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If my wife was in charge of driving the rover she would swing it around a few corners and get rid of the dust. I often say to her that her tyres never get worn in the middle.
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you may have to stop the data collecter services in order for it to run and I also noticed that some of the settings had defaulted back (such as size limits and mobile password policies etc)
otherwise a long update - 48 minutes for my little box
other than than its no different!!
I nearly had a BBC-B 2nd hand. Drove about 40 miles in response to an advert having spoke to the owner on the phone, got there and he had 'just' sold it. I was a little annoyed!!
Ended up with the speccy.
But the article has invoked a few memory cells, do I recall having the ability to download software on a Saturday morning on the computer show,? was it via teletext or from a flashing square in the corner of the screen or both?
Ahh, Saturday mornings, Robinson Crusoe, dubbed foreign children shows that just stopped at the end and cutting edge computers.
Got to be Windows.
I had the 800 yesterday and I hate the OS. 500 features? more like 500 other things removed from 6.5.
Guess my lads getting a new mobile, im going back to my HD2.
No tethering
No remote desktop
No simple way to get to the outlook subfolders
Constantly flickering tiles (not wonder the batteries flat its always jiggling the screen)
The list goes on
still, when its turned off it look nice
Who says that the speed of light is the ultimate speed? its just the fastest thing know to man currently. The test at cern shows that its possible to go faster so im not sure why everyone is saying it can't be done.
I have watched many sciencey programs that says the big bang happened everywhere at the same time, well since space is a bit of a big area it would take something pretty damn fast to get across the universe in an instant.
my theory on the neutrinos is simply they are so small they can pass though other atoms and photons whereas light gets bounced around other atoms on the same journey, eg, straight line as apposed to a wibbly wobbly one
..and all it tells me is that...
my flat screen TV uses 3 times more electricity than my old analogue TV
strip light fittings use as much electricity as the actual tube (eg, 60w = 120w consumption)
my house uses around 300w during the night
It does save me money though - the batteries went flat in it and I have not replaced them!!
There's people such as I who really don't care about apps and wasting money on something that they don't actually need.
Im not buying into brands that your forced to install itunes just to make a phone work, or ones that (possibly) track everything you do in the same way as its search engine.
I have WM phone, always have and it does what I need. It makes calls, goes on the web and has a satnav. Anything else is a time waster.
I have set up 'store iphones' at various mobile high street stores in the past and the response was they were rubbish, and my lads -2nd replacement- android constantly hangs and is slow. People will argue how great *their* mobile is over the others. Great, I happy it works for you. Windows Mobile works for me.
Can you imagine how tired staffs arms would be having to reach out to touch a screen that for H&S reasons is already at arms length?
I suspect the mouse and keyboard will be around for a long time yet.
What works for spotty oiks at home doesn't work in an office.
Having had trouble with smartphones with my big fingers im not rushing out to get a touchyscreeny just yet
Once upon a time a hacker required a PC to be on the get access to your files. Now they can bash away in the cloud since its available 24/7/365
Not everywhere has ADSL. No good for to country folk with poor connectivity
Who pays for exceeded bandwidth
So many things to think about, maybe its best to not go down that route
..another VDI write up.
I looked into all this today and discovered that you have to pay for addition RDS CALS. So you pay for the OS, you pay for the server, you pay to access the server and you pay to access the remote desktop on the server.
And as far as im aware, if its all in the cloud you have to pay for the data you shift around the cloud.
I can see this all crashing down as way too expensive.
local networks are here to stay
"tools to convert OST files into PST files". If you keep the computer from seeing an exchange server and your Outlook is showing the cached emails you can still 'export' to a PST file from within Outlook. No tools required.
I tend to script exmerge as a 2nd line daily dump of exchange mailboxes with NTbackup doing the main backup and housekeeping. I have tried other expensive backup solutions, but have found them to be bothersome. On the basis that a store can't be bigger than 75Gb Im happy to dump everything on to rotating ext HD's and also a copy to another networked device (NAS / PC etc)
Works for me
I have a 2 year old server that I setup as 4Gb on a 64 bit server 2003 dual core (no cpu virt) to have a RD / VPC play around whilst accessing it remotely. As soon as 4 desktops were running the server the lag was horrendous.
