Maybe for now it works well, but over time it can be a pain. I consider my time at 3am on a sunday morning to be worth WAY more than time at 10am on a monday morning.
You're basically hooked to a pager, which means you need to be near a phone, and usually near a computer with internet connectivity.
I don't work in operations, but everyone in decent places I've worked at did get paid around 3hours of salary per 24hours of wearing the pager. Then it was a minimum of 1 hour per "call" (more like issue, as it could involve multiple calls) except for the first one of the day which was included in the 3hours.
That meant that in a typical week you'd get paid for (24*7)-40 hours of "pager duty", which amounted to 16 hours of salary, so 2 days extra. That's pretty good, assuming you're on a decent rotation and don't have to be THE guy doing it every single week.
I saw that it exists in USB format, called the Mouse wiggler or something similar.
Apparently, police use it to prevent machines from getting locked when they seize them. I don't remember who makes them but they also make some kind of power 'bridge' to allow you to plug a running machine to a UPS without shutting it down.
Well, I guess it depends on the amount of servers. Drive failures are very very common to me, I mean, techs go in and change at least a drive or two every week. Those would be one or two servers down, with one or two restores, with one or two pissed clients.
RAID is very very, very useful, as long as you don't think it replaces backups obviously.
Email Push, using Exchange, is done without the telco's help.
It's not really push in reality, it's closer to a neverending HTTP query with some keepalives..
I believe this is not necessary. You should not be playing with RCs and betas on machine you use for actual work, and it could end up creating a lot of support problems for Microsoft from people who installed older versions.
I don't know if you just said that because it's obvious this is going to happen, or were you making a point about the fact that Mega-Brands was involved in the Chinese crap / knockoff lead scandals recently?
Since Google sells Indexing appliances, wouldn't it be cool for them to sell a version that also has Gmail and Google apps?
That way, a company could use these in their own "cloud" (hate that word) , and users would get a user interface that they are used to, available from anywhere. Google could also compete heavily with sharepoint and Exchange in the enterprise that way..
With Gentoo, you have to be much more careful about what you update and when. They probably went to Ubuntu because it is based on Debian, and they can obtain support from Cannonical directly if needed.
Well I live in Canada, and most people I know use electric heating. Yes, central electric heating is great, and actually cheaper than oil around here. (Montreal area)
My father had an HP laptop (I believe it was a 8088) with Rom carts at the bottom, behind a panel. I remember he had a cart for Lotus 123, another one for some drawing program,etc.
I guess suspension design is not engineering.
Well, at least, Toyota's suspensions aren't, it feels as they just throw four shocks and springs wherever it fits.
Oh, and the BMW 1 series has super neat diesel engines with 200+hp that does +40mpg in an ACTUAL fun to drive car. But I suppose that doesn't count either.
Be happy with your Prius, there is nothing wrong with that, but don't put down what you haven't tried and don't know.
Disclaimer: I own a Toyota because it is reliable and cheap, but I would never consider it "fun to drive". Only someone who hasn't tried something fun to drive would.
Java's move with OO was asswipeish as well, but at least it got you the OpenOffice installer - it didn't go and actually install the thing.
I'm sure Google will also try to bundle Chrome with something else one day or another, they're no better than anyone else out there. But until then, I will keep on being pissed at only Apple for pushing Safari in itunes, and for not letting you sync Firefox bookmarks to an iphone.
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Well I am quite surprised, it appears they're going to be profitable for 2010 !
Facebook is raking in billions? Did I miss something?
Maybe for now it works well, but over time it can be a pain. I consider my time at 3am on a sunday morning to be worth WAY more than time at 10am on a monday morning.
You're basically hooked to a pager, which means you need to be near a phone, and usually near a computer with internet connectivity.
I don't work in operations, but everyone in decent places I've worked at did get paid around 3hours of salary per 24hours of wearing the pager. Then it was a minimum of 1 hour per "call" (more like issue, as it could involve multiple calls) except for the first one of the day which was included in the 3hours.
