>>You should REALLY turn off your pc when you're not using it.
What is wrong with me using the option to sleep? The power usage between sleep and being powered off is not great compared to being powered on. On my SUSE box this is called suspend. Windows is hibernation for very low power or stand by for more power but quicker awakening.
My MacBook takes seconds to come out of sleep. SUSE takes a bit longer, but it is a 800Mhz box so that may be part of it. Windows isn't bad, but it never awakens correctly.
I think we use to do this with what was called half tracking. On my 1541 I could tell the drive to set it's alignment 1/2 a track off of normal and store data there. If everything worked write, I could double the space used. You could also do this to have a multi-format disk.
It didn't always work right and produced media that worked fine on my 1541 but not on other 1541's.
Anyway, that's my recollection. It's been how many decades ago? We use to also change the HZ of our 300 Baud modems so we could squeeze 500bps on the upload. And my Internet users say 100Mb/s isn't enough for them, wah.
Suddenlink offers 3Mb/s down 600K up here. If you use a lot of bandwidth for a while (like 30 mins) you go into a lower priority queue which drops you down to 800Kb/s download, 400K upload. If you continue to use that, you end up with your higher ports dropping to almost no bandwidth while http still runs at 600-800Kb/s.
This is empirical analysis. I don't know the true rules, but it works for me. If I set my upload limit to 16KB/s the download peers limit me to about 64KB/s (notice, B versus b) which keeps the throttles from kicking in and is fast enough for me.
I don't see anything being done with regards to excessive upload. I can cap my download speed and let my upload max out and no QoS ever seems to kick in.
I'm come from the 300BAUD MODEM days. I'm still amazed I can get this bandwidth - which could fill up my 144K floppies in a second. It's only going to get better. Fiber is coming to my neighborhood now, so watch out!
The benefit of digital is that a very week 0 or 1 should be able to be recreated because the receiver knows what a zero looks like and it knows what a one looks like and can make a pretty good guess as to what that fuzzy signal should be.
Unlike analog cassette tapes, DAT tapes keep perfect playback until deterioration. However once the tape begins to deteriorate it really quickly just quits all together. Analog tape will continue to play for a very long time and at least you will get something, even if it is very crappy.
My experience with digital TV is not like DAT though. When my TV shows I have a signal of around 80% minimum, the signal is completely useless. I have to have higher than that to get pieces of the show. Even with good signal, there are constant dropouts.
It seems to me that they are trying to compress sooo much data into such a small space, that the benefits of digital sort of go away. If the compression can't handle a lost bit here and there, which is apparently the case, then there is too much compression. The compression used should have been made to make guesses at to what the missing 0's and 1's were.
Right now, Digital TV is pretty useless to me. I have cable. If it is a clear day outside, Digital TV works decent. Night time, or clouds and I get lots of drop out. I have an expensive digital antenna with an adjustable 48dba gain and a signal display on the TV. Unless I move the antenna outside I can't get usable signal (prohibited by HOA) then I'm sticking with cable.
This is all becoming MUTE since most of what I watch is downloadable on the Internet in HD.
Exchange is a groupware product. Many people use it just for the e-mail aspect.
If you are using it mainly for e-mail, configure a rule on the Exchange server to forward your gMail account (or whatever) so you can IMAP to it.
If they support OTA iSync and you have a compatible phone, you could use the phone to Sync and then have the phone Sync to your PC. That would get you contacts and calendar items too.
>>unless you were an official dedicated contact on a particular subject you were to wipe all correspondence of more than a year old.
So I keep track of how much I paid for these $10,000+ software packages by looking at my e-mails with the bids from the last year, and previous year. Sometimes the software costs just quite a bit and I use that to get costs back down.
If I have to delete this correspondence, how am I to do that? I can't stick that information in an Excel document or write it down, as that is retaining the correspondence.
I really don't understand why I should need to delete e-mails of me asking for prices from my vendors. How is that ever going to come up in a lawsuit?
I understand they why -- IT legal doesn't want to have to shift through that data. But that's legal's problem that the legal profession created. I'm not going to suffer to make their job easier.
I do understand that you keep e-mail to just the facts. Keep opinion out of any electronic document. Anything where having a written record would be questionable gets done verbally. Not that I'm doing anything wrong, but that someone could put it in an improper context and make it look like it means something it doesn't.
It's a screwed up world we live in. A lot of people think this only applies to e-mail. eDiscovery applies to any electronic file you have. If you user saved off that e-mail as a.MSG from your IMAP server to his personal drive on his work PC, it's still discoverable. Sucks to be legal.
