I think Microsoft is doing the right thing here by making it an optional update in Windows Update. Silverlight does open new vectors for attack, so I applaud Microsoft for not forcing the install. So if you control the patch schedule for your users (aka internal sites), then Silverlight would be the way to go. I wouldn't rely on Silverlight for a public website though. Flash is ubiquitous.
I bought a Samsung ML 1710 about 5 years ago, and it's worked from Ubuntu, Xandros, OSX10, Windows 2000-2008. Cheap workhorse, not a lot of extra features that you don't need breaking down and slowing things down. When it goes, I'll replace it with another one.
This is the best way to do it. Find a job near the university that you want to get a Masters from. Work super hard for 1-2 years, then let them know that you want to go get your Masters. Work during the day, classes at night (or maybe your firm is more flexible). It will be a painful existence, but you will graduate without debt (your firm is paying for this right?), and some of your classwork will be more relevant as you have actual work experience.
I live in Reston VA. (Suburbs outside of DC). The Metro works nicely for me, there is a park & ride that has an express bus straight to the Metro station. (I could ride a bike there, but I work in a suit & tie every day). It makes the commute about 15 min longer, but far more enjoyable. Parking (alone) would run me $24/day. For weekday commuting, train & bus wins by a long shot.
In addition, the last two firms I've worked for have offered a private bus from the train straight to the office. I think this should be a required benefit for companies that call themselves "green".
The city of Reston is great about having sidewalks and paths. Many of them do not run next to the road and provide a great way to walk places on the weekend without sucking down exhaust fumes. I hated suburban living before I moved here, but I think they really provide the best of both worlds.
I'm sill using Chrome, so I'm currently an outcast. I have Firefox3 with 9 plugins (of course AdBlock/Flashblock/... and so on). The major reason I keep using Chrome is that the Javascript engine is so much faster. It is actually faster for me to load all the extra crap with Chrome than it is for adblock to remove it and render the page with stuff missing. It sounds ridiculous, but it is my experience. Of course now my privacy is being raped 8 ways to Sunday, but its worth it for that 15 extra milliseconds of my life.
for everyone out there does your website have a p3p policy? IBM has a free tool to build one. Of course, be sure to revisit your policy once a year to make sure that you retain your high and mighty standards.
Is it really that much of a burden to resync your device? I'd prefer that they wipe down my device.
It protects both parties. I know that they're not perusing my personal documents, and Apple doesn't take any liability for whatever I've loaded onto my iPod. It comes back , I plug it in and iTunes resyncs it. That is pretty good for it just works.
That is a valid argument for desktop systems. It totally falls apart for system admins who need to make a change to hundreds or thousands of systems. I would take a command line no matter how obfuscated over checkboxes & sliders in that case.
Also, Europeans are drinking delicious beer and have cooler cell phones. I always hunt these guys out and drink with them. Of course, I have a blackberry from ancient times and they all get a laugh at my expense. Good times.
I would say yes, if someone posted news that Berkshire Hathaway was going bankrupt, people would double & triple check it. Post news that a poorly run US airline is going under and people rush to flush the stocks. If you don't want people to believe this about you, manage your image.
no, but they did have to shutdown traffic through Midtown. The effects of this (other than security and traffic management) were a 20-25% reduction in childhood asthma as measured by the CDC.
I've seen companies that turned to virtualization to solve their power and cooling problems. Yes, you can serve more OS instances with less hardware. That is good.
However, these places are generally not managing their infrastructure well in the first place. Now you start running into problems with server sprawl and storage management. The management costs are going up because you have more servers running more applications. That takes more management, not less.
I think it is great that we are seeing more specialization in this space. I think that SysAdmins need to look at how they want to specialize moving forward. Are you going to manage hardware & resources? Are you going to be more OS and application tuning? We can't expect one person to have enough breadth to go from HVAC/electric/network/storage/OS/application. I'd hate to see a tape ape get into Data Center design because "hey they're down in the Data Center anyway"
Don't get me wrong, I think virtualization (server & application & desktop) is the wave of the future. But I don't think a lot of firms see this yet. I think they are still trading one problem for another.
fuel isn't 1% of your budget? I'm impressed. If you have to fill up your tank once a week, then you're spending at least $40. This is a weekly income of $4K, or over $200K/annually.
I consider myself a conservative driver. I hate cars and I hate traffic, but between my wife & I, fuel costs are far above 1% and even approaching 5%.
Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
+1 for cc classes in high school. I don't know anything about California, I grew up in Florida, and in FL, they will pay for high school students to take cc classes. True, I didn't win the county math awards because I wasn't taking classes with the school system, but I did get credit for all the classes I took, (and I went out of state.)
