hitting somebody at 75 MPH is going to do a lot more than hurt. both parties involved will more than likely end up dead.
My point with the jackass 219 lambo guy is that he DIDN'T get caught doing it, and he DIDN'T hurt anybody in the process. What scares me is that this guy is getting prosecuted simply because he COULD have caused damages. In my opinion, penalizing people for things that they COULD have done is simply absurd. To me, this is even worse than the concept outlined in 'Minority Report'. In that movie, people were being punished for things that they WERE going to do. The guy I'm talking about isn't even given that much (a nearly 100% probability that he will kill someone). What is happening to this guy is the equivalent of pre-crime officers showing up at someone's house after the crime was supposed to have occured, finding that the would-be murderer had had a change of heart, and then proceeded to throw him in jail regardless.
A load balanced web cluster usually hosts 1 website. Almost every single major website out there runs on a cluster. What i am talking about is dynamic clustering....as in, you host 1000 websites on that cluster, and when www.foo.com is only getting a hit or two per day, it cowers back down into the corner and only uses just a little tiny bit of the resources.
Thats exactly my point. I am totally 100% behind a program that will make the streets a safer place to drive. There are lots and lots and lots of idiots out there who drive WAY too fast, weave in and out of traffic, cut each other off, follow too closely, etc. etc. Anything we can do to stop that is great. Same thing with drunk drivers...get them off the streets. I am just opposed in principal to something like a speed camera.
I am of the opinion that people should be punished for doing things that hurt society, not because they had the ABILITY to do something that could hurt society. A La me being at a party last night and literally drinking half of one beer 4 hours before I left the party and being FREAKED out when i was at a traffic light next to a cop because I'm underage. In arizona, if he had decided to pull me over and check, i would have had a mandatory jail sentence, a mandatory ignition interlock device (in car breathalyzer), and a mandatory 1 year suspension of my license. ALl of this because I am under the arbitrary age of 21 and had a trace amount of alcohol in my blood.
Whats worse is that this POSTING could probably get me in trouble. Look at the guy that recorded himself doing 219 MPH in his lambo a couple of weeks ago. The guy didn't hit anyone, he didn't hurt anybody, he didn't cause any problems of any kind...he COULD have, yes, and the guy is a jackass for that....but impounding his car and throwing him in jail because he COULD have hurt somebody? Or howabout people who get caught street racing in arizona? THEY CRUSH YOUR CAR! they don't impound it, they don't even auction it off...they crush it. You do not get to collect anything out of it, nothing....your property is seized and destroyed simply because it COULD have been used to hurt somebody.
Does anybody other than me think that our founding fathers would be upset, and ashamed of us for letting all this bullshiat happen?
I was driving home last night (101, north scottsdale arizona) and passed by some of the new speed cameras that have been put up in that area. The speed limit on the road is normally 65 MPH but it is currently at 55 because of construction. It was very late at night, and there was literally NOBODY on the road, and no construction workers of any kind. So i was driving 65 MPH...which is a completely safe speed to drive in the conditions I was in at the time. The WHOLE TIME i was driving home i was freaked out that I was going to get popped by one of these stupid things. That is a small example, obviously Howabout the fact that they set up the "surprise!" speed trap vans all over the place now in tempe, and south scottsdale? Or the fact that there are red light cameras at almost all of the intersections in tempe/scottsdale? okay thats another small example Howabout the fact that kids are getting shocked with enough electricity to knock them to the ground and incapacitate them for a few seconds when the talk back to an angry cop? Okay thats also a really small example. Howabout the fact that I think twice every time i go to a chemistry website, or a website with any types of schematics/blueprints because i just MIGHT get flagged as "suspicious" because by using information from both of those sites i could cause havoc. Yeah, thats not TOO big of a deal.
Stuff like this honestly makes me sick to my stomach.:(
The concept of the individual server is dead to me. What would make sense TO ME would be a san sitting at one logical end of the datacenter, and a big cluster of apache servers sitting at the other...
Lets say that there is a server farm hosting 1000 different websites for people to host pictures of their cats. Most of these people are not going to need a full server for their cat pictures, so lets say we have 100 web servers total. Now lets say that www.omfgmycats.com gets posted to the slashdot frontpage and the server that hosts it starts acting like it just swallowed a bottle of valium. The server goes down and all of the ad revenue that could have been generated by those pageviews is lost! OH NOES!
