But seriously I have never returned a drive for warranty as once it fails securely erasing the data can be an issue if ti doesn't spin up, now that prices have jumped I might consider it but previously drives were so cheap why bother.
You can have drives that are in an "almost failed" state where you can nuke most of the data. Those are the ones I send back. If we have a lot of desktop drives die, and the people in question can confirm there was no important data on them (because they never work with such), we store up the drives and wait until we change the desktop admin passwords again before doing a warranty replacement en masse.
Right now, he's got tech websites listing his problem. When Facebook lists "Mark Zuckerberg" as a defendant which they would be legally required to do (they can't say the man formally known as Guez), then every news station in the world will have a teaser of "Facebook sues Mark Zuckerberg, news at eleven." 11:00pm: "Later on tonight, we'll have a story about Facebook suing Mark Zuckerberg. But now, here's the weather forecast..." Millions of people will tune out after hearing the teaser, and will probably log on to Facebook to tell their friends that Facebook is imploding.
An intelligent person, so not you, would have compared an IT department not with a plumber, but with a fire department. Of course, they are assholes too, which only want to spoil your fun and feel great by forbidding you to smoke in several places.
And maximum occupancy rules, safety inspections of various types, parking rules, etc all enforced by fire marshals. The fire department is in the prevention business as much as is feasible.
IT is often the "prevention of information services department". User figures out a better way to do something, IT blocks it. [...] User does it himself, IT finds out and makes him stop.
No duh. Opening up your desktop firewall to the world and setting up your C drive as a share writable by Everyone is not a better way for your team to share data. Rooting your box doesn't make you l33t, it makes you a headache and potential legal problem. Go through proper channels, make your case logically. Worst case scenario, get your boss to talk to my boss.
This was probably written by the dude who routinely roots his box (calls Dell to get the BIOS reset code, uses a bootcd, et voila) so that he can install PC anywhere because it's VITAL for his side business and he knows IT will say "no".
Stop using Linux (your Red Hat reference) as an example: Linux uses a modified GPL that allows linking with non-GPL stuff.
The more and more people will want to use third-party distributors (like app stores) for their binaries, the less and less the GPL will allow that unless the store also distributes the source.
You do know that Red Hat distributes more tha the Linux kernel, and that a ton of their GNU apps are GPLv3? They're making a profit with GPLv3.
Stop using Linux (your Red Hat reference) as an example: Linux uses a modified GPL that allows linking with non-GPL stuff.
The more and more people will want to use third-party distributors (like app stores) for their binaries, the less and less the GPL will allow that unless the store also distributes the source.
You do know that Red Hat distributes more tha the Linux kernel, and that a ton of their GNU apps are GPLv3? They're making a profit with G
Methane has an atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years. [...] over a 20 year period a ton of methane will cause the same amount of global warming as 72 tons of carbon dioxide.
Shouldn't a twenty year period be the same as a twelve year period then?
...means that your team may not have enough work to go around. I'm of the mindset that having a regularly light workload is good for an IT team, so that they're available when the ^#@$ hits the fan as it eventually will, murphey's law and all. But your managers probably are not.
Taking away government's teeth takes away its ability to protect you from the powerful. This is exactly what the rich want. Sorry, but you've been fooled by the rich and powerful
The rich are rich because they have money or are owed money. The powerful have power because of influence or force of arms. (The Federal) government isn't supposed to have teeth except for external threats. The people are supposed to have the teeth, and the government is supposed to fear them.
By "populace" you must mean "the corporations".
I love how you set that straw man up. Knock it down! Burn it! Beat it bloody! Stop putting words in my mouth. I learned to feed myself when I was a toddler.
Limited government means no environmental regulations... bye bye clean air and water. It means fewer banking regulations... say bye bye to your money. It means fewer safety regs (as in OSHA). Say bye bye to your brother who just died in a preventable industrial accident.
Limited government means none of those things. Limited government is in-between "sparse or no government" and "unlimited government". For me it means having a government that doesn't rule by fiat and prohibit exercising of rights by the people.
[government] protect[s] it citizenry from abuses just like SOPA
SOPA doesn't have teeth without the might of the government. Totalitarianism (we have to pass the bill before you can read it) is the mechanism through which the social inequity is being forged. With a limited government (note I didn't say *lack of government*), the nobility has a much shorter sword to threaten the populace with.
