to send a large middle finger to the feds by burying them in discovery (this seems fairly common, more info than needed is sent in the hopes that it is too large a task), and in response to a HIPPA complaint about their non compliance with patient medical record access, Cigna violates nearly every portion of the privacy sections of HIPPA.
Current ly I have an IBM (mid lenovo switch) X61T.
Sure I can use the tablet while I train, but that is not why I made this choice 3.5 years ago. I chose between the only 2 laptops on the market with 1400x1050 12.1 inch screens (the other was the fujitsu ).
I need light as I travel all over the US and many other countries regularly. 12.1 allows me to open the laptop on a plane, have you tried to open a 15 incher in coach? also the travel weight on this box is great.
Most of all, since I watch movies, RDP, Telnet, VM, etc on this box (not a dev, test geek and entrepeneur) 4:3 is much more natural and provides more pixels/real estate than 16:9.
I am currently replacing the hinge and bezel, at 1.6 dual core with 4 GB ram this machine still keeps up and passes many of the machines today. I replaced the battery 6 months ago so I still get 6+ hours. Also thinking of a SSD. I have looked, but nothing new serves my needs.
So who says they clicked, it could be auto delivered. I have seen many arenas where they mandate anti-virus (usually crap) and do nothing about malware.
Not many know about locking down host files, using ad-aware, spybot s&d, or the like. I still use javacools stuff.
For the prices you are looking at you could easily go to the local alarm supply store (Alarmax or similar) and buy a dvr based linux system that can support 4/8/16 cameras.
Cameras come in varrying qualities but a decent camera can be had for 150. The install is blindingly simple, give it power, run coax (skip the cheap wite, nothing but frustration), config the dvr/server, and you are not only recording, but live on the net.
I like Nuvico gear, but there are many good brands.
I travel alot, and it is easy to pull out my laptop. What is a bear is digging out my CPAP.
I travel with a briggs and reiley laptop bag that contains all my gear and 1 extra shirt. I also carry a rollaway that contains my clothes for the week and the CPAP. Since the airlines balk at 3 bags it has to be 2, and every time I check a bag it gets lost. I cant survive without my CPAP, so it will never be checked.
I did have a TSA tell me that the CPAP motor is potted so it just shown up as a black spot on the screen. any ideas?
I have used a Braun CaféSelect burr grinder since I got married. 12 years, i machine, yearly deep cleaning. I have gone through lots of coffee machines as I work from the home office and always have a cup, but this grinder has continued to provide a consistant texture throughout. It is a little pricy $70 but I got it as a wedding present.
Panda Project archistrat (http://www.byte.com/art/9510/sec6/art7.htm) Cant find
Panda Project Rock City (2, 1 original, and one for the case to build in) (http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/4244/I_w as_wondering_if_any_PC_manufacturers_are_going_to_ build_an_iMac_rival.html) can hardly find pictures anymore and no idea where to get
a maxed out TI-99 4a (I know where to get these (http://www.99er.net/)
Regardless of interoperability with Exchange, or ability of application to perform at the same level, Lets put all that aside and consider something...
ANY organization that wishes to do business with the government in the US (Canada as well) needs to provide an environment that plays well on the accessibility front. The tools just aren't there, and again, it is a decidedly un-sexy front for development. Until a robust accessibility program is implemented in Linux/Open Source applications, they cannot be used in business.
Do you really want to be the business being picked by the disabled?
It is up to the individual development group, but getting the fox out of the henhouse is as important as developing a test plan for accurate results. Programmers are taught to think in a certain way, that is not a bad thing. I can always tell when a programmer developed the test plan, or the subsequent tests. This is not to say that it is all bad. Programmers make great unit testers. But when it comes to wholistic testing, and what your users are going to subject your application to, a professional tester leading a group of CS reps or BA's is a much better solution.
It is just a story of two different skill sets. Critically addressing a problem with code, or critically addressing an application to identify problems.
Step 1: write a systematic test plan. Cover the success path, cover the failure paths. Gather all your data sources
Step 2: automate. follow the above advice if you want to create our own harness. But for an easier way check out the commercial tools (trying to be non-blatant, i am a vendor, check my profile)
Step 3: run your automated tests and laugh at how much easier it makes your life than manual testing.
Had a StarTac 7868 (Then a v60), And I would love to see a modern version.
