Two Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor hard drives in RAID 1, Two 1 TB Samsung SpinPoint F1s also in RAID 1, and Four 1 TB Samsung SpinPoint F1s in RAID 5.
What is the point of the two WD 300GB drives? They provide 300GB usable disk space, while the system has another 4TB of usable space. They are RAID1 -- just like the pair of Samsung drives. Are they just for show? Or to fill more of the available drive bays? Perhaps the builder could have covered the case with diamonds to make it more expensive?
The decision in 2004 to move to open source, was raised by one of the Gendarmerie's accountants. "Microsoft was forcing us to buy new software licences. This annoyed our accountant, who tried OpenOffice." According to Guimard the proprietary software maker then started lobbying the Gendarmerie, which is how the general manager found out about the experiments. "When he saw OpenOffice worked just as well and was available for free, it was he that decided it should be installed on all 90.000 desktops."
Talk about firing both barrels of a 12 gauge footgun!
Everything from installs, running certain file types, giving access to certain network shares and not others, software allocation, shortcut allocation (for different users having different accessability of the software on the machine), modification of local drives, the ability to see local drives and the resetting of any of this from a central area.
Just about all of this (if not all) can be achieved using the automounter and using some centralised method of distributing the maps (auto.master, auto.home, etc). The distribution can be achieved using NIS, although there are other possible methods. About the only thing you won't achieve with this is stopping users from seeing the local drives, but who cares? They won't be able to see the contents of the critical files such as/etc/shadow. Note that "seeing" is not the same as "modifying".
The ability to quickly and easily set it all up on all machines on the network at once, and to change permissions later with equal ease, without having to ssh into each and every machine on the network.
A quickstart file to install the machine correctly in the first place, use the autoupdater to update based on your own repository, with custom RPMs to push out further changes. Or, have the machine run a crontab that runs a script from a network-accessible location periodically -- and that script can set up various permissions as required. Or, the script could be local, and rsync is used to push out updates to the script when required. rsync can be set up to use ssh with unencrypted keys allowing a secure root login with no requirement to type a password. There are lots of ways to do it.
You are looking at it from a system security perspective, not "IT Policies" perspective. He needs to be able to disallow solitare, force all connections through a proxy server for web filtering, pass down 802.1x keys, force people to use a certain network printer, etc...
All these can be enforced using control of the services. The problem statement reflects the Microsoft/Windows way of doing things. Turn it around and ask how the network can enforce the policies.
Proxy: the firewall can enforce this. Users don't use the correct proxy? No web access. Printers: Configure the printer to allow only certain users/groups, etc. etc..
A desktop where the user does not have su/sudo access is already pretty locked down -- the user can only write to his home directory and other directories that he/she has access to through normal permissions.
If you really want to lock it down, the user's home directory can be mounted in such a way that files cannot be executed from there.
Honest bargains hangout with unicorns and Santa Claus. But more seriously, where does this entitlement attitude come from? There's this mass misconception that products are "marked up". Really? From what baseline? It's like saying pharmaceutical companies are "ripping us off" based solely on the price being charged. Because there's a perception it should be cheaper.
The perception is grounded in reality. In the case of pharmaceuticals, it's grounded in the reality that those same drugs cost less in other countries. In CC's case, in the reality (noted by many posters above) that other retailers sold the same item for less -- even during CC's closing down sale.
I wonder when this was? My recollection of my local Circuit City from the '90s was that the store was dark inside, with low ceilings (contributing to an oppressive feeling). Although it appeared that they sold many items, closer inspection showed that they had very few different items -- the displays consisted of a few models, with many instances of the same model.
The oppressive feeling was compounded by salesfolk clearly on commission -- and too hungry for business -- I found this rather off-putting.
My last purchase there was a laptop that I bought for someone else. This laptop had 2 rebates: one from the manufacturer and one from Circuit City. Well, guess what? I never received the rebate from Circuit City, leaving me down $100 on the deal after I was paid for the laptop.