In MY idea, everything is virtual....in this situation, as more and more requests started coming in; www.omfgmycats.com could have started to eat more and more of the data center's available resources. If conditions allowed for it, www.omfgmycats.com could potentially be consuming 90% of the data center's resources (resources being RAM, processer cycles, power, cooling, bandwidth, etc) with the other 999 cat websites eating a combined total of 10% of the data center.
I don't know, it all makes sense in my head.....to me, we should start looking at big server farms as complete units, and not just the individual parts that make them up.
Does that make sense to anybody else? Or am i describing a type of dynamic clustering that already exists somewhere?
My workstation at work is so far and beyond anything that i have at home that replicating what i can do at my desk at home is impossible. I do mainly graphic design work, so a really big workspace is pretty important. Sure, my little tiny laptop can run gimp and scribus just fine, but it is just really really ineffective for getting any actual work done. Usually if I want/need to get work done (I really enjoy my job), I will just drive into work. Security is here 24/7...and sometimes the best work gets done in the middle of the night and on the weekends (at least for me).
So yes, I have the ABILITY to remotely log into work, but aside from the occasional session on our As/400 machine, or SSH session on one of our linux servers (which is usually just me goofing around with perl anyhow, or messing with openvpn) i don't really do ANY work from home...
my $0.02....oh, and a shameless showing-off of my workspace! Bragging;-)/i just realized i use a LOT of open soure software for work (apache, vsftpd, linux, scribus, gimp, mysql, openvpn,...(i'm sure theres more) THANKS COMMUNITY!
the point is that if you play by the rules of the game, you get a consistent result. Which is exactly why anybody who frequents actual coffee houses, i.e. not places that use burned coffee beans, will order things like a Medium Blended Chocolate Latte'. Or a "Coffee". Not a Grande Mocha frappucinno.
There are more or less agreed upon names for these things and starbucks has created their own naming scheme in an attempt to be 'hip'.
The argument that if you "play by the rules of the game, you get a consistent result" only serves to prove my point....and that is that starbucks' ridiculous naming scheme is just that, ridiculous; it is a failed attempt at being 'hip' that has both alienated and confused possible customers.
I used to repeat the order back to the customer in the Starbucks jargon while I was writing the order on the cup. So you knew exactly what they wanted, but felt the need to correct them into using starbucks' non-standard, made up bullshit naming scheme?
IF that was the case then i understand. The transaction goes more like this.
me: "I'd like a medium chocolate latte' please" them: "grande' mocha?" me: "yeah". then them: "GRANDE MOCHA!" they say loudly so the other people working can hear it.
What they're doing is being pricks about the naming of the coffee.
"B as in Bravo, C as in charlie F as in Foxtrot, S as in Seirra, 4 5 9 2 6" to which they respond: "So thats B as in Boy, C as in Karen, F as in fun, s as in Cicero? 4 5 9 2 X"?
"NO"
"B as in Bravo" "B as in boy" "c as in charlie" "C as in catwalk" "F as in foxtrot" "F as in Friendly" "S as in Sierra" "S as in Sam"
They're worse than the morons at starschmucks...."I'd like a large chocolate latte' please" "venti mocha?"
AHHHH!!!! owned by the filter! (appearantly plain old text doesn't ACTUALLY mean plain old text.
