Wow, just imagine all the messages you can get from the Yahoo sex bots, Viagra peddlers, and home loan sharks! And guess what, you'll probably get to pay for receiving each message!
We implemented a system that seems to work really well.
1) Went to an on-call system. Only problem is that one guy of the 4 man team is incompetent so you end up walking him through his calls half the time. But it's only half the time not all your time. 2) The CIO has a meeting twice a week with all the department heads. They are each allow 2 TOP project priorities and 3 MINOR project priorities. The list is compiled by them and is publicly posted on the intranet. Policy is, if it's not one of the top 5 it doesn't get worked on. 3) All calls, regardless of what the problem is, go through the help desk. If there is a company wide outage of one service or another, the help desk manager calls the dept. heads in #2 above and posts it to the intranet which definitely reduces calls. 4) No such thing as a walk-up. We have those little peep holes on our dept. doors which are protected by card swipers. Only the people that work in the room can open the door. If it's not one of us, we don't open it. 5) If you're not in the haven and get hit with a question, the standard answer is "Call the help desk". You have to have a management team that supports you though when people complain that you're unfriendly or not helpful. In our case they do. 6) Never have more than one admin work on one problem. It drives me absolutely insane when I see an Admin working on something and another looking on making comments. Total waste of resources! 7) Monitoring tools are the shit! HP Openview, Perl and Cron are your best friends! 8) The help desk manages all the backup processes. That is not an Admin level function unless there is a problem.
There are some more, but these are the ones that helped us the most.
Ok, I looked this up in the German laws. I could only find it in German so I won't bother with a link.
Apparently, there has always been an absolute right of a person to protect their honor, reputation, and likeness. However, in 1954 it was written into German law. "Persönlichkeit Rechte" "Personal Rights"
The laws are extremely long and complicated but I was able to find a summary at www.anwalt.de. Anwalt is German for attorney. It would seem that the first initial of the last name is used in order to protect the identity of persons in many situations.
In this case, a legal matter, it's used to protect the person directly involved in the case so that they can't be targeted by vigilantes or snuffing a witness. It can also be admitted to protect the identity of the family members as well.
I have also seen this applied to people who have already been convicted so I'm not sure what all the details are concerning when a full last name may or may not be used in public media. I have seen TV reports where the person was sentenced and the news reported the sentencing using only the initial.
I am currently implementing VMWare in our company. We are a development house and the advantages of VMs on high end boxes are a really good solution for us. At least I think so right now. We predefine VMs with certain patch levels, service packs, software versions, etc... and take snapshots. The plan is to move from about 60 servers of various platform types, Linux, Solaris, Winblows, to 6 running VMs. We bought a whole mess of SATA Raid storage to back up the VMs.
Of course none of our production servers are moving to VMs, but for the development department I think it's a great idea and so do the code monkeys. For bug cleaning it just makes sense.
It's also great for our customers because we can quickly create a VM that matches their exact configuration. This makes it easy to test customer reported problems with a duplicate of the system that our customers are running. Sweet!
Time will tell but IMHO I think it will work out very well for us.
I don't understand the dangerous comment? I was there in 1994 when I was in the Marines and it didn't seem dangerous to me at all. The people were actually very friendly and the diving is awesome.
They did warn us not to go anywhere alone but there was some kind of civil war going on at the time. That was nowhere near Papua though.
I moved to Germany about a year and a half ago. I don't see this as being a valuable service due to the mindset of most people I know. Outwardly, Germans are all about "There are rules, you will follow the rules, or you will suffer!". But inwardly, they are all about getting something for free.
With massive unemployment, lowering wages, losing benefits, union breaking, and exporting businesses to the Eastern European countries on a daily basis, I don't see this becoming either popular or successful.
Most Germans that I know don't buy DVDs. Hell, a lot of them don't even watch TV except for the evening news.
The ones that do have broadband at home are deeply into eDonkey. If they really want something on DVD that's where they look first.
Using the internet to disperse what you want people to see and read is one thing. But if you observe any recent internet mapping project, a coordinated attack at maybe 10-15 key hub locations would disable the internet completely. At least for a while.
I'm sure the US, and others, have thought about such plans and may even have some operations already underway. No, I'm not a crack head victim of paranoia.
If enough key routing facilities were to go away instantly, and by that I mean major traffic handling sites, all the Cisco quality and features on the face of the planet wouldn't be able to cope. Switching facilities all over the globe would start pounding eachother to find routes that should be there but no longer are.
