Just recently I changed jobs and was provided a work phone. Carrying two phones around is a pain in the backside, and I'd love for a good quality dual-sim smartphone, that doesn't look like a cheap piece of junk.
I actually hired it tonight, gave it 3 hours and will return it tomorrow with no intent to play it again. I realised after about 20 minutes that it was going to get pretty repetitive and the story didn't grab me.
People have been around long before computers, and have always been the biggest risk to business.
Computers have just made it easier for employee's to do more damage, either through malicious intent or just plain negligence.
Having many SMB clients where cost is always placed over security, its scary just how vulnerable many businesses are to their employee's, from even ignoring the most basic security steps like using ACL's to secure files and basic auditing of file access, or even implementing basic password policies like "Do not give your password, to anyone, ever!"
The hours I wasted on this game I shudder to count, being locked in my parents study, with the lights out and the sound up, playing this for hours at a time. It was probably my first real addiction to a game.
If they remade this, or Tie-Fighter I would buy it in a heartbeat, to this day it is still the best game I have ever played.
I hope it has less holes in it than the.NET Framework
By the time the UN establishes it's framework, the Asteroid will have been upgraded to version 2.0 and then the UN will have to go back and do a whole re-write.
I agree, Yahoo's revenue streams have been dropping and their annual profit's have not been good. MS would have to have a compelling reason to buy Yahoo as the acquisition would probably not give them a competitive advantage over Google.
With all this talk of Windows in the cloud, and seeing what Microsoft have just done by adding Netflix to the Xbox 360, it appears like they are looking seriously to selling appliances/subscription services. If they could convert even a fraction of their OEM market into hosted services, it could be as lucrative as their Office and Server licensing streams.
How can you do that if your data is "in the cloud"? The SLA isn't worth the paper that it is written on if your business goes down for a week because something went wrong with "the cloud".
Supporting small business I've seen some down right foolish and stupid decisions made on IT, placing cost over their data security.
Most cloud services offer business access to applications and services they could not afford if they put the software on site and I see it as no different to a SMB deciding to spend 5K on a new server and ignore the extra 5K for a backup system to support it.
Some business owners will understand the risks, and some will either not care or go for the bottom line with cost.
Conroy has to get with the times and to stop using the 'nothing to hide' argument (in another light here: if you don't agree with us, they you are a pedo).
That itself is a completley flawed argument because of the way child porn is distributed. The internet is used to move porn yes, but its largely not through HTTP/HTTPS, and there is no kiddyporn.com webserver to be blocked. ISP WEB filtering won't work.
With services like SFTP, Tor, DC++, bit torrent and other encrypted forms of transmission and private networks, these filters will make no difference at all.
I've written to Stephen Conroy and his office by letter and email at least a half a dozen times and received nothing but silence on the issue, even my local member doesn't respond on this issue.
I also don't understand why this is such an issue, the previous government launched an internet saftey awareness campaign and offered FREE content filtering applications for every Australian if they wanted it, and this program was not well received, highlighting the fact that really most Australians don't care or are satisfied they can control their children's access without them.
To me this appears to be nothing more then a government initiated campaign to restrict our access to information, and if it passes, this will be a very sad day for Australia.
Support doesn't come cheap, in Victoria schools share one government provided technician amongst a local cluster of schools and the hours assigned per week are assessed on how many students are in the school. This can be about 10 hours per peek per school amongst 3 to 4 schools per technician. Some area's especially country area's one tech might only have 3 hours per school shared amongst 6 or 7 schools.
Any extra hours they have to pay for another technician out of their own budget. A few years ago I was hired as a junior tech in a school working under the government provided tech, I was looking after a network of 150 PC's 5 servers and 28 staff notebooks for a school of some 550 students.
Schools are simply worried about the added support costs to this system because there will be no extra resources provided to schools to support this extra hardware.
The cost of a basic tech to look after this stuff could prevent many schools from providing special education teachers and reduce the overall quality of the education provided by the school.
I have no problems with Linux being adopted onto notebooks for students, I do have a problem with the affordability of the support available for Linux. At the moment Linux technicians don't come as cheap as a Windows tech and trying to find a tech who can manage an extra 100 or so Linux notebooks while supporting an existing Windows curriculum network with bare minimum pay and resources, doesn't sound like a very appealing job.
