I might, if I had money to burn on a gaming rig, and people were going to see it. They do have that 'look at me, I'm well off' sheen.
In much the same way Monster cables have that, "I have plenty of money and have no problems parting with it" sort of way. Which is a very strong attractor for certain kinds of chicks.
Organizations don't want to install vista. Check. What makes us think the successor to Vista will be recieved any better?
Instead, the real danger to MS is a push to thin clients. I've heard rumblings lately, and if the next OS dissappoints like vista, you can expect huge deployments of thin clients coming. I know it would make more financial sense for my location when time comes to upgrade from XP to go with thin clients chatting with a windows terminal server. There is risk involved with this step, but if we see another crappy OS come out, it will be the justification I need to validate the switch over.
I thought a rootkit was a program designed to take control of a system remotely or offer access to that system?
No, that's actually just your run of the mill trojan/virus. A rootkit is a bit more sinister. It was originally a set of utilities designed to hide the signs of an intruder on a cracked system. That's about it. It has morphed into a software package/paradigm that means a set of software applications used to conceal an application's actions from the rest of the system and/or user.
The problem is, blizzard is accessing more than it should be. I understand wanting to stamp out cheaters ( they certainly got enough of that in battlenet ), but where's the line? Personally, I don't like having my system violated everytime I want to play their game ( and hence, I don't play their game ). If you want to see for yourself what WoW is doing, download regmon/filemon and see what it's up to.
In this war, there may not be a winner, but I guarantee the consumers will be the losers. From high priced product ( which may go down in time ) to DRM shens ( Explain to your mom why the new movie she just bought for 30 bucks doesn't work in her 600 dollar player ).
And like cattle, we line up to hand over our money.
Our brains haven't evolved a single way to solve problems; That's why we're as successful as we are as a species, is that our brains can evolve and solve new problems as they come up.
This guy demonstrates a severe lack of understanding of the subject, which is odd given who it is.
Cisco should be glad this didn't happen in the US. They would have been tasered.
Only if they were into the kinky shit. Let's face it, our "Elected Officials" line up to give blowjobs and other sexual favors to corporate interests. I'm not even sure they know why they do it anymore.
Except that's not what the OP had in mind. 4TB drives, 4 disks with a total overall capacity of 12TB. That's raid5.
Even raid6 in this configuration is scary. I'd want a SAN, if for no other reason than the backend management. On top of the fact that you slam 16 drives in the bloody thing ( minimum for this kind of data ), and have half as hot spares to a raid6 array. On top of this, you have a support contract with the vendor, so if a drive dies you have an exact replacement in under 24 hours. You dump the array to tape once a day ( and you'll need many drives, probably ultrium 3 ). Given the shear amount of data, you'd need a tape juke box, robotics and all.
Sure, you *might* get away with a consumer level raid5/6 solution. But when things come crashing down, and they very likely would, you want something a bit more serious on the back end.
That sounds amazingly useless to me. How do the students improve their writing skills by doing this? What do they learn about science? What new math skills do they learn? Practice adding and subtracting? If this is a remedial school for kids who are going to go out into the world and scrounge for money, then maybe it's useful. For kids who might be interested in studying advance subjects in college, and will need to improve their writing and math skills, it seems like an incredible waste of time.
That's where the teacher comes in. If you do the base line and just accomplish the goal, you would be right; This method would be useless for most kids. However, the teacher is what makes or breaks this method. They would tie in all those that you mention ( writing, math, science ).
For grade school, this achieves amazing results. Not only are the kids motivated to learn, but the confidence they gain enables them to tackle other, harder, problems.
Regarding learning how to deal with lectures; Lectures are a horrible way to "teach", I've established that. However, it is true that no matter what, students will have to deal with these people who insist on doing so. The methods I listed previously teach children/people how to learn, which once you learn that you can take in information no matter the format.
Why does advances in one field mean we need to use it in education? And why is it that specific field? Computers are great tools, but they have little to do with the actual education part of the equation.
Teaching methods have progressed, regardless of what you see in public schools. They just aren't allowed to use the more advanced methods in a lot of cases, and in most they simply don't care enough to try. Standing up and lecturing is a useless method that no teacher should be using, I don't care what level we're talking about. Let me paint you a picture;
You set a goal. Say, this class will raise $XX.XX by December. From there, you brainstorm with your class: How do we do it? Now the class comes up with ideas, and the teacher picks the best of the bunch ( or best several ). Then they set to work making that happen, with the teacher mixing in social studies, history, math, and science into the mix ( which is the criteria they used to select the 'best' ideas ). Over the course of the next several months, your class works towards this goal using skills you teach them along the way.