the convo should read:
him: "Hey you, its $firstname $lastname hows your morning!?" <---this is my pet peeve, the geniuses at just about every single phone company on the planet have figured out that people store telephone numbers in their address book. they linked the phone number that i get from caller id to the address book and I ALREADY KNOW WHOS CALLING!!! we're not having a polite discussion over a glass of tea! WHAT DO YOU WANT!? me: "did you need something?" hime: "I can't see the video" me: "okay, what is the error message that it is giving you? Could you go to the DVR page and tell me what it says?" him: "No i can't, when i open the internet i just get a white page....I need to be able to get on the internet to watch the video" me: "No, you shouldn't need internet access to be able to get on the DVR...its all done locally, could you please just go to the DVR page and tell me the error message" him: "no, remember, i need the internet to be able to watch the video" me: "no, you don't, the DVR sits on the local network, please just go to the DVR page and tell me the error message you are getting". him: "well, i can't...when i try to open the internet it just gives me a white page...so i can't get to it because i need the internet to get the video" me: "the DVR runs on the local network...you do NOT need internet access to watch it...its stored inside the building....the internet is for stuff that is stored outside of the building" him: "yeah, but remember...the DVR software wasn't working so i need to watch it on the internet" me: *AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH* me: "okay, check your internet settings, please go to tools->(let me interject here that after i tell him to go each menu and wait for an OKAY from him....he responds not by saying "okay", but by reading me the menu....the ENTIRE menu")internet options->connections->lan_settings. Is the box for proxy checked?" him: "No" me: "check it" him: "Okay...theres MSN, now let me try the VIDEO...yeah, there it is....see yeah i needed the internet"...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
this same guy will come into my office and demand that i come over and help him import cds into itunes, or install an updated version of flash so that he can watch videos on elfme.com....when i tell him that i'm busy with something, or that I haven't had time to do it today but its "on the list"...he laughs and sarcastically says "wow, you are just so buys all the time? work sure is stackin' up huh!?"
Guys like that are the reason most admins are alcoholics.
The worst user is a combination of the know-it-all, the know-nothing, and the entitled all rolled into one ungodly package. Yesterday morning i'm driving into work, and my blackberry gives the annoying *BLEEDEEP* of direct connect.
A little background: we have a DVR on our network that is accessible with a web-browser via *BARF* this nasty ActiveX control. It only works on IE, and only works if you're running as an admin (or with local admin privs)...wtf is wrong with developers?! WRITE FILES TO ~! THATS WHAT IT IS FOR! DO NOT CACHE THINGS IN C:\WIndows\System32\! anyway, this guy NEEDS to be able to watch the DVR...(he is a senior manager). Now, we are also running a proxy server for all outbound HTTP connections. NOtice I said *OUTBOUND*. The firewall blocks all other outbound port 80 connections...meaning you HAVE to use the proxy.
so:
him: "Hey you, its $firstname $lastname hows your morning!?" (let me interject here that after i tell him to go each menu and wait for an OKAY from him....he responds not by saying "okay", but by reading me the menu....the ENTIRE menu")internet options->connections->lan_settings. Is the box for proxy checked?" him: "No" me: "check it" him: "Okay...theres MSN, now let me try the VIDEO...yeah, there it is....see yeah i needed the internet"...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
this same guy will come into my office and demand that i come over and help him import cds into itunes, or install an updated version of flash so that he can watch videos on elfme.com....when i tell him that i'm busy with something, or that I haven't had time to do it today but its "on the list"...he laughs and sarcastically says "wow, you are just so buys all the time? work sure is stackin' up huh!?"
Guys like that are the reason most admins are alcoholics.
Isn't this the same thing as last.fm? Or Pandora? I have always wondered how last.fm hasn't been sued into oblivion; from what i've seen they have music from big-name labels.
Anybody know what the deal with that is?
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There is a much better video of what you can do with one of these suits Here
I have been saying this same thing for years with regards to IBM's AS/400 platform. Anybody who has every worked with one of these machines will tell you that they are absolutely, hands-down, the greatest database box available today.
But.
The only people running Os/400 are huge financial institutions who's annual I.T. budget ranges in the Millions of dollars. I can't get a copy of OS/400 to play with. Just can't do it. Not unless i want to spend a month's salary on it. Even then, i can't really DO anything with it (maybe have one connection to the database at a time). Now take linux/mysql. I use this combo ALL OVER THE PLACE. Any time i need to throw a database down, its a linux box with Mysql. Every. Single. Time.
Why? Because i grew up playing around in redhat, suse, mandrake, and gentoo boxes and I feel like i know linux inside and out (although i'm sure i don't). I have complete confidence in myself to order some hardware, install a distro on it, and have a database up and crunching within a day. I have NEVER tried this with an IBM product because i simply CAN'T! I can't risk that significant of a portion of my budget for a toy that I may or may not be able to get working in time.
I guess it works the same as what happened to my beloved coke machine today. They upped the price to $1.25. Nobody drinks coke anymore except the people who are REALLY addicted to it. Bastards.
We have the ability to create beautiful 3D renditions of humain beings in real time (video games). Why are some of you utterly convinced that this is a legit photo because the lighting is a little bit different in this photo than the almost identical one released before it?