If this program isn't properly funded for support it will be an absolute disaster because after 3 years the system will be run completley into the ground, and this is what many schools are worried about, they consider it throwing money away.
I would be be asking either of these rep's is what service integrates best with your existing student directory service(AD, OpenLDAP eDirectory etc), and how do they go about managing mass account creation, recipient policies, group membership.
Its one thing to bring in a new mail service, but ongoing management and maintenance of users and mailboxes, it and how it interacts with other internal systems would be the most important thing to me from an administrative point of view.
As long as I'm not doing anything that's running the hardware into the ground I get about 2.5 to 3 hours off a full charge, thats with a 6 Cell battery and I've been meaning to upgrade that to a 9 cell.
I have a Dell XPS M1330 running Vista Ultimate, and its been flawless and has been for 9 months now. It has dedicated graphics and 3GB of RAM and it has more then enough resources spare to do all of my work.
At times I have had to host visualised servers on it running exchange and domain controllers while performing server migrations and Vista has performed admirably while balancing resources with the Virtual OS's and running my mail and other programs I usually run.
I do have a lot of criticisms of Vista but to say its not ready for normal notebooks is just outright BS.
Its not about MP3's at all, its about distributors holds over the distribution channels, which brings the majority of their revenue. Digital music and the internet removes any artificial barrier the music/movie industry has traditionally held, and now they are having to resort to pressuring governments into making laws to secure their channels. P2P and file sharing is just the excuse they happen to use to get themselves more control.
Governments happily oblige because at the same time they get more control over the internet too.
Many of the clients I support are constantly asking me "Is there a program that does this? or Can you find me a program to do this" etc etc.
I used to be able to just use google to help me get started but these days the top level searches are all those bloody link farms peddling "free" software, even when typing in the word review you come up with link farms that offer no reviews.
It was invented by a group of HR people. They needed a cool new word for "webcast", so people wouldn't get angry when they found out that instead of spending a week at retreat on professional development, they were to be locked in a room with a projector instead.
But it will be funny when we see an ISP deliver a disconnection notice to a homeless person.
"I'm sorry sir, we are going to have to disconnect your dumpster from the interwebs because you apparently downloaded Britney Spears last album"
I usually find on slow news days the media likes to run stories that get people angry about drugs.
Its one of those topics that everyone has an opinion on, enough to get some kind of emotive response and engage the readers/viewers,
whether its from what Amy Winehouse put up her nose to more political issues like legality or protecting your children.
Just today I read that the the drug war fuelled by America's love of cocaine and marijuana is resulting in thousands of people getting killed in Mexican gang wars over smuggling routes, yet the US War on drugs policy persists, keeping the black market trade the biggest and bloodiest industry in the world.
On the north border they want to remove the rights of people just to make a few cocaine snorting media exec's happy.
And we have seen what US foreign policy has done to the middle east.
Its no wonder so many people hate the US, their politicians have systematically contributed to most of the crap that is currently going on in the world all in the name of consumerism and captialism. Its not about democracy at all, its all about how cheap their gas is and what boat they can buy with their annual bonus.
They go 60's camp. You are a super villains side kick, dressed in fluro spandex you have to try to dominate your city before the other super villain gangs do, all the while evading police and the occasional vigilante dressed in a leotard with a really cool utility belt.
I'm not normally a pinball player, but a couple of years ago in my local pool hall my mates and we got burned really badly by a machine one night, it was a monster that would eat your money as soon as you put it in. We were back there every week feeding coins into it until we all mastered it.
I can't say I have played pinball a lot, but the machines I seem to get addicted to are the ones that are incredibly difficult and don't give you a score of a few hundred thousand points for only like 2 minutes of play. Those machines I just get angry with and keep feeding money till I beat them.
The easy machines I am bored by the time my first turn is done. My friends were the same, we all got so angry with this one machine we made it our mission to beat it. I know everyone is different, but I think pinball still would have a market if people were motivated to play it, it can get pretty competitive.
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Just recently I changed jobs and was provided a work phone. Carrying two phones around is a pain in the backside, and I'd love for a good quality dual-sim smartphone, that doesn't look like a cheap piece of junk.
I actually hired it tonight, gave it 3 hours and will return it tomorrow with no intent to play it again.
I realised after about 20 minutes that it was going to get pretty repetitive and the story didn't grab me.