Really, this is all Second Life is. A 3D World Wide Web. Realms are handled by different servers. You can go to Dell or PG and see 3D models of their products. When I want to chat with tech support, I *could* go to the Dell store and do a voice chat with the Dell support guy (If they had support manning their page.) The voice chat in Second Life is pretty neat.
There are plenty of people who have products for sell in Second life. They are displayed in 2D on walls in some places, but most have the actual product sitting there on the floor which you can try before you buy.
In the past, there has been a 3D weather room where you could watch the radar in 3D. That's down last I checked.
RADAR is something that would truly shine in 3D. Not only see an X/Y view of where the jet is, but also Z with Z being altitude. If we had a 3D display too that would even be better.
I think this is something that once you start using it, like dual monitors, you really see why it's so much better. You'll find easier ways to do your work. Especially if I have better than 1024x768 graphics. If I could scroll certain windows into my systems into the background with high resolution, I could keep them in my peripheral and switch to them when I see something alerting.
Wow. That is hard. Considering OS X is based off of a BSD platform, and Linux is based on the rebuilding Unix, you would think we of all people would welcome code from other platforms. Windows shares BSD roots with it's TCP/IP stack. All documented in the WIKI's if you don't believe me. I'm all for sharing.
My MacBook Pro dual boots XP in bootcamp & Fusion, and has various *nix builds running in Fusion. I work in OS X and play on XP. Sure is nice that my games don't screw up my work environment. Should I install Spore on XP or MAC OS X running Cedega (WINE) ? Cedega removes the DRM issues but it's not going to run as nice as XP native. Since XP's a gaming side, do I really care about the RING level DRM? At least I have the options:)
log.txt (list of your switches / routers) 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2
file1.bat for/f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10" %%i in (log.txt) do call distcmd.bat %%i %%j %%k %%l %%m %%n %%o %%p %%q %%r
distcmd.bat (change public to be your snmp community snmputil is from net-snmp-5.4.1-3.win32.exe / free) snmputil walk %1 public.1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.1 >> %1.MAC.log snmputil walk %1 public.1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.2 >> %1.PORT.log
Now you have a list of every port and ever MAC that runs through that port (don't forget about uplink ports having all MACs listed to them.)
In the file you'll have to do some snmp decimal to hex conversions; MAC is 00:17:a4:d7:31:99 SNMP walking gives a result of which is the same MAC, but converted to SNMP notation this becomes.17.4.3.1.1.0.23.164.215.49.153 Part of this is the MAC address in decimal.0.23.164.215.49.153 Put those number in calc and convert each to a hex and you get the mac address in hex.
So in the output of these batch files Variable =.17.4.3.1.2.0.64.140.109.101.123 Value = Integer32 24
Means that on port 24 there is MAC address 00:40:8c:6d:65:7b which is the.0.64.140.109.101.123 converted to Hex through Calc.
Anyway, ping the device, arp -a and locate the MAC address, dump the above against all your routers/switches, convert your MAC address you are searching for to SNMP decimal, and search the.txt files for a switch with a port where that is the only MAC on the port and you've found the device (or a hub between the device.)
You really don't need to defrag your SSD / USB flash drives. Just as there are defrag utilities for your hard drives, there are defrag utilities for your RAM in your PC. Last time I ran one of those was perhaps 10 years ago. Do a Google search for RAM Defrag and you will find these. The time's I've done it with RAM where to clean up after programs with memory leaks, not for the real defrag use.
The fact is in very few cases do you ever want to do this. The benefits just are not there to justify an early end of life for the drive. Most flash drives don't really store the data where you think they do anyway. They use logic to spread read/writes across the drive to prevent wear. http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=wear-leveling
I have a 16GB flash drive I run VMWare guests on. I don't see any speed difference if the VMDK file is severely fragmented, or completely defragged. There may be rare exceptions to this, but don't defrag your flash drives / SSD's.
Eve-Online has my vote. There is nothing better than hearing nothing but the sound of my mining lasers drone on for hours and hours as I jet can mine.
Of course, there is the occasional interruption of a belt rat, which my drones make quick work of. Then it's back to that constant Bzzzzzz Bzzzzzzzzz. I even purchased wireless headphones so I can AFK listen:)
We have ~600 PC's with Office 2003 and XP. We have proper licenses for these. As a group we have many hundreds of hours working with Microsoft to get the licensing happy. All of a sudden they don't like 10 of our Office 2003 keys (we don't have a VLK.) or 10 of our OEM XP installs. Hundreds of hours.
