Surely I couldn't advertise a blue car and give you two pipes, two motorcycles, a welder and a tube of blue pain now could I? I mean truth in advertising would pretty much preclude me from making false and misleading representation and the act itself would seem to be something that would deceive a customer into purchase something obviously different then they were lead to believe.
The math that has been done by alot of well known and respected economists shows that the current amount, before cuts in the stimulus bill amounts to $75,000.00 to each and every unemployed person in the country
How does $800,000,000,000 spread out over 300,000,000 people gain an order of magnitude in that operation?
800,000 / 300 = $2,666.67.
That's 28, I'm sorry, 280 times smaller then the number you posted.
Not all 300,000,000 of us our unemployed yet. Also, you were right with 28, not with 280 (again, assuming every single one of us is unemployed.)
I've been running non-admin in windows for over a year now, on my personal laptop.
The trick I use is this nifty thing called "makemeadmin." It's a batch script that elevates your account to the admin group, launches a cmd windows, and then removes you from the admin group.
This leaves you with a shell running with full admin rights but which still uses your existing profile and account, bypassing the vast majority of the issues with runas. I usually leave the shell running in the background (it defaults to white text on red background, for easy identification. The whole thing works well, as long as you control physical access.
Script can be found here http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/193721.aspx/
The current versions have searching (pretty fast, too). The interface is fast and responsive. A lot of the old complaints I've had about it are gone.
I'm not sure what you mean by attaching one file at a time... afaik, it hasn't had such a restriction since 2000 at least.
It's not perfect, it's not a substitute for a day to day local client, but it's certainly better than a lot of the webmail solutions I've seen... not to mention having your contacts already there is useful for what (to me) is a backup email system for when I don't have access to my fat client.
I still like VBDOS for some things. It's very, very easy to make something in it that fills the screen but allows the flexibility of a GUI. I have a couple home automation things built in it on an oldish tablet PC simply because it's nice and simple to write with.
I'd love a modern character based system that was as easy to code for:)
Except that's not what it is at all..mobi is intended for the delivery of content intended for mobile devices. NOT for hosting content from mobile devices. There is no good reason it shouldn't accept email.
Sites in.mobi are meant to be viewable on mobile devices (and thus simpler, smaller, and designed for mobile device accessibility) .
This is pretty typical in enterprise stuff, actually.
The big unix system vendors (IBM, HP, so on) will sell you a machine with extra ram already installed, and you turn it on "On-demand"
You pay for the time you used it.
I've never fully understood it either.
They will still delete all their files. They will still call you when they delete all their files. They will still "not have touched anything" when they delete all their files.
My grandmother is living proof of all 3 above points. She also insists the local kid moved her ladder across the garage. Some things cannot be fixed by software:)
I'm in a similar position. In my case I worked for a small co briefly, then moved on to work for a consulting company. The experience this gave me was amazingly valuable, as well as the huge network of contacts and references I had when I went to look for new work. In this day and age, your research skills can be just as important as your book knowledge. Someone earlier mentioned coding your own stuff as a way to experience, and the fact is this works, even if you don't code. Build a server, do something new, run into problems, and solve them. The experience you gain from fixing things and the ability to talk about it will help you when the time comes to interview.
If the tech was at that level, would you need to watch the movie at all? Seems it could just be zapped into your brain (Which would certainly save on production costs;) Yay more movie company profits!)
This is an excellent point, but consider that almost everything we do consumes energy in some form. There are a ton of ways to recover energy from these processes and doing so would be a good first step.
Consider a simple example that should be relevant to quite a few of us geeks: A datacenter full of computers. There is a lot of energy going in there for power and then again for cooling.
Several organizations have found ways of using the generated heat to assist in the winter heating of their buildings, and ways of using outside air to assist in cooling. Things like this, even if they are small, definitly help.
