How many businesses upgrade an OS without upgrading the hardware?
Every one I've ever worked for from hole in the wall, university, and fortune 500. The only place I've seen where they want to get rid of out of warranty computers is in the medical field where uptime was critical (but even then, they re-used the desktops until they died or became too obsolete).
And what business computer from ten years ago will run Win 7?
A computer from the drafting/design department could have been reallocated to less intensive work as a general mail/browser system.
Why not? Reimaging the disk should write to every bit on the disk, right?
no, it doesn't.
That is, unless "reimaging" has been changed to mean "create a new partition over the old one and recursively copy the appropriate directory structure and files to it". But that would be a misnomer. If it's not bit for bit identical, it's not a disk image.
"Reimage" hasn't meant "dd" is a long time. Most programs like ghost or partimage create a new partition over the old one and recursively copy the appropriate directory structure and files to it. There's a reason why wiping a 3TB disk with one pass takes two days but deploying an image to it can take as little as five minutes.
He's using RHEL, the "business" distro. It's like Fedora--. You know Fedora, the distro that won't allow binary blobs in their repos and tries to placate RMS? RHEL uses Fedora like a canary in a coal mine, and has two year old Fedora packages in its repos with a markedly reduced set.
Get them used to Firefox, thunderbird, OpenOffice, gimp, audacity, etc on Windows first, then a year later suggest a change of OS. If they don't like the above applications, they're going to hate using linux.
I find it amazing that he is expecting his team to leap right in and sexually harass the new woman.
What he's expecting is that one guy will tell a bawdy joke to another guy and he's hoping that the new woman won't interpret this as a hostile workplace environment and run to HR screaming bloody murder.
Just hire a socially retarded flamer (not hard to find among geeks). In a week the worst of the guys will be asking for a formal sexual harassment policy. This is not theoretical, I've lived it. David H. we still remember you, you god damn faggot.
The Office is funny because the characters are clearly caricatures of badly behaving people.
Harassment should take intent into account, just like many other crimes. Mere offense is not enough to confirm that actual harassment has occurred (although that is the currently accepted definition). Sure, if Dwight Schrute were a real person, he'd be in jail for myriad assault and arson charges. If Michael Scott were a real person, do you think that a few inappropriate jokes would mean that he intended to demean, belittle, or harass his employees?
The problem stems from the definition of "harassing". It's literally anything that the perceiver finds offensive. Did you pass gas? Was someone offended? Harassment. Accident or no, doesn't matter. Zero Tolerance. You're fired. Did you look down at someone's shoes because someone else mentioned them? Oh my God! You just looked her up and down! Harassment! Zero Tolerance. You're fired. Did you say "hi" to the pretty new girl, and you're 240 lbs and ugly? You guessed it...
Yes, HR does consider the human element, and there is considerable wiggle room, but for those of us who are nerds and see rules as absolutes, zero tolerance harassment rules are scary, especially when you don't know if you're breaking them (how can anyone know what someone else will find offensive)?
Well, imagine this if you would: Pretend that instead of going into a heavily male profession like IT, you'd gone into a heavily female profession, nursing. You go out, get a job, move to a new town, you show up for your first day of work and what you hear all day from other nurses is comments not about nursing but about the apparant size of your dick and your presumed sex life or lack thereof. And your ugly hag of a boss is deciding whether you'll be promoted or not based on how nicely you smile when she looks you up and down with clear sexual intent (or in more extreme cases whether you agree to sleep with her).
Think about how you'd really truly react in that kind of scenario, and you might understand the problem.
You're talking about actual harassment. I'm betting submitter is talking about "That's what she said" jokes a la The Office.
I had a go on OSX, but there was a bug where a window's menus were disconnected from the active window, and got stuck at the top of the screen. It's been like that for ages I think, so hope they have found a way to fix it now.
Nope, it still does it, and it's really annoying because it often replaces things like the "lock screen" icon in the top bar, so you have to click on the desktop (de-selecting the active window) to get it back.
Not to spread too much flowers and sunshine on your doom and gloom, but if that's going to happen why haven't desktop prices increased sharply? They've been falling in market share like a rock compared to laptops, you'd think desktop CPUs and motherboards and big graphics cards and whatnot would increase in price but they haven't.
