Were I work we have a "no print" policy and just archive everything on a file server. About a year ago I had to look at purchasing a small enterprise printer that was both green in the power consumption and also in the consumables sense with cost in mind of course. The issue I had with most printers is that the drum and toner had to be replaced on a regular basis and toner print capacity was not that good. So after doing all the math we went with a Kyocera FS series laser printer with a long life ceramic drum and rather large toner carts. The up side is this printer works with OSX, Linux, BSD, Windows, you name it and the print quality is very good and isnt slow when going from a sleep mode to printing a page like many printers I reviewed. So its about 2 years on and we have used two carts and no drums versus our old HP that would be on its second drum and fourth cart. Also I have noticed our office staff as of yet have not been able to make the printer jam, a miracle considering the HP printer kept jamming every few days thanks to our ham fisted sales team.
that software and other media producers admit that they don't sell you "anything", they are in reality asking you to rent it. I think there should be a class action for fraud and misrepresentation when they try and pretend you are in reality buying anything when you are not.
or just carry a USB cable (I actually leave one at work and carry one) so you can charge your phone anywere really. If you really get desperate go to a internet cafe and plug your phone in for 1 hr and surf the net.
One of the first things that got me interested in FOSS/Linux were the install seminars and LUG's, what I am seeing here is Microsoft's cheesy take on the same concept but centralising on family etc. Were is all fails is when Jimmy the 9 year old next door uses a hacked installer he torrented of the web for Windows 7 and gives all the neighbours a free install and a spambot for life PC.
You have to be kidding me, every Telstra investor is now crying in their drink after losing 70% true net worth on their investment (net worth versus cash). They would have been better opening a cash account and getting 4.5%pa.
I recently updated to a 32Gb thumb drive and decided to partition it with a fat32 and a Ext3 partition. The logic is that if I want to share data it will be on the fat32 partition and things I dont want to share (private stuff) I put on Ext3. All the people were I work use Windows so if anyone gets their hands the thumb drive they cant read the Ext3 partition and what is on the Fat32 side really doesn't matter.
Only if your first thoughts were about images of the male anatomy. I cant comment about your sexual preferences but my thoughts were about the female anatomy.
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Why the hell do you need to give servers or any physical asset in a company names!!, it's not like they will come to you when you call out. The system we have were I work is simple, everything has a bar-code label with 2 number sequences with a space between them. The first sequence is 4 digits and designates the end of warranty period the rest is just a 6 digit sequence (numbers and characters). Simple and to the point, if you want to check who was the last person assigned that asset just look it up in the asset management database. As for names on the network for servers/workstations etc, yes we use the asset number as the machines name for login purposes etc.
We make everything from communications equipment to security lighting, kitchenware right through to aircraft parts. So back to your rant, you pay for what you get, that is no different in China as in the USA, I have seen some first class crap come out of the USA and it always is an issue of price, design and quality control. Explain to me how an automated wave soldering machine sitting in a factory in China is any different to one sitting in the USA, there is non it is an automated process. How come other countries like Japan or many European manufacturers who have factories in China dont have the same issues as many US makers, simple, US manufacturers always try game the system by cutting corners to save 1-2c per unit without considering the long term damage to their business. Short term profits for long term damage, sound familiar because that is why the US is in the economic toilet right now.
You guys still do hand soldering !! we stopped doing that about 12 years ago because it is impossible "in any factory" to get any consistency in connections with hand soldering.
A yes the old scape goat, blame the Chinese because we gave the contract to the cheapest Chinese manufacturer. The A380 also gets many of it parts made in China and they dont have these so called issues mainly because the Chinese will build a quality product if you insist on it, yes it costs more but then you get what you pay for. I work for a company that gets all it's products made in China and "we have no quality issues" because we have defined what we need and what we expect and paid the extra money to get it. It is almost as if American companies forgot the term "quality control" and "ISO standards" when it came to dealing with the Chinese because the Chinese do know about both these factors.