This is the mindset that has caused the US to move steadily to the right for the past 30 years. The lesser evil is still evil.
The Right? Damn, man. I've been alive and aware those 30 years and you're so wrong. It's been moving steadily toward totalitarianism, which is neither Right (limited government) nor Left (social welfare). Left and Right in America aren't opposites of one another, they just happen to use the same resources (like a family does). Social welfare *in moderation* is what makes a great country. They're two players on the same team. If you bring in totalitarianism, that's unlimited government (anti-right), and temporarily, the Left is unrestrained, and everyone thinks it's great to get all this free stuff (because people will always be greedy)... until the totalitarian decides that enough bread and circuses have been given out, and then it's time for Social Inequity, Totalitarian's partner in the league of super-villainy, to enter into the picture and slay the Left (because people will always be greedy). Limited Government died a while back, and Social Inequity is rising. The Left needs to help the Tea Party bring back Limited Government before society has no one that fares well, save nobility.
HEAD-ON APPLY IT TO THE FOREHEAD.
That is why it works. When I'm looking for a new headache medicine and see it on the shelf, I'll remember two things: the commercial annoys me, and the people in the commercial are very vocal about the product.
As long as you and your coworkers have enough work to keep you busy, your boss won't play Russian Roulette with the team. So increasing everyone's numbers helps.
Louis CK said in an NPR interview earlier this week:
"And a friend of mine who does torrent stuff a lot says that when torrent users do buy something, they act like they're doing the greatest thing ever.... They're saying, 'I bought something today. I paid for it. And I didn't steal it. I'm the greatest person alive.' "
I've noticed this attitude as well. It's really, really annoying.
Funny you mentioned NPR. I find my friends who donate to PBS/NPR to do the same sort of snobbery.
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But seriously I have never returned a drive for warranty as once it fails securely erasing the data can be an issue if ti doesn't spin up, now that prices have jumped I might consider it but previously drives were so cheap why bother.
You can have drives that are in an "almost failed" state where you can nuke most of the data. Those are the ones I send back. If we have a lot of desktop drives die, and the people in question can confirm there was no important data on them (because they never work with such), we store up the drives and wait until we change the desktop admin passwords again before doing a warranty replacement en masse.
I rarely have ever run into a hard drive go bad within a year (24" iMac though was a very expensive and notable exception).
We've got around a 1/10 failure rate with iMac drives within the first year. Their heat management sucks.
Right now, he's got tech websites listing his problem. When Facebook lists "Mark Zuckerberg" as a defendant which they would be legally required to do (they can't say the man formally known as Guez), then every news station in the world will have a teaser of "Facebook sues Mark Zuckerberg, news at eleven." 11:00pm: "Later on tonight, we'll have a story about Facebook suing Mark Zuckerberg. But now, here's the weather forecast..." Millions of people will tune out after hearing the teaser, and will probably log on to Facebook to tell their friends that Facebook is imploding.
Two of the most highly regulated industries â" financial services and health care (including life sciences) â" are most likely to support BYOD
... until they get slapped with huge fines due to the whole concept of BYOD being against said regulations.
Guez didn't say that, Zuckerberg did. Btw, my phone's autocorrect for Zuckerberg is hilarious.
An intelligent person, so not you, would have compared an IT department not with a plumber, but with a fire department. Of course, they are assholes too, which only want to spoil your fun and feel great by forbidding you to smoke in several places.
And maximum occupancy rules, safety inspections of various types, parking rules, etc all enforced by fire marshals. The fire department is in the prevention business as much as is feasible.
IT is often the "prevention of information services department". User figures out a better way to do something, IT blocks it. [...] User does it himself, IT finds out and makes him stop.
No duh. Opening up your desktop firewall to the world and setting up your C drive as a share writable by Everyone is not a better way for your team to share data. Rooting your box doesn't make you l33t, it makes you a headache and potential legal problem. Go through proper channels, make your case logically. Worst case scenario, get your boss to talk to my boss.
This was probably written by the dude who routinely roots his box (calls Dell to get the BIOS reset code, uses a bootcd, et voila) so that he can install PC anywhere because it's VITAL for his side business and he knows IT will say "no".
Stop using Linux (your Red Hat reference) as an example: Linux uses a modified GPL that allows linking with non-GPL stuff. The more and more people will want to use third-party distributors (like app stores) for their binaries, the less and less the GPL will allow that unless the store also distributes the source.
