Oh how I wish I could get another internet provider. I live in the middle (literally) of a major Canadian city (Ottawa) and my options for high speed internet access (anything above 'Lite') requires the purchasing of cable internet. Which is supplied by only one cable company, Rogers. Who then traffic shapes and caps the hell out of the connection. Sure I can download at 8Mbps but my cap space runs out in under 48hrs if I do that. Try seeding a linux distro back to the community, nope sorry that is traffic shaped, no seeding. Not to mention like clock work every year or less I get a notice in the mail that prices are going up on my tv and internet because of all the great service they're providing me... which really, hasn't changed at all. So I'm now paying more for the same level of service that I've had for the last 5 yrs... and next year.. I'll pay more. They say, it's not a monopoly, you have options.. yeah, if I pay to get fiber strung to my house from an independent ISP at $200 a foot, or use my phone line with a 56k modem. End rant.
That would be great, however the cost of several developers to create a system that rivals existing systems that we can buy would be prohibitive. If there were a middle ground.. hire a developer to tweak an existing 'almost there' system.. that would be doable.
Good point.. I guess that's why I'm the only one allowed on/.
Actually, the interesting part is that no one else in the company understands *nix environments, nor how to add or remove what can or can't be seen. It's a real problem with cross training... but job security for me.
Yes, but if I hadn't done it, I still would have been paid for researching and saying 'it can't be done for less than $$$'. Then going back to telling users they need to restart and jiggle the cord.
We also use Open Office for our Mac Clients, Filezilla for FTP transfers, 7zip for zipping and the like, and a number of other smaller simple applications for specific tasks.
I'm with you on this, for certain uses OSS is just not feasible without coding it yourself. If I could find an MIS that would run all of my companies manufacturing operations in OSS that would be phenomenal and save us mad cash.
I've implemented Dansguardian webfiltering with a squid proxy on an unused Mac OS X server to placate my bosses need to control everyone's surfing habit and keep the cost of doing so at $0.
..will we get a good internet service provider in Ontario/Canada, I have my choice between bell or rogers, or someone else who is supplied by bell or rogers. Also because my neighbourhood phone lines are old and crappy, I have my choice between rogers and rogers... if only there were a second cable provider. The good ol' CRTC loves keeping Canadian's choice to a minimum. (insert 85% Canadian content here)
Yeah, MSNBC.. it forced me to go to another site to watch the Olympic highlights because I felt no need to install another flavour of software just to watch a video.
Maybe they should sneaker net it at Ryerson, like the cubans are doing. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/03/06/1717242.shtml/
Face it, students have been and will be sharing answers and test questions as long as there is school. So lets work together towards a better future of directly implanted knowledge.
I'm sorry for your situation. I can enjoy some television from time to time, but would barely miss it if it were broken (mostly because then I couldn't play wii from time to time).
Maybe you should 'break' the tv and then suggest they try some activities, join peer groups/sports etc.
I'm totally on board with you here. I look after a contingent of 15 Mac's and Several Xserves and Xraids, and my primary issue is with their software/hardware error reporting. I just today had to replace a power supply on one of my xserves.. after more than a week of research to figure out where the problem of spontaneous reboots was coming from. According to the hardware monitoring, the power supply was A-ok, and according to the system logs I had a random numbered error with no reference on apple's site anywhere. Their official response was "bring it into an apple certified dealer for service" (because apparently I'm incapable of using a screw driver)..long story short.. I traced it down, and replaced the power supply, now all is well. But their support.. needs work.
Hardest game I ever gave up on. I was one of those side scrolling, the screen keeps you flying on his board games.. but if you get hit once, you die and start the level over again.. near impossible.
I work in a company, where I am the IT dept. All the servers(15), all the users(60), the entire network and even some old press consoles are all my responsibility.
Now think about if my company decided to have a survey amongst our users about my performance, and their satisfaction. Either I'm fired, or damn it, i deserve a raise.. depending upon the outcome of the survey.
The primary issue I have with keep downtime to a minimum, and keeping users happy and doing their jobs is money. I'm constantly applying bandaids to hemorrhaging systems. What do you do when management has a "if it still sorta works, we're not spending a cent to fix it" attitude. Or when it does break, "what's the cheapest, buy that", regardless of the inevitable issues of subpar equipment and software. So in my case I'm not sure downtime could be used as an adequate measure of a successful IT dept. Give me a bag full of cash to spend, and I'll make sure we have superior redundancy and mere seconds of downtime in any situation.
