As the father of a 23year old with Asperger's, I would personally give anything for a cure.
You would not believe the heartache and anguish that his 'disability' causes. Fortunately I am in a strong relationship where we support each other.
People who makes jokes about it not being 'real', being imagined etc make me really sad - imagine it from the point of view of a father or a suffere, particularly when there is suggestion that it is genetic - ie I have passed it to him.
Please keep your jokes and jibes to things that really are amusing.
This has really saddened me, I hoped that there were actually people out there who are more tolerant and not just a bunce of small minded bigots.
Just think of the effects you comments are having, I am typing this close to tears, please have some feelings.
I am 54, apart from some course notes that I couldn't get in 'soft-copy' all the manuals I have are on my lap-top (backed up regularly!). I print out maybe 2-3 pages a week, and the last time I used Royal Mail was to send 20 CDs to my father (he is 80+ so I don't expect him to be as PC savvy as me, but he does have a PC, mainly for e-mail and internet).
So cut the agism here, I have been in IT for more years than you have been alive for, and still keep up with the latest developments, and love gadgets.
Go with Porta-Pros. Great sound, reasonably compact, and they are open so you hear the boss creeping up! I also have Koss Spark Plugs for plane use, and Koss Pro4AAs for blocking the wife out (oh, hello dear!) - but these need an amp so I only use them at home at present. Driving all this is an iRiver H340 which knocks iPods flat!
iRivers are great! My daughter has an H-140, and I have an H-340. With mine I can dump my camera to it, have ALL my music with me, keep some family photos. Sound is excellent (with better headphones than supplied), and I just use the file-tree organisation as ripping does not get genre, album and artist correct all the time. Charges from USB, attaches as a hard drive, needs NO special software.
A few years ago (OK, many years!) I was working on an OEM 3350 equivalent disk drive where the card were in a swing out card cage. It was the early hours of Monday morning, and I had been out working since Friday - boy was I tired! I was changing cards for servo errors, not having any luck setting up the servo when an operator came to see if I wanted a brew (tea!). He casually mentioned that they kept on seeing 'intervention' on the other spindle in the box. Yes, I was changing the wrong cards, with power on, and it kept recovering!!
You've missed the point AGAIN.
The maintenance routines are NOT part of the functional code that runs the machine. If you took away the maintenance routines, the machine will STILL WORK.
Why don't people READ and COMPREHEND?
If you are going to make comments like this, justify them and don't hide behind anonimity.
If a company pays to produce something, then it has a right to protect its products. Not everything has to be open source. Communist by any chance? Get into the REAL world!
StorageTek is stopping people using a maintenance facility that it considers intelectual property.
It is NOT stopping people from maintaining its systems, merely using its maintenance routines.
People who talk about maintenance monopolies and 'not opening the hood' really should actually read what this is about!
Many organisations pay lots of money to get the best, fastest, shiniest developments (like putting flat screens on desks) because that is the visible side of computing. What gets left out are the backups, mirroring data, firewalls, system updates, virus checkers, disaster recovery.
The scenario around Sasser was known, avoidable, and relatively easy to prevent.
If you use a computer (any kind, mainframe, Unix, Linux or MS) for any mission critical application, or even as a serious home machine with accounts, documents etc on it, then the data is worth something. Have a plan to secure that data in the event of a disaster. Anyone who does not do this does not value their data. Remind them of this fact when they are standing in the jobless queue because their company went bust following a disaster.
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As the father of a 23year old with Asperger's, I would personally give anything for a cure. You would not believe the heartache and anguish that his 'disability' causes. Fortunately I am in a strong relationship where we support each other. People who makes jokes about it not being 'real', being imagined etc make me really sad - imagine it from the point of view of a father or a suffere, particularly when there is suggestion that it is genetic - ie I have passed it to him. Please keep your jokes and jibes to things that really are amusing. This has really saddened me, I hoped that there were actually people out there who are more tolerant and not just a bunce of small minded bigots. Just think of the effects you comments are having, I am typing this close to tears, please have some feelings.
I am 54, apart from some course notes that I couldn't get in 'soft-copy' all the manuals I have are on my lap-top (backed up regularly!).
I print out maybe 2-3 pages a week, and the last time I used Royal Mail was to send 20 CDs to my father (he is 80+ so I don't expect him to be as PC savvy as me, but he does have a PC, mainly for e-mail and internet).
So cut the agism here, I have been in IT for more years than you have been alive for, and still keep up with the latest developments, and love gadgets.
I work in product support, so HAVE to keep up.
Don't lable us all with the 40+ tag!
Go with Porta-Pros.
Great sound, reasonably compact, and they are open so you hear the boss creeping up!
I also have Koss Spark Plugs for plane use, and Koss Pro4AAs for blocking the wife out (oh, hello dear!) - but these need an amp so I only use them at home at present.
Driving all this is an iRiver H340 which knocks iPods flat!
I think there is an echo in here... in here... in here....
iRivers are great! My daughter has an H-140, and I have an H-340. With mine I can dump my camera to it, have ALL my music with me, keep some family photos. Sound is excellent (with better headphones than supplied), and I just use the file-tree organisation as ripping does not get genre, album and artist correct all the time. Charges from USB, attaches as a hard drive, needs NO special software.
WHY did I get rid of my Lensman books??
I could have passed them to my (Junior Geek) son...
Just get a condenser lens from an old OHP. Just as good, and in most cases, free!! Think I might use one as a case mod ;-)
... or drink it!!!!
A few years ago (OK, many years!) I was working on an OEM 3350 equivalent disk drive where the card were in a swing out card cage. It was the early hours of Monday morning, and I had been out working since Friday - boy was I tired! I was changing cards for servo errors, not having any luck setting up the servo when an operator came to see if I wanted a brew (tea!). He casually mentioned that they kept on seeing 'intervention' on the other spindle in the box. Yes, I was changing the wrong cards, with power on, and it kept recovering!!
You've missed the point AGAIN. The maintenance routines are NOT part of the functional code that runs the machine. If you took away the maintenance routines, the machine will STILL WORK. Why don't people READ and COMPREHEND?
Sense from someone who actually took the time to read and understand! Thanks!
If you are going to make comments like this, justify them and don't hide behind anonimity. If a company pays to produce something, then it has a right to protect its products. Not everything has to be open source. Communist by any chance? Get into the REAL world!
StorageTek is stopping people using a maintenance facility that it considers intelectual property. It is NOT stopping people from maintaining its systems, merely using its maintenance routines. People who talk about maintenance monopolies and 'not opening the hood' really should actually read what this is about!
Many organisations pay lots of money to get the best, fastest, shiniest developments (like putting flat screens on desks) because that is the visible side of computing.
What gets left out are the backups, mirroring data, firewalls, system updates, virus checkers, disaster recovery.
The scenario around Sasser was known, avoidable, and relatively easy to prevent.
If you use a computer (any kind, mainframe, Unix, Linux or MS) for any mission critical application, or even as a serious home machine with accounts, documents etc on it, then the data is worth something. Have a plan to secure that data in the event of a disaster. Anyone who does not do this does not value their data. Remind them of this fact when they are standing in the jobless queue because their company went bust following a disaster.
Fantasy? I don't think so!