Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

Nice true story,

What price systems integration? By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco

Windows Vista is in more legal hot water and this time the ones getting wet are the companies who’ve rolled out the operating system, not Microsoft.

A series of lawsuits have been brought against major US companies by staff claiming unpaid overtime based on the time it takes Windows Vista to start up and shut down.

Mark Thierman, a solo legal practitioner based in Reno, Nevada, told The Reg employees are losing up to two hours of pay a week thanks to Windows Vista.

Thierman calculated damages could run into millions of dollars over a three-year period. He’s representing employees of Cigna health insurance, with cases also pending against AT&T Inc and UnitedHealth Group covering thousands of employees.

Thierman said the Windows Vista problem particularly affects workers paid by the hour, in places like call centers or in retail.

The crux of the issue is the fact that some companies have connected time-keeping systems to their PCs.

These systems are not activated until the user logs in, which is taking up to 15 minutes after the machine running Windows Vista has been turned on thanks to the long boot cycle. This means staff are in the office or shop but not officially working until they’ve logged in

And when it comes to shutting down, people are logging off but hanging about without pay as the PC goes through the equally long shut-down cycle.

Thierman called the idea of wiring time-keeping systems into the PC a glitch that sounded like a good idea at the time. ®

Taken from : www.theregister.co.uk

Filed under: English, Opinion, Software

SQL Server 2000 – Merge Replication Step by Step Procedure

Introduction

Replication is the process of sharing data between databases in different locations. Using replication, we can create copies of the database and share the copy with different users so that they can make changes to their local copy of database and later synchronize the changes to the source database.

Microsoft SQL Server replication uses publisher, distributor and subscriber entities.

Publisher is a server that makes the data available for subscription to other servers. In addition to that, publisher also identifies what data has changed at the subscriber during the synchronizing process. Publisher contains publication(s).

Subscriber is a server that receives and maintains the published data. Modifications to the data at subscriber can be propagated back to the publisher.

Distributor is the server that manages the flow of data through the replication system. Two types of distributors are present, one is remote distributor and the other one local distributor. Remote distributor is separate from publisher and is configured as distributor for replication. Local distributor is a server that is configured as publisher and distributor.

Agents are the processes that are responsible for copying and distributing data between publisher and subscriber. There are different types of agents supporting different types of replication.

An article can be any database object, like Tables (Column filtered or Row filtered), Views, Indexed views, Stored Procedures, and User defined functions.

Publication is a collection of articles.

Subscription is a request for copy of data or database objects to be replicated.

Filed under: Database, English

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Filed under: English, Web Application

How Much Price plate number 1234?

Rich people in Hong Kong may be affected by the global recession, but for a number plate of vehicles that prestigious, can still behave more than 46 thousand U.S. dollars (around Rp460 million).

As DPA reported early this week, plate number 1234 sold at 360 thousand Hong Kong dollars (46,445 U.S. dollars) in the auction held by the government against 280 unique license plate. Results are collected is 345 thousand U.S. dollars.

Some 30 of plate-plate number that offered it does not reach the opening price. It is a sign that the economy begin lethargy impact on one of the richest cities as the world.

Shares of Hong Kong is one of the most fall in the current crisis. Hang Seng Index falling to more than 25% of their value in the last six weeks.

Actor Jackie Chan fight in 2006 to fish pocket 1.5 million dollars (Rp 15 billion) to get the plate number 123.

According to the number of birthdays wife and children, each 23 January and 3 December.

In that year, numbered plate I LOVE U in Hong Kong with terlelang price 180 thousand U.S. dollars and overcome the price for HANDSOME, BABYFACE and MR DVD.

The Government of the Hong Kong territory each year offers a unique number to collect the money will be donated to the poor.

Plate number that may be the most expensive in the world is 1 in the terlelang a charity event in Abu Dhabi this year with the price of 24 million U.S. dollars (more than Rp24 billion). The property is the leading businessmen in Abu Dhabi.

(taken from gatra)

Filed under: English, News

Project Information Management System

Introduction

PIMS (Project Information Management System) is best described as a concept for information sharing and storage in projects. It is designed to satisfy management information needs, as well as meeting project requirements for detailed data capture.

PIMS includes functionality for both technical and commercial information, and benefits from the ability to produce joint reports. It supports use across traditional organizational interfaces and promotes interaction between multiple parties in a project.

Implementation

PIMS is specifically designed for implementation through custom fitting. Its basis consists of a data model, definitions and philosophy. Client needs defined through roles and responsibility, business practices and project requirements are incorporated using additional connected registers, reporting and terminology. The Pims concept is highly scaleable, and fits multi billion NOK oil field developments.

Facts

• Supports a co-ordination role (typically Operator/EPCS contractor)
• Focuses on project control
• Controls contractors and suppliers
• Allows easy access to project information
• Supports efficient work flow
• Aggregates information for decision support
• Shares information across company boundaries
• 15 years of successful implementation
• Over 10 000 users world wide
• Built on standard Microsoft products
• Web-enabled

PIMS is built in modules and has all the functional requirements for a total project control system. However, in some settings adequate systems are already implemented. Since PIMS is built up using modules and easy to integrate with other systems, it allows the project to choose only those modules required.

Project Control Estimating Change and trend Management Baseline Update, cost control and forecasting Cashflow and Income Owner split Currency impact Accounting & reporting Risk, Opportunities and Uncertainty management CTR register Experience database Supervision Standardised monthly reporting Quantity Measurement Quality Management

Procurement Procurement Commitment control Technical Engineering Indices Mechanical Completion Commissioning Preservation Document Control Work Orders Other Team Collaboration Personnel on Board Project Portal

(Taken from pims.no)

Filed under: Completion Project, English, Software