I know this may be an unpopular point of view, but I recently flew to the Philippines with a layover in Taiwan. From San Francisco to Taiwan, it was a 14 hour flight. That sucked. It sucked big time. I don't know how much extra I'd have had to pay for a supersonic flight, but it may have been worth it. It would be interesting to know whether all the people posting comments about what a waste of money this is have ever flown nonstop to Asia.
I saw a special on Nova or Discovery Channel a while back about the cycle of ice age to non-ice age and back that the Earth has. It was amazing how fast the Ice age ended. Glaciers sometimes receded as fast as 2 feet per day. How do we know that global warming is mad made and not just part of the Earth's natural cycle?
I think that a lot of people assume that Red Hat Linux is this big ticket open source project, and therefore, Red Hat the company is bound to some subjective and abstruse ethical code. The GPL is not a manual of moral guidelines for running a business. Frankly a applaud Red Hat and all the other vendors of open source software that have implemented a successful business model around something that is free. For Linux to survive and grow, money has to come from somewhere. So when people in the know have to make the tough decisions, we shouldn't be so quick to criticize them for it.
Companies like http://www.idealstor.com/ use ejectable hard drives instead of tapes. This has several advantages, including the ability to have backups in native format: just browse to the ejectable shared drive and copy your data. I don't have the stats on the newer tape systems, but last time I checked, the shelf life of a tape is not much more than 18 months. The shelf life of a hard drive is much longer. 400GB hard drives don't run any more than LTO2 tapes, so it doesn't cost more money. From the web site
Idealstor is a complete backup system with ejectable inexpensive IDE ATA disks which are used for backup. Idealstor uses disks like tape, giving the best of both the technologies; Idealstor offers the speed and reliability of disk and the portability of tape. Idealstor offers a backup platform that for the first time outperforms tape drives and libraries in performance, reliability, scalability, ease of use and functionality.
The one drawback is that they haven't yet developed a way to allow one backup job to span multiple disks. However, the last time I checked on this was before my Marine Corps reserve unit got activated to come to Iraq, which was June of 2005.
The only sites from the list in the article that I can't access from here are "http://www.airamericaradio.com/" and "http://www.alfrankenshow.com/". But I wonder if these sites offer [more] streaming media than the others on the list. After all, here I am posting on Slashdot, so it can't be all that bad. Usually, the only sites that I've noticed are blocked are porn, games, illegal activities, dating/personals, and shareware/freeware. Web mail is intermittantly blocked.
Note that these restrictions exist on/from the cemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil domain. In other words, these are computers that are [supposed] to be used for work purposes. Everyone has the option of walking 1/2 mile to the Camp Fallujah Internet Cafe for unfettered access. Most of us would rather just come into the HQ office (aka the "Combat Operations Center" or C.O.C.) and put up with the restrictions.
There are two distinct groups of people you could be addressing this book at:
1. My grandma, who doesn't understand the difference between HD and RAM, or that I can't use VNC to fix her computer if her Internet is broken.
2. My boss, who wants to spend 30 minutes explaining to me why he thinks his problem is having a full HD or needing a defrag when really: the 10Mbit hub he bought for using desktop & laptop at the office is slowing his access to the share drive.
While I have no problem with women in the workplace, I do openly recognize the fundamental emotional and mental differences between men and women. Generally, women are less logic-oriented and more emotional-oriented than men. IT is a logic-oriented field. It makes sense that women wouldn't do particularly well in IT vs another field.
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Tell the auditors or management that it's an ergonomic issue. They'll be happy to let you keep a $200 monitor to save thousands in workman's comp.
I wonder if my homeowner's insurance will cover this...
This is news?
I've seen this before. The only way to protect ourselves is to detonate an antimatter bomb inside its nucleus.
Perhaps it works the other way around. Children who are spoiled and greedy DEVELOP elevated levels of monoamine oxidase A as a result.
