As others have pointed out, who cares that he wouldn't have won?
Simple. Assume He's not crazy and he voted for himself. Then canidates X or Y should have one less vote. Vote counting is a zero sum result. Votes for X + Votes For Y + Votes for Z - Number of Votes == 0
Since the results had to pass this basic smell test, then one can figure one canidate has too many votes.
Come back to me when Home joins a Domain out of the box. Same code, sure, but one is crippleware.
You're 100%, home is crippleware for the audience it was intended for. Home users need to connect their workstations to an Active Directory Domain, or muck about with NTFS permissions. You're right, MS miss the boat on that one. It never would occur to you that this would even fit a business model . Its not like home is lacking features that the previous products targeted for home users had. Hell, I love 98's group policy support. Also I miss how ME can be authenticated by a domain. And before you spazz, ME can have users logging in authenticate against a domain, but that machine cant authenticate that is is the proper domain, nor can the domain authenticate that workstation as being the real deal.
My only hope was this certificate for a free upgrade to Windows XP Home Edition (not that I wanted Home)
Can you tell me what are the diffrences between Home and Pro? I'll give ya hint, very little. There's no code diffrence between them (same service pack for both). Your product id and the system call mmIsThisAnNTSystem() determine where it is pro or home and which additional features to activate.
oftware that came with my computer was designed for FAT32 windows and not NT
do you mean 9x, and not OS's that support FAT32? Or do you mean Fat32 vs. NTFS? Outside of software that uses the low level system API's (think AV, FS Utils, etc), Most Win32 (the API used by 32 bit windows apps) don't really care where its NT or 9x. NT is just less forgiving of poorly written apps, you know the ones written by people who really dont think things through.
With Vista's clusterf*ck, AMD's sluggish release of 65nm chips, and the Directx 10-related delays of the next-gen video cards from Nvidia and ATi (G80 and R600, respectively), why would you want to upgrade now? It would be stupid. If you want a Christmas present, get a gift certificate. If you want a *real* computer, wait till this crap get straightened out.
Such enlightened advice. What diffrence does AMD's supply issues and next-gen vid cards make for Joe SixPack the home users? The one's caring about DX10 and the fab process used by in their cpu's probably won't be buying something off Best Buy's shelves.
Meanwhile i think back to days of old when your standard config for an NT4 server (remember XP is NT 5.1) was a 2GB fat partition to boot and everything NTFS. The Pair of 4200's (NT4 SP6) I have running this way today with this config are now where near as stable as they should be (years of uptime).
If that was the case, comapnies would be buying boat loads of Inspirons instead of lattitudes. Dimentions instead of Optiplex's. The reason comapny;s buy opti's and latti's are the fact its a enterprise supportable platform. If you have a D series Latti, then you just have to stock D series gear. One of our captains had his D600 replaced with a D620, didnt have to change the docking stations he had, his floppy, or any of the accessories. You dont get that with platforms like Inspiron, or Macbooks. I'm not a fanboy or mac-bashing (i think the new macbooks are damn sexy), but apple isnt an enterprise platform. There's no managment frame work that come close to openmanage or hp's insight. the fact you can have SMS push out a bios or firmware update to a few hundred desktops is why you have corperations buying them by the pallet.
Outlook with Spambayes, all my rules, and Lookout tool keeps me sane. I keep ~3K items in my inbox and untold thousands in pst's. If i need to know something, i let lookout dig through the mess and spit back my answer. While gmail is great as a webmail client (my personal account is gmail), you'll have to pry exchange from my cold dead hands.
Maybe i've been spending way too much around router and switches, but it seems there are few things they forgot to consided.
1) Unlike graphic cards/motherboard/cpu/etc, an IP network is not a closed system. you can have the fasted and best card money can buy, but you're at the mercy of the weakest link. Dodgey router or crapin out switch port? your traffic will slow down just like everyone else's
2) XP Pro's network stack. Just 4 months ago, MS released code for Server 2003 SP1 and R2 to better use TCP Offloading Engines (TOE). While the TOS support (chimney and reverse side scaling) are some really cool shit, i dont recall whitepaper one showing the improvments made to XP's IP stack to kick it up a few notches.
