Pretty good, Jeff. 99.99% uptime means just under an hour of total
downtime per year (about 53 minutes). Is that really what you and the
DBA are maintaining over three locations?
Yep. Only 2 locations have servers. We've had zero network downtime
(excepting the 6 year old server our
So, if the systems that you are charged with maintaining are up a
cumulative 99.9% of the time, as you described in a previous message
on this subject, when do you ever do any real work? What amount of
time in a week does that missing 1/10 of one percent represent? How
long does it take,
How come there are no drama kings?
I've got plenty. I'll lend you a couple if you're light.
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I wouldn't mind an HTC Hero, but the last I read, it wasn't coming to
T-Mobile.
-Original Message-
Coverage isn't an issue where I live, not enough of one to force me into
one
carrier. I'm already with tmobile so obviously coverage is not my
concern.
My concern are cost and the
Yes, I forgot that one. Imperial IT telling the poor schmucks who
actually have work to do that they have to do the work in the way
that is most convenient for IT. You want to use the good software,
then you can stand in line with all the other schmucks to get your
turn.
Right on schedule.
The MO of Windows IT is typically to run a highly centralized
operation. That is how they define efficiency.
Another statement stuffed with ignorance.
By all means, stay decentralized, if your time is worth nothing. You and
your zero value time can have fun visiting every computer
One more example of contemptuous IT's attitude toward the people who really
get the work done.
So, when you rescued the beautiful princess from the evil dragon, how
did you bill her? Flat rate or time and materials? That asbestos
underwear can't be cheap.
I'm sure she has a block hour
Multitasking man, mutlitasking.
Say, are you at work right now?
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Jeff, To believe that the two of you maintain 99.99% uptime in a
MS-shop, I must conclude that the computers are doing bare-bones
functions. My current project involves a few dozen servers (100K+ users
all over the US), mostly windows, and those servers need rebooting or
services restarted
As I wrote previously: what's good for IT vs. what's good for the
workers and the organization.
What is good for the business is what is good for IT. Full stop.
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Our businesses involve work other than IT. Your business is IT. Ours
isn't. What's your point?
My company is not in the business of IT either. It uses technology to
accomplish its goals, which I support. What's your point?
If we need a tech support, it significantly cuts into our bottom
07 or 97? The 07's have the square-ish double-din radio opening; the 97's
had the jellybean motif.
You can replace the jellybeans with an aftermarket mask that goes over the
heat/AC controls at Crutchfield. I had a 96.
-Original Message-
Unless you own a car like mine which will not
07
last year the last body style was produced. Bought it used it was a
rental car before.
Oh, you mean the fleet production model of the old jellybean style. I
forgot they were still making them. I was thinking you meant the Five
Hundred body style that was renamed the Taurus in 07.
As a scientist and a user of both platforms (I am not an IT person. I'm an
untrained geek.), I don't give much credence to anecdotal information. I
can usually match anecdote for anecdote with users on either platform.
You sound far too reasonable and rational, Mark. You won't last long
You mean like ordering the $700 program when the $90 program works
just as well?
It seems like the only solution template Tom has: let the inmates run the
asylum. He sees Nurse Ratched in manager's offices everywhere.
I found a solution to my $450 drama queen problem. I was able to get an
I expect servers to have zero downtime. That is nothing to crow
about.
You can expect it all you want. *All* OSes have patches that need to be
applied and hardware should have its firmware at the latest spec at least
annually.
What you expect is kinda irrelevant.
The servers I have here
M$ pays him to harass us.
Nah. I do that for free.
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Zune HD Sounds Like a Winner - If it Had Been Announced in August 2007
http://www.mediabistro.com/mobilecontenttoday/hardware/
zune_hd_sounds_like_a_winner_if_it_had_been_announced_in_august_2007_123
532.asp
An iPod snob waving his hanky and sniffing at the riff-raff.
Oh yeah, savage.
Zune HD Sounds Like a Winner - If it Had Been Announced in August 2007
http://www.mediabistro.com/mobilecontenttoday/hardware/
zune_hd_sounds_like_a_winner_if_it_had_been_announced_in_august_2007_123
532.asp
Captures M$ in a nutshell.
CNET disagrees.
Zune HD hands-on look,
We can run Windows on our Macs. We can run Windows programs without
Windows. We can run Mac OS X on our Macs. We can run Linux on our Macs.
Buy one, get two/three free. Macs have longer useful life than PCs. Buy
one, get three/four free.
If I buy or build a PC, I only have to buy one OS
It's your job to provide IT/network support.
Yeah? So what?
