I thought that memresistors were suppose to be one of the greatest invention in computers. HP was suppose to have invented it and it was suppose to go into production around 2012. I thought they were suppose to be a non-volatile ram memory so that it would mean near instant booting of the computer.
I haven't touched Dell since that run of Optiplex where the caps go BOOM! real good. Can't remember the line but that was irritating as hell.
The infamous cap plauge was not restricted to Dell Optiplex's, I have personally experienced large amounts of failed HPaq DX2000's, IBM Netvistas, and even a few Apple iMacs and eMacs that suffered the fate as well. I will say that Dell and IBM's support was amongst the worst at handling the issue. HP and Apple were great, Apple even paid CDW to replace the logic board in an eMac that was way out of warranty.
I've actually had Cox call to tell me that one of our satellite offices was spewing out spam that appeared to be from a machine infected with the Cutwail bot. Turned out that it was someone's personal laptop they brought in on our guest wifi. Granted, it was a "business class" connection and they were responding to a complaint from someone else.
Say whatever you want about the company who published the article, I didn't even RTFA. I can vouch for what they're saying though; I've seen a massive uptick in quarantined viruses lately, the most I've seen in years since the Pre-XP SP3 days. Most of them are password protected zips or exe's with multiple extensions. Overall spam volume is still lower than last year however.
Is anyone aware of the fact that a 100% EV has no way to provide heat in the freezing cold northern dead of winter; besides using insanely inefficient resistive electric heating elements? Also, compound that with the fact that current battery technology does not perform very well in extremely cold conditions. We still have a ways to go on solving these technical limitations and honestly I don't see how they're going to pull it off without burning hydrocarbons directly in some fashion.
- if you shut down the highway subsidies right now, sell the assets to private companies and have ACTUAL costs of operation be transfered to the users of the highways, you will start seeing reduction in usage immediately. People would start moving in closer to city centers, leaving their suburban sprawls, moving closer to places were they work if they actually have to pay for they use of that impossible infrastructure.
Yeah, because people are going to just abandon their suddenly un-sellable, valueless homes and default on their mortgages in droves, to move to the closest city. That would be great for the economy, that would fix everything.
I have an 81 Datsun 720 diesel pickup, gets ~40mpg. To be fair, it doesn't have any modern heavy safety features, and it is woefully underpowered.
I would love to buy a modern efficient small pickup, but there hasn't been one available for decades.
I would be first in line to buy a 4x4 compact pickup with a manual transmission and turbodiesel engine. Why the manufacturers can't seem to figure this out escapes me. The only reason the majority of people purchase a compact pickup instead of a full-size pickup is to save fuel. They've invested so much fuel saving technology now in the full-size models, that the compact pickups barely even get better fuel economy anymore; and they wonder why compact pickup sales are dwindling.
I believe Apple are now supporting OSX server in non apple hardware, or at least within some hypervisor implementations...
No, they aren't, VMware extended their products to offer support, the ball was in Apples court but Apple just fucked the enterprise over with 10.7's EULA. You're only allowed to run it virtualized on Apple hardware. Additionally, If you want the hardware to actually be supported by Apple, you're pretty much relegated to virtualizing on top of OS X using Parallels, Fusion or VirtualBox as Apple will not support you running ESXi on their hardware. Not to mention, the Mac Mini and Pro aren't even server class hardware anyways.
When they announced the discontinuation of Xserve, I was actually hoping that they'd change the EULA on 10.7 server to allow it to run on Hypervisors on the robust hardware of your choice. This is not the case, and is extremely disappointing. The mini and Mac Pro do NOT cut it as server platforms.
I long ago stopped using the GUI tools for anything that it wasn't required for. Simply because it was always happy to blast away any advanced changes that might have been made by hand
Yeah, this is extremely annoying, but in my experience, it's typical of most Open Source Unix apps. It does seem to be way more frequent on OS X than Linux though. Whenever the config file format changes, the package renames your old config files and replaces them with the new ones. It's up to the admin to interpret the changes and merge them back into the new config files as necessary, 9 times out of 10 you can get away with just putting your entire old config back on OS X, but it's probably a really bad idea on other Unixes, especially if you haven't reviewed what the actual changes were.
