God this is SO right. Yesterday was the payroll transfer. When the file was sent, they had reported some entries without account numbers. This was around 1-2 pm. So, we figure out it's because of a bug in the damn ERP software and they knew how to fix it so it wouldn't happen again, but they didn't have a solution for fixing the file that was easy. So, my boss pissed and moaned to the software company and one of their developers logged into our system and created a fix program and I ran it for them at 8:30 PM which is 3 hours after I was supposed to leave. I chose to stay rather than remote it because it could have been anytime after 5 he could have it done. The boig deal was if we didn't get the file transmitted by 9 am monday, we would not get PAID. So, I thought it was ok to stay past 5. I was figuring boy it couldn't take that long....boy was I wrong. If this was the only incidence of this, I wouldn't be so disgruntled.
I was asked to give up THANKSGIVING this past year a year in advanced and a month after the date was set, my backup's wife got pregnant. 9 months in advance we knew about it, yet could get noone hired so the guy ended up giving up time with his baby to assist. Nevermind he never took the time to learn the migration process because we thought he wouldn't be there.....so I ended up being 3 days ON SITE and onloy had 4 hours sleep in those 3 days. What did I get besides overtime money? I handshake and a nice plaque. FUCK THAT. Give us a friggin raise because if it wasn't for the 2 sysadmins and 2 DBA's working on it that weekend, they wouldn't HAVE a system.
Good IT workers are being taken advantage of since the good ones usually like what they do. Well, the good ones are getting pissed off at being on friggin call 24/7. The good ones are tired of getting their dinner interrupted constantly and being asked to give up lunch to fix shit. The good ones are tired of giving up family time to fix shit. The good ones are tired of the clueless dolts in management that say yes to every friggin thing other departments want with out friggin taking 5 minutes to think if they have the staff to do it. The good ones are tired of being miracle workers without recognition with things like an office, a better salary and new tools. So the good ones leave.
First, outsourcing IT is a bad idea. First, there's always something you don't and shouldn't trust to someone else. Data security can only be 100 percent assured if you know where it is. Storing data in Google's cloud and only relying on it is a recipe for disaster.
Clueless state officials would say I need a nic ecushy service contract. It's called indemnification. If they buy software, they THINK that they can absolve themselves of anything if they have that service contract. I keep telling my friends who work at the state that even though something is techically their fault, it's still the their responsibility to keep the data safe. This encryption software will fix diddly if people:
Share passwords Share logins Print stuff off on paper, take it home and lose it.
Actually, it doesn't have to BE DRM if it uses the serial number. Why would you use something so simple to get for DRM? Just look at the back and there's your key! I still say it isn't DRM. It's data integrity. The serial was probably used because it was easy to grab. Remember, the iPod is pretty much a mature platform. If they really wanted to create a way to NEVER let another app to use an iPod, then they could, but then they'd have to redo iTunes from the start and then they would also have to orphan older iPods because any drastic change would require Apple to update ALL iPods from the first gen to the current gen and any new generation.
With the ease of piss off ability of the average Apple fan, well I don't think apple wants to go there.
BUT, horrible reviews for what they sync against. Creative's player sucks. I only used it for syncing the Zen I used to have. Then I got rid of the Zen and bought a iPod.
Except Apple makes diddly on iTunes Music Store sales. Apple's whole reason for the store is not for us....it's for the users who have no idea how to rip a CD. iTMS exists so that the non techy can fill their iPod without having to spend alot of time ripping cd's and so Apple can sell more iPods. Us geeks know better.
DMCA should not be in effect here. First, the hash isn't for copy protection. That much is clear. If it was, then you would not be able to see the song's unless the key was present. Besides, if it's SHA1, it's not very effective for copy protection anyway.
I bet that the only reason the hash is created is for some database integrity verification the ipod does.....just making sure everything is ok before writing data (play counts) to the database.
