What do you mean the ACA didn't do anything? It expanded the Mental Health Parity Act to include all insurance. Starting in 2014, you can no longer find insurance that excludes mental health and substance abuse treatment.
These two acts have made professional mental health treatment accessible to most Americans now. We certainly have a long way to go, but things are a lot better today than they were 5 years ago.
This was the comment I was looking for. I can't believe a 150 person company needs 4 (or 3.5) developers working on its ERP system. You either have the wrong ERP for the job or incompetent developers.
That's between $250,000 to $500,000/year to support an ERP system. You could outsource the whole think to the most expensive provider and not pay half of that. We do massive ERP automation projects for Fortune 500 companies at a fraction of that cost with even lower on-going maintenance.
It's not obvious because apparently people are not taught what the symbol "=" means. This is what happens when teaching become regurgitating problems out of a textbook so kids can pass a test.
That still doesn't help the fact that I feel ripped off every time I buy something at B&N. Is that really the experience you want your customers to come away with?
Our data center provider offers storage on their FC SAN ( > 150mbps I/O) at a cost of $2.50/GB/month and an additional $2.50/GB for backups. This includes 24x7 support, 99.99% uptime, and is hosted in a tier 3+ data center. My guess is that smaller SANs cost more per GB, but you are getting boned at $30/GB.
On the other hand, if you are requiring some sort of high performance DAS with off site replication, then I bet the cost is considerably higher.
I recently had a hotel leave one of those quick check-out forms partially slid under my door. The problem was that it had my credit card information printed on it. It would have been quite easy to walk down the how and grab a dozen names, credit card numbers and expiration dates. On top of that, who knows what happens to the forms once you sign them as I highly doubt they go through a shredder.
I had some lady knock on our door last fall looking for her son. Apparently someone put him on the wrong bus and he got off in our neighborhood (no where near where he lived). He was going to a private Catholic school about 5 miles from our house.
For the average, locked-down business user, Vista is virtually the same as XP. The only real difference is the start menu, and if that posses such a problem - it can be reverted through Group Policy.
Besides, I thought you open source fanboys only cared about licensing costs and not TCO (at least according to Slashdot, no training is required to move to Open Office or Ubuntu.)
Your first step is to dig through all of the documentation you have to find any and all software purchases. This included going through the previous guy's email (hopefully it's still available) and digging out the license cards from those boxes stashed in the corner. If you are lucky, someone in accounting can start pulling invoices from you. Also, go to the resellers your company has been using to see if they can pull a purchase history or license report (CDW is great for this). Don't forget to try sites like Microsoft's eOpen (eopen.microsoft.com) or Adobe's license site (licensing.adobe.com).
The next step is to audit your workstations and servers to see exactly what commercial software they are running. Try to match that up with what documentation you found to start with. My rule of thumb is that if I don't have a PO/invoice, license key or box, then I don't own the software. Then go and get quotes from your favorite reseller to see what the costs are to "true-up".
Take all of this to your manager (or the owner) and show them the situation. Be sure to explain the consequences of not licensing the software you are using, and leave the decision up to him whether to true-up, stop using the software, or use it unlicensed. I would personally document this meeting just to cover your own ass, especially if the last option is chosen.
In order to prevent this situation in the future, make sure all software purchases come through your department. Then keep all license documentation in a single physical or electronic location. Be prepared to dig your heels in when someone tries to bypass IT to install illegal/unlicense software.
Good catch. On top of that, as long as a company meets a few small requirements for developing on a Windows platform, they can become a Microsoft partner. It is not some secret club that goes around suing OSS companies on behalf of Microsoft.
We when through the same process as the parent post (replacing Trendmicro Officescan as it has gone to crap). I ended up deciding on NOD32 over Kaspersky, but they were two we liked best. NOD32 has had a few minor problems, and the initial configuration can be time consuming, but overall it is a huge improvement over Trend at a considerably better price.
With Trend, it frequently missed malware and viruses but NOD32 has been great (our infection rate is probably 10% of what it used to be).
That's a really good point. How do I know that the latest update to Forecastfox isn't now ready my browsing history or passwords and uploading that information to a third party. Many addons do not need access to the web page being rendered, so I wonder why there isn't some additional layer of security there.