Supply and demand. Currently the manufacturers have a large supply but there is decreasing demand. Eventually they will wise up and reduce supply to just below the demand (making things more expensive; and doubly so since they won't be produced in as big of numbers).
I also strongly suggest using a Repair Disk or DART and learning how to use the SFC command line utility. Booting off of CD/DVD, deleting the infected Services.exe and running SFC, which will scan all of the Windows system files and fix or replace them, including Services.exe. You can also delete other infect files from the command line. Then you can at least have a somewhat clean boot into Windows and run a tool like Hitman Pro to finish the job.
Just spend $50 on a new HDD and reinstall the OS. Safer, faster, less costly. And your data survives on the original disk.
Bzzt. I'm a sysadmin by trade, but code for fun. I wouldn't dare code for money because it would be boring coding other people's specifications all day long.
With the exception of the speedster, the Incredibles are the FF. Invisible girl, Stretcho, a Brick, Human Torch. Crossing Marvel with the Incredibles universe would only dilute both.
We exhaust the earth's resources by pulling raw materials out of the ground, yet with those materials we manufacture goods that fail, or are otherwise disposed of, in 6 months or a year instead of after a decade or several. Re-cycling these discarded items is inefficient and energy intensive, and causes further pollution and contributes to climate change.
When these things are discarded, they aren't disintegrated (except in the case of radioactives, but they'd disintegrate naturally in the ground anyway). Recycling them is far more efficient than mining and purifying the materials again. Worst case scenario, the landfills become the mine sites of the future, but the ores will be easier to refine, and prospectors won't be needed to find a vein.
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How many businesses upgrade an OS without upgrading the hardware?
Every one I've ever worked for from hole in the wall, university, and fortune 500. The only place I've seen where they want to get rid of out of warranty computers is in the medical field where uptime was critical (but even then, they re-used the desktops until they died or became too obsolete).
And what business computer from ten years ago will run Win 7?
A computer from the drafting/design department could have been reallocated to less intensive work as a general mail/browser system.
Why not? Reimaging the disk should write to every bit on the disk, right?
no, it doesn't.
That is, unless "reimaging" has been changed to mean "create a new partition over the old one and recursively copy the appropriate directory structure and files to it". But that would be a misnomer. If it's not bit for bit identical, it's not a disk image.
"Reimage" hasn't meant "dd" is a long time. Most programs like ghost or partimage create a new partition over the old one and recursively copy the appropriate directory structure and files to it. There's a reason why wiping a 3TB disk with one pass takes two days but deploying an image to it can take as little as five minutes.
In the District of Columbia, no one has any rights.
He's using RHEL, the "business" distro. It's like Fedora--. You know Fedora, the distro that won't allow binary blobs in their repos and tries to placate RMS? RHEL uses Fedora like a canary in a coal mine, and has two year old Fedora packages in its repos with a markedly reduced set.
Get them used to Firefox, thunderbird, OpenOffice, gimp, audacity, etc on Windows first, then a year later suggest a change of OS. If they don't like the above applications, they're going to hate using linux.
I find it amazing that he is expecting his team to leap right in and sexually harass the new woman.
What he's expecting is that one guy will tell a bawdy joke to another guy and he's hoping that the new woman won't interpret this as a hostile workplace environment and run to HR screaming bloody murder.
"But your Honor, I didn't mean to offend her when I said she had nice tits! Hell, it was supposed to be a compliment!"
The intent there is clear from the words used. However, a bawdy joke in which no specific person is referenced isn't the same.
Just hire a socially retarded flamer (not hard to find among geeks). In a week the worst of the guys will be asking for a formal sexual harassment policy. This is not theoretical, I've lived it. David H. we still remember you, you god damn faggot.
What's it really like to work with the Hoff?
The Office is funny because the characters are clearly caricatures of badly behaving people.
Harassment should take intent into account, just like many other crimes. Mere offense is not enough to confirm that actual harassment has occurred (although that is the currently accepted definition). Sure, if Dwight Schrute were a real person, he'd be in jail for myriad assault and arson charges. If Michael Scott were a real person, do you think that a few inappropriate jokes would mean that he intended to demean, belittle, or harass his employees?
