For Visio, you could try running it with the commercial version of Wine, Codeweavers' CrossoverOffice. Visio 2000 has silver status, Visio 2002 and 2003 have bronze status.
The whole path that desktops are going down (except for the occasional exception such as a mac mini) is one of more power, more heat, more fans, more noise.
That's not my experience. At work, we're using HP desktops and at home, I've just bought a Dell desktop -- both pretty quiet.
Drives are often specced to run up to 60 degrees Celsius. However there are enclosures for hardisks which can cool it down without fans, just do a search.
Can you find a brand of laptop where the same Google searches don't turn up the same results of customers that feel ripped off
I was wondering about this. First I did a quick search for laptop market share info. Then googled for the terms "brand laptop problems". I corrected the number of results for the marketshare. See below, where lower means less search results.
Hp 0.26 Dell 0.82 Acer 0.12 Toshiba 0.1 Lenovo 0.07 Fujitsu-Siemens 0.02 Sony 0.12 Asus 0.04 Apple 0.44
So it appears that Dell laptop problems are found much more on the web.
I'm a trackball user, but not because of precision or anything. I'm using it because of the different movement that it offers. I'm doing 9+ hours behind a PC and my thinking is that this isn't really healthy. And besides that, I've learned myself to be able to use the mouse with my left hand. I think it helps, but nothing beats a little weight lifting in my case.
Hah! These old and heavy IBM PS/2's are deadly weapons once loaded into my bolt thrower. Imagine using Blue Gene and my goal of World Domination is coming nearer.
Hmyeah I agree a line printer is good as an addition, however paper is hardly searchable. I bet one of the requirements would be to have an auditing interface searchable by user, date, et cetera.
Yes, someone could do that. But of course, all sorts of measures should be taken to mitigate that risk. I'm thinking Nagios or Zabbix installations that guard the fact that logging should come in. Hardened machines, firewalls, Tripwire, et cetera.
If syslog can write to a remote machine, then a compromised syslog can overwrite a file on a remote machine.
I don't think so; the receiving syslog machine will be "add-only" and won't have rights to overwrite files. Of course, you can print your logs and that would be a good second defense. But searching through printed logs manually is a pain in the butt.
Good old syslog comes to the rescue. Besides logging locally to disk, also add a line to/etc/syslog.conf to log to a remote machine. That's probably enough read-only for you.
What confuses me as soon as it says "$100 more" is that you are at $299
Yeah, and you pay 150%. That laptop would have to be loads better at the purpose you were buying it for.
and for another $150 you can wander into BestBuy and splash $450 on a decent laptop that comes with Vista
If you buy a $200 aim-and-shoot camera then you probably have a budget. You're probably not going for the $450 digital SLR.
No, indeed, this will bring lots of extra costs as well. The black background will push many, many slashdotters into the abyss of depression. To counter this, they will flee into light therapy and burn up many gigawatts of healthy light.
For instance, in English we do not distinguish the voiced th sound and the voiceless th sound
That's pretty funny that you mention this, since this point occurred to me only last week when vitising Iceland. The travel guide said that their "thorn" was pronounced as the th in thing and their "eth" as in the. Until that point I had never realized the difference in pronunciation...
And remember: the best jobs [...] get snapped up via word of mouth within days of someone deciding they're going to hire someone
My experience is different; I've always relied on jobs in the magazines and posted on the internet. Once I've recommended someone at my then-current employer and got some flack when it didn't work out. My point is; why bother?
I leave lending of money to banks. Similarly, I leave job recommendations to recruiters.
an entry-level job like L1 helpdesk where applicants don't really need many skills past a pulse
After the current outsourcing trend, I foresee a zombification trend. Thus, helpdesk applicants won't even need a pulse! And this trend is already starting. Take for instance my manager. He doesn't seem to have a heart, let alone a pulse.
That you know how to find the solution. That you're presentably dressed and groomed
I'm fine with the "finding a solution" thing. However, ANY company that requires me to wear pants is NOT going to have the pleasure of paying my salary!!
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That's right! No fancy-schmancy education, everything I learned about programming, I learned from IRC abbreviations!
For Visio, you could try running it with the commercial version of Wine, Codeweavers' CrossoverOffice. Visio 2000 has silver status, Visio 2002 and 2003 have bronze status.
Drives are often specced to run up to 60 degrees Celsius. However there are enclosures for hardisks which can cool it down without fans, just do a search.
I like coffee too :-) It makes me do stupid things much faster :-)
So it appears that Dell laptop problems are found much more on the web.
Yeah I got the reference. I was trying to be kidding. And failed horribly.
I'm a trackball user, but not because of precision or anything. I'm using it because of the different movement that it offers. I'm doing 9+ hours behind a PC and my thinking is that this isn't really healthy. And besides that, I've learned myself to be able to use the mouse with my left hand. I think it helps, but nothing beats a little weight lifting in my case.
Hmyeah I agree a line printer is good as an addition, however paper is hardly searchable. I bet one of the requirements would be to have an auditing interface searchable by user, date, et cetera.
Yes, someone could do that. But of course, all sorts of measures should be taken to mitigate that risk. I'm thinking Nagios or Zabbix installations that guard the fact that logging should come in. Hardened machines, firewalls, Tripwire, et cetera.
But of course, nothing beats a printout on paper.
Good old syslog comes to the rescue. Besides logging locally to disk, also add a line to /etc/syslog.conf to log to a remote machine. That's probably enough read-only for you.
Don't thank me until you've seen the bill.
However, that brings us to the question: what would Apple have to do to make you drop your pants and grab your ankles?
No, indeed, this will bring lots of extra costs as well. The black background will push many, many slashdotters into the abyss of depression. To counter this, they will flee into light therapy and burn up many gigawatts of healthy light.
Hehheh, hats off for the clever reply!
I leave lending of money to banks. Similarly, I leave job recommendations to recruiters.
We're talking about Dungeons & Dragons, right?