Posts by xenny

Re: hmm

Claiming 100% uptime just means you've not measured over a long enough period.

Even if you do everything according to ITIL best practices, sooner or later (a) dinosaur killer(s) will hit your multiply redundant data centres.

Re: Key Question Remains Unanswered

How long is an installation of IE 6 (The apparent main reason people are sticking with XP) going to survive before there's a trivial compromise is found for which no patch will be forthcoming?

Re: Isn't there...

AFAIK, Sepia Apama males adopt a uniformly female colour scheme to get past other males. They don't simultaneously wear a lacy dress on one side and a sharp suit on the other.

Re: Some more suggestions

I actually prefer jdiskreport to treesize. It has the disadvantage of being a java app, but disk directory sizing is I/O bound so that's no so bad, and it has the advantage over treesize's free edition that it will size mounted network drives.

Less power use, less space taken up, less to fiddle with, so more time to spend doing something else.

That's not where you'd hold an SLR though.

For an SLR it's right hand around the grip, and left hand either operating controls on the body, or holding the lens for the focus ring etc. You don't tend to use the left hand to hold the left hand side of an SLR in normal operation.

Similarly, I hold my S95 with right hand on the right hand side of the body, wrist through the wrist strap as the S95 is a slippery thing, and left hand free to use the controls on the back, or the control ring around the lens.

Re: The saving

If you're tight enough for cash that £200 is just about doable, WTF would you spend it on a tablet?

Re: Hands up who gives a shit

I'm pleased it's out. I've got a Playbook and really rather like it. Proper flash, really decent performance, very good speakers, especially compared to an iPad, nice multi tasking interface, and a size that suits me better than a 10" tablet.

The lack of apps is frustrating compared to Android, so it'll be interesting to see how many developers repackage their apps for the blackberry store.

LC II not booting

replace the 3.6V motherboard battery and then zap the PRAM - hold command-option-p-r when you switch it on until you hear a second start up chime.

The battery

Laptop batteries are good for a few hundred cycles.

That beam in your eye....

RPC is indeed enabled by default, but the vector is RDP, which is disabled by default. :-P

<>sheep

I suspect that VMware customers tend to be the most pro-change IT implementers.

The less adventurous sheep are still running on physical hardware. The most adventurous VMware customers are also likely to be the ones with the greatest no of VMs on a host, and hence most likely to be in financial pain as a result of the licensing change.

If you've already done a large scale P->V migration, the idea of a new V->V migration isn't that scary at all, and you've probably already got the knowledge in place to migrate to a new hypervisor. Yes, you've got to learn and develop procedures for the new hypervisor, but that may well be less painful than paying the new licensing costs.

WTF!

Not everyone uses Outlook with Exchange/Live. Hence WP7 doesn't sync with Outlook. It does sync with some Mail servers that Outlook syncs with.

eltiT

IT and Chem Eng are both perceived as hard, hence the lack of applicants.

@Richard Neill

Note that a wifi access point signal is some 400mW. A microwave is ~800 W. Even a poor Faraday cage is probably enough to stop wifi working on a laptop.

untitled

A Macbook is an Intel Mac though. Do you mean iBook or PowerBook?

No PPC support

FF 4 supports Intel Macs on 10.5, but has no support for PowerPC CPU'd Macs such as the G5, I suspect because the JavaScript engine is x86 only. :-(

Memory footprint

Memory footprint matters, because eventually a browser can use all that a machine has - and more. I've currently got quite a few tabs open admittedly, and Chrome is using some 5.1 GB. That's getting a little annoying.

@zooooooom

On the x86 architecture, 64 bit mode buys you a rather different floating point architecture to that offered in 32 bit mode. Hence there's a considerable performance difference.

H2 origin

The excess heat is providing the energy, and I suspect the zirconium cladding of the fuel rods may act as a cataylst

Print Preview

If you go to about:flags, there's an experimental print preview that may be useful.

@theodore

I get around the two browsers requirement by using one instance of Chrome, with a window open in 'incognito' mode. Works fine for my problem, and saves having yet another app eating RAM.