How on earth did you make 30+k per year to afford college? That's the average tuition right now. I sense that you either went to college a while ago or had some serious help.
Those of us who worked through college and still ended up with lots of debt take exception that is was a stupid mistake considering we now make enough to pay our debts and live a good lifestyle.
The problem is that college is sold as a way to a better life so a lot of people are in college that shouldn't be and they are the ones that end up with a lot of debt and nothing to show for it.
A number of people have been shown to have natural immunity. Call it a strong argument against eugenics. Rich gene pool for the win!
On a side note, a friend of mine has natural immunity. She got preggers from a guy with advanced HIV who now has full blown AIDS and both she and her baby are HIV free.
I'm uncertain if they have any idea what percentage of the population is immune though and since HIV is constantly mutating I'm not sure if natural immunity makes you immune from all the strains out there in the wild.
Actually you can encrypt and authenticate on Cat5 just like you would on WIFI. 802.1x for the win!
Any bank does dynamic vlan assignment based on a combination of MAC address, computer name, username, and password. Some probably also use certificates. These does it's pretty easy to do multi-factor authentication and it makes sense when you need something to be secure.
How often do you run into users that can't connect? I've been stuck with WEP for a long time just because of the number of devices that don't support WPA.
802.1x with PEAP against WEP isn't terrible although certainly not great. Only recently I've got 802.1x with PEAP using WPA and TKIP. AES support is still rather lacking although getting better. In another year I think I can jump to WPA2 with AES. Currently it's frustrating given that I support WIFI phones on a separate network that I'm forced to use WEP with. It's doesn't provide Internet access, only access to the phone server so the risk is minimal but still not what I'd like.
Depends on how it's crashed. In the scenario I described you would be correct as it did recover and I was able to go back to work.
In another instance on the same machine X will freeze up completely rendering the whole machine unusable, it won't even respond to ping. It looks like another poster has a similar issue. Of course I'm using Ubuntu so mileage of course varies.
Of course it has a root cause but the bottom line is that it does crash and even crashes hard sometimes requiring me to press and hold the power key to shut the thing off. Then I turn it back on and away I go.
My point towards the OP was that it does crash on occasion and that is simply true. RAM can go bad, video drivers can and often do suck, hard drives sometimes don't go bad enough to trigger SMART events, sometimes it's just plain thermal overload. The bottom line is that the apps do crash and don't always crash gracefully when probably management of the hardware would allow it to display a proper error message stating thermal overload or bad ram instead of dumping memory.
Could have fooled me, I minimized a screen in firefox which for some reason resulted in x crashing and at least nicely closing all the apps I had open. Doesn't crash my ass.
Back on topic, I think diff is a very powerful tool while troubleshooting a Unix-like boxen. You have a working config and a non-working config, diff em and see what's broken!
Why would people do this when powershell is available for Windows servers and has all the same advantages and then some? Why not use the software that is already there, it's low bandwidth and you can do whatever you need to from it. Of course you'll want SSH as your interface to it as VPNs would be too bandwidth intensive to maintain.
Ironically the DMV lines in VT and here in AZ aren't long at all, I've always got right in not having to wait longer than 5 minutes.
Of course DMVs are state managed, not federally managed so it's not really an apt analogy anyways unless you're trying to prove why universal health-care would work.
In VT, all children have healthcare and it seems to be working out quite well so far. Of course that's a small scale as the city of Phoenix has a larger population than the whole state of VT. Still, I don't see why it can't work. The problem becomes less about how to individually pay for healthcare and more about paying for training to have more doctors and nurses since the load will increase if everyone is suddenly covered.
That would be an argument to phase in coverage slowly over several years so the system has a chance to ramp up their resources.
There are problems with all systems but I think the problems of a universal healthcare system would be easier to solve than the people today that go bankrupt after a major surgery they needed to save their life.
Last I recall "Neither" was a ballot option. Course I last voted for President four years ago so my memory of that time is a bit hazy. Making no statement at all is just rolling over taking the lazy way out.
By not voting nothing is getting accomplished other than you get a few extra minutes to your own life. If someone is asking you if you'd like to be stabbed or shot then you don't sit there and let them choose, you make your own statement like choosing the non-presented option C, bum rush the bastard trying to harm you.
