Uhm, yeah.. looks just like the commercial model I saw in a store about.. say.. 6 months ago. It was being used as a Cashier's station. It was Gateway.
Actually this does benefit the consumer. If you remeber what the entire trial was about... it was that they were trying to sell DVD's as software so they could charge twice as much for the rental DVD's as the commercial copies.. even though the only difference was the paintjob on the dvds.
The decision just really means that they have to abide by the practices that the movie companies abide by for pricing video. Which is fair.
well.. you have two things. First is why Panasonic didn't release their gamecube clone outside of Japan. Well, that is the easier one. Nintendo licensed their clone for Japan only sales! They try and sell here.. and well.. lets just say things happen that aren't pretty.
Now as to the entire thing about why Japanese companies sell "handicapped" products like the game cube that can't be flipped from region to region. Quite frankly its money. The will actually get more money in the long run here if they sell they base... then wait and come out with upgrades over time.
Nokia did the same thing origianlly, claiming that its [then new] phone, while capable of IR communications did not have the parts and it was a 40 dollar upgrade that was made available in the states later. When the truth is, everything was there in the phone, except the firmware was programed to lock out the IR port.
Same with other things. My Samsung 3.1 GHz phone for example which I got right when they were curtailing the model... three years ago. I got one of the last ones of that model sold. And now, just recently have 3.1 Ghz phones appeared on the US market.
Simply Japan sees American consumers thinking, hmm my phone now sucks, time to get a new one!
Japanese Consumers wait or protest.
Here's an idea.. don't ship it. If the customs agents are with you they are less likely to man handle your stuff. Shipping however... you are just asking for trouble.
Hmm 40+ webservers in florida going windows 2000.
So.. the same people counting the Florida ballots are also the people who decide on how the IT budget gets spent?
Actually it is semi correct. The Itanium chip will speed up your net connection if you enable IPSec, when compared to an AMD processor. The reason is that the Itanium has a special bank of registers for doing the algorithms needed for Win2k and winxp's IPsec. These banks allow the processor to complete the IP-layer encryption without having to mess around with registers that are being used for other stuff, like running your programs. In the AMD chips, even neglecting the problems caused by different pipelining schemes, the chip has to dump all the information it has for the program it running and load encryption/decryption alogrithms and calculate them every time the IP-stack recieves a packet.
And so the question becomes.
I mean, they had time to get on the ball with training. Fact is this means that IT at Jack-in-the-Box [yes, possible the most 3rd rate burger joint in the states] was more prepared then road runner. As for the crack about Toshiba not being compliant with XP, I find it difficult to believe. They had the Bios updates for the laptops, so they would be XP compliant, in July.
This as road runner's network is getting more and more saturated, and added with the fact that they are directing their users to nameservers that they don't own. My ISP ended up barring the entire roadrunner ip range becuase they kept overwhelming our dns servers, and I have heard of at least ten other ISP's that have had the same problems. Roadrunner has never ever commented on it.
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing them blown themselves out of the water, but that is my own personal opinion.
We gave up on KVM's some time ago. At work in the server room we just ended up getting monitors and keyboards for each server becuase none of the KVM's are up to snuff. Many claimed to have reset switches and whatnot, we even tried some of the 200-500 dollar ones that just KVM'd 2 cpus.
About 70% of the time, even with the reset switch the keyboards locked up... about 20% or those times we managed to get the keyboard working by unplugging and plugging them back in... but most of the time we had to reboot at least one of the machines to get it working again.
At work I have resolved to use VNC for the newer machines and my own pc. When I have to go around doing diagnosis on the network and installs on other computers its easy to be able to connect and look at the NT servers from anywhere, and get stuff off my NT5 desktop. It would be nice to use X11 but I am, of course no where near enough to suggest a move like that. Heck, we couldn't do it anyhow.. with well over 600,000 Win computers just in north america.. in one of our 12 businesses.. the move would be a mess.
At home I used to use a KVM switch but I kept having the same problem. Not to mention I like using my TV card ocassionally and when I was in linux I couldn't watch the tv. So I ended up trying VNC. It works very well for all my application... even Gimp and Photoshop, surprisingly enough. I have to admit, I do have a 100Mbps network so that might do it, but it still works with wonderful refresh rates.