Tom's point was that he would have to hire additional staff to handle PCs.
Your experience notwithstanding, my experience proves him decidedly wrong.
It's your job to provide IT/network support. Those of us with small
businesses
The MO of Windows IT is typically to run a highly centralized
operation. That is how they define efficiency. Every time a PC is
started software, patches, settings, policies, etc. download and the
user has to go get a cup of coffee or maybe two. They use the Policy
Editor to play god. IT
Since IT was never around they didn't
have a clue that there were problems. IT thinks everything runs.
My users can get a hold of me 8 different ways:
-Send an email to the help desk which automatically opens a ticket in the
system and sends an email to everyone in IT.
-Send me an email
An I owe all these riches to the increased productivity I get from my
Macs. If I ran PCs I would have to add a staff person to do
maintenance or devote a large portion of my own time to maintenance
instead of going out to do billable work. My staff would also be
bogged down in Windows
-Original Message-
On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote:
More of your insults is all you have to offer. I think I am done
bothering with you.
From: TPiwowar
Good. But I wrote nothing insulting. Feigning insult is just another
of your evasive tactics.
CGUYS as
I don't see any of that. My staff changes their own toner and the
other stuff does not happen.
Of course you don't. We work in completely different environments with
completely different types of staffs. Mine's in the real world, BTW.
So you have proved my point.
And you so often prove
I don't care what Gartner says if APPLE posts differently to the Feds
(SEC)
and signs on that it is accurate. I doubt Apple execs want to go to jail.
Gartner will not go to jail if it provides wrong information.
Yeah, but Gartner will kick sand in their face and hide their sunscreen if
they
You are being too kind. Glenn Beck is about as bright as canned tuna.
-Original Message-
Mr. Beck, and I am being kind here to refer to him so reverentially,
also said just a few days ago, again on Fox, that President Obama is
most definitely a racist. A racist. He hates,
About the only thing that can get a radical right-wing Mac hater to
spring to the defense of Apple is the prospect of the people having a
say in the way things run.
Radical right? Seriously? Oh right, that's to turn the mob against me, or
it's the product of your one-dimensional world-view.
Correct. I guess you are not always wrong. Keep up the good work.
*pt* Apple. Options. Restatement.
I'll presume you know how to google that.
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... Mac hater...
Yes, that must be why I want the FCC to piss off and Apple to do what it
chooses to do with its own products. Brilliant deduction, Sherlock.
And let's be perfectly clear about this: I don't hate Macs or Apple. Apple
fleeces its customers with its profit margins, but its
Baseball without umpires. Makes a lot of sense. About the only thing
that could make it better would be to let the players carry guns.
That certainly would eliminate the designated hitter rule once and for all.
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Ouch! That hurt. Do you always paint with such a wide brush? The
painter's union would not like that very much.
I make sure that I use painters tape and a tarp so I can afford to use a
wide brush.
There are some Mac users who aren't complete zealots, they're actually
decent to talk to,
Just imagine if John McCain had won the election boobs like this
would be running the country and we would be facing the prospect of
our grandchildren speaking Chinese instead of English.
Your grandchildren are going to be speaking Chinese no matter who gets
elected. Shiny.
Gao yang jong
I know, I know, there is no such monument in lalaland.
It's behind the Juniors section.
http://tinyurl.com/kkpg6m
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Kinda like all those Windows users who tell me that they would love
to switch to Macs but for the fact that they have too much money
already invested in Windows apps.
Sunk costs is a reasonable ...er... reason for not investing in a new
platform.
Unlike Uncle Moneybags Piwowar, some of us
http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/microsofts_long_slow_decline
John Gruber is a keen observer. M$ can't seem to gets its brain
around the concept of quality.
Gruber is an MFB. All he is doing is confirming your biases.
Would you consider a hard-right neocon analysis of the Democrats well
Ditto for Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and many others. My main concern
is that email storage be in a robust format that does not put
everything in one huge file. These formats are especially sweet to
use in conjunction with Time Machine backup. You never have to worry
about lost mail. The only
Gruber is not a MFB. He often takes Apple to task. You seem to think
that mere knowledge of Macs makes someone a fan boi.
Sure, Tom, sure, whatever you say. When sturdy and dependable
right-wingers, like Buchannan and Limbaugh, criticized Bush during his
presidency, they weren't being
On Aug 1, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
Gruber is an MFB. All he is doing is confirming your biases.
Then Tom wrote:
You attack on Gruber just shows how far out from reality
you are.
Seriously? This is an attack?
Really?