That equals instant outages because instead of conveniently finding massive fibre channles to talk with they only get low speed lines or no lines at all.
That equals large network bandwidth saturation in the blink of an eye. Even if an outage were to last for just a couple of days, losses would quickly be in the billions if not trillions of dollars.
A major contributor to such an oversaturation during a loss of major switching sites would be, of course, you and me. We don't want talking heads on the network news feeding us the same lines over and over and over every 5 minutes. So we all jump on our keyboards trying to get the latest and greatest updates about what's going on. This only compounds the problem of major carriers trying to recover from a major outage.
I was at the Cleveland MEPS center waiting to take my oath of enlistment in the Army watching CNN Live in the waiting room.
When the shuttle exploded, or disintegrated, whichever, I definitely had second thoughts.
As it turns out, a patriotic wave swept over me and I enlisted anyway. Just over 3 years later I was on the East/West German border when they decided to open the gates without warning. No, the wall being disassembled in Berlin was not the opening of the East. The actual border was opened several days prior to Berlin.
It's called paying your dues. Once you have some experience you can move but you need to put in the shitty time before you can land the job that doesn't suck.
I moved from the US about a hear and a half ago. I was in Hamburg last winter and everyone said that last year was pretty typical. It snowed but didn't stick. It got cold, as usual, but usual is about 32F.
This winter is a way different story. We've had snow on the ground for about 3 weeks now. It's snowing at the moment. And it's also been in the negative numbers for over a month.
I know for a fact that the prism54 module will not work with an SMC 2802W EU v2. That goes for Suse 9.1, 9.3 and 10.
Any tool you use will tell you that it's a prism duette chipset. The driver will load but can't work with the Intersil firmware. You can configure the card to hearts content, and it will act like it's going to work, but it will never turn on the radio.
The only way to make it work is with ndiswrapper.
I can't speak for other prism chips but (see model above) is a dog.
I have an SMC2802W rev 2 Prism/Duette. I tried ndiswrapper, which worked perfectly under Suse 9.3, but can't get it to work on my new PC which is Suse 10 x86_64.
Don't you have to use 64bit Windows drivers with the 64bit ndiswrapper? Or if you can get ndiswrapper to run correctly on an x86_64 bit system, can you load the 32bit Win Drivers for the card?
I would really like to go back to wireless so any suggestions would be much appreciated!
If you have the resources, then they should be used. The "free RAM" concept went out with trying to play games on DOS that required 622k free about 10 years ago. But it's funny how people still want to cling to this silly concept.
You paid for your RAM and CPU. If you're not using them completely, you're wasting money.
If you want 20 things running at once, either adjust your resource settings, or buy more RAM.
Personally, I think increased online sales would have to do with the quality and convenience. I don't have any idea how many times I downloaded some song, then when you play it back, it's something completely different than what you expected because some bonehead mislabeled it.
I don't know what bit rate you can get from legal online services but I also got really tired of the crappy 128bit rate that it seems like everyone ripped to. I recently just finished re-ripping every CD I own to 256bit and I can tell the difference. I would think you won't get all the background garbage noise in a legal download either. At least I would hope there are no (pop, crackle, fizz) in the legal downloads.
Convenience is a huge factor too. I fully understand that one person's fav band is another's most hated. However, I got sick of buying CDs because the group had a couple of tunes on the radio that I thought were really good only to get home and find out the other 8-10 tracks on the CD are crap! The ability to buy single tracks, at least to me, has value.
1) Most people that buy PCs have no idea what processor it has inside. They are generally motivated by price. If two PCs with the same performance and options are sitting next to each other at Best Buy, and one costs $150 less than the one next to it, which one will people buy? No brainer!
2) The speed of most newer computers is so ridiculously fast compared to just a couple of years ago that the processor just doesn't matter to the average PC buyer. Most people want to read their email, surf the web and store their digital photos. They are not running CAD or compiling code or editing full feature films. Even the lower end PCs available in stores these days can perform the average tasks just as well as the high end system. Therefore, again, the purchase experience will be motivated by price!
Ok, I've been considering buying an iPod. My only concern is that I'm not sure if it will work with Linux or not. I've googled the subject to death, and even though it seems possible, I'm still not sure if it will work WELL or not.
Is there anyone out there that could shed some light on Linux and iPod functionality from personal experience? Is there a loss in quality in converting the iPod formats to be usable on Linux systems? Or do you have to do something like run the iPod stuff under Wine or Cross-Over-Office?