I'll give it a couple of months before I upgrade to 8.10. 8.04 was rough when I first installed it but has improved significantly as time as progressed. Then I'll try out Network Manager again, in the meantime I'll stick with WICD.
Which Atheros chip? My Aspire one has an Atheros chipset but I have to use the drivers from Madwifi to make it work since the ones that come with Ubuntu won't connect to anything even though they say they work.
The rest of the wifi issues are generally solved by using WICD as Network Manager in heron at least was completely useless for me.
In XP I install the driver and go, same with Vista. With Ubuntu and WICD I've found it all to be quite usable but that took some serious doing to get me to that point. Price you pay for installing Ubuntu on a laptop though. Let's not forget that it was constantly spinning the hard disk. All issues that I eventually resolved but required much fiddling.
I applaud your efforts to actually help people instead of just helping to prolong the issues but the money you earned is a result of everyone else also earning money. They contribute to the economy which you surely benefit from.
The roads you drive on, the police that protect you, the power grid, the phone network, are all examples of publicly funded projects which enabled you to make money. I don't know about your educational background but mine was also largely publicly funded and so I owe society a great debt for allowing me to be making more money at 25 than my parents do after 40 years of working. This is why I pay the loans my parents took out to help get me education and why I have no problem paying taxes.
There is a fine line between an extra $50 out of a paycheck to help get everyone health-care which is less than being proposed, and simply taking all the money I have worked hard to get. No one is proposing complete taxation, only that we pay a little more to get us out of the spot we are in. How many people have gone bankrupt paying for health-care bills? This costs all of us money and also increases the crime in all of our communities requiring more police officers to better protect us which will cost us even more money sending more people into poverty.
There are lots of issues to work out as it's not a simple question, every health-care system will have it's problems but my own sister lived with impacted wisdom teeth for four years because she couldn't afford to get them removed. Every trip to the doctor's office empties her account since she doesn't have insurance which keeps her on the brink of losing everything. She's in good health but little things always crop up.
In short, we're a community of people and most everything is connected so while your money is yours, it's not your's alone. I don't think you should be forced to give up all the hard earned cash or even most of it, right now millions are in need of a little extra and those millions aren't in some far away place, they are right next door or in the next town over.
The reason he might have a narrow view is because it doesn't make sense to have payroll servers or an inventory server when all you need are proper database setups.
I have no problem running my main application database on Oracle and using another instance for data warehousing. Same goes with running SQL server. Having scalability problems with your database? Scale out to more servers but keep everything centralized. Then you don't end up with 100 payroll servers which are unnecessary.
Or accounting ledger program holds 15,000 tables, it takes 25 minutes to pull all the data and put into a reporting environment like FRx or in the payroll case do whatever it is you need to for that.
The idea that one server performs one function went out in the last century, with multiple cores and tons of RAM along with 10gig networking there is no reason to buy so many servers to perform a single function even if the process is so convoluted that it actually takes more than a couple of hours for 65k employees.
At that stage I would pre-stage data so it could be read faster come time for payroll. All options that exist when the thing is on all the time. That would also allow you to scale out other applications which might benefit from the additional hardware during the times that payroll isn't being performed.
Good thing too, it was completely useless for me so I went with WICD. Heron seems to have a lot of little glitches although a lot of it is admittedly caused by third parties like the ATI firegl driver and VMWare Server messing with the keyboard. I have a button I have to click on the panel which resets the keyboard so I can use shift and control again as something about VMWare quick switch doesn't release properly or some such. Never had that problem in the past though.
That's funny because I've been noticing that they prefer warm climates like here in Arizona because they don't have to worry about burst pipes and have no need to pump potentially hazardous gas into the facility.
A place like Arizona also doesn't have any severe weather worth speaking about so as long as you don't build on a flood plain then all is well.
I've been shopping for DR sites lately and the arguments are pretty sound. Pumping water to cool a place is quite easy and very safe. With departmentalized COLO rooms potential water damage from a pipe magically breaking is quite limited as well especially given that servers are in racks on a raised floor so there would be plenty of time to shut the water off to the burst pipe which is always why they run two pipes in every direction.
Another thing to keep in mind is that cold climates do get warm in the summer time. A desert is a great place to do it as the humidity is low and the only thing you have to do is filter the air that comes into the place aside from regular cooling which you'll have to do regardless.
