On another tack, a company has just come out with a machine that you can put your old water bottles and other plastic bits into, and it will melt them down and turn them into the 'wire' that goes into another company's 3D printer, so you can make your own widgets and toys.
Putting this together with the story about the oceans dying [http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/21/newser-ocean-pollution-overfishing/3143007/], perhaps we could build harvester/mining ships that could trawl the oceans for plastic flotsam/garbage and turn them into 3D printer "ink". Its hard to get people to clean up after themselves, but if there was money in it, people would go after this and it might actually help clean up some of our mess.
It'd be curious to know how much dirt it has on Pres. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, The Boehner and other members of Congressional intelligence oversight committees, and how much it's shared with them.
It's MOSSAD that has the dirt on them and them by the balls, not the NSA.:-)
While it is true that humans can not power much continuously, in this case there will be many humans in parallel, each providing power for very short periods.
Its great for laptops or remote machines that have transient network connectivity. Backs up (with sub file backup and versioning) transparently in the background and caches backups on local disk for when you are not connected to the network.
Works for CIFS, WebDAV and Tivoli Storage Manager backup destinations.
Give it a shot, the 30 day trial is fully functional.
I've been using it for a while now. --- DISCLAIMER: I work for IBM / Tivoli.
Not only MS Bob / Clippy, but Melinda should also be credited for coming up with the name "Microsoft" for Bill's company shortly after their third date!
Very cool! Doesn't this remind anyone of the impact/compression power generation idea used by Ilia Volyova in the Bridgehead used to penetrate Cerberus?
I was only reading that part last night and this article brought on a feeling of deja vu!
Disclaimer: I work for IBM Tivoli and these views are not my employers but my own.
OpenNMS is a great development and more competition is only going to force everyone to improve. Having said that OpenNMS competes only with IBM Tivoli Netview which is pretty much the most entry level network management tool in the whole portfolio. For truly kickass network management you should check out Tivoli Netcool.
There are tons of products under the Tivoli brand that range from backup, archival of filesytems, applications and databases, SAN/NAS storage management, identity and access management, security event and compliance management, privacy management, software distribution, asset management, a service desk, inventory, provisioning of network devices and SANs, remote OS installs for Windows and Linux, detailed monitoring for pretty much every OS under the sun and for SAP, Exchange, Domino, all major databases, WebSphere and Weblogic, transaction monitoring and synthetic transactions for benchmarking to very powerful network management under Netcool.
Tivoli is a BEAST!
The article is inaccurate, OpenNMS may well have fared better than Netview in reviews but comparing OpenNMS to Tivoli itself is akin to comparing a spanner with a whole workshop.
What happened was what happens in most organized religion... in that era, discourse was encouraged and philosophy (and the arts and sciences) flourished. It was not taboo to ask questions and new thoughts and ideas were encouraged.
Then the clergy took over and turned everything on its head. Now the clergy passes fatwas against anything they dont like, and since they are fine with the status quo (it gives them tremendous power and influence), the fatwas come out against anything that even hints at being progressive.
I know I'm over-simplifying but this is it in a nutshell.
Maximum processors: 2 Maximum addressable memory: 4GB
Business partners may choose to register for free redistribution of DB2 Express-C with their products and applications. ---
Considering that its a fairly painless process to become an IBM business parter, this should help a lot of people who want to use it with their own products.
DISCLOSURE: I work for IBM, but I copied this text from the product page linked above.
I am surprised you did not mention Tivoli Storage Manager. TSM just about rocks for these requirements and is ultra scalable. You can also set it up in such a way that the backups will simultaneously go to multiple tapes for the most critical data and that data can be periodically audited for readability etc.
There are many challenges Pakistan faces, but this is progress... cheap wireless broadband access for the masses is GREAT! Whatever your preconcieved notions about Pakistan, the literacy rate in the urban areas is quite high and a LOT of people will benefit from this.
It also helps in getting the literacy rate up as more people take an interest in becoming literate. You might not believe it but many rural communities can limp along quite well without any need for widespread literacy - this will change that by showing them a bigger wider world that is out there for them to explore once they start to read!
Broadband internet access means access to a multitude of different views which means its a counter against fundamentalism and brainwashing.