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Oh how I wish I could get another internet provider. I live in the middle (literally) of a major Canadian city (Ottawa) and my options for high speed internet access (anything above 'Lite') requires the purchasing of cable internet. Which is supplied by only one cable company, Rogers. Who then traffic shapes and caps the hell out of the connection. Sure I can download at 8Mbps but my cap space runs out in under 48hrs if I do that. Try seeding a linux distro back to the community, nope sorry that is traffic shaped, no seeding. Not to mention like clock work every year or less I get a notice in the mail that prices are going up on my tv and internet because of all the great service they're providing me... which really, hasn't changed at all. So I'm now paying more for the same level of service that I've had for the last 5 yrs... and next year.. I'll pay more. They say, it's not a monopoly, you have options.. yeah, if I pay to get fiber strung to my house from an independent ISP at $200 a foot, or use my phone line with a 56k modem. End rant.
nail on the head.
It sounds more like you have an issue with management and leadership in your IT department than issues with OSS.
That would be great, however the cost of several developers to create a system that rivals existing systems that we can buy would be prohibitive. If there were a middle ground.. hire a developer to tweak an existing 'almost there' system.. that would be doable.
Good point.. I guess that's why I'm the only one allowed on /.
Actually, the interesting part is that no one else in the company understands *nix environments, nor how to add or remove what can or can't be seen. It's a real problem with cross training... but job security for me.
Yes, but if I hadn't done it, I still would have been paid for researching and saying 'it can't be done for less than $$$'. Then going back to telling users they need to restart and jiggle the cord.
We also use Open Office for our Mac Clients, Filezilla for FTP transfers, 7zip for zipping and the like, and a number of other smaller simple applications for specific tasks.
I'm with you on this, for certain uses OSS is just not feasible without coding it yourself. If I could find an MIS that would run all of my companies manufacturing operations in OSS that would be phenomenal and save us mad cash.
I've implemented Dansguardian webfiltering with a squid proxy on an unused Mac OS X server to placate my bosses need to control everyone's surfing habit and keep the cost of doing so at $0.
..will we get a good internet service provider in Ontario/Canada, I have my choice between bell or rogers, or someone else who is supplied by bell or rogers. Also because my neighbourhood phone lines are old and crappy, I have my choice between rogers and rogers... if only there were a second cable provider. The good ol' CRTC loves keeping Canadian's choice to a minimum. (insert 85% Canadian content here)
Yeah, MSNBC.. it forced me to go to another site to watch the Olympic highlights because I felt no need to install another flavour of software just to watch a video.
Ignorant
Maybe they should sneaker net it at Ryerson, like the cubans are doing. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/03/06/1717242.shtml/ Face it, students have been and will be sharing answers and test questions as long as there is school. So lets work together towards a better future of directly implanted knowledge.
I'm sorry for your situation. I can enjoy some television from time to time, but would barely miss it if it were broken (mostly because then I couldn't play wii from time to time). Maybe you should 'break' the tv and then suggest they try some activities, join peer groups/sports etc.
I'm totally on board with you here. I look after a contingent of 15 Mac's and Several Xserves and Xraids, and my primary issue is with their software/hardware error reporting. I just today had to replace a power supply on one of my xserves.. after more than a week of research to figure out where the problem of spontaneous reboots was coming from. According to the hardware monitoring, the power supply was A-ok, and according to the system logs I had a random numbered error with no reference on apple's site anywhere. Their official response was "bring it into an apple certified dealer for service" (because apparently I'm incapable of using a screw driver) ..long story short.. I traced it down, and replaced the power supply, now all is well. But their support.. needs work.
Link to Review of Silver Surfer game... I didn't have a slow button controller. http://www.nesplayer.com/reviews/silversurferr.htm
Hardest game I ever gave up on. I was one of those side scrolling, the screen keeps you flying on his board games.. but if you get hit once, you die and start the level over again.. near impossible.
So basically, when we finally do arrive at planet x-379a the aliens there will have just as stinky feet as we do. Time to invest in odour eater stock.
I work in a company, where I am the IT dept. All the servers(15), all the users(60), the entire network and even some old press consoles are all my responsibility. Now think about if my company decided to have a survey amongst our users about my performance, and their satisfaction. Either I'm fired, or damn it, i deserve a raise.. depending upon the outcome of the survey. The primary issue I have with keep downtime to a minimum, and keeping users happy and doing their jobs is money. I'm constantly applying bandaids to hemorrhaging systems. What do you do when management has a "if it still sorta works, we're not spending a cent to fix it" attitude. Or when it does break, "what's the cheapest, buy that", regardless of the inevitable issues of subpar equipment and software. So in my case I'm not sure downtime could be used as an adequate measure of a successful IT dept. Give me a bag full of cash to spend, and I'll make sure we have superior redundancy and mere seconds of downtime in any situation.