Just how tender are your sensibilities
I would call it Windows Derangement Syndrome.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/linus-torvalds-microsoft-hatre
d-is-a-disease.ars
The quoted article is quite interesting.
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I would certainly trust Google more than Outlook. I frequently get
calls about corrupt email database files and when those go it is
highly probable that you can kiss your saved emails goodbye. Google
may have a temporary slowdown or outage, but I don't know of anyone
who has lost all their
This would have never happened if it were still in beta.
Golly... Two WHOLE hours???
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iPhone owners, of course, have nothing to worry about on these grounds.
Oh no, nothing at all.
iPhone SMS attack to be unleashed at Black Hat
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136012/iPhone_SMS_attack_to_be_unlea
shed_at_Black_Hat?source=rss_news
Bottom like is that OS X is extremely hard to hack and these are
still no viruses in the wild that attack Macs. Meanwhile there have
been 10,000s that have attacked Windows. The latest (June) WildList
(http://www.wildlist.org/WildList) shows 753 viruses currently
circulating in the wild that
As the owner/user of half a dozen networked XP machines that date back quite
a few years and have half to one meg of ram and under 2 MHz processors, I
have to ask myself what advantage there is of Win7 over XP. I am not a gamer
or need to deal with video files; I don't watch TV on my PC (or
I guess forced was the wrong word and probably should have been omitted
from the sentence. It just seems that there is considerable marketing
pressure on people like me to upgrade.
Well, yeah, you aren't making them any money being content and
efficient like that!
Apple supports the current and previous versions of the OS. They price their
OS upgrades very reasonably and they have a quality product (not Vista). It
is easy for their customers to keep up and they get lots of value with each
upgrade. It makes little sense to support X.3.
I should add that
Now you know what killed Billy Mays.
Don't they sell those on late night cable tv?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Jeff Wright wrote:
Never mind, I get it, it's just the patented Piwowar Hypocrisy Pump in
action again
Apple is now claiming that jailbroken iPhones could crash cell networks
here
and abroad.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/jailbreak/
It'll also make you into a pimp and a pusher:
http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/07/apple-want-anonymity-you-must-be-drug.ht
ml
But if applications are fair game, MS released Internet Explorer
5.2 for OS X in 2002, stopped updating it in 2003, and officially
ended support for it in 2005.
You're complaining? You want it back?
And you're using a .x version as a scale? That's almost honest. Version 5
for OS X was
Time to face the truth. The predominant reason for getting a PC is
poverty. MS even advertises that on the TV.
What you call poverty, normal people call frugality and thrift. Those are
positive values, in case you were wondering.
The only evident truth here is your usual out-of-touch
Sorry, but that's just wrong. Those who are frugal and thrift buy
things that last. Those who think they are being frugal and thrift
shop for slightly underpriced things with even less value. Then they
buy it again, and again.
There's a fallacy in your theory: you presume that all
No. I look at quality and worry about the price later. Looks to me
like you start with price and then try to scrounge up something that
is not terrible. I'll admit that sometimes this works.
Does Muffy take this approach with the gardeners?
I'll bet the help steals from you anyway.
Some people can't tell the difference and apparently you are one.
Oh, I can alright. That's why my life is largely Apple free and will be so
for the foreseeable future.
I have plenty non-boutique products that don't cost me a chunk of my soul
and work great. I just have to bear the crushing
Also check out Zdziarski's website for a lengthy attack on health
care reform...
http://www.zdziarski.com/
I'm sure in your twisted world-view, this is supposed to be an indictment of
his intelligence or trustworthiness. Don't let those tarring skills go to
waste
Thanks for the tip. He's
The trick is to install an alternative kernel (operating system) on
the device and then copy the data off. I don't know that there is any
computer that can't be defeated this way.
That's not the point. The point was to demonstrate how easy it is to hack a
device that someone drags with them
We judge people by the whole of what they do.
Or in your case, what they believe.
He's a double heretic! Shun him! Shun him!
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And you are left...it's not about right or left, the first question should
be, is the info correct? The next is, do I care? I've read many parts of
the bill, those things he lists are in it...so the question is, do you
care?
mike, the issue Tom and Jordan are illustrating here is: Critical
What I said is precisely the point. If you lose physical control of
any device, the information in the device can be hacked by someone
who is an expert. In some cases (e.g. Windows) you don't even have to
be an expert: a quick Google search will lead to quick and easy methods.
REMAIN CALM!
iPhone owners, of course, have nothing to worry about on these grounds.
