Grown up in the eastblock I know a little bit about the USSR - believe me when I tell you how common this state was to the USA of today when it comes to ideology.
come on, microsoft developes Vista for some years now. beside the point that they should have started working on such a feature for years, because permanent rebooting is what separates windows as a server os from every other player on the market - they definitely don't hack such stuff in that late.
I just can't imagine to have to switch an RSS reader for my feeds. This is IMHO completely against the reason for (at least News-) RSS feeds. I want to know about news on sites automatically, and i want to read these sites without switching to a browser and back to the reader for the next feed.
And all this has Opera's Mail Reader M2. The Mail sidebar is permanently open and i get informed about new RSS feeds as about new mail while I browse the web.
this is that kind of story you read in 3 years and thinks "wow, that was a joke at that time?!" - quite like an april fools joke in an (east-)german DIY mag in the early eighties about a "poket tv" complete with DIY blueprints and part list, haha;) - at that time you just couldn't imagine happen something like this because "you will never get a tube so flat to get into your pocket!"
btw, why didn't someone came up yet with the idea to make a putty MMC snap-in. I imagine something on the lines of the tsmmc.msc from the windows server 2003 admin pack which is a very handy tool if you have some more servers to work on (basically a tree with the servers on the left side and the RDP-view on the right, switching between servers by clicking on the entries on the left side)
you mean, the public shouldn't know how unbelivably many young man die each day, gets wounded, that there is a full fledged war there when the media reports of "incidents" and "insurgents"? come on..
read the censored stuff, it is highly dangerous - for the guys who want this war, not for the guys who execute it.
PAT
i like to use pseudo anagrams, i.e. 1994fattyfatty1994
this way the password gets quite long, making it harder to bruteforce crack it without much arder to remember.
for my customers i like to add the postal code behind one or two dictionart words, often combined with a _ i.e. londonberry_14253 - it's at least more secure than the usual year (i.e. londonberry2005)
furthermore i have a 3-level passwor system:
level one - a password for forums and other unimportant sites. if i have to tell it to someone - no problem, nothing to hide there..
level two - a password for servers and other important logins but which i have to share in emergencies ("please soft reboot the server, root pw is..") - it's fairly complicated
level three - a password for banking, credit cards etc. i will never ever give away. wha is important is, that i don't protect a level two site with the level one password, compromising it..
If you can't walk into an office and within 2 minutes be mostly comfortable and getting along with everyone, then you shouldn't be a consultant.
in my experience, the more technically the job the more are customers forgiving in the "personality" departement. i tend to be a bit unfriendly (i call it concentrated;) ) - but when the servers are running when i leave, the customer's happy - without having a chitchat with me. so i would say:
I find that my greatest challenge is getting my contacts to understand how my skills and experience have evolved over time
maybe i just don't get what you mean - but why should your customer be interested in your advances? at the end of the day, the question he/she asks is "can you do this?" and your answer should be "yes!" - how you do this and if you can repair a space shuttle beside is usually totally irrelevant for the customer..
brillant article. one addition (i also wrote it to steve):
try to find some consultant friends! especially in the "time and project management" departement it helps tremendously to have a colleague who can jump in when you are short in time or are on holiday - and who doesn't try to "steal" your customer..
everything else is almost identically to my businnes practice and i can say: "it works!"
..in no event shall microsoft or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, punitive, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits or confidential or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, for loss of privacy, for failure to meet any duty including of good faith or of reasonable care, for negligence, and for any other pecuniary or other loss whatsoever) arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the software..
(XP Home EULA, Windows Serv2003 EULA was a bit hard to find on microsoft.com, i wonder why;) )
P.S. i tried to copy and paste it from microsoft.com - but what tells me slashdot:
"Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.":))
i'm a bit bored to read at least one story from the nytimes a day just because....it is from the nytimes.. are there no other news sources?
i mean, everyone who is interested in this kind of mildly geeky stories should have realized now where he can find them daily. get yourself jpluck and you can read them each morning in bed - as i do (more because of the other nytimes sections to be honest..)
Would any single game engine help you create your own Citizen Kane?
sure. create a sim. name it "kane".
PAT
not "oh jesus" - just 10 300gb disk..
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2,7 tb - it's just 9-18 300 gb disks (depending if he uses some kind of RAID (ok, on macs, so probably he never heard about it;P )).. not/that/ much to me..
