I've handled this exact same issue. I work for a property management company and have wall-mounted half-racks with big, 4U Bosch DVR's at quite a few facilities. (These are basically rack-mounted mid-tower PCs with a steel front panel and a mobo that accepts the camera feeds.) We use a garden variety wall cab which consists of a huge, huge wall bracket with the cabinet attached on a hinge for rear access.
Weight concerns? These DVRs weigh a TON; about the same as a 4U server stacked with hard drives. It's a bit of a snug fit in the back, but they've been mounted and running for years.
That being said, you most definitely can mount servers in a wallmount cab, depending on their form factor. Specifically, you're pretty much limited to mid tower servers that can be converted to rackmount. You most definitely cannot mount most servers advertised as 'rackmount' due their tendency to have a lot of depth. (Unless you're talking about SuperMicro or something.) An HP DL180, for example, will need around 6-10 inches more depth than any wall-mounted cab can provide.
Unless you have the foresight to use a spoofer or - even better - use a throw-away USB wi-fi dongle, your MAC address will show up in the router's DHCP client log until the lease expires.
Boom, headshot.
Some colleges are becoming more cognizant of the fact that not everyone who works in computers is necessarily a full-time programmer.
My college started offering a 'Network & Information Systems' major the year that I started. Basically a big fat injection of Unix-like operating systems, NOC engineering, databases, and even a big chunk of programming thrown into the mix. No Calculus. Other colleges are pursuing this trend as well.
Anectodally, I'd say there absolutely is a difference. I completed college in 2008, intensely aware of that fact that although I took courses in FreeBSD, mySQL and such that I would get eaten alive by anyone who works professionally in Unix-like OSes and databases. I'm surprised to hear business students feel differently about their field of study.
The solution in my case was to be vocal about how little I know - though I do know a lot- and my desire to yield to and learn from people with experience.
"When I need to find something out, I just go out and find somebody that knows more than me, and I go and I ask them. Sometimes I ask pretty hard." Marv, Sin City
Leave certifications to CPR and Scuba Divers.
Let's not forget that vendor certification is a spectacularly profitable source of income. A 2-3 day vendor boot camp is comparable in cost to weeks of lectures, labs and homework assignments of a college course. That is of course fine, it is your money to spend. Where I take issue is where individuals start appending certifications to their Outlook and forum signatures like it's a goddamn PhD. I've shown MCSA's how to change the BIOS boot order and CCNA's how to burn a CD.
To me, certifications in how they apply to the individual shows that the rote memorization is there, but the passion is not.
W.... what? Boston may be "full of itself" in regards to sports, but I had landed a sysadmin job before I even graduated late last year, after only a month of job searching. Even my brother landed a sysadmin job a week after being laid off. If you're intelligent enough to compete with the many local tech school grads and like working in IT, Boston is where you want to go.
And before you complain about real estate prices there, do bear in mind that you don't have to suffer through tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and the last major hurricane we had was a gust of wind compared to what Floridians routinely deal with.
Clearly you've never been to Boston. Red Sox fans are just drunks, but for the most part relatively harmless. Meanwhile, you can't put on a Sox hat and walk three blocks in NYC without being accosted. I know from firsthand experience; last time I was in NYC, a complete stranger bloodied my nose in front of the Roosevelt, screaming "Go back to Boston." So I did!
But they make sure to ship it with a Vista sticker anyway, just to make it that much more of an annoyance when you want to wipe the crapware-laden drive and build a ghost image from scratch.
Asus has a few motherboards out there that offer an instant-on OS that'll take you to a web browser, skype client and a few other goodies. You aren't up in a *second* but it's pretty nice.
Why should the government still be obligated to assist everyone at this stage in the game? The coupon program dried up; tough noogies, you've only had nearly a year to apply for one. If you needed the discount that badly, then you should have taken 2 minutes to apply earlier. And if you can't muster up the cash to rub two 20's together, your ability to watch television should not be anywhere on your radar at the moment.