Now, not only are they learning their subjects, they are using them in a real world environment to accomplish a real world goal. The lessons they learn here will stay with them for life. They are exercising their imaginations to come up with solutions to real problems. Through this, they gain the confidence to go on to bigger and better things.
Anybody who simply lectures is not a teacher; They are a highly paid monkey with a larger vocabulary.
Amusingly enough, in my 10 years in the field I have learned a very important lesson. For a skilled IT administrator, there's no such thing as a job shortage. I could walk out of my job this morning, and have another by this evening ( with a week's vacation on the books, which I would take all of next week ). If you have the experience, knowledge and references, employers will flock to you.
Anyone have any insight as to how much easier it really is to integrate with Microsoft stuff?
Same crap as before, no change on the front lines. You still have a gazillion different management interfaces ( imanager, remote manager, consoleone ). You still have a hodgepodge of software that make up their flagship products ( zenworks, groupwise ). Novell still has a pretty good file server, but actually administrating the software is painful still.
And what would this accomplish? Google would still know which site you are visiting, as they would have had to hash it out originally. Which was the start of the whole argument, lest you forget.
Personally, I'm OK with the trade off, although the likelihood of me being taken by a phishing site is small.
I fully encourage any and all large organizations ( like a government ) to move to an OS that suits their needs, or can be tailored as such.
With the hopeful side effect, of course, of a more robust OS for all others involved. Given russia's rather lax attitude towards IP ( which I can't fault them in ), it's questionable whether we will see changes committed back to the tree. But here's hoping!
I think that depends on where you work to a great extent. At my employer, I'm one of only two female programmers in the company. It's been like that pretty much everywhere I've seen.
A chick on/.? A/S/L?
( the above was meant to be humorous when taken in context with the linked article. I, in fact, have no interest in knowing the above poster's stats, as it were. )
You joke, but that's exactly what's going to happen; Once darl is out of SCO, he'll stay low for a year or so, then back into the lime light he'll go, driving some other company head first into the ground.
If the cops involved felt he was a danger, then they had every right to taser him. Personally, I would have done it a few times ( but then, I'm not a cop ).
A taser is a non-lethal compliance device. As such, if a perp isn't giving the complaince requested, he should have been nailed. It was either that, or a full body tackle from the cops ( which is even more risky to the cops. Does he have a used needle on him anywhere? ). Tasers are the best alternative.
In most other departments an analysis has to be done on productivity verses quality control. In IT Land, it is what can be locked down without inspiring a user revolt. The more that can be locked down, the less of a headache for IT and the higher the productivity for IT. IT has the poorest business people, the reason they have issues is they don't understand how a business works. Reality bites, there are more users than IT People, the productivity of 99% of the work force can't suffer for the other 1%. Locking out emails, websites, etc... no issue, but when you feel a 1 min time delay before the password locked screen saver comes on without any study of the impact to productivity. You have just motivated the user to do anything to keep the screen saver from ever coming on again. I have seen users delete dlls and other files just to break the system on purpose just so they can avoid these irritations. This will ultimately lead to more locking down. Then the user revolt will occur when IT can handle the thousands of help tickets that will result. The real business people will walk at this point, then the IT department will be laid off.
Oh get off it. Most departments do a business analysis? Bullshit. Most departments start with, "I need X to do Y". Nevermind how this will impact the organization as a whole. They then find a vendor who lies to them the best, "Our product will do Y AND Z. It pays for itself in kittens over 5 years, blah blah blah". Department heads, upon hearing this, can't write the check out fast enough ( usually a blank check, although they don't realize it at the time ). In return they get a box of 1s and 0s with a fair amount of duct tape ( although, to be fair, i've worked places where they had bought software that hadn't existed yet. Two years after the first check was written, we got the first copy of said software. We realized at that point how good we had had it those previous two years ) which they then bring to us to install. We ( IT ) take a look and see that they bought Y/2, which needs M and N AND T, which they didn't buy.
There are some draconian IT depts out there; True. But ask yourself why that is. How bad had it been that it got to that point?
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That's not to say it's all like that. Most outsourced email solutions work flawlessly, freeing up IT's resources.
I'd recommend outsourcing email to ANY company unless there is a strong business need otherwise.
I might, if I had money to burn on a gaming rig, and people were going to see it. They do have that 'look at me, I'm well off' sheen.
In much the same way Monster cables have that, "I have plenty of money and have no problems parting with it" sort of way. Which is a very strong attractor for certain kinds of chicks.
Organizations don't want to install vista. Check. What makes us think the successor to Vista will be recieved any better?