American's don't know what socialism is because you got some people who insist that we are a democracy which couldn't be further from the truth. We are a socialist republic. We used to be just a republic until our government decided to turn itself into the nanny state.
I don't need "my government" to provide for me. I can do fine on my own. I just want my money back...
If there are any Foleo devices out there, I hope that Palm sells them off and open sources the software. There's too much work on a portable device that was so close to shipping to waste. Then again, maybe Foleo wasn't as close to shipping as we once thought? I don't know, but I DO know that devices such as Nokia's N800 are gaining a following and opening the source for the Foleo could also possibly benefit Foleo II once a redesign makes it smaller.
Let me ask you this.....how are Walmart employees supposed to pay the premiums? That's what I thought. I have an IT job and my preimums have gone up at least 200 dollars per check in a year. Adding health insurance to a Walmart employee making easily half of what I make will make them NOTHING. You ask....why doesn't Walmart pay for it? Well, imagine 500-800 dollars per person per month having to be spent on a employee that may only make 800 a month. You can see Walmart's problem with this.
Walmart shutting a store down be cause of a union being established, well, that's Walmart's perogative. Actually, yes, your right....it's the unions doing all of the complaining. Well, I have had friends who worked for a Union store go to Walmart because Walmart PAID MORE and they had insurance with their husband's or wifes job.
Point is, if you want the world, you shouldn't expect to get it working at Walmart.
Most college kids I know are whiney 18-20 somethings who seem to think they know everything when they are living off of mom and dads dollar.
The simple fact is Walmart is the biggest of the big. Hear me now.....ALL STORES GET STUFF FROM CHINA AND PAY SIMILAR WAGES THAT WALMART DOES! That's the fact of big box retail. Walmart may just be a bit more savvy at getting the best deal. Walmart, as big as they are, could not even get the big Apple to reduce price of the iPod. Yeah, they have probably the best price on iPods, however it's hardly worth making a special trip if some place is closer. ALL companies who are retail companies have similar practices.
Not to mention SOX is doing more to prevent foolish IPO's then anything. If you want to do a IPO, you have to have all sorts of money to do it now where during the Web bubble, it didn't take much. Now what you WILL see is companies who made it through the bubble or that started around the end of the bubble snapping up YouTube (wait....already done), Flickr (whooops...Yahoo got them) and MySpace (well fox bought them....). Anyone seeing a pattern? The aim of Web 2.0 seems to be to get bought. Could that be why Dvorak thinks it might be bigger? Say if Google's stock just tanked overnight and died....well we'd loose alot of stuff there! A search engine, gmail.....more....
Terminal.app is a abomination of a UNIX Terminal. It....well....it SUCKS! Yeah it's nice that it's there, but call me crazy....when I type Ctrl-D it should CLOSE the terminal window! Not show process is complete and THEN make you close the terminal. That's just one gripe. It's a horrible terminal.
Sorry. This is a bunch of BS. First, Apple should have known better. Cellphones have replaceable batteries for a REASON! I have seen batteries that fail in a year and I have also seen them last for 5 years. The only thing is people can use the hell out of their iPhone and the iPod and then the battery needs replaced in less than a year. It's EASY to do.
Now should he have known this before? Yes. Does it mean Apple isn't stupid for designing it the way they did? No, Apple is moronic to do it this way. Why? Just think of all the money they can over charge you to pick up a second battery!
The main issue with this is in some areas it seems you have clueless scripted support....with any provider. Since I know what the reactions would be from windows when I have a DNS failure, I just....lie and tell them what they want to here to get what I want. For example, when they ask me to do all the windows crap that would identify whether I would get an IP from DHCP, I look at my web browser on the router's web page and see if it can get the external IP. When it can't, I tell them my PC is not getting a DHCP address. They always ask if the lights are flashing in this case and then I will tell them yes and that usually gets them to identify there's a problem on my segment of their network.
By far the most common thing I am finding with Roadrunner is they never update the network outage/status page. That tells me this page isn't automated and someone has to actually enter the updates by hand which means it will never get updated unless it's planned or unless they have it fixed quickly. I know the LAST thing on my mind after a long outage is updating outage messages or making a help desk ticket entry.
