For corporate customers that buy a single user license you'd want to audit them for upgrades. That is, if they want to upgrade, they need to prove to you the have the correct number of licenses. Corps tend to buy one license and use it everywhere. Aside from that, just the simple "here's my order number, give me an activation code" type of online thing would be most appropriate ihmo.
Suppose you don't use the holster... say keep the thing in a purse or something? Not going to help you when the holster is taken too... or the purse with your holster holding the Blackberry... Sounds like marketing trying to sell something useless to pretend to be addressing the recent mobile device theft news articles.
I've done like this so I wouldn't have to use temporary disk space to store the archive file and takes care of the small files problem. Basically pipe the output of tar to the other machine through rsh...
tar -cz/path/to/files | rsh othermachine tar -xz
(hope the syntax is correct. been a while since i've tried it)
On planes you are asked to turn off your phones because it may keep you alive by not interfering with flight instrumentation...
In theaters your phones are forcibly rendered useless so not even emergency calls are received by paint that blocks cell-phone signals so that you can hear the babies crying and children talking in the theater...
What's wrong with this picture?
There probably won't be anything noticeable now, but
the butterfly effect being what it is, you'll definitely notice something later. Probably when the climate changes in a generation or two.
Being able to just plug it into any usb port for a quick charge is wonderful. If the Nano was able to do it, I'd get one. For now a 1gb shuffle is enough for my commutes for the week on one charge and I don't have to listen to the same song twice.
The ratings system is too simple.
You really want to say this thing you're watching contains the following possibly offensive material that you may or may not want to subject your kids to:
blood
gore
4-letter words
partial nudity
etc
instead of putting a single letter trying to sum it all up. That just doesn't work since it too simplified to accomodate everyone.
The datacenter at my last job was about two thousand square feet and had on the order of 100 servers.
Some things that stood out for me were (I'm just a programmer, so this might be obvious you):
One rack was dedicated to what amounted to a switchboard. All the networking stuff was there. The wires running into the datacenter terminated in one set of ports (one pc, one port). These were then individually connected to a switch or hub using standard cabling. The servers in the room were wired the same way. Each station was hardwired to its set of ports on the switchboard. The idea was that it made it really easy to change the subnet of each machine w/o having to physically move it (just go to the switchboard and change the wiring). The internal telephone network (PBX?) was set up the same way.
There were the lab coats near the door. It was freezing. The AC units (I think there were 4-6 of them in the last place I worked) covered an entire wall. These were giant commercial ones. There was about two vents for every three aisles of machines. At the end of each aisle you could still feel the AC blowing.
The more expensive the machine, the closer it was to the AC.
The UPS covered about 100sqft in the basement and there was a diesel generator. Think the generator could run 15 hours on a full tank. Battery power was good for 15 minutes or so. There are about 300 pcs and monitors plugged in in addition to everything in the datacenter.
Orange outlets for clean (UPS) power, normal looking outlets for dirty power. The generator fed everything.
There was a control panel of some sort in the room where all the sysadmins sat. It had alarms for temperature and power and some other things I can't remember.
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For corporate customers that buy a single user license you'd want to audit them for upgrades. That is, if they want to upgrade, they need to prove to you the have the correct number of licenses. Corps tend to buy one license and use it everywhere. Aside from that, just the simple "here's my order number, give me an activation code" type of online thing would be most appropriate ihmo.
Suppose you don't use the holster... say keep the thing in a purse or something? Not going to help you when the holster is taken too... or the purse with your holster holding the Blackberry... Sounds like marketing trying to sell something useless to pretend to be addressing the recent mobile device theft news articles.
I've done like this so I wouldn't have to use temporary disk space to store the archive file and takes care of the small files problem. Basically pipe the output of tar to the other machine through rsh...
/path/to/files | rsh othermachine tar -xz
tar -cz
(hope the syntax is correct. been a while since i've tried it)
On planes you are asked to turn off your phones because it may keep you alive by not interfering with flight instrumentation... In theaters your phones are forcibly rendered useless so not even emergency calls are received by paint that blocks cell-phone signals so that you can hear the babies crying and children talking in the theater... What's wrong with this picture?
What's to prevent people from using the paint without making it known? You walk into a building and suddenly your phone stops working.
What they really want to do is force the phones to be silent, not non-functional. (A little radio beacon to tell phones to go into silent mode.)
On a brighter note, this probably renders RFID tags useless too. Dip it in the paint, and presto-chango no more RF.
There probably won't be anything noticeable now, but the butterfly effect being what it is, you'll definitely notice something later. Probably when the climate changes in a generation or two.
If the spammers want to pay me a penny for every spam they send me I guess that'd be fine with me. I'd still set up a filter to get rid of them tho.
Being able to just plug it into any usb port for a quick charge is wonderful. If the Nano was able to do it, I'd get one. For now a 1gb shuffle is enough for my commutes for the week on one charge and I don't have to listen to the same song twice.
Why not "change your password" by using a different finger?
The ratings system is too simple. You really want to say this thing you're watching contains the following possibly offensive material that you may or may not want to subject your kids to: blood gore 4-letter words partial nudity etc instead of putting a single letter trying to sum it all up. That just doesn't work since it too simplified to accomodate everyone.
The datacenter at my last job was about two thousand square feet and had on the order of 100 servers.
Some things that stood out for me were (I'm just a programmer, so this might be obvious you):
One rack was dedicated to what amounted to a switchboard. All the networking stuff was there. The wires running into the datacenter terminated in one set of ports (one pc, one port). These were then individually connected to a switch or hub using standard cabling. The servers in the room were wired the same way. Each station was hardwired to its set of ports on the switchboard. The idea was that it made it really easy to change the subnet of each machine w/o having to physically move it (just go to the switchboard and change the wiring). The internal telephone network (PBX?) was set up the same way.
There were the lab coats near the door. It was freezing. The AC units (I think there were 4-6 of them in the last place I worked) covered an entire wall. These were giant commercial ones. There was about two vents for every three aisles of machines. At the end of each aisle you could still feel the AC blowing.
The more expensive the machine, the closer it was to the AC.
The UPS covered about 100sqft in the basement and there was a diesel generator. Think the generator could run 15 hours on a full tank. Battery power was good for 15 minutes or so. There are about 300 pcs and monitors plugged in in addition to everything in the datacenter.
Orange outlets for clean (UPS) power, normal looking outlets for dirty power. The generator fed everything.
There was a control panel of some sort in the room where all the sysadmins sat. It had alarms for temperature and power and some other things I can't remember.
Hope this gives you some ideas.