3) QoS. The "Game First" feature is just a glorified name QoS or quality of service. QoS has two basic requirments for it to be worth a damn. a) every rotuer and switch port must respect it. b) no rotuer or switch port rewrites the markings. You can mark your packets CS7 (network control critial data), but if your hitting your $50 dollar linksys home nat-toy, its getting FIFO queued (First in, First Out). And, if the ISP and Carriers have admins worth the papaer the admin's check's printed on, that admin is NOT going to respect an end user's packet and remarking them back to 00 (coach class priorty). I think that is even the default for IOS (dont quote me on it), rewrite the DSCP and COS values back to 00/0.
But... If you're still intrerested in the card, i have some prime real estate for sale;-)
Though I am a civilian, I've been around and part of the "the system" for years, and most cops I know are honest people just wanting to do some good. There are one or two that need to retire, wash out, whatever, but thats anywhere. Being around them, i see how that side of it works, what the procedures are, etc; and i'm confidant in those processes.
I've seen officers walk out of court cleared of something, onlky to turn around and be terminated on the spot for policy violations.
forget drive speeds... try the speed of the net gear. to handle 2.5Gb/s you need a 10Gb/s interface on yer home router. 10Ge ints are quite expensive still
saving money isnt the only factor here. if your box is routing that much traffic, you're going to have a few populaed interfaces. Have fun swapping that out. At that size packet switchig speed isnt the only factor. servicability and redundancy are the other. The 7200 series is just two thumb screws. platforms like the 6500/7600 and above, you stick two sups in it. and on a 6500/7600 you can rout 20Gb/s of voice traffic during a sup failover, and not incurr jitter on packet of the call.
I got a few concerns about diting my cisco and juniper boxen.
I've blown a sup on cat 6000. for those of you not up on your cisco slang, a sup is your supervisor engine, analogus to a motherboard/processor pair. two thumb screws, one console cable and 10 minutes later. i was back on line. I cant see swapping out x86 platform that quick. I dont see something like statefull switch over in an x86 style platform. the hardware/software intergration for that is absolutly sick.
while on the topic of x86... I peer one of these guys up to a new AS or VRF and suck down a larger BGP table, is it going to pause forwarding and routing while it does a memory swap becuase its underlying os wants to do memory managment buisness as usual style?
I'm not knocking open source, but wanting to set your sights on the upper end of the router segment, you need to look at why cisco and juniper are that segment. If you have a need to sustain 4 to 5 gig of routing performance, you're probably going to need more than a routing table
some states like Delaware color code their exiration sticks, so you can spot a expired plate without having to run it.
what your also failing to get is systems like NCIC exists where a cop can key in a tag number and get back that data. Delaware keeps all there tags on a mainfram and the responce time for looking up tags is ver minimal.
Gee, I've been buying dell and hp comntrollers for years. Never had a problem with doing controller swaps. Both of them write the configs to disk as well as nvram, so its 2 minutes spent in the contorller's bios and i'm back on line.
Plus I spare controllers, and in the 6 years i've run this shop, I have only 5 raid controllers in my inventory. I've even got in the habbit of ordering servers with hot spare drives in them, so i just rebuild and not worry. I've been hot sparring in my SAN for ages, and I sleep better with it.
the short and sweet of it is, I'm not knocking linux software daid, but I just dont trust software at all for that stuff. and in all the years i've been doing this stuff in an enterprise environment, i've never had a major problem running hardware raid controllers.
Don't get me wrong, I'm for open standards and open platform, but the automatic assumtion of proprietary == bad isnt the way to approach every situation. I'm running a Cisco Callmanger installation, and once i got past the implentation I got no complaints with going with it. So I dont have the source to it... big deal! i still have the level of support I need. Sure I had issues when I first installed the stuff, but you're gonna have that with anything. 90% of my issues was with "its diffrent and not the old phone system". Anytime I've picked the phone up, I've gotten what I've needed. Like when i was having issues with CallerID settings, I was able to get an engineer from Cisco on the calls with Verzion so i could have someone able to intellignetly discuss the issue.
Am I saying proprietary is always the way to go? not in the least. What I am saying is you need to stand back, preform your research and due dilligence. Find what works best for you.
And before I get blasted for be anti-open source, my network infrasture provisioning and inventoring(sp?) is build all on open source.
thats up there with me having to make a priority edit to an ACL during production hours. Me being the good admin copy the acl from the conf ig an dpasted into to notepad to edit it.
