Someone should tell these geologists that magma isn't alive and therefore, it doesn't have a habitat. Next thing you know, someone will want to put volcanoes on the endangered species list because we're destroying their "habitat."
I've had a Sirius subscription for 8 years using the same hardware all of that time and it still works the same today as it did when it was new --come talk to me about the longevity of your iPhone in 8 years. I hate commercials and for the most part, I hate DJs too. I just want music, the same music choices, where ever I go in North America and so do all of the other subscribers of the service. I doubt Sirius is in danger.
This article is garbage anyway because the author is really just an Apple fanboy preaching from the normal Apple fanboy pulpit about the superiority of the iPhone experience.
Just the same, I'll keep my Nokia E71 because it is a real phone that doesn't require being charged every 6 hours, and I'll keep my Satellite radio because the user experience for music is far, far superior to that of the iPhone.
Not to defend the oil companies, but there are certainly examples of scientists publishing data that supports their positions and leaving out data that does not... I know the standard liberal/conservative reality doesn't allow for shades of gray, but the real world isn't black and white.
Get yourself Cacti and install it... if you have no Linux skills, then get the vmware version, download the free vmware server and run it up.
Configure SNMP with a non-trivial read string on everything you want to monitor (you might need to grab a couple of cheap licenses for the SNMP-WMI add-ons if there are things you want to track that cannot be reached via SNMP like Exchange or SQL server metrics) and then add the devices to Cacti. Next generate graphs for each metric. Wait an hour so your graphs have something and then put together a couple of web pages with the URLs to the graphs and set the meta-refresh to 5 minutes.
We monitor almost 18k data points every 5 minutes with Cacti and this is exactly what we do. It works great and the execs can always browse to a web page, even on their iPhones and BBs to show it off. We display it in our area on a couple of large LCDs where all of network admins can see it and over time you will come to understand what looks normal and be able to recognize what isn't.
Couple such a setup with mon and you have some reasonable monitoring and historonics for not a lot of money and it is rock solid reliable.
I ride a FZ6 about 10 months out of the year here in Kansas City. It is 100% misinformation to suggest you will save money on gas by buying a motorcycle if you already have a car. Once you factor in the cost of the bike, the cost of insurance, the cost of purchasing riding gear (if you ride without gear you are an idiot), the cost of fueling the bike then you may actually spend more money then if you just filled up your car. The only way you save money with a bike is if both are paid off and you actually park your car for 3 or 4 months in the summer.
Never mind the DANGER of the motorcycle. Cagers, which is what we call you car drivers, are notoriously ignorant of the basic rules of the road. You use your cell phones, text, fiddle with the radio, and generally don't pay attention to anything smaller than a semi and that makes riding a motorcycle dangerous.
I welcome anyone to the bike world regardless of whether its a scooter or a custom, but don't fool yourself. It isn't necessarily going to be cheaper.
Doctors, engineers, surveyors, lawyers and similar professionals have state boards that require examination and certification in order to practice those trades, whereas I.T. does not.
Additionally, given our wonderfully lawsuit happy society, I can ask my HR staff to truly probe your employment history and even if they were to do so, your previous employers are very unlikely to provide more than "yeah, you worked there during those dates and you weren't fired."
So, what other choice do I have as a I.T. manager but to test you? Take your word, not likely... a good manager has probably been biten by that one or two times and is not likely to fall for it again.
If you don't like that, you're perfectly welcome to look elsewhere but don't whine about it.
I argue that he was acting in self defense. If a society refuses to police itself, which the UK (well, actually most of the western world) does refuse to do, then its citizens must do it. These people were habitual criminals and needed removed, the courts wouldn't do it, so Tony did. He should be commended for it.
generally people like you suck to work for, and in general, people like you who post stuff like this don't actually have a real job so your whole story is generally a fabrication. seriously, you're probably the kind of micromanager that would ask an interviewer something esoteric from a man page because you yourself are too stupid to actually possess true diagnostic prowess, and therefore are resigned to points of minutia because they are the only way you can feel superior to other more qualified people.
really, got pictures to prove it? no seriously, i'd like to see them. my wife and i looked a smart42 at a nebraska furniture mart, of all places, and it is a tempting idea since we can commute together most days.