Oh no, nothing at all.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enrls=com.microsoft%3Aen-usq=iphone+vulner
abilitiesaq=foq=aqi=
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,620,000 for iphone vulnerabilities. (0.13 seconds)
I still can't get past not having search plug ins. I might use chrome or
safari if it just had some good search options.
Search works fine. It's not having add-ons like Adblock and NoScript that
sinks IE for me.
I also like how Firefox will spell-check forum/blog postings on the fly.
91% of computers that are not junk are made by Apple...
Are you really so insecure that you constantly have to rationalize and
validate your choices? Is it really so important what P. Diddy is wearing
this week?
Nothing stinks up a place as a lack of confidence in one's decisions. Man
up and
I guess the market for defective products is not what it use to be.
You might want to keep that crow in an airtight container to avoid spoilage.
Apple's good profits are dependent on *one* product: the iPhone. Everything
else in the portfolio had small gains, but were largely flat.
Pray that
I'm using Mozy and it's great. $60 per year, all you can eat, fire and forget.
I have about 37 GB up there now, docs, pics and music for the most
part, but it did choke on a 40 GB disk image that tried to move up.
They do have Mozy for business, but I've never looked into it. I
doubt they
[T]he ... encryption included with the iPhone 3GS is so weak it can be
cracked in two minutes with a few pieces of readily available freeware.
It is kind of like storing all your secret messages right next to the secret
decoder ring, said Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone developer and a
I agree completely, for better software you need to get a Mac.
Yes, but only if you then run Windows on top of it. Then you get
quality *and* choice of software, rather than the paltry few bones
thrown to Apple.
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No, just a demonstration of WFB stupidity. MFBs know that availability is no
secret...
http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/availability.php
The table breaks out by individual store and model. Apple says their
availability page is updated hourly.
Gosh, you think the Apple store staff might
Highly unlikely. Or could this be another variation of Laptop Hunters?
Somebody complaining about Apple who did not actually step inside an Apple
Store? Misinformation planted by M$?
Sure, it's possible.
MS has been taking a few pages out of Apple's playbook recently, all
to great tantrums
Apple knows how to make money. Like their 1% share of the cell phone
market that nets them 20% of the revenues. Got to admire that.
I'd say that most of the bigger companies know how to make money, but yeah,
I gotta respect that. They're fleecing *everyone* in the supply chain, not
just the
I have used SecondCopy (http://www.centered.com/) to get this kind of
incremental backup. Of course SecondCopy is not the fancy, enterprise-level
product as Acronis, but it can certainly handle needs like you describe with
no frustration.
Excepting that SecondCopy isn't imaging software as
Oh look! Another hateful WFB:
http://www.cio.com/article/497443/Apple_Secrets_Lead_to_The_Great_iPhone_Chase_?page=2taxonomyId=1436
http://tinyurl.com/m385g3
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I think your headline should be more like 'rabid apple user goes nutball'
since he is an
Mac sales jump 16% in June
www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/20/
apple_flirts_with_record_quarter_as_mac_sales_jump_16_in_june.html
Setting up business next to an Apple Store keeps looking better and
better.
After dropping 12.4% in 2Q, falling to 5th place in the US, failing to show
I think your headline should be more like 'rabid apple user goes nutball'
since he is an apple user.
There you go again. Letting pesky things like facts get in the way of the
mythos.
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Do you think Mac owners exhibit curiosity and imagination (creativity
too) to a greater extent than PC owners? It seems like just about
every time I see a computer on PBS' NOVA it is a Mac. Last night I had
dinner with a NIH researcher and found out that they use Macs almost
exclusively. The
WFBs don't like discussions they obviously won't win.
There's something to win here?
Seriously?
OK, I promise that if I come across a Steve Ballmer kewpie doll, I'll send
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Besides what jeff thinks, next they'll be saying it's product placement.
I've seen gobs of NASA videos, all loaded with hordes of rocket scientists all
using PCs.
What does that prove? Right, nothing, other than it's the right tool for them.
See how that works? Your self-worth isn't
Surprise, surprise! Mr Wright in another pissing contest.
The last I checked, it takes more than one person to have a contest.
True, or maybe some Linux? But anyway, in spite of what has been talked
about on this list, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of shops don't
allow a choice. I saw 1
Do you think PCs owners exhibit hostility and resentment against non-
PC owners to a greater extent than non-PC owners? It seems like just
about every time there is a discussion comparing different computer
types I see bitter crap from them instead of anything thoughtful.
You're projecting.
No one, probably not even Tom, has ever claimed that Macs do not
have problems.
Actually yeah, Tom has, many, many times. The less-balanced types are
committed to spreading the iMythos at all costs.