Instead, the real danger to MS is a push to thin clients. I've heard rumblings lately, and if the next OS dissappoints like vista, you can expect huge deployments of thin clients coming. I know it would make more financial sense for my location when time comes to upgrade from XP to go with thin clients chatting with a windows terminal server. There is risk involved with this step, but if we see another crappy OS come out, it will be the justification I need to validate the switch over.
Just my thoughts on the matter.
Amusingly enough, the owners of the device should be paying broadcast fees to the RIAA equivlent of the broadcasters.
It's a fucked up law.
I thought a rootkit was a program designed to take control of a system remotely or offer access to that system?
No, that's actually just your run of the mill trojan/virus. A rootkit is a bit more sinister. It was originally a set of utilities designed to hide the signs of an intruder on a cracked system. That's about it. It has morphed into a software package/paradigm that means a set of software applications used to conceal an application's actions from the rest of the system and/or user.
The problem is, blizzard is accessing more than it should be. I understand wanting to stamp out cheaters ( they certainly got enough of that in battlenet ), but where's the line? Personally, I don't like having my system violated everytime I want to play their game ( and hence, I don't play their game ). If you want to see for yourself what WoW is doing, download regmon/filemon and see what it's up to.
In this war, there may not be a winner, but I guarantee the consumers will be the losers. From high priced product ( which may go down in time ) to DRM shens ( Explain to your mom why the new movie she just bought for 30 bucks doesn't work in her 600 dollar player ).
And like cattle, we line up to hand over our money.
Our brains haven't evolved a single way to solve problems; That's why we're as successful as we are as a species, is that our brains can evolve and solve new problems as they come up.
This guy demonstrates a severe lack of understanding of the subject, which is odd given who it is.
Cisco should be glad this didn't happen in the US. They would have been tasered.
Only if they were into the kinky shit. Let's face it, our "Elected Officials" line up to give blowjobs and other sexual favors to corporate interests. I'm not even sure they know why they do it anymore.
You elect people to have judgement in complex legislative matters, and you replace them if they exhibit bad judgement.
Because that's worked SOO well in the US.
Except that's not what the OP had in mind. 4TB drives, 4 disks with a total overall capacity of 12TB. That's raid5.
Even raid6 in this configuration is scary. I'd want a SAN, if for no other reason than the backend management. On top of the fact that you slam 16 drives in the bloody thing ( minimum for this kind of data ), and have half as hot spares to a raid6 array. On top of this, you have a support contract with the vendor, so if a drive dies you have an exact replacement in under 24 hours. You dump the array to tape once a day ( and you'll need many drives, probably ultrium 3 ). Given the shear amount of data, you'd need a tape juke box, robotics and all.
Sure, you *might* get away with a consumer level raid5/6 solution. But when things come crashing down, and they very likely would, you want something a bit more serious on the back end.
That's terrifying; You would trust that kind of data to a simple raid5 commodity card? A SAN is a must, with a disk juke box backing it up.
Sure, you can recover from 1 disk loss, but what about 2? Murphy is a cruel bastard who enjoys eating fools like you for breakfast.
You nailed it. I've only been involved with government work for about a year now, but from what I've seen this is par for the course.
That sounds amazingly useless to me. How do the students improve their writing skills by doing this? What do they learn about science? What new math skills do they learn? Practice adding and subtracting? If this is a remedial school for kids who are going to go out into the world and scrounge for money, then maybe it's useful. For kids who might be interested in studying advance subjects in college, and will need to improve their writing and math skills, it seems like an incredible waste of time.
That's where the teacher comes in. If you do the base line and just accomplish the goal, you would be right; This method would be useless for most kids. However, the teacher is what makes or breaks this method. They would tie in all those that you mention ( writing, math, science ).
For grade school, this achieves amazing results. Not only are the kids motivated to learn, but the confidence they gain enables them to tackle other, harder, problems.
Regarding learning how to deal with lectures; Lectures are a horrible way to "teach", I've established that. However, it is true that no matter what, students will have to deal with these people who insist on doing so. The methods I listed previously teach children/people how to learn, which once you learn that you can take in information no matter the format.
Why does advances in one field mean we need to use it in education? And why is it that specific field? Computers are great tools, but they have little to do with the actual education part of the equation.
Teaching methods have progressed, regardless of what you see in public schools. They just aren't allowed to use the more advanced methods in a lot of cases, and in most they simply don't care enough to try. Standing up and lecturing is a useless method that no teacher should be using, I don't care what level we're talking about. Let me paint you a picture;
You set a goal. Say, this class will raise $XX.XX by December. From there, you brainstorm with your class: How do we do it? Now the class comes up with ideas, and the teacher picks the best of the bunch ( or best several ). Then they set to work making that happen, with the teacher mixing in social studies, history, math, and science into the mix ( which is the criteria they used to select the 'best' ideas ). Over the course of the next several months, your class works towards this goal using skills you teach them along the way.
