And yet, this stops nothing. There are keyloggers that you can plug into a PS/2 port and then polug the keyboar dinto the logger. They have built in memory. They are small. They would not be noticed. They work on any OS. SO explain what you did to "lock down" these machines again?
Yeah a while back too. Since WINCE 3.0 Microsoft has had a AutoPC version including a memory card slot and the like. Clarion's current unit (around 2600 USD) has a Pentium MMX chip in it. This may seem underpowered, but consider it's only driving a display that is much smaller then a PocketPC's display.
Yoga is strange. I thought it had something to do with religion, but so many atheist folks I know do Yoga. On that note, I don't find it strange at all somethign like this would be allowed for breaks. A local company here made a prayer room available for the Somali community that emigrated here. Somali's usually practice Islam. There was a semi big stink about it on the local talk radio because they had not done the same thing for Christians and Jews as well. I would not mind having a quite place to pray, but Chrisitians don't really need much to pray. They don't even have to have a bible to pray (but it helps for aftwards!). People eho practice Islam must pray towarss Mecca several times a day and have a ritual that goes along with it. They don't usually like being disturbed when doing it either. I rambled, but in any case, it's a fair thing for companies to spend money on this type of thing. If it helps keep people from going postal and having heart attacks it must be a good thing!
I agree with others in this thread that marketing is screaming for features. Palm needs to beef up their offering so it can compete with Pocket PC. WM 2003 is right up there with Windows XP as a decent OS. Sure, there are bugs. Sure, it's a bit bloated but hey it's an accomplishment! Something that approaches the usability of Windows XP and a compact.NET framework that all fits in 32 MB of ROM. Pretty cool if you ask me! If all you want is an organizer, then you could try a Royal Linea or one of the organizer only sharp units. They are dirt cheap and available compared to other suggestions like the Helios and Agenda VR3. Granted....these organizer only ones aren't without their issues. I had a older lady friend that her hubby gave her the sharp unit (not the zaurus) and it was pretty cool.....5 months later, it kept erasing her data and she had not synced it at all with her desktop. I think the organizer only ones should put a SD slot in and include a 8 MB SD card for backing up. Some folks don't want to hook it to their computer. If you think you ever want to do something else, better go with Palm or or PPC. The simple models are still out there. I see Visor Deluxes and some of their cousins in lots of place. I saw Compusa had refurbed Visor Platinums for 99 bucks! If you scope the Walmart Electronics Dept. Clearance rack, you sometimes can find Visors, or if not visors, you can find memory backup springboards or even the Magellan GPS module. There are older devices (new or refurbed) still on the market because Palm started to lose to Pocket PC because Pocket PC was doing lots more and at a equivalant price when the Axim came out. Palm and Handspring both tried flooding the market(which is why you still see these units) with KISS Handhelds, but the market was busy being dazzled by Sony and the PPC OEMs. KISS handhelds are for grandmas!
This is true even of some states! During EST, Indiana is the same as the rest of the Eastern Time Zone. When the rest of the Eastern Time Zone switches to EDT, Indiana is still on EST. I think Arizona is like this also (most of year it matches Colorado's time, but when Colorado springs forward, Arizona does not.)
I might also add that Midnight isn't as late as it used to be. Push cron jobs past midnight by an hour or two. System could still be busy at midnight depending on the place you work at. At a college, yeah they system could be very busy at midnight!:)
The example you give is in a situation where there were alot of unknowns. I remember them closing my work down because we did not know if there were more hi-jacked planes and we live in Columbus, OH! The President must be protected. Period. The reason they did this was to protect him in case of an attack on the Whitehouse itself. It was rumored that the Whitehouse was the real target for the Pentagon Plane or the Plane in PA that crashed. At the time, they frankly did not know enough about the situation, so they go to the safe location. The President DOES have freedom. He can go where he wants to. The Secret Service is capable of alot. If the President decides he would like to go to dinner, Secret Service probably has enough notice to sweep the restaurant and post plain clothes guards with him. In fact, they may even already have the Presidents favorite restaurants staked out or swept periodically. I guess the only problem may be if he wants a dinner alone with the first lady....they could go to dinner, but they'd have Secret Service with them. Not very romantic!:)
This whole thing with the ignoring the e-mail and only accepting this web page thing is really convluted and wrong. Personally, they could use procmail filtering instead of this web thing and that would be something that the public would not know about and be even more dangerous.
