And I repeat- I had both the primary battery and the expansion unit. I'm using just the primary battery right now and it gives me 2 hours, nothing more. If it gave me 5 hours, I'd be estatic.
Perhaps your right and I shouldn't have expected the form factor to be as good or better... Silly me to expect products to improve. I read the specs, and expected more than what I got. I can get 10 hours of productive time if I add up my internal battery and both halves of the N-Charge II. That's not the point. The point is that I can get a solid 4 hours from the T41 extended battery, 5 if I am really careful about screen brightness and such things. So if the N-Charge II primary only gives me another 2 hours (I tested it last night) and the add-on pack only gives me 3 more hours, what am I gaining?
If the battery life were amazing, I'd put up with the lousy form factor. If the thing were tiny, I'd accept low battery life (hence being okay with the internal battery not lasting very long). Since they both suck, I'm at a loss for why they changed it.
I don't know why people think this is such a big deal. One of the last jobs I interviewed for had 10 interviews over the course of a day and a half with the leads of every team I'd be working with- Unix, tool dev, Windows, sysadmin, and behavioral interviews over lunch. The first one started with me being handed a booted laptop running _something_ (turned out to be OpenBSD) and being told "tell me everything you can about this system". And this was just what they did to me as an internal transfer applicant.
It was one of the best interviews I've ever had. I left feeling like I really wanted to work with the team. I got the job and loved working with the team. This was 6 years ago at a big company. The choice to do good interviews isn't new, most places just don't have the energy to do interviewing right.
"In Control 5" lists as InCtrl5, the problem is finding a place that offers it still. Watches programs as they install and gives you a complete list of everything they install/touch/change. Very very useful. Also, Ethereal- www.ethereal.com
Passwords of 8 characters can be broken in seconds, no matter what character set you use or how random they are. Password lifespans of months are pretty much worthless and just provide proof that your company is following "industry best practices" (even though those aren't "best practices").
Go to tokens and biometrics and passwords that are used to access those data sources. Have them generate long random strings that are changed constantly and are authenticated using digital signatures from your personal certificates that are stored on devices that never leave your person and require additional authentication to use.
Like the rest of you, I've read a number of really dry, really dull technical books simply because I needed to know the material they cover. This is the first technical book I've read in a very long time that was actually _fun_ to read. Ed is an excellent author and speaker and the result is that he makes this an entertaining read. I have found myself reading this book just for the fun of it, not purely for the (excellent) technical content. I have actually put this on the must-read list for anyone doing incident handling for my employer. I can't recommend it highly enough
I work for a big company, in a cube farm, it can take months to get purchases approved, we are chronically understaffed and overloaded. PHBs are everywhere as are people who are worthless for real work but have figured out how to work the company.
HOWEVER, I have one of the most complex and interesting environments I've ever seen to work in. The network spans the globe, we have almost every operating system under the sun. I play.. er, I mean work with servers that have uptimes of multiple years and hold terabytes worth of data. Our network pushes gigs and gigs of traffic every minute.
I love what I do (infosec) and I have a never-ending playground of challenges and projects. I work from home when I want to, I have good benefits and a fair amount of vacation....
Who cares about nerf toys (I'd rather have free Dr. Pepper) or lots of light (can you say screen glare and too much heat)?
Why should I care about the cube farm I work in? I spend my time in the wires and the ether, I may have a 9X9 cell that I spend 9+ hours/day sitting in, but my mind is wandering around the world over and over.
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And I repeat- I had both the primary battery and the expansion unit. I'm using just the primary battery right now and it gives me 2 hours, nothing more. If it gave me 5 hours, I'd be estatic.
Just to clarify, I wasn't comparing it to a single unit, I had the primary and the expansion pack.
Also, my internal battery was fully charged.
Perhaps your right and I shouldn't have expected the form factor to be as good or better... Silly me to expect products to improve. I read the specs, and expected more than what I got.
I can get 10 hours of productive time if I add up my internal battery and both halves of the N-Charge II. That's not the point. The point is that I can get a solid 4 hours from the T41 extended battery, 5 if I am really careful about screen brightness and such things. So if the N-Charge II primary only gives me another 2 hours (I tested it last night) and the add-on pack only gives me 3 more hours, what am I gaining?
If the battery life were amazing, I'd put up with the lousy form factor. If the thing were tiny, I'd accept low battery life (hence being okay with the internal battery not lasting very long). Since they both suck, I'm at a loss for why they changed it.
I don't know why people think this is such a big deal. One of the last jobs I interviewed for had 10 interviews over the course of a day and a half with the leads of every team I'd be working with- Unix, tool dev, Windows, sysadmin, and behavioral interviews over lunch. The first one started with me being handed a booted laptop running _something_ (turned out to be OpenBSD) and being told "tell me everything you can about this system". And this was just what they did to me as an internal transfer applicant.
It was one of the best interviews I've ever had. I left feeling like I really wanted to work with the team. I got the job and loved working with the team. This was 6 years ago at a big company. The choice to do good interviews isn't new, most places just don't have the energy to do interviewing right.
"In Control 5" lists as InCtrl5, the problem is finding a place that offers it still. Watches programs as they install and gives you a complete list of everything they install/touch/change.
Very very useful.
Also, Ethereal- www.ethereal.com
Passwords of 8 characters can be broken in seconds, no matter what character set you use or how random they are. Password lifespans of months are pretty much worthless and just provide proof that your company is following "industry best practices" (even though those aren't "best practices").
Go to tokens and biometrics and passwords that are used to access those data sources. Have them generate long random strings that are changed constantly and are authenticated using digital signatures from your personal certificates that are stored on devices that never leave your person and require additional authentication to use.
Then you'll be a little safer.
Like the rest of you, I've read a number of really dry, really dull technical books simply because I needed to know the material they cover. This is the first technical book I've read in a very long time that was actually _fun_ to read. Ed is an excellent author and speaker and the result is that he makes this an entertaining read. I have found myself reading this book just for the fun of it, not purely for the (excellent) technical content.
I have actually put this on the must-read list for anyone doing incident handling for my employer. I can't recommend it highly enough
I work for a big company, in a cube farm, it can take months to get purchases approved, we are chronically understaffed and overloaded. PHBs are everywhere as are people who are worthless for real work but have figured out how to work the company.
HOWEVER, I have one of the most complex and interesting environments I've ever seen to work in. The network spans the globe, we have almost every operating system under the sun. I play.. er, I mean work with servers that have uptimes of multiple years and hold terabytes worth of data. Our network pushes gigs and gigs of traffic every minute.
I love what I do (infosec) and I have a never-ending playground of challenges and projects. I work from home when I want to, I have good benefits and a fair amount of vacation....
Who cares about nerf toys (I'd rather have free Dr. Pepper) or lots of light (can you say screen glare and too much heat)?
Why should I care about the cube farm I work in? I spend my time in the wires and the ether, I may have a 9X9 cell that I spend 9+ hours/day sitting in, but my mind is wandering around the world over and over.