Although the system wasn't committing all the ram and the HD activity was negligible the cpu was 100%
I have to quote a company a RD server that can handle 20 desktops for branch office access. The server requirements simple means its cheaper to buy separate PCs.
The licensing for something like xenserver is 4 digits
I simply don't see much call for Virtualising the desktops, after all, you then have to pay twice for the OS, one on the physical machine and one on the virtual.
I see the cloud as the start of the end for IT professionals. Once businesses start putting their systems onto the cloud there's going to be next to no support needed. It will all be done at the host.
The physical PCs will become dumb terminals and will have a hugely cut down OS whereby replacing the PC will be far easier than having it fixed. Most likely there will be a class of PCs called 'cloud optimised' which are preconfigured to a cloud supplier and all the end user does is hook it up to the mains, the router and then add their online details and the PC is then ready to go.
And then there's a software sales side. Again, everything will be provided in an 'all inclusive price' online so your not going to have a chance to sell anything.
I can see a lot of people out of a job within 10 years once this becomes main stream. And no, im not going to spend £k's on a certificate that will ultimately make me redundant.
I treated my self to the 160Gb jobby at Xmas giving up a 500Gb spindle from my 4720s. After you get used to the fact that your boot up time is halved you start to miss the capacity.
I would recommend that the average user waits until the SSD capacity and price comes closer to HDDs.
Early adopters like me are effectively keeping intel's R&D in a job
I have a couple of clients that are running Virtual Server 2005 with a handful of XP desktops hanging off it. They are great for the remote users to log into and they have their own dedicated XP, however in terms of the article I see not point at all in VMing the whole work place.
You still need to have an OS on a PC which is still consuming power. The more you load up a server the more likely your going to run out of resources.
And what happens if the VM crashes? no point in rebooting your local PC to log back into a hanging PC.
Bit like the cloud. Lets virtualise our servers and host all our data else where and then when our broadband stops working we're fooked.
Visualizing gone mad
If people had stopped paying ever increasing subs and stopped supporting sky then a lot of this would not have happened.
Sky see's football as their cash cow across the board so if people had said 'no' earlier then its likely that sky sports would be affordable both publicly and commercially as they *knew* that people were not going to pay it.
Same with footy players, they demand higher wages so the ticket prices go up and up. Eventually people will stop forking out because no one will be able to afford it.
I ditched sky about 8 years ago and have never regretted it and im not a football fan, so its win win for me.
Good for the publican getting cheaper TV. If shes paid for it and the greeks have licensed it then there's not an issue.
Its no different to the truckers going over to France for cheaper diesel so not having to paying high UK fuel duty. I don't hear the gov taking the truckers to court.
I have a meter and its made little difference in the way I save power. What I found was...
1. My SOHO runs around 200w, but turning it all off at night on the cheap rate saves very little - and the inkjets when starting up run a cleaning cycle thats using ink making it dearer to turn everything off!!.
2. Florescent tubes which people think are cheap to run don't realise that the ballasty thing consumes as much as the tube - our '35w' tubes draw 60w each (provable by turning on and off while watching the meter)
3. Washing at 40 or less may save power, but you need to run a 90 degree once a month to kill the bugs in the washing machine - http://www.washerhelp.co.uk/usage_2.html#cl_q1
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I replaced an old ME PC today, and the only reason it was being replaced was that some PDFs can't be opened unless she has a newer version. She's just been upgraded to a new HP running XP downgraded from W7P.
The PC was otherwise perfectly ok and loaded very quickly.
I think XP will be around for a longer time than MS thinks
Just got up Saturday morning with a cup of tea and read of the reg and now im depressed..