People have been around long before computers, and have always been the biggest risk to business.
Computers have just made it easier for employee's to do more damage, either through malicious intent or just plain negligence.
Having many SMB clients where cost is always placed over security, its scary just how vulnerable many businesses are to their employee's, from even ignoring the most basic security steps like using ACL's to secure files and basic auditing of file access, or even implementing basic password policies like "Do not give your password, to anyone, ever!"
Amen..
The hours I wasted on this game I shudder to count, being locked in my parents study, with the lights out and the sound up, playing this for hours at a time. It was probably my first real addiction to a game.
If they remade this, or Tie-Fighter I would buy it in a heartbeat, to this day it is still the best game I have ever played.
That was my first thought when I read this.
My first thought was
"Wow, those crazy kids at MIT, whacking up nano-tubes. What will they try next, Wasabi enema's?"
I hope it has less holes in it than the .NET Framework
By the time the UN establishes it's framework, the Asteroid will have been upgraded to version 2.0 and then the UN will have to go back and do a whole re-write.
I agree, Yahoo's revenue streams have been dropping and their annual profit's have not been good. MS would have to have a compelling reason to buy Yahoo as the acquisition would probably not give them a competitive advantage over Google.
With all this talk of Windows in the cloud, and seeing what Microsoft have just done by adding Netflix to the Xbox 360, it appears like they are looking seriously to selling appliances/subscription services. If they could convert even a fraction of their OEM market into hosted services, it could be as lucrative as their Office and Server licensing streams.
How can you do that if your data is "in the cloud"? The SLA isn't worth the paper that it is written on if your business goes down for a week because something went wrong with "the cloud".
Supporting small business I've seen some down right foolish and stupid decisions made on IT, placing cost over their data security.
Most cloud services offer business access to applications and services they could not afford if they put the software on site and I see it as no different to a SMB deciding to spend 5K on a new server and ignore the extra 5K for a backup system to support it.
Some business owners will understand the risks, and some will either not care or go for the bottom line with cost.
Conroy has to get with the times and to stop using the 'nothing to hide' argument (in another light here: if you don't agree with us, they you are a pedo). That itself is a completley flawed argument because of the way child porn is distributed. The internet is used to move porn yes, but its largely not through HTTP/HTTPS, and there is no kiddyporn.com webserver to be blocked. ISP WEB filtering won't work. With services like SFTP, Tor, DC++, bit torrent and other encrypted forms of transmission and private networks, these filters will make no difference at all. I've written to Stephen Conroy and his office by letter and email at least a half a dozen times and received nothing but silence on the issue, even my local member doesn't respond on this issue. I also don't understand why this is such an issue, the previous government launched an internet saftey awareness campaign and offered FREE content filtering applications for every Australian if they wanted it, and this program was not well received, highlighting the fact that really most Australians don't care or are satisfied they can control their children's access without them. To me this appears to be nothing more then a government initiated campaign to restrict our access to information, and if it passes, this will be a very sad day for Australia.
Support doesn't come cheap, in Victoria schools share one government provided technician amongst a local cluster of schools and the hours assigned per week are assessed on how many students are in the school. This can be about 10 hours per peek per school amongst 3 to 4 schools per technician. Some area's especially country area's one tech might only have 3 hours per school shared amongst 6 or 7 schools.
Any extra hours they have to pay for another technician out of their own budget.
A few years ago I was hired as a junior tech in a school working under the government provided tech, I was looking after a network of 150 PC's 5 servers and 28 staff notebooks for a school of some 550 students.
Schools are simply worried about the added support costs to this system because there will be no extra resources provided to schools to support this extra hardware.
The cost of a basic tech to look after this stuff could prevent many schools from providing special education teachers and reduce the overall quality of the education provided by the school.
I have no problems with Linux being adopted onto notebooks for students, I do have a problem with the affordability of the support available for Linux.
At the moment Linux technicians don't come as cheap as a Windows tech and trying to find a tech who can manage an extra 100 or so Linux notebooks while supporting an existing Windows curriculum network with bare minimum pay and resources, doesn't sound like a very appealing job.
If this program isn't properly funded for support it will be an absolute disaster because after 3 years the system will be run completley into the ground, and this is what many schools are worried about, they consider it throwing money away.
