Comment Yes, 3 monitors (Score 1) 1002
Left monitor = documentation/help/email/IM/Shells
Center monitor = Development environment (IDE)
Right monitor = Application deployed/test environment
Comment My Blu-Ray is an... (Score 1) 1162
My Blu-Ray player is in my sons room with the PS3. Our main TV has TiVo & AppleTV attached. I don't bother with disc media anymore.
Comment % of utilisation & growth availability (Score 1) 301
As an executive I want to see how much additional growth I can add to a system before I need to expend additional capital.
A report saying XYZ resource is at X% and can handle Y% more growth before we need to spend $Z to expand capacity is immensely valuable.
Comment A few ideas (Score 1) 301
Just look at your job as anyone else who is not a sysadmin would look at his job. I mean: what is your goal? Then answer:
Did you reach your goal? If yes/no; what's your progress?
What are your next goals? Do you have the manpower, being on your own? How long will it take? How's the planning going along?
How is the system doing on a technical level? Is it fast enough? Room for improvements? Is the security up to par with todays threats? And how do you keep up with the latest IT developments and security threads?
How is the system doing for personel? Is everybody satisfied? Room for improvements there? Etc.
Is the system 100% fit for its purpose? Is it still functioning well enough? Do you need hardware upgrades? Etc.
Awnser these questions in a nice format. Google a status report format that is NOT an IT status report and use that one. Finally give it to the person. Just ask him if he wants a monthly or quarterly status report.
That should get you going.
PS: Do not report on anything too technical like "Our BLT drive just went AWOL" and you should be fine
Comment Re:What's in it? (Score 1) 1698
Many health care facilities are losing money now. Some have folded because they could not pay their bills. (Please note that while the law requires hospitals to provide services to those who can't pay, it does not guarantee payment.) By feeding in more patients, the errors will increase. Errors lead to malpractice lawsuits. Lawsuits increase liability insurance premiums to the extent that some just can't make a go of it.
Without tort reform, this pattern will not change. It will only get worse.
The sad part is that the hospitals with the highest percent of non-paying patients are the ones that are in greatest jeopardy of closing.
Without tort reform, this pattern will not change. It will only get worse.
The sad part is that the hospitals with the highest percent of non-paying patients are the ones that are in greatest jeopardy of closing.
Comment Re:My phone setup (Score 1) 405
Likewise (but 4 handsets). Model is this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16876101289
Comment Calories in, Calories out (Score 1) 978
Please people, thermodynamics and conservation of energy are all you really need to understand here.
-Eric
Comment MacBookProTable + iPhone = awesomeness (Score 0, Troll) 73
12" netbook with multi-touch display, Full OS X, MBP Power. wifi + 3G would be great. I always have my laptop with me anyway and with blue tooth hands free my phone would just 'work'
Submission + - Microwave Converts Waste to Fuel (peswiki.com)
sterlingda writes: "Global Resource Corp's High-Frequency Attenuating Wave Kinetics (HAWK) recycler extracts oil and gas in seconds from most everyday objects like tires, plastic cups, as well as from shale, coal, and tar sands. Microwaves tuned to an optimum frequency separate the component parts which can be burned or condensed into liquid fuel, using only a small portion of the energy produced."
Submission + - Tmobile DATA Centers Down? (hauntedcincinnati.com) 1
Randy M. Karshner writes: "Tmobiles Data Centers from the Mississippi East all seem to have went down around 7pm EST, With millions of customers they have managed to keep this rather quiet so far wouldn't you say? I first noticed about 7 when all text messages stopped, even those sent to my own hand set. A quick call to Tmobile confimed this and that the first ETA they had was hopeful to have it fixed by 10pm EST. Looks like they are two plus hours over and still climbing. Why no coverage on this?"
Submission + - Citrix acquire Xen source (citrix.com) 1
Mister-TECH writes: "Citrix has signed a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource a leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions. The acquisition moves Citrix into adjacent and fast growing datacenter and desktop virtualization markets. The combination of Citrix and XenSource brings together strong technical, customer, partner, channel and go-to-market synergies that will make virtualization solutions easier to use and dynamically combined more relevant to business. The acquisition will also extend Citrix's leadership in the broader Application Delivery Infrastructure market by adding key enabling technologies that make the end-to-end computing environment far more flexible, dynamic and responsive to business change."
Submission + - Citrix to buy XenSource for $500m 1
Penguinisto writes: Apparently Citrix doesn't want to be left out in the cold when it came to Virtualization.So, it decided to snap up Xen Source in whole, with a combination of cash and stock. Question is, what impact exactly will this have on Linux as a whole? (Xen runs on/under Windows too, but Linux is arguably its biggest playground to date). Also, is this a defensive move on Citrix' part, given Microsoft's development of potential VMWare and Xen competitor Viridian?
Submission + - Citrix acquires XenSource virtualization software (networkworld.com) 1
coondoggie writes: "Citrix Systems agreed to acquire XenSource today in a deal valued at $500 million. The recently rumored deal will let Citrix enter the server and desktop virtualization markets, long dominated by VMware, who went public yesterday and whose shares are trading at $51 at the close of trading. Investment banking firm Jefferies & Company issued a report Tuesday on Citrix titled "Citrix-Xen Makes Perfect Strategic Sense." The company says Citrix's close relationship with Microsoft — the two have worked together for years on thin-client technology — is key in that Citrix could help Microsoft make up ground on VMware, whose successful IPO on Tuesday confirmed its leadership role in the emerging virtualization market.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/081507-citri x-xensource-desktop-server-virtualization.html"
Submission + - Google, Sun to finally take on Microsoft?
Trion writes: Nearly two years after they were expected to announce a Microsoft Office killer (or is it even likely?), Sun Microsystems and Google may finally be planning to do it. Or not.
Mary Jo Foley, in her ZDNet blog, has reported that she got confirmation from a Sun representative that the company plans to make a StarOffice-related announcement on Wednesday that will have a "significant impact in the industry about the adoption of Open Document Format and availability of free MS Office-compatible comprehensive office suite". Google had also secretly added Sun's StarOffice software suite to its Google Pack of recommended applications. StarOffice is integrated with Google Search and Google Desktop.
Submission + - Blogger finds Y2K bug in NASA global warming study 11
An anonymous reader writes: According to the article at http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+Y2K+bug+in+ NASA+Climate+Data/article8383.htm a blogger has discovered a Y2K bug in a NASA climate study by the same writer who accused the Bush administration of trying to censor him on the issue of global warming. The authors have acknowledged the problem and released corrected data. Now the study shows the warmest year on record as being 1934, not 1998 as previously reported in the media. In fact, the corrected study shows that half of the 10 warmest years on record occurred before World War II.