There's already a company that is doing this and it should be available this fall. They'll start with a pure electric model and follow with a hybrid gas/electric that works like a diesel locomotive does, sometime early 2010. Best of all, it'll be affordable for regular folks unlike the VW. I don't think a car company is going to revolutionize personal transportation, they are after all, the companies that have built our current system.
See the Aptera typ-1 at www.aptera.com
Sure, you'll have to be a California resident for the first distribution but I'm sure that'll be resolved shortly after they start production. I'm willing to wait for it.
I doubt 1 in 1000 people on Slashdot have any assets worth moving offshore.
Practice your 2nd ammendment rights? Move to Canada?
So, let me get this straight... I should buy a gun (which I am totally in agreement with) and then move to Canada, where I can't actually own a gun? and POW status?! Come on, get a grip.
There is no administration support for linux on the desktop where I work, none. Mac OS X is already on a few desktops here, some of those desktops being section chiefs, in addition to a dozen or so people in medical research. The financial realities of a large installed base of desktops makes a wholesale swap to Apple-branded hardware nearly impossible as well, so that leaves the "run OS X on non-Apple hardware" the only financially viable and administratively supportable option.
Personally, I'm tired of the "I'm tired of" crap I hear from people who claim to be Apple admins. Maybe when you get out of school and join the real world, you'll understand the realities of that world, until then, you and your tiny little shop should shut the hell up when you don't have anything valuable to add.
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As the person responsible for a 4,400 desktop environment and as someone who deeply, deeply dislikes Microsoft, I can tell Apple in one sentence how to get Mac OS X into my environment....
Let me run it on non-Apple hardware.
I have a collection of Dell Optiplexes, HP dc7700 desktops, and a bunch of MPC 4x4 all-in-one systems. I would gladly, and with executive support I believe, pilot a Windows to OS X project on a few hundred systems within a quarter of that ability coming available.
Next time you stop for a beer, I hope someone steals your car or just your briefcase. Trustful or not, doesn't matter. THe person doing the stealing isn't trustful and you aren't perfect which gives someone all the opportunity they need. When you grow up and go work for a real business, one where backups require 100s of tapes then you come back and comment on tape backup companies, until then realize that your experience means exactly bunk.
GPG, really? Where do you work? I kind of doubt you really work. Kind of doubt you work with any real health IT systems. Kind of hope I don't have any records at any place you might work too.
What, you never see a tape? Tapes are still the primary backup destination for almost all data. We don't have a mainframe, haven't in a decade but we still use tapes. Even though we may go to disk first, our ultimate archive destination is tape and will remain so for a significant period of time.
Anyone that think tapes=mainframe isn't a geek, they are either naive or stupid.
There isn't a food shortage. There isn't a food shortage. There isn't a food shortage. Keep repeating that. The food problem is one of distribution and not food production, along with politicization and propoganda to make you think there is a food shortage. Ethanol is a convenient scapegoat right now, but it isn't the cause of any food shortage.. why? Because there isn't a food shortage.
Sort of off topic but hang with me for a minute...
I HIGHLY doubt you went shopping for a Z3 and bought a Sable instead... that seems a poor analogy and it definately doesn't justify your Mac fetish. Perhaps a better one would be that you settled on a Mini Cooper.
I went shopping for a Mini Cooper and bought a BMW Z4 instead, because the payments didn't matter to me as much as the quality of the car and that-car-was-just-better (and cooler for this middle aged guy).
I bought a Mac for the same reason - it is just a better computer, Operating system and hardware both, than the PC and the price was worth it.
>>When I went shopping for a new car, I wanted the BMW Z3 that was sitting on the lot. I found the monthly payments to be outrageously expensive, and settled on a Mercury Sable. I didn't complain to BMW that they should make their car more affordable to everyone, or that they should allow just any other manufacturer produce the exact same car without asking for BMW seal of approval. I bit the bullet and took the cheaper option, which provided me the exact same functionality, without the pleasing but unnecessary asthetics
So, let them stop selling it. Savvy home users will continue to install it and if needed, pirate it and tell MS and Vista to jump off a really, really tall fucking cliff -- with sharp sticks at the bottom.
You've all missed the point... you are all trying to blame someone else or shift responsibility for your security.