Last year, when my local Circuit City store was closed in the first wave of closures (before the bankruptcy went to CH 7) I went to the store. The discounts were mostly 10%. There were a few 20% discounts, but not much. If this was supposed to be a closing down sale, not a regular shopping day, then the management was not serious.
PS. Mods, if you are tempted to downmod this post as redundant because there is a similar post above mine in your listing, please check times of posting first.
I just looked at the site and I see nothing indicating that FF is insecure. In the FAQ, it does say the IE6 and later are the only supported browsers ("for proper operation"), but "unsupported" is not the smae as "insecure".
If IE8 is removed, will there we a way for the user to get and select/deselect updates? [Where "updates" are frequently new programs/libraries.etc. that I might not want to install]
One more thing -- by "average" you may be thinking of "mode" -- ie. the value that occurs most often. That definition does not imply a significant number of H1-Bs without college degrees, but I don't believe that the mode of ages at which people get H1-b visas is college graduation age.
If mode is what you meant by average, then I challenge you to find some documentation to support it. Otherwise STFU.
There is no point continuing the discussion with you since you are clearly clue-resistant.
Let me just point out a couple of things before I go:
1. You have not refuted my other correction about "dual intent".
2. A set where all the members are identical is interesting but unrepresentative of either the ages of people who get H1-B visas or teenagers getting licenses. Apparently in your world, the range of ages at which people get H1-B visas is zero -- in other words, everyone gets their visa at the same age.
There are many people who get H1-B visas who are several years or decades out of college. Apparently, these people don't exist in your fantasy world. In a normal distribution, there are population members above the average and population members below the average, in roughly equal numbers. According to you, since the average number of years out of college at which people get H1-B visas is zero, there should be a population of H1-B visa holders who got their visa at something less than their degree age.
Now do you see the problem?
On average, teenagers in America get their drivers license at sixteen. The minimum legal age to get your license in America is sixteen.
Let me suggest that you look up the meaning of "average", since you obviously don't have a grasp of this concept. Some states allow teenagers to get licenses at ages younger than 16, the minimum is lower than your claim.
Perhaps you need to re-read what you posted. Let me quote:
The average age at which H1-Bs come to this country is fresh out of college
As I said, if (as you claim -- see above) the average at which they arrive is "fresh out of college", then approximately half must arrive on H1-B visas before graduating.
The temporary H1-B visa was supposed to be good for seven years. The average age at which H1-Bs come to this country is fresh out of college, so 22-23 years old plus seven years is about thirty.
You are wrong on both counts.
Firstly, H1 visas are considered a "dual intent" visa. It is expected that some people on H1s will transition to Green Cards and then to citizenship.
Secondly, if the average age of H1s is "fresh out of college", that would imply that half the H1s come into the country before graduating. Since having a degree is usually required for an H1-b visa, this seems rather unlikely, so I conclude that you pulled that figure out of your ass.
If this guy really owned the clipart, and they are being used commercially without permission,
Imageline, Inc registered copyrights on clipart in 1996. The copyright office's search page does not display the actual subject matter of the copyright registrations, so it is hard to tell if the claimed images were in that collection.
Remember - a Patient that isn't cured/fixed is going to keep seeking medical care, so an ineffective procedure is worse than nothing.
When they set up the National Health Service in the UK, it was thought that by providing healthcare to all, the population would become healthier and require less medical care. Well, it did not quite work out that way. People ultimately die. The longer they live, the more healthcare they will need. For society, it is probably cheapest if people die of a heart attack just after they stop working. Reduce heart attacks and guess what, they have other illnesses.
Ultimately, there is an almost unlimited demand for healthcare -- some kind of rationing is needed, either through costs, or through waiting lists, or through making some kinds of healthcare unavailable.
That is their goal. To return to that glorious place they enjoyed for decades. A competition-free zone.
And that's why they are not going to stop -- it's life and death to them. The alternatives society has don't involve the existence of the RIAA and its member companies.