So if 10.7 looses half the GUI and in return (I'm hoping anyway, haven't installed the server version yet...) will simply leave files alone that are already configured, I'd consider that a welcome trade.
Yeah, we'll see about that. Apple's packaging system doesn't seem nearly that advanced at this point and I doubt they would invest time in changing it just to cater to the server crowd. Their GUI admin tools never worked right with custom config files, so this dumbing down of the GUI will at least eliminate that part of the problem.
Most definitely have a tested and working backup of your server before you attempt it.
I can tell you from experience, if you've customized any of the actual services outside of the Server Admin app by editing their config files directly via Terminal, you'll need to diff and manually merge your config changes back into the affected service(s) config files.
Also, you won't be able to upgrade directly from 10.5 server because it doesn't have the App Store.
I can tell you from experience, AFP support in 2003 server BLEW. We used it briefly after upgrading from a previous NT4 AFP server that worked great, we switched over to OS X server after that. I haven't tried AFP in 2008 server, and frankly I don't feel like dealing with 2TB of HFS+ to NTFS filename incompatibilities.
Linux, BSD or Solaris would make a much more suitable replacement, but you'd still lose all of your HFS ACL's.
While it is annoying that you can't get 32-bit windows to do proper PAE and support more than 3GB of RAM. It probably was for the best really, otherwise we never would've gotten the momentum behind x64 Windows to get x64 compatible device drivers from the damn manufacturers.
Currently fueled by oil. None of them need to be, indeed most of them haven't been for most of their history. They're currently fueled by oil because it's currently the cheapest way to do it, but as you yourself point out, that won't last forever. For a completely unexplained reason, however, you assume "we'll be back where we started" afterwards, as if going back is the only option. We can't stay where we are now, but I think most people would rather we go forward instead of going back.
How do you plan on making the plastic and rubber components needed to manufacture modern machinery without oil? How do you suggest we lubricate the machinery without oil? How can we mine for metals, develop and refine nuclear fuels or manufacture massive quantities of fertilizer without oil? How does all of this work in your oil-less fantasy world of the future, just wondering?
Oil is much more heavily tied to modern civilization than most people realize. Not only does it provide energy for transportation, it's absolutely depended upon for the manufacture of fertilizers, plastic, rubber, lubricants, etc. Massive amounts of people would starve without the fertilizers produced from oil, that's only the tip of the iceberg.
I'm not a social retard by any means, I keep a tight group of friends and I have a lot of acquaintances. I just care more about what people close to me, like family, that have a more direct influence on my life are doing. I could care less about what Lady Gaga or Linus Torvalds are doing, really.
I guess when I said that, I really was talking about the people who obsess over what celebrities are doing. The types of people that actually watch TMZ or MTV. The types of people that let these celebrities tell them what to think, what to buy, who to vote for, without even attempting to do some research, catch up on real current events and form their own informed opinions. It really is the dumbing down of America, we're fucking doomed.
No one there? Forgetting the tech people, there are some big name celebrities on G+, ones who are on the cutting edge, like Ashton Kutcher. There are other celebs on their, like Kanye and Soulja Boy (though they are not big posters).
Am I the only person on Earth that could give two shits about what celebrities are doing?
It's a security issue. The iPhone and iPad are not exactly stellar when it comes to Enterprise-level security.
They're better than Android or WP7 in their current incarnations. At least you can specify what people can and can't do with the device in an enterprise environment and actually provision it with a standardized profile. The only better smartphone platform is Blackberry + BES; and we all know how great their smartphones are lately.
And you'd end up with a shit per-component thermal profile that will lead to massive premature failures.
What, you think we didn't try this back in the 80s?
How is what the GP described any different than the way all modern >2U rack-mount servers and Mac Pro's cool themselves? It takes multiple fans, but there aren't massive component failures. It certainly is more complex and expensive to implement than per-component fans though. You probably won't see people doing it with cheap homebrew cases and components, with random wires and obstructions strewn all over the inside of the computer any time soon.
Some corporate payroll systems also have their own requirements and limitations on how their internal systems interface with a 3rd party which can create a whole other set of problems.