You do know that Red Hat distributes more tha the Linux kernel, and that a ton of their GNU apps are GPLv3? They're making a profit with GPLv3.
Stop using Linux (your Red Hat reference) as an example: Linux uses a modified GPL that allows linking with non-GPL stuff. The more and more people will want to use third-party distributors (like app stores) for their binaries, the less and less the GPL will allow that unless the store also distributes the source.
You do know that Red Hat distributes more tha the Linux kernel, and that a ton of their GNU apps are GPLv3? They're making a profit with G
I give time to Silver Surfer groups
You seek out life bearing worlds for Galactus to eat? You monster!
GP didn't say halflife. GP said lifetime.
Yeah I went there.
Methane has an atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years. [...] over a 20 year period a ton of methane will cause the same amount of global warming as 72 tons of carbon dioxide.
Shouldn't a twenty year period be the same as a twelve year period then?
Spain was filled with moors in 750AD, but there's no indication they were gassier than other people.
...means that your team may not have enough work to go around. I'm of the mindset that having a regularly light workload is good for an IT team, so that they're available when the ^#@$ hits the fan as it eventually will, murphey's law and all. But your managers probably are not.
In Russia, they put worms in vodka to see if it's toxic
... enough to drink yet.
Taking away government's teeth takes away its ability to protect you from the powerful. This is exactly what the rich want. Sorry, but you've been fooled by the rich and powerful
The rich are rich because they have money or are owed money. The powerful have power because of influence or force of arms. (The Federal) government isn't supposed to have teeth except for external threats. The people are supposed to have the teeth, and the government is supposed to fear them.
By "populace" you must mean "the corporations".
I love how you set that straw man up. Knock it down! Burn it! Beat it bloody! Stop putting words in my mouth. I learned to feed myself when I was a toddler.
Limited government means no environmental regulations... bye bye clean air and water. It means fewer banking regulations... say bye bye to your money. It means fewer safety regs (as in OSHA). Say bye bye to your brother who just died in a preventable industrial accident.
Limited government means none of those things. Limited government is in-between "sparse or no government" and "unlimited government". For me it means having a government that doesn't rule by fiat and prohibit exercising of rights by the people.
[government] protect[s] it citizenry from abuses just like SOPA
SOPA doesn't have teeth without the might of the government. Totalitarianism (we have to pass the bill before you can read it) is the mechanism through which the social inequity is being forged. With a limited government (note I didn't say *lack of government*), the nobility has a much shorter sword to threaten the populace with.
This is the mindset that has caused the US to move steadily to the right for the past 30 years. The lesser evil is still evil.
The Right? Damn, man. I've been alive and aware those 30 years and you're so wrong. It's been moving steadily toward totalitarianism, which is neither Right (limited government) nor Left (social welfare). Left and Right in America aren't opposites of one another, they just happen to use the same resources (like a family does). Social welfare *in moderation* is what makes a great country. They're two players on the same team. If you bring in totalitarianism, that's unlimited government (anti-right), and temporarily, the Left is unrestrained, and everyone thinks it's great to get all this free stuff (because people will always be greedy)... until the totalitarian decides that enough bread and circuses have been given out, and then it's time for Social Inequity, Totalitarian's partner in the league of super-villainy, to enter into the picture and slay the Left (because people will always be greedy). Limited Government died a while back, and Social Inequity is rising. The Left needs to help the Tea Party bring back Limited Government before society has no one that fares well, save nobility.
The worst is when they put up a lower banner ad that covers up words in a translated film.
HEAD-ON APPLY IT TO THE FOREHEAD.
That is why it works. When I'm looking for a new headache medicine and see it on the shelf, I'll remember two things: the commercial annoys me, and the people in the commercial are very vocal about the product.
As long as you and your coworkers have enough work to keep you busy, your boss won't play Russian Roulette with the team. So increasing everyone's numbers helps.
Louis CK said in an NPR interview earlier this week:
"And a friend of mine who does torrent stuff a lot says that when torrent users do buy something, they act like they're doing the greatest thing ever. ... They're saying, 'I bought something today. I paid for it. And I didn't steal it. I'm the greatest person alive.' "
I've noticed this attitude as well. It's really, really annoying.
Funny you mentioned NPR. I find my friends who donate to PBS/NPR to do the same sort of snobbery.
"The computer is acting funny."
Which computer? Do you think it's a comedian? Is it here to amuse you?