Now, not only are they learning their subjects, they are using them in a real world environment to accomplish a real world goal. The lessons they learn here will stay with them for life. They are exercising their imaginations to come up with solutions to real problems. Through this, they gain the confidence to go on to bigger and better things.
Anybody who simply lectures is not a teacher; They are a highly paid monkey with a larger vocabulary.
Amusingly enough, in my 10 years in the field I have learned a very important lesson. For a skilled IT administrator, there's no such thing as a job shortage. I could walk out of my job this morning, and have another by this evening ( with a week's vacation on the books, which I would take all of next week ). If you have the experience, knowledge and references, employers will flock to you.
watched a father singing a lullaby's to his kid over the phone because something blew up and work needed to be done.
Uh, fuck that. No one gets my kid's time except her.
No job is that important.
Er...they did drop ME. You will note, there were no more releases of windows on that kernel.
Anyone have any insight as to how much easier it really is to integrate with Microsoft stuff?
Same crap as before, no change on the front lines. You still have a gazillion different management interfaces ( imanager, remote manager, consoleone ). You still have a hodgepodge of software that make up their flagship products ( zenworks, groupwise ). Novell still has a pretty good file server, but actually administrating the software is painful still.
Otherwise, innovation might be stifled.
And what would this accomplish? Google would still know which site you are visiting, as they would have had to hash it out originally. Which was the start of the whole argument, lest you forget.
Personally, I'm OK with the trade off, although the likelihood of me being taken by a phishing site is small.
I fully encourage any and all large organizations ( like a government ) to move to an OS that suits their needs, or can be tailored as such.
With the hopeful side effect, of course, of a more robust OS for all others involved. Given russia's rather lax attitude towards IP ( which I can't fault them in ), it's questionable whether we will see changes committed back to the tree. But here's hoping!
I think that depends on where you work to a great extent. At my employer, I'm one of only two female programmers in the company. It's been like that pretty much everywhere I've seen.
/.? A/S/L?
A chick on
( the above was meant to be humorous when taken in context with the linked article. I, in fact, have no interest in knowing the above poster's stats, as it were. )
You joke, but that's exactly what's going to happen; Once darl is out of SCO, he'll stay low for a year or so, then back into the lime light he'll go, driving some other company head first into the ground.
It is simple: no danger - don't taser.
If the cops involved felt he was a danger, then they had every right to taser him. Personally, I would have done it a few times ( but then, I'm not a cop ).
A taser is a non-lethal compliance device. As such, if a perp isn't giving the complaince requested, he should have been nailed. It was either that, or a full body tackle from the cops ( which is even more risky to the cops. Does he have a used needle on him anywhere? ). Tasers are the best alternative.
In most other departments an analysis has to be done on productivity verses quality control. In IT Land, it is what can be locked down without inspiring a user revolt. The more that can be locked down, the less of a headache for IT and the higher the productivity for IT. IT has the poorest business people, the reason they have issues is they don't understand how a business works. Reality bites, there are more users than IT People, the productivity of 99% of the work force can't suffer for the other 1%. Locking out emails, websites, etc... no issue, but when you feel a 1 min time delay before the password locked screen saver comes on without any study of the impact to productivity. You have just motivated the user to do anything to keep the screen saver from ever coming on again. I have seen users delete dlls and other files just to break the system on purpose just so they can avoid these irritations. This will ultimately lead to more locking down. Then the user revolt will occur when IT can handle the thousands of help tickets that will result. The real business people will walk at this point, then the IT department will be laid off.
Oh get off it. Most departments do a business analysis? Bullshit. Most departments start with, "I need X to do Y". Nevermind how this will impact the organization as a whole. They then find a vendor who lies to them the best, "Our product will do Y AND Z. It pays for itself in kittens over 5 years, blah blah blah". Department heads, upon hearing this, can't write the check out fast enough ( usually a blank check, although they don't realize it at the time ). In return they get a box of 1s and 0s with a fair amount of duct tape ( although, to be fair, i've worked places where they had bought software that hadn't existed yet. Two years after the first check was written, we got the first copy of said software. We realized at that point how good we had had it those previous two years ) which they then bring to us to install. We ( IT ) take a look and see that they bought Y/2, which needs M and N AND T, which they didn't buy.
There are some draconian IT depts out there; True. But ask yourself why that is. How bad had it been that it got to that point?