Because of two key applications. Microsoft Word, which many bureaucrats throughout the world but especially in civil services use to write their paperwork. And Microsoft Exchange, which although it is a security issue is widely deployed and has a pretty good calendar function.
You could do what I do to Perl programmers: take what they're doing, examine it carefully with them, and show them _precisely_ how badly they're doing it. Then show them how it's really done.
If necessary, Verizon will call in the favors that they (and other telecoms) are owed by the NSA for corporating with Patriot Act and other unconstitutional wiretapping.
So if they wrote it in crayon on paper towels, you'd mandate that they accept that?
No. Learning to follow the standards is an important lesson for programmers, even when those standards are inconvenient for them as a programmer, because they are what the _customer_ or _supervisor demands for compatibility or long-term supportability.
And compared to TeX, LaTeX, or the bundle of software now published as 'tetex' which is what people actually use in the closed and open source worlds, Word has never been and never will be stable.
It usually is plain text, because when I've gotten people on the phone to change my passwords, they've accepted 'close enough!' answers for the street I grew up on or my high school. Exact spelling on such things can matter if it were kept encrypted.
Yes, but you have to *pump* that air. Pumping all that air through your rack door, your server covers, past all the components in the server, and out that rat's nest of cabling at the back is awkward, expensive, and unreliable, especially with (as someone else pointed out) dust collecting and clotting your filters or collecting on your heat sinks. It's not as bad in a good server room because the air is filtered, but it still collects, especially in less sophisticated server environments such as many offices have. And snaking the airflow past the cabling is still pesky, although switching to thinner SATA and SAS cabling instead of IDE and SCSI have helped quite a lot. Getting that waterflow directly to the heat sink of the CPU, or at least to a big heat sink that the server will pull its air past, can make for a lot of both design and energy efficiency.
These cooling issues are also why I take the doors and cute little server covers off all my equipment racks. There is nothing stupider in your data center than blocking the airflow with a door that you don't use, never lock, and which breaks protruding cable left by interns who haven't learned to wire neatly yet.
Well, it takes time for the current bureaucrats and VP's to finish their pet projects. And retooling factories and retraining your staff to new designs is not cheap.
It's just too bad Volkswagen is uhnable to bring back the original Beetle, and that the current US safety standards are so burdensome that you'd never get it approved again for road use without adding 500 pounds of additional safety features and another 500 pounds of silly control systems it didn't need. Who needs LED's for everything?
Would you care to bet that you got quiet catnaps that gave you at least a bit of dream time? Dream time is pretty easily measured with EEG's and eyelid mutters to detect Raped Eye Movement, or REM, even when the sleeper is not aware that they've been doing it.
I'd guess that your "letting your mind wander" included very fast visits to actual dreamland. And any of us who've worked competently during very long shifts, such as during release time at a start-up or in rescue work at natural disasters, have learned the ability to sleep quickly and wake up quickly.
I should have been more clear, thank you for pointing that out. "Manifest Destiny", you're right, is the American form of it. There have been many, many others during history, such as "bringing the benefits of Empire" for England's Imperial expansion. Every growing Empire seems to do something like this. It's part of the theological basis of the Inquisition, the Cruasades, and a lot of other cultural expansion policies. (Not all of them that negative: some missionary work did good, but a lot was destructive as well.)
The Church used to be much more integral to the _selection_ of kings, and their crowning, I think. The endorsement of the Church mattered, to get that divine approval. It took the endorsement of the church to get that "right of kings". Mind you, Henry the VIII threw a wrench into the works when he created the Church of England. But before that, and in other countries, the ability to declar a king a heretic or excommunicate them and withdraw church support.
I'm fairly convinced that the "God made things that way", and its implication that "God made us powerful because he loves us and we are therefore the ones to rule" is pretty critical to the Church's history, although I'm afraid I'll have to dig further to trace it out in better detail.
* Large streaming repository output. (Think of the BBC streaming content to all those Linux and Mac users they were forced to support with Flash, instead of that DRM shackled version of Bittorrent for only Windows that they called 'Iplayer'. That was really funny to read about.)
* Faster network access, for building wide access to bulky, fast storage. This would be very useful for render farms, where the fast desktop access to data for the artists is valuable.
* Inexpensive Virtualization. The "live transfer" of VMware and KVM and Xen are absolutely dependent on a central storage service, and as an inexpensive replacement for fiber channel, this could be very valuable.
So, basically, it's a step in between 'GigE', which performs surprisingly well when you actually have the upstream bandwidth and is broadly supported, and fiber channel, which is considerably faster but is fragile and grotesquely expensive.
Look again, please. The Catholic Church's _historical_ beliefs on creationism, evolution, etc. have reflected all sorts of problems with it. The evolution of simpler to more sophisticated creatures, without divine personal guidance, flies in the face of the 'manifest destiny' and the 'right of kings' which are critical to European and Christian politics of the last few thousand years.