Must be the area your in. I had Windows but they never did anything but open a browser and make sure they can open a page with Roadrunner. They will set you up with Wifi, but I would rather manage my Wifi router my self thank you very much.
The AS/400 was originally based on a custom IBM CISC CPU which used a CPU architecture known as Internal MicroProgrammed Interface (IMPI) and an instruction set similar to the IBM 370. It was later migrated to a POWER-based RISC CPU family eventually known as RS64.[2]
So AS/400 originally ran on a custom chip, but IBM did the smart thign and migrated OS/400 to a POWER-based chip.
With regards to the second item you are talking about is HACMP. This isn't the same as what VMware would do but it's better. With HACMP, it can take a bit of time, but you can fallover resource groups from one server to another. Of course you must use a SAN, but HACMP is pretty robust and lots of people use it. Fallover time is the only time that anyone would notice a blip. The nice thing about HACMP is each server can be doing it's own function. A application server can fallover to the DB server and vice versa. Great stuff.
Power6 technology is what is going to make it possible to moving running LPARS from one machine to another. You will need AIX 6 to do it, but it is very possible and something that IBM is going to have once AIX 6 is ready. I am betting you will have to boot the LPAR over the SAN as well so internal disks may be out in this case.
I need to correct you on something.....the DoD and US Government think they own the world. Technically, with the military power we have, we kind of do rule the world, but most American's don't hold this attitude. It's only the attitude of our leaders and unfortunately it's almost always the lesser of two evils. No one's perfect.
With that said, I think it's a good thing to work together on having a very good global positioning system.
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God this is SO right. Yesterday was the payroll transfer. When the file was sent, they had reported some entries without account numbers. This was around 1-2 pm. So, we figure out it's because of a bug in the damn ERP software and they knew how to fix it so it wouldn't happen again, but they didn't have a solution for fixing the file that was easy. So, my boss pissed and moaned to the software company and one of their developers logged into our system and created a fix program and I ran it for them at 8:30 PM which is 3 hours after I was supposed to leave. I chose to stay rather than remote it because it could have been anytime after 5 he could have it done. The boig deal was if we didn't get the file transmitted by 9 am monday, we would not get PAID. So, I thought it was ok to stay past 5. I was figuring boy it couldn't take that long....boy was I wrong. If this was the only incidence of this, I wouldn't be so disgruntled.
I was asked to give up THANKSGIVING this past year a year in advanced and a month after the date was set, my backup's wife got pregnant. 9 months in advance we knew about it, yet could get noone hired so the guy ended up giving up time with his baby to assist. Nevermind he never took the time to learn the migration process because we thought he wouldn't be there.....so I ended up being 3 days ON SITE and onloy had 4 hours sleep in those 3 days. What did I get besides overtime money? I handshake and a nice plaque. FUCK THAT. Give us a friggin raise because if it wasn't for the 2 sysadmins and 2 DBA's working on it that weekend, they wouldn't HAVE a system.
Good IT workers are being taken advantage of since the good ones usually like what they do. Well, the good ones are getting pissed off at being on friggin call 24/7. The good ones are tired of getting their dinner interrupted constantly and being asked to give up lunch to fix shit. The good ones are tired of giving up family time to fix shit. The good ones are tired of the clueless dolts in management that say yes to every friggin thing other departments want with out friggin taking 5 minutes to think if they have the staff to do it. The good ones are tired of being miracle workers without recognition with things like an office, a better salary and new tools. So the good ones leave.
Me thinks pfsense can also do it, but you might have to BUILD your own router on that one.
First, outsourcing IT is a bad idea. First, there's always something you don't and shouldn't trust to someone else. Data security can only be 100 percent assured if you know where it is. Storing data in Google's cloud and only relying on it is a recipe for disaster.