I live in Pakistan and celular access is really cheap here. All carriers offer free incoming calls and free incoming SMS. A couple also offer small kickbacks on recieved calls.
What really rocks though is that you can buy a cheap Nokia phone for less than US$100 up-front, stick a pre-paid card into it (about US$ 2) which has about 60 minutes of airtime in it and when that runs out, your incoming calls/sms keep coming in for another FIVE years (Telenor Pakistan). The most ripoff carrier (Mobilink) here still gives you about six months of free incoming before you need to recharge your phone.
On my pre-paid connection, for about US $4.00 I get about 40 mins outgoing calls to other networks, twice that for my own network. The call rates are also flat across the country so it doesnt matter where I am, the same rates apply. I know the US is a heck of a lot larger, geographically, but in this day and age with the level of connectivity the US has, it should not be such a big issue - the internet does it already! Oh and this US$4.00 lasts about 25 mins if I call the US from my cell phone in Pakistan.
My parents recently went to India for a family visit and told me that its even cheaper there.
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On another tack, a company has just come out with a machine that you can put your old water bottles and other plastic bits into, and it will melt them down and turn them into the 'wire' that goes into another company's 3D printer, so you can make your own widgets and toys.
Putting this together with the story about the oceans dying [http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/21/newser-ocean-pollution-overfishing/3143007/], perhaps we could build harvester/mining ships that could trawl the oceans for plastic flotsam/garbage and turn them into 3D printer "ink". Its hard to get people to clean up after themselves, but if there was money in it, people would go after this and it might actually help clean up some of our mess.
It'd be curious to know how much dirt it has on Pres. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, The Boehner and other members of Congressional intelligence oversight committees, and how much it's shared with them.
It's MOSSAD that has the dirt on them and them by the balls, not the NSA. :-)
First time I've seen no comments show up a few minutes into a Slashdot story going up.
Are most other people, like me, scratching their heads and trying to wrap their minds around this? :)
While it is true that humans can not power much continuously, in this case there will be many humans in parallel, each providing power for very short periods.
And gone again...!
I am posting from within Pakistan, youtube is accessible again.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/co ntinuous-data-protection/
Its great for laptops or remote machines that have transient network connectivity. Backs up (with sub file backup and versioning) transparently in the background and caches backups on local disk for when you are not connected to the network.
Works for CIFS, WebDAV and Tivoli Storage Manager backup destinations.
Give it a shot, the 30 day trial is fully functional.
I've been using it for a while now.
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DISCLAIMER: I work for IBM / Tivoli.
Not only MS Bob / Clippy, but Melinda should also be credited for coming up with the name "Microsoft" for Bill's company shortly after their third date!
Disclaimer: I work for IBM.
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Tivoli can do this plus a bunch of other things. Cross platform support too.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/p
With the typical women who spend most of their time online, they probably outweigh online males too...
"Time Machine" for Windows. Perhaps not easy enough for a grandmother to use but definitely easy enough for the average PHB.
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http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/c
There is a free trial too...
Very cool! Doesn't this remind anyone of the impact/compression power generation idea used by Ilia Volyova in the Bridgehead used to penetrate Cerberus?
I was only reading that part last night and this article brought on a feeling of deja vu!
Disclaimer: I work for IBM Tivoli and these views are not my employers but my own.
OpenNMS is a great development and more competition is only going to force everyone to improve. Having said that OpenNMS competes only with IBM Tivoli Netview which is pretty much the most entry level network management tool in the whole portfolio. For truly kickass network management you should check out Tivoli Netcool.
There are tons of products under the Tivoli brand that range from backup, archival of filesytems, applications and databases, SAN/NAS storage management, identity and access management, security event and compliance management, privacy management, software distribution, asset management, a service desk, inventory, provisioning of network devices and SANs, remote OS installs for Windows and Linux, detailed monitoring for pretty much every OS under the sun and for SAP, Exchange, Domino, all major databases, WebSphere and Weblogic, transaction monitoring and synthetic transactions for benchmarking to very powerful network management under Netcool.
Tivoli is a BEAST!
