Yeah that's fine. But the point was some system that aids in the booting of Windows machines. My only point was that it really doesn't need to be booted all that much. Given, if you have a bunch of things like autoupdate, Weatherbug, Kodak picture processor, a firewall, an AV scanner and such the bootup time on a midlevel machine can be 5 minutes on XP. Now as far as the greenishness of that, yeah we chuck it in suspend and 98% the network connections come back by themselves.
Since I turned off automatic Windows updates I rarely worry about shutting down and rebooting. Of course the 3 or 4 times a year I do have to patch Windows it sucks plutonic balls to have to restart over and over to finalize the patches.
This is the greatest opportunity for vendors and consumers to finally have robust systems. Couple specific functions to a core or cores such that for instance all security, encryption and housekeeping functions, all patch management and all other back office requirements are bound to a core to allow them to run flat out all the time. This would require changes to an OS to partition those functions and run them essentially in their own OS image.
My recommendation and this is dead serious, is to get out of IT by age 33 the latest. Not that it's a young person's game but because after that age they treat you like utter garbage. They want nothing better than to force you out and replace you with the next batch of freshly scrubbed young faces at half or less than what you will make then. They will stop your increases, your training until they start telling you to 'mentor' people aka train your replacement. And if you manage to survive that by being where the shit ain't, then you can look forward to a long boring tenure of ever more abstract advisory roles. And when you're chained to the machine at age 50 your economic options are a lot more limited when they just toss you out on the street.
So get out, Make the Suits happy. There is no such thing as retention. Retention is bullshit. You leave and they'll replace you, or not, with a robot or a monkey and a robot.
We'd be more than happy to take their DC over on our boxes on our site. They're SUN boxes anyhow, if they like. We'll virtualize it and cut it up whichever way they like. We do this all the time.
Unless Apple plans on abandoning the Mac mini it's high time for a tech refresh and a price cut right now. Because for a few dollars MORE than $200 I WILL get a computer that runs all those apps the naysayers claim this one won't. $600-$800 today is too high a price for that unit even if it is an Apple.
The same sized engine in a Caterpillar Cub Cadet 4x4. Basically it's a modified tractor motor. The really interesting part is the CVT. For those of you who aren't familiar a CVT is a continuous variable transmission, a smooth shiftless automatic. If you have a scooter you know how great that is to not have to shift or clutch or anything.
Doesn't mean it should be arbitrarily and capriciously violated. Many things in our society are not rights they are part of the social contract. We act, in our societies as if that social contract means something, is important. If not, then what you have literally is fascism. A society organized according to exactly and only what the letter of the law says.
Well I tell you, the law doesn't say I have to help you when you get hit by a car in the street either, so good luck with that.
At least it's still operating and providing a service. I think there would be a real live peasants revolt with pitchforks and torches if they shut it down.
In the abstract, hosting a DC at the port of Lagos Nigeria might not make any sense, but real estate prices in the SF bay area are the most expensive in the nation. A ship has GOT to be cheaper than commercial rents in the area.
How many times does MS have to throw money at an online business only to kill it or let it die from stupidity before they learn that whatever it is that makes them successful otherwise is POISON to what they think they can accomplish with any online business?
Honestly, Redmond has started and stopped and shoveled money into a furnace for what 5, 6, 7 different 'strategic' online eSomething something acquisitions? They SUUUUUUCCCCKKKK at this.
Microsoft is a company that's genetically averse to partnering with anyone. Everything has to be Microsoft branded Microsoft operated and Microsoft micromanaged. What makes anyone think that they won't screw this up too?
The sole exception is XBox Live because frankly, Redmond's own ignorance works to their advantage here. They recognize they really don't know WTF they're doing so they basically stay out of the way.
SOX and HIPPA notwithstanding, providers do a horrible job of collecting and storing their own subscribers information. Everytime I go to a provider I have to fill out the same damn forms over and over. So - either they lose it or, they simply store everything and never look at it or check it. Even the AMA says more than a hundred thousand people a year die from bad records, incomplete information, negligence and inattention.
