One shoud never consider raid vs synced copies, use both simultaneously.
They protect against different data-loss threats which aren't mutually exclusive.
The problem with thin clients isn't the lack of knowledge. It's the break-even point.
In order for thin clients to become more affordable than deploying standalone workstations, you need to deploy atleast 200 of them, and 200 workstations rules out a lot of businesses.
Cost of licensing and server infrastructure is really the problem, not the cost of thin clients themselves.
I work in almost identical setup and simply use two notebooks.
In notebook one I keep generic todo list, which travels with me.
Second notebook sits on my desk. I keep more per project detailed data on it describing how I did something or just basic notes when trying to solve something. If the project is bigger, there will be separate binder for it additionally.
The generic notebook gets decoded into excel file which has sheet for each month, so I can track what I've been doing past year(s). Also it helps when troubleshooting reoccurring problems.
Since Maemo is basically stripped down version of debian, you could theoretically:
# apt-get install pearpc
Install macos(the iphone version) on sd card, plugin and emulate it. (native speed since same architechture)
N900 has powerful enough CPU and enough memory to pull that off.
Ok, you might need some finetuning with sledgehammer to get the emulator to work, but this is theoretically possible.
Hasn't the mainframe business already done full 30 year cycle?
From what I've seen lately, virtualization is kicking in even on desktop field and normal PC's are being replaced with more power efficient thin clients.
I know thin clients aren't same as simple terminals were with mainframes since they connect to the vm-servers using gigabit ethernet instead serial cable, and instead serving unix shell, they now provide entire desktop experience to end-user.
But what's interesting for me is to see if the thin client concept really kicks in and restarts the cycle again.
What will those PC devices be like in 10-15 years when the cycle continues and returns to favor personal computing devices again, instead just personal desktop, being hosted from some cloud colocation service.
Sounds like a good plan. Throw cheap battery backed memory, 4-16Gb onboard to act as a transparent buffer between harddrive(s) and system.
Fast IO is ensured as most operations happen in memory, and dataloss isn't an issue as the memory is battery backed.
RAID cards have done this for ages, but it's becoming real option for desktops as memory price keeps declining.
16Gb might be overkill for most purposes, you could get away with 2 if the system is used only for low-power tasks like surfing and email.
Welcome to the digital world.
Unless you already expect that anything you see and hear from media sources can be manipulated, you will fail here.
Internet has brought massive volume of information available to common man when comparing back to say 1950s.
Sadly, the grade of information has degraded and best parts of it might appear to be hidden.
This requires people accessing the information to learn data mining techniques to tell the difference.
Using raw data will lead to disaster.
See Nokias press releases: N95, N96, N97
Here's one for N80 aswell since you mentioned it.
See the pattern? All of them are called multimedia computers, not phones according to the press releases.
Phone is something you can use to make calls, and perhaps send text messages.
These things are much more than that, and Nokia doesn't market them as just-a-phone.
N-series are computers with builtin phone capabilities.
Who needs appstores when you can "apt-get install application" to your phone.
Honestly, does any multimedia computer/smartphone function well as just a phone? Hell no. They all suck at it. But if you need a device you can just make calls with, you don't spend $500-1000 on it unless you're completely insane, or incapable of calculating what 24 month contract actually costs you.
No it's not. Nokia doesn't call N-series devices phones.
They are multimedia computers which have capability to make calls over 3G networks.
N(700/800/810) were all marketed as internet tablets and had no phone capability to begin with.(beyond skype that is)
This N900 is next gen internet tablet with builtin 3G. You can do much more with this device than you can with "normal smartphones" as it runs complete operating system.
You can even install and run openoffice on this device.
Because you need to have certain personality to become great SysAdmin. You cannot be too introvert, nor extrovert. You need to be social enough to provide sufficient local tech/application support to the rest of the staff, and still "geek" enough to handle the more technical aspects of the job.
In a sense, good SysAdmin is like successful project manager, you must schedule tasks and prioritize them, if possible allocate tasks to jr. sysadmins. If done properly, IT becomes invisible in most organizations. (and you have more time to read slashdot)
Patience is also a virtue. If you can tolerate stupid users and explain the same thing 10 times over, you will succeed.
Theres not much glorious in SysAdmin job actually. Most sysadmins are underpaid, underrespected and rarely loved, but still our love for the technology (or sufficient amounts of single malt after hours) keeps us doing our thing and keeping the industry running.
- Efficient software. You can use a 400 Mhz CPU to power a firewall or CLI media centre.
But is it energy efficient? You can get proper media centers with gui which use less than 50 watts of power compared to 100+ which your CLI machine takes.
- Openness. If something breaks, you can delve into the source and fix it yourself, and if you can't, you can hire someone to do it.
Openness is good to a certain point. It allows modifying the platform to your needs without spending too much effort.
But if my firewall or media center breaks down, I most likely wont bother to fix it(ok I'd probably try), let alone hire someone to fix it for me! Hiring people costs money and if you spent only $50 on the device/appliance it's junk after the warranty.