The correct response should be:
If you break into my house, you will immediately be confronted by four 80 pound dogs who are intensely loyal and protective. They will slow you down long enough for me to unholster my 45, and put three rounds in your body -- two in your chest and one in your ocular cavity. Cop or otherwise, if you break into my house, that's what you will get. Period.
So basically you want to subvert the ability of your parents' to exert their moral and legal responsibility to raise their daughter by allowing a 7 year old child, one who is not capable of something so requisite as remembering a significantly complex password? Your little sister has no business having unfettered access and control over her computer, and consequently, her online experience. You are irresponsible, probably due to considerably immaturity, and should refrain from interferring with your parents' raising their daughter.
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Someone should tell these geologists that magma isn't alive and therefore, it doesn't have a habitat. Next thing you know, someone will want to put volcanoes on the endangered species list because we're destroying their "habitat."
Subject says it all, no bailouts for any of them.
I've had a Sirius subscription for 8 years using the same hardware all of that time and it still works the same today as it did when it was new --come talk to me about the longevity of your iPhone in 8 years. I hate commercials and for the most part, I hate DJs too. I just want music, the same music choices, where ever I go in North America and so do all of the other subscribers of the service. I doubt Sirius is in danger.
This article is garbage anyway because the author is really just an Apple fanboy preaching from the normal Apple fanboy pulpit about the superiority of the iPhone experience.
Just the same, I'll keep my Nokia E71 because it is a real phone that doesn't require being charged every 6 hours, and I'll keep my Satellite radio because the user experience for music is far, far superior to that of the iPhone.
Not to defend the oil companies, but there are certainly examples of scientists publishing data that supports their positions and leaving out data that does not... I know the standard liberal/conservative reality doesn't allow for shades of gray, but the real world isn't black and white.
Get yourself Cacti and install it... if you have no Linux skills, then get the vmware version, download the free vmware server and run it up.
Configure SNMP with a non-trivial read string on everything you want to monitor (you might need to grab a couple of cheap licenses for the SNMP-WMI add-ons if there are things you want to track that cannot be reached via SNMP like Exchange or SQL server metrics) and then add the devices to Cacti. Next generate graphs for each metric. Wait an hour so your graphs have something and then put together a couple of web pages with the URLs to the graphs and set the meta-refresh to 5 minutes.
We monitor almost 18k data points every 5 minutes with Cacti and this is exactly what we do. It works great and the execs can always browse to a web page, even on their iPhones and BBs to show it off. We display it in our area on a couple of large LCDs where all of network admins can see it and over time you will come to understand what looks normal and be able to recognize what isn't.
Couple such a setup with mon and you have some reasonable monitoring and historonics for not a lot of money and it is rock solid reliable.
Never mind the DANGER of the motorcycle. Cagers, which is what we call you car drivers, are notoriously ignorant of the basic rules of the road. You use your cell phones, text, fiddle with the radio, and generally don't pay attention to anything smaller than a semi and that makes riding a motorcycle dangerous.
I welcome anyone to the bike world regardless of whether its a scooter or a custom, but don't fool yourself. It isn't necessarily going to be cheaper.
Doctors, engineers, surveyors, lawyers and similar professionals have state boards that require examination and certification in order to practice those trades, whereas I.T. does not. Additionally, given our wonderfully lawsuit happy society, I can ask my HR staff to truly probe your employment history and even if they were to do so, your previous employers are very unlikely to provide more than "yeah, you worked there during those dates and you weren't fired." So, what other choice do I have as a I.T. manager but to test you? Take your word, not likely... a good manager has probably been biten by that one or two times and is not likely to fall for it again. If you don't like that, you're perfectly welcome to look elsewhere but don't whine about it.
I argue that he was acting in self defense. If a society refuses to police itself, which the UK (well, actually most of the western world) does refuse to do, then its citizens must do it. These people were habitual criminals and needed removed, the courts wouldn't do it, so Tony did. He should be commended for it.
generally people like you suck to work for, and in general, people like you who post stuff like this don't actually have a real job so your whole story is generally a fabrication. seriously, you're probably the kind of micromanager that would ask an interviewer something esoteric from a man page because you yourself are too stupid to actually possess true diagnostic prowess, and therefore are resigned to points of minutia because they are the only way you can feel superior to other more qualified people.
really, got pictures to prove it? no seriously, i'd like to see them. my wife and i looked a smart42 at a nebraska furniture mart, of all places, and it is a tempting idea since we can commute together most days.
