In the nonqualified plan arena, phantom stock plans are generally accounted for on an as-you-go basis. It seems qualified stock plans will no be tracked in a similar manner. More info here under "Accounting Issues."
Would be nice if we could create an electronic voting machine that confirmed each vote by punching a hole in some sort of paper card. Just a thought...
I didn't mean that workstation admin was easier for "just" the reasons I outlined, its my overall impression of Linux workstation vs Windows workstation admin. I'm sure almost anything can be automated in Windows as well, but I've personally found things easier to automate in Linux. Overall maintainence is less of a hassle and we have fewer user issues. Maybe we never had knowledge of or access to (financial or otherwise) the "right" Windows tools/software, but one way or another my overall impression of Linux is "better."
If you move to IMAP, it will take care of the mail portion of your PST crash-and-burn risk. Doesn't help with the "other" data though. I use Evolution and store my data in my NIS/home/users directory. I have backups of/home/users exclude FireFox caches and the IMAP cache to keep unnecessary junk out of the backups and reduce the media required to store.
We currently use a kickstart install of Fedora for our EE workstations. Customized it with everything we need including configs for the various workstation/networked printers.
We use NIS so that workstations are completely interchangable. Had an EE harddrive meltdown, grabbed a spare machine, ran the kickstart, and the user logged back in via NIS within 15 minutes with no data loss! Could have had him backup instantly if he wanted to go to a spare office.
I can't believe how much easier workstation admin is now that we use Linux.
I actually did my dissertation research on getting computers to bootstrap noun/verb acquisition based on visual perception of short videos accompanied by textual descriptions, but no hardcoded vocabulary.
Anyone remember the Audi disputes in the 80's where people kept claiming they randomly accelerated when the brakes were appled? I think it turned out that the accelerator and brake were too close together and people were hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake.
Just rig that baby with some of the inflatable cushions that we used on the Mars Rovers. If something goes wrong we'll just bounce him around the landing site for a while.
...maybe we should be investing in making midgets, er umm, "little people" more immune to heat, radiation, etc. so that we can just have them drive the vehicles.
...the 2005 challenge will involve creating autonomous vehicles that can navigate one mile along a flat, empty highway with a clearly marked, solid center strip. The vehicles will have one week to navigate the course
With BitTorrents of CD & DVD ISO's transporting data over all these fancy high speed lines, do you ever long for the good ole days of having to install distros like Slackware on 3.5 floppy or sending off in the mail for a Walnut Creek CD to load up linux via your fancy new 1x cartridge based CDROM?
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In the nonqualified plan arena, phantom stock plans are generally accounted for on an as-you-go basis. It seems qualified stock plans will no be tracked in a similar manner. More info here under "Accounting Issues."
I could probably raise enough funds to run a full page Lynx ad in our local paper here in rural Louisiana. Bet it would really befuddle the locals!
...we could start a fund raising project to run a full-page ad for Lynx?
Would be nice if we could create an electronic voting machine that confirmed each vote by punching a hole in some sort of paper card. Just a thought...
Seems that before too long someone will remake the some other classics like Blade Runner, Max Max, Terminator, Highlander, etc.
Where's distributed.net? Oh yeah, and some Linux clients might be nice.
...all this time and I thought he was dead.
I didn't mean that workstation admin was easier for "just" the reasons I outlined, its my overall impression of Linux workstation vs Windows workstation admin. I'm sure almost anything can be automated in Windows as well, but I've personally found things easier to automate in Linux. Overall maintainence is less of a hassle and we have fewer user issues. Maybe we never had knowledge of or access to (financial or otherwise) the "right" Windows tools/software, but one way or another my overall impression of Linux is "better."
If you move to IMAP, it will take care of the mail portion of your PST crash-and-burn risk. Doesn't help with the "other" data though. I use Evolution and store my data in my NIS /home/users directory. I have backups of /home/users exclude FireFox caches and the IMAP cache to keep unnecessary junk out of the backups and reduce the media required to store.
Its quite a bit cheaper and in my opinion a lot more secure!
We use NIS so that workstations are completely interchangable. Had an EE harddrive meltdown, grabbed a spare machine, ran the kickstart, and the user logged back in via NIS within 15 minutes with no data loss! Could have had him backup instantly if he wanted to go to a spare office.
I can't believe how much easier workstation admin is now that we use Linux.
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Short paper here
More info at sig link.
Offer them excellent open source software for free. This way they won't even be tempted to pirate the stuff.
Although I will say they have finally found a good character for his over-acting on Boston Legal.
Anyone remember the Audi disputes in the 80's where people kept claiming they randomly accelerated when the brakes were appled? I think it turned out that the accelerator and brake were too close together and people were hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake.
Whew, for a minute there I thought he said 11,000 words!
...we've recently started migrating large blocks of code from Java to COBOL.
The implications of this technology for the porn industry alone are astounding!
Just rig that baby with some of the inflatable cushions that we used on the Mars Rovers. If something goes wrong we'll just bounce him around the landing site for a while.
We're building SkyNet!
...maybe we should be investing in making midgets, er umm, "little people" more immune to heat, radiation, etc. so that we can just have them drive the vehicles.
...the 2005 challenge will involve creating autonomous vehicles that can navigate one mile along a flat, empty highway with a clearly marked, solid center strip. The vehicles will have one week to navigate the course
With BitTorrents of CD & DVD ISO's transporting data over all these fancy high speed lines, do you ever long for the good ole days of having to install distros like Slackware on 3.5 floppy or sending off in the mail for a Walnut Creek CD to load up linux via your fancy new 1x cartridge based CDROM?
...I have this friend who is a proctologist and he was having computer problems and...