Pour some Chinese slave laborers on this problem and I'll bet that you would have finished product in about a week.
What use does your blind sister have for text messages?
Or are you talking about voicemail? I guess I assumed that this hack was for txt only (thats what they show in the video)....what would be cool is if somebody could actually figure out a reliable way of telling me how many voicemails I have! My phone always says like 10-15 even though i usually have about 8.
Is it just me...or does an unbelievably fast drive that doesn't store very much data seem kindof pointless? If you are only storing really SMALL files (txt)...then a SUPER fast disk probably isn't your greatest concern.
I understand the power savings..which are awesome....but storing really small files really really quickly just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Now if this was a web server, or a database, or something like THAT...i would understand... Especially with a giant price tag like that..
With her new Mac my only support advise was "Plug in the wire that looks like a huge phone plug on the end into the only place it'll go on the back of the computer" i don't know how old your mom's old computer was, or what version of windows she was running, but DHCP is a pretty trivial thing to enable. In fact, it is enabled by default in windows....
No, Palm beat them both to the punch 10 years ago. I have read more books on my palm than on any other medium....including paper....I could literally carry a small library of books around with me in my pocket that could be easily accessed to read a few pages, or paragraphs or sentances when i got a minute or two. Waiting in line? Read a page...in the waiting room? Read a chapter....on a plane? Finish the book.
The only thing missing from the equation now is a distribution model. Amazon's got it.
The only problem now is that I don't know of anybody who would actually WANT one of these things. Believe it or not, not that many people read on a regular enough basis to justify dropping serious cash on a device that *ONLY* reads ebooks. While I probably would, to compare this thing to the iPod is, simply, ridiculous.
Why didn't the build the second "centralized" system in parallel to the one that already existed? This way, when the new system failed miserably, just flip the switch (or DNS record) back to the old servers and retool the "solution" that you were testing.....
Does anyone know of a system that works like this?
There is one master drive image that sits on a server somewhere on the Lan......every night, when there is nobody using the workstation, it gets "re-imaged"
My Documents or $home or whatever is mapped onto a server. Similar to a netboot I guess...
keep like 3 copies of the image around and MD5sum them before they go out to make sure that the master hasn't been corrupted or infected or some BS.
Added bonus is any software changes would just get done at the master image...then get moved out to the clients that night....
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hitting somebody at 75 MPH is going to do a lot more than hurt. both parties involved will more than likely end up dead.
My point with the jackass 219 lambo guy is that he DIDN'T get caught doing it, and he DIDN'T hurt anybody in the process. What scares me is that this guy is getting prosecuted simply because he COULD have caused damages. In my opinion, penalizing people for things that they COULD have done is simply absurd. To me, this is even worse than the concept outlined in 'Minority Report'. In that movie, people were being punished for things that they WERE going to do. The guy I'm talking about isn't even given that much (a nearly 100% probability that he will kill someone). What is happening to this guy is the equivalent of pre-crime officers showing up at someone's house after the crime was supposed to have occured, finding that the would-be murderer had had a change of heart, and then proceeded to throw him in jail regardless.
A load balanced web cluster usually hosts 1 website. Almost every single major website out there runs on a cluster. What i am talking about is dynamic clustering....as in, you host 1000 websites on that cluster, and when www.foo.com is only getting a hit or two per day, it cowers back down into the corner and only uses just a little tiny bit of the resources.
Thats exactly my point. I am totally 100% behind a program that will make the streets a safer place to drive. There are lots and lots and lots of idiots out there who drive WAY too fast, weave in and out of traffic, cut each other off, follow too closely, etc. etc. Anything we can do to stop that is great. Same thing with drunk drivers...get them off the streets. I am just opposed in principal to something like a speed camera.
I am of the opinion that people should be punished for doing things that hurt society, not because they had the ABILITY to do something that could hurt society. A La me being at a party last night and literally drinking half of one beer 4 hours before I left the party and being FREAKED out when i was at a traffic light next to a cop because I'm underage. In arizona, if he had decided to pull me over and check, i would have had a mandatory jail sentence, a mandatory ignition interlock device (in car breathalyzer), and a mandatory 1 year suspension of my license. ALl of this because I am under the arbitrary age of 21 and had a trace amount of alcohol in my blood.
