...IME was originally designed for servers only. Any OldFarts(TM) out there - remember crash carts? Yeah, the ability to remotely power-cycle servers was a really big deal when you're running hundreds/thousands of servers and VMs were just a pie in the sky. Also, basic front-end network management 101 handled security. There are still good reasons to allow IME in server deployments, but I see no good reason for including this in laptops. I suspect that this was brought into the Core line due to those people building servers needing remote management using i7, etc. chips, but that's just a guess.
On his show yesterday, Limbaugh was trying to make the case that NN is a thinly-veiled attempt to use the government to force Netflix to promote Global Warning.(!) I'm serious - this is how delusional these idiots are! We are truly doomed.
...damn I do hate that the real workers at HPE - as always in today's corporate America - take it in the shorts because of a series of incompetent, but super-well-paid execs screwing up horribly, then settling back in a cushy director's job where they can continue to draw great pay and perks and destroy value even more. Woo-hoo for modern capitalism!!
Actually, the way you phone addicts regularly walk into traffic staring at your screens, you'll likely be dead before me.:-) But that's OK - you're off my lawn either way.
... just watching people walk around with the damned things glued to their face. Crikey - you can't even have a normal conversation anymore with anyone!
Thank you! TFS states that "Intel's Management Engine (ME) technology is built into almost all modern Intel CPUs" which is 100% pure, organic, dolphin-free BullShit!! The ME is NOT any part of the CPU itself, but built into the chipset surrounding the CPU. During my time there, it was limited to Xeon-level CPUs, but may be in later chipsets - I haven't kept up in a while, though I can still call out BS when I see it. C'mon/. - this is just sloppy!!
...get a console. Are there really that many PC-only games that are worth: A) dealing with Windows overall and B) dealing with Windows? Seriously - keeping up with the latest drivers, etc - even, yes, in Windows, plus add Direct X versions.. - just.... why???
" Lower tax rates to make it less profitable for companies to try to off shore profits and they'll gladly take the path of least resistance." So, basically, turn America into even more of a tax haven than it already is? Winning!
...voting that they were chasing down. Who knew it would be the rich with multiple homes in multiple states (like the R politician recently busted for it) that are getting caught up?
That appears to have been the case only for those who signed up on Equifax's website after the hack was publicized for Equifax's "Credit Protection" fru-fru. Basic credit freeze (which I've done at all 3) - outside of the specific Equifax site mentioned - does NOT remove any of your legal rights.
I, for one, have NEVER signed any kind of contract with Equifax, so howdahell would this apply to me? Or, is Congress doing the usual "Fuck the poor!" approach, legal rights and non-contracts be damned?
Even though we like to think that everyone is enlightened, etc as us, in very broad swaths of American society being gay or jewish (or Muslim or...) is very much perceived as a negative out of the starting gate. File under: Sad-But-true.
There is no greater transition that a tech guy can make to transform his career than moving into a SE role. The Sales side of the house - from comp plans to basic management, training, etc. - puts the tech side of any company to shame. Forget management - been there, done that. While it can be rewarding, you are basically in a position - if you give a bubbly fart about your employees - where you are spending tremendous amounts of time and energy protecting them from upper management. If you care about your career, compensation and lifestyle, move into Sales Engineering.
I'm gonna disagree with you a bit here. Each portion of the kernel has its own maintainer and I don't see how ZFS being upstreamed would change that at all. Likewise, does not the maintainer of, say, the TTY subsystem (just a random pick...) make active changes *between* release cycles, submitting their LAG to the various RCs? Not saying that you are 100% wrong, but...help me out here.
Rather than burn a mod point, let me just add a kudo to your comment. Pick was probably the finest OS ever created: intimately tied with a real database; amazingly efficient and effective; totally dedicated to things just working solidly... Having gone through everything from DG's RDOS and AOS through TI's DX-10 and DNOS, then various UNIX flavors and Linux (what I'm currently running), it was the BEST! Damn - if only we could open-source Pick....