The problem stems from the definition of "harassing". It's literally anything that the perceiver finds offensive. Did you pass gas? Was someone offended? Harassment. Accident or no, doesn't matter. Zero Tolerance. You're fired. Did you look down at someone's shoes because someone else mentioned them? Oh my God! You just looked her up and down! Harassment! Zero Tolerance. You're fired. Did you say "hi" to the pretty new girl, and you're 240 lbs and ugly? You guessed it...
Yes, HR does consider the human element, and there is considerable wiggle room, but for those of us who are nerds and see rules as absolutes, zero tolerance harassment rules are scary, especially when you don't know if you're breaking them (how can anyone know what someone else will find offensive)?
Well, imagine this if you would: Pretend that instead of going into a heavily male profession like IT, you'd gone into a heavily female profession, nursing. You go out, get a job, move to a new town, you show up for your first day of work and what you hear all day from other nurses is comments not about nursing but about the apparant size of your dick and your presumed sex life or lack thereof. And your ugly hag of a boss is deciding whether you'll be promoted or not based on how nicely you smile when she looks you up and down with clear sexual intent (or in more extreme cases whether you agree to sleep with her).
Think about how you'd really truly react in that kind of scenario, and you might understand the problem.
You're talking about actual harassment. I'm betting submitter is talking about "That's what she said" jokes a la The Office.
Too soon?
It was usable on wince. A java version of ssh1 was my only ssh option on my iPaq before I installed linux on it.
"Crucially in markets which are not part of its trial, the company will suspend enforcement of its current 250 GB cap."
so the 300Mb people still have the cap but everyone else doesn't?
I had a go on OSX, but there was a bug where a window's menus were disconnected from the active window, and got stuck at the top of the screen. It's been like that for ages I think, so hope they have found a way to fix it now.
Nope, it still does it, and it's really annoying because it often replaces things like the "lock screen" icon in the top bar, so you have to click on the desktop (de-selecting the active window) to get it back.
Not to spread too much flowers and sunshine on your doom and gloom, but if that's going to happen why haven't desktop prices increased sharply? They've been falling in market share like a rock compared to laptops, you'd think desktop CPUs and motherboards and big graphics cards and whatnot would increase in price but they haven't.
Supply and demand. Currently the manufacturers have a large supply but there is decreasing demand. Eventually they will wise up and reduce supply to just below the demand (making things more expensive; and doubly so since they won't be produced in as big of numbers).
Wouldn't an Android search GUI just be a front end for a bunch of grep (for data) or find (for files) commands?
I also strongly suggest using a Repair Disk or DART and learning how to use the SFC command line utility. Booting off of CD/DVD, deleting the infected Services.exe and running SFC, which will scan all of the Windows system files and fix or replace them, including Services.exe. You can also delete other infect files from the command line. Then you can at least have a somewhat clean boot into Windows and run a tool like Hitman Pro to finish the job.
Just spend $50 on a new HDD and reinstall the OS. Safer, faster, less costly. And your data survives on the original disk.
I bet it also crashes much much faster!!
AC might have been trolling, but it's correct. If there's a bug in the gpu driver (if?), applications which use the gpu will crash semi-randomly.
Bzzt. I'm a sysadmin by trade, but code for fun. I wouldn't dare code for money because it would be boring coding other people's specifications all day long.
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Don't taste the rainbow!
The Incredibles meet an early Fantastic Four
With the exception of the speedster, the Incredibles are the FF. Invisible girl, Stretcho, a Brick, Human Torch. Crossing Marvel with the Incredibles universe would only dilute both.
The dude's trying to convince the morality police that he wasn't blasting AC/DC. Remember to plug in the earphones next time!
We exhaust the earth's resources by pulling raw materials out of the ground, yet with those materials we manufacture goods that fail, or are otherwise disposed of, in 6 months or a year instead of after a decade or several. Re-cycling these discarded items is inefficient and energy intensive, and causes further pollution and contributes to climate change.
When these things are discarded, they aren't disintegrated (except in the case of radioactives, but they'd disintegrate naturally in the ground anyway). Recycling them is far more efficient than mining and purifying the materials again. Worst case scenario, the landfills become the mine sites of the future, but the ores will be easier to refine, and prospectors won't be needed to find a vein.
I just tell them it's like Ultima Online but with a Zork interface. They know what Zork is, but I have to explain Ultima Online as a 2D WoW.