For SQL Server, download MS SQL Express - find a few F/OSS programs that use it as a back end and start looking into backups, SQL dumps, SQL imports, detach, shrink, detach, and attach via both the UI and CLI. Also, experiment with SQL to learn Microsoft's flavor of SQL and it wouldn't hurt to compare it to MySQL and Oracle's flavors of SQL (there are various differences in data types, syntax, etc - not major but enough to completely break a straight dump and import between platforms). Also learn a little bit about tuning and database optimization.
Build a Core i7 maxed out with RAM (32GB) and install the evaluation of Windows Server and Exchange in a VM. Experiment with various scenarios, and try hosting your own domain at home (you may need to upgrade to a business internet account to get port 25 unblocked)
Maybe politeness would be you taking the time to learn both systems? I mean, you can get a sense of size without needing to convert it to metric if you have a few common things in feet to compare to . Minimum soccer field (for international play) is 330 feet. So when you see 1000 ft think "3 soccer fields."
You just made a really basic educators' mistake: you assumed audience familiarity with the subject matter. Considering this is/. after all, you should offer conversion ratios to Volkswagen car lengths, Volkswagen masses, libraries of congress data units, shit-tons, and fuck-tons. THOSE are the units of measure to which slashdotters can relate, as evidenced by many discussions on this site.
Wow, that's surprisingly similar to their recovery and optimization articles:
* Your Windows install is getting slow because of registry and MFT bloat? Fuck you. Reformat and reinstall. * What do you mean provide decent defrag utilities to fix the above? See answer above (Fuck you, in case you missed it!) * WinSxS is bloated to 8GB after spyware hit you and you want to clean it up? Fuck you. Reformat and reinstall. * Exchange Info Store won't remount? Fuck you. Reinstall and restore. * Can't restore because Microsoft Backup (and its variants) is what fucked it up in the first place? Fuck you. Reinstall, and good luck to ya. Oh, and did we say fuck you? What we really meant was fuck you with a nice splintery anthrax-covered baseball bat. * M$ SQL won't remount? Fuck you. Reinstall and restore. * Microsoft Exchange won't send or receive email? Fuck you. Reinstall. (BTW we won't tell you the correct solution is editing a reg key to reenable IPv6 because the UI (and the CLI) is fucked up and won't fix it even though it appears enabled, Exchange is hard-coded to use IPv6 localhost for internal tasks.) * Windows (MSDN build) refuses to activate, and you have to call the craptivation line and wait on hold for 20 minutes only to be scolded by the rep for having more than one instance installed, at which point you have to explain MSDN to the dimwit and be placed on hold for an additional ten minutes then finally get your activation key? Fuck You. * You multi-boot and need to repair Windows without wiping out your boot loader? Be glad we didn't dd if=/dev/zero your commie OS partitions. Oh, and by the way: Fuck you. * You complain that many if not most non-kernel Windows updates require reboots, but other OSes don't? Fuck you, and don't you dare consider such required "Maintenance Windows" as downtime. * USB reenumerates your mouse, printer, USB drive, etc. as a new unknown device when you plug it into a different port, even though every other OS behaves sanely? The reason for that is Fuck You!!
> You know what? Linux on the Desktop is a complete and utter failure, even after all this time. It's utterly unusable.
So you installed the most antiquated UI and call it a failure. I don't believe you run Linux, I believe you're just trolling. If you were serious about desktop usability you'd have installed Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, or Fedora - or considering you've been running Linux for 20 years (some of us actually HAVE been running Linux for 20 years but based on your post it is obvious you have not) you would simply have installed a more intuitive and capable desktop.
Linux is not a failure on the desktop - it is superior to both Windows and OS X in many ways. What it lacks is consistency between environments, and commercial app availability (there is still no true Photoshop, Lightroom, AutoCAD, etc. replacement on Linux unless you want to spend a whole lot of hours fucking around with WINE). Gaming isn't much of an issue any more as more and more games and gaming platforms get ported to Linux.
Seamless integration with networks is VASTLY superior in Linux than Windows, especially under KDE where you can fish:/ or smb:/ to a share directly in konqueror or dolphin, and interact with those ad-hoc mounts as if they were local folders and files. This makes it very corporate-friendly, if it weren't for all of the entrenched apps that are not available on Linux.
Classic Shell makes Windows 8 tolerable, but it doesn't fix the OS's more serious flaws. Microsoft took Windows all the way back to 1.0 by eliminating overlapping windows with the modern interface. Even with classic shell installed, that flaw is not fixed.
