Can you actually declare war on a country because they are habouring a futurative? The UN, Europe etc did not and could not raise objections to the invasion of Afghanistan because the the 'Northern Alliance' held the Afganistani seat at the UN, the Taliban were never actually recognised as the legitimate government of Afganistan and where only likely to achieve legitimate status if they wiped the Northern Alliance out because of their creative interpretations of Sharia law , human rights abuses and links to various terrorist organisations including Al Qaeda. It was a legal war because they were assisting the UN recognised government the fact that they were going in for an entirely unrelated matter didn't seem to worry any of the international community, so long as America got their pound of flesh.
Bargain basement ISP Tiscali have already operated a similar scheme in cahoots with the BPI, but it's all fallen apart because Tiscali want the BPI to pay for the privilege of sending warnings and chucking people off. The most intriguing part is that the BPI are doing the investigation and instead of monitoring the packets of each connection they are monitoring the known torrents and connections to those torrents, which is clearly a far more practical idea than monitoring all packets. The Register have the full story
Although Zimbra's future is less clear because of this, if the regulators in Europe and North America are doing their job correctly non-core but yet competing Yahoo products such as Zimbra will need to be spun off before any deal gets the green light. That way the deal has very little affect the applications that directly compete with Microsoft's core products such as Office, Windows, Server and xbox (does that count?). Sure in the short term this will lead to some uncertainty around the product but Yahoo's purchase of Zimbra never really felt right in their product line, this will give Zimbra the chance to be picked up by a company where it would actually be a good fit.
If you're running the backup agent against the VM you negate one of the major advantages of virtualisation - the easy portability of the machine. If you take a copy of the virtual machine files as you backup it makes restoration of the machines a lot easier. However this approach makes restoration of the individual files or databases a lot harder, you'd have to restore a copy virtual machine and export the files which would seem to be a rather messy prospect to me. So it's balancing, are you going to need to regularly restore databases and files from the system or is it more important to get the system as a whole up and running quickly? Clearly in an ideal world you need both.
On VM Ware ESX Server Consolidated Backup or ESX Ranger appear to be the way forward but if you're operating on a low budget or nil budget and can afford a little downtime then VM Ware Server (inc the free version) comes with a scripting language (vmrun) which allows you to stop, copy and snapshot servers overnight. On the VMWare community forum there's a vb script that's been written here, it seems a little elaborate to me but the theory is there.
Exactly you can't work in the same room as servers and network equipment an IT Department in an office needs ideally three areas.
1. Server room. So cold that you need to add two layers of clothing when you go in. It should have tiled and raised floors and separate AC power circuit.
2. Secure storage area, your server room is not a dumping ground for unused hardware, boxes of wires, software and whatever else that has a plug.
3. Work area, in addition to a desk with triple screen linked to a kvm for your desktop and laptop you need a work surface on which you can do hardware repair and configuration.
For web developers IE7 is a huge improvement, it copes with standards better and they didn't put any additional 'extensions' in. From personal user centric focus it loads pages slower and the GUI is far from user friendly. On XP I've stuck with IE6 since I only really use IE for accessing the odd Sharepoint or Microsoft site that doesn't work properly with in Firefox (even with ietab) so I don't need to worry about whatever the extra security features are in IE7.
frustrating isn't it? I'd probably have purchased an iPod at every other generation update if they added Ogg Vorbis support. I've got a music collection full of ogg format music that I ripped on Linux, I don't use ACC _at all_ because my aging iRiver doesn't support it. Having to convert my entire collection to another format makes me hold off, I don't need a new digital music device but I want one that I can migrate to easily. Come Apple it'd be so easy to do, I reckon my patronage in Macbooks and iPods would probably be worth it alone.