See the Aptera typ-1 at www.aptera.com
Sure, you'll have to be a California resident for the first distribution but I'm sure that'll be resolved shortly after they start production. I'm willing to wait for it.
Especially since most of what I overhear is rap, which is mostly garbage anyway - hell, the RIAA should pay me to have to listen to that crap.
Practice your 2nd ammendment rights? Move to Canada?
So, let me get this straight... I should buy a gun (which I am totally in agreement with) and then move to Canada, where I can't actually own a gun? and POW status?! Come on, get a grip.
Personally, I'm tired of the "I'm tired of" crap I hear from people who claim to be Apple admins. Maybe when you get out of school and join the real world, you'll understand the realities of that world, until then, you and your tiny little shop should shut the hell up when you don't have anything valuable to add.
As the person responsible for a 4,400 desktop environment and as someone who deeply, deeply dislikes Microsoft, I can tell Apple in one sentence how to get Mac OS X into my environment....
Let me run it on non-Apple hardware.
I have a collection of Dell Optiplexes, HP dc7700 desktops, and a bunch of MPC 4x4 all-in-one systems. I would gladly, and with executive support I believe, pilot a Windows to OS X project on a few hundred systems within a quarter of that ability coming available.
Next time you stop for a beer, I hope someone steals your car or just your briefcase. Trustful or not, doesn't matter. THe person doing the stealing isn't trustful and you aren't perfect which gives someone all the opportunity they need. When you grow up and go work for a real business, one where backups require 100s of tapes then you come back and comment on tape backup companies, until then realize that your experience means exactly bunk.
GPG, really? Where do you work? I kind of doubt you really work. Kind of doubt you work with any real health IT systems. Kind of hope I don't have any records at any place you might work too.
What, you never see a tape? Tapes are still the primary backup destination for almost all data. We don't have a mainframe, haven't in a decade but we still use tapes. Even though we may go to disk first, our ultimate archive destination is tape and will remain so for a significant period of time. Anyone that think tapes=mainframe isn't a geek, they are either naive or stupid.
There isn't a food shortage. There isn't a food shortage. There isn't a food shortage. Keep repeating that. The food problem is one of distribution and not food production, along with politicization and propoganda to make you think there is a food shortage. Ethanol is a convenient scapegoat right now, but it isn't the cause of any food shortage.. why? Because there isn't a food shortage.
Sort of off topic but hang with me for a minute...
I HIGHLY doubt you went shopping for a Z3 and bought a Sable instead... that seems a poor analogy and it definately doesn't justify your Mac fetish. Perhaps a better one would be that you settled on a Mini Cooper.
I went shopping for a Mini Cooper and bought a BMW Z4 instead, because the payments didn't matter to me as much as the quality of the car and that-car-was-just-better (and cooler for this middle aged guy).
I bought a Mac for the same reason - it is just a better computer, Operating system and hardware both, than the PC and the price was worth it.
>>When I went shopping for a new car, I wanted the BMW Z3 that was sitting on the lot. I found the monthly payments to be outrageously expensive, and settled on a Mercury Sable. I didn't complain to BMW that they should make their car more affordable to everyone, or that they should allow just any other manufacturer produce the exact same car without asking for BMW seal of approval. I bit the bullet and took the cheaper option, which provided me the exact same functionality, without the pleasing but unnecessary asthetics
The logic of the argument that "because nothing has yet happened, nothing will happen" is bunk.
So, let them stop selling it. Savvy home users will continue to install it and if needed, pirate it and tell MS and Vista to jump off a really, really tall fucking cliff -- with sharp sticks at the bottom.
The correct response should be:
If you break into my house, you will immediately be confronted by four 80 pound dogs who are intensely loyal and protective. They will slow you down long enough for me to unholster my 45, and put three rounds in your body -- two in your chest and one in your ocular cavity. Cop or otherwise, if you break into my house, that's what you will get. Period.
DITTO.
So basically you want to subvert the ability of your parents' to exert their moral and legal responsibility to raise their daughter by allowing a 7 year old child, one who is not capable of something so requisite as remembering a significantly complex password? Your little sister has no business having unfettered access and control over her computer, and consequently, her online experience. You are irresponsible, probably due to considerably immaturity, and should refrain from interferring with your parents' raising their daughter.