunately, 911 had the guys address right on the screen and had already rolled service and advised they may have to use forced entry.
And if a little kid calls they may not know or be able to relay their current physical location. Or they may know but due to the trauma of mommy laying on the floor unconscious not be able to relay that info to the nice dispatcher on the other side.
So am I crazy, or shoudl these desktop machines not even be HOLDING this kind of data? Sensitive information (all business-related data in my opinion) belongs on the server, not on individual machiens. The server belongs in a secured, protected space. You should be able to lose all of your "personal" computers and only have the inconvenience of setting up new computers for those users.
I would say that loss is the fault of poor IT practices.
I have a deck of the Saddam and Friends playing cards I bought at a truck stop somewhere (likely paying too much) that came in a plastic card case. Even see-thru. So that would solve the visibility issue and the stregth issue.
Back in '88 I was a senior in high school. I would consume Mountain Dew x 2 in the morning to wake up. I'd have various caffinated beverages throughout the day. After work at night to stay awake for homework I'd be using Vivarin chased with as much of a 6-pack of Jolt Cola as I could stomach. Then unisom when I was done to get to sleep. Better living through chemistry I said!
It took a little while for the heart palpatations to start. I didn't like those but I was a stupid kid then. I just cut back a bit on the Jolt, but not much.
It took until early in my first year in college for the real physical effects to develop -- incredible abdominal cramps that would lay me compeltely out ina whimpering crying ball on the floor. Think appendix + gall bladder + birth. It took me a little while to start to correlate it to caffeine, but I told the doctors everything.
After ramming a wonderful camera up my tail and submitting me to a string of other humiliating tests (complete with barium enemas -- can you say "shitting rocks for 3 days?") the doctors told me that essentially I would never be able to have caffeine again without side effects because of the damage it did to my bowels & intestinal tract. I was now caffeine intolerant.
There was a drug I could take if I really didn't want the incredible abdominal cramps but it gave me nightmares. I actually tried it and the night terrors weren't worth some caffeine.
It took me 2 weeks worth of pretty nasty withdrawl symptoms before I got over it.
I have now been clean about 14 years. Nothing with caffeine, no cola, no chocolate, nothing. I read ingredients lists religiously looking for anything with more than 5gm of caffeine. A cup of Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa (5mg) gives me a pretty good buzz and I can't tolerate two of them without some mild pain.
Yes, it is a drug. Yes, it is addictive. Yes, you go through withdrawl, and yes, you can live without it. I don't know ho wmany 36 hour days I've done on sugar and micro power naps alone.
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I was told by a local Cisco engineer that when Best Buy built their new HQ in a southern suburb of Minneapolis a few years ago they went wireless in a bunch of the areas to save on future recabling. They put them in high density and low power... so talk to your Cisco rep and ask them about that. If nothing else they can chat with the Minneapolis office about it...
Over the years I have had a Newton MessagePad (the best of all, IMHO), Palm III, Palm VII, and a Toshiba e710.
Every one of them (with the exception of the Newton) broke. The wireless in the Palm VII broke. Twice. The Toshiba kept hard resetting itself for no good reason, so I'd have to reload it again and again, then finally the battery gave out. So for now I've given up on PDA's
I don't have time for a porable tool like a PDA, phone or music player that doesn't just work, do what I want it to do, and do it well. That's why I love my iPod mini. It works well and does what I want it to do with a simple, clean interface and long battery life. I use it to store and play music, period. I keep basic contacts either in my phone or the appropriate email account.
While I'd love to have a single, unified device that brought together everything, I don't think it's possible right now to do that and have a reasonable form factor, battery life and user interface that was worth anything. I am happy having a phone separate from my music player.
I buy almost all of my personal gear from ZipZoomFly. I have used them for years and have always been quite happy with their prices and shipping. I have converted several friends, co-workers and customers to them as well.
With ZZF, very few things DON'T come with free 2-day FedEx shipping. A $9 item does, just heavy things like cases don't seem to.
My only complaints with them are their website's search function isn't the greatest, and sometimes the sorts aren't what I wanted, but for those prices I can live with that.
I have never had to execute a return or exchange with them so I can't vouch for their ease of use in those departments.
I get in trouble at work just for correcting people on their incorrect word usage.
:-)
People in high-visibility positions (not high ranking, just their communications go out to several thousand employees a week) should know the difference between "do to" and "due to", or "que" and "queue", and seem to take offense when they are informed (nicely even) that the word they used was incorrect... really want to see them blow, include the definition or the link to dictionary.com...
Absolutely!! I used NetBotz to great success in my former server rooms for those very purposes.
After having one too many holidays runied by failed air conditioners I bought two of them, one for each server room. They come with temp and airflow sensors, microphones, cameras, all sorts of great stuff. You configure it with a web interface to alert you on various threshholds, from temp to airflow to motion on the camera to loud noises, and it can page you, email you, etc.
I just made sure that it was positioned so I could see useful stuff throught he camera, that air was hitting it for airflow detection, and even hung a flag from one of the vents so I could see the airflow if I wanted. I set temp alerts so I could catch an A/C emergency long before it got to "bake" temps, and put in the on-call pager number to page me.
They paid for themselves numerous times in saved trips and saved gear, giving me time to call facilities management in or deal with power issues, whatever they detected.