Upgrade properly to what? Hydraulics is the most accurate way to control movement. If your application needs force with direction and accuracy, then your only real choice is to use hydraulics.
Don't confuse modern hydraulic systems with something that just has few handvalves. Almost every system we deliver these days comes equipped with computer controlled digital valves which you can use to control pressures at 0.01 scale from 0 to 500+ bar(depending on customer specs naturally), and can be integrated into factory networks seamlessly.
[disclaimer, I have bias on this subject since I work at one of the largest suppliers of hydraulic systems in the world]
Simple. They were using the "block country" wizard 4 years ago to do this change, but whomever was doing the blocking, accidentally pressed cancel on the last sheet. Until now, no-one noticed that those countries weren't blocked.
Nokia's one billionth phone sold was a Nokia 1100 purchased in Nigeria. (http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/21/nokia-crosses-one-billion-mark/)
Although something tells me that Nigeria isn't neccessarily most prominent market for apple, since price of an iphone is equal to one years salary for an average nigerian.
Migrating is hard. If you have used same system for 10+ years, and probably invested great deal money to software specific to your platform, migrating away is big deal. On most cases, migration isn't just plug-and-play, it is a project that takes from 3 to 12 months to get everything running on new platform depending on the solution.
It is also expensive. You likely need specialist help to get things running on your new system. Some of us have families and we simply cannot dedicate 24/7 of our time to prove that we can do same thing with other solution $2/year cheaper. There also simply aren't free alternatives to every task. There probably are linux/unix versions of these special programs, but they come with large price tag, and if you already have invested that same amount on platform you've found sufficient, you need very good reason to migrate away.
When windows 95 arrived, I played around with its voice recognition. I wasnt quite impressed with it, since the only command I got working properly was "fuck" which caused the machine to reboot.
Although voice control has interesting potential, its not optimal for most situations. (think open cubicle office)
Just exactly what is his argument here? "by GNU/Linux, he could have built redundant system and even saved some money"?
Cloud services are broken by concept. They offer virtually redundant high availability system but the reliability is also virtual. Cloud computing model works only for data which allows certain percent of data to be lost at anytime.
It's called downgrade right, although it'll still show as a sale in microsoft books. If you buy vista (or windows 7) business or ultimate version, it gives you right to run windows 2000 pro or xp pro.
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One shoud never consider raid vs synced copies, use both simultaneously. They protect against different data-loss threats which aren't mutually exclusive.
The problem with thin clients isn't the lack of knowledge. It's the break-even point.
In order for thin clients to become more affordable than deploying standalone workstations, you need to deploy atleast 200 of them, and 200 workstations rules out a lot of businesses.
Cost of licensing and server infrastructure is really the problem, not the cost of thin clients themselves.
I work in almost identical setup and simply use two notebooks. In notebook one I keep generic todo list, which travels with me. Second notebook sits on my desk. I keep more per project detailed data on it describing how I did something or just basic notes when trying to solve something. If the project is bigger, there will be separate binder for it additionally.
The generic notebook gets decoded into excel file which has sheet for each month, so I can track what I've been doing past year(s). Also it helps when troubleshooting reoccurring problems.
Do they run linux?
Since Maemo is basically stripped down version of debian, you could theoretically:
# apt-get install pearpc
Install macos(the iphone version) on sd card, plugin and emulate it. (native speed since same architechture)
N900 has powerful enough CPU and enough memory to pull that off.
Ok, you might need some finetuning with sledgehammer to get the emulator to work, but this is theoretically possible.
To counteract his theories about swarm-intelligence, I sent the researcher link to 4chan.
Hasn't the mainframe business already done full 30 year cycle?
From what I've seen lately, virtualization is kicking in even on desktop field and normal PC's are being replaced with more power efficient thin clients.
I know thin clients aren't same as simple terminals were with mainframes since they connect to the vm-servers using gigabit ethernet instead serial cable, and instead serving unix shell, they now provide entire desktop experience to end-user.
But what's interesting for me is to see if the thin client concept really kicks in and restarts the cycle again.
What will those PC devices be like in 10-15 years when the cycle continues and returns to favor personal computing devices again, instead just personal desktop, being hosted from some cloud colocation service.
Sounds like a good plan. Throw cheap battery backed memory, 4-16Gb onboard to act as a transparent buffer between harddrive(s) and system.
Fast IO is ensured as most operations happen in memory, and dataloss isn't an issue as the memory is battery backed.
RAID cards have done this for ages, but it's becoming real option for desktops as memory price keeps declining.
16Gb might be overkill for most purposes, you could get away with 2 if the system is used only for low-power tasks like surfing and email.
Welcome to the world........
No.
Welcome to the digital world.
Unless you already expect that anything you see and hear from media sources can be manipulated, you will fail here.
Internet has brought massive volume of information available to common man when comparing back to say 1950s.
Sadly, the grade of information has degraded and best parts of it might appear to be hidden.
This requires people accessing the information to learn data mining techniques to tell the difference.
Using raw data will lead to disaster.
See Nokias press releases: N95, N96, N97
Here's one for N80 aswell since you mentioned it.