Right now my Windows box has two monitors attached. The black and white smaller one I have still hooked up to the KVM and the server (linux) has a keyboard and mouse installed. I occasionally switch over when I need to install something or can only do something in console. But the monitor is not even supported by X11 so for anything else I end up using VNC.
Our results, if you are looking at mission critical applications, and if you wouldn't mind the side effect of being able to work on your own computer from anywhere in the network... start using VNC.
You really should hunt around actually. Or perhaps consider PS1 as a base for a game. I managed to get a really outdated and Cheap copy ($30) of Code Warrior at my school store, and it included the PSX compiler.
Many newer model car cdplayers are more then just cdplayers. Some even run a version of Windows CE. The point he is trying to make is that since the computer in the cdplayer isn't trying to just stream the data... its actually trying to mount the disk so the OS can read the data... the mount might fail and you'd never be able to play the CD in that device.
If it can't be read by your CDrom drive then your CD player isn't gonna read it either. You are correct about it not being like MP3's vs WMA vs Ogg. What will happen is windows won't mount it as an autoread cd... but that doesn't mean the laser can't be forced to pass over the medium and send whatever 1's and 0's to a program. Then this program, most likely a hex viewer/editor, will be how the crackers will crack the data.
As for being difficult its all a matter of finding the resource... it shouldn't be much more dificult than cracking a nintendo rom, which only requires the right 50 dollar ICE module. Someone will just write a program that doesn't require the CD to be mounted by the os. There is nothing new about that.
Speaking as someone who has to live in America..
yes yes they are.
<WHINE> Get me out of here!!Take me to Toronto... let me revel in the computer stores of Spadina, and use a realy public transportation system!!!!</WHINE>
>I'd tend to think some sort of other standard >that would let us eliminate those cursed lights >would be better.
Actually there is... the T5 series of flourescent lights uses a digital ballast and eliminates both the hum of current fluorescent lights and headaches associated with them. They are also much smaller, higher efficiency, and full spectrum (they worked great on my Seasonal Depression)
Why haven't you seen any you may ask? Well.. talk to GE. Currently they are the only ones with the capacity to actually produce them. Unfortunatly, Phillips has been offering them for cheaper.. even though they don't actually know how to produce on a market scale yet and therefore aren't making them available on the market.
Actually I know of a nice place 1 bedroom living room kitchen and bath just south of Queen for 400 a month including all utilities except DSL. As for a car, TTC is great in my opinion.. while it is true that I would probably want a car, going down to Spadina or other places I want is better on TTC, not worth the traffic. An a monthly pass isn't that much. As far as food. Look at the some of the online prices, I believe grocery gateway.com is one. CN$120 for 3 weeks of food for two people. Not bad IMHO. Granted that to most people it isn't a glorious life, but you can get buy on it, and the only hit you take.. if any is in image, which I really don't care anything about anyhow
Well I have two viewpoints. First, I work for a multinational company. Our policy is, that when working abroad we make 100% + x% of the salary for a comparable position in a US office. The x% is based on taxes and other costs of living. For example in Canada it maybe only 125% while in Singapore it is somewhere around 158%. Also in certain places there are other benefits, as in Singapore and Indonesia all of the IT guys got a personal driver. (Due to the "Renters car tax" in Singapore, that's right.. you can't own your own car in singapore... and the recent political problems in Indonesia)
Second, geekfinder will let you search for jobs in some places abroad. For instance I found a job offer in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. This job required someone with basic knowledge of NT and computer repairs and all it was for was to manage the companies server backups. The job was quoted as having a salary of CA$75,000 per year. That is somewhere between CA$50,000 and CA$60,000 if memory serves. Also in the Toronto/Mississauga area one can survive comfortably on CA$12,000.
Right, and Actually I can add the we have much more then a thousand users for our exchange server. Our server only handles the info for our business, not the entire company, but even with that, (I don't know the exact number of accounts) but with 12 computers poroviding personal folder storage, each one having 90 Gigs of harddrive space, we have upwards around 500,000 accounts.
