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• Yes - 60 degrees in August is global climate change. Too often we refer to it as "global warming" when the visible effect is going to be "climate change" as we cannot see the glbal temperature from earth easily.
  
  Place once hot will become cold. Places once cold will become hot. Dry - wet and wt - dry. The economic and social impact will be devastatiing to the under-developed countries.
  
  Yes - some skiiers will be happy when they can ski in Southern Texas but teh farmers will be very unhappy.
  
  Comeon guys - get with teh pr5ogram. The earht really is round and teh sun does not evolve around it.
  
  The earth is really a bit older than 5000 years. Live with it. In reply to: "Algae-coated buildings touted as climate fix"

  August 28, 2009

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• Yes - 60 degrees in August is global climate change. Too often we refer to it as "global warming" when the visible effect is going to be "climate change" as we cannot see the glbal temperature from earth easily.
  
  Place once hot will become cold. Places once cold will become hot. Dry - wet and wt - dry. The economic and social impact will be devastatiing to the under-developed countries.
  
  Yes - some skiiers will be happy when they can ski in Southern Texas but teh farmers will be very unhappy.
  
  Comeon guys - get with teh pr5ogram. The earht really is round and teh sun does not evolve around it.
  
  The earth is really a bit older than 5000 years. Live with it. In reply to: "Algae-coated buildings touted as climate fix"

  August 28, 2009

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• Datacenter efficiency has been an issue since mainframe days.
  
  For years we have discussed teh use of battereis to smooth power requirements while allowing for UPS capabilities. Smaller batteries can be more efficient and there is less loss due to proximity to device.
  
  Batteries can also be used to smooth power demand. If batteries are sized and charged correctly they will act as a buffer to the line thus reducing peak demand. This has implications for the whole datacenter power system, cooling system and the overall equipment reliability.
  
  All of this for just a few adjustments to how a system is deployed.
  
  Step-wise refinement.
  
  The shipping container idea comes from an disaster recovery company whose name I forget. About 15 years ago they built datacenters into containers ready to be dropped at the site of a disaster to support a damaged datacenter. The initial drawings published, I believe, in Electronic Design Magazine, were very much like teh Google drawings.
  
  Google does some very nice work. Now Google...give us back teh XML output of the search pages without loading Google Destop or using any addons. (no API just a browser) In reply to: "Google uncloaks once-secret server"

  April 2, 2009

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• I wonder if others have notied that loading Google Desktop creates huge delays and screen instability in IE7 and IE8.
  
  Google Desktop may also conflict with McAfee 8.5i and compete for primary access to teh browser keystrokes.
  
  Data entry boxes are very much affected.
  
  Disbling Desktop seems to alleveiate much of the problem. In reply to: "My painfully poky week with IE 8"

  March 31, 2009

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• Website performance atrocious
  It's a bery nice looking and well designed website but for an AJAX sitge it's performance is atrocious.
  
  Too many round trips for information that is alredy downl0oaded and a very bad implementation of the controls.
  
  Good first attempt but probably done on a budget. It may also not be scaling well on the backend. Server response time is poor.
  
  Needs the developers to do some serious tuning of the application before it will become popular. In reply to: "Terabitz: Real estate and much more"

  July 17, 2007

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• Poppy-cock
  User are always afraid of a change.
  
  Truth is that the new user interface is faster, easier to use and more extensible than the old interface.
  
  What MS will do is too create a hotmail version that is built on the new technology but looks and behaves exactly like the old.
  
  I have used the new interface since the first beta and it is much, much better.
  
  Remeber what allof the DOS people complained about when Windows came out.
  
  Remember that the same thing happend when Apple built the Lisa.
  
  If the users ran the computer industry we would still be using punch cards.

  May 7, 2007

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• Use of "tightened security".
  If you tighten security beyond the default you must undrstand the changes it makes to the OS and the possible effects of the change.
  
  On a Unix box (Sun) during an install we decided to use the "secured" installation.
  
  Guess what teh outcome was?
  
  We were unable to get Oracle or any other third party software to run. THe "root" account had less than usual access to system utilities without specifically granting these rights.
  
  Does anyone remember the security nightmare with Novell?

  October 18, 2005

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• Use of "tightened security".
  If you tighten security beyond the default you must undrstand the changes it makes to the OS and the possible effects of the change.
  
  On a Unix box (Sun) during an install we decided to use the "secured" installation.
  
  Guess what teh outcome was?
  
  We were unable to get Oracle or any other third party software to run. THe "root" account had less than usual access to system utilities without specifically granting these rights.
  
  Does anyone remember the security nightmare with Novell?

  October 18, 2005

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• A problem that is addressed by "logo'd" software.
  I think you will find that using "logo's" software and drivers nearly eliminates this issue.
  
  Running "Driver Verifier" and "Software Compatibility Analyzer" will alos uncover some ugly warts in older software that has been upgraded to work with XP.
  
  None of my managed machines (40+))have seen any issues. I always try to use only "logo'd" software or run the verifiers.
  
  COM has been a problem for some time since many developers learn how to use COM without actually readying and understanding toe rules. This, at times, applies to Microsoft's own developers and techs.
  
  Patches for critical production machines should always be tested first. Before installing you must set a restore point and do a backup of the OS. System State makes this very easy to accomplish.

  October 18, 2005

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• A problem that is addressed by "logo'd" software.
  I think you will find that using "logo's" software and drivers nearly eliminates this issue.
  
  Running "Driver Verifier" and "Software Compatibility Analyzer" will alos uncover some ugly warts in older software that has been upgraded to work with XP.
  
  None of my managed machines (40+))have seen any issues. I always try to use only "logo'd" software or run the verifiers.
  
  COM has been a problem for some time since many developers learn how to use COM without actually readying and understanding toe rules. This, at times, applies to Microsoft's own developers and techs.
  
  Patches for critical production machines should always be tested first. Before installing you must set a restore point and do a backup of the OS. System State makes this very easy to accomplish.

  October 18, 2005

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