Desktop virtualization might not be as hot as server virtualization, but it's certainly nothing new. I have a client with 5 IBM blade chassis, which are mostly dedicated to running VMs for desktop use. They have desktop devices with a VGA and keyboard/mouse plugs, to which they plug in everything else (I think wyse makes them, though I may be wrong. The desktop stuff is outside my realm).
In a raid 10, the other mirrored pair would have to die. In, say, a 12 disk raid 10, this is one disk in 11 that has to fail. In a 12 disk raid 5, any second failed disk will sync you. So yes, it does matter. Raid 10 has a much lower secondary failure rate than raid 5 (or raid 6) especially as the number of disks increases. The rebuild times don't take the same hit that they do on growing raid 5 arrays either. If you are resyncing one failed 1TB disk on a raid 10, you have to resync just that one disk to one new disk no matter how many drives are in the array. If it's raid 5, you have to resync 1 disk using data scattered across every other working disk in the array... this becomes a longer and longer process as you add disks.
IBM is concerned about the new iBlade. These blade servers are similar to IBMs, except permanently glued into an apple blade chassis. Just imagine if Papermaster showed them how much more flexible removable blades would be!
I had all kinds of issues on my (oldish) desktop back when I updated to hardy. I couldn't get the screen to work above 800x600 to save my life, despite manually entering the parameters through the gui. Whenever I saved, my changes would just vanish. It was very frustrating and I never really did find a solution.
I pretty much gave up on the desktop for 4 months (I didn't really need it anyway) and when I tried it again, it Just Worked (tm). But these issues still crop up, and sometimes they're very fun to fix:)
Linux for the desktop is making strides every day, but it's NOT the time to let things stagnate.
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Surely I couldn't advertise a blue car and give you two pipes, two motorcycles, a welder and a tube of blue pain now could I? I mean truth in advertising would pretty much preclude me from making false and misleading representation and the act itself would seem to be something that would deceive a customer into purchase something obviously different then they were lead to believe.
When did this conversation make it to gentoo?
I didn't realize Tomtom was a country... no wonder they need to write navigation software :)
On top of which the quoted sources are essentially "some guys I know". High class writing there... real high class.
Telnet is good enough for anyone. Doesn't display flash ads, either.
The math that has been done by alot of well known and respected economists shows that the current amount, before cuts in the stimulus bill amounts to $75,000.00 to each and every unemployed person in the country
How does $800,000,000,000 spread out over 300,000,000 people gain an order of magnitude in that operation? 800,000 / 300 = $2,666.67. That's 28, I'm sorry, 280 times smaller then the number you posted.
Not all 300,000,000 of us our unemployed yet. Also, you were right with 28, not with 280 (again, assuming every single one of us is unemployed.)
It's big brother!
This leaves you with a shell running with full admin rights but which still uses your existing profile and account, bypassing the vast majority of the issues with runas. I usually leave the shell running in the background (it defaults to white text on red background, for easy identification. The whole thing works well, as long as you control physical access. Script can be found here http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/193721.aspx/
Wait a second... you are saying wikipedia is leaching off of us? Or did I interpret that wrong?
If we need to be reminded, is he really that noteworthy? ;)
The current versions have searching (pretty fast, too). The interface is fast and responsive. A lot of the old complaints I've had about it are gone. I'm not sure what you mean by attaching one file at a time... afaik, it hasn't had such a restriction since 2000 at least. It's not perfect, it's not a substitute for a day to day local client, but it's certainly better than a lot of the webmail solutions I've seen... not to mention having your contacts already there is useful for what (to me) is a backup email system for when I don't have access to my fat client.
I still like VBDOS for some things. It's very, very easy to make something in it that fills the screen but allows the flexibility of a GUI. I have a couple home automation things built in it on an oldish tablet PC simply because it's nice and simple to write with. I'd love a modern character based system that was as easy to code for :)
Except that's not what it is at all. .mobi is intended for the delivery of content intended for mobile devices. NOT for hosting content from mobile devices. There is no good reason it shouldn't accept email.