It's too early to know what reliability will be, as well as long-term availability, but Monoprice has introduced affordable high resolution IPS monitors:
Hopefully they will start taking sales away from Samsung, Viewsonic, Dell, et. al and cause them to take notice and dump the 1080p-panels-for-all-markets crap.
The main drawback: I have not found any 3D monitors in resolutions greater than 1080p. It would be nice to be able to get one of the monitors like above, only 3D capable for gaming and movies.
""The tech inside the 50D looks like it borrows a lot more from its higher-end siblings, like the 5D Mark II"
The ergonomics are borrowed from the single-digit cameras, as is the easily-swappable viewfinder. HOWEVER the sensor and AF are more closely related to the XXD/Rebel line than the 5D. Also, IIRC the 50D had a magnesium body.
Even in the current XXD (60D, aka "super rebel") the sensor may taken from the 7D (with fewer data lines) but the feature set (including AF) is more closely related to the XXD models than the XD models, even though the ergonomics are a mix of XXXD and XD. BTW the current XXD (60D) has a plastic body, not magnesium.
The XXD really doesn't inherit all that much from the XD bodies. Rumors indicate that might change, that the XXD is going to get better AF and the 7D is moving further upmarket, but rumors sites tend to be wrong about upcoming bodies 90% of the time.
Otherwise it's just population selection of existing genes. Which has never been demonstrated.
It has been demonstrated in humans. WARNING: politically incorrect observations follow in the next paragraph. It is not, NOT my intention to offend anyone of any race.
Ever notice how African-American males are often muscular, large boned with large lips, and African-American females tend to have wide hips (thought to be better for childbearing)? This was due to forced mating under American slavery, where (unfortunately) slaves were force-bred to reinforce traits desirable for both hard manual labor and for producing more slaves. Compare an "African-American" to recent immigrants from Africa. Note post-slavery immigrants by and large lack those traits.
Heck, have you ever noticed that races begin? Even though all people are humans, it was when the population spread out that races developed, through inbreeding reinforcing certain genetic traits among families. While going back to the first human primates every one of us is related to one another, all yellow-skinned Asians are more closely related than caucasians are to them. Olive-skinned people a little west in Asia are from the same family, red-skinned Native Americans/First Nation people are from the same family, more closely related to one another than to caucasians, and so on. Each of the races looks different, and yet we are all human, differing in only superficial ways -- which only goes to prove just how stupid racism is.
Ever notice toy sized dogs, dogs with disproportionate legs which lead to hip dysplasia, and so on? Again, this is population selection of existing genes through engineered/directed breeding to reinforce desired traits.
The same has been done with most domesticated animals - particularly horses, chickens, and cows.
I've read papers that "prove" the existence of Big Foot, Nessie, "pyramid power" and little green men at Roswell. That someone put dreck to paper doesn't make it true.
It's quite impossible to delete anything from the Internet. Once it is uploaded, it is there forever. I read that on the Internet, so it must be true.
One possibility exists though: all you need to do is intentionally clog things up, or maybe install a couple of clamps. That way, you can isolate the video and it will not be able to flow anywhere.
After all, the Internet is just a series of tubes, right?
Better yet, merge projects. Use LibreOffice as the new base and port whatever optimizations and enhancements OOo has over. Now that Oracle has washed their hands of OOo there is no "philosophical" reason not to do it.
I prefer LibreOffice over OOo myself, but I prefer either one over the user-hostile ribbon interface of Microsoft Office where it has been turned into a game of hide-and-seek.
As a Christian I am constantly appalled by idiots who cherry-pick verses out of context to support their prejudices. I don't think having a good time at a party (or at the wedding you referred to) is equivalent to being a drunkard. People who take verses to support their own biases, ignoring the context and what is actually being said make all Christians look bad.
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It's strange that this time Sony appears to be the good guy. I had high hopes for Xbox One. I'll stick with my 360 and PC games.
BTW on the Xbox One is the Kinect mandatory? Couldn't you just unplug it when it is not in active use?
Apparently the new Microsoft motto is "because fuck you"
> As somone below pointed out the hot spot for your cars internet connection, again I must ask, why do you NEED an internet connection in your car?
GPS, Rhapsody, Netflix (Don't worry, when I run Netflix the screen is out of sight), oh and did I mention GPS?