I would be be asking either of these rep's is what service integrates best with your existing student directory service(AD, OpenLDAP eDirectory etc), and how do they go about managing mass account creation, recipient policies, group membership.
Its one thing to bring in a new mail service, but ongoing management and maintenance of users and mailboxes, it and how it interacts with other internal systems would be the most important thing to me from an administrative point of view.
I bet you buy your LEGO preassembled too.
I actually pay a LCSE(Lego Certified Systems Engineer) $150 per hour to assemble mine for me, its the only way to be sure.
As long as I'm not doing anything that's running the hardware into the ground I get about 2.5 to 3 hours off a full charge, thats with a 6 Cell battery and I've been meaning to upgrade that to a 9 cell.
Sorry call BS with that.
I have a Dell XPS M1330 running Vista Ultimate, and its been flawless and has been for 9 months now.
It has dedicated graphics and 3GB of RAM and it has more then enough resources spare to do all of my work.
At times I have had to host visualised servers on it running exchange and domain controllers while performing server migrations and Vista has performed admirably while balancing resources with the Virtual OS's and running my mail and other programs I usually run.
I do have a lot of criticisms of Vista but to say its not ready for normal notebooks is just outright BS.
Why the hell are they so bent on MP3s?
Its not about MP3's at all, its about distributors holds over the distribution channels, which brings the majority of their revenue.
Digital music and the internet removes any artificial barrier the music/movie industry has traditionally held, and now they are having to resort to pressuring governments into making laws to secure their channels. P2P and file sharing is just the excuse they happen to use to get themselves more control.
Governments happily oblige because at the same time they get more control over the internet too.
I couldn't agree more.
Many of the clients I support are constantly asking me "Is there a program that does this? or Can you find me a program to do this" etc etc.
I used to be able to just use google to help me get started but these days the top level searches are all those bloody link farms peddling "free" software, even when typing in the word review you come up with link farms that offer no reviews.
Why else would you want a 3D experience?
Goatse and Tub Girl in 2D was disturbing enough.
What is a "webinar" for example?
It was invented by a group of HR people. They needed a cool new word for "webcast", so people wouldn't get angry when they found out that instead of spending a week at retreat on professional development, they were to be locked in a room with a projector instead.
We can't believe he's guilty because he's one of us.
No he's not one of us, he had a wife. Hand in your geek card on the way out.
But it will be funny when we see an ISP deliver a disconnection notice to a homeless person. "I'm sorry sir, we are going to have to disconnect your dumpster from the interwebs because you apparently downloaded Britney Spears last album"
I usually find on slow news days the media likes to run stories that get people angry about drugs. Its one of those topics that everyone has an opinion on, enough to get some kind of emotive response and engage the readers/viewers, whether its from what Amy Winehouse put up her nose to more political issues like legality or protecting your children.
It is just more stupid American foreign policy.
Just today I read that the the drug war fuelled by America's love of cocaine and marijuana is resulting in thousands of people getting killed in Mexican gang wars over smuggling routes, yet the US War on drugs policy persists, keeping the black market trade the biggest and bloodiest industry in the world.
On the north border they want to remove the rights of people just to make a few cocaine snorting media exec's happy.
And we have seen what US foreign policy has done to the middle east.
Its no wonder so many people hate the US, their politicians have systematically contributed to most of the crap that is currently going on in the world all in the name of consumerism and captialism. Its not about democracy at all, its all about how cheap their gas is and what boat they can buy with their annual bonus.
They go 60's camp. You are a super villains side kick, dressed in fluro spandex you have to try to dominate your city before the other super villain gangs do, all the while evading police and the occasional vigilante dressed in a leotard with a really cool utility belt.
I'm not normally a pinball player, but a couple of years ago in my local pool hall my mates and we got burned really badly by a machine one night, it was a monster that would eat your money as soon as you put it in.
We were back there every week feeding coins into it until we all mastered it.
I can't say I have played pinball a lot, but the machines I seem to get addicted to are the ones that are incredibly difficult and don't give you a score of a few hundred thousand points for only like 2 minutes of play. Those machines I just get angry with and keep feeding money till I beat them.
The easy machines I am bored by the time my first turn is done. My friends were the same, we all got so angry with this one machine we made it our mission to beat it.
I know everyone is different, but I think pinball still would have a market if people were motivated to play it, it can get pretty competitive.
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