Somehow methinks you haven't used shadow copy as your comment makes no sense. Automatic versioning is quite useful and has saved me hundreds of times as the CEO decided to hit delete on the room of my the marketing share for the company. Easy enough I just restored the previous version and all was well.
Even my SAN infrastructure makes entries so I can do it on non-windows file shares giving the users the ability to restore their old files if they accidentally overwrite one of their files which happens surprisingly often.
I don't understand this 700 billion dollar bail-out plan. That much money could just be given back to the American people and then they could pay off their mortgages instead of going into foreclosure.
So it looks like you're right, they'll do something to counteract this brief moment of sanity.
Honestly if you've ever used one of the basic phones with a basic camera you realize very quickly why people don't know how to get the images off because the carriers make it difficult.
With my smart phone I just email the photo, it's easy, but with my personal phone which is a samsung slider your only option is MMS which of course costs extra.
Of course my particular phone also has micro-SD so I can do it that way without a problem. The other issue is that the camera sucks and the pictures are almost useless.
My volume license versions of XP all come with it as well. Volume media comes with more software, not less despite your impression. Odds are your company has a group policy which removes MM or SMS/SCCM which does the same thing.
It looks like you've been hiding under a rock the last few years since you don't seem to understand that Microsoft doesn't feel they need to remove their mail app as it has no performance impact. They are forced to remove it because they are a convicted monopoly which is not something Apple has to deal with even though Apple is using the exact same tactics that got Microsoft in hot water to begin wtih. If Apple became dominant then they would be in the same position of having to remove their bundled apps.
Why would you have to patch an app you don't use? As I already mentioned it leaves the files behind but its certainly not running. At which point who cares?
You can't just remove it from Add/Remove Programs? What version of Windows are you running? I don't even install it with my nlite stuff. Sure there are some extra files left over but you're not running them.
Outlook Express was crap so I can understand wanting to remove it. Windows Mail is a decent and well streamlined app though.
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How on earth did you make 30+k per year to afford college? That's the average tuition right now. I sense that you either went to college a while ago or had some serious help.
Those of us who worked through college and still ended up with lots of debt take exception that is was a stupid mistake considering we now make enough to pay our debts and live a good lifestyle.
The problem is that college is sold as a way to a better life so a lot of people are in college that shouldn't be and they are the ones that end up with a lot of debt and nothing to show for it.
A number of people have been shown to have natural immunity. Call it a strong argument against eugenics. Rich gene pool for the win!
On a side note, a friend of mine has natural immunity. She got preggers from a guy with advanced HIV who now has full blown AIDS and both she and her baby are HIV free.
I'm uncertain if they have any idea what percentage of the population is immune though and since HIV is constantly mutating I'm not sure if natural immunity makes you immune from all the strains out there in the wild.
Actually you can encrypt and authenticate on Cat5 just like you would on WIFI. 802.1x for the win!
Any bank does dynamic vlan assignment based on a combination of MAC address, computer name, username, and password. Some probably also use certificates. These does it's pretty easy to do multi-factor authentication and it makes sense when you need something to be secure.
How often do you run into users that can't connect? I've been stuck with WEP for a long time just because of the number of devices that don't support WPA.
802.1x with PEAP against WEP isn't terrible although certainly not great. Only recently I've got 802.1x with PEAP using WPA and TKIP. AES support is still rather lacking although getting better. In another year I think I can jump to WPA2 with AES. Currently it's frustrating given that I support WIFI phones on a separate network that I'm forced to use WEP with. It's doesn't provide Internet access, only access to the phone server so the risk is minimal but still not what I'd like.
Depends on how it's crashed. In the scenario I described you would be correct as it did recover and I was able to go back to work.
In another instance on the same machine X will freeze up completely rendering the whole machine unusable, it won't even respond to ping. It looks like another poster has a similar issue. Of course I'm using Ubuntu so mileage of course varies.
Of course it has a root cause but the bottom line is that it does crash and even crashes hard sometimes requiring me to press and hold the power key to shut the thing off. Then I turn it back on and away I go.
My point towards the OP was that it does crash on occasion and that is simply true. RAM can go bad, video drivers can and often do suck, hard drives sometimes don't go bad enough to trigger SMART events, sometimes it's just plain thermal overload. The bottom line is that the apps do crash and don't always crash gracefully when probably management of the hardware would allow it to display a proper error message stating thermal overload or bad ram instead of dumping memory.