BTW I'm a Medco customer and what they think is an equivalent lower cost subscription without them being actual doctors, is I think, criminal. It's actually practicing medicine w/o a license.
And they'll fly. C'mon. These are the same people who 40 years ago were promising electric cars any day now. Anyway, my town will still hand out DUI's even if the car is driving itself.
Just like payroll goes to ADP, security guards come from Briggs, HR/Benefits are outsourced to Fidelity, the cafeteria is run by Sedexo, toss your IT to IBM or Accenture or CSC or HP or someone. If it's not something you see a strategic advantage in doing then don't do it. Why would you?
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For 30 years people have been trying to get at the perfect computer tools that fosters creativity. There is no such tool. Before the computer writers wrote with pencils, pens, quills, typewriters, chisels and animal fat paint on the cave wall.
Did you know for instance that the sort-of-great Victorian English writer Anthony Trollope wrote on a clipboard using a stopwatch to time his writing down the minute? He did this because his day job was railway inspector and he was shackled by the station to station train times.
Did you READ the report? I did. It doesn't say anything is unsafe. What it says is there are unique architectures in the systems that put them at odds with CFR 14 regulations compliance whether they present an actual or potential danger or not. Furthermore there's a comment in the report which states that Airbus objects to the regulatory findings on the basis that the 'standard' is too high level to offer any concrete value for implementation or compliance.
Like any other IT security audit - compliance doesn't mean security it means compliance. And in the cases where there are deviations from the standard, the system has to be able to speak to that deviation and address it or contest it.
I remember reading that many experts in expertise, if there is such a thing, believe that in order to master something, like a musical instrument or painting or an academic study you need about 30,000 hrs of training and practice. That's about 8 hrs a day for 10 years.
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Yeah that's fine. But the point was some system that aids in the booting of Windows machines. My only point was that it really doesn't need to be booted all that much. Given, if you have a bunch of things like autoupdate, Weatherbug, Kodak picture processor, a firewall, an AV scanner and such the bootup time on a midlevel machine can be 5 minutes on XP. Now as far as the greenishness of that, yeah we chuck it in suspend and 98% the network connections come back by themselves.
Since I turned off automatic Windows updates I rarely worry about shutting down and rebooting. Of course the 3 or 4 times a year I do have to patch Windows it sucks plutonic balls to have to restart over and over to finalize the patches.
Sounds pricey.
There are now only two studios supporting HDDVD, leaving 75% of the total content today under the aegis of studios that support only BluRay.
'The Wawr is ovuh!'
This is the greatest opportunity for vendors and consumers to finally have robust systems. Couple specific functions to a core or cores such that for instance all security, encryption and housekeeping functions, all patch management and all other back office requirements are bound to a core to allow them to run flat out all the time. This would require changes to an OS to partition those functions and run them essentially in their own OS image.
I did. Wouldn't want to gain the benefit of my ill gotten gains. No - better to send them all back to the CEO where they'll be safe. You should too.
Only way it works. I can't for the life of me understand what I would need it for anyway.
My recommendation and this is dead serious, is to get out of IT by age 33 the latest. Not that it's a young person's game but because after that age they treat you like utter garbage. They want nothing better than to force you out and replace you with the next batch of freshly scrubbed young faces at half or less than what you will make then. They will stop your increases, your training until they start telling you to 'mentor' people aka train your replacement. And if you manage to survive that by being where the shit ain't, then you can look forward to a long boring tenure of ever more abstract advisory roles. And when you're chained to the machine at age 50 your economic options are a lot more limited when they just toss you out on the street.
So get out, Make the Suits happy. There is no such thing as retention. Retention is bullshit. You leave and they'll replace you, or not, with a robot or a monkey and a robot.
I'm old, so I'm the Realest Real. I can't wait to get a white belt matching shoes.
Our problem is compatibility with IE7 not with FF+CCK We have all sorts of IE6 only apps chugging along.
We'd be more than happy to take their DC over on our boxes on our site. They're SUN boxes anyhow, if they like. We'll virtualize it and cut it up whichever way they like. We do this all the time.