Oh I dont know, maybe because I send a few hundred emails a week to marketing types who like in line images and samples of end layouts "in-line" rather than having to open a second application to view a simple layout. How about another question, how will kde make me want to use Kmail in future based on the above "we all live in the 70's and only use text" comments ? How about this, how many emails out of the over 6 million emails we received last year were edited in Kmail, 0 nothing, zip, nada, we got more emails from gmail and thunderbird than Kmail (pretty easy to do when we got Zero). So way to go folks making me want to use kmail "never".
What surprises me is there is no iTunes like service for magazine and newspaper subscriptions. It would be nice to be able to click on some magazines and local/international newspapers or even a column writer and be able to view the content on my mobile/PC/portable reader . Also a nice RSS feed reader in conjunction with the service that sends me notifications when new articles are published or a magazine I have subscribed to has been released. Right now it's a mess of hundreds of websites thousands of magazines all over the place, each with their own subscription system that has it own quirks. Until the publishing industry at large creates a simple single point subscription system they are wasting their time and mine by blocking or allowing users to access their services. So for now I will just have to use Amarok and 20 odd subscribed news podcasts (automatically downloading daily) to get my daily updates as the print media havent got their act together yet. PS I havent purchased a paper in 4 years as I find paying for something when 80% of the content is irrelevant to me is stupid and a wast of resources ie paper.
WOW Kmail has in-line images welcome to 1994, I use Linux in business (not IT) and not having good html and image editing features in an email client is just "DUMB". So now I am so used to using Thunderbird that I cant see any logical reason for learning K-(crippled)-mail. Don't laugh I have been complaining about the lack of basic html support in Kmail for over 6 years, I just gave up complaining and now have assigned kmail to the failed bin of software history.
I was thinking along the same lines a few weeks back after seeing a Samsung Omnia HD mobile phone. You could have a virtual world overlapping the real one and your mobile phone becomes a window that allows one to see this virtual overlapping world. You could have virtual treasure hunts with cute virtual avatars based around a city that you can search out and ask questions and find virtual treasure like mobile phone credits etc. Everything needed is now in a mobile phone ie camera (to assist in virtual/real world overlay alignment), gps, big colour screen, motion detection. Even creepier you can have things like virtual ghosts and vampires and monsters (I can imagine the goths drooling as I type) there are no limits to what you can overlap our real world with.
Apple Guy "Halt who goes there"
Black Haxor "It is I the black haxor, I seek the finest computer coders to join me in my quest"
Apple Guy " You shall not pass"
Black Haxor "What ?"
Apple Guy "Non shall pass"
Black Haxor "I have no quarrel with you, good sir, but I must move on"
Apple Guy "Then you shall first install photoshop and make an offering at the alter of Steve and promise to buy hardware at twice the price from the lords of apple".
Black Haxor "I command you to stand aside! for I am the Black Haxor"
Apple Guy "I move for no man for I am impervious to all your tricks for I run OSX"
Black Haxor "So be it"
[Black Haxor pulls out his laptop and starts to type]
[HAH]
Apple Guy "What have you done ?"
Black Haxor "I have exploited a java script bug on your system and signed you up as the local leader for the "Pedo's Rights" association and then passed the details on to the the local parents and teachers group"
Apple Guy "what is this trickery, for such is impossible, you lie"
[a rabble of middle aged parents turn up]
Crowd "THERE HE IS, GET HIM!!"
Apple Guy "BAH! Tis but a lie"
Black Haxor "run man, they weld clubs and carry petrol containers and mean harm upon you"
Apple Guy "They do not wish me harm as my laptop colour matches my shoes, thus they come to tell me how great my karma is"
[15 minutes later the Black Haxor is staring at a smoldering pile on the ground]
Black Haxor "Sigh"
[Crosses bridge]
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From what I've observed, the Israeli government is secular as long as you are jewish
There all fixed
Were I work we have a "no print" policy and just archive everything on a file server. About a year ago I had to look at purchasing a small enterprise printer that was both green in the power consumption and also in the consumables sense with cost in mind of course. The issue I had with most printers is that the drum and toner had to be replaced on a regular basis and toner print capacity was not that good. So after doing all the math we went with a Kyocera FS series laser printer with a long life ceramic drum and rather large toner carts. The up side is this printer works with OSX, Linux, BSD, Windows, you name it and the print quality is very good and isnt slow when going from a sleep mode to printing a page like many printers I reviewed. So its about 2 years on and we have used two carts and no drums versus our old HP that would be on its second drum and fourth cart. Also I have noticed our office staff as of yet have not been able to make the printer jam, a miracle considering the HP printer kept jamming every few days thanks to our ham fisted sales team.