For SQL Server, download MS SQL Express - find a few F/OSS programs that use it as a back end and start looking into backups, SQL dumps, SQL imports, detach, shrink, detach, and attach via both the UI and CLI. Also, experiment with SQL to learn Microsoft's flavor of SQL and it wouldn't hurt to compare it to MySQL and Oracle's flavors of SQL (there are various differences in data types, syntax, etc - not major but enough to completely break a straight dump and import between platforms). Also learn a little bit about tuning and database optimization.
Build a Core i7 maxed out with RAM (32GB) and install the evaluation of Windows Server and Exchange in a VM. Experiment with various scenarios, and try hosting your own domain at home (you may need to upgrade to a business internet account to get port 25 unblocked)
You just made a really basic educators' mistake: you assumed audience familiarity with the subject matter. Considering this is /. after all, you should offer conversion ratios to Volkswagen car lengths, Volkswagen masses, libraries of congress data units, shit-tons, and fuck-tons. THOSE are the units of measure to which slashdotters can relate, as evidenced by many discussions on this site.
Wow, that's surprisingly similar to their recovery and optimization articles:
* Your Windows install is getting slow because of registry and MFT bloat? Fuck you. Reformat and reinstall.
* What do you mean provide decent defrag utilities to fix the above? See answer above (Fuck you, in case you missed it!)
* WinSxS is bloated to 8GB after spyware hit you and you want to clean it up? Fuck you. Reformat and reinstall.
* Exchange Info Store won't remount? Fuck you. Reinstall and restore.
* Can't restore because Microsoft Backup (and its variants) is what fucked it up in the first place? Fuck you. Reinstall, and good luck to ya. Oh, and did we say fuck you? What we really meant was fuck you with a nice splintery anthrax-covered baseball bat.
* M$ SQL won't remount? Fuck you. Reinstall and restore.
* Microsoft Exchange won't send or receive email? Fuck you. Reinstall. (BTW we won't tell you the correct solution is editing a reg key to reenable IPv6 because the UI (and the CLI) is fucked up and won't fix it even though it appears enabled, Exchange is hard-coded to use IPv6 localhost for internal tasks.)
* Windows (MSDN build) refuses to activate, and you have to call the craptivation line and wait on hold for 20 minutes only to be scolded by the rep for having more than one instance installed, at which point you have to explain MSDN to the dimwit and be placed on hold for an additional ten minutes then finally get your activation key? Fuck You.
* You multi-boot and need to repair Windows without wiping out your boot loader? Be glad we didn't dd if=/dev/zero your commie OS partitions. Oh, and by the way: Fuck you.
* You complain that many if not most non-kernel Windows updates require reboots, but other OSes don't? Fuck you, and don't you dare consider such required "Maintenance Windows" as downtime.
* USB reenumerates your mouse, printer, USB drive, etc. as a new unknown device when you plug it into a different port, even though every other OS behaves sanely? The reason for that is Fuck You!!
> As a naive individual with little to no business knowledge or training, could somebody please explain how Steve Ballmer is still CEO of Microsoft?
Board members are too afraid of flying chairs to vote him out.
> You know what? Linux on the Desktop is a complete and utter failure, even after all this time. It's utterly unusable.
So you installed the most antiquated UI and call it a failure. I don't believe you run Linux, I believe you're just trolling. If you were serious about desktop usability you'd have installed Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, or Fedora - or considering you've been running Linux for 20 years (some of us actually HAVE been running Linux for 20 years but based on your post it is obvious you have not) you would simply have installed a more intuitive and capable desktop.
Linux is not a failure on the desktop - it is superior to both Windows and OS X in many ways. What it lacks is consistency between environments, and commercial app availability (there is still no true Photoshop, Lightroom, AutoCAD, etc. replacement on Linux unless you want to spend a whole lot of hours fucking around with WINE). Gaming isn't much of an issue any more as more and more games and gaming platforms get ported to Linux.
Seamless integration with networks is VASTLY superior in Linux than Windows, especially under KDE where you can fish:/ or smb:/ to a share directly in konqueror or dolphin, and interact with those ad-hoc mounts as if they were local folders and files. This makes it very corporate-friendly, if it weren't for all of the entrenched apps that are not available on Linux.
Classic Shell makes Windows 8 tolerable, but it doesn't fix the OS's more serious flaws. Microsoft took Windows all the way back to 1.0 by eliminating overlapping windows with the modern interface. Even with classic shell installed, that flaw is not fixed.