Music publishers exist to identify music that large numbers of people would like and make it available. In the past, there was really only one way to do this and the record companies grew up around this method. We now have a much more efficient method -- let the masses sort out popularity and distribute it electronically. Sites that rank music based on some measure of popularity and genre provide a much more efficient method for individuals to find music that they might like.
Other technological changes have made the publishers redundant -- the cost of recording music has dropped dramatically.
There is no reason that an artist should need a publisher/label for publicity -- its not a unique skill, except for one factor: the label's hold over what is played on the radio.
So, anything at all that threatens the RIAA's hold over radio playlists must (in the eyes of the RIAA) be killed off at all costs, because the alternative is the death of the RIAA. They are like a cornered animal -- almost defeated, but at their most dangerous.
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What is the point of the two WD 300GB drives? They provide 300GB usable disk space, while the system has another 4TB of usable space. They are RAID1 -- just like the pair of Samsung drives. Are they just for show? Or to fill more of the available drive bays? Perhaps the builder could have covered the case with diamonds to make it more expensive?
$16,000 bought you a high-end Compaq desktop. Not a server, only one CPU, one disk, etc.. And that was when $16k was real money!
Hey, it's not "pork", it's an "economic stimulus".
Talk about firing both barrels of a 12 gauge footgun!
Just about all of this (if not all) can be achieved using the automounter and using some centralised method of distributing the maps (auto.master, auto.home, etc). The distribution can be achieved using NIS, although there are other possible methods. About the only thing you won't achieve with this is stopping users from seeing the local drives, but who cares? They won't be able to see the contents of the critical files such as /etc/shadow. Note that "seeing" is not the same as "modifying".
A quickstart file to install the machine correctly in the first place, use the autoupdater to update based on your own repository, with custom RPMs to push out further changes. Or, have the machine run a crontab that runs a script from a network-accessible location periodically -- and that script can set up various permissions as required. Or, the script could be local, and rsync is used to push out updates to the script when required. rsync can be set up to use ssh with unencrypted keys allowing a secure root login with no requirement to type a password. There are lots of ways to do it.
All these can be enforced using control of the services. The problem statement reflects the Microsoft/Windows way of doing things. Turn it around and ask how the network can enforce the policies.
Proxy: the firewall can enforce this. Users don't use the correct proxy? No web access. Printers: Configure the printer to allow only certain users/groups, etc. etc..
A desktop where the user does not have su/sudo access is already pretty locked down -- the user can only write to his home directory and other directories that he/she has access to through normal permissions.
If you really want to lock it down, the user's home directory can be mounted in such a way that files cannot be executed from there.
What elso is required?
The perception is grounded in reality. In the case of pharmaceuticals, it's grounded in the reality that those same drugs cost less in other countries. In CC's case, in the reality (noted by many posters above) that other retailers sold the same item for less -- even during CC's closing down sale.
I wonder when this was? My recollection of my local Circuit City from the '90s was that the store was dark inside, with low ceilings (contributing to an oppressive feeling). Although it appeared that they sold many items, closer inspection showed that they had very few different items -- the displays consisted of a few models, with many instances of the same model.
The oppressive feeling was compounded by salesfolk clearly on commission -- and too hungry for business -- I found this rather off-putting.
My last purchase there was a laptop that I bought for someone else. This laptop had 2 rebates: one from the manufacturer and one from Circuit City. Well, guess what? I never received the rebate from Circuit City, leaving me down $100 on the deal after I was paid for the laptop.
Last year, when my local Circuit City store was closed in the first wave of closures (before the bankruptcy went to CH 7) I went to the store. The discounts were mostly 10%. There were a few 20% discounts, but not much. If this was supposed to be a closing down sale, not a regular shopping day, then the management was not serious.
Or so many pages, so little time, so here is link to the "print" page -- one page with all the text and pictures and no ads.
PS. Mods, if you are tempted to downmod this post as redundant because there is a similar post above mine in your listing, please check times of posting first.