There's a little more to it than that. Interior designers choose which lighting types to use for certain contexts based on their color rendering index, which is - basically - a ranking given to certain lights based on how close they can get surfaces to look as though they're being illuminated by a bright sun. (There's a lot more to it - in fact, that's so vague it's almost incorrect - but I'll move on.)
The long and short of it is traditional incandescent bulbs have a very high rating, while LEDs are rather low - for the time being - and CFLs are somewhere in between. This is why one of the only rooms of a traditional home that CFLs are very rarely found is the bathroom, and why LEDs today are strictly used for utility purposes where coloring is not important.
Well, yeah, augmenting data can produce more reliable results than better algorithms. If a legion of film buffs went through every single film record on Netflix's database and assigned "recommendable" films to it, then went and looked up the rental history of every Netflix user and assigned them individual recommendations, you would probably end up with a recommendation system that beats any algorithm. The dataset here would be ENORMOUS. But the reason algorithms exist is so that doesn't have to happen.
i like turtles
I have always felt a moderate level of disdain for the majority of arts students. (but not all, of course. Interior Design - as much flak as it takes - is basically a mix of graphic design and architecture.) In, say, a computer science course, you can spend a large chunk of the entire semester learning one complex concept. Like, I don't know... all the nooks and crannies of a Turing Machine.
Arts students, meanwhile, replace complexity in their studies with massive amounts of repetitive work. You can score straight A's in pursuing a BA so long as you spend a ton of time making your work look the most presentable and creative. Not even remotely so for a BS; if your head is in the right place and you can understand these new concepts quickly, you can coast through your courses with minimal work.
This is tough. My girlfriend's grandmother is a 'professional' astrologist, and my mom is a big believer in psychics and takes her to see them all the time. Whenever either of these tricksters gets my girlfriend to believe something about our relationship, like, I don't know... tough times being ahead for us, I get super-pissed. It's one thing for them to tell you cutesy snippets of information along the lines of 'oooh, you're going to win the lottery.' But as soon as they cross into my relationship, that's where I draw the line - and unfortunately, that tends to be their favorite place to tread. It inevitably leads to me calling her beliefs stupid.
So yeah, I guess the my girlfriend's psychic is right when she says tough times are ahead for us. She's going to come home and tell me that the psychic said our relationship is in trouble, and I'm going to get angry at her for opening the sanctity of our relationship to some wackjob with a crystal ball.
That's pretty much what I did. I've been doing dev-related work on the side for several years, and started out in college as a computer science major. During my junior year I pretty much hit a brick wall with the heavy math and science courses and found that it was not worth the effort and subsequent risk of having to retake courses. Pair that up with the fact that these courses bore no relevance to the major, and I basically decided to kiss CS goodbye.
I switched over to Networking & IS, and I'll have my degree in August. I took a lot of flak from my former CS colleagues, but I feel that the major I've switched into offers a course load that is more relevant to the major itself. All of the heavy math and science courses on my horizon have been replaced with networking seminars, Cisco classes and database management projects.
Now I am interviewing for sysadmin jobs and I already have 2 employers asking me to come aboard. Meanwhile, my CS major friends are stuck doing software rollouts. I could not be happier with my decision.
Easy mode on the Eee is pretty lousy, but it can be circumvented into full desktop mode pretty easily by installing, like, two packages from Asus's own repository. I run a KDE interface on it with Beryl installed and it looks and works like a champ.
I've been running Vista on my main desktop on and off for about a year, and it performs wonderfully on rather modest specs. I've got an Athlon 64 3700+ on a Socket 754 interface, with 1.5 Gigs of Corsair ValueSelect. The only noteworthy hardware in this box is the GeForce 7900GT, but even that is getting pretty long in the tooth by today's standards.
For all intents and purposes, Vista screams across the room on this thing. Maybe it's because it's a fresh install rather than an OEM-bloated deluge of preinstalled craplets. Either way, I think it's just swell. As for whether I like XP better, really, I could flip a coin and be happy with either.