Could have fooled me, I minimized a screen in firefox which for some reason resulted in x crashing and at least nicely closing all the apps I had open. Doesn't crash my ass.
Back on topic, I think diff is a very powerful tool while troubleshooting a Unix-like boxen. You have a working config and a non-working config, diff em and see what's broken!
Why would people do this when powershell is available for Windows servers and has all the same advantages and then some? Why not use the software that is already there, it's low bandwidth and you can do whatever you need to from it. Of course you'll want SSH as your interface to it as VPNs would be too bandwidth intensive to maintain.
According to my Arizona ballot I can write in None of the above or Spongebob Square Pants.
Thing I don't like about the ballot is having to mark yes or no for every judge in the district. Oh well...
As for the record, I don't think anyone should be ridiculed, it's counterproductive, much like not voting is.
Ironically the DMV lines in VT and here in AZ aren't long at all, I've always got right in not having to wait longer than 5 minutes.
Of course DMVs are state managed, not federally managed so it's not really an apt analogy anyways unless you're trying to prove why universal health-care would work.
In VT, all children have healthcare and it seems to be working out quite well so far. Of course that's a small scale as the city of Phoenix has a larger population than the whole state of VT. Still, I don't see why it can't work. The problem becomes less about how to individually pay for healthcare and more about paying for training to have more doctors and nurses since the load will increase if everyone is suddenly covered.
That would be an argument to phase in coverage slowly over several years so the system has a chance to ramp up their resources.
There are problems with all systems but I think the problems of a universal healthcare system would be easier to solve than the people today that go bankrupt after a major surgery they needed to save their life.
Last I recall "Neither" was a ballot option. Course I last voted for President four years ago so my memory of that time is a bit hazy. Making no statement at all is just rolling over taking the lazy way out.
By not voting nothing is getting accomplished other than you get a few extra minutes to your own life. If someone is asking you if you'd like to be stabbed or shot then you don't sit there and let them choose, you make your own statement like choosing the non-presented option C, bum rush the bastard trying to harm you.
I'll give it a couple of months before I upgrade to 8.10. 8.04 was rough when I first installed it but has improved significantly as time as progressed. Then I'll try out Network Manager again, in the meantime I'll stick with WICD.
Which Atheros chip? My Aspire one has an Atheros chipset but I have to use the drivers from Madwifi to make it work since the ones that come with Ubuntu won't connect to anything even though they say they work.
The rest of the wifi issues are generally solved by using WICD as Network Manager in heron at least was completely useless for me.
In XP I install the driver and go, same with Vista. With Ubuntu and WICD I've found it all to be quite usable but that took some serious doing to get me to that point. Price you pay for installing Ubuntu on a laptop though. Let's not forget that it was constantly spinning the hard disk. All issues that I eventually resolved but required much fiddling.
I applaud your efforts to actually help people instead of just helping to prolong the issues but the money you earned is a result of everyone else also earning money. They contribute to the economy which you surely benefit from.
The roads you drive on, the police that protect you, the power grid, the phone network, are all examples of publicly funded projects which enabled you to make money. I don't know about your educational background but mine was also largely publicly funded and so I owe society a great debt for allowing me to be making more money at 25 than my parents do after 40 years of working. This is why I pay the loans my parents took out to help get me education and why I have no problem paying taxes.
There is a fine line between an extra $50 out of a paycheck to help get everyone health-care which is less than being proposed, and simply taking all the money I have worked hard to get. No one is proposing complete taxation, only that we pay a little more to get us out of the spot we are in. How many people have gone bankrupt paying for health-care bills? This costs all of us money and also increases the crime in all of our communities requiring more police officers to better protect us which will cost us even more money sending more people into poverty.
There are lots of issues to work out as it's not a simple question, every health-care system will have it's problems but my own sister lived with impacted wisdom teeth for four years because she couldn't afford to get them removed. Every trip to the doctor's office empties her account since she doesn't have insurance which keeps her on the brink of losing everything. She's in good health but little things always crop up.
In short, we're a community of people and most everything is connected so while your money is yours, it's not your's alone. I don't think you should be forced to give up all the hard earned cash or even most of it, right now millions are in need of a little extra and those millions aren't in some far away place, they are right next door or in the next town over.