All for what? This should make Windows cost less, right? Less piracy so the price goes down?
Anyway, my PC at work is Windows. But my PC is a MacBook Pro. I've given up on Windows. I hardly ever use it anymore except at work. I find it amazing that I no longer have to spend my time trying to get my PC to work. I just do my work (or play.) and I still get amazed how quickly I get it done. No driver issues. No BSOD's because of a dirty DVD/CD. No 15 minutes after boot up waiting for patching Windows, antivirus patching, Java, Adobe, Flash checking for updates, Defender scan, spybot search and destroy scan.. I just get to work.
Microsoft - rebuild the OS from scratch removing the backward compatibility layers that screw you over - and then provide backwards compatibility in a VM of XP/Vista that runs under your hypervisor. My.02.
>>Seriously, just print them. Unless we somehow evolve new sensory organs in the next 25 years, I suspect that photographs won't be rendered useless through obsolescence. They can always scan them into new digital files afterwards.
Then there is the ink issue. So you might want to print them off digitally. Meaning that you don't print out the image, you print out the data that makes up the image (binary 01001010101101) I'm sure we will still be able to read.JPG files in 25 years. We can still read image files created on the Commodore 64 over 25 years ago ( http://www.editorix.org/congo/html/c64_image_formats__part_i.html ). So if you print out the hex code of the jpg's, even if the ink fades, you could scan it to a file and have the image back.
Dude, I bought several acoustic and electric guitar's and have them hanging on the wall, but what you said never happened.
On that topic, why is that Cisco IDS I bought not keeping hackers off my network? I mean, I paid the money and I have it sitting under my desk (unopened) and it's not working!?!
I have a 6600GTS stock overclock which plays games well on my old AMD4000+ PC. While I payed a lot of $$ back in the day, the card is worth $40 now.
I can't help but think this chip would cost more than it's worth. I like the idea, but I also liked the idea that I could purchase another 6600 GTS and not loose the investment in my original. That didn't happen for me. I am much better off purchasing a current generation card than buying two 6600GTS.
So the question is how much will it cost to be able to keep using my now $40 card? (Yes, I understand it is for newer PC's not my old one, but the concept still applies.)
While I just purchased a PC from inventory with Vista and downgraded to XP, newer PC's are difficult to do this with.
We have some HP 5750's. They have Vista with XP downgrade rights. But neither HP nor Microsoft are willing to give us the keycode to activate XP. They point the finger at each other.
My Dell guy has told me they have having the same problem with this.
So I guess Microsoft will get those Vista numbers up one way or another.
The US Open was more popular on our Network than the Olympics. Of course, we figured out how to block Limelight after the USOpen so that helped too.. They make it almost impossible to simply QoS them because of this infrastructure.
Cloud computing isn't a bad thing. We do some of it, but mostly not. What needs to happen is a the creation of standards.
If we had standards for how cloud computing is done, we could start down the road towards RAIC - or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds. That way the data and applications can be mirrored between various clouds should one fail.
For example, right now I have my pictures backed up to an online photo sharing site. What happens if that site were to disappear? My computer's crashed and I'm missing a few hundred pictures which are currently just on that site. So now I back this up with an online backup service. Thus, I'm hacking a redundant cloud backup service.
Agreed. God only knows how much time I've spent with issues with the Via 4in1 drivers on motherboards where performance sucked and Ultra ATA was disabled unless you installed their drivers.
I believe I still recall the Asus p3v4x worked best with version 4 build 20. Anything higher, and speed suffered.
And you had to make sure to remove the VIA drivers completely before cloning to new hardware.
Wow, people willing to toss money at you and you said "no thanks." You must be rich.
A normal person would have setup something like a 900# and charged for the support calls.
If people are willing to send money your way for your product, take the money. As a consultant, sometimes when I really don't want to do something I give the person a real high quote. Something that even though I don't want to do the job, would be worth it IMO. Many times they say yes and I end up with a nice chunk of change.
But to just close shop so you don't have to deal with people throwing money at you? Wow.
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>>You should REALLY turn off your pc when you're not using it.
What is wrong with me using the option to sleep? The power usage between sleep and being powered off is not great compared to being powered on. On my SUSE box this is called suspend. Windows is hibernation for very low power or stand by for more power but quicker awakening.
My MacBook takes seconds to come out of sleep. SUSE takes a bit longer, but it is a 800Mhz box so that may be part of it. Windows isn't bad, but it never awakens correctly.