Features:
Very easy to hear If it went off in a meeting, just unclip the battery (very easy to get to) replacement batteries were cheap Bend to your liking antenna TruSync compatable TOOK A MAJOR BEATING AND CAME BACK FOR MORE.
I carry a TREO now, and have to admit I miss the "It Just Works" and takes a beating factor of my old 7868 and V60i.
I would love to see the sive and form recreated with a palm in the upper lid. Kyocera did something like this, I just want it with BT, GSM, and G3.
It has "a completely secure BIOS solution that allows fully automatic upgrades without user intervention"...
Does anyone else see the potential to change the routing table of the ISP, to a private network that updates the "completely secure bios" to something else?
As a sideline, I like to do things that turn away from tech, and let me get my hands very dirty. I have hung drywall, redone basements after flooding, and any other general construction stuff.
Does anyone know what ever happened to all the left over cases when the panda project finally abandoned both hard rock computers and artiscrat servers. the cases were amongst the first to be true art forms. the hard rock was an aluminimum cube which sat in a stand on one corner and had a sweet look. MS even used one of there when Alec St. John introduced the chrome project, the chromed a hard rock and used it as a display model. I want one of these, the chrome one if possible.
Slashdot Mirror
... is it really a good idea?
Just sayin..
OK, I admit, fingers faster than brain.
Yes, it is Cignet
and yes it is HIPAA
I just love it.
to send a large middle finger to the feds by burying them in discovery (this seems fairly common, more info than needed is sent in the hopes that it is too large a task), and in response to a HIPPA complaint about their non compliance with patient medical record access, Cigna violates nearly every portion of the privacy sections of HIPPA.
I think the fine should be 10X
Current ly I have an IBM (mid lenovo switch) X61T.
Sure I can use the tablet while I train, but that is not why I made this choice 3.5 years ago. I chose between the only 2 laptops on the market with 1400x1050 12.1 inch screens (the other was the fujitsu ).
I need light as I travel all over the US and many other countries regularly. 12.1 allows me to open the laptop on a plane, have you tried to open a 15 incher in coach? also the travel weight on this box is great.
Most of all, since I watch movies, RDP, Telnet, VM, etc on this box (not a dev, test geek and entrepeneur) 4:3 is much more natural and provides more pixels/real estate than 16:9.
I am currently replacing the hinge and bezel, at 1.6 dual core with 4 GB ram this machine still keeps up and passes many of the machines today. I replaced the battery 6 months ago so I still get 6+ hours. Also thinking of a SSD. I have looked, but nothing new serves my needs.
Long live 4:3 high res small screens
So who says they clicked, it could be auto delivered. I have seen many arenas where they mandate anti-virus (usually crap) and do nothing about malware.
Not many know about locking down host files, using ad-aware, spybot s&d, or the like. I still use javacools stuff.
Redundant Array of Recycled Realy-old Drives
AISD - Austin Independant School District - Austin Tx
High tech land
Dell, Siemens, and a million smaller companies, mostly running on Linux.
They should call Mike Dell and ask him what OS their servers boot from, or what the Mini runs
For the prices you are looking at you could easily go to the local alarm supply store (Alarmax or similar) and buy a dvr based linux system that can support 4/8/16 cameras.
Cameras come in varrying qualities but a decent camera can be had for 150. The install is blindingly simple, give it power, run coax (skip the cheap wite, nothing but frustration), config the dvr/server, and you are not only recording, but live on the net.
I like Nuvico gear, but there are many good brands.
ART
I travel alot, and it is easy to pull out my laptop. What is a bear is digging out my CPAP.
I travel with a briggs and reiley laptop bag that contains all my gear and 1 extra shirt. I also carry a rollaway that contains my clothes for the week and the CPAP. Since the airlines balk at 3 bags it has to be 2, and every time I check a bag it gets lost. I cant survive without my CPAP, so it will never be checked.
I did have a TSA tell me that the CPAP motor is potted so it just shown up as a black spot on the screen. any ideas?
Any reccomendations fo a a smaller CPAP?
I have used a Braun CaféSelect burr grinder since I got married. 12 years, i machine, yearly deep cleaning. I have gone through lots of coffee machines as I work from the home office and always have a cup, but this grinder has continued to provide a consistant texture throughout. It is a little pricy $70 but I got it as a wedding present.