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This is simply not the case, UK stock is also low with retailers now taking advantage by selling the console in large expensive high margin bundles. If Nintendo have already sold the stock to retailers for the Christmas it's going to be pretty hard for them to buy the stock back and then ship it around the world. Consumers are just going to have to be persistant and clever in trying to get hold of the console, many UK gamers have been purchasing from amazon.fr and amazon.de but they've now sold out. I imagine a few hardy souls will be making the trip to scandinavia to get hold of the console, I know of at least one person who came back from Germany with a boot load of Wiis.
Nintendo don't do convergence they do gaming. If they can't even be bothered to get a DVD player for launch into the Wii then I don't see why they would want to converge phones and the gameboy. The only reason they would bring in a phone element is to add a gameplay element, and frankly I wouldn't want to speculate beyond that.
The software companies that support ODF might have set out to dethrone Microsoft, however the goal of a standard and the awarding body is not to dethrone Microsft but to have the format widely used. This would force Microsoft to have include compatibility in their programs.
What the OpenDocument Foundation should be promoting is compatibility of programs like Open Office with OOXML and also Microsoft Office with ODF. They need to prompt the ironing out of issues with OOXML so it can become a well defined standard, introducing a 3rd standard into the mix doesn't sound very constructive to me. It'll just cause far more work for the developers of applications, who at the end of the day provide the ability to convert between doc, docx, odf, pdf, wpf or whatever else you've got stashed away.
As the quality of digital music improves and the restrictions are lifted CDs will die out as a viable format but Vinyl will live on. The problem with the digital music is that it does not have a tangible product that you can display and treasure and CDs are not a great deal better generally the packaging is cheap and unspectacular. Vinyl disks and packaging has so much more scope for being something tangible, something to display and treasure. All our music will eventually be delivered digitally one way or another but for those looking for something more tangible, to keep and remember Vinyl offers that little bit more pleasure. It soon will die out but only because it will not be relevent to the populace of the day.
Novell doesn't want anything SCO has it wants the money, if I understand this correctly. With this agreement Novell gets the money and SCO might get to live again so everyone is happy (from a business perspective anyway).
Technical problems are not the half of it, it is actually against the license to use nlite for commercial purposes. Which smacks of please don't sue us, so doesn't really inspire confidence if anyone were considering using the software in any situation.
There's nothing strange about this update going out to Ubuntu promptly, they are looking for same userland space that Windows ships for. If this really affects anyone's use of Debian maybe they should be using Ubuntu?
It's unlikely that kiosks will be using OEM licenses, they are more likely to use a volume license agreement which essentially allows you to use whatever version of Windows you want if you buy the equivalent Vista license (Business = Pro)
"Symphony is based on software available from Open Office, a development project that also provides the basis of Sun Microsystems Corp.'s Star Office and a Google Inc. desktop-software suite."
I imagine that IBM the only real difference between the Symphony and Open Office will be the integration with Lotus notes and user interface to go with it.
If you're in the UK there's always these guys http://efficientpc.co.uk/desktops/isis/ Not sure about the zero effort upgrades, if they take the packages from a repository it can't be that hard.
I often look at their website with the temptation to splurge some cash, not sure about their laptop packages though. I don't like the idea of buying a laptop and then not being able to use all the hardware that comes with it. Even if the hardware is spurious.
Depends what you mean by power users, there are a lot of Windows users who think they are power users but really aren't. They don't know much about machine and group policy, the registry, and they certainly can't script but they know how they like their computer setup and they know how to fix the majority of the problems they encounter. Ubunutu provides a user interface for pretty much every administrative function and has a wide range of software available as it can (mostly) run install software packaged for Debian without much of a problem so provides a lot for the power user migrating from Windows.
Since the power user is going to be bite back if you try to lock the machine down, for instance some of my users like over ride WSUS updates by using Microsoft update instead. You might as well give them Ubuntu since it's pretty robust.
I've nearly always found xp to be faster than 2000 on pretty bare machines 512mb ram pentium 3/4, XP certainly loads a hell of a lot faster than 2000 (you have time to make the tea but not drink it). As said previously you need to turn off the teletubby menus and you'll be fine. I've not gone below 256mb RAM recently though so it'd be hard to say what it was like for them, I'd imagine Linux would be a good way forward on those or you could try Windows Fundamentals if you're hooked into Microsoft by an umbilical cord.