I'm afraid mine's old, and the new games are just not playable due to graphics limitations. However, "Plants vs. Zombies" is fabulous, and I'm glad they've provided the complete X-Com pack, which was great fun to replay.
The assets are pretty modest. Underpaid, out of work people whom you pay late or forget to pay at all: office space you lease and forget to pay for: a phone bill you pay once, and then ignore, and if you're really industrial you buy one of these (http://www.sandstorm.net/products/phonesweep/) to war dial your entire target area codes and cut down on wasting employee time with faxes, computers, or phones that don't answer. (They're fascinating devices: the best wardialers I've seen on the market.)
They do it on my cell phone, too, both personal and business. The phone company makes money either way for these business calls: if they didn't make money, they'd be much more aggressive about interfering with these services. Unfortunately, it's like the US Post Office and Land's End catalogs: they're happy to waste your time to collect a slightly profitable, bulk business fee from a reliable customer.
Oh, yes. Such policies can be difficult to enforce, especially in environments where people believe that they are safe inside their firewalls or that they have much more important things to do.
There is _no such thing_ as 'only access by key with passphrase'. There is no way for a server to assure that private keys used to access it are passphrase protected: any private key can be modified, trivially, to have no passphrase. There is no detectable difference for the server, and many, many SSH users find it too convenient and cannot be troubled to protect their private keys.
I admit that I thought you meant the backup clients would use SSH key access to reach the server (which I've also seen). Coordinating database backups from the backup server, for example, means assuring that the database has just been dumped correctly to a backup file, coordinated with low-activity time on the backup client. It's tricky, and why some enterprise backup systems cost so much.
Well, that's not 'excessive reading', per se. That's 'too complex of a world'. That's inherent with such sophisticated graphical images, but is gracefully avoided by one of my favorite games, Kingdom of Loathihg. That's a stunning example of gameplay, social interaction, humor, and creativity reducing the need for complex graphics and sophisticated local computer capabilities.
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No, that's the FBI Computer Crime Center, and only because they got upgraded from chalkboards.
Because of two key applications. Microsoft Word, which many bureaucrats throughout the world but especially in civil services use to write their paperwork. And Microsoft Exchange, which although it is a security issue is widely deployed and has a pretty good calendar function.
You could do what I do to Perl programmers: take what they're doing, examine it carefully with them, and show them _precisely_ how badly they're doing it. Then show them how it's really done.
If necessary, Verizon will call in the favors that they (and other telecoms) are owed by the NSA for corporating with Patriot Act and other unconstitutional wiretapping.
So if they wrote it in crayon on paper towels, you'd mandate that they accept that?
No. Learning to follow the standards is an important lesson for programmers, even when those standards are inconvenient for them as a programmer, because they are what the _customer_ or _supervisor demands for compatibility or long-term supportability.
And compared to TeX, LaTeX, or the bundle of software now published as 'tetex' which is what people actually use in the closed and open source worlds, Word has never been and never will be stable.
It usually is plain text, because when I've gotten people on the phone to change my passwords, they've accepted 'close enough!' answers for the street I grew up on or my high school. Exact spelling on such things can matter if it were kept encrypted.
Yes, but you have to *pump* that air. Pumping all that air through your rack door, your server covers, past all the components in the server, and out that rat's nest of cabling at the back is awkward, expensive, and unreliable, especially with (as someone else pointed out) dust collecting and clotting your filters or collecting on your heat sinks. It's not as bad in a good server room because the air is filtered, but it still collects, especially in less sophisticated server environments such as many offices have. And snaking the airflow past the cabling is still pesky, although switching to thinner SATA and SAS cabling instead of IDE and SCSI have helped quite a lot. Getting that waterflow directly to the heat sink of the CPU, or at least to a big heat sink that the server will pull its air past, can make for a lot of both design and energy efficiency.
These cooling issues are also why I take the doors and cute little server covers off all my equipment racks. There is nothing stupider in your data center than blocking the airflow with a door that you don't use, never lock, and which breaks protruding cable left by interns who haven't learned to wire neatly yet.
That's because salt isn't the solution, it's the precipitate.
_Ouch_. Please stop hitting me.
Well, it takes time for the current bureaucrats and VP's to finish their pet projects. And retooling factories and retraining your staff to new designs is not cheap.
It's just too bad Volkswagen is uhnable to bring back the original Beetle, and that the current US safety standards are so burdensome that you'd never get it approved again for road use without adding 500 pounds of additional safety features and another 500 pounds of silly control systems it didn't need. Who needs LED's for everything?
Oh, dear. Get me some coffee, quickly!
Would you care to bet that you got quiet catnaps that gave you at least a bit of dream time? Dream time is pretty easily measured with EEG's and eyelid mutters to detect Raped Eye Movement, or REM, even when the sleeper is not aware that they've been doing it.