that software and other media producers admit that they don't sell you "anything", they are in reality asking you to rent it. I think there should be a class action for fraud and misrepresentation when they try and pretend you are in reality buying anything when you are not.
or just carry a USB cable (I actually leave one at work and carry one) so you can charge your phone anywere really. If you really get desperate go to a internet cafe and plug your phone in for 1 hr and surf the net.
One of the first things that got me interested in FOSS/Linux were the install seminars and LUG's, what I am seeing here is Microsoft's cheesy take on the same concept but centralising on family etc. Were is all fails is when Jimmy the 9 year old next door uses a hacked installer he torrented of the web for Windows 7 and gives all the neighbours a free install and a spambot for life PC.
thousands of Mum and Dad investors
You have to be kidding me, every Telstra investor is now crying in their drink after losing 70% true net worth on their investment (net worth versus cash). They would have been better opening a cash account and getting 4.5%pa.
I recently updated to a 32Gb thumb drive and decided to partition it with a fat32 and a Ext3 partition. The logic is that if I want to share data it will be on the fat32 partition and things I dont want to share (private stuff) I put on Ext3. All the people were I work use Windows so if anyone gets their hands the thumb drive they cant read the Ext3 partition and what is on the Fat32 side really doesn't matter.
Only if your first thoughts were about images of the male anatomy. I cant comment about your sexual preferences but my thoughts were about the female anatomy.
scientific proof, in colour and with close ups of the offending body parts...
I notice some people are commenting Linux or BSD etc would work on this hardware but I would have thought an OS like Tron would have been more ideal.
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Why the hell do you need to give servers or any physical asset in a company names!!, it's not like they will come to you when you call out. The system we have were I work is simple, everything has a bar-code label with 2 number sequences with a space between them. The first sequence is 4 digits and designates the end of warranty period the rest is just a 6 digit sequence (numbers and characters). Simple and to the point, if you want to check who was the last person assigned that asset just look it up in the asset management database. As for names on the network for servers/workstations etc, yes we use the asset number as the machines name for login purposes etc.
We make everything from communications equipment to security lighting, kitchenware right through to aircraft parts. So back to your rant, you pay for what you get, that is no different in China as in the USA, I have seen some first class crap come out of the USA and it always is an issue of price, design and quality control. Explain to me how an automated wave soldering machine sitting in a factory in China is any different to one sitting in the USA, there is non it is an automated process. How come other countries like Japan or many European manufacturers who have factories in China dont have the same issues as many US makers, simple, US manufacturers always try game the system by cutting corners to save 1-2c per unit without considering the long term damage to their business. Short term profits for long term damage, sound familiar because that is why the US is in the economic toilet right now.
You guys still do hand soldering !! we stopped doing that about 12 years ago because it is impossible "in any factory" to get any consistency in connections with hand soldering.
Many of the parts are of VERY low quality
A yes the old scape goat, blame the Chinese because we gave the contract to the cheapest Chinese manufacturer. The A380 also gets many of it parts made in China and they dont have these so called issues mainly because the Chinese will build a quality product if you insist on it, yes it costs more but then you get what you pay for. I work for a company that gets all it's products made in China and "we have no quality issues" because we have defined what we need and what we expect and paid the extra money to get it. It is almost as if American companies forgot the term "quality control" and "ISO standards" when it came to dealing with the Chinese because the Chinese do know about both these factors.