Well worth the money!! Highly recommended!!
Try Shutterfly http://www.shutterfly.com/
We use them for all of our prints and love the quality and other things they can do with them (aprons, mousepads, etc.)
They have even printed a few things I couldn't have possibly taken, like very close-up pictures of the sun and the like.
So, according to this article...
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5230615.html
Comcast is already supposedly doing this. I can't confirm that since I am going through the mail server anyway...
The spammers will figure out a way around it anyway.
I eat breakfast at the computer every day, with two pieces of toast. Not that white wonder-crap either, some nice, heavy whole-grain toast, toasted fairly dark. Makes it somewhat crunchy.
Every bite is a crumb-bonanza. I have to clean under/around the keyboard every few weeks.
I think the keyboard is due for cleaning or replacement soon...
I've never had a Maxtor drive NOT go bad. I have always considered them to be junk. If a customer has a bad drive it is always a Maxtor I find when I crack the case.
I've only had one WD die in the last 10 or so years, and that was a LONG time ago, when drive capacities weren't measured in gigabytes. That's why I will only put WD drives in my personal machines at this point.
Most of the time I wind up replacing them with higher capacity drives before they have time to wear out.
At the same time, any important data is on a mirrored volume, and some of that data is backed up off-site. I can't back up the 10+ 11-Gb dumps of the video tapes of my kid, but a raid controller and second drive for a mirror is relatively inexpensive considering how long it takes to pull the data back off the video tape, or to edit the movie again...
And I remember getting a Spellcheck utility (I think it was from Beagle Bros.) for AppleWriter.
Too bad the author of that webpage didn't use one. I hear they are quite good these days...
Anybody notice any issues with the Adblock plugin no longer working in Firefox with this thing installed?
Look in your phone book or other directory of choice for a local shredding service. In the Twin Cities (MN) one of the services (I can't remember which, maybe Shred-It) will occasionally send a truck around to do free shredding. They park it someplace, you give then your documents and watch it go into the super-shredder in the truck. Otherwise I'm sure for a box or two of paper they won't charge very much to do the shredding.
Personally I just have a nice fine cross-cut shredder (about $100) and occasionally have a shredding day and shred tons of stuff. May take an hour or two but it is kind of fun to shred away the parts of your life that have gone by.
Both of my banks also allow PDF delivery of their statements, and have for a few years. I stopped getting paper statements then.
They can't always speak, or don't always know where they are. When I was in EMT training we got to hear quite a few 911 calls and go through the case. More than once the person started to call for help (generally due to herat attack or the like) and couldn't get as far as their name before they collapsed with the phone off the hook. Fortunately, 911 had the guys address right on the screen and had already rolled service and advised they may have to use forced entry. And if a little kid calls they may not know or be able to relay their current physical location. Or they may know but due to the trauma of mommy laying on the floor unconscious not be able to relay that info to the nice dispatcher on the other side.
So am I crazy, or shoudl these desktop machines not even be HOLDING this kind of data? Sensitive information (all business-related data in my opinion) belongs on the server, not on individual machiens. The server belongs in a secured, protected space. You should be able to lose all of your "personal" computers and only have the inconvenience of setting up new computers for those users. I would say that loss is the fault of poor IT practices.
I almost always use "foo@bar.com" I do know that bar.com exists, but there doesn't seem to be a foo there.
I have a deck of the Saddam and Friends playing cards I bought at a truck stop somewhere (likely paying too much) that came in a plastic card case. Even see-thru. So that would solve the visibility issue and the stregth issue.
Back in '88 I was a senior in high school. I would consume Mountain Dew x 2 in the morning to wake up. I'd have various caffinated beverages throughout the day. After work at night to stay awake for homework I'd be using Vivarin chased with as much of a 6-pack of Jolt Cola as I could stomach. Then unisom when I was done to get to sleep. Better living through chemistry I said!
It took a little while for the heart palpatations to start. I didn't like those but I was a stupid kid then. I just cut back a bit on the Jolt, but not much.
It took until early in my first year in college for the real physical effects to develop -- incredible abdominal cramps that would lay me compeltely out ina whimpering crying ball on the floor. Think appendix + gall bladder + birth. It took me a little while to start to correlate it to caffeine, but I told the doctors everything.
After ramming a wonderful camera up my tail and submitting me to a string of other humiliating tests (complete with barium enemas -- can you say "shitting rocks for 3 days?") the doctors told me that essentially I would never be able to have caffeine again without side effects because of the damage it did to my bowels & intestinal tract. I was now caffeine intolerant.
There was a drug I could take if I really didn't want the incredible abdominal cramps but it gave me nightmares. I actually tried it and the night terrors weren't worth some caffeine.
It took me 2 weeks worth of pretty nasty withdrawl symptoms before I got over it.
I have now been clean about 14 years. Nothing with caffeine, no cola, no chocolate, nothing. I read ingredients lists religiously looking for anything with more than 5gm of caffeine. A cup of Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa (5mg) gives me a pretty good buzz and I can't tolerate two of them without some mild pain.
Yes, it is a drug. Yes, it is addictive. Yes, you go through withdrawl, and yes, you can live without it. I don't know ho wmany 36 hour days I've done on sugar and micro power naps alone.