Justin Long as a Mac is just a manifestation of them.
Everything has problems...even
Wow. 1996. Not bitter or anything are we? The author wouldn't be a
Macarazzi by any chance?
Are you sure you want to be quoting these guys? They're gratuitous free
market types.
http://www.houstonspacesociety.org/entlinks.html
-Original Message-
Great example! This proves that
I guess it also proves that creative people don't use PCs willingly.
Let's see what Wikipedia has to say about evil JSC CIO Jack Garmin. You're
right, he doesn't seem creative at all:
John R. Jack Garman is a computer engineer, former senior NASA executive
and a noted key figure of the Apollo
About once a year I get a job to switch from Win to Mac. So far this
year I've had two such jobs.
It's like being surprised that you met New Yorkers in NYC, or anywhere else
for that matter (they seem to be everywhere).
There are about 90x the number of Windows installations than Mac, so yeah,
However,
the initial question was not how many, but rather what is the
propensity to make the switch. Now, you can change the question if
you want to base it upon market share instead.
That was in response to Tom's post, but it also fits in to your perceptions.
As for you, do you know of
That's it! Maybe everyone mike and jeff know work for the CIA and are
trained not to reveal any unnecessary information. Or maybe mike and
jeff have such prickly personalities that people don't talk to them any
more than necessary. Or maybe it's just an extension of the secretive
nature of
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/amazon-sold-pirated-books-ra
ided-some-kindles.ars
I'll stick to hard copy for now.
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That seems odd to me because, to the best of my
recollection, any person who has ever told me that they made a switch
in either direction has said something about why, and without me
having to ask. For instance, I finally decided to go with Macs
because of virus and malware issues. Or, I
Be careful when you come for me. Strangers in my area are likely to get
shot by the right wingers around here.
Not to worry. They've been fully briefed.
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A ha! An iAxe to grind. Not an axe, but an iAxe.
Yes. Platform choice is a Very Serious Issue(tm) for you. The Why?
becomes redundant after brief exposure.
I keep hearing that most folks use Windows, even for personal use,
because it is better.
It's bizarre that you think this needs
Yet another example of how crazy these copyright holders have become.
They really like the idea of being able to monitor all your hard
drives for 'approved' content, and would love a kill switch to delete
anything they deemed 'not approved'.
I'm wondering if Amazon could have possibly handled
So Apple store good idea. MS store bad idea.
I think that it's good as it meets Apple on its own turf and isn't counting
on a captive audience to maintain their bottom line. They need to change
the way they do business, as we've seen with the laptop hunter ads. Just on
Appleista agitation
Okay, you asked and I took a stab at defining excitement and you panned
it. So, Jeff, tag, you're it: tell us (or stop sneering). Make it
relevant, too and tell us how M$ will generate excitement.
Actually, no, I didn't ask. Jeff Miles did, I believe. I'm just snarking at
the sycophants.
I
A circular argument. By definition The Commons have no deed of
ownership. Circling back to my original comment: some of you have an
obvious problem understanding the concept of The Commons. Your
responses have proved this to be true. QED.
Please explain to the class what a commons is, Thomas.
This is one area where I disagree, and a lot of people (those good
parents) have problems with. I have no problems with kids and tvs as
long as I monitor what they watch. My tv is on 24/7, usually on one of
the news channels, history channels or science channels. Yes, I waste
a lot of
Here we go again. You won't follow the link to Wikipedia and instead
play the I don't understand broken record game.
It is not my job to teach you. I merely point out a serious defect in
your understanding of how the world works.
I did follow the link. Here is the sum total:
The commons
Sports is now one of the most expensive and time consuming hobbies
a child can get involved in.
A bumper sticker on the wall at the ice rink where my son is learning to
play hockey: Driver carries no cash. My child plays hockey.
Yay.
I didn't; I explicitly chose the let me manage my music option. But it
did its folder juggling act anyway.
-Original Message-
Never, never, nevernever, let iTunes manage your music if you already
know what you are doing.
That is an option that can be set in iTunes preferences. So if you
don't like it you have only yourself to blame.
Nope. I did set it not manage the data. It's not even in the default
folder.
This all the stuff it adds as part of its normal operation. It didn't like
question marks, for
But it is not their market. When any large corporation makes anti-
competitive actions it damages the market. If the damage is slight we
let it pass. If the damage is major we go after the bastards.
Define anti-competitive please. Objectively, if you would, not EU-style
where the technocrats
-Original Message-
Apple apologist? Are you talking to me?
The truth comes out. You closet Apple lover you!
No! Stop! It burr-r-r-rns!
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