We have had slowdowns in the past, but they were mostly bandwidth issues in the remote locations. You just shouldn't try to run thicknet on a subnet that has computers transfering 5 gig databases and expect your 5 meg emails to download to outlook very fast.
As for people setting up schedules, when Outlook is setup right it will check all recipient accounts to make sure timeslots are available and will give an error if they aren't.
As for the ILoveYou virus... the gateway to the server filtered out some 500 infections... and we had only 3 computers get infected and damaged company wide.
In short, if you set your system up right, and actually teach your users how to use their systems and common sense, Exchange will help you organize a lot of your business related activities.
Going by this Unix the ability to do any kind of file sharing is illegel. So http, ftp, AIM and ICQ, can all disappear. Infact TCP/IP and IXP can probably all hit the road too.
Well actually if you go for a KVM switch with a manual switch rather then a hotkey type. You can find a decent one at a computer show for about 45 dollars that works just as well as anything blackbox or other IT places have. add about 20 dollars for all the cabling at the same place, not a bad deals at all
Now we can keep up to speed on the revolt by the people of New Zealand against their sheep masters. Seriously though, how exactly are they going to put this into affect. We should remeber the last time the police got into large scale computer tools, IBM pulled out of New Zealand because it couldn't handle all the changes the goverment made to the contract. This is of course ignoring all together how rather unstable the internet services in Kiwi land seem to be, and how even the Kiwi population scoffs at all the press releases about how well the computer industry in New Zealand is keeping up with times.
Not really. I manage to keep our network fairly secure. But of course.. who am I to talk.. we only have 500,000+ user pc's worldwide according to our last inventory.
Russia was just an example and true.. it would.. for a while but someone else will just open another one just as fast. Nephew of Ukrainian who spends two weeks in Ukraine every year... unfortunalty -_-x
You are probably correct. Unfortunatly we have seen countless times that on the internet these fear tactics do not work. As long as there are people with the source for servers there will always be underground sites at the bare minimum. I mean if you want proof go to your favorite search engine and type "warez." Another problem is that this decision only applies to US based servers. I'd like to see the RIAA use this ruling in Russia.. or try to get a similiar ruling passed there.
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Uhm, yeah .. looks just like the commercial model I saw in a store about .. say .. 6 months ago. It was being used as a Cashier's station. It was Gateway.
Actually this does benefit the consumer. If you remeber what the entire trial was about ... it was that they were trying to sell DVD's as software so they could charge twice as much for the rental DVD's as the commercial copies .. even though the only difference was the paintjob on the dvds.
The decision just really means that they have to abide by the practices that the movie companies abide by for pricing video. Which is fair.
well .. you have two things. First is why Panasonic didn't release their gamecube clone outside of Japan. Well, that is the easier one. Nintendo licensed their clone for Japan only sales! They try and sell here .. and well .. lets just say things happen that aren't pretty.
... then wait and come out with upgrades over time.
... three years ago. I got one of the last ones of that model sold. And now, just recently have 3.1 Ghz phones appeared on the US market.
Now as to the entire thing about why Japanese companies sell "handicapped" products like the game cube that can't be flipped from region to region. Quite frankly its money. The will actually get more money in the long run here if they sell they base
Nokia did the same thing origianlly, claiming that its [then new] phone, while capable of IR communications did not have the parts and it was a 40 dollar upgrade that was made available in the states later. When the truth is, everything was there in the phone, except the firmware was programed to lock out the IR port.
Same with other things. My Samsung 3.1 GHz phone for example which I got right when they were curtailing the model
Simply Japan sees American consumers thinking, hmm my phone now sucks, time to get a new one!
Japanese Consumers wait or protest.
Here's an idea .. don't ship it. If the customs agents are with you they are less likely to man handle your stuff. Shipping however ... you are just asking for trouble.
Hmm 40+ webservers in florida going windows 2000. .. the same people counting the Florida ballots are also the people who decide on how the IT budget gets spent?