So after banging away at my acl for a bit and getting it tight. I copy the acl to the router. All but the last line, the ever so important "permit ip any any" statement at the end. Oddly enough, with the acl denying everything now, my phone was ringing off the hook.
Well the short being, Routing for our user segments was broken for about 30 minutes while had to sift through how i broke things.
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Simple. Assume He's not crazy and he voted for himself. Then canidates X or Y should have one less vote. Vote counting is a zero sum result. Votes for X + Votes For Y + Votes for Z - Number of Votes == 0
Since the results had to pass this basic smell test, then one can figure one canidate has too many votes.
I need to WTFM to know diebold sucks? wow
Can you tell me what are the diffrences between Home and Pro? I'll give ya hint, very little. There's no code diffrence between them (same service pack for both). Your product id and the system call mmIsThisAnNTSystem() determine where it is pro or home and which additional features to activate.
do you mean 9x, and not OS's that support FAT32? Or do you mean Fat32 vs. NTFS ? Outside of software that uses the low level system API's (think AV, FS Utils, etc), Most Win32 (the API used by 32 bit windows apps) don't really care where its NT or 9x. NT is just less forgiving of poorly written apps, you know the ones written by people who really dont think things through.
Such enlightened advice. What diffrence does AMD's supply issues and next-gen vid cards make for Joe SixPack the home users? The one's caring about DX10 and the fab process used by in their cpu's probably won't be buying something off Best Buy's shelves.
Meanwhile i think back to days of old when your standard config for an NT4 server (remember XP is NT 5.1) was a 2GB fat partition to boot and everything NTFS. The Pair of 4200's (NT4 SP6) I have running this way today with this config are now where near as stable as they should be (years of uptime).
If that was the case, comapnies would be buying boat loads of Inspirons instead of lattitudes. Dimentions instead of Optiplex's. The reason comapny;s buy opti's and latti's are the fact its a enterprise supportable platform. If you have a D series Latti, then you just have to stock D series gear. One of our captains had his D600 replaced with a D620, didnt have to change the docking stations he had, his floppy, or any of the accessories. You dont get that with platforms like Inspiron, or Macbooks. I'm not a fanboy or mac-bashing (i think the new macbooks are damn sexy), but apple isnt an enterprise platform. There's no managment frame work that come close to openmanage or hp's insight. the fact you can have SMS push out a bios or firmware update to a few hundred desktops is why you have corperations buying them by the pallet.
3... not just adsl from two suppliers but say cable and xDSL since thats the chance of having the same last mile cable plant.
Outlook with Spambayes, all my rules, and Lookout tool keeps me sane. I keep ~3K items in my inbox and untold thousands in pst's. If i need to know something, i let lookout dig through the mess and spit back my answer. While gmail is great as a webmail client (my personal account is gmail), you'll have to pry exchange from my cold dead hands.
if reasoning was a viable answer, you wouldnt have to escalate it to pulling the modem and having the kid turn into a little shit
Exactly dude.... whatever happened to the old fashioned ass kicking you'd get for being unmanagable.
It makes it more enjoyable when doing it with the buds, comma but Ventrillio and WoW will be true socal set when they can actully get you laid.
Maybe i've been spending way too much around router and switches, but it seems there are few things they forgot to consided. 1) Unlike graphic cards/motherboard/cpu/etc, an IP network is not a closed system. you can have the fasted and best card money can buy, but you're at the mercy of the weakest link. Dodgey router or crapin out switch port? your traffic will slow down just like everyone else's 2) XP Pro's network stack. Just 4 months ago, MS released code for Server 2003 SP1 and R2 to better use TCP Offloading Engines (TOE). While the TOS support (chimney and reverse side scaling) are some really cool shit, i dont recall whitepaper one showing the improvments made to XP's IP stack to kick it up a few notches. 3) QoS. The "Game First" feature is just a glorified name QoS or quality of service. QoS has two basic requirments for it to be worth a damn. a) every rotuer and switch port must respect it. b) no rotuer or switch port rewrites the markings. You can mark your packets CS7 (network control critial data), but if your hitting your $50 dollar linksys home nat-toy, its getting FIFO queued (First in, First Out). And, if the ISP and Carriers have admins worth the papaer the admin's check's printed on, that admin is NOT going to respect an end user's packet and remarking them back to 00 (coach class priorty). I think that is even the default for IOS (dont quote me on it), rewrite the DSCP and COS values back to 00/0. But... If you're still intrerested in the card, i have some prime real estate for sale ;-)
Just think how much he *could* have made if he finishned school
Though I am a civilian, I've been around and part of the "the system" for years, and most cops I know are honest people just wanting to do some good. There are one or two that need to retire, wash out, whatever, but thats anywhere. Being around them, i see how that side of it works, what the procedures are, etc; and i'm confidant in those processes. I've seen officers walk out of court cleared of something, onlky to turn around and be terminated on the spot for policy violations.