Unless Apple plans on abandoning the Mac mini it's high time for a tech refresh and a price cut right now. Because for a few dollars MORE than $200 I WILL get a computer that runs all those apps the naysayers claim this one won't. $600-$800 today is too high a price for that unit even if it is an Apple.
The same sized engine in a Caterpillar Cub Cadet 4x4. Basically it's a modified tractor motor. The really interesting part is the CVT. For those of you who aren't familiar a CVT is a continuous variable transmission, a smooth shiftless automatic. If you have a scooter you know how great that is to not have to shift or clutch or anything.
Anyway wanna know what the best keyboard of ALL time? IBM 3279 mod4 - you could bash just about anything or anyone with it.
Doesn't mean it should be arbitrarily and capriciously violated. Many things in our society are not rights they are part of the social contract. We act, in our societies as if that social contract means something, is important. If not, then what you have literally is fascism. A society organized according to exactly and only what the letter of the law says.
Well I tell you, the law doesn't say I have to help you when you get hit by a car in the street either, so good luck with that.
At least it's still operating and providing a service. I think there would be a real live peasants revolt with pitchforks and torches if they shut it down.
In the abstract, hosting a DC at the port of Lagos Nigeria might not make any sense, but real estate prices in the SF bay area are the most expensive in the nation. A ship has GOT to be cheaper than commercial rents in the area.
How many times does MS have to throw money at an online business only to kill it or let it die from stupidity before they learn that whatever it is that makes them successful otherwise is POISON to what they think they can accomplish with any online business?
Honestly, Redmond has started and stopped and shoveled money into a furnace for what 5, 6, 7 different 'strategic' online eSomething something acquisitions? They SUUUUUUCCCCKKKK at this.
Microsoft is a company that's genetically averse to partnering with anyone. Everything has to be Microsoft branded Microsoft operated and Microsoft micromanaged. What makes anyone think that they won't screw this up too?
The sole exception is XBox Live because frankly, Redmond's own ignorance works to their advantage here. They recognize they really don't know WTF they're doing so they basically stay out of the way.
SOX and HIPPA notwithstanding, providers do a horrible job of collecting and storing their own subscribers information. Everytime I go to a provider I have to fill out the same damn forms over and over. So - either they lose it or, they simply store everything and never look at it or check it. Even the AMA says more than a hundred thousand people a year die from bad records, incomplete information, negligence and inattention.
BTW I'm a Medco customer and what they think is an equivalent lower cost subscription without them being actual doctors, is I think, criminal. It's actually practicing medicine w/o a license.
And they'll fly. C'mon. These are the same people who 40 years ago were promising electric cars any day now. Anyway, my town will still hand out DUI's even if the car is driving itself.
Just like payroll goes to ADP, security guards come from Briggs, HR/Benefits are outsourced to Fidelity, the cafeteria is run by Sedexo, toss your IT to IBM or Accenture or CSC or HP or someone. If it's not something you see a strategic advantage in doing then don't do it. Why would you?
For 30 years people have been trying to get at the perfect computer tools that fosters creativity. There is no such tool. Before the computer writers wrote with pencils, pens, quills, typewriters, chisels and animal fat paint on the cave wall.
Did you know for instance that the sort-of-great Victorian English writer Anthony Trollope wrote on a clipboard using a stopwatch to time his writing down the minute? He did this because his day job was railway inspector and he was shackled by the station to station train times.
Did you READ the report? I did. It doesn't say anything is unsafe. What it says is there are unique architectures in the systems that put them at odds with CFR 14 regulations compliance whether they present an actual or potential danger or not. Furthermore there's a comment in the report which states that Airbus objects to the regulatory findings on the basis that the 'standard' is too high level to offer any concrete value for implementation or compliance.
Like any other IT security audit - compliance doesn't mean security it means compliance. And in the cases where there are deviations from the standard, the system has to be able to speak to that deviation and address it or contest it.
Ask a classical musician
I remember reading that many experts in expertise, if there is such a thing, believe that in order to master something, like a musical instrument or painting or an academic study you need about 30,000 hrs of training and practice. That's about 8 hrs a day for 10 years.