You know this is a EXCELLENT post. I think that in the future, folks WILL be able to do this. In the future, some will be able to buy a computer for 50 bucks and won't have to worry about a thing. How will this happen?:
1. Develop a new "PC" if you will that will let only certified code be installed (DRM would PROTECT you in this case).
2. Code can only be installed from devices like CD/ROMS and other removable media. Nothing should be able to be installed from the. internet or a hard disk. Only place installation commands would be seen is the main terminal (lft0 on AIX).
3. Main OS code is stored in a Flash ROM. There's a area of flashrom reserved for installable programs. If the program is too big, it needs to be run from removeable media.
4. ALL user files would either be stored on the server, on on transparantly encrypted media.
DRM would be your savior in this. All code must be validated by a public/private keyset.
EVERYTHING must be encrypted.....user files and program files with the only exceptions being the kernel, BIOS and whatever is needed to decrypt the rest of the stuff. Firewalls would be built in and autpmatically configured for what is on the system. If a program is to use the internet, it has to know what ports it needs ahead of time and has to ask the OS firewall to open it. ANOTHER set of keys would be necessary for these ports to be opened. If it does not have the correct keys, the port does not get opened. The resultant system would not necessarily be completely secure, but would be good enough. Geeks like us would still use conventional PC's.
It's either a crippled system like that, or the world comes up with Amateur Computer Operators licenses ala Amateur Radio. These licenses would have people learning about basic security and have to show proficiency at configuring firewalls and computers that have been off the market for years. The ethernet would require a expensive feedline tuner and all licensed folks would be required to smell bad and be fat. Then it would be like amateur radio.:P
COBOL is still kicking. There are alot of mainframe shops that swear by it and even a few UNIX programs that are written in it. COBOL is like lpd. It ain't pretty, but it gets the job done....usually!;)
That link someone posted earlier said something along the return of the ark....remember the scene with the ark and all of those other boxes in the big warehouse? Let's make a bet that someone in the 1950's government found and....something happens....
I disagree with you. TAPR is a GREAT organization that moset hams have heard of. They are also pretty innovative too. The reasons things seem to be stuck at slower speeds is a technical limitation that has not been overcome. the problem wih going faster is it increases the bandwidth of your signal. The faster you go, the wider your signal is. On 2m, 9600 is the limit right now until someone figures what will basically have to be a new mode or maybe a way to compress it all to actually simulate a greater speed with out going faster. Going to higher frequencies like UHF (No problem and it is just as cheap as 2m) is not a problem as most folks have 70 cm gear too. The most common radio sold today has 2m and 70cm on it and usually a dedicated packet port that's 9600 capable. Now the GBPPR folks are working on something entirely different then AX.25 packet. They are altering part 15 devices and using them as part 97 devices. This allows them to use a 1 w amp to increase thier range, but they have to stick to the Amateur Overlap. IN the 2.4 GHz band, that would be 2400 MHz to 2450 MHz. So, while the speeds that GBPPR are faster, what they are using is not what TAPR uses which is AX.25. So, basically you haave 2 groups that do similar things, but they are different missions.
even though we generally don't have any privacy and our civil liberties are slowly being axed by the current administration
Boy everyone likes to poke fun at the republicans.....well, they may not have had to do that if Clinton would have been taking care of Osama instead of playing with his cigars and Monica Lewinsky. Then again, if his daddy would have taken care of Saddam, we would not had to do it this time.
With excpetion of Video editing and dvd creation type jobs, the only thign about 95 percent of people do that even comes close to pushing the CPU on a modern machine is 3D Gaming types of games. Beyond that, you don't need much to get the job done (ok, almost forgot....complex program compiling needs a bit of power too....but if you don't have it, it just takes longer). Simple games run on a wider range of hardware and you don't have to have the 400 dollar Video Accellerator in order to get acceptable frame rates. So it stands to reason that people would like these types of games. They also tend to be way cheaper....ranging from free to under 10 bucks. Also, make no mistake, gameplay comes into play. Take Roller Coaster Tycoon...still a VERY popular game and it's not even 3d accellerated! Same thing goes for the Sims and Sim City. Simpler games alot of times have a shorter time frame, but not always. Just look at RCT! Some games take a LONG time. Sometimes people people will leave RCT, the Sims and others running while they do housework or while they work. This may seem like a mistake but sometimes it's the best thing to let the game take over a bit of time. Micro managing things sometimes in these games can kill you (like answering the publics every whim in Sim City). In either event, I long for the days where games were addicting, yet all you ever did was compete for a high score instead of BEATING the game.