This needs to be moderated up. F5's Global Traffic Manager is basically what the OP needs, and it is the best way to get it accomplished. I'm sure there are similar DNS-based load balancers that are out there, but F5 is the biggest name in that market.
We started seeing this with Charter in the midwest. Not the 404 errors, but with invalid domain names. The biggest problem for us has been with our VPN software. When our employees are working from home, Charter always returns a valid IP for our internal DNS zones so the DNS lookups are never forwarded over the VPN.
I hope their additional advertising revenue makes up for the lost customers.
I'm not sure if Fusemail has been mentioned yet, but I switched to them about a year ago after my web host wiped out about 25% of my IMAP mail. Their service is perfect for small business or individuals that need a good email service. They offer the usual IMAP, POP, and SMTP services along with SSL/TLS encryption, and they offer alternative ports in case your ISP is blocking certain services. On top of that, their web mail interface is great (also SSL-enabled).
There are no limits on the number of domains that you can host nor the number of third part mailboxes that can be "fused" into your account. You pay per mailbox or per GB for storage. Cost is $2/mailbox/month with a $10/month minimum.
If you think that is messed up, our office is on the border between the TDS Telecom are and the TDS Metrocom CLEC. When we moved to this location we contacted both companies about providing voice and data services. What is interesting is that we were able to have Telecom compete against Metrocom for services.
Is that messed up or what?
Now, I must say that working with TDS is a breeze compared to Ameritech/SBC/AT&T.
My spam gateways process about 250,000 emails a day and I don't see any significant change over the past 30 days in spam volume (our "good" rate is about 5-6%). My guess is that your ISP is now doing some basic RBL connection filtering that they didn't tell you about. Either that, or they have always been doing the filtering but it was broken until this week.
Regarding SSL, it is a good thing that idiots like this one here don't get there way. Otherwise someone could hijack your bank website, use a self-signed certificate and Firefox would just ignore the authentication error.
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What do you mean the ACA didn't do anything? It expanded the Mental Health Parity Act to include all insurance. Starting in 2014, you can no longer find insurance that excludes mental health and substance abuse treatment.
These two acts have made professional mental health treatment accessible to most Americans now. We certainly have a long way to go, but things are a lot better today than they were 5 years ago.
This was the comment I was looking for. I can't believe a 150 person company needs 4 (or 3.5) developers working on its ERP system. You either have the wrong ERP for the job or incompetent developers.
That's between $250,000 to $500,000/year to support an ERP system. You could outsource the whole think to the most expensive provider and not pay half of that. We do massive ERP automation projects for Fortune 500 companies at a fraction of that cost with even lower on-going maintenance.
It's not obvious because apparently people are not taught what the symbol "=" means. This is what happens when teaching become regurgitating problems out of a textbook so kids can pass a test.
+1...if I could.
Again Slashdot delivers slow, out-of-date news.
That still doesn't help the fact that I feel ripped off every time I buy something at B&N. Is that really the experience you want your customers to come away with?
This isn't my service, but our hosting/data center provider's. They actually do guarantee IOPS when I look at the specifics.
Our data center provider offers storage on their FC SAN ( > 150mbps I/O) at a cost of $2.50/GB/month and an additional $2.50/GB for backups. This includes 24x7 support, 99.99% uptime, and is hosted in a tier 3+ data center. My guess is that smaller SANs cost more per GB, but you are getting boned at $30/GB.
On the other hand, if you are requiring some sort of high performance DAS with off site replication, then I bet the cost is considerably higher.
I recently had a hotel leave one of those quick check-out forms partially slid under my door. The problem was that it had my credit card information printed on it. It would have been quite easy to walk down the how and grab a dozen names, credit card numbers and expiration dates. On top of that, who knows what happens to the forms once you sign them as I highly doubt they go through a shredder.
What's this? Yet another Infoworld writer using their blogs to advance their personal agenda? When is Slashdot going to stop being a lackey for IDG?
I had some lady knock on our door last fall looking for her son. Apparently someone put him on the wrong bus and he got off in our neighborhood (no where near where he lived). He was going to a private Catholic school about 5 miles from our house.
How is this insightful? Gigabit only requires Category 5 cabling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.3ab
For the average, locked-down business user, Vista is virtually the same as XP. The only real difference is the start menu, and if that posses such a problem - it can be reverted through Group Policy.