I'd guess that your "letting your mind wander" included very fast visits to actual dreamland. And any of us who've worked competently during very long shifts, such as during release time at a start-up or in rescue work at natural disasters, have learned the ability to sleep quickly and wake up quickly.
A webcam to watch the goings-on in the convertibles and through sun roofs could be a profitable sideline.
Ahh. I made a mistake here: I was referring to in-facility communications, not broadband uses.
I can see it for telecommuters and remote virtualization, though.
I should have been more clear, thank you for pointing that out. "Manifest Destiny", you're right, is the American form of it. There have been many, many others during history, such as "bringing the benefits of Empire" for England's Imperial expansion. Every growing Empire seems to do something like this. It's part of the theological basis of the Inquisition, the Cruasades, and a lot of other cultural expansion policies. (Not all of them that negative: some missionary work did good, but a lot was destructive as well.) The Church used to be much more integral to the _selection_ of kings, and their crowning, I think. The endorsement of the Church mattered, to get that divine approval. It took the endorsement of the church to get that "right of kings". Mind you, Henry the VIII threw a wrench into the works when he created the Church of England. But before that, and in other countries, the ability to declar a king a heretic or excommunicate them and withdraw church support. I'm fairly convinced that the "God made things that way", and its implication that "God made us powerful because he loves us and we are therefore the ones to rule" is pretty critical to the Church's history, although I'm afraid I'll have to dig further to trace it out in better detail.
Three seem apparent:
* Large streaming repository output. (Think of the BBC streaming content to all those Linux and Mac users they were forced to support with Flash, instead of that DRM shackled version of Bittorrent for only Windows that they called 'Iplayer'. That was really funny to read about.)
* Faster network access, for building wide access to bulky, fast storage. This would be very useful for render farms, where the fast desktop access to data for the artists is valuable.
* Inexpensive Virtualization. The "live transfer" of VMware and KVM and Xen are absolutely dependent on a central storage service, and as an inexpensive replacement for fiber channel, this could be very valuable.
So, basically, it's a step in between 'GigE', which performs surprisingly well when you actually have the upstream bandwidth and is broadly supported, and fiber channel, which is considerably faster but is fragile and grotesquely expensive.
Don't forget 'oversexed'. It's a pretty common trait among primates.
Look again, please. The Catholic Church's _historical_ beliefs on creationism, evolution, etc. have reflected all sorts of problems with it. The evolution of simpler to more sophisticated creatures, without divine personal guidance, flies in the face of the 'manifest destiny' and the 'right of kings' which are critical to European and Christian politics of the last few thousand years.
I'm afraid mine's old, and the new games are just not playable due to graphics limitations. However, "Plants vs. Zombies" is fabulous, and I'm glad they've provided the complete X-Com pack, which was great fun to replay.
The assets are pretty modest. Underpaid, out of work people whom you pay late or forget to pay at all: office space you lease and forget to pay for: a phone bill you pay once, and then ignore, and if you're really industrial you buy one of these (http://www.sandstorm.net/products/phonesweep/) to war dial your entire target area codes and cut down on wasting employee time with faxes, computers, or phones that don't answer. (They're fascinating devices: the best wardialers I've seen on the market.)
They do it on my cell phone, too, both personal and business. The phone company makes money either way for these business calls: if they didn't make money, they'd be much more aggressive about interfering with these services. Unfortunately, it's like the US Post Office and Land's End catalogs: they're happy to waste your time to collect a slightly profitable, bulk business fee from a reliable customer.
Oh, yes. Such policies can be difficult to enforce, especially in environments where people believe that they are safe inside their firewalls or that they have much more important things to do.
No, i actually helped _write_ the records retention policy. My actions were far more in keeping with that policy
There is _no such thing_ as 'only access by key with passphrase'. There is no way for a server to assure that private keys used to access it are passphrase protected: any private key can be modified, trivially, to have no passphrase. There is no detectable difference for the server, and many, many SSH users find it too convenient and cannot be troubled to protect their private keys.
I admit that I thought you meant the backup clients would use SSH key access to reach the server (which I've also seen). Coordinating database backups from the backup server, for example, means assuring that the database has just been dumped correctly to a backup file, coordinated with low-activity time on the backup client. It's tricky, and why some enterprise backup systems cost so much.
Well, that's not 'excessive reading', per se. That's 'too complex of a world'. That's inherent with such sophisticated graphical images, but is gracefully avoided by one of my favorite games, Kingdom of Loathihg. That's a stunning example of gameplay, social interaction, humor, and creativity reducing the need for complex graphics and sophisticated local computer capabilities.
Then it's the only software that ever did, and should be preserved for historical reference. Oh, dear, that kernel was useless.