I don't have a Windows box available, nor will I in the future, so any advice would be appreciated.
Ok, I am fully aware that this will become flame bait, but here goes!
Disclaimer: I dislike the current administration as much as anyone else, but...
I feel reasonably confident in stating that most/.ers spouting about this and that privacy right have never taken the time to read the 4th Amendment or The Patriot Act completely.
Personally, I have to admit that I didn't read them until yesterday. If you do want to read them, plan quite a bit of time because they are very long and dry reading.
In any case, I was quite suprised by some of the content. You might be too, or not, give it a try!
1) Is there a USB mp3 player that can be formatted and still be usable with some type of Linux file system? I need to buy one anyway so why not go with a model that doesn't require FAT/FAT32
2) I may be wrong but I don't think SuSE 10, which is what I use, comes with the ability to employ a FAT type file system. When I setup my system I don't recall seeing FAT as a choice for the file system format when I was slicing up my disk partitioins. If that is indeed the case, how could this patent be a "threat to Linux which can't be distributed with any patented technologies"?
SCO was my first Unix and will always hold a special place in my heart for that reason. It's just a little sad to me that they have been beaten down so low and mostly of their own doing.
In the early 90's they were fairly strong in the *nix world. Back then, SCO Unix and Informix were a team to be taken seriously until their management killed both.
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Wow, just imagine all the messages you can get from the Yahoo sex bots, Viagra peddlers, and home loan sharks! And guess what, you'll probably get to pay for receiving each message!
We implemented a system that seems to work really well.
1) Went to an on-call system. Only problem is that one guy of the 4 man team is incompetent so you end up walking him through his calls half the time. But it's only half the time not all your time.
2) The CIO has a meeting twice a week with all the department heads. They are each allow 2 TOP project priorities and 3 MINOR project priorities. The list is compiled by them and is publicly posted on the intranet. Policy is, if it's not one of the top 5 it doesn't get worked on.
3) All calls, regardless of what the problem is, go through the help desk. If there is a company wide outage of one service or another, the help desk manager calls the dept. heads in #2 above and posts it to the intranet which definitely reduces calls.
4) No such thing as a walk-up. We have those little peep holes on our dept. doors which are protected by card swipers. Only the people that work in the room can open the door. If it's not one of us, we don't open it.
5) If you're not in the haven and get hit with a question, the standard answer is "Call the help desk". You have to have a management team that supports you though when people complain that you're unfriendly or not helpful. In our case they do.
6) Never have more than one admin work on one problem. It drives me absolutely insane when I see an Admin working on something and another looking on making comments. Total waste of resources!
7) Monitoring tools are the shit! HP Openview, Perl and Cron are your best friends!
8) The help desk manages all the backup processes. That is not an Admin level function unless there is a problem.
There are some more, but these are the ones that helped us the most.
Ok, I looked this up in the German laws. I could only find it in German so I won't bother with a link.
Apparently, there has always been an absolute right of a person to protect their honor, reputation, and likeness. However, in 1954 it was written into German law. "Persönlichkeit Rechte" "Personal Rights"
The laws are extremely long and complicated but I was able to find a summary at www.anwalt.de. Anwalt is German for attorney. It would seem that the first initial of the last name is used in order to protect the identity of persons in many situations.
In this case, a legal matter, it's used to protect the person directly involved in the case so that they can't be targeted by vigilantes or snuffing a witness. It can also be admitted to protect the identity of the family members as well.
I have also seen this applied to people who have already been convicted so I'm not sure what all the details are concerning when a full last name may or may not be used in public media. I have seen TV reports where the person was sentenced and the news reported the sentencing using only the initial.
Um, actually, there is stuff in the media all the time about the Nazi regime including TV, documentaries, news articles, etc...
Now back on topic, it is a German policy not to use the last name of any person involved in legal matters.
Newscaster: "Today, Santa C. was arrested on child pr0n charges in Berlin. Santa C. claims to be innocent of the crimes."
That's just the way they do things here. It seems to apply to certain other situations as well but I haven't been able to find the particulars.
Perhaps it has something to do with the public information laws or some such nonsense but I see it every night on the 6pm broadcast.