Yeah, I understand that, but we were using ADP's payroll system (and T&A), not our own, or some other 3rd party solution. You would think that it would be pretty straightforward since it's all involving ADP's own products. At one point our "Implementation Specialist" realized that not only had they forgot to implement the PTO accrual formulas on the new payroll system, they also forgot the current PTO accrual balances from the old system. They told our HR manager that she would have to have someone print out a massive report from the old system and manually type all of the values into a spreadsheet because the values couldn't be exported from the old system. This would've taken several days to complete, not to mention all the opportunities for human error and the values changing constantly. This is absurd given that the system is backed by a SQL database. I refused to settle for that answer and finally got ahold of someone in their support department that could help us export the accrual data from their payroll system in a usable format.
I just wish f'ing MS would give me a damn checkbox in WSUS to exclude Itanic updates so I could quit wasting time and bandwidth downloading and excluding updates for a dead platform that nobody uses.
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This is pretty much what we have with SSDs now.
The infamous cap plauge was not restricted to Dell Optiplex's, I have personally experienced large amounts of failed HPaq DX2000's, IBM Netvistas, and even a few Apple iMacs and eMacs that suffered the fate as well. I will say that Dell and IBM's support was amongst the worst at handling the issue. HP and Apple were great, Apple even paid CDW to replace the logic board in an eMac that was way out of warranty.
I've actually had Cox call to tell me that one of our satellite offices was spewing out spam that appeared to be from a machine infected with the Cutwail bot. Turned out that it was someone's personal laptop they brought in on our guest wifi. Granted, it was a "business class" connection and they were responding to a complaint from someone else.
Say whatever you want about the company who published the article, I didn't even RTFA. I can vouch for what they're saying though; I've seen a massive uptick in quarantined viruses lately, the most I've seen in years since the Pre-XP SP3 days. Most of them are password protected zips or exe's with multiple extensions. Overall spam volume is still lower than last year however.
Is anyone aware of the fact that a 100% EV has no way to provide heat in the freezing cold northern dead of winter; besides using insanely inefficient resistive electric heating elements? Also, compound that with the fact that current battery technology does not perform very well in extremely cold conditions. We still have a ways to go on solving these technical limitations and honestly I don't see how they're going to pull it off without burning hydrocarbons directly in some fashion.
Yeah, because people are going to just abandon their suddenly un-sellable, valueless homes and default on their mortgages in droves, to move to the closest city. That would be great for the economy, that would fix everything.
True that, but it's what most Americans want unfortunately. The Ranger has the worst sales out of all of them.
F'n A... because that's what diesels are champs at doing!
I would be first in line to buy a 4x4 compact pickup with a manual transmission and turbodiesel engine. Why the manufacturers can't seem to figure this out escapes me. The only reason the majority of people purchase a compact pickup instead of a full-size pickup is to save fuel. They've invested so much fuel saving technology now in the full-size models, that the compact pickups barely even get better fuel economy anymore; and they wonder why compact pickup sales are dwindling.
No, they aren't, VMware extended their products to offer support, the ball was in Apples court but Apple just fucked the enterprise over with 10.7's EULA. You're only allowed to run it virtualized on Apple hardware. Additionally, If you want the hardware to actually be supported by Apple, you're pretty much relegated to virtualizing on top of OS X using Parallels, Fusion or VirtualBox as Apple will not support you running ESXi on their hardware. Not to mention, the Mac Mini and Pro aren't even server class hardware anyways.
When they announced the discontinuation of Xserve, I was actually hoping that they'd change the EULA on 10.7 server to allow it to run on Hypervisors on the robust hardware of your choice. This is not the case, and is extremely disappointing. The mini and Mac Pro do NOT cut it as server platforms.
Yeah, this is extremely annoying, but in my experience, it's typical of most Open Source Unix apps. It does seem to be way more frequent on OS X than Linux though. Whenever the config file format changes, the package renames your old config files and replaces them with the new ones. It's up to the admin to interpret the changes and merge them back into the new config files as necessary, 9 times out of 10 you can get away with just putting your entire old config back on OS X, but it's probably a really bad idea on other Unixes, especially if you haven't reviewed what the actual changes were.