If you and the your government put pressure on your electric companies to produce electricity using greener methods they will, in the UK you can buy electricity on tariffs where your supplier agrees to buy electricity from the green sources if you pay a little more. Or if you're feeling really pioneering have some solar panels or wind turbine installed on your roof. All this is future tech that's not quite made it to mainstream but so is the electric car, if you had any amount of foresight you would see that as renewable sources of energy become more efficient and therefore cheaper possibly even more so than coal and other fossil fuels. Toyota see that and they're developing their car and technologies in advance of future trends in energy generation.
"2. Fix your printer yourself.
Why? they hired you for that."
I've never actually read a job description for a sys admin that specifically mentions printers. We tend to do it as a sideline and we also tend to be very bad at it as well probably just as qualified as anyone else who does problem solving in IT. It's probably just where I work but if it's a major problem and it isn't under warranty or maintenence a printer tends to stay broken until someone finds a budget for a new one. And if it is on some kind of maintenence agreement most sys admins are going to do is repeat the problem over the phone to someone at HP or whoever, anyone can do that the majority of sys admins are hired for their skills with Linux, Windows or Unix and know next to nothing about most printer problems so really you're probably wasting both my time and yours (since you'll just sit waiting) if you ring me about a paper jam or worse to change the toner.
Dell will still sell and pre-load XP OEM while you can buy OEM cds from Ebuyer. Plus any large organisation worth their salt will have a multi seat agreement with Microsoft. It's not an issue for anybody if you actually think about what you're buying and what you are going to use on it.
Perhaps although if Apple continue to ignore the low end consumer and enterprise markets, they will never achieve the market share that will mean people won't have to worry about running Windows applications. To me it's more of a concern for Apple that virtual machine integration will appear in userland as part of Mac OS so developers would no longer have develop for Mac OS so the functionality of OS X comes down entirely to everchanging whim of the Microsoft lawyers and marketing teams. It ain't something I'd be placing any bets on.
Alot of problems are caused by poorly written drivers, if I haven't done so before the first thing I do when someone presents with poor wireless connectivity is update their drivers and ditch the 3rd party software connection software.
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Can you actually declare war on a country because they are habouring a futurative? The UN, Europe etc did not and could not raise objections to the invasion of Afghanistan because the the 'Northern Alliance' held the Afganistani seat at the UN, the Taliban were never actually recognised as the legitimate government of Afganistan and where only likely to achieve legitimate status if they wiped the Northern Alliance out because of their creative interpretations of Sharia law , human rights abuses and links to various terrorist organisations including Al Qaeda. It was a legal war because they were assisting the UN recognised government the fact that they were going in for an entirely unrelated matter didn't seem to worry any of the international community, so long as America got their pound of flesh.
Bargain basement ISP Tiscali have already operated a similar scheme in cahoots with the BPI, but it's all fallen apart because Tiscali want the BPI to pay for the privilege of sending warnings and chucking people off. The most intriguing part is that the BPI are doing the investigation and instead of monitoring the packets of each connection they are monitoring the known torrents and connections to those torrents, which is clearly a far more practical idea than monitoring all packets. The Register have the full story
Although Zimbra's future is less clear because of this, if the regulators in Europe and North America are doing their job correctly non-core but yet competing Yahoo products such as Zimbra will need to be spun off before any deal gets the green light. That way the deal has very little affect the applications that directly compete with Microsoft's core products such as Office, Windows, Server and xbox (does that count?). Sure in the short term this will lead to some uncertainty around the product but Yahoo's purchase of Zimbra never really felt right in their product line, this will give Zimbra the chance to be picked up by a company where it would actually be a good fit.
