One word answer: Budgets. Every sysadmin worth his or her salt wants a hot-spare for every model of server in production. But you can't always afford an extra $BIGASSSERVER that will be lying around. If you have smart suits (not a given) you'll get it approved, if you don't you make do.
Speaking of spare servers, how many out there have the luxury of testing your backups by doing a full restore on a spare machine to see if it'll even boot ?
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I did that to a CEO's desktop machine once, impressed the hell out of him. Pity they went out of business anyway, they were the rare smart suits.
There's a very simple way to improve EP2: fast forward through the whole "frolicking" sequence. Putting some of the deleted scenes back in, like the Jedi library or Anakin and Padme's trial by the Separatists would help too; but just cut that one scene and the worst is gone and the pacing is almost back to what you'd find in a good movie.
Most Enterprise Software Distribution systems, like say... Novadigm, do this as well. And that was on the market years ago - like 1998. The version I saw running in 1999 had... a menu (!) of software you could install. Earlier versions should be similar.
I've read (some of) the claims in the patent. It's massively overbroad. Heck, SCO's lawyers could beat this patent.
Claim 1:
"A computer implemented method for distributing software from a remote computer system to a user station, the method comprising:
responsive to an identification of software already installed on the user station, presenting a directory of software available for installation on the user station and not already installed on the user station;
sending to the remote computer system over a communications network a selection of software for distribution to the user station, wherein the selection of software is selected by a user at the user station responsive to the directory; and
receiving from the remote computer system over the communications network software indicated by the selection.
Cripes ! And then claim 11, "The method of claim 1, wherein the method is facilitated using an HTML viewer at the user station."
Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, it's worse than the one-click patent !
If a trojan infects an application, then ZoneAlarm notes that the MD5 hash has changed and it asks you again if you want to allow that application access. If you haven't done anything to change it, then block access and investigate.
People who don't like that need to check out EVE Online. There's plenty of non-consensual PvP. Too much for my taste, way too many people will shoot first in a territorial dispute. Or because they're bored. Or 14...
So I'm not playing EVE anymore. But I still recommend the game to anyone who likes: lots of PvP, a rich economy, large programs written in Python, flying around in spaceships, or strikingly beautiful spacescapes. Go check out some screenshots, EVE is a gorgeous game. And they are doing content updates and revamping the UI. There was a GUI re-write about, oh, 9 months after release with everything obviously rewritten, cleaner, and more useful.
Do note that you're hosed as a solo player, it's all about corporations. If this has changed in Minmatar space, please let me know.
I'd better shut up, I may find myself paying a subscription fee again.
Insofar as I am still following Enterprise, I'm nursing a theory. In one of the episodes aired to date (1st season most likely) we have seen a Romulan. Posing as a Vulcan, but a Romulan nonetheless. I'm not quite sure why, maybe an ambassador not acting quite logical.
TNG did this with a diplomatic mission being the cover for a mole's return.
There are lots of good places to get metadata automatically. I downloaded file will get its URL automatically, then you scan the page it was linked from for more: page title, keywords, links, website metadata, etc. Attachments saved from an email can get all the header data, plus references to project management data (Office 2004 has features like this now, and may have been designed in reference to an early developer spec - remember IE 5 used some interface these that would later appear in OS X ?
All of that without the user lifting a finger. I'm going to hit my users hard with Office04's project features when we roll that out. Make 'em actually use the tools we're buying for them.
As a Warriors fan (Hi, my name is Mike...) I have to correct the Spreewell incident. That was a locker-room incident, not sidelines and definitely not televised. Spree went way over the line in assaulting a coach (however provoked) and was rightly suspended for a year. Of course, Carlisemo was fired at the end of the season, spent some time doing awful tv spots during the playoffs and only wound up back in coaching last years (Spurs). Spree played great team ball with the Knicks during their last Finals appearance and is now part of the ruling triumvirate of the TWolves. One rehab'd himself, the other took years to work his way back to an assistant coaching position. Frankly, as a Warriors fan (see above) I'd have preferred to keep Spree.
And Magic Johnson was very obviously good at two things.
I have a game as Persia going right now. Monarch, Play the World, Huge map, Pangaeia, etc. It's my first decent starting spot in quite a while and certainly the best game I've ever had as Persia. I'm angling for a Space Race win now (getting Computers as a free advance basically won me a war - look 150 mech inf !) and I'm going for max happy people. We'll see if I can top 10,000 points.
For some reason, in plain Civ3 I had a hard time getting anybody but Egypt onto the high score list. I'm not sure why.
I used to use CC Cloner a lot. That's excellent advice, but I hope you've written a script to do those "ls -l"s. I'm using LaCie drives mostly. We've lately switched to NetRestore for, well, restores; I still use CCC for backups. CCC is in fact vulnerable to Firewire issues, and versions prior to 2.30 had some lack of stability. 2.30 on Panther is pretty stable.
The BIG problem with CCC is the condition in which it leaves the directory structure. I made it a policy to run DiskWarrior on every system I restored. I spot-check when I'm using NetRestore (a very handy program locally or networked), but I haven't seen anything serious with NR but I'll keep looking. There's nothing worse than deploying a system with damage, already on it, that you could have prevented.
That reminds me. There is no Earthly reason for not emptying the caches when you image. It screws things up when you deploy on dissimilar hardware; nothing else is as troublesome moving an image across generations of hardware (G4/G5 for example). There's No Cachet in a Cache.
I've actually heard the emergency phone in my elevator ring. I answered, it was - obviously - a wrong number. The lady at the other end didn't want to believe she had called an elevator.. Tough for her, she had.