Clueless state officials would say I need a nic ecushy service contract. It's called indemnification. If they buy software, they THINK that they can absolve themselves of anything if they have that service contract. I keep telling my friends who work at the state that even though something is techically their fault, it's still the their responsibility to keep the data safe. This encryption software will fix diddly if people:
Share passwords
Share logins
Print stuff off on paper, take it home and lose it.
and more.
FLIR camera is probably for monitoring the trains and making sure they are on schedule.
I have a mask on and a fast runner. Come and get me state police! You'll be sucking wind in 5 minutes! :D
Actually, it doesn't have to BE DRM if it uses the serial number. Why would you use something so simple to get for DRM? Just look at the back and there's your key! I still say it isn't DRM. It's data integrity. The serial was probably used because it was easy to grab. Remember, the iPod is pretty much a mature platform. If they really wanted to create a way to NEVER let another app to use an iPod, then they could, but then they'd have to redo iTunes from the start and then they would also have to orphan older iPods because any drastic change would require Apple to update ALL iPods from the first gen to the current gen and any new generation.
With the ease of piss off ability of the average Apple fan, well I don't think apple wants to go there.
BUT, horrible reviews for what they sync against. Creative's player sucks. I only used it for syncing the Zen I used to have. Then I got rid of the Zen and bought a iPod.
Except Apple makes diddly on iTunes Music Store sales. Apple's whole reason for the store is not for us....it's for the users who have no idea how to rip a CD. iTMS exists so that the non techy can fill their iPod without having to spend alot of time ripping cd's and so Apple can sell more iPods. Us geeks know better.
DMCA should not be in effect here. First, the hash isn't for copy protection. That much is clear. If it was, then you would not be able to see the song's unless the key was present. Besides, if it's SHA1, it's not very effective for copy protection anyway.
I bet that the only reason the hash is created is for some database integrity verification the ipod does.....just making sure everything is ok before writing data (play counts) to the database.
American's don't know what socialism is because you got some people who insist that we are a democracy which couldn't be further from the truth. We are a socialist republic. We used to be just a republic until our government decided to turn itself into the nanny state.
I don't need "my government" to provide for me. I can do fine on my own. I just want my money back...
If there are any Foleo devices out there, I hope that Palm sells them off and open sources the software. There's too much work on a portable device that was so close to shipping to waste. Then again, maybe Foleo wasn't as close to shipping as we once thought? I don't know, but I DO know that devices such as Nokia's N800 are gaining a following and opening the source for the Foleo could also possibly benefit Foleo II once a redesign makes it smaller.
It's definitely a important detail! ;) Evidently even the submitter did not RTFA!
Let me ask you this.....how are Walmart employees supposed to pay the premiums? That's what I thought. I have an IT job and my preimums have gone up at least 200 dollars per check in a year. Adding health insurance to a Walmart employee making easily half of what I make will make them NOTHING. You ask....why doesn't Walmart pay for it? Well, imagine 500-800 dollars per person per month having to be spent on a employee that may only make 800 a month. You can see Walmart's problem with this.
Walmart shutting a store down be cause of a union being established, well, that's Walmart's perogative. Actually, yes, your right....it's the unions doing all of the complaining. Well, I have had friends who worked for a Union store go to Walmart because Walmart PAID MORE and they had insurance with their husband's or wifes job.
Point is, if you want the world, you shouldn't expect to get it working at Walmart.
Most college kids I know are whiney 18-20 somethings who seem to think they know everything when they are living off of mom and dads dollar.
The simple fact is Walmart is the biggest of the big. Hear me now.....ALL STORES GET STUFF FROM CHINA AND PAY SIMILAR WAGES THAT WALMART DOES! That's the fact of big box retail. Walmart may just be a bit more savvy at getting the best deal. Walmart, as big as they are, could not even get the big Apple to reduce price of the iPod. Yeah, they have probably the best price on iPods, however it's hardly worth making a special trip if some place is closer. ALL companies who are retail companies have similar practices.