Whats worse is that this POSTING could probably get me in trouble. Look at the guy that recorded himself doing 219 MPH in his lambo a couple of weeks ago. The guy didn't hit anyone, he didn't hurt anybody, he didn't cause any problems of any kind...he COULD have, yes, and the guy is a jackass for that....but impounding his car and throwing him in jail because he COULD have hurt somebody?
Or howabout people who get caught street racing in arizona? THEY CRUSH YOUR CAR! they don't impound it, they don't even auction it off...they crush it. You do not get to collect anything out of it, nothing....your property is seized and destroyed simply because it COULD have been used to hurt somebody.
Does anybody other than me think that our founding fathers would be upset, and ashamed of us for letting all this bullshiat happen?
:(
I was driving home last night (101, north scottsdale arizona) and passed by some of the new speed cameras that have been put up in that area. The speed limit on the road is normally 65 MPH but it is currently at 55 because of construction. It was very late at night, and there was literally NOBODY on the road, and no construction workers of any kind. So i was driving 65 MPH...which is a completely safe speed to drive in the conditions I was in at the time. The WHOLE TIME i was driving home i was freaked out that I was going to get popped by one of these stupid things.
That is a small example, obviously
Howabout the fact that they set up the "surprise!" speed trap vans all over the place now in tempe, and south scottsdale? Or the fact that there are red light cameras at almost all of the intersections in tempe/scottsdale?
okay thats another small example
Howabout the fact that kids are getting shocked with enough electricity to knock them to the ground and incapacitate them for a few seconds when the talk back to an angry cop?
Okay thats also a really small example.
Howabout the fact that I think twice every time i go to a chemistry website, or a website with any types of schematics/blueprints because i just MIGHT get flagged as "suspicious" because by using information from both of those sites i could cause havoc.
Yeah, thats not TOO big of a deal.
Stuff like this honestly makes me sick to my stomach.
The concept of the individual server is dead to me. What would make sense TO ME would be a san sitting at one logical end of the datacenter, and a big cluster of apache servers sitting at the other...
Lets say that there is a server farm hosting 1000 different websites for people to host pictures of their cats. Most of these people are not going to need a full server for their cat pictures, so lets say we have 100 web servers total. Now lets say that www.omfgmycats.com gets posted to the slashdot frontpage and the server that hosts it starts acting like it just swallowed a bottle of valium. The server goes down and all of the ad revenue that could have been generated by those pageviews is lost! OH NOES!
In MY idea, everything is virtual....in this situation, as more and more requests started coming in; www.omfgmycats.com could have started to eat more and more of the data center's available resources. If conditions allowed for it, www.omfgmycats.com could potentially be consuming 90% of the data center's resources (resources being RAM, processer cycles, power, cooling, bandwidth, etc) with the other 999 cat websites eating a combined total of 10% of the data center.
I don't know, it all makes sense in my head.....to me, we should start looking at big server farms as complete units, and not just the individual parts that make them up.
Does that make sense to anybody else? Or am i describing a type of dynamic clustering that already exists somewhere?
Thanks :)
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My workstation at work is so far and beyond anything that i have at home that replicating what i can do at my desk at home is impossible. I do mainly graphic design work, so a really big workspace is pretty important. Sure, my little tiny laptop can run gimp and scribus just fine, but it is just really really ineffective for getting any actual work done. Usually if I want/need to get work done (I really enjoy my job), I will just drive into work. Security is here 24/7...and sometimes the best work gets done in the middle of the night and on the weekends (at least for me).
;-) /i just realized i use a LOT of open soure software for work (apache, vsftpd, linux, scribus, gimp, mysql, openvpn, ...(i'm sure theres more) THANKS COMMUNITY!
So yes, I have the ABILITY to remotely log into work, but aside from the occasional session on our As/400 machine, or SSH session on one of our linux servers (which is usually just me goofing around with perl anyhow, or messing with openvpn) i don't really do ANY work from home...
my $0.02....oh, and a shameless showing-off of my workspace! Bragging
There are more or less agreed upon names for these things and starbucks has created their own naming scheme in an attempt to be 'hip'.
The argument that if you "play by the rules of the game, you get a consistent result" only serves to prove my point....and that is that starbucks' ridiculous naming scheme is just that, ridiculous; it is a failed attempt at being 'hip' that has both alienated and confused possible customers.
awesome!