That meant that in a typical week you'd get paid for (24*7)-40 hours of "pager duty", which amounted to 16 hours of salary, so 2 days extra. That's pretty good, assuming you're on a decent rotation and don't have to be THE guy doing it every single week.
Supposed to be ported to Alpha as 'Was sold for Alpha' ?
I saw that it exists in USB format, called the Mouse wiggler or something similar.
Apparently, police use it to prevent machines from getting locked when they seize them. I don't remember who makes them but they also make some kind of power 'bridge' to allow you to plug a running machine to a UPS without shutting it down.
Well, I guess it depends on the amount of servers. Drive failures are very very common to me, I mean, techs go in and change at least a drive or two every week. Those would be one or two servers down, with one or two restores, with one or two pissed clients.
RAID is very very, very useful, as long as you don't think it replaces backups obviously.
Email Push, using Exchange, is done without the telco's help. It's not really push in reality, it's closer to a neverending HTTP query with some keepalives..
An option would be giving her an iPhone 3g with a data plan and install http://findmyi.org/ .
But then, who's going to protect her from interweb-predators?
I believe this is not necessary. You should not be playing with RCs and betas on machine you use for actual work, and it could end up creating a lot of support problems for Microsoft from people who installed older versions.
Why is this being posted over and over on very tech site?
Who cares?
You're installing a beta or a release candidate. Do you expect it to be supported forever?
And are we really surprised Microsoft put in just a tiny bit of protection to prevent the average joe from continuing to use Windows 7 RC forever?
Mod this up guys! A lot of links seem to be redirects to malware sites containing FakeAV etc..
I'll wait until Netcraft confirms the death of PalmOS.
Or did they confirm it 5 years ago already?
At one point, my SCPH-1001 got so bad it had to be played upside down. However, it worked upside down for years..
I don't know if you just said that because it's obvious this is going to happen, or were you making a point about the fact that Mega-Brands was involved in the Chinese crap / knockoff lead scandals recently?
They almost went bankrupt too!
Is Microsoft Finally going to DITCH the 32bit version of Windows?
Just to force everyone to make drivers for 64bit, so we can FINALLY have machines with enough RAM to run Windows itself?
Since Google sells Indexing appliances, wouldn't it be cool for them to sell a version that also has Gmail and Google apps?
That way, a company could use these in their own "cloud" (hate that word) , and users would get a user interface that they are used to, available from anywhere. Google could also compete heavily with sharepoint and Exchange in the enterprise that way..
With Gentoo, you have to be much more careful about what you update and when. They probably went to Ubuntu because it is based on Debian, and they can obtain support from Cannonical directly if needed.
Now that it DOES have Wireless and has as much space as a Nomad?
Well I live in Canada, and most people I know use electric heating. Yes, central electric heating is great, and actually cheaper than oil around here. (Montreal area)
My father had an HP laptop (I believe it was a 8088) with Rom carts at the bottom, behind a panel. I remember he had a cart for Lotus 123, another one for some drawing program ,etc.
It had 4-5 slots..it was pretty cool.
I guess suspension design is not engineering. Well, at least, Toyota's suspensions aren't, it feels as they just throw four shocks and springs wherever it fits. Oh, and the BMW 1 series has super neat diesel engines with 200+hp that does +40mpg in an ACTUAL fun to drive car. But I suppose that doesn't count either. Be happy with your Prius, there is nothing wrong with that, but don't put down what you haven't tried and don't know. Disclaimer: I own a Toyota because it is reliable and cheap, but I would never consider it "fun to drive". Only someone who hasn't tried something fun to drive would.
Well then I thought US Robotics made Palm Pilots and Pilots ! Cliés rocked.
Java's move with OO was asswipeish as well, but at least it got you the OpenOffice installer - it didn't go and actually install the thing. I'm sure Google will also try to bundle Chrome with something else one day or another, they're no better than anyone else out there. But until then, I will keep on being pissed at only Apple for pushing Safari in itunes, and for not letting you sync Firefox bookmarks to an iphone.
You know why I would never try Safari for Windows? Because Apple had it checked by default in an iTunes update. I don't care how good it could be.