It's pretty obvious the planets backwards orbit is due to a drunk space bum playing pool with planets
Oh I dont know, maybe because I send a few hundred emails a week to marketing types who like in line images and samples of end layouts "in-line" rather than having to open a second application to view a simple layout. How about another question, how will kde make me want to use Kmail in future based on the above "we all live in the 70's and only use text" comments ? How about this, how many emails out of the over 6 million emails we received last year were edited in Kmail, 0 nothing, zip, nada, we got more emails from gmail and thunderbird than Kmail (pretty easy to do when we got Zero). So way to go folks making me want to use kmail "never".
What surprises me is there is no iTunes like service for magazine and newspaper subscriptions. It would be nice to be able to click on some magazines and local/international newspapers or even a column writer and be able to view the content on my mobile/PC/portable reader . Also a nice RSS feed reader in conjunction with the service that sends me notifications when new articles are published or a magazine I have subscribed to has been released. Right now it's a mess of hundreds of websites thousands of magazines all over the place, each with their own subscription system that has it own quirks. Until the publishing industry at large creates a simple single point subscription system they are wasting their time and mine by blocking or allowing users to access their services. So for now I will just have to use Amarok and 20 odd subscribed news podcasts (automatically downloading daily) to get my daily updates as the print media havent got their act together yet. PS I havent purchased a paper in 4 years as I find paying for something when 80% of the content is irrelevant to me is stupid and a wast of resources ie paper.
SCO "Cooooode.............I want to own your COOOOODE!!"
WOW Kmail has in-line images welcome to 1994, I use Linux in business (not IT) and not having good html and image editing features in an email client is just "DUMB". So now I am so used to using Thunderbird that I cant see any logical reason for learning K-(crippled)-mail. Don't laugh I have been complaining about the lack of basic html support in Kmail for over 6 years, I just gave up complaining and now have assigned kmail to the failed bin of software history.
For those not familiar with augmented reality a very recent Japanese anime series called Denno Coil is a good place to start.
I was thinking along the same lines a few weeks back after seeing a Samsung Omnia HD mobile phone. You could have a virtual world overlapping the real one and your mobile phone becomes a window that allows one to see this virtual overlapping world. You could have virtual treasure hunts with cute virtual avatars based around a city that you can search out and ask questions and find virtual treasure like mobile phone credits etc. Everything needed is now in a mobile phone ie camera (to assist in virtual/real world overlay alignment), gps, big colour screen, motion detection. Even creepier you can have things like virtual ghosts and vampires and monsters (I can imagine the goths drooling as I type) there are no limits to what you can overlap our real world with.
Apple Guy "Halt who goes there"
Black Haxor "It is I the black haxor, I seek the finest computer coders to join me in my quest"
Apple Guy " You shall not pass"
Black Haxor "What ?"
Apple Guy "Non shall pass"
Black Haxor "I have no quarrel with you, good sir, but I must move on"
Apple Guy "Then you shall first install photoshop and make an offering at the alter of Steve and promise to buy hardware at twice the price from the lords of apple".
Black Haxor "I command you to stand aside! for I am the Black Haxor"
Apple Guy "I move for no man for I am impervious to all your tricks for I run OSX"
Black Haxor "So be it"
[Black Haxor pulls out his laptop and starts to type]
[HAH]
Apple Guy "What have you done ?"
Black Haxor "I have exploited a java script bug on your system and signed you up as the local leader for the "Pedo's Rights" association and then passed the details on to the the local parents and teachers group"
Apple Guy "what is this trickery, for such is impossible, you lie"
[a rabble of middle aged parents turn up]
Crowd "THERE HE IS, GET HIM!!"
Apple Guy "BAH! Tis but a lie"
Black Haxor "run man, they weld clubs and carry petrol containers and mean harm upon you"
Apple Guy "They do not wish me harm as my laptop colour matches my shoes, thus they come to tell me how great my karma is"
[15 minutes later the Black Haxor is staring at a smoldering pile on the ground]
Black Haxor "Sigh"
[Crosses bridge]
sorry link didnt work, the Pandora wiki can be found here
You can go save your self some time and buy a Pandora with hardware specs 2-3 times better and totally open for hacking.