Well then, what they need to do is provide a live CD that can test the hardware no matter what state the software is currently in. That could solve a lot of problems really cheaply. There are so many instances where it is almost impossible to tell if the source of a problem is hardware or Windows. Being able to determine this can save a lot of headaches -- both for the support people, and for the users.
Don't wait until you've sold the domain to transition yourself away from that domain. Transition yourself NOW. That way you'll have a few {weeks,months} to clean up any leftover bits that result from people not getting the news that you've moved your email, etc to another domain.
The last thing you want to do is sell the domain and then realize that your other three domains are still locked to an email address on the old domain.
It's about immediate-term access. As alaska found out. having a paper copy sitting in storage can be quite a boon when the digital copy is trashed by a typo.
Think of all of those (foreign) Customer Support personnel who will be thrown out of work when their company drops DRM. If it wasn't for DRM they'd be begging on the streets for the money to buy supper (not to mention music CDs).
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Solaris's heavily touted Role Based Access Control Mechanism was built upon Unix's file permissions, SU bit capabilities, limited shells, and extra user accounts that had a shell that rejected direct logins.
As of 2 years ago, there was little, if nothing that RBAC did that wasn't available to a well-tooled sysadmin on a normal UNI*X box (without SELinux capabilities).
I took two cameras, my good camera, and a cheap(also small and light), $100 auto-focus point and shoot that I didn't really mind if it fell in the drink while I was fording a river trying to get a picture of friends swiming in the bowl of a waterfall (I skinned my leg, but the camera came out OK...).
mono-pod. It's almost as good as a tripod for most pictures, and it can double as a walking stick and a baton (if worst comes to worst). If you really need tripod steadiness, then lean it against a rock or something.
I second the motion for lots of memory sticks.... You never want to run out of storage for that one really good picture.
ditto for spare batteries..
a small inverter -- that can convert 12V to mains power... Good for charging while in a vehicle., etc.Also good if you're out in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a vehicle for a power source.
What isn't so funny is reading the trading volume numbers and being reminded that there's people out there who do read their spam. when you're spamming 55 million people, you're bound to find a few dozen suckers willing to part with their money in hopes of a quick buck.
Or, as I like to say: "A one in a million shot isn no big deal when you've got 25million bullets".
The purpose of this tracking is to be able to specify the router configs, and having to talk to dozens of routers every time someone wants a block of IPs assigned is going to get onerous. That's why this person (and any sane person in a similar situation) would like a reasonably straightforward and central way of knowing what networks are (and can be) assigned where, and what the router configs should be.
Of course, after that I'd probably write a script to call up each router, compare their routing tables to what I think they should be an email me with any discrepancies.
It's probably been a standard since (Was it John Glen?) wet himself after an 8-hour hold. Given that his entire (suborbital) flight was to take less than an hour, they hadn't even considered the possibility of having to relieve himself while in the capsule.
Q: When did MS start using truly independent analysts? Would that part of the statement be necessary if they had no reputation for using paid shills? You obviously aren't using the MS definition of "independent". It's the industry standard, you know.
Q: Doesn't she mean that "they will eventually be forced to once again drink the koolaid?" Just like most other Open Source Long Haired Smellies(tm).. there you go violating other people's trademarks again.
Q: Does anyone else remember that old Chinese curse? "May your life be exciting!" Exciting and very, very pretty. Just sign here on the dotted line, and you'll have all the excitement you'll ever want.
- 500 guests for free food and drink and hopefully cheaper software != 500 new customers. 450 new customers, and 50 shills. (oops! did I say that out loud?)
- They obviously didn't spend much time on all the govt. agencies, schools, even countries that are not interested in using MS products anymore. A sales pitch is a sales pitch. I hope they got some good swag! As much as it takes. We don't have billions of dollars for nothing, you know.
That's kind of ironic since adoption of Vista means more people needing newer processors which means more business for Intel. It's one thing to eat your own dog food.
It's another thing, entirely, to eat someone else's dog food when it's gone bad.
