Comment Re:Of course you should be paid (Score 2, Insightful) 735
Maybe for now it works well, but over time it can be a pain. I consider my time at 3am on a sunday morning to be worth WAY more than time at 10am on a monday morning.
Comment Of course you should be paid (Score 5, Informative) 735
You're basically hooked to a pager, which means you need to be near a phone, and usually near a computer with internet connectivity.
I don't work in operations, but everyone in decent places I've worked at did get paid around 3hours of salary per 24hours of wearing the pager. Then it was a minimum of 1 hour per "call" (more like issue, as it could involve multiple calls) except for the first one of the day which was included in the 3hours.
That meant that in a typical week you'd get paid for (24*7)-40 hours of "pager duty", which amounted to 16 hours of salary, so 2 days extra. That's pretty good, assuming you're on a decent rotation and don't have to be THE guy doing it every single week.
Comment Re:ARM/Linux in the Tesla Roadster (Score 2, Informative) 285
Supposed to be ported to Alpha as 'Was sold for Alpha' ?
Comment Re:I lock my computer when I walk away (Score 1) 336
I saw that it exists in USB format, called the Mouse wiggler or something similar.
Apparently, police use it to prevent machines from getting locked when they seize them. I don't remember who makes them but they also make some kind of power 'bridge' to allow you to plug a running machine to a UPS without shutting it down.
Comment Re:You are asking the wrong question. (Score 1) 564
Well, I guess it depends on the amount of servers. Drive failures are very very common to me, I mean, techs go in and change at least a drive or two every week. Those would be one or two servers down, with one or two restores, with one or two pissed clients.
RAID is very very, very useful, as long as you don't think it replaces backups obviously.
Comment Re:Thank you (Score 2, Informative) 207
Email Push, using Exchange, is done without the telco's help.
It's not really push in reality, it's closer to a neverending HTTP query with some keepalives..
Is Crowdsourcing the Next Big Thing In Game Design? 47
An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard about user-generated content for games that have fixed toolsets — but this interesting piece on Develop has got me thinking about the idea of games production being opened to a community before development finishes. A new iPhone game (Aztec Odyssey) did that with its soundtrack; could someone do it with the game's art assets? Or level design? A great comment under the story says that LittleBigPlanet would have been more interesting if it was just shipped as a toolset with no pre-built levels. I'm inclined to agree!"
Comment iPhone (Score 1) 1092
An option would be giving her an iPhone 3g with a data plan and install http://findmyi.org/ .
But then, who's going to protect her from interweb-predators?
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 414
I believe this is not necessary. You should not be playing with RCs and betas on machine you use for actual work, and it could end up creating a lot of support problems for Microsoft from people who installed older versions.
Comment Who cares? (Score 5, Insightful) 414
Why is this being posted over and over on very tech site?
Who cares?
You're installing a beta or a release candidate. Do you expect it to be supported forever?
And are we really surprised Microsoft put in just a tiny bit of protection to prevent the average joe from continuing to use Windows 7 RC forever?
Comment Re:Do ** NOT ** search Google for pifts.exe !! (Score 1) 685
Mod this up guys! A lot of links seem to be redirects to malware sites containing FakeAV etc..
Comment Does Netcraft confirm it? (Score 1) 300
I'll wait until Netcraft confirms the death of PalmOS.
Or did they confirm it 5 years ago already?
Comment Re:Re-Orient? (Score 1) 583
At one point, my SCPH-1001 got so bad it had to be played upside down. However, it worked upside down for years..
Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki 160
We discussed the advent of Google's SearchWiki when it was introduced a few days back. Now Lauren Weinstein offers a thought experiment in transmitting coded messages using SearchWiki, with a working example encoded into the results of this Google search.
Comment Re:Inexpensive Legos? (Score 1) 576
I don't know if you just said that because it's obvious this is going to happen, or were you making a point about the fact that Mega-Brands was involved in the Chinese crap / knockoff lead scandals recently?
They almost went bankrupt too!