three words.... Slow News Day
is that crocodile dundee?
forget drive speeds... try the speed of the net gear. to handle 2.5Gb/s you need a 10Gb/s interface on yer home router. 10Ge ints are quite expensive still
saving money isnt the only factor here. if your box is routing that much traffic, you're going to have a few populaed interfaces. Have fun swapping that out. At that size packet switchig speed isnt the only factor. servicability and redundancy are the other. The 7200 series is just two thumb screws. platforms like the 6500/7600 and above, you stick two sups in it. and on a 6500/7600 you can rout 20Gb/s of voice traffic during a sup failover, and not incurr jitter on packet of the call.
I got a few concerns about diting my cisco and juniper boxen. I've blown a sup on cat 6000. for those of you not up on your cisco slang, a sup is your supervisor engine, analogus to a motherboard/processor pair. two thumb screws, one console cable and 10 minutes later. i was back on line. I cant see swapping out x86 platform that quick. I dont see something like statefull switch over in an x86 style platform. the hardware/software intergration for that is absolutly sick. while on the topic of x86... I peer one of these guys up to a new AS or VRF and suck down a larger BGP table, is it going to pause forwarding and routing while it does a memory swap becuase its underlying os wants to do memory managment buisness as usual style? I'm not knocking open source, but wanting to set your sights on the upper end of the router segment, you need to look at why cisco and juniper are that segment. If you have a need to sustain 4 to 5 gig of routing performance, you're probably going to need more than a routing table
some states like Delaware color code their exiration sticks, so you can spot a expired plate without having to run it. what your also failing to get is systems like NCIC exists where a cop can key in a tag number and get back that data. Delaware keeps all there tags on a mainfram and the responce time for looking up tags is ver minimal.
Gee, I've been buying dell and hp comntrollers for years. Never had a problem with doing controller swaps. Both of them write the configs to disk as well as nvram, so its 2 minutes spent in the contorller's bios and i'm back on line. Plus I spare controllers, and in the 6 years i've run this shop, I have only 5 raid controllers in my inventory. I've even got in the habbit of ordering servers with hot spare drives in them, so i just rebuild and not worry. I've been hot sparring in my SAN for ages, and I sleep better with it. the short and sweet of it is, I'm not knocking linux software daid, but I just dont trust software at all for that stuff. and in all the years i've been doing this stuff in an enterprise environment, i've never had a major problem running hardware raid controllers.
good shuff dude... i need that link for the staff meeting tomorrow
Don't get me wrong, I'm for open standards and open platform, but the automatic assumtion of proprietary == bad isnt the way to approach every situation. I'm running a Cisco Callmanger installation, and once i got past the implentation I got no complaints with going with it. So I dont have the source to it... big deal! i still have the level of support I need. Sure I had issues when I first installed the stuff, but you're gonna have that with anything. 90% of my issues was with "its diffrent and not the old phone system". Anytime I've picked the phone up, I've gotten what I've needed. Like when i was having issues with CallerID settings, I was able to get an engineer from Cisco on the calls with Verzion so i could have someone able to intellignetly discuss the issue. Am I saying proprietary is always the way to go? not in the least. What I am saying is you need to stand back, preform your research and due dilligence. Find what works best for you. And before I get blasted for be anti-open source, my network infrasture provisioning and inventoring(sp?) is build all on open source.
What about Cisco Callmanager? http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6164/index.h tml
thats up there with me having to make a priority edit to an ACL during production hours. Me being the good admin copy the acl from the conf ig an dpasted into to notepad to edit it. So after banging away at my acl for a bit and getting it tight. I copy the acl to the router. All but the last line, the ever so important "permit ip any any" statement at the end. Oddly enough, with the acl denying everything now, my phone was ringing off the hook. Well the short being, Routing for our user segments was broken for about 30 minutes while had to sift through how i broke things.