I think we use to do this with what was called half tracking. On my 1541 I could tell the drive to set it's alignment 1/2 a track off of normal and store data there. If everything worked write, I could double the space used. You could also do this to have a multi-format disk.
It didn't always work right and produced media that worked fine on my 1541 but not on other 1541's.
Anyway, that's my recollection. It's been how many decades ago? We use to also change the HZ of our 300 Baud modems so we could squeeze 500bps on the upload. And my Internet users say 100Mb/s isn't enough for them, wah.
Suddenlink offers 3Mb/s down 600K up here. If you use a lot of bandwidth for a while (like 30 mins) you go into a lower priority queue which drops you down to 800Kb/s download, 400K upload. If you continue to use that, you end up with your higher ports dropping to almost no bandwidth while http still runs at 600-800Kb/s.
This is empirical analysis. I don't know the true rules, but it works for me. If I set my upload limit to 16KB/s the download peers limit me to about 64KB/s (notice, B versus b) which keeps the throttles from kicking in and is fast enough for me.
I don't see anything being done with regards to excessive upload. I can cap my download speed and let my upload max out and no QoS ever seems to kick in.
I'm come from the 300BAUD MODEM days. I'm still amazed I can get this bandwidth - which could fill up my 144K floppies in a second. It's only going to get better. Fiber is coming to my neighborhood now, so watch out!
The benefit of digital is that a very week 0 or 1 should be able to be recreated because the receiver knows what a zero looks like and it knows what a one looks like and can make a pretty good guess as to what that fuzzy signal should be.
Unlike analog cassette tapes, DAT tapes keep perfect playback until deterioration. However once the tape begins to deteriorate it really quickly just quits all together. Analog tape will continue to play for a very long time and at least you will get something, even if it is very crappy.
My experience with digital TV is not like DAT though. When my TV shows I have a signal of around 80% minimum, the signal is completely useless. I have to have higher than that to get pieces of the show. Even with good signal, there are constant dropouts.
It seems to me that they are trying to compress sooo much data into such a small space, that the benefits of digital sort of go away. If the compression can't handle a lost bit here and there, which is apparently the case, then there is too much compression. The compression used should have been made to make guesses at to what the missing 0's and 1's were.
Right now, Digital TV is pretty useless to me. I have cable. If it is a clear day outside, Digital TV works decent. Night time, or clouds and I get lots of drop out. I have an expensive digital antenna with an adjustable 48dba gain and a signal display on the TV. Unless I move the antenna outside I can't get usable signal (prohibited by HOA) then I'm sticking with cable.
This is all becoming MUTE since most of what I watch is downloadable on the Internet in HD.
Exchange is a groupware product. Many people use it just for the e-mail aspect.
If you are using it mainly for e-mail, configure a rule on the Exchange server to forward your gMail account (or whatever) so you can IMAP to it.
If they support OTA iSync and you have a compatible phone, you could use the phone to Sync and then have the phone Sync to your PC. That would get you contacts and calendar items too.
>>unless you were an official dedicated contact on a particular subject you were to wipe all correspondence of more than a year old.
So I keep track of how much I paid for these $10,000+ software packages by looking at my e-mails with the bids from the last year, and previous year. Sometimes the software costs just quite a bit and I use that to get costs back down.
If I have to delete this correspondence, how am I to do that? I can't stick that information in an Excel document or write it down, as that is retaining the correspondence.
I really don't understand why I should need to delete e-mails of me asking for prices from my vendors. How is that ever going to come up in a lawsuit?
I understand they why -- IT legal doesn't want to have to shift through that data. But that's legal's problem that the legal profession created. I'm not going to suffer to make their job easier.
I do understand that you keep e-mail to just the facts. Keep opinion out of any electronic document. Anything where having a written record would be questionable gets done verbally. Not that I'm doing anything wrong, but that someone could put it in an improper context and make it look like it means something it doesn't.
It's a screwed up world we live in. A lot of people think this only applies to e-mail. eDiscovery applies to any electronic file you have. If you user saved off that e-mail as a .MSG from your IMAP server to his personal drive on his work PC, it's still discoverable. Sucks to be legal.
Really, this is all Second Life is. A 3D World Wide Web. Realms are handled by different servers. You can go to Dell or PG and see 3D models of their products. When I want to chat with tech support, I *could* go to the Dell store and do a voice chat with the Dell support guy (If they had support manning their page.) The voice chat in Second Life is pretty neat.