See the pattern? All of them are called multimedia computers, not phones according to the press releases.
Phone is something you can use to make calls, and perhaps send text messages.
These things are much more than that, and Nokia doesn't market them as just-a-phone.
N-series are computers with builtin phone capabilities.
Who needs appstores when you can "apt-get install application" to your phone.
Honestly, does any multimedia computer/smartphone function well as just a phone? Hell no. They all suck at it.
But if you need a device you can just make calls with, you don't spend $500-1000 on it unless you're completely insane, or incapable of calculating what 24 month contract actually costs you.
No it's not. Nokia doesn't call N-series devices phones.
They are multimedia computers which have capability to make calls over 3G networks.
N(700/800/810) were all marketed as internet tablets and had no phone capability to begin with.(beyond skype that is)
This N900 is next gen internet tablet with builtin 3G. You can do much more with this device than you can with "normal smartphones" as it runs complete operating system.
You can even install and run openoffice on this device.
Because you need to have certain personality to become great SysAdmin. You cannot be too introvert, nor extrovert. You need to be social enough to provide sufficient local tech/application support to the rest of the staff, and still "geek" enough to handle the more technical aspects of the job.
In a sense, good SysAdmin is like successful project manager, you must schedule tasks and prioritize them, if possible allocate tasks to jr. sysadmins. If done properly, IT becomes invisible in most organizations. (and you have more time to read slashdot)
Patience is also a virtue. If you can tolerate stupid users and explain the same thing 10 times over, you will succeed.
Theres not much glorious in SysAdmin job actually. Most sysadmins are underpaid, underrespected and rarely loved, but still our love for the technology (or sufficient amounts of single malt after hours) keeps us doing our thing and keeping the industry running.
- Efficient software. You can use a 400 Mhz CPU to power a firewall or CLI media centre.
But is it energy efficient? You can get proper media centers with gui which use less than 50 watts of power compared to 100+ which your CLI machine takes.
- Openness. If something breaks, you can delve into the source and fix it yourself, and if you can't, you can hire someone to do it.
Openness is good to a certain point. It allows modifying the platform to your needs without spending too much effort.
But if my firewall or media center breaks down, I most likely wont bother to fix it(ok I'd probably try), let alone hire someone to fix it for me! Hiring people costs money and if you spent only $50 on the device/appliance it's junk after the warranty.
There's clear roadmap posted here describing features and implications of version numbers.
Upgrade properly to what? Hydraulics is the most accurate way to control movement.
If your application needs force with direction and accuracy, then your only real choice is to use hydraulics.
Don't confuse modern hydraulic systems with something that just has few handvalves.
Almost every system we deliver these days comes equipped with computer controlled digital valves which you can use to control pressures at 0.01 scale from 0 to 500+ bar(depending on customer specs naturally), and can be integrated into factory networks seamlessly.
[disclaimer, I have bias on this subject since I work at one of the largest suppliers of hydraulic systems in the world]
Simple. They were using the "block country" wizard 4 years ago to do this change, but whomever was doing the blocking, accidentally pressed cancel on the last sheet. Until now, no-one noticed that those countries weren't blocked.
Trying to outsell?
Nokia's one billionth phone sold was a Nokia 1100 purchased in Nigeria.
(http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/21/nokia-crosses-one-billion-mark/)
Although something tells me that Nigeria isn't neccessarily most prominent market for apple, since price of an iphone is equal to one years salary for an average nigerian.
Migrating is hard.
If you have used same system for 10+ years, and probably invested great deal money to software specific to your platform, migrating away is big deal. On most cases, migration isn't just plug-and-play, it is a project that takes from 3 to 12 months to get everything running on new platform depending on the solution.
It is also expensive.
You likely need specialist help to get things running on your new system. Some of us have families and we simply cannot dedicate 24/7 of our time to prove that we can do same thing with other solution $2/year cheaper. There also simply aren't free alternatives to every task. There probably are linux/unix versions of these special programs, but they come with large price tag, and if you already have invested that same amount on platform you've found sufficient, you need very good reason to migrate away.
uhm.. thats not destructive
this is the destructive way:
apt-get install flashrom
dd if=/dev/zero of=fakebios.bin bs=512k count=1
flashrom -wv fakebios.bin
(atleast in theory, no idea if flashrom checks crc/validity of the bin, never tried it)
Good thing my email password is ";drop database;"
When windows 95 arrived, I played around with its voice recognition.
I wasnt quite impressed with it, since the only command I got working properly was "fuck" which caused the machine to reboot.
Although voice control has interesting potential, its not optimal for most situations. (think open cubicle office)
Manual operator selection doesn't differ in GSM. It's same as CDMA.
Just exactly what is his argument here?
"by GNU/Linux, he could have built redundant system and even saved some money"?
Cloud services are broken by concept.
They offer virtually redundant high availability system but the reliability is also virtual.
Cloud computing model works only for data which allows certain percent of data to be lost at anytime.
It's called downgrade right, although it'll still show as a sale in microsoft books.
If you buy vista (or windows 7) business or ultimate version, it gives you right to run windows 2000 pro or xp pro.