And this would be a wrong assumption. Vendors courtesy ports in our company get all the same priority security wise as company employee ports would. By vendors, I mean consultants. The Pepsi guy that fills our pop machine does not get a jack!:)
You are so lucky. Thats all to got to say! NEVER unless it's frickin obvious....log in to a unsecured AP. You will be labeled a hacker even though they were stupid.
That's nice, but if you run a 3 button mouse on some KVM's you'll loose the mouse for some unknown reason when you switch. Seen it happen. Plus, he knows how to do it (configging a scroll mouse) but is in search of a KVM without this issue.
The SPEC bench marks don't show REAL world performance. SHOW me how these things run Photoshop and don't turn anything off because as everyone knows, it's not going to be turned off when a user runs it and also Adobe and others will make versions optimized for the G5. If I can get Photoshop running faster (or any other app) then thats a good thing! Personally, the G5's are still cool....regardless of how fast they are, they will still do everyting I want and more.
Nice troll. It's one I happen to agree with to an extent. People are not stupid. It IS nice to allow you to do about 90 percent of what you need to do with the left mouse button, but after you've mastered that, power users should be able to do what they want and with Mac OSX they are. So, include a nice matching 3 button mouse as a option to the one button mouse. Scroll Mice are also supported and handy. One thing where I differ with you is where in god's name do you find a mouse for 30 bucks? I can find acceptable mice for around 15. Granted, I do like cadillac mice too. My fav is a intellimouse pro. Microsoft may not make the best software, but there mice are excellent. One hting that Apple needs to do more is concentrate a bit mroe on their power users. They do fine with the low end and they need to push the hugh end more. Hence the G5.
Luckily, my company was smart enough to say hold the phone before we were totally stuck. We have been trying to migrate from Mainframe to a Client Server environment. As we have been going along, we have discover due to the way the app was written, when a batch payroll job was running, it would completly lock the records it was working on. And since there was one table not just for employees, but for every person in the system whether they were a vendor, a employee or a customer the WHOLE TABLE would be locked and noone else and I do mean noone would be able to use the system. Payroll on the MF also runs in about 2 hours counting the printing of the reports and maybe another 30 min or so for printing the Direct Deposits. Just to run the Direct Deposits, it took 45 minutes(without printing them!)! This job runs in about 5 min or less on the mainframe. Basically, because the batch and even regular lookups were slow as can be, there was not enough time in the day to run all of the batch we'd need to run! Even if everything was done interactively, it would still take forever to do a complete payroll run. Also, we did not install the product on the servers. We just admin it. It was not even installed in a in correct fashion (will the Oracle DB part of it definitely wasn't) and parts of the system used a product which is on the road to being EOL'd by IBM. So, now we are building our case to go back to the company and say you have X amount of time to get things back on track. If you don't, your history and we'll see you in court. What's worse is the company will not admit that thier stuff is faulty and LIES to us about other clients not having any problems when we have picked up the phone and read the internet posts from others having the EXACT same problems we are having. Plus NOTHING follows the correct packaging for the OS so cleaning it up to use for another project will just end up being a reinstall (I guess that isn't too bad since we have to go to AIX 5.1 anyway since 4.3.3 is EOL'd at the end of this year...this is not the prooduct we're worried about with the EOL...it's another). So, our OS company is fine. Our DB company is super. Our software company sucks and we're ready to tell them to go to hell, we'll do it ourselves (and better and in less time).