There are plenty of people who have products for sell in Second life. They are displayed in 2D on walls in some places, but most have the actual product sitting there on the floor which you can try before you buy.
In the past, there has been a 3D weather room where you could watch the radar in 3D. That's down last I checked.
RADAR is something that would truly shine in 3D. Not only see an X/Y view of where the jet is, but also Z with Z being altitude. If we had a 3D display too that would even be better.
I think this is something that once you start using it, like dual monitors, you really see why it's so much better. You'll find easier ways to do your work. Especially if I have better than 1024x768 graphics. If I could scroll certain windows into my systems into the background with high resolution, I could keep them in my peripheral and switch to them when I see something alerting.
Wow. That is hard. Considering OS X is based off of a BSD platform, and Linux is based on the rebuilding Unix, you would think we of all people would welcome code from other platforms. Windows shares BSD roots with it's TCP/IP stack. All documented in the WIKI's if you don't believe me. I'm all for sharing.
My MacBook Pro dual boots XP in bootcamp & Fusion, and has various *nix builds running in Fusion. I work in OS X and play on XP. Sure is nice that my games don't screw up my work environment. Should I install Spore on XP or MAC OS X running Cedega (WINE) ? Cedega removes the DRM issues but it's not going to run as nice as XP native. Since XP's a gaming side, do I really care about the RING level DRM? At least I have the options :)
If you have SNMP and a Winders PC;
log.txt (list of your switches / routers)
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
file1.bat /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10" %%i in (log.txt) do call distcmd.bat %%i %%j %%k %%l %%m %%n %%o %%p %%q %%r
for
distcmd.bat (change public to be your snmp community snmputil is from net-snmp-5.4.1-3.win32.exe / free) .1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.1 >> %1.MAC.log .1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.2 >> %1.PORT.log
snmputil walk %1 public
snmputil walk %1 public
Now you have a list of every port and ever MAC that runs through that port (don't forget about uplink ports having all MACs listed to them.)
In the file you'll have to do some snmp decimal to hex conversions; .17.4.3.1.1.0.23.164.215.49.153 .0.23.164.215.49.153 Put those number in calc and convert each to a hex and you get
MAC is 00:17:a4:d7:31:99
SNMP walking gives a result of which is
the same MAC, but converted to SNMP notation this becomes
Part of this is the MAC address in decimal
the mac address in hex.
So in the output of these batch files .17.4.3.1.2.0.64.140.109.101.123
Variable =
Value = Integer32 24
Means that on port 24 there is MAC address 00:40:8c:6d:65:7b which is the .0.64.140.109.101.123 converted to Hex through Calc.
Anyway, ping the device, arp -a and locate the MAC address, dump the above against all your routers/switches, convert your MAC address you are searching for to SNMP decimal, and search the .txt files for a switch with a port where that is the only MAC on the port and you've found the device (or a hub between the device.)
APC Universal battery extender. 80Wh for around $150 US. There are others that sell these too.
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=UPB80&tab=features
Or just carry a second charged battery if you can afford a cold boot.
My MacBook Pro gets around 3 hours of web surfing on battery.
I had a Cisco 400 with a lifetime warranty. It died a while back. It was out of warranty. Apparently Lifetime for Cisco means 5 years.
I hope my 8600M GT doesn't have to deal with it. It's in my MacBook Pro, so no easy card swap.
You really don't need to defrag your SSD / USB flash drives. Just as there are defrag utilities for your hard drives, there are defrag utilities for your RAM in your PC. Last time I ran one of those was perhaps 10 years ago. Do a Google search for RAM Defrag and you will find these. The time's I've done it with RAM where to clean up after programs with memory leaks, not for the real defrag use.
The fact is in very few cases do you ever want to do this. The benefits just are not there to justify an early end of life for the drive. Most flash drives don't really store the data where you think they do anyway. They use logic to spread read/writes across the drive to prevent wear. http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=wear-leveling
I have a 16GB flash drive I run VMWare guests on. I don't see any speed difference if the VMDK file is severely fragmented, or completely defragged. There may be rare exceptions to this, but don't defrag your flash drives / SSD's.
Eve-Online has my vote. There is nothing better than hearing nothing but the sound of my mining lasers drone on for hours and hours as I jet can mine.
Of course, there is the occasional interruption of a belt rat, which my drones make quick work of. Then it's back to that constant Bzzzzzz Bzzzzzzzzz. I even purchased wireless headphones so I can AFK listen :)
We have ~600 PC's with Office 2003 and XP. We have proper licenses for these. As a group we have many hundreds of hours working with Microsoft to get the licensing happy. All of a sudden they don't like 10 of our Office 2003 keys (we don't have a VLK.) or 10 of our OEM XP installs. Hundreds of hours.