On VM Ware ESX Server Consolidated Backup or ESX Ranger appear to be the way forward but if you're operating on a low budget or nil budget and can afford a little downtime then VM Ware Server (inc the free version) comes with a scripting language (vmrun) which allows you to stop, copy and snapshot servers overnight. On the VMWare community forum there's a vb script that's been written here, it seems a little elaborate to me but the theory is there.
Exactly you can't work in the same room as servers and network equipment an IT Department in an office needs ideally three areas.
1. Server room. So cold that you need to add two layers of clothing when you go in. It should have tiled and raised floors and separate AC power circuit.
2. Secure storage area, your server room is not a dumping ground for unused hardware, boxes of wires, software and whatever else that has a plug.
3. Work area, in addition to a desk with triple screen linked to a kvm for your desktop and laptop you need a work surface on which you can do hardware repair and configuration.
For web developers IE7 is a huge improvement, it copes with standards better and they didn't put any additional 'extensions' in. From personal user centric focus it loads pages slower and the GUI is far from user friendly. On XP I've stuck with IE6 since I only really use IE for accessing the odd Sharepoint or Microsoft site that doesn't work properly with in Firefox (even with ietab) so I don't need to worry about whatever the extra security features are in IE7.
frustrating isn't it? I'd probably have purchased an iPod at every other generation update if they added Ogg Vorbis support. I've got a music collection full of ogg format music that I ripped on Linux, I don't use ACC _at all_ because my aging iRiver doesn't support it. Having to convert my entire collection to another format makes me hold off, I don't need a new digital music device but I want one that I can migrate to easily. Come Apple it'd be so easy to do, I reckon my patronage in Macbooks and iPods would probably be worth it alone.
This is simply not the case, UK stock is also low with retailers now taking advantage by selling the console in large expensive high margin bundles. If Nintendo have already sold the stock to retailers for the Christmas it's going to be pretty hard for them to buy the stock back and then ship it around the world. Consumers are just going to have to be persistant and clever in trying to get hold of the console, many UK gamers have been purchasing from amazon.fr and amazon.de but they've now sold out. I imagine a few hardy souls will be making the trip to scandinavia to get hold of the console, I know of at least one person who came back from Germany with a boot load of Wiis.
Nintendo don't do convergence they do gaming. If they can't even be bothered to get a DVD player for launch into the Wii then I don't see why they would want to converge phones and the gameboy. The only reason they would bring in a phone element is to add a gameplay element, and frankly I wouldn't want to speculate beyond that.
What the OpenDocument Foundation should be promoting is compatibility of programs like Open Office with OOXML and also Microsoft Office with ODF. They need to prompt the ironing out of issues with OOXML so it can become a well defined standard, introducing a 3rd standard into the mix doesn't sound very constructive to me. It'll just cause far more work for the developers of applications, who at the end of the day provide the ability to convert between doc, docx, odf, pdf, wpf or whatever else you've got stashed away.
As the quality of digital music improves and the restrictions are lifted CDs will die out as a viable format but Vinyl will live on. The problem with the digital music is that it does not have a tangible product that you can display and treasure and CDs are not a great deal better generally the packaging is cheap and unspectacular. Vinyl disks and packaging has so much more scope for being something tangible, something to display and treasure. All our music will eventually be delivered digitally one way or another but for those looking for something more tangible, to keep and remember Vinyl offers that little bit more pleasure. It soon will die out but only because it will not be relevent to the populace of the day.
Novell doesn't want anything SCO has it wants the money, if I understand this correctly. With this agreement Novell gets the money and SCO might get to live again so everyone is happy (from a business perspective anyway).
Technical problems are not the half of it, it is actually against the license to use nlite for commercial purposes. Which smacks of please don't sue us, so doesn't really inspire confidence if anyone were considering using the software in any situation.
There's nothing strange about this update going out to Ubuntu promptly, they are looking for same userland space that Windows ships for. If this really affects anyone's use of Debian maybe they should be using Ubuntu?