The reason he might have a narrow view is because it doesn't make sense to have payroll servers or an inventory server when all you need are proper database setups.
I have no problem running my main application database on Oracle and using another instance for data warehousing. Same goes with running SQL server. Having scalability problems with your database? Scale out to more servers but keep everything centralized. Then you don't end up with 100 payroll servers which are unnecessary.
Or accounting ledger program holds 15,000 tables, it takes 25 minutes to pull all the data and put into a reporting environment like FRx or in the payroll case do whatever it is you need to for that.
The idea that one server performs one function went out in the last century, with multiple cores and tons of RAM along with 10gig networking there is no reason to buy so many servers to perform a single function even if the process is so convoluted that it actually takes more than a couple of hours for 65k employees.
At that stage I would pre-stage data so it could be read faster come time for payroll. All options that exist when the thing is on all the time. That would also allow you to scale out other applications which might benefit from the additional hardware during the times that payroll isn't being performed.
Tell that to my N+1 redundant psu, all three PSUs were fine but the PSU switching gear was bad! Talk about annoying.
Good thing too, it was completely useless for me so I went with WICD. Heron seems to have a lot of little glitches although a lot of it is admittedly caused by third parties like the ATI firegl driver and VMWare Server messing with the keyboard. I have a button I have to click on the panel which resets the keyboard so I can use shift and control again as something about VMWare quick switch doesn't release properly or some such. Never had that problem in the past though.
That's funny because I've been noticing that they prefer warm climates like here in Arizona because they don't have to worry about burst pipes and have no need to pump potentially hazardous gas into the facility.
A place like Arizona also doesn't have any severe weather worth speaking about so as long as you don't build on a flood plain then all is well.
I've been shopping for DR sites lately and the arguments are pretty sound. Pumping water to cool a place is quite easy and very safe. With departmentalized COLO rooms potential water damage from a pipe magically breaking is quite limited as well especially given that servers are in racks on a raised floor so there would be plenty of time to shut the water off to the burst pipe which is always why they run two pipes in every direction.
Another thing to keep in mind is that cold climates do get warm in the summer time. A desert is a great place to do it as the humidity is low and the only thing you have to do is filter the air that comes into the place aside from regular cooling which you'll have to do regardless.
Somehow methinks you haven't used shadow copy as your comment makes no sense. Automatic versioning is quite useful and has saved me hundreds of times as the CEO decided to hit delete on the room of my the marketing share for the company. Easy enough I just restored the previous version and all was well.
Even my SAN infrastructure makes entries so I can do it on non-windows file shares giving the users the ability to restore their old files if they accidentally overwrite one of their files which happens surprisingly often.
So I have to ask, how does shadow copy suck?
I don't understand this 700 billion dollar bail-out plan. That much money could just be given back to the American people and then they could pay off their mortgages instead of going into foreclosure.
So it looks like you're right, they'll do something to counteract this brief moment of sanity.
Honestly if you've ever used one of the basic phones with a basic camera you realize very quickly why people don't know how to get the images off because the carriers make it difficult.
With my smart phone I just email the photo, it's easy, but with my personal phone which is a samsung slider your only option is MMS which of course costs extra.
Of course my particular phone also has micro-SD so I can do it that way without a problem. The other issue is that the camera sucks and the pictures are almost useless.
My volume license versions of XP all come with it as well. Volume media comes with more software, not less despite your impression. Odds are your company has a group policy which removes MM or SMS/SCCM which does the same thing.
It looks like you've been hiding under a rock the last few years since you don't seem to understand that Microsoft doesn't feel they need to remove their mail app as it has no performance impact. They are forced to remove it because they are a convicted monopoly which is not something Apple has to deal with even though Apple is using the exact same tactics that got Microsoft in hot water to begin wtih. If Apple became dominant then they would be in the same position of having to remove their bundled apps.
Why would you have to patch an app you don't use? As I already mentioned it leaves the files behind but its certainly not running. At which point who cares?
You can't just remove it from Add/Remove Programs? What version of Windows are you running? I don't even install it with my nlite stuff. Sure there are some extra files left over but you're not running them.
Outlook Express was crap so I can understand wanting to remove it. Windows Mail is a decent and well streamlined app though.