The article is inaccurate, OpenNMS may well have fared better than Netview in reviews but comparing OpenNMS to Tivoli itself is akin to comparing a spanner with a whole workshop.
What happened was what happens in most organized religion... in that era, discourse was encouraged and philosophy (and the arts and sciences) flourished. It was not taboo to ask questions and new thoughts and ideas were encouraged.
Then the clergy took over and turned everything on its head. Now the clergy passes fatwas against anything they dont like, and since they are fine with the status quo (it gives them tremendous power and influence), the fatwas come out against anything that even hints at being progressive.
I know I'm over-simplifying but this is it in a nutshell.
Check out Lotus Notes and the plugin "My Attachments" - does exactly this and works very smoothly.
Pakistan is more like Egypt and the police is generally not as heavy handed as in Saudi Arabia.
You can not compare Pakistan with Afghanistan and Palestine, these countries are as different as day and night.
So it was Saidar that was polluting Saidin!
There should be a movie based on the Slashdot effect...
I might be missing something here but wasnt copyright originally intended to be for a finite period? That got extended pretty easily.
Whats makes you so sure that the validity of patents will not get extended the same way?
DB2 Express-C is an great option too. Furthermore, it is not limited to 4GB of data but 4GB of RAM.
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Extracted from the IBM DB2 Express-C product page:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/edit
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DB2 Express-C, a version of DB2 Universal Database Express Edition (DB2 Express) for the community, is a no-charge data server for use in development and deployment.
Maximum processors: 2
Maximum addressable memory: 4GB
Business partners may choose to register for free redistribution of DB2 Express-C with their products and applications.
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Considering that its a fairly painless process to become an IBM business parter, this should help a lot of people who want to use it with their own products.
DISCLOSURE: I work for IBM, but I copied this text from the product page linked above.
I am surprised you did not mention Tivoli Storage Manager. TSM just about rocks for these requirements and is ultra scalable. You can also set it up in such a way that the backups will simultaneously go to multiple tapes for the most critical data and that data can be periodically audited for readability etc.
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http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/sw-atoz/in
There are many challenges Pakistan faces, but this is progress... cheap wireless broadband access for the masses is GREAT! Whatever your preconcieved notions about Pakistan, the literacy rate in the urban areas is quite high and a LOT of people will benefit from this.
It also helps in getting the literacy rate up as more people take an interest in becoming literate. You might not believe it but many rural communities can limp along quite well without any need for widespread literacy - this will change that by showing them a bigger wider world that is out there for them to explore once they start to read!
Broadband internet access means access to a multitude of different views which means its a counter against fundamentalism and brainwashing.
As a Pakistani, I am very excited about this!
I live in Pakistan and celular access is really cheap here. All carriers offer free incoming calls and free incoming SMS. A couple also offer small kickbacks on recieved calls.
What really rocks though is that you can buy a cheap Nokia phone for less than US$100 up-front, stick a pre-paid card into it (about US$ 2) which has about 60 minutes of airtime in it and when that runs out, your incoming calls/sms keep coming in for another FIVE years (Telenor Pakistan). The most ripoff carrier (Mobilink) here still gives you about six months of free incoming before you need to recharge your phone.
On my pre-paid connection, for about US $4.00 I get about 40 mins outgoing calls to other networks, twice that for my own network. The call rates are also flat across the country so it doesnt matter where I am, the same rates apply. I know the US is a heck of a lot larger, geographically, but in this day and age with the level of connectivity the US has, it should not be such a big issue - the internet does it already! Oh and this US$4.00 lasts about 25 mins if I call the US from my cell phone in Pakistan.
My parents recently went to India for a family visit and told me that its even cheaper there.
BTW, the world's largest WiMax deployment has been signed off on between Motorola and Wateen telecom in Pakistan - we should be getting WiMax across the country soon too!
All thanks to competition, deregulation and some solid support from the Musharraf government.
Will the be able to keep it open^H^H^H^H powered on for more than 38 minutes?
Tell that to the great buggy-whip manufacturers.
If a buggy-whip maker was gifted with working with leather he could just as easily move on and start making car/coach seats.
You have to be flexible - the world changes. Keep you skills current - there is room in every field for the truly gifted.