I am currently implementing VMWare in our company. We are a development house and the advantages of VMs on high end boxes are a really good solution for us. At least I think so right now. We predefine VMs with certain patch levels, service packs, software versions, etc... and take snapshots. The plan is to move from about 60 servers of various platform types, Linux, Solaris, Winblows, to 6 running VMs. We bought a whole mess of SATA Raid storage to back up the VMs.
Of course none of our production servers are moving to VMs, but for the development department I think it's a great idea and so do the code monkeys. For bug cleaning it just makes sense.
It's also great for our customers because we can quickly create a VM that matches their exact configuration. This makes it easy to test customer reported problems with a duplicate of the system that our customers are running. Sweet!
Time will tell but IMHO I think it will work out very well for us.
I don't understand the dangerous comment? I was there in 1994 when I was in the Marines and it didn't seem dangerous to me at all. The people were actually very friendly and the diving is awesome.
They did warn us not to go anywhere alone but there was some kind of civil war going on at the time. That was nowhere near Papua though.
Overall, I thought it was a pretty cool place!
How will they recharge their batteries? Will they get solar panels glued to their wings? Or are they only expected to blog for 4 hours and then die?
I moved to Germany about a year and a half ago. I don't see this as being a valuable service due to the mindset of most people I know. Outwardly, Germans are all about "There are rules, you will follow the rules, or you will suffer!". But inwardly, they are all about getting something for free.
With massive unemployment, lowering wages, losing benefits, union breaking, and exporting businesses to the Eastern European countries on a daily basis, I don't see this becoming either popular or successful.
Most Germans that I know don't buy DVDs. Hell, a lot of them don't even watch TV except for the evening news.
The ones that do have broadband at home are deeply into eDonkey. If they really want something on DVD that's where they look first.
Using the internet to disperse what you want people to see and read is one thing. But if you observe any recent internet mapping project, a coordinated attack at maybe 10-15 key hub locations would disable the internet completely. At least for a while.
I'm sure the US, and others, have thought about such plans and may even have some operations already underway. No, I'm not a crack head victim of paranoia.
Yeah, yeah, I know, redundancy, switching, alternate routing, blah blah blah.
If enough key routing facilities were to go away instantly, and by that I mean major traffic handling sites, all the Cisco quality and features on the face of the planet wouldn't be able to cope. Switching facilities all over the globe would start pounding eachother to find routes that should be there but no longer are.
That equals instant outages because instead of conveniently finding massive fibre channles to talk with they only get low speed lines or no lines at all.
That equals large network bandwidth saturation in the blink of an eye. Even if an outage were to last for just a couple of days, losses would quickly be in the billions if not trillions of dollars.
A major contributor to such an oversaturation during a loss of major switching sites would be, of course, you and me. We don't want talking heads on the network news feeding us the same lines over and over and over every 5 minutes. So we all jump on our keyboards trying to get the latest and greatest updates about what's going on. This only compounds the problem of major carriers trying to recover from a major outage.
I was at the Cleveland MEPS center waiting to take my oath of enlistment in the Army watching CNN Live in the waiting room.
When the shuttle exploded, or disintegrated, whichever, I definitely had second thoughts.
As it turns out, a patriotic wave swept over me and I enlisted anyway. Just over 3 years later I was on the East/West German border when they decided to open the gates without warning. No, the wall being disassembled in Berlin was not the opening of the East. The actual border was opened several days prior to Berlin.
It's called paying your dues. Once you have some experience you can move but you need to put in the shitty time before you can land the job that doesn't suck.
I moved from the US about a hear and a half ago. I was in Hamburg last winter and everyone said that last year was pretty typical. It snowed but didn't stick. It got cold, as usual, but usual is about 32F.
This winter is a way different story. We've had snow on the ground for about 3 weeks now. It's snowing at the moment. And it's also been in the negative numbers for over a month.
I'm in a little bit of a different boat. It seems that there are drivers available for the laptops but not for PCI cards.
In Suse 9.3 I got it working with ndiswrapper in about 5 minutes. But not in Suse 10 64 bit because there are no 64 bit drivers for my card.
All I would like to know is what card to buy that has either native linux support or Win_64 drivers that I can monkeyfuck with ndis.
I know for a fact that the prism54 module will not work with an SMC 2802W EU v2. That goes for Suse 9.1, 9.3 and 10.
Any tool you use will tell you that it's a prism duette chipset. The driver will load but can't work with the Intersil firmware. You can configure the card to hearts content, and it will act like it's going to work, but it will never turn on the radio.
The only way to make it work is with ndiswrapper.