It's too early to know what reliability will be, as well as long-term availability, but Monoprice has introduced affordable high resolution IPS monitors:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=114&cp_id=11401&cs_id=1130704
Hopefully they will start taking sales away from Samsung, Viewsonic, Dell, et. al and cause them to take notice and dump the 1080p-panels-for-all-markets crap.
The main drawback: I have not found any 3D monitors in resolutions greater than 1080p. It would be nice to be able to get one of the monitors like above, only 3D capable for gaming and movies.
""The tech inside the 50D looks like it borrows a lot more from its higher-end siblings, like the 5D Mark II"
The ergonomics are borrowed from the single-digit cameras, as is the easily-swappable viewfinder. HOWEVER the sensor and AF are more closely related to the XXD/Rebel line than the 5D. Also, IIRC the 50D had a magnesium body.
Even in the current XXD (60D, aka "super rebel") the sensor may taken from the 7D (with fewer data lines) but the feature set (including AF) is more closely related to the XXD models than the XD models, even though the ergonomics are a mix of XXXD and XD. BTW the current XXD (60D) has a plastic body, not magnesium.
The XXD really doesn't inherit all that much from the XD bodies. Rumors indicate that might change, that the XXD is going to get better AF and the 7D is moving further upmarket, but rumors sites tend to be wrong about upcoming bodies 90% of the time.
Canon uses Canon sensors.
Nikon uses Sony sensors.
Canon has issued statements declaring that Magic Lantern does not void the warranty. ...just one more reason to like Canon. :)
Until I install it, it is simultaneously a great OS and a lousy OS. I'd hate to install it and determine it is a crappy release.
That's because they're made in Britain.
It has been demonstrated in humans. WARNING: politically incorrect observations follow in the next paragraph. It is not, NOT my intention to offend anyone of any race.
Ever notice how African-American males are often muscular, large boned with large lips, and African-American females tend to have wide hips (thought to be better for childbearing)? This was due to forced mating under American slavery, where (unfortunately) slaves were force-bred to reinforce traits desirable for both hard manual labor and for producing more slaves. Compare an "African-American" to recent immigrants from Africa. Note post-slavery immigrants by and large lack those traits.
Heck, have you ever noticed that races begin? Even though all people are humans, it was when the population spread out that races developed, through inbreeding reinforcing certain genetic traits among families. While going back to the first human primates every one of us is related to one another, all yellow-skinned Asians are more closely related than caucasians are to them. Olive-skinned people a little west in Asia are from the same family, red-skinned Native Americans/First Nation people are from the same family, more closely related to one another than to caucasians, and so on. Each of the races looks different, and yet we are all human, differing in only superficial ways -- which only goes to prove just how stupid racism is.
Ever notice toy sized dogs, dogs with disproportionate legs which lead to hip dysplasia, and so on? Again, this is population selection of existing genes through engineered/directed breeding to reinforce desired traits.
The same has been done with most domesticated animals - particularly horses, chickens, and cows.
I've read papers that "prove" the existence of Big Foot, Nessie, "pyramid power" and little green men at Roswell. That someone put dreck to paper doesn't make it true.
That's because politicians read 1984 and mistake it for an instruction manual rather than a warning.
It's quite impossible to delete anything from the Internet. Once it is uploaded, it is there forever. I read that on the Internet, so it must be true.
One possibility exists though: all you need to do is intentionally clog things up, or maybe install a couple of clamps. That way, you can isolate the video and it will not be able to flow anywhere.
After all, the Internet is just a series of tubes, right?
It can't be that hard - the Internet is right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
I think Streisand Effect is the innocent man's intent.
Better yet, merge projects. Use LibreOffice as the new base and port whatever optimizations and enhancements OOo has over. Now that Oracle has washed their hands of OOo there is no "philosophical" reason not to do it.
I prefer LibreOffice over OOo myself, but I prefer either one over the user-hostile ribbon interface of Microsoft Office where it has been turned into a game of hide-and-seek.
> However they're not selling it for consumers because they don't see it as best suited for their customers.
They're reinventing it, poorly.
Agreed.
As a Christian I am constantly appalled by idiots who cherry-pick verses out of context to support their prejudices. I don't think having a good time at a party (or at the wedding you referred to) is equivalent to being a drunkard. People who take verses to support their own biases, ignoring the context and what is actually being said make all Christians look bad.