Half right. Windows Mobile is kind of the title, but it's really just a new name for Windows CE. You can still call a iPaq a PocketPC. In fact, Microsoft does too. I think that they new marketing is confusing really and all it is is PocketPC 2003. PocketPC 2000 was not really a new OS either. It was just new interfaces to the OS. It looks like, to me, they are trying to get people to write programs that are universal. Meaning the program will run on the SmartPhones, the PPCPE's (Pocket PC Phone Editions) and PocketPC's themselves. I hope that they bring back the clam shell devices. I liked the wider but narrower screen, plus the processors they are using are getting really useful for all kinds of things. That was compared to the MIPS and SH3 processor's first used which were slow and weak.
The other poster has it mostly correct. Windows CE has gone nowhere. It's still here. What they have now done is developed more userland stuff to make a PocketPC work like it should. The core is still Windows CE, it's just customized to work in a portrait format. PLUS the prices aren't creeping up on the devices that most users use. The Dell and HP 1910 are the most popular ones and they are in the 300 dollar range. The Toshiba(the WiFi one) and iPaqs are for the Power PocketPC user. The reason your seeing these high end ones is that folks like me who LOVE Pocket PC would love to have those features. If my e740 had just a couple things (either integrated keyboard or a better browser....which 2003 has) I would not necessarily need a laptop when I go on a business trip. Next thing I want is bettter MP3 player support (as in manage my MP3 Player with the PPC and also using the HD features with the PPC too). If Creative or Apple came out with this!:)
With one exception dude.....the paper it's on. I have a FCC license (Ham) and it's on a slightly different type of paper. It's got a pattern I have never seen. PLUS you'd need a valid FRN(or whatever the FAA uses) and to add to that, if your even the least bit shady (limited flight logs and your license is over 20 years old) you will be watched closely by ATC and the tower. Trying to fool anyone in these areas is stupid and not worth it. Try it and you will be labled a terrorist.
You Said: Prior to that, all the computer memory came soldered onto the motherboard.
WRONG! Some ram was soldered on the board, but most used DIP packages and sockets. You know, the ones that look like legs? In fact, my first computer ever had these and it was a BITCH to upgrade the ram. Damn pins would bend and all hell would break loose if you broke one off. Time to get a new one then. Interesting story about Wang though.
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And yet, this stops nothing. There are keyloggers that you can plug into a PS/2 port and then polug the keyboar dinto the logger. They have built in memory. They are small. They would not be noticed. They work on any OS. SO explain what you did to "lock down" these machines again?
this thing looks like it's top heavy. Would not want to handle something like this on Lake Erie. First bad storm and it would roll! :)
Yeah a while back too. Since WINCE 3.0 Microsoft has had a AutoPC version including a memory card slot and the like. Clarion's current unit (around 2600 USD) has a Pentium MMX chip in it. This may seem underpowered, but consider it's only driving a display that is much smaller then a PocketPC's display.
Yoga is strange. I thought it had something to do with religion, but so many atheist folks I know do Yoga. On that note, I don't find it strange at all somethign like this would be allowed for breaks. A local company here made a prayer room available for the Somali community that emigrated here. Somali's usually practice Islam. There was a semi big stink about it on the local talk radio because they had not done the same thing for Christians and Jews as well. I would not mind having a quite place to pray, but Chrisitians don't really need much to pray. They don't even have to have a bible to pray (but it helps for aftwards!). People eho practice Islam must pray towarss Mecca several times a day and have a ritual that goes along with it. They don't usually like being disturbed when doing it either. I rambled, but in any case, it's a fair thing for companies to spend money on this type of thing. If it helps keep people from going postal and having heart attacks it must be a good thing!
I agree with others in this thread that marketing is screaming for features. Palm needs to beef up their offering so it can compete with Pocket PC. WM 2003 is right up there with Windows XP as a decent OS. Sure, there are bugs. Sure, it's a bit bloated but hey it's an accomplishment! Something that approaches the usability of Windows XP and a compact .NET framework that all fits in 32 MB of ROM. Pretty cool if you ask me! If all you want is an organizer, then you could try a Royal Linea or one of the organizer only sharp units. They are dirt cheap and available compared to other suggestions like the Helios and Agenda VR3. Granted....these organizer only ones aren't without their issues. I had a older lady friend that her hubby gave her the sharp unit (not the zaurus) and it was pretty cool.....5 months later, it kept erasing her data and she had not synced it at all with her desktop. I think the organizer only ones should put a SD slot in and include a 8 MB SD card for backing up. Some folks don't want to hook it to their computer. If you think you ever want to do something else, better go with Palm or or PPC. The simple models are still out there. I see Visor Deluxes and some of their cousins in lots of place. I saw Compusa had refurbed Visor Platinums for 99 bucks! If you scope the Walmart Electronics Dept. Clearance rack, you sometimes can find Visors, or if not visors, you can find memory backup springboards or even the Magellan GPS module. There are older devices (new or refurbed) still on the market because Palm started to lose to Pocket PC because Pocket PC was doing lots more and at a equivalant price when the Axim came out. Palm and Handspring both tried flooding the market(which is why you still see these units) with KISS Handhelds, but the market was busy being dazzled by Sony and the PPC OEMs. KISS handhelds are for grandmas!