Im 45
5 years away from SAGA
remember agadoo
and the birdy song - all versions
went on 18-30 once - benidorm
still married to the girl i met from the above holiday
need to but a valentines card + flowers
I think im going back to bed
It was an attachment?
He had Outlook open, and he's obviously opened the attachment - hardly porn surfing.
I suspect the guy that hovers was the one that sent it to him as 'find the butterfly on these pics to win $$$'s' knowing that its in view of the camera.
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However as for better battery life I would dispute this. Under XP the CPU hardly ran unless I was doing a lot of stuff. Under vista and W7 it runs constantly. With near double of background processes its going to draw more power - my powerpack squeaks when its been asked to supply more power so under XP - quiet, under WV or W7 squeaking!!
Its more likely the battery technology has improved the running time rather then W7 making the improvements.
Been in IT for years, self taught, know my way around Servers and Networks, never felt intimidated by people sending CVs with MCxxx and wearing badges, and never once been asked for qualifications by my clients.
Experience sells, not the qualifications (which I believe expire after some time?)
I suppose that Cisco training would be on the radar as I have had a lot to do with Cisco, but for the majority of the time its basic tweaks so have usually figured it out.
Its like the ads on the TV for computer training where the guy is driving around in a beamer as he's rolling in it. The reality is not the same.
Sadly, people think that spending money will get them somewhere high in IT - generally it doesn't has there's another 100 people with the same intent.
No doubt they will come out with 128bit Windows somewhere in August 2012.
Personally I think they need to slow down the amount of releases and concentrate on getting them right. They need to realise that people don't upgrade to every version that comes out. The differences are so marginal as to not worry about. All the versions do its lock down the OS because the side programs, eg, IE are weak.
The reason XP did so well is that its joined the ease of Win98 with the robustness with NT / 2k.
They will never be able to repeat that, so lets go for something different, for example roaming profiles that's stored on memory sticks / in the cloud so you have dumb terminals and you plug in and all your licensed apps are there. No need to keep installing different versions of everything as its all on the stick.
What surprised me more, was its a young lad trying to sell / demonstrate a multimillion quid system. I would have thought it would have been more of a boffin / director / old bloke selling the system. It lacks credibility from the start.
You could see he was out of his depth and doesn't have a knowledge of the system other than pressing the go button.
Perhaps he should tip it over and look for ied bombs - hang on, someones allegedly made a working machine that does that already...not!!.
Whats the betting the BBC forces the Gov to come up with a IPTV license that makes all streamed TV require a license including time shifted content that currently doesn't require it?
Also, will the ISPs increase their downloading cap to allow this? A 10-30Gb / month cap simply won't allow much TV watching per month.
Im at my wits end with my touch diamond, so much so that I I went and got a Nokia 6300 just so that I could actually make calls. My touch is a royal PITA at the moment. despite numerous hard resets it kills all incoming calls within 2 rings, crashes constantly and is sluggish, whereas the nokia is up and running in seconds, goes for days on a charge and is simple.
I miss push emails, but since using a mobile for phone calls is pretty much required im having to drift away from HTC. Shame as I have been with them since the KJam
Having had quite a few flash drives fail on me, regardless of brand / capacity I tend to go towards the low cost end. I always recommend that people only use these drives for temporary portability and not for backups.
Imagine the day when your 128Gb+ flash with your only backup of family pics corrupts and fails.
Eggs and baskets come to mind here
We just just rolled out a SBS 2003 Prem install on the 5/6th Sept. Wouldn't dream of installing the dreadful 2008 SBS version which demands oodles of RAM, SMTP mail and a superchanged CPU just to run normally.
Server 2008 - Its the Vista for Servers.
2003 may be old, but it still does the job well.
Just about everyone has a mobile and the rental costs for a phone thats underused is quite high already. maybe its time to save even more and go completely mobile.
Save 50p? cool we could save close to £15 / month, more if I ditch home ADSL and use mobile broadband.
yes, it would be slower, but speed at my age isn't important.