So
Interesting
Actually it is semi correct. The Itanium chip will speed up your net connection if you enable IPSec, when compared to an AMD processor. The reason is that the Itanium has a special bank of registers for doing the algorithms needed for Win2k and winxp's IPsec. These banks allow the processor to complete the IP-layer encryption without having to mess around with registers that are being used for other stuff, like running your programs. In the AMD chips, even neglecting the problems caused by different pipelining schemes, the chip has to dump all the information it has for the program it running and load encryption/decryption alogrithms and calculate them every time the IP-stack recieves a packet.
And so the question becomes.
I mean, they had time to get on the ball with training. Fact is this means that IT at Jack-in-the-Box [yes, possible the most 3rd rate burger joint in the states] was more prepared then road runner. As for the crack about Toshiba not being compliant with XP, I find it difficult to believe. They had the Bios updates for the laptops, so they would be XP compliant, in July.
This as road runner's network is getting more and more saturated, and added with the fact that they are directing their users to nameservers that they don't own. My ISP ended up barring the entire roadrunner ip range becuase they kept overwhelming our dns servers, and I have heard of at least ten other ISP's that have had the same problems. Roadrunner has never ever commented on it.
Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing them blown themselves out of the water, but that is my own personal opinion.
Check in the readme how to set it up as a service.
If you do that VNC will come up before your login prompt does.
Then you can use the context menu to send a CTRL-ALT-DEL if you still have that enabled.
We gave up on KVM's some time ago. At work in the server room we just ended up getting monitors and keyboards for each server becuase none of the KVM's are up to snuff. Many claimed to have reset switches and whatnot, we even tried some of the 200-500 dollar ones that just KVM'd 2 cpus. ... about 20% or those times we managed to get the keyboard working by unplugging and plugging them back in ... but most of the time we had to reboot at least one of the machines to get it working again.
.. with well over 600,000 Win computers just in north america .. in one of our 12 businesses .. the move would be a mess.
... even Gimp and Photoshop, surprisingly enough. I have to admit, I do have a 100Mbps network so that might do it, but it still works with wonderful refresh rates.
... start using VNC.
About 70% of the time, even with the reset switch the keyboards locked up
At work I have resolved to use VNC for the newer machines and my own pc. When I have to go around doing diagnosis on the network and installs on other computers its easy to be able to connect and look at the NT servers from anywhere, and get stuff off my NT5 desktop. It would be nice to use X11 but I am, of course no where near enough to suggest a move like that. Heck, we couldn't do it anyhow
At home I used to use a KVM switch but I kept having the same problem. Not to mention I like using my TV card ocassionally and when I was in linux I couldn't watch the tv. So I ended up trying VNC. It works very well for all my application
Right now my Windows box has two monitors attached. The black and white smaller one I have still hooked up to the KVM and the server (linux) has a keyboard and mouse installed. I occasionally switch over when I need to install something or can only do something in console. But the monitor is not even supported by X11 so for anything else I end up using VNC.
Our results, if you are looking at mission critical applications, and if you wouldn't mind the side effect of being able to work on your own computer from anywhere in the network
You really should hunt around actually. Or perhaps consider PS1 as a base for a game. I managed to get a really outdated and Cheap copy ($30) of Code Warrior at my school store, and it included the PSX compiler.
Food for Thought ^_^x
Many newer model car cdplayers are more then just cdplayers. Some even run a version of Windows CE. The point he is trying to make is that since the computer in the cdplayer isn't trying to just stream the data ... its actually trying to mount the disk so the OS can read the data ... the mount might fail and you'd never be able to play the CD in that device.
If it can't be read by your CDrom drive then your CD player isn't gonna read it either. You are correct about it not being like MP3's vs WMA vs Ogg. What will happen is windows won't mount it as an autoread cd ... but that doesn't mean the laser can't be forced to pass over the medium and send whatever 1's and 0's to a program. Then this program, most likely a hex viewer/editor, will be how the crackers will crack the data.
... it shouldn't be much more dificult than cracking a nintendo rom, which only requires the right 50 dollar ICE module. Someone will just write a program that doesn't require the CD to be mounted by the os. There is nothing new about that.
As for being difficult its all a matter of finding the resource
Speaking as someone who has to live in America ..