This is true even of some states! During EST, Indiana is the same as the rest of the Eastern Time Zone. When the rest of the Eastern Time Zone switches to EDT, Indiana is still on EST. I think Arizona is like this also (most of year it matches Colorado's time, but when Colorado springs forward, Arizona does not.)
:)
I might also add that Midnight isn't as late as it used to be. Push cron jobs past midnight by an hour or two. System could still be busy at midnight depending on the place you work at. At a college, yeah they system could be very busy at midnight!
How about the game that head the best looking box art but REALLY SUCKED when you played it?
The example you give is in a situation where there were alot of unknowns. I remember them closing my work down because we did not know if there were more hi-jacked planes and we live in Columbus, OH! The President must be protected. Period. The reason they did this was to protect him in case of an attack on the Whitehouse itself. It was rumored that the Whitehouse was the real target for the Pentagon Plane or the Plane in PA that crashed. At the time, they frankly did not know enough about the situation, so they go to the safe location. The President DOES have freedom. He can go where he wants to. The Secret Service is capable of alot. If the President decides he would like to go to dinner, Secret Service probably has enough notice to sweep the restaurant and post plain clothes guards with him. In fact, they may even already have the Presidents favorite restaurants staked out or swept periodically. I guess the only problem may be if he wants a dinner alone with the first lady....they could go to dinner, but they'd have Secret Service with them. Not very romantic! :)
This whole thing with the ignoring the e-mail and only accepting this web page thing is really convluted and wrong. Personally, they could use procmail filtering instead of this web thing and that would be something that the public would not know about and be even more dangerous.
You know this is a EXCELLENT post. I think that in the future, folks WILL be able to do this. In the future, some will be able to buy a computer for 50 bucks and won't have to worry about a thing. How will this happen? :
:P
1. Develop a new "PC" if you will that will let only certified code be installed (DRM would PROTECT you in this case).
2. Code can only be installed from devices like CD/ROMS and other removable media. Nothing should be able to be installed from the. internet or a hard disk. Only place installation commands would be seen is the main terminal (lft0 on AIX).
3. Main OS code is stored in a Flash ROM. There's a area of flashrom reserved for installable programs. If the program is too big, it needs to be run from removeable media.
4. ALL user files would either be stored on the server, on on transparantly encrypted media.
DRM would be your savior in this. All code must be validated by a public/private keyset.
EVERYTHING must be encrypted.....user files and program files with the only exceptions being the kernel, BIOS and whatever is needed to decrypt the rest of the stuff. Firewalls would be built in and autpmatically configured for what is on the system. If a program is to use the internet, it has to know what ports it needs ahead of time and has to ask the OS firewall to open it. ANOTHER set of keys would be necessary for these ports to be opened. If it does not have the correct keys, the port does not get opened. The resultant system would not necessarily be completely secure, but would be good enough. Geeks like us would still use conventional PC's.
It's either a crippled system like that, or the world comes up with Amateur Computer Operators licenses ala Amateur Radio. These licenses would have people learning about basic security and have to show proficiency at configuring firewalls and computers that have been off the market for years. The ethernet would require a expensive feedline tuner and all licensed folks would be required to smell bad and be fat. Then it would be like amateur radio.
COBOL is still kicking. There are alot of mainframe shops that swear by it and even a few UNIX programs that are written in it. COBOL is like lpd. It ain't pretty, but it gets the job done....usually! ;)
That link someone posted earlier said something along the return of the ark....remember the scene with the ark and all of those other boxes in the big warehouse? Let's make a bet that someone in the 1950's government found and....something happens....
