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Comment Clean (Score 1) 376

by pkcs11 (#21867710) Attached to: How Would You Design Your Dream Office?
No one mentioned this from what I read, but the most important thing about a datacenter is keeping everything clean.
Design a clean and efficient physical layout and schema.
Follow that schema, even when throwing up "temporary" appliances.
Use cable management panels, NOT zip-ties and clamps.
Operating Systems

Converting Desktops to Thin Clients? 110

Posted by Cliff from the cyclic-nature-of-IT dept.
tfiedler asks: "I manage about 3500 desktop computers and was recently asked by my CIO to begin looking into thin client computing, something like WYSE terminals. I'd like to know, what are some good functional, and more importantly, manageable options to convert existing desktop computers into what would essentially be a Citrix terminal? I was thinking some brand of Linux that starts up an X11 session, starts the Citrix client and connects to our server farm. The user would see a Windows logon, our apps would function as normal and I'd get the benefit of performing a LOT LESS client-side maintenance. Any suggestions?"
Networking

Does the Internet Need a Major Capacity Upgrade? 357

Posted by Zonk from the eternal-september dept.
wiggles writes "According to the Chicago Tribune, the recent surge of video sites such as Youtube and Google video are pushing the limits of the Internet's bandwidth, or soon will be. Pieter Poll, chief technology officer at Qwest Communications, says that traffic volumes are growing faster than computing power, meaning that engineers can no longer count on newer, faster computers to keep ahead of their capacity demands. Further, a recent report from Deloitte Consulting raised the possibility that 2007 would see Internet demand exceed capacity. Admittedly, this seems a bit sensationalist, but are we headed for a massive slowdown of the whole internet?"
Microsoft

Submission + - Opera CTO hits back at Microsoft's standards push

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Michael
Michael writes: "Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie hit back today at Microsoft's push to fast track Office Open XML into an ISO standard in a blistering article on CNET. He also took a swipe at Open Document Format: "I'm no fan of either specification. Both are basically memory dumps with angle brackets around them. If forced to choose one, I'd pick the 700-page specification (ODF) over the 6,000-page specification (OOXML). But I think there is a better way.". The better way being the existing universally understood standards of HTML and CSS. Putting this to the test, Håkon has published a book using HTML and CSS."
Microsoft

Journal Journal: Microsoft Loses case Over Patents

Journal by nevillethedevil
The New York times has an article titled: MP3 Patents in Upheaval After Verdict. From the article:
Microsoft was ordered by a federal jury yesterday to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom. If upheld on appeal, it would be the largest patent judgment on record. The ruling, in Federal District Court in Sa

Feed Oscar's Overlooked Stars: Geeks (wired.com)

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Hollywood is rolling out the red carpet for Oscar on Saturday, but what about the real talent in Tinseltown: the geeks? Jason Silverman celebrates the scientific and technical awards.


User Journal

Journal Journal: Bullets or Benjamins

Journal by pkcs11
Dear God, Please put a bullet into my skull. Or give me a raise. Either works for me.

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