Well said, TT! While I am a (very happy) Linux user, I keep up with the Mac side of things and at one time considered one for Garage Band, mainly, but the combination of cost, limitations and just general fuckery kept me away. Glad I decided to stay away and have hardware flexibility - albeit at the cost of fiddling like mad with sound stuff.:-)
Back in my management days, I used to regularly regurgitate some variation of the following to all my employees: "I expect you to make mistakes. I'll be happy to share a few of the many mistakes that I've made throughout my career, if you like. The one unpardonable sin that I will not tolerate is to not openly and honestly acknowledge any mistake that you make, because that shows me that you cannot/will not learn. We learn 10X++ more from our mistakes than from banging out a standard project spec. Just tell me what you learned."
Exactly! Beyond nice things like ECC memory, when you really, really need to move some heavy I/O quickly, it's tough to beat a Xeon-based system. (I bought a used Dell Precision with 2 Xeons, 32GB of RAM, slipped in an SSD and...Man, oh man!!)
I'm having a flashback to my days when we were installing SCO Unix systems. (I know - AIX, etc had the same deal) I had 3 separate file cabinets filled with the SCO license numbers, indexed by client as they added/upgraded CPUs, ran more "users", etc. Certainly MS has made things easier, but...when we finished our transition to Linux we had an Office Space-style bonfire where we burned every fucking license to ashes. Felt so good and so right!
...especially supposedly technically knowledgeable people who are supposedly future-oriented. Here we are on the threshold of a revolutionary transformation in how transportation occurs and what I'm seeing so far here is an amalgam of: who can we sue when/if something fails?!?; it'll NEVER work 100% of the time! (omitting how shitty our current methodology scores); we need Standards(TM) first!! (ignoring how technology evolves); etc. Damn, just when I thought things could not get worse for America.
The answer is simple: as part of the EU treaty they signed, they can offer low tax rates overall, but their separate deal with Apple produced such low tax rates for Apple that the EU deemed it to be "state aid" to Apple, which is against EU rules. Zat help?
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...IME was originally designed for servers only. Any OldFarts(TM) out there - remember crash carts? Yeah, the ability to remotely power-cycle servers was a really big deal when you're running hundreds/thousands of servers and VMs were just a pie in the sky. Also, basic front-end network management 101 handled security. There are still good reasons to allow IME in server deployments, but I see no good reason for including this in laptops. I suspect that this was brought into the Core line due to those people building servers needing remote management using i7, etc. chips, but that's just a guess.
On his show yesterday, Limbaugh was trying to make the case that NN is a thinly-veiled attempt to use the government to force Netflix to promote Global Warning.(!) I'm serious - this is how delusional these idiots are! We are truly doomed.
...I thought they were talking about HP's printer drivers. I've never seen a more bloated pig of a driver than these!
...damn I do hate that the real workers at HPE - as always in today's corporate America - take it in the shorts because of a series of incompetent, but super-well-paid execs screwing up horribly, then settling back in a cushy director's job where they can continue to draw great pay and perks and destroy value even more. Woo-hoo for modern capitalism!!
Actually, the way you phone addicts regularly walk into traffic staring at your screens, you'll likely be dead before me. :-) But that's OK - you're off my lawn either way.
... just watching people walk around with the damned things glued to their face. Crikey - you can't even have a normal conversation anymore with anyone!
How far has the discussion quality fallen? Apparently this low, even without a political bent.
Thank you! TFS states that "Intel's Management Engine (ME) technology is built into almost all modern Intel CPUs" which is 100% pure, organic, dolphin-free BullShit!! The ME is NOT any part of the CPU itself, but built into the chipset surrounding the CPU. During my time there, it was limited to Xeon-level CPUs, but may be in later chipsets - I haven't kept up in a while, though I can still call out BS when I see it. C'mon /. - this is just sloppy!!
...get a console. Are there really that many PC-only games that are worth: A) dealing with Windows overall and B) dealing with Windows? Seriously - keeping up with the latest drivers, etc - even, yes, in Windows, plus add Direct X versions.. - just.... why???
" Lower tax rates to make it less profitable for companies to try to off shore profits and they'll gladly take the path of least resistance." So, basically, turn America into even more of a tax haven than it already is? Winning!