Yeah, we'll see about that. Apple's packaging system doesn't seem nearly that advanced at this point and I doubt they would invest time in changing it just to cater to the server crowd. Their GUI admin tools never worked right with custom config files, so this dumbing down of the GUI will at least eliminate that part of the problem.
Most definitely have a tested and working backup of your server before you attempt it.
I can tell you from experience, if you've customized any of the actual services outside of the Server Admin app by editing their config files directly via Terminal, you'll need to diff and manually merge your config changes back into the affected service(s) config files.
Also, you won't be able to upgrade directly from 10.5 server because it doesn't have the App Store.
I can tell you from experience, AFP support in 2003 server BLEW. We used it briefly after upgrading from a previous NT4 AFP server that worked great, we switched over to OS X server after that. I haven't tried AFP in 2008 server, and frankly I don't feel like dealing with 2TB of HFS+ to NTFS filename incompatibilities.
Linux, BSD or Solaris would make a much more suitable replacement, but you'd still lose all of your HFS ACL's.
What country do you live in?? I used to pay my Tmo bill in the US using both Firefox and Chrome.
While it is annoying that you can't get 32-bit windows to do proper PAE and support more than 3GB of RAM. It probably was for the best really, otherwise we never would've gotten the momentum behind x64 Windows to get x64 compatible device drivers from the damn manufacturers.
How do you plan on making the plastic and rubber components needed to manufacture modern machinery without oil? How do you suggest we lubricate the machinery without oil? How can we mine for metals, develop and refine nuclear fuels or manufacture massive quantities of fertilizer without oil? How does all of this work in your oil-less fantasy world of the future, just wondering?
Oil is much more heavily tied to modern civilization than most people realize. Not only does it provide energy for transportation, it's absolutely depended upon for the manufacture of fertilizers, plastic, rubber, lubricants, etc. Massive amounts of people would starve without the fertilizers produced from oil, that's only the tip of the iceberg.
I'm not a social retard by any means, I keep a tight group of friends and I have a lot of acquaintances. I just care more about what people close to me, like family, that have a more direct influence on my life are doing. I could care less about what Lady Gaga or Linus Torvalds are doing, really.
I guess when I said that, I really was talking about the people who obsess over what celebrities are doing. The types of people that actually watch TMZ or MTV. The types of people that let these celebrities tell them what to think, what to buy, who to vote for, without even attempting to do some research, catch up on real current events and form their own informed opinions. It really is the dumbing down of America, we're fucking doomed.
Am I the only person on Earth that could give two shits about what celebrities are doing?
They're better than Android or WP7 in their current incarnations. At least you can specify what people can and can't do with the device in an enterprise environment and actually provision it with a standardized profile. The only better smartphone platform is Blackberry + BES; and we all know how great their smartphones are lately.
I'm pretty sure you can't get 2008 R2 in 32-bit. [Citation Needed]
And you'd end up with a shit per-component thermal profile that will lead to massive premature failures.
What, you think we didn't try this back in the 80s?
How is what the GP described any different than the way all modern >2U rack-mount servers and Mac Pro's cool themselves? It takes multiple fans, but there aren't massive component failures. It certainly is more complex and expensive to implement than per-component fans though. You probably won't see people doing it with cheap homebrew cases and components, with random wires and obstructions strewn all over the inside of the computer any time soon.
Yeah, I understand that, but we were using ADP's payroll system (and T&A), not our own, or some other 3rd party solution. You would think that it would be pretty straightforward since it's all involving ADP's own products. At one point our "Implementation Specialist" realized that not only had they forgot to implement the PTO accrual formulas on the new payroll system, they also forgot the current PTO accrual balances from the old system. They told our HR manager that she would have to have someone print out a massive report from the old system and manually type all of the values into a spreadsheet because the values couldn't be exported from the old system. This would've taken several days to complete, not to mention all the opportunities for human error and the values changing constantly. This is absurd given that the system is backed by a SQL database. I refused to settle for that answer and finally got ahold of someone in their support department that could help us export the accrual data from their payroll system in a usable format.
I just wish f'ing MS would give me a damn checkbox in WSUS to exclude Itanic updates so I could quit wasting time and bandwidth downloading and excluding updates for a dead platform that nobody uses.