Heh, if there's one topic on which I can expect to see mounds of trolling, it's Vista.
I installed it last month on my desktop when I nuked my XP partition (FOR SCIENCE!) and was feeling adventurous with my Intel-supplied copy of Ultimate. It's actually pretty swell! There are some problems, sure, but anyone with some technical know-how can figure out how to circumvent them fairly easily. (Hey, that sounds like Linux.)
I think the completely revamped Add New Hardware wizard and Problem Center is what cinches it. All of my mainboard, pci and peripheral drivers were installed after one run of Windows update. And because I was disinclined to go dig up the p2k or Moto drivers for my U6 PEBL, I just plugged in my phone and the dialog took me to directly to the Motorola page I could download them from.
The recovery disk will almost certainly blow away anything else that's on the system - potentially including other partitions containing other OS installations. Whereas a straight Windows install can be instructed not to do this. Pretty vital if you need to restore data. IMHO I think it's pretty stupid to expect the manufacturer to provide you with data recovery tools for when you fail to back up your data.
If the OEM provides a recovery disk, chances are the only way to get hold of a genuine, plain Windows install CD which eliminates the first two problems is to go out and buy a retail copy of Windows. Which is pretty galling when you look at the invoice for the PC and see that you've already bought Windows, you should have no need to buy it again. Caveat emptor. Some OEMs provide a bona-fide Windows CD with their machines, and one need only ask a sales rep from the manufacturer as to which recovery media will come with their new box. Last time I checked, Alienware, Dell and Gateway sell their machines with real Windows discs. HP also provides them with their commercial line of PCs.
You're getting recovery discs confused with recovery partitions. A recovery disc from any of the major OEMs always has the OS or OS installation script on it as of like 4 years ago. Granted, you didn't always get a recovery disc with a new machine until OEMs had you start burning your own, but the discs can always get you back up and running from scratch.
When I worked in Geek Squad hell, I never had a problem reinstalling the OS on a machine after the hard drive failed unless the person didn't have recovery media, which was usually their own fault. And even then, all they had to do was order a new set from the manufacturer.
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I've handled this exact same issue. I work for a property management company and have wall-mounted half-racks with big, 4U Bosch DVR's at quite a few facilities. (These are basically rack-mounted mid-tower PCs with a steel front panel and a mobo that accepts the camera feeds.) We use a garden variety wall cab which consists of a huge, huge wall bracket with the cabinet attached on a hinge for rear access.
Weight concerns? These DVRs weigh a TON; about the same as a 4U server stacked with hard drives. It's a bit of a snug fit in the back, but they've been mounted and running for years.
That being said, you most definitely can mount servers in a wallmount cab, depending on their form factor. Specifically, you're pretty much limited to mid tower servers that can be converted to rackmount. You most definitely cannot mount most servers advertised as 'rackmount' due their tendency to have a lot of depth. (Unless you're talking about SuperMicro or something.) An HP DL180, for example, will need around 6-10 inches more depth than any wall-mounted cab can provide.
So there you go.
Unless you have the foresight to use a spoofer or - even better - use a throw-away USB wi-fi dongle, your MAC address will show up in the router's DHCP client log until the lease expires. Boom, headshot.
Some colleges are becoming more cognizant of the fact that not everyone who works in computers is necessarily a full-time programmer.
My college started offering a 'Network & Information Systems' major the year that I started. Basically a big fat injection of Unix-like operating systems, NOC engineering, databases, and even a big chunk of programming thrown into the mix. No Calculus. Other colleges are pursuing this trend as well.
Anectodally, I'd say there absolutely is a difference. I completed college in 2008, intensely aware of that fact that although I took courses in FreeBSD, mySQL and such that I would get eaten alive by anyone who works professionally in Unix-like OSes and databases. I'm surprised to hear business students feel differently about their field of study.
The solution in my case was to be vocal about how little I know - though I do know a lot- and my desire to yield to and learn from people with experience.