Sites in .mobi are meant to be viewable on mobile devices (and thus simpler, smaller, and designed for mobile device accessibility) .
This is pretty typical in enterprise stuff, actually. The big unix system vendors (IBM, HP, so on) will sell you a machine with extra ram already installed, and you turn it on "On-demand" You pay for the time you used it. I've never fully understood it either.
I'm reasonably sure this is the century of the linux desktop. I'll even bet a penny on it.
They will still delete all their files. They will still call you when they delete all their files. They will still "not have touched anything" when they delete all their files. My grandmother is living proof of all 3 above points. She also insists the local kid moved her ladder across the garage. Some things cannot be fixed by software :)
Be aware, it's not uncommon for providers to charge onboard IMs as text messages. att at least does this.
I'm surprised it took this long for someone to blame microsoft...
I'm in a similar position. In my case I worked for a small co briefly, then moved on to work for a consulting company. The experience this gave me was amazingly valuable, as well as the huge network of contacts and references I had when I went to look for new work. In this day and age, your research skills can be just as important as your book knowledge. Someone earlier mentioned coding your own stuff as a way to experience, and the fact is this works, even if you don't code. Build a server, do something new, run into problems, and solve them. The experience you gain from fixing things and the ability to talk about it will help you when the time comes to interview.
I've been running my windows XP laptop as non-admin for over 2 years. It's not as bad as you say. Two things keep me going. Superior SU, found here: http://www.stefan-kuhr.de/supsu/main.php3 and make me admin, found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/07/24/193721.aspx. Between the two, running non-admin is quite comfortable with a bit of practice.
If the tech was at that level, would you need to watch the movie at all? Seems it could just be zapped into your brain (Which would certainly save on production costs ;) Yay more movie company profits!)
This is an excellent point, but consider that almost everything we do consumes energy in some form. There are a ton of ways to recover energy from these processes and doing so would be a good first step. Consider a simple example that should be relevant to quite a few of us geeks: A datacenter full of computers. There is a lot of energy going in there for power and then again for cooling. Several organizations have found ways of using the generated heat to assist in the winter heating of their buildings, and ways of using outside air to assist in cooling. Things like this, even if they are small, definitly help.
Desktop virtualization might not be as hot as server virtualization, but it's certainly nothing new. I have a client with 5 IBM blade chassis, which are mostly dedicated to running VMs for desktop use. They have desktop devices with a VGA and keyboard/mouse plugs, to which they plug in everything else (I think wyse makes them, though I may be wrong. The desktop stuff is outside my realm).
In a raid 10, the other mirrored pair would have to die. In, say, a 12 disk raid 10, this is one disk in 11 that has to fail. In a 12 disk raid 5, any second failed disk will sync you. So yes, it does matter. Raid 10 has a much lower secondary failure rate than raid 5 (or raid 6) especially as the number of disks increases. The rebuild times don't take the same hit that they do on growing raid 5 arrays either. If you are resyncing one failed 1TB disk on a raid 10, you have to resync just that one disk to one new disk no matter how many drives are in the array. If it's raid 5, you have to resync 1 disk using data scattered across every other working disk in the array... this becomes a longer and longer process as you add disks.
IBM is concerned about the new iBlade. These blade servers are similar to IBMs, except permanently glued into an apple blade chassis. Just imagine if Papermaster showed them how much more flexible removable blades would be!
I had all kinds of issues on my (oldish) desktop back when I updated to hardy. I couldn't get the screen to work above 800x600 to save my life, despite manually entering the parameters through the gui. Whenever I saved, my changes would just vanish. It was very frustrating and I never really did find a solution. I pretty much gave up on the desktop for 4 months (I didn't really need it anyway) and when I tried it again, it Just Worked (tm). But these issues still crop up, and sometimes they're very fun to fix :)
Linux for the desktop is making strides every day, but it's NOT the time to let things stagnate.