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Speaking of spare servers, how many out there have the luxury of testing your backups by doing a full restore on a spare machine to see if it'll even boot ?I did that to a CEO's desktop machine once, impressed the hell out of him. Pity they went out of business anyway, they were the rare smart suits.
You go to hell, you go to hell and you DIE !
So how much trouble am I in for ogling the images you link on autopr0n.com ?
There's a very simple way to improve EP2: fast forward through the whole "frolicking" sequence. Putting some of the deleted scenes back in, like the Jedi library or Anakin and Padme's trial by the Separatists would help too; but just cut that one scene and the worst is gone and the pacing is almost back to what you'd find in a good movie.
Every so often I put that Negativeland track into my main playlist. Life gets weird for a while, then I take it out again.
I've read (some of) the claims in the patent. It's massively overbroad. Heck, SCO's lawyers could beat this patent.
Claim 1:
Cripes ! And then claim 11, "The method of claim 1, wherein the method is facilitated using an HTML viewer at the user station."
Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, it's worse than the one-click patent !
"This way to the egress filtering seminar ----->"
If a trojan infects an application, then ZoneAlarm notes that the MD5 hash has changed and it asks you again if you want to allow that application access. If you haven't done anything to change it, then block access and investigate.
Let me get back to you in a couple of weeks :-)
Dual 2.0s, 23" Cinema. There are times when I *really* love my job.
People who don't like that need to check out EVE Online. There's plenty of non-consensual PvP. Too much for my taste, way too many people will shoot first in a territorial dispute. Or because they're bored. Or 14...
So I'm not playing EVE anymore. But I still recommend the game to anyone who likes: lots of PvP, a rich economy, large programs written in Python, flying around in spaceships, or strikingly beautiful spacescapes. Go check out some screenshots, EVE is a gorgeous game. And they are doing content updates and revamping the UI. There was a GUI re-write about, oh, 9 months after release with everything obviously rewritten, cleaner, and more useful.
Do note that you're hosed as a solo player, it's all about corporations. If this has changed in Minmatar space, please let me know.
I'd better shut up, I may find myself paying a subscription fee again.
Insofar as I am still following Enterprise, I'm nursing a theory. In one of the episodes aired to date (1st season most likely) we have seen a Romulan. Posing as a Vulcan, but a Romulan nonetheless. I'm not quite sure why, maybe an ambassador not acting quite logical.
TNG did this with a diplomatic mission being the cover for a mole's return.
There are lots of good places to get metadata automatically. I downloaded file will get its URL automatically, then you scan the page it was linked from for more: page title, keywords, links, website metadata, etc. Attachments saved from an email can get all the header data, plus references to project management data (Office 2004 has features like this now, and may have been designed in reference to an early developer spec - remember IE 5 used some interface these that would later appear in OS X ?
All of that without the user lifting a finger. I'm going to hit my users hard with Office04's project features when we roll that out. Make 'em actually use the tools we're buying for them.
Yeah, but it's a good ride. E-ticket all the way.
More like Mojo Nixon.
Out in the cold is fine by me, that leaves the rest of us inside where it's warm. And with all the booze.
Nuts. I lost the space race.
Sorry, I was thinking of Wilt Chamberlain and HIS "magic johnson".
As a Warriors fan (Hi, my name is Mike...) I have to correct the Spreewell incident. That was a locker-room incident, not sidelines and definitely not televised. Spree went way over the line in assaulting a coach (however provoked) and was rightly suspended for a year. Of course, Carlisemo was fired at the end of the season, spent some time doing awful tv spots during the playoffs and only wound up back in coaching last years (Spurs). Spree played great team ball with the Knicks during their last Finals appearance and is now part of the ruling triumvirate of the TWolves. One rehab'd himself, the other took years to work his way back to an assistant coaching position. Frankly, as a Warriors fan (see above) I'd have preferred to keep Spree.
And Magic Johnson was very obviously good at two things.
I have a game as Persia going right now. Monarch, Play the World, Huge map, Pangaeia, etc. It's my first decent starting spot in quite a while and certainly the best game I've ever had as Persia. I'm angling for a Space Race win now (getting Computers as a free advance basically won me a war - look 150 mech inf !) and I'm going for max happy people. We'll see if I can top 10,000 points.
For some reason, in plain Civ3 I had a hard time getting anybody but Egypt onto the high score list. I'm not sure why.
I used to use CC Cloner a lot. That's excellent advice, but I hope you've written a script to do those "ls -l"s. I'm using LaCie drives mostly. We've lately switched to NetRestore for, well, restores; I still use CCC for backups. CCC is in fact vulnerable to Firewire issues, and versions prior to 2.30 had some lack of stability. 2.30 on Panther is pretty stable.
The BIG problem with CCC is the condition in which it leaves the directory structure. I made it a policy to run DiskWarrior on every system I restored. I spot-check when I'm using NetRestore (a very handy program locally or networked), but I haven't seen anything serious with NR but I'll keep looking. There's nothing worse than deploying a system with damage, already on it, that you could have prevented.
That reminds me. There is no Earthly reason for not emptying the caches when you image. It screws things up when you deploy on dissimilar hardware; nothing else is as troublesome moving an image across generations of hardware (G4/G5 for example). There's No Cachet in a Cache.
They aren't already ?
Perhaps you missed this ad they aired last year.
(can't link the popups with the movies, it's the "Computer" clip, warning Real Player)
I miss Phil.
And Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks.
I've actually heard the emergency phone in my elevator ring. I answered, it was - obviously - a wrong number. The lady at the other end didn't want to believe she had called an elevator.. Tough for her, she had.
And you get most of that energy back when you bring a load back down.
Looks like a good day to metamoderate...