...voting that they were chasing down. Who knew it would be the rich with multiple homes in multiple states (like the R politician recently busted for it) that are getting caught up?
That appears to have been the case only for those who signed up on Equifax's website after the hack was publicized for Equifax's "Credit Protection" fru-fru. Basic credit freeze (which I've done at all 3) - outside of the specific Equifax site mentioned - does NOT remove any of your legal rights.
I, for one, have NEVER signed any kind of contract with Equifax, so howdahell would this apply to me? Or, is Congress doing the usual "Fuck the poor!" approach, legal rights and non-contracts be damned?
Even though we like to think that everyone is enlightened, etc as us, in very broad swaths of American society being gay or jewish (or Muslim or...) is very much perceived as a negative out of the starting gate. File under: Sad-But-true.
There is no greater transition that a tech guy can make to transform his career than moving into a SE role. The Sales side of the house - from comp plans to basic management, training, etc. - puts the tech side of any company to shame. Forget management - been there, done that. While it can be rewarding, you are basically in a position - if you give a bubbly fart about your employees - where you are spending tremendous amounts of time and energy protecting them from upper management. If you care about your career, compensation and lifestyle, move into Sales Engineering.
I'm gonna disagree with you a bit here. Each portion of the kernel has its own maintainer and I don't see how ZFS being upstreamed would change that at all. Likewise, does not the maintainer of, say, the TTY subsystem (just a random pick...) make active changes *between* release cycles, submitting their LAG to the various RCs? Not saying that you are 100% wrong, but...help me out here.
Rather than burn a mod point, let me just add a kudo to your comment. Pick was probably the finest OS ever created: intimately tied with a real database; amazingly efficient and effective; totally dedicated to things just working solidly... Having gone through everything from DG's RDOS and AOS through TI's DX-10 and DNOS, then various UNIX flavors and Linux (what I'm currently running), it was the BEST! Damn - if only we could open-source Pick....
Well said, TT! While I am a (very happy) Linux user, I keep up with the Mac side of things and at one time considered one for Garage Band, mainly, but the combination of cost, limitations and just general fuckery kept me away. Glad I decided to stay away and have hardware flexibility - albeit at the cost of fiddling like mad with sound stuff. :-)
Back in my management days, I used to regularly regurgitate some variation of the following to all my employees: "I expect you to make mistakes. I'll be happy to share a few of the many mistakes that I've made throughout my career, if you like. The one unpardonable sin that I will not tolerate is to not openly and honestly acknowledge any mistake that you make, because that shows me that you cannot/will not learn. We learn 10X++ more from our mistakes than from banging out a standard project spec. Just tell me what you learned."
Exactly! Beyond nice things like ECC memory, when you really, really need to move some heavy I/O quickly, it's tough to beat a Xeon-based system. (I bought a used Dell Precision with 2 Xeons, 32GB of RAM, slipped in an SSD and...Man, oh man!!)
I'm having a flashback to my days when we were installing SCO Unix systems. (I know - AIX, etc had the same deal) I had 3 separate file cabinets filled with the SCO license numbers, indexed by client as they added/upgraded CPUs, ran more "users", etc. Certainly MS has made things easier, but...when we finished our transition to Linux we had an Office Space-style bonfire where we burned every fucking license to ashes. Felt so good and so right!
...especially supposedly technically knowledgeable people who are supposedly future-oriented. Here we are on the threshold of a revolutionary transformation in how transportation occurs and what I'm seeing so far here is an amalgam of: who can we sue when/if something fails?!?; it'll NEVER work 100% of the time! (omitting how shitty our current methodology scores); we need Standards(TM) first!! (ignoring how technology evolves); etc. Damn, just when I thought things could not get worse for America.
...Just leave off the last 2 words. There you go!
Thanks for a better explanation than I gave!
The answer is simple: as part of the EU treaty they signed, they can offer low tax rates overall, but their separate deal with Apple produced such low tax rates for Apple that the EU deemed it to be "state aid" to Apple, which is against EU rules. Zat help?