It's unlikely that kiosks will be using OEM licenses, they are more likely to use a volume license agreement which essentially allows you to use whatever version of Windows you want if you buy the equivalent Vista license (Business = Pro)
"Symphony is based on software available from Open Office, a development project that also provides the basis of Sun Microsystems Corp.'s Star Office and a Google Inc. desktop-software suite."
I imagine that IBM the only real difference between the Symphony and Open Office will be the integration with Lotus notes and user interface to go with it.
the average home break thug won't use the computer - they probably won't even turn it on, they'll sell it for drug money
If you're in the UK there's always these guys http://efficientpc.co.uk/desktops/isis/ Not sure about the zero effort upgrades, if they take the packages from a repository it can't be that hard.
I often look at their website with the temptation to splurge some cash, not sure about their laptop packages though. I don't like the idea of buying a laptop and then not being able to use all the hardware that comes with it. Even if the hardware is spurious.Depends what you mean by power users, there are a lot of Windows users who think they are power users but really aren't. They don't know much about machine and group policy, the registry, and they certainly can't script but they know how they like their computer setup and they know how to fix the majority of the problems they encounter. Ubunutu provides a user interface for pretty much every administrative function and has a wide range of software available as it can (mostly) run install software packaged for Debian without much of a problem so provides a lot for the power user migrating from Windows. Since the power user is going to be bite back if you try to lock the machine down, for instance some of my users like over ride WSUS updates by using Microsoft update instead. You might as well give them Ubuntu since it's pretty robust.
I've nearly always found xp to be faster than 2000 on pretty bare machines 512mb ram pentium 3/4, XP certainly loads a hell of a lot faster than 2000 (you have time to make the tea but not drink it). As said previously you need to turn off the teletubby menus and you'll be fine. I've not gone below 256mb RAM recently though so it'd be hard to say what it was like for them, I'd imagine Linux would be a good way forward on those or you could try Windows Fundamentals if you're hooked into Microsoft by an umbilical cord.
If you and the your government put pressure on your electric companies to produce electricity using greener methods they will, in the UK you can buy electricity on tariffs where your supplier agrees to buy electricity from the green sources if you pay a little more. Or if you're feeling really pioneering have some solar panels or wind turbine installed on your roof. All this is future tech that's not quite made it to mainstream but so is the electric car, if you had any amount of foresight you would see that as renewable sources of energy become more efficient and therefore cheaper possibly even more so than coal and other fossil fuels. Toyota see that and they're developing their car and technologies in advance of future trends in energy generation.
"2. Fix your printer yourself. Why? they hired you for that." I've never actually read a job description for a sys admin that specifically mentions printers. We tend to do it as a sideline and we also tend to be very bad at it as well probably just as qualified as anyone else who does problem solving in IT. It's probably just where I work but if it's a major problem and it isn't under warranty or maintenence a printer tends to stay broken until someone finds a budget for a new one. And if it is on some kind of maintenence agreement most sys admins are going to do is repeat the problem over the phone to someone at HP or whoever, anyone can do that the majority of sys admins are hired for their skills with Linux, Windows or Unix and know next to nothing about most printer problems so really you're probably wasting both my time and yours (since you'll just sit waiting) if you ring me about a paper jam or worse to change the toner.
Dell will still sell and pre-load XP OEM while you can buy OEM cds from Ebuyer. Plus any large organisation worth their salt will have a multi seat agreement with Microsoft. It's not an issue for anybody if you actually think about what you're buying and what you are going to use on it.
Perhaps although if Apple continue to ignore the low end consumer and enterprise markets, they will never achieve the market share that will mean people won't have to worry about running Windows applications. To me it's more of a concern for Apple that virtual machine integration will appear in userland as part of Mac OS so developers would no longer have develop for Mac OS so the functionality of OS X comes down entirely to everchanging whim of the Microsoft lawyers and marketing teams. It ain't something I'd be placing any bets on.
Alot of problems are caused by poorly written drivers, if I haven't done so before the first thing I do when someone presents with poor wireless connectivity is update their drivers and ditch the 3rd party software connection software.