I can't speak for other prism chips but (see model above) is a dog.
Running an OS from the Evil Empire on a Cultist piece of equipment! Wow, truly the odd couple!
I have an SMC2802W rev 2 Prism/Duette. I tried ndiswrapper, which worked perfectly under Suse 9.3, but can't get it to work on my new PC which is Suse 10 x86_64.
Don't you have to use 64bit Windows drivers with the 64bit ndiswrapper? Or if you can get ndiswrapper to run correctly on an x86_64 bit system, can you load the 32bit Win Drivers for the card?
I would really like to go back to wireless so any suggestions would be much appreciated!
If you have the resources, then they should be used. The "free RAM" concept went out with trying to play games on DOS that required 622k free about 10 years ago. But it's funny how people still want to cling to this silly concept.
You paid for your RAM and CPU. If you're not using them completely, you're wasting money.
If you want 20 things running at once, either adjust your resource settings, or buy more RAM.
my 2cent
Personally, I think increased online sales would have to do with the quality and convenience. I don't have any idea how many times I downloaded some song, then when you play it back, it's something completely different than what you expected because some bonehead mislabeled it.
I don't know what bit rate you can get from legal online services but I also got really tired of the crappy 128bit rate that it seems like everyone ripped to. I recently just finished re-ripping every CD I own to 256bit and I can tell the difference. I would think you won't get all the background garbage noise in a legal download either. At least I would hope there are no (pop, crackle, fizz) in the legal downloads.
Convenience is a huge factor too. I fully understand that one person's fav band is another's most hated. However, I got sick of buying CDs because the group had a couple of tunes on the radio that I thought were really good only to get home and find out the other 8-10 tracks on the CD are crap! The ability to buy single tracks, at least to me, has value.
1) Most people that buy PCs have no idea what processor it has inside. They are generally motivated by price. If two PCs with the same performance and options are sitting next to each other at Best Buy, and one costs $150 less than the one next to it, which one will people buy? No brainer!
2) The speed of most newer computers is so ridiculously fast compared to just a couple of years ago that the processor just doesn't matter to the average PC buyer. Most people want to read their email, surf the web and store their digital photos. They are not running CAD or compiling code or editing full feature films. Even the lower end PCs available in stores these days can perform the average tasks just as well as the high end system. Therefore, again, the purchase experience will be motivated by price!
Ok, I've been considering buying an iPod. My only concern is that I'm not sure if it will work with Linux or not. I've googled the subject to death, and even though it seems possible, I'm still not sure if it will work WELL or not.
Is there anyone out there that could shed some light on Linux and iPod functionality from personal experience? Is there a loss in quality in converting the iPod formats to be usable on Linux systems? Or do you have to do something like run the iPod stuff under Wine or Cross-Over-Office?
I don't have a Windows box available, nor will I in the future, so any advice would be appreciated.
Seriously, I put mine in the dish washer every couple months and have a backup to use while I give it plenty of time to dry out.
It works, although the numbers and letters fade after about 3 times. But then again, I'm not a peeker anyway.
Haven't tried it with a mouse yet.
Ok, I am fully aware that this will become flame bait, but here goes!
/.ers spouting about this and that privacy right have never taken the time to read the 4th Amendment or The Patriot Act completely.
Disclaimer: I dislike the current administration as much as anyone else, but...
I feel reasonably confident in stating that most
Personally, I have to admit that I didn't read them until yesterday. If you do want to read them, plan quite a bit of time because they are very long and dry reading.
In any case, I was quite suprised by some of the content. You might be too, or not, give it a try!
2cent
1) Is there a USB mp3 player that can be formatted and still be usable with some type of Linux file system? I need to buy one anyway so why not go with a model that doesn't require FAT/FAT32
2) I may be wrong but I don't think SuSE 10, which is what I use, comes with the ability to employ a FAT type file system. When I setup my system I don't recall seeing FAT as a choice for the file system format when I was slicing up my disk partitioins. If that is indeed the case, how could this patent be a "threat to Linux which can't be distributed with any patented technologies"?
SCO was my first Unix and will always hold a special place in my heart for that reason. It's just a little sad to me that they have been beaten down so low and mostly of their own doing.
In the early 90's they were fairly strong in the *nix world. Back then, SCO Unix and Informix were a team to be taken seriously until their management killed both.
Just sad, just sad.
Sadly, no matter how absolutely ridiculous, I have a feeling the US Congress will make the list for 2006.