Not to mention SOX is doing more to prevent foolish IPO's then anything. If you want to do a IPO, you have to have all sorts of money to do it now where during the Web bubble, it didn't take much. Now what you WILL see is companies who made it through the bubble or that started around the end of the bubble snapping up YouTube (wait....already done), Flickr (whooops...Yahoo got them) and MySpace (well fox bought them....). Anyone seeing a pattern? The aim of Web 2.0 seems to be to get bought. Could that be why Dvorak thinks it might be bigger? Say if Google's stock just tanked overnight and died....well we'd loose alot of stuff there! A search engine, gmail.....more....
I like my little mousy nipple! :D The Trackpoint is awesome.
Terminal.app is a abomination of a UNIX Terminal. It....well....it SUCKS! Yeah it's nice that it's there, but call me crazy....when I type Ctrl-D it should CLOSE the terminal window! Not show process is complete and THEN make you close the terminal. That's just one gripe. It's a horrible terminal.
Sorry. This is a bunch of BS. First, Apple should have known better. Cellphones have replaceable batteries for a REASON! I have seen batteries that fail in a year and I have also seen them last for 5 years. The only thing is people can use the hell out of their iPhone and the iPod and then the battery needs replaced in less than a year. It's EASY to do.
Now should he have known this before? Yes. Does it mean Apple isn't stupid for designing it the way they did? No, Apple is moronic to do it this way. Why? Just think of all the money they can over charge you to pick up a second battery!
The main issue with this is in some areas it seems you have clueless scripted support....with any provider. Since I know what the reactions would be from windows when I have a DNS failure, I just....lie and tell them what they want to here to get what I want. For example, when they ask me to do all the windows crap that would identify whether I would get an IP from DHCP, I look at my web browser on the router's web page and see if it can get the external IP. When it can't, I tell them my PC is not getting a DHCP address. They always ask if the lights are flashing in this case and then I will tell them yes and that usually gets them to identify there's a problem on my segment of their network.
By far the most common thing I am finding with Roadrunner is they never update the network outage/status page. That tells me this page isn't automated and someone has to actually enter the updates by hand which means it will never get updated unless it's planned or unless they have it fixed quickly. I know the LAST thing on my mind after a long outage is updating outage messages or making a help desk ticket entry.
Must be the area your in. I had Windows but they never did anything but open a browser and make sure they can open a page with Roadrunner. They will set you up with Wifi, but I would rather manage my Wifi router my self thank you very much.
No. We don't live in a democracy. We live in a Constitutional Republic.
More clarification....from wikipedia so YMMV:
The AS/400 was originally based on a custom IBM CISC CPU which used a CPU architecture known as Internal MicroProgrammed Interface (IMPI) and an instruction set similar to the IBM 370. It was later migrated to a POWER-based RISC CPU family eventually known as RS64.[2]
So AS/400 originally ran on a custom chip, but IBM did the smart thign and migrated OS/400 to a POWER-based chip.
With regards to the second item you are talking about is HACMP. This isn't the same as what VMware would do but it's better. With HACMP, it can take a bit of time, but you can fallover resource groups from one server to another. Of course you must use a SAN, but HACMP is pretty robust and lots of people use it. Fallover time is the only time that anyone would notice a blip. The nice thing about HACMP is each server can be doing it's own function. A application server can fallover to the DB server and vice versa. Great stuff.
Power6 technology is what is going to make it possible to moving running LPARS from one machine to another. You will need AIX 6 to do it, but it is very possible and something that IBM is going to have once AIX 6 is ready. I am betting you will have to boot the LPAR over the SAN as well so internal disks may be out in this case.
I need to correct you on something.....the DoD and US Government think they own the world. Technically, with the military power we have, we kind of do rule the world, but most American's don't hold this attitude. It's only the attitude of our leaders and unfortunately it's almost always the lesser of two evils. No one's perfect.
With that said, I think it's a good thing to work together on having a very good global positioning system.