I believe that that's what Knoppix uses. I've dumped an entire DVD to an NTFS partition, so I also think it works reasonably well, but it is (for whatever reason) somewhat slow -- but that may be an NTFS problem, as opposed to an ntfs-3g problem.
Uhhh. Why should he bother changing university (and job) over IT email policy? It's a pointer to bad things....
If they're going to a Microsoft-only solution for email, then this university might be (becoming) one of those university that has it's students live in a Microsoft-only environment... (i.e. you only learn MS languages, and MS solutions).
Now, this also depends on what he's studying at this university. If he's studying art or law, this isn't likely to be such a big problem, but if he's studying CS, then this could be a career-limiting problem.
Then, again, there's the problem that if the university is being this short-sighted about email, they're probably making stupid decisions about other issues that would be even more critical to the OP's future.
It's like being offered a lift by somebody with a mickey in his right hand... he might still be sober, and he might even hold off on finishing the mickey until after I'm safely home, but I'd probably elect to find another way home.
Linux must get full support for NTFS. Linux now has a pretty decent NTFS support option. The latest knoppix CD (or DVD) gives almost full NTFS read/write (and can also boot from NTFS -- but then it sets the NTFS partition that it boots from read-only, but that is a KNOPPIX bug, not an NTFS support problem).
From that pricing, I think that it's fair to say that they paid for patent licenses, and got the Linux coupons thrown in for 'free'. I doubt that you could justify assigning more than 10% of that 400M to the purchase of the Linux coupons.
Luckily they found it during simulations of the F-16. A bug in the fly-by-wire software caused the plane to think that it was upside-down
whenever it crossed the equator. It would try to correct the problem immediately -- A maneuver that the plane could probably survive, but that would probably kill the pilot had it occured in real life.
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Forget about the euphemism. Use a name that actually describes what DRM is... Digital Restriction Measures.
Microsoft supposedly paid $400M for the right to issue 70,000 one-year SUSE support coupons, right? That comes to a bit over $5,700/coupon....
Either Microsoft paid Novell for more than just the Linux licenses, or they're really bad with money.... and I'm not gonna put my money on the latter possibility.
Or, to put it another way, "cheap" music is useless if I can't listen to it.
The other thing is that the intent of DRM is that, instead of charging me $20 for the CD, they want to charge me $.75 per track every time I play it.. After 25 plays, they get the whole $20, but they don't have to pay for the CD, and I still have to pay per track.
In other words, lies, damned lies and statistics will kill the average consumer. You pay less per track, (but you don't actually get the track).
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Sorry about that. I'll just go back to my metaphysics readings....
The last thing you want to do is sell the domain and then realize that your other three domains are still locked to an email address on the old domain.
It's about immediate-term access. As alaska found out. having a paper copy sitting in storage can be quite a boon when the digital copy is trashed by a typo.
You do know that that's just a joke, right?
Think of all of those (foreign) Customer Support personnel who will be thrown out of work when their company drops DRM. If it wasn't for DRM they'd be begging on the streets for the money to buy supper (not to mention music CDs).
As of 2 years ago, there was little, if nothing that RBAC did that wasn't available to a well-tooled sysadmin on a normal UNI*X box (without SELinux capabilities).
If you really need tripod steadiness, then lean it against a rock or something.
Or, as I like to say: "A one in a million shot isn no big deal when you've got 25million bullets".
Of course, after that I'd probably write a script to call up each router, compare their routing tables to what I think they should be an email me with any discrepancies.
It's probably been a standard since (Was it John Glen?) wet himself after an 8-hour hold. Given that his entire (suborbital) flight was to take less than an hour, they hadn't even considered the possibility of having to relieve himself while in the capsule.
Just like most other Open Source Long Haired Smellies(tm).. there you go violating other people's trademarks again. Q: Does anyone else remember that old Chinese curse? "May your life be exciting!"
Exciting and very, very pretty. Just sign here on the dotted line, and you'll have all the excitement you'll ever want. - 500 guests for free food and drink and hopefully cheaper software != 500 new customers.
450 new customers, and 50 shills. (oops! did I say that out loud?) - They obviously didn't spend much time on all the govt. agencies, schools, even