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I have used free gevalia machines, bunn, and now have a cuisinart. My dream is a bodum http://www.bodumusa.com/shop/line.asp?MD=1&GID=3&
I want a few things for my collection...
w as_wondering_if_any_PC_manufacturers_are_going_to_ build_an_iMac_rival.html) can hardly find pictures anymore and no idea where to get
Panda Project archistrat (http://www.byte.com/art/9510/sec6/art7.htm) Cant find
Panda Project Rock City (2, 1 original, and one for the case to build in) (http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/4244/I_
a maxed out TI-99 4a (I know where to get these (http://www.99er.net/)
All the old TI cartridges
ART
Regardless of interoperability with Exchange, or ability of application to perform at the same level, Lets put all that aside and consider something...
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ANY organization that wishes to do business with the government in the US (Canada as well) needs to provide an environment that plays well on the accessibility front. The tools just aren't there, and again, it is a decidedly un-sexy front for development. Until a robust accessibility program is implemented in Linux/Open Source applications, they cannot be used in business.
Do you really want to be the business being picked by the disabled?
ADA http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm
Canadian Version - http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/asp/gateway.asp?hr=/en/hip
Art
AccordSQA ( http://www.accordsqa.com/ )
Testing Automation Tools
Z0mb1eman,
It is up to the individual development group, but getting the fox out of the henhouse is as important as developing a test plan for accurate results. Programmers are taught to think in a certain way, that is not a bad thing. I can always tell when a programmer developed the test plan, or the subsequent tests. This is not to say that it is all bad. Programmers make great unit testers. But when it comes to wholistic testing, and what your users are going to subject your application to, a professional tester leading a group of CS reps or BA's is a much better solution.
It is just a story of two different skill sets. Critically addressing a problem with code, or critically addressing an application to identify problems.
ART
Step 1: write a systematic test plan. Cover the success path, cover the failure paths. Gather all your data sources
Step 2: automate. follow the above advice if you want to create our own harness. But for an easier way check out the commercial tools (trying to be non-blatant, i am a vendor, check my profile)
Step 3: run your automated tests and laugh at how much easier it makes your life than manual testing.
An update to the previous poster.
Had a StarTac 7868 (Then a v60), And I would love to see a modern version.
Features:
Very easy to hear
If it went off in a meeting, just unclip the battery (very easy to get to)
replacement batteries were cheap
Bend to your liking antenna
TruSync compatable
TOOK A MAJOR BEATING AND CAME BACK FOR MORE.
I carry a TREO now, and have to admit I miss the "It Just Works" and takes a beating factor of my old 7868 and V60i.
I would love to see the sive and form recreated with a palm in the upper lid. Kyocera did something like this, I just want it with BT, GSM, and G3.
ART
It has "a completely secure BIOS solution that allows fully automatic upgrades without user intervention"...
Does anyone else see the potential to change the routing table of the ISP, to a private network that updates the "completely secure bios" to something else?
Hack from the outside in...
This is what I was goingto suggest. Plus it includes a cataloging system and retrieval application.
Works on CD's DVD's, etc...
Keep a bottle under the sink, morks even on agressive scratches (that havent breached the foil layer)
Smells nasty, but apply, dry, buff, play.
Cant tell you how many times this has worked on Netflix DVD's
ART
have you looked at the various zauruii? (www.sharp.com)
All you have to add is an infrared-foldable keyboard.
Just a thought.
Recipe for long couch surfing.
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Z505*** - ~$50-$100(ebay)
3x battery - $100
CF to Mini IDE - ~$10
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-IDE-CF-compact-card-adap
2GB CF - ~$30
http://search.ebay.com/2gb-cf-card_W0QQcatrefZC6Q
Google (write, spreadsheet, mail, etc...)
$250 - capable machine for everything but gaming.
As a sideline, I like to do things that turn away from tech, and let me get my hands very dirty. I have hung drywall, redone basements after flooding, and any other general construction stuff.
I am also my sons denmaster in cubscouts.
And thermal paper tastes NASTY!!!!!!
Does anyone know what ever happened to all the left over cases when the panda project finally abandoned both hard rock computers and artiscrat servers. the cases were amongst the first to be true art forms. the hard rock was an aluminimum cube which sat in a stand on one corner and had a sweet look. MS even used one of there when Alec St. John introduced the chrome project, the chromed a hard rock and used it as a display model. I want one of these, the chrome one if possible.