I wonder if people with elevated levels of monoamine oxidase A are more inclined to engage in infidelity, citing the need for a variety of partners.
Now if they'd just release a U3 or "PortableApps" version then I could use it. It's a shame too, because it's such a great product.
I know this may be an unpopular point of view, but I recently flew to the Philippines with a layover in Taiwan. From San Francisco to Taiwan, it was a 14 hour flight. That sucked. It sucked big time. I don't know how much extra I'd have had to pay for a supersonic flight, but it may have been worth it. It would be interesting to know whether all the people posting comments about what a waste of money this is have ever flown nonstop to Asia.
I saw a special on Nova or Discovery Channel a while back about the cycle of ice age to non-ice age and back that the Earth has. It was amazing how fast the Ice age ended. Glaciers sometimes receded as fast as 2 feet per day. How do we know that global warming is mad made and not just part of the Earth's natural cycle?
Doom on your iPod. Next thing you know, they're going to put Duke Nukem on the Atari 2600. Oh wait, they already did that.
I think that a lot of people assume that Red Hat Linux is this big ticket open source project, and therefore, Red Hat the company is bound to some subjective and abstruse ethical code. The GPL is not a manual of moral guidelines for running a business. Frankly a applaud Red Hat and all the other vendors of open source software that have implemented a successful business model around something that is free. For Linux to survive and grow, money has to come from somewhere. So when people in the know have to make the tough decisions, we shouldn't be so quick to criticize them for it.
What's ironic is that Sony is discontinuing the PSOne not long after Atari started reviving the Atari 2600 & 7800 (http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback/780 0).
Companies like http://www.idealstor.com/ use ejectable hard drives instead of tapes. This has several advantages, including the ability to have backups in native format: just browse to the ejectable shared drive and copy your data. I don't have the stats on the newer tape systems, but last time I checked, the shelf life of a tape is not much more than 18 months. The shelf life of a hard drive is much longer. 400GB hard drives don't run any more than LTO2 tapes, so it doesn't cost more money. From the web site
Idealstor is a complete backup system with ejectable inexpensive IDE ATA disks which are used for backup. Idealstor uses disks like tape, giving the best of both the technologies; Idealstor offers the speed and reliability of disk and the portability of tape. Idealstor offers a backup platform that for the first time outperforms tape drives and libraries in performance, reliability, scalability, ease of use and functionality.
The one drawback is that they haven't yet developed a way to allow one backup job to span multiple disks. However, the last time I checked on this was before my Marine Corps reserve unit got activated to come to Iraq, which was June of 2005.
The only sites from the list in the article that I can't access from here are "http://www.airamericaradio.com/" and "http://www.alfrankenshow.com/". But I wonder if these sites offer [more] streaming media than the others on the list. After all, here I am posting on Slashdot, so it can't be all that bad. Usually, the only sites that I've noticed are blocked are porn, games, illegal activities, dating/personals, and shareware/freeware. Web mail is intermittantly blocked. Note that these restrictions exist on/from the cemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil domain. In other words, these are computers that are [supposed] to be used for work purposes. Everyone has the option of walking 1/2 mile to the Camp Fallujah Internet Cafe for unfettered access. Most of us would rather just come into the HQ office (aka the "Combat Operations Center" or C.O.C.) and put up with the restrictions.
There are two distinct groups of people you could be addressing this book at: 1. My grandma, who doesn't understand the difference between HD and RAM, or that I can't use VNC to fix her computer if her Internet is broken. 2. My boss, who wants to spend 30 minutes explaining to me why he thinks his problem is having a full HD or needing a defrag when really: the 10Mbit hub he bought for using desktop & laptop at the office is slowing his access to the share drive.
While I have no problem with women in the workplace, I do openly recognize the fundamental emotional and mental differences between men and women. Generally, women are less logic-oriented and more emotional-oriented than men. IT is a logic-oriented field. It makes sense that women wouldn't do particularly well in IT vs another field.