Comment Re:And.... (Score 1) 404
Or you could get a marketing person with a brain that would serve them ads for new software, a wireless N router or anything else that might be useful after one upgrades their computer.
Comment Re:What do we need USB 3 for, anyway? (Score 1) 332
We use the IOGear USB->VGA and USB->DVI adapters where I work and they're pretty impressive. As long as you're not trying to push video to a 30" cinema display I think they're a good solution.
Comment Re:Glass fibre (Score 1) 332
As speeds go up, the amount of power needed to push information over copper at those speeds goes up as well. If I recall correctly, they've had some issues with 10 gig Ethernet over copper for just that reason. Eventually we're going to need to move to optical interconnects.
Comment Re:Seems like a cool idea... (Score 1) 329
Unfortunately I think that happens enough with regular fuses, too.
Comment Re:Seems like a cool idea... (Score 1) 329
You win, sir.
Comment Re:I tried to think of a car analogy... (Score 1) 478
break;
Comment Re:Are you crazy if you rush out and install it? (Score 1) 647
Doing a quick archive and install should take you all of an hour unless you have a massive amount of applications that need their preferences reset.
Comment Re:Are you crazy if you rush out and install it? (Score 1) 647
Just wanted to throw it out there that 10.5 definitely runs slower for me than 10.4 did. I've got a 2.16Ghz Macbook Pro.
Submission + - Suitable naming conventions for workstations 1
spectre_240sx writes: "There has been a lot of discussion around naming servers, but I haven't seen all that much about workstations. Where I currently work, we have a lot of information in our workstation names; site, warranty end date, machine type, etc. I'm of the opinion that this is too much information needed to access a machine and it can certainly be stored in the computer description.
I'd love to hear how others are naming their workstations and some pros and cons for different naming schemes. Should computers be logically tied to the person that they're currently assigned to or does that just cause unnecessary work when a machine changes hands? Do the management tools in use make a difference on how workstations should be named?"
Comment Re:No, Clearly a Horrible Anti-Fair Use Ruling (Score 1) 407
Do book publishers prevent you from making photocopies as a backup?
Comment Re:Did it not occur to PALM that this is BAD? (Score 1) 314
You're missing a big one here. Ever think about a Blackberry?
Comment Re:sosume isn't a bank (Score 1) 432
There's a really good fix for this case. sosume shouldn't use encryption for his site; there's no reason for it. If there's reason for encryption, there's reason to know that the identity of the server you're talking to has been confirmed.
Comment Re:40 Servers, 100 Workstations (Score 1) 251
Where I work it's a case of just having a ton of applications to support. That plus we're using Citrix which adds a number of servers there. We also have a DR site that replicates some of our core servers.
Comment Re:you track your IP addresses? (Score 1) 251
Did you read your own post? The IP address would be in two potentially authoritative places in this case. The device and the DHCP server. That sounds like a recipe for mistakes to me. Someone who didn't already have knowledge of that environment would have a real hard time figuring out what how things were set up.
Comment Re:Browsers War (Score 1) 160
Oh, this just gave me an idea. Has anyone thought of creating a standard interface to speak to rendering engines for internal program use? This could rid us of a lot of pain if it caught on.