"When I need to find something out, I just go out and find somebody that knows more than me, and I go and I ask them. Sometimes I ask pretty hard."
Marv, Sin City
Leave certifications to CPR and Scuba Divers.
Let's not forget that vendor certification is a spectacularly profitable source of income. A 2-3 day vendor boot camp is comparable in cost to weeks of lectures, labs and homework assignments of a college course. That is of course fine, it is your money to spend. Where I take issue is where individuals start appending certifications to their Outlook and forum signatures like it's a goddamn PhD. I've shown MCSA's how to change the BIOS boot order and CCNA's how to burn a CD.
To me, certifications in how they apply to the individual shows that the rote memorization is there, but the passion is not.
My MBP has a miserable battery life running Ubuntu.
W.... what? Boston may be "full of itself" in regards to sports, but I had landed a sysadmin job before I even graduated late last year, after only a month of job searching. Even my brother landed a sysadmin job a week after being laid off. If you're intelligent enough to compete with the many local tech school grads and like working in IT, Boston is where you want to go.
And before you complain about real estate prices there, do bear in mind that you don't have to suffer through tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and the last major hurricane we had was a gust of wind compared to what Floridians routinely deal with.
Clearly you've never been to Boston. Red Sox fans are just drunks, but for the most part relatively harmless.
Meanwhile, you can't put on a Sox hat and walk three blocks in NYC without being accosted. I know from firsthand experience; last time I was in NYC, a complete stranger bloodied my nose in front of the Roosevelt, screaming "Go back to Boston." So I did!
And now he has a brain tumor the size of a nectarine. Karma's a bitch.
But they make sure to ship it with a Vista sticker anyway, just to make it that much more of an annoyance when you want to wipe the crapware-laden drive and build a ghost image from scratch.
Man I hate OEMs
The primary function of the Cambridge police is ticketing illegally parked cars and moving bums along, so, no.
Asus has a few motherboards out there that offer an instant-on OS that'll take you to a web browser, skype client and a few other goodies. You aren't up in a *second* but it's pretty nice.
Why should the government still be obligated to assist everyone at this stage in the game? The coupon program dried up; tough noogies, you've only had nearly a year to apply for one. If you needed the discount that badly, then you should have taken 2 minutes to apply earlier. And if you can't muster up the cash to rub two 20's together, your ability to watch television should not be anywhere on your radar at the moment.
Beh
There's a little more to it than that. Interior designers choose which lighting types to use for certain contexts based on their color rendering index, which is - basically - a ranking given to certain lights based on how close they can get surfaces to look as though they're being illuminated by a bright sun. (There's a lot more to it - in fact, that's so vague it's almost incorrect - but I'll move on.)
The long and short of it is traditional incandescent bulbs have a very high rating, while LEDs are rather low - for the time being - and CFLs are somewhere in between. This is why one of the only rooms of a traditional home that CFLs are very rarely found is the bathroom, and why LEDs today are strictly used for utility purposes where coloring is not important.
And yes I am dating an interior designer.
Just wipe it with some isopropyl alcohol, it'll tear the gloss right off. Disclaimer: Don't do this
Well, yeah, augmenting data can produce more reliable results than better algorithms. If a legion of film buffs went through every single film record on Netflix's database and assigned "recommendable" films to it, then went and looked up the rental history of every Netflix user and assigned them individual recommendations, you would probably end up with a recommendation system that beats any algorithm. The dataset here would be ENORMOUS. But the reason algorithms exist is so that doesn't have to happen. i like turtles
Yes, exactly, thank you.
I have always felt a moderate level of disdain for the majority of arts students. (but not all, of course. Interior Design - as much flak as it takes - is basically a mix of graphic design and architecture.) In, say, a computer science course, you can spend a large chunk of the entire semester learning one complex concept. Like, I don't know... all the nooks and crannies of a Turing Machine.