Besides, I thought you open source fanboys only cared about licensing costs and not TCO (at least according to Slashdot, no training is required to move to Open Office or Ubuntu.)
Your first step is to dig through all of the documentation you have to find any and all software purchases. This included going through the previous guy's email (hopefully it's still available) and digging out the license cards from those boxes stashed in the corner. If you are lucky, someone in accounting can start pulling invoices from you. Also, go to the resellers your company has been using to see if they can pull a purchase history or license report (CDW is great for this). Don't forget to try sites like Microsoft's eOpen (eopen.microsoft.com) or Adobe's license site (licensing.adobe.com).
The next step is to audit your workstations and servers to see exactly what commercial software they are running. Try to match that up with what documentation you found to start with. My rule of thumb is that if I don't have a PO/invoice, license key or box, then I don't own the software. Then go and get quotes from your favorite reseller to see what the costs are to "true-up".
Take all of this to your manager (or the owner) and show them the situation. Be sure to explain the consequences of not licensing the software you are using, and leave the decision up to him whether to true-up, stop using the software, or use it unlicensed. I would personally document this meeting just to cover your own ass, especially if the last option is chosen.
In order to prevent this situation in the future, make sure all software purchases come through your department. Then keep all license documentation in a single physical or electronic location. Be prepared to dig your heels in when someone tries to bypass IT to install illegal/unlicense software.
Good catch. On top of that, as long as a company meets a few small requirements for developing on a Windows platform, they can become a Microsoft partner. It is not some secret club that goes around suing OSS companies on behalf of Microsoft.
We when through the same process as the parent post (replacing Trendmicro Officescan as it has gone to crap). I ended up deciding on NOD32 over Kaspersky, but they were two we liked best. NOD32 has had a few minor problems, and the initial configuration can be time consuming, but overall it is a huge improvement over Trend at a considerably better price.
With Trend, it frequently missed malware and viruses but NOD32 has been great (our infection rate is probably 10% of what it used to be).
Interesting, so failing memory doesn't effect the system cache. That is some magical hardware you have there.
If you think Australian Personal Computer Magazine is a US site, then there isn't much we can do to help you.
That's a really good point. How do I know that the latest update to Forecastfox isn't now ready my browsing history or passwords and uploading that information to a third party. Many addons do not need access to the web page being rendered, so I wonder why there isn't some additional layer of security there.
This needs to be moderated up. F5's Global Traffic Manager is basically what the OP needs, and it is the best way to get it accomplished. I'm sure there are similar DNS-based load balancers that are out there, but F5 is the biggest name in that market.
We started seeing this with Charter in the midwest. Not the 404 errors, but with invalid domain names. The biggest problem for us has been with our VPN software. When our employees are working from home, Charter always returns a valid IP for our internal DNS zones so the DNS lookups are never forwarded over the VPN.
I hope their additional advertising revenue makes up for the lost customers.
I'm not sure if Fusemail has been mentioned yet, but I switched to them about a year ago after my web host wiped out about 25% of my IMAP mail. Their service is perfect for small business or individuals that need a good email service. They offer the usual IMAP, POP, and SMTP services along with SSL/TLS encryption, and they offer alternative ports in case your ISP is blocking certain services. On top of that, their web mail interface is great (also SSL-enabled).
There are no limits on the number of domains that you can host nor the number of third part mailboxes that can be "fused" into your account. You pay per mailbox or per GB for storage. Cost is $2/mailbox/month with a $10/month minimum.
If you think that is messed up, our office is on the border between the TDS Telecom are and the TDS Metrocom CLEC. When we moved to this location we contacted both companies about providing voice and data services. What is interesting is that we were able to have Telecom compete against Metrocom for services.
Is that messed up or what?
Now, I must say that working with TDS is a breeze compared to Ameritech/SBC/AT&T.
My spam gateways process about 250,000 emails a day and I don't see any significant change over the past 30 days in spam volume (our "good" rate is about 5-6%). My guess is that your ISP is now doing some basic RBL connection filtering that they didn't tell you about. Either that, or they have always been doing the filtering but it was broken until this week.
Don't worry, it doesn't work under IE7 either.
Regarding SSL, it is a good thing that idiots like this one here don't get there way. Otherwise someone could hijack your bank website, use a self-signed certificate and Firefox would just ignore the authentication error.