IF that was the case then i understand. The transaction goes more like this.
me: "I'd like a medium chocolate latte' please"
them: "grande' mocha?"
me: "yeah".
then
them: "GRANDE MOCHA!" they say loudly so the other people working can hear it.
What they're doing is being pricks about the naming of the coffee.
the worst are those bastards at dell:
My express service tag is:
"B as in Bravo, C as in charlie F as in Foxtrot, S as in Seirra, 4 5 9 2 6" to which they respond:
"So thats B as in Boy, C as in Karen, F as in fun, s as in Cicero? 4 5 9 2 X"?
"NO"
"B as in Bravo"
"B as in boy"
"c as in charlie"
"C as in catwalk"
"F as in foxtrot"
"F as in Friendly"
"S as in Sierra"
"S as in Sam"
They're worse than the morons at starschmucks...."I'd like a large chocolate latte' please" "venti mocha?"
"What?"
bastards.
AHHHH!!!! owned by the filter! (appearantly plain old text doesn't ACTUALLY mean plain old text.
the convo should read:
him: "Hey you, its $firstname $lastname hows your morning!?" <---this is my pet peeve, the geniuses at just about every single phone company on the planet have figured out that people store telephone numbers in their address book. they linked the phone number that i get from caller id to the address book and I ALREADY KNOW WHOS CALLING!!! we're not having a polite discussion over a glass of tea! WHAT DO YOU WANT!?
me: "did you need something?"
hime: "I can't see the video"
me: "okay, what is the error message that it is giving you? Could you go to the DVR page and tell me what it says?"
him: "No i can't, when i open the internet i just get a white page....I need to be able to get on the internet to watch the video"
me: "No, you shouldn't need internet access to be able to get on the DVR...its all done locally, could you please just go to the DVR page and tell me the error message"
him: "no, remember, i need the internet to be able to watch the video"
me: "no, you don't, the DVR sits on the local network, please just go to the DVR page and tell me the error message you are getting".
him: "well, i can't...when i try to open the internet it just gives me a white page...so i can't get to it because i need the internet to get the video"
me: "the DVR runs on the local network...you do NOT need internet access to watch it...its stored inside the building....the internet is for stuff that is stored outside of the building"
him: "yeah, but remember...the DVR software wasn't working so i need to watch it on the internet"
me: *AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH*
me: "okay, check your internet settings, please go to tools->(let me interject here that after i tell him to go each menu and wait for an OKAY from him....he responds not by saying "okay", but by reading me the menu....the ENTIRE menu")internet options->connections->lan_settings. Is the box for proxy checked?"
him: "No"
me: "check it"
him: "Okay...theres MSN, now let me try the VIDEO...yeah, there it is....see yeah i needed the internet"...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
this same guy will come into my office and demand that i come over and help him import cds into itunes, or install an updated version of flash so that he can watch videos on elfme.com....when i tell him that i'm busy with something, or that I haven't had time to do it today but its "on the list"...he laughs and sarcastically says "wow, you are just so buys all the time? work sure is stackin' up huh!?"
Guys like that are the reason most admins are alcoholics.
The worst user is a combination of the know-it-all, the know-nothing, and the entitled all rolled into one ungodly package. Yesterday morning i'm driving into work, and my blackberry gives the annoying *BLEEDEEP* of direct connect.
A little background: we have a DVR on our network that is accessible with a web-browser via *BARF* this nasty ActiveX control. It only works on IE, and only works if you're running as an admin (or with local admin privs)...wtf is wrong with developers?! WRITE FILES TO ~! THATS WHAT IT IS FOR! DO NOT CACHE THINGS IN C:\WIndows\System32\!
anyway, this guy NEEDS to be able to watch the DVR...(he is a senior manager). Now, we are also running a proxy server for all outbound HTTP connections. NOtice I said *OUTBOUND*. The firewall blocks all other outbound port 80 connections...meaning you HAVE to use the proxy.
so:
him: "Hey you, its $firstname $lastname hows your morning!?" (let me interject here that after i tell him to go each menu and wait for an OKAY from him....he responds not by saying "okay", but by reading me the menu....the ENTIRE menu")internet options->connections->lan_settings. Is the box for proxy checked?"
him: "No"
me: "check it"
him: "Okay...theres MSN, now let me try the VIDEO...yeah, there it is....see yeah i needed the internet"...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
this same guy will come into my office and demand that i come over and help him import cds into itunes, or install an updated version of flash so that he can watch videos on elfme.com....when i tell him that i'm busy with something, or that I haven't had time to do it today but its "on the list"...he laughs and sarcastically says "wow, you are just so buys all the time? work sure is stackin' up huh!?"