That could be fun....
I disagree with you. TAPR is a GREAT organization that moset hams have heard of. They are also pretty innovative too. The reasons things seem to be stuck at slower speeds is a technical limitation that has not been overcome. the problem wih going faster is it increases the bandwidth of your signal. The faster you go, the wider your signal is. On 2m, 9600 is the limit right now until someone figures what will basically have to be a new mode or maybe a way to compress it all to actually simulate a greater speed with out going faster. Going to higher frequencies like UHF (No problem and it is just as cheap as 2m) is not a problem as most folks have 70 cm gear too. The most common radio sold today has 2m and 70cm on it and usually a dedicated packet port that's 9600 capable. Now the GBPPR folks are working on something entirely different then AX.25 packet. They are altering part 15 devices and using them as part 97 devices. This allows them to use a 1 w amp to increase thier range, but they have to stick to the Amateur Overlap. IN the 2.4 GHz band, that would be 2400 MHz to 2450 MHz. So, while the speeds that GBPPR are faster, what they are using is not what TAPR uses which is AX.25. So, basically you haave 2 groups that do similar things, but they are different missions.
even though we generally don't have any privacy and our civil liberties are slowly being axed by the current administration
Boy everyone likes to poke fun at the republicans.....well, they may not have had to do that if Clinton would have been taking care of Osama instead of playing with his cigars and Monica Lewinsky. Then again, if his daddy would have taken care of Saddam, we would not had to do it this time.
With excpetion of Video editing and dvd creation type jobs, the only thign about 95 percent of people do that even comes close to pushing the CPU on a modern machine is 3D Gaming types of games. Beyond that, you don't need much to get the job done (ok, almost forgot....complex program compiling needs a bit of power too....but if you don't have it, it just takes longer). Simple games run on a wider range of hardware and you don't have to have the 400 dollar Video Accellerator in order to get acceptable frame rates. So it stands to reason that people would like these types of games. They also tend to be way cheaper....ranging from free to under 10 bucks. Also, make no mistake, gameplay comes into play. Take Roller Coaster Tycoon...still a VERY popular game and it's not even 3d accellerated! Same thing goes for the Sims and Sim City. Simpler games alot of times have a shorter time frame, but not always. Just look at RCT! Some games take a LONG time. Sometimes people people will leave RCT, the Sims and others running while they do housework or while they work. This may seem like a mistake but sometimes it's the best thing to let the game take over a bit of time. Micro managing things sometimes in these games can kill you (like answering the publics every whim in Sim City). In either event, I long for the days where games were addicting, yet all you ever did was compete for a high score instead of BEATING the game.
And this would be a wrong assumption. Vendors courtesy ports in our company get all the same priority security wise as company employee ports would. By vendors, I mean consultants. The Pepsi guy that fills our pop machine does not get a jack! :)
Also, why be so dumb by disguising it as H*neywell.....just type Honeywell. It's childish and stupid form of disguising the neteork you stole from.
You are so lucky. Thats all to got to say! NEVER unless it's frickin obvious....log in to a unsecured AP. You will be labeled a hacker even though they were stupid.
That's nice, but if you run a 3 button mouse on some KVM's you'll loose the mouse for some unknown reason when you switch. Seen it happen. Plus, he knows how to do it (configging a scroll mouse) but is in search of a KVM without this issue.
The SPEC bench marks don't show REAL world performance. SHOW me how these things run Photoshop and don't turn anything off because as everyone knows, it's not going to be turned off when a user runs it and also Adobe and others will make versions optimized for the G5. If I can get Photoshop running faster (or any other app) then thats a good thing! Personally, the G5's are still cool....regardless of how fast they are, they will still do everyting I want and more.
Nice troll. It's one I happen to agree with to an extent. People are not stupid. It IS nice to allow you to do about 90 percent of what you need to do with the left mouse button, but after you've mastered that, power users should be able to do what they want and with Mac OSX they are. So, include a nice matching 3 button mouse as a option to the one button mouse. Scroll Mice are also supported and handy. One thing where I differ with you is where in god's name do you find a mouse for 30 bucks? I can find acceptable mice for around 15. Granted, I do like cadillac mice too. My fav is a intellimouse pro. Microsoft may not make the best software, but there mice are excellent. One hting that Apple needs to do more is concentrate a bit mroe on their power users. They do fine with the low end and they need to push the hugh end more. Hence the G5.