Arts students, meanwhile, replace complexity in their studies with massive amounts of repetitive work. You can score straight A's in pursuing a BA so long as you spend a ton of time making your work look the most presentable and creative. Not even remotely so for a BS; if your head is in the right place and you can understand these new concepts quickly, you can coast through your courses with minimal work.
This is tough. My girlfriend's grandmother is a 'professional' astrologist, and my mom is a big believer in psychics and takes her to see them all the time. Whenever either of these tricksters gets my girlfriend to believe something about our relationship, like, I don't know... tough times being ahead for us, I get super-pissed. It's one thing for them to tell you cutesy snippets of information along the lines of 'oooh, you're going to win the lottery.' But as soon as they cross into my relationship, that's where I draw the line - and unfortunately, that tends to be their favorite place to tread. It inevitably leads to me calling her beliefs stupid.
So yeah, I guess the my girlfriend's psychic is right when she says tough times are ahead for us. She's going to come home and tell me that the psychic said our relationship is in trouble, and I'm going to get angry at her for opening the sanctity of our relationship to some wackjob with a crystal ball.
That's pretty much what I did. I've been doing dev-related work on the side for several years, and started out in college as a computer science major. During my junior year I pretty much hit a brick wall with the heavy math and science courses and found that it was not worth the effort and subsequent risk of having to retake courses. Pair that up with the fact that these courses bore no relevance to the major, and I basically decided to kiss CS goodbye. I switched over to Networking & IS, and I'll have my degree in August. I took a lot of flak from my former CS colleagues, but I feel that the major I've switched into offers a course load that is more relevant to the major itself. All of the heavy math and science courses on my horizon have been replaced with networking seminars, Cisco classes and database management projects. Now I am interviewing for sysadmin jobs and I already have 2 employers asking me to come aboard. Meanwhile, my CS major friends are stuck doing software rollouts. I could not be happier with my decision.
Easy mode on the Eee is pretty lousy, but it can be circumvented into full desktop mode pretty easily by installing, like, two packages from Asus's own repository. I run a KDE interface on it with Beryl installed and it looks and works like a champ.
Dude, you must be exaggerating.
I've been running Vista on my main desktop on and off for about a year, and it performs wonderfully on rather modest specs. I've got an Athlon 64 3700+ on a Socket 754 interface, with 1.5 Gigs of Corsair ValueSelect. The only noteworthy hardware in this box is the GeForce 7900GT, but even that is getting pretty long in the tooth by today's standards.
For all intents and purposes, Vista screams across the room on this thing. Maybe it's because it's a fresh install rather than an OEM-bloated deluge of preinstalled craplets. Either way, I think it's just swell. As for whether I like XP better, really, I could flip a coin and be happy with either.
Heh, if there's one topic on which I can expect to see mounds of trolling, it's Vista.
I installed it last month on my desktop when I nuked my XP partition (FOR SCIENCE!) and was feeling adventurous with my Intel-supplied copy of Ultimate. It's actually pretty swell! There are some problems, sure, but anyone with some technical know-how can figure out how to circumvent them fairly easily. (Hey, that sounds like Linux.)
I think the completely revamped Add New Hardware wizard and Problem Center is what cinches it. All of my mainboard, pci and peripheral drivers were installed after one run of Windows update. And because I was disinclined to go dig up the p2k or Moto drivers for my U6 PEBL, I just plugged in my phone and the dialog took me to directly to the Motorola page I could download them from.
I dunno, I like it.
You're getting recovery discs confused with recovery partitions. A recovery disc from any of the major OEMs always has the OS or OS installation script on it as of like 4 years ago. Granted, you didn't always get a recovery disc with a new machine until OEMs had you start burning your own, but the discs can always get you back up and running from scratch. When I worked in Geek Squad hell, I never had a problem reinstalling the OS on a machine after the hard drive failed unless the person didn't have recovery media, which was usually their own fault. And even then, all they had to do was order a new set from the manufacturer.
We *are* loony liberals. How long have you lived in this state, man?