@Mario I think android/google maps caches directions. I've turned my phone into airplane while under GPS navigation, turned off the highway, and drove 1.5 miles before google maps couldn't "recalculate" my route anymore.
Speaking of the passive nature of GPS, has anyone heard of the precision and possible selective availability in the new constellation of GPS satellites?
The other big problem with offline maps besides location awareness is caching the map images -- How long do we keep them? how many tiles away do we grab? Do we grab at one zoom level, or all of them? etc.
@JohnK there are new (US Navy) GPS satellites going up?
or is this some other .gov getting into the biznez?
Last I heard a few months back, someone was mentioning 100 ft accuracy, with a reintroduced SA signal - I didn't believe them at the time, but I wasn't sure
@JohnK Unlikely - The FAA is big on GPS as part of the next-generation ATC project, and re-implementing SA would make GPS almost completely unusable for air navigation with the FAA's required performance criteria.
At least in terms of intentional scrambling on the provider side. The alternate encrypted signal is still there and I think provides for validating the signal against spoofing for military users.
@voretaq7 There's only one thing that can trump the terrorist card and that's taking away bread and circuses. If Grandma's iPhone map isn't working right because of some politician, that fucker's going down.
@JeffFerland not if it's protecting granny from the mean man in the desert! Never underestimate the stupidity of the american populace: We put up with the fucking TSA, we'll pretty much bend over for anything the government wants at this point.
not that the politicians would last long after it, but the policy probably wouldn't go anywhere -- the whole reason the TSA is still around is no politician has the gonads to step up and say "This shit does not work, and it inconveniences everyone in the process of not working. Let's get rid of it."
They usually connect to our network by a VPN. Right now there is just the (password protected) Administrator account and their domain user account on the laptop. Windows 7 and Server 2008R2 in use here.
I want to change their password or disable/lock their account and have it take immediate effe...
whats the difference between a first level domain on stack exchange like serverfault.com compared to a subdomain like diy.stackexchange.com - just size of the site or lack of available good domain names? (or something else)
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@Mario In the beginning there was Stack Overflow, and it was good. So they decided to create Super User and Server Fault. They too were good. So they decided to sell the framework, and that was bad. Then they came up with SE 2.0, and the Area51 concept. And it is Okay so far... Gaming.SE has become popular and so it will become Arqade.com, and we'll see if that becomes good too.
RE: what I asked Sam before, anyone else have any experience to Zimbra? Just want to get a feel for the product before I delve too deep into researching it.
@TylerShads I've pondered moving us over to it. I'm the only one here with the slightest clue how to run CyrusIMAP & Postfix. If something happened to me, they'd be fucked.
@Adrian I'm only on google apps at the moment, which was a patch job, id much rather have it internal, but Exchange seems like an annoyance to set-up properly with just myself working on it. This being run by VMWare and natively made for being online seems like a better idea.
I'm more asking is it worth delving into, or is Google Apps the best I'm going to get for the money vs trying to implement this open source thing (which, I might have to end up buying the 'network' edition anyway.
@TylerShads Zimbra can't be administered as a hobby for a small domain, IMO. I tried it with my own consultancy and it takes care and feeding unless you get it hosted.
@Mario that wouldn't go well with the boss. The fact that he had to sign an NDA for a GPS company that hooks into our dispatch program was a 3 month uphill battle. Only reason he likes google apps is because its google.
Cloud is fine for any sized workforce, so long as you're willing to let them work in the cloud. If you require email to be managed by the company, then you probably won't get your money's worth trying to scale some sort of open email solution
Not to mention, he wants it inhouse, we're already paying for Google apps, but I have 'til september (when our contract runs out) to at least get us close to an in house solution, so rackspace would just be a step sideways from that perspective.
apparently every time someone visits the election it kicks out a new message - they're talking about it over in TL so they're aware it's lost its marbles
Shoot, the mask for the phone wasn't as sharp as I thought all this time. Good thing I'm not compulsive other wise I'd have to go back and redo all of the previous dozens of BOFHatars! HAH! I mean, that would be... Good thing I'm not... that would just be... ... ... DAMMIT ALL!!!
@freiheit Of course. Lets rephrase that, I'd have to go find something else to bitch about. Not that it would be that tough....
I am however happy with $boss[-1] at the moment. For the last here he worked here in 2009, he required that all servers have Vt capability on the CPU regardless of additional expense. This is pretty much saving me a pile of cash I don't have right now.
2xe5440 2.8Ghz CPUs with Vt and 32GB RAM. There's all sorts of things I can do with that after I migrate the mail server off it.
@freiheit I find bitching about social worker cow-orkers to be very satisfying. There's no end of stupidity that those freshly-minted masters degree-bearing children can cook up.
@MarkHenderson Not nowadays. But it's really nice to be able to re-purpose 4yo servers for VMWare.
@WesleyDavid The latter. =)
I love it when those kids show up in my cube all up on their high-horse. That's when I point out that I was learning programming and studying networking when they were still wetting their nappies.
Ahhh fuck, what a great way to start the week. New server went in on Friday, and over the weekend two matching disks in the RAID-10 failed
Server wasn't in production yet but it means I have to set it all up again, blegh. Looks like the disks failed before the initial backup had a chance to finish
I recently deployed a server with 5x 1TB drives (I won't mention their brand, but it was one of the big two). I was initially warned against getting large capacity drives, as a friend advised me that they have a very low MTBF, and I would be better getting more, smaller capacity drives as they ar...
@derobert And so we bought another enclosure to clone all that data into. Which is how we're still running a SCSI320 DAS system as our file server in 2012.
we use them on the call center floor - awesome machines for basic tasks
the 5740 has 2gb storage - just big enough for iSeries Access, web browser and a custom app (.net) - windows 7 embedded (might be up to win 8 embedded now)
Nice. We buy the 260/280s from refurbishers about 20-30 at a time. They're wonderful little units and my hardware tech knows Dell stuff like nobody's business.
I call him the hardware whisperer for all the dead Dells he brings back to life.
i hate that when i have a failed hard drive i have to go through basic trouble shooting when i call them, when i know what the problem is - but whatev.
it didnt occure to me that icloud would resync 800 photos when i installed ios 6 dev preview before it would install my apps. been going for an hour now :(
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Yes, I promise, I will vote -- but 72 notifications seems like overkill.