... let me revel in the computer stores of Spadina, and use a realy public transportation system!!!!</WHINE>
yes yes they are.
<WHINE> Get me out of here!!Take me to Toronto
>I'd tend to think some sort of other standard >that would let us eliminate those cursed lights >would be better.
... the T5 series of flourescent lights uses a digital ballast and eliminates both the hum of current fluorescent lights and headaches associated with them. They are also much smaller, higher efficiency, and full spectrum (they worked great on my Seasonal Depression)
.. talk to GE. Currently they are the only ones with the capacity to actually produce them. Unfortunatly, Phillips has been offering them for cheaper .. even though they don't actually know how to produce on a market scale yet and therefore aren't making them available on the market.
Actually there is
Why haven't you seen any you may ask? Well
Actually I know of a nice place 1 bedroom living room kitchen and bath just south of Queen for 400 a month including all utilities except DSL. As for a car, TTC is great in my opinion .. while it is true that I would probably want a car, going down to Spadina or other places I want is better on TTC, not worth the traffic. An a monthly pass isn't that much. As far as food. Look at the some of the online prices, I believe grocery gateway.com is one. CN$120 for 3 weeks of food for two people. Not bad IMHO. Granted that to most people it isn't a glorious life, but you can get buy on it, and the only hit you take .. if any is in image, which I really don't care anything about anyhow
Second, geekfinder will let you search for jobs in some places abroad. For instance I found a job offer in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. This job required someone with basic knowledge of NT and computer repairs and all it was for was to manage the companies server backups. The job was quoted as having a salary of CA$75,000 per year. That is somewhere between CA$50,000 and CA$60,000 if memory serves. Also in the Toronto/Mississauga area one can survive comfortably on CA$12,000.
We have had slowdowns in the past, but they were mostly bandwidth issues in the remote locations. You just shouldn't try to run thicknet on a subnet that has computers transfering 5 gig databases and expect your 5 meg emails to download to outlook very fast.
As for people setting up schedules, when Outlook is setup right it will check all recipient accounts to make sure timeslots are available and will give an error if they aren't.
As for the ILoveYou virus ... the gateway to the server filtered out some 500 infections ... and we had only 3 computers get infected and damaged company wide.
In short, if you set your system up right, and actually teach your users how to use their systems and common sense, Exchange will help you organize a lot of your business related activities.
Going by this Unix the ability to do any kind of file sharing is illegel. So http, ftp, AIM and ICQ, can all disappear. Infact TCP/IP and IXP can probably all hit the road too.
Well actually if you go for a KVM switch with a manual switch rather then a hotkey type. You can find a decent one at a computer show for about 45 dollars that works just as well as anything blackbox or other IT places have. add about 20 dollars for all the cabling at the same place, not a bad deals at all
I noticed in school that certain CDroms would just not mount without being forced. It was a pain honestly for me.
Now we can keep up to speed on the revolt by the people of New Zealand against their sheep masters. Seriously though, how exactly are they going to put this into affect. We should remeber the last time the police got into large scale computer tools, IBM pulled out of New Zealand because it couldn't handle all the changes the goverment made to the contract. This is of course ignoring all together how rather unstable the internet services in Kiwi land seem to be, and how even the Kiwi population scoffs at all the press releases about how well the computer industry in New Zealand is keeping up with times.
Actually .. check it out .. it is Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins homepage Johns Hopkins was named after his grandmother whose last name was Johns.
Not really. I manage to keep our network fairly secure. But of course .. who am I to talk .. we only have 500,000+ user pc's worldwide according to our last inventory.
Russia was just an example and true .. it would .. for a while but someone else will just open another one just as fast. Nephew of Ukrainian who spends two weeks in Ukraine every year ... unfortunalty -_-x
You are probably correct. Unfortunatly we have seen countless times that on the internet these fear tactics do not work. As long as there are people with the source for servers there will always be underground sites at the bare minimum. I mean if you want proof go to your favorite search engine and type "warez." Another problem is that this decision only applies to US based servers. I'd like to see the RIAA use this ruling in Russia .. or try to get a similiar ruling passed there.