Luckily, my company was smart enough to say hold the phone before we were totally stuck. We have been trying to migrate from Mainframe to a Client Server environment. As we have been going along, we have discover due to the way the app was written, when a batch payroll job was running, it would completly lock the records it was working on. And since there was one table not just for employees, but for every person in the system whether they were a vendor, a employee or a customer the WHOLE TABLE would be locked and noone else and I do mean noone would be able to use the system. Payroll on the MF also runs in about 2 hours counting the printing of the reports and maybe another 30 min or so for printing the Direct Deposits. Just to run the Direct Deposits, it took 45 minutes(without printing them!)! This job runs in about 5 min or less on the mainframe. Basically, because the batch and even regular lookups were slow as can be, there was not enough time in the day to run all of the batch we'd need to run! Even if everything was done interactively, it would still take forever to do a complete payroll run. Also, we did not install the product on the servers. We just admin it. It was not even installed in a in correct fashion (will the Oracle DB part of it definitely wasn't) and parts of the system used a product which is on the road to being EOL'd by IBM. So, now we are building our case to go back to the company and say you have X amount of time to get things back on track. If you don't, your history and we'll see you in court. What's worse is the company will not admit that thier stuff is faulty and LIES to us about other clients not having any problems when we have picked up the phone and read the internet posts from others having the EXACT same problems we are having. Plus NOTHING follows the correct packaging for the OS so cleaning it up to use for another project will just end up being a reinstall (I guess that isn't too bad since we have to go to AIX 5.1 anyway since 4.3.3 is EOL'd at the end of this year...this is not the prooduct we're worried about with the EOL...it's another). So, our OS company is fine. Our DB company is super. Our software company sucks and we're ready to tell them to go to hell, we'll do it ourselves (and better and in less time).
Half right. Windows Mobile is kind of the title, but it's really just a new name for Windows CE. You can still call a iPaq a PocketPC. In fact, Microsoft does too. I think that they new marketing is confusing really and all it is is PocketPC 2003. PocketPC 2000 was not really a new OS either. It was just new interfaces to the OS. It looks like, to me, they are trying to get people to write programs that are universal. Meaning the program will run on the SmartPhones, the PPCPE's (Pocket PC Phone Editions) and PocketPC's themselves. I hope that they bring back the clam shell devices. I liked the wider but narrower screen, plus the processors they are using are getting really useful for all kinds of things. That was compared to the MIPS and SH3 processor's first used which were slow and weak.
The other poster has it mostly correct. Windows CE has gone nowhere. It's still here. What they have now done is developed more userland stuff to make a PocketPC work like it should. The core is still Windows CE, it's just customized to work in a portrait format. PLUS the prices aren't creeping up on the devices that most users use. The Dell and HP 1910 are the most popular ones and they are in the 300 dollar range. The Toshiba(the WiFi one) and iPaqs are for the Power PocketPC user. The reason your seeing these high end ones is that folks like me who LOVE Pocket PC would love to have those features. If my e740 had just a couple things (either integrated keyboard or a better browser....which 2003 has) I would not necessarily need a laptop when I go on a business trip. Next thing I want is bettter MP3 player support (as in manage my MP3 Player with the PPC and also using the HD features with the PPC too). If Creative or Apple came out with this! :)
With one exception dude.....the paper it's on. I have a FCC license (Ham) and it's on a slightly different type of paper. It's got a pattern I have never seen. PLUS you'd need a valid FRN(or whatever the FAA uses) and to add to that, if your even the least bit shady (limited flight logs and your license is over 20 years old) you will be watched closely by ATC and the tower. Trying to fool anyone in these areas is stupid and not worth it. Try it and you will be labled a terrorist.
You Said: Prior to that, all the computer memory came soldered onto the motherboard.
WRONG! Some ram was soldered on the board, but most used DIP packages and sockets. You know, the ones that look like legs? In fact, my first computer ever had these and it was a BITCH to upgrade the ram. Damn pins would bend and all hell would break loose if you broke one off. Time to get a new one then. Interesting story about Wang though.