Guys like that are the reason most admins are alcoholics.
how do i deal with a user like THAT?
Isn't this the same thing as last.fm? Or Pandora? I have always wondered how last.fm hasn't been sued into oblivion; from what i've seen they have music from big-name labels.
Anybody know what the deal with that is?
There is a much better video of what you can do with one of these suits Here
I have been saying this same thing for years with regards to IBM's AS/400 platform. Anybody who has every worked with one of these machines will tell you that they are absolutely, hands-down, the greatest database box available today.
But.
The only people running Os/400 are huge financial institutions who's annual I.T. budget ranges in the Millions of dollars. I can't get a copy of OS/400 to play with. Just can't do it. Not unless i want to spend a month's salary on it. Even then, i can't really DO anything with it (maybe have one connection to the database at a time).
Now take linux/mysql. I use this combo ALL OVER THE PLACE. Any time i need to throw a database down, its a linux box with Mysql. Every. Single. Time.
Why?
Because i grew up playing around in redhat, suse, mandrake, and gentoo boxes and I feel like i know linux inside and out (although i'm sure i don't). I have complete confidence in myself to order some hardware, install a distro on it, and have a database up and crunching within a day.
I have NEVER tried this with an IBM product because i simply CAN'T! I can't risk that significant of a portion of my budget for a toy that I may or may not be able to get working in time.
I guess it works the same as what happened to my beloved coke machine today. They upped the price to $1.25. Nobody drinks coke anymore except the people who are REALLY addicted to it.
Bastards.
We have the ability to create beautiful 3D renditions of humain beings in real time (video games). Why are some of you utterly convinced that this is a legit photo because the lighting is a little bit different in this photo than the almost identical one released before it?
Pour some Chinese slave laborers on this problem and I'll bet that you would have finished product in about a week.
What use does your blind sister have for text messages?
Or are you talking about voicemail? I guess I assumed that this hack was for txt only (thats what they show in the video)....what would be cool is if somebody could actually figure out a reliable way of telling me how many voicemails I have! My phone always says like 10-15 even though i usually have about 8.
Is it just me...or does an unbelievably fast drive that doesn't store very much data seem kindof pointless? If you are only storing really SMALL files (txt)...then a SUPER fast disk probably isn't your greatest concern.
I understand the power savings..which are awesome....but storing really small files really really quickly just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Now if this was a web server, or a database, or something like THAT...i would understand...
Especially with a giant price tag like that..
No, Palm beat them both to the punch 10 years ago. I have read more books on my palm than on any other medium....including paper ....I could literally carry a small library of books around with me in my pocket that could be easily accessed to read a few pages, or paragraphs or sentances when i got a minute or two. Waiting in line? Read a page...in the waiting room? Read a chapter....on a plane? Finish the book.
The only thing missing from the equation now is a distribution model. Amazon's got it.
The only problem now is that I don't know of anybody who would actually WANT one of these things. Believe it or not, not that many people read on a regular enough basis to justify dropping serious cash on a device that *ONLY* reads ebooks. While I probably would, to compare this thing to the iPod is, simply, ridiculous.
Why didn't the build the second "centralized" system in parallel to the one that already existed? This way, when the new system failed miserably, just flip the switch (or DNS record) back to the old servers and retool the "solution" that you were testing.....
that brings another point to mind...
DIDN'T THEY TEST THE FREAKING THING!?
Does anyone know of a system that works like this?
..every night, when there is nobody using the workstation, it gets "re-imaged"
There is one master drive image that sits on a server somewhere on the Lan....
My Documents or $home or whatever is mapped onto a server. Similar to a netboot I guess...
keep like 3 copies of the image around and MD5sum them before they go out to make sure that the master hasn't been corrupted or infected or some BS.
Added bonus is any software changes would just get done at the master image...then get moved out to the clients that night....
kindof a netboot + SAN i think...
does anybody do this?
TFA didn't really explain the colossus that well:
Wiki link for those who are interested.