These were just run of the mill Calculus classes so I had to take other classes, but they did 1) Let me skip the Calc 1/Cal II progression and move right into optimization (business major, didn't need Diff Eq) 2) count as math electives (Calc III), which let me lighten the load later semesters.
Of course I also took AP classes, but they didn't take any of those for credit. Of course the AP classes (English composition, and Chemistry) were worth it. I took the 100 level classes at university and they were very simple. I even put off Chemistry until senior year so I could coast my last semester.
I agree with the parent poster that more and more pressure is being put on high school students to perform at a younger age. But if we want an information age, then we need to push ourselves, and our friends, and our families to create and understand more information and knowledge. As time marches on, our lives and societies grow more complex, learning is our best approach to deal with this. If we don't step up to the challenge, then we can begin our march back to the oceans.
In conclusion, challenging classes are good. Take as many as you can. more thinking = good
wrecks become less commonplace, so cars don't need to have as much steel in them to protect against a wreck that will never happen, cheaper materials make for cheaper cars. These cars use less gas because they participate in a managed traffic system and are made of lightweight materials.
This opens car ownership to people who previously couldn't own a car. People upgrade cars more frequently because it is cheap to do so. I bet Cherry & Tata could come up with a nice business plan for a more affordable car even if Ford and GM can't
That might be the only thing the library has going for it -- free books
Oh is that all?? That is more than enough. That's like saying all Saudia Arabia has is huge oil reserves. That's a pretty big asset.
There is a CLI only admin feature. (WinRM) It is an implementation of WS-Management protocol. I'm not sure how this is better than SSH, but it is there.
You are correct that their awesome new object based command environment does not run on the core install. I agree this is pretty weak. You can run IIS, but it is a stripped down version without any sort of dynamic content.
The FCC is indeed a federal agency, and that money will go back to the federal budget after FCC buys everything they need. My friend worked at the FCC and he said they had VERY nice hardware. And since they donate x BILLION USD back to the federal budget OMB isn't watching every nickel & dime.
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I think Microsoft is doing the right thing here by making it an optional update in Windows Update. Silverlight does open new vectors for attack, so I applaud Microsoft for not forcing the install. So if you control the patch schedule for your users (aka internal sites), then Silverlight would be the way to go. I wouldn't rely on Silverlight for a public website though. Flash is ubiquitous.
I bought a Samsung ML 1710 about 5 years ago, and it's worked from Ubuntu, Xandros, OSX10, Windows 2000-2008. Cheap workhorse, not a lot of extra features that you don't need breaking down and slowing things down. When it goes, I'll replace it with another one.
Laconica is a FOSS twitter clone. You can install private, publish to web, and it works with so many of the popular third party tools.
see, it's my problem and yours as well. If you're ever in the DC area, you are +1 beer.
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This is the best way to do it. Find a job near the university that you want to get a Masters from. Work super hard for 1-2 years, then let them know that you want to go get your Masters. Work during the day, classes at night (or maybe your firm is more flexible). It will be a painful existence, but you will graduate without debt (your firm is paying for this right?), and some of your classwork will be more relevant as you have actual work experience.
I live in Reston VA. (Suburbs outside of DC). The Metro works nicely for me, there is a park & ride that has an express bus straight to the Metro station. (I could ride a bike there, but I work in a suit & tie every day). It makes the commute about 15 min longer, but far more enjoyable. Parking (alone) would run me $24/day. For weekday commuting, train & bus wins by a long shot.
In addition, the last two firms I've worked for have offered a private bus from the train straight to the office. I think this should be a required benefit for companies that call themselves "green".
The city of Reston is great about having sidewalks and paths. Many of them do not run next to the road and provide a great way to walk places on the weekend without sucking down exhaust fumes. I hated suburban living before I moved here, but I think they really provide the best of both worlds.
where can I get some hammocks?
I'm sill using Chrome, so I'm currently an outcast. I have Firefox3 with 9 plugins (of course AdBlock/Flashblock/... and so on). The major reason I keep using Chrome is that the Javascript engine is so much faster. It is actually faster for me to load all the extra crap with Chrome than it is for adblock to remove it and render the page with stuff missing. It sounds ridiculous, but it is my experience. Of course now my privacy is being raped 8 ways to Sunday, but its worth it for that 15 extra milliseconds of my life.
for everyone out there does your website have a p3p policy? IBM has a free tool to build one. Of course, be sure to revisit your policy once a year to make sure that you retain your high and mighty standards.
Is it really that much of a burden to resync your device? I'd prefer that they wipe down my device.