All for what? This should make Windows cost less, right? Less piracy so the price goes down?
Anyway, my PC at work is Windows. But my PC is a MacBook Pro. I've given up on Windows. I hardly ever use it anymore except at work. I find it amazing that I no longer have to spend my time trying to get my PC to work. I just do my work (or play.) and I still get amazed how quickly I get it done. No driver issues. No BSOD's because of a dirty DVD/CD. No 15 minutes after boot up waiting for patching Windows, antivirus patching, Java, Adobe, Flash checking for updates, Defender scan, spybot search and destroy scan.. I just get to work.
Microsoft - rebuild the OS from scratch removing the backward compatibility layers that screw you over - and then provide backwards compatibility in a VM of XP/Vista that runs under your hypervisor. My .02.
>>Seriously, just print them. Unless we somehow evolve new sensory organs in the next 25 years, I suspect that photographs won't be rendered useless through obsolescence. They can always scan them into new digital files afterwards.
Then there is the ink issue. So you might want to print them off digitally. Meaning that you don't print out the image, you print out the data that makes up the image (binary 01001010101101) I'm sure we will still be able to read .JPG files in 25 years. We can still read image files created on the Commodore 64 over 25 years ago ( http://www.editorix.org/congo/html/c64_image_formats__part_i.html ). So if you print out the hex code of the jpg's, even if the ink fades, you could scan it to a file and have the image back.
Dude, I bought several acoustic and electric guitar's and have them hanging on the wall, but what you said never happened.
On that topic, why is that Cisco IDS I bought not keeping hackers off my network? I mean, I paid the money and I have it sitting under my desk (unopened) and it's not working!?!
I have a 6600GTS stock overclock which plays games well on my old AMD4000+ PC. While I payed a lot of $$ back in the day, the card is worth $40 now.
I can't help but think this chip would cost more than it's worth. I like the idea, but I also liked the idea that I could purchase another 6600 GTS and not loose the investment in my original. That didn't happen for me. I am much better off purchasing a current generation card than buying two 6600GTS.
So the question is how much will it cost to be able to keep using my now $40 card? (Yes, I understand it is for newer PC's not my old one, but the concept still applies.)
While I just purchased a PC from inventory with Vista and downgraded to XP, newer PC's are difficult to do this with.
We have some HP 5750's. They have Vista with XP downgrade rights. But neither HP nor Microsoft are willing to give us the keycode to activate XP. They point the finger at each other.
My Dell guy has told me they have having the same problem with this.
So I guess Microsoft will get those Vista numbers up one way or another.
Agreed. Doesn't revoking the signing root certificate then revoke all certificates signed by them? That's what needs to happen.
The US Open was more popular on our Network than the Olympics. Of course, we figured out how to block Limelight after the USOpen so that helped too.. They make it almost impossible to simply QoS them because of this infrastructure.
You don't need wires, just do USB 3 over "Certified Wireless USB" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB .
Cloud computing isn't a bad thing. We do some of it, but mostly not. What needs to happen is a the creation of standards.
If we had standards for how cloud computing is done, we could start down the road towards RAIC - or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds. That way the data and applications can be mirrored between various clouds should one fail.
For example, right now I have my pictures backed up to an online photo sharing site. What happens if that site were to disappear? My computer's crashed and I'm missing a few hundred pictures which are currently just on that site. So now I back this up with an online backup service. Thus, I'm hacking a redundant cloud backup service.
Agreed. God only knows how much time I've spent with issues with the Via 4in1 drivers on motherboards where performance sucked and Ultra ATA was disabled unless you installed their drivers.
I believe I still recall the Asus p3v4x worked best with version 4 build 20. Anything higher, and speed suffered.
And you had to make sure to remove the VIA drivers completely before cloning to new hardware.
Bye bye VIA.
Or get a softphone. My home line is Skype on my Mac. When I take a call on Skype, iTunes is automatically paused. Works great.
Wow, people willing to toss money at you and you said "no thanks." You must be rich.
A normal person would have setup something like a 900# and charged for the support calls.
If people are willing to send money your way for your product, take the money. As a consultant, sometimes when I really don't want to do something I give the person a real high quote. Something that even though I don't want to do the job, would be worth it IMO. Many times they say yes and I end up with a nice chunk of change.
But to just close shop so you don't have to deal with people throwing money at you? Wow.