I just looked at the site and I see nothing indicating that FF is insecure. In the FAQ, it does say the IE6 and later are the only supported browsers ("for proper operation"), but "unsupported" is not the smae as "insecure".
If IE8 is removed, will there we a way for the user to get and select/deselect updates? [Where "updates" are frequently new programs/libraries.etc. that I might not want to install]
One more thing -- by "average" you may be thinking of "mode" -- ie. the value that occurs most often. That definition does not imply a significant number of H1-Bs without college degrees, but I don't believe that the mode of ages at which people get H1-b visas is college graduation age.
If mode is what you meant by average, then I challenge you to find some documentation to support it. Otherwise STFU.
There is no point continuing the discussion with you since you are clearly clue-resistant. Let me just point out a couple of things before I go: 1. You have not refuted my other correction about "dual intent". 2. A set where all the members are identical is interesting but unrepresentative of either the ages of people who get H1-B visas or teenagers getting licenses. Apparently in your world, the range of ages at which people get H1-B visas is zero -- in other words, everyone gets their visa at the same age. There are many people who get H1-B visas who are several years or decades out of college. Apparently, these people don't exist in your fantasy world. In a normal distribution, there are population members above the average and population members below the average, in roughly equal numbers. According to you, since the average number of years out of college at which people get H1-B visas is zero, there should be a population of H1-B visa holders who got their visa at something less than their degree age. Now do you see the problem?
Let me suggest that you look up the meaning of "average", since you obviously don't have a grasp of this concept. Some states allow teenagers to get licenses at ages younger than 16, the minimum is lower than your claim.
As I said, if (as you claim -- see above) the average at which they arrive is "fresh out of college", then approximately half must arrive on H1-B visas before graduating.
You are wrong on both counts.
Firstly, H1 visas are considered a "dual intent" visa. It is expected that some people on H1s will transition to Green Cards and then to citizenship.
Secondly, if the average age of H1s is "fresh out of college", that would imply that half the H1s come into the country before graduating. Since having a degree is usually required for an H1-b visa, this seems rather unlikely, so I conclude that you pulled that figure out of your ass.
Imageline, Inc registered copyrights on clipart in 1996. The copyright office's search page does not display the actual subject matter of the copyright registrations, so it is hard to tell if the claimed images were in that collection.
I wonder what type of plastic is used for the lenses in headlights?
When they set up the National Health Service in the UK, it was thought that by providing healthcare to all, the population would become healthier and require less medical care. Well, it did not quite work out that way. People ultimately die. The longer they live, the more healthcare they will need. For society, it is probably cheapest if people die of a heart attack just after they stop working. Reduce heart attacks and guess what, they have other illnesses.
Ultimately, there is an almost unlimited demand for healthcare -- some kind of rationing is needed, either through costs, or through waiting lists, or through making some kinds of healthcare unavailable.
What about CD Baby/iTunes?
And that's why they are not going to stop -- it's life and death to them. The alternatives society has don't involve the existence of the RIAA and its member companies.
Music publishers exist to identify music that large numbers of people would like and make it available. In the past, there was really only one way to do this and the record companies grew up around this method. We now have a much more efficient method -- let the masses sort out popularity and distribute it electronically. Sites that rank music based on some measure of popularity and genre provide a much more efficient method for individuals to find music that they might like.
Other technological changes have made the publishers redundant -- the cost of recording music has dropped dramatically. There is no reason that an artist should need a publisher/label for publicity -- its not a unique skill, except for one factor: the label's hold over what is played on the radio.
So, anything at all that threatens the RIAA's hold over radio playlists must (in the eyes of the RIAA) be killed off at all costs, because the alternative is the death of the RIAA. They are like a cornered animal -- almost defeated, but at their most dangerous.
Ingo A. Kubblin is quoted as saying:
is that 8-9% overall speedup of applications, or just kernel tasks?
With yet another incompatibility between OpenOffice and Excel, I really can't use OpenOffice.