It protects both parties. I know that they're not perusing my personal documents, and Apple doesn't take any liability for whatever I've loaded onto my iPod. It comes back , I plug it in and iTunes resyncs it. That is pretty good for it just works.
$85.95 is unconscionable though.
That is a valid argument for desktop systems. It totally falls apart for system admins who need to make a change to hundreds or thousands of systems. I would take a command line no matter how obfuscated over checkboxes & sliders in that case.
Also, Europeans are drinking delicious beer and have cooler cell phones. I always hunt these guys out and drink with them. Of course, I have a blackberry from ancient times and they all get a laugh at my expense. Good times.
I would say yes, if someone posted news that Berkshire Hathaway was going bankrupt, people would double & triple check it. Post news that a poorly run US airline is going under and people rush to flush the stocks. If you don't want people to believe this about you, manage your image.
no, but they did have to shutdown traffic through Midtown. The effects of this (other than security and traffic management) were a 20-25% reduction in childhood asthma as measured by the CDC.
I've seen companies that turned to virtualization to solve their power and cooling problems. Yes, you can serve more OS instances with less hardware. That is good.
However, these places are generally not managing their infrastructure well in the first place. Now you start running into problems with server sprawl and storage management. The management costs are going up because you have more servers running more applications. That takes more management, not less.
I think it is great that we are seeing more specialization in this space. I think that SysAdmins need to look at how they want to specialize moving forward. Are you going to manage hardware & resources? Are you going to be more OS and application tuning? We can't expect one person to have enough breadth to go from HVAC/electric/network/storage/OS/application. I'd hate to see a tape ape get into Data Center design because "hey they're down in the Data Center anyway"
Don't get me wrong, I think virtualization (server & application & desktop) is the wave of the future. But I don't think a lot of firms see this yet. I think they are still trading one problem for another.
fuel isn't 1% of your budget? I'm impressed. If you have to fill up your tank once a week, then you're spending at least $40. This is a weekly income of $4K, or over $200K/annually. I consider myself a conservative driver. I hate cars and I hate traffic, but between my wife & I, fuel costs are far above 1% and even approaching 5%.
taken from http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F13.html
Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
+1 for cc classes in high school. I don't know anything about California, I grew up in Florida, and in FL, they will pay for high school students to take cc classes. True, I didn't win the county math awards because I wasn't taking classes with the school system, but I did get credit for all the classes I took, (and I went out of state.)
These were just run of the mill Calculus classes so I had to take other classes, but they did
1) Let me skip the Calc 1/Cal II progression and move right into optimization (business major, didn't need Diff Eq)
2) count as math electives (Calc III), which let me lighten the load later semesters.
Of course I also took AP classes, but they didn't take any of those for credit. Of course the AP classes (English composition, and Chemistry) were worth it. I took the 100 level classes at university and they were very simple. I even put off Chemistry until senior year so I could coast my last semester.
I agree with the parent poster that more and more pressure is being put on high school students to perform at a younger age. But if we want an information age, then we need to push ourselves, and our friends, and our families to create and understand more information and knowledge. As time marches on, our lives and societies grow more complex, learning is our best approach to deal with this. If we don't step up to the challenge, then we can begin our march back to the oceans.
In conclusion, challenging classes are good. Take as many as you can. more thinking = good
or to argue the other point
wrecks become less commonplace, so cars don't need to have as much steel in them to protect against a wreck that will never happen, cheaper materials make for cheaper cars. These cars use less gas because they participate in a managed traffic system and are made of lightweight materials.
This opens car ownership to people who previously couldn't own a car. People upgrade cars more frequently because it is cheap to do so. I bet Cherry & Tata could come up with a nice business plan for a more affordable car even if Ford and GM can't
That might be the only thing the library has going for it -- free books Oh is that all?? That is more than enough. That's like saying all Saudia Arabia has is huge oil reserves. That's a pretty big asset.
There is a CLI only admin feature. (WinRM) It is an implementation of WS-Management protocol. I'm not sure how this is better than SSH, but it is there.
You are correct that their awesome new object based command environment does not run on the core install. I agree this is pretty weak. You can run IIS, but it is a stripped down version without any sort of dynamic content.
The term you want to google is panspermia. Bonus points for noting how often "alternate creation" education involves panspermia.
this is second-hand info, so take with NaCl.
The FCC is indeed a federal agency, and that money will go back to the federal budget after FCC buys everything they need. My friend worked at the FCC and he said they had VERY nice hardware. And since they donate x BILLION USD back to the federal budget OMB isn't watching every nickel & dime.