PAT
Re:this guy is just holding up a sign
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2,7 tb - it's just 10-12 300 mb disks (depending if he uses some kind of RAID (ok, on macs, so probably he never heard about it;P ).. not that much, to me..
for years now, i wonder why graphics/audio software manufactures never came up with the idea to port their software to linux, put it on top of a rudimentary desktop and sell boxes, taylormade for one specific purpose - like the AVIDs in video postproduction. they would avoid the huge overhead of windows and had total control over the hardware so huge performance optimizations (especially in audio production) would be possible. MHO..
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Grown up in the eastblock I know a little bit about the USSR - believe me when I tell you how common this state was to the USA of today when it comes to ideology.
or do they?!
And all this has Opera's Mail Reader M2. The Mail sidebar is permanently open and i get informed about new RSS feeds as about new mail while I browse the web.
So it should be. Amen.
PAT
German users, please contribute!
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In a brillant marketing sting, Steve Jobs of Apple, the Debian Developement Team and 3DRealms united and tried to get the attention of the world today by confirming the long rumored news of the release of their respective flagship products, the Intel-microprocessor based "Macintosh Computer", the linux operating sytem "Debian 3.1" and the so called first person shooter game "Duke Nukem Forever" within hours and by doing so slashdotting the website "Slashdot.Org" - the only thing of the whole internet thought to be unslashdottable.
so, all that is neede is an activeX-control which runs an application inside. can't be that hard, can it? PAT
btw, why didn't someone came up yet with the idea to make a putty MMC snap-in. I imagine something on the lines of the tsmmc.msc from the windows server 2003 admin pack which is a very handy tool if you have some more servers to work on (basically a tree with the servers on the left side and the RDP-view on the right, switching between servers by clicking on the entries on the left side)
they tend to break every one, two years (the display cable is the culprit) but there are companies who still repair them.
it's a pity that psion has such a lousy management, a psion 6 with bluetooth, wlan and a color screen would be a dream machine..
PAT
but they have one in common with microsoft: their support sucks big time.. ;)
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PAT
here..
read the censored stuff, it is highly dangerous - for the guys who want this war, not for the guys who execute it. PAT
as almost always, opera had it before ;P
this way the password gets quite long, making it harder to bruteforce crack it without much arder to remember.
for my customers i like to add the postal code behind one or two dictionart words, often combined with a _ i.e. londonberry_14253 - it's at least more secure than the usual year (i.e. londonberry2005)
furthermore i have a 3-level passwor system:
level one - a password for forums and other unimportant sites. if i have to tell it to someone - no problem, nothing to hide there..
level two - a password for servers and other important logins but which i have to share in emergencies ("please soft reboot the server, root pw is..") - it's fairly complicated
level three - a password for banking, credit cards etc. i will never ever give away. wha is important is, that i don't protect a level two site with the level one password, compromising it..
PAT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_humour
in IT: 35% personality 65% tchnical ability
PAT
PAT
try to find some consultant friends! especially in the "time and project management" departement it helps tremendously to have a colleague who can jump in when you are short in time or are on holiday - and who doesn't try to "steal" your customer..
everything else is almost identically to my businnes practice and i can say: "it works!"
regards,
PAT
quote:
(XP Home EULA, Windows Serv2003 EULA was a bit hard to find on microsoft.com, i wonder why ;) )
P.S. i tried to copy and paste it from microsoft.com - but what tells me slashdot:
"Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." :))
i mean, everyone who is interested in this kind of mildly geeky stories should have realized now where he can find them daily. get yourself jpluck and you can read them each morning in bed - as i do (more because of the other nytimes sections to be honest..)
PAT
sure. create a sim. name it "kane".
PAT
2,7 tb - it's just 9-18 300 gb disks (depending if he uses some kind of RAID (ok, on macs, so probably he never heard about it ;P )).. not /that/ much to me..
PAT
2,7 tb - it's just 10-12 300 mb disks (depending if he uses some kind of RAID (ok, on macs, so probably he never heard about it ;P ).. not that much, to me..
PAT
for years now, i wonder why graphics/audio software manufactures never came up with the idea to port their software to linux, put it on top of a rudimentary desktop and sell boxes, taylormade for one specific purpose - like the AVIDs in video postproduction. they would avoid the huge overhead of windows and had total control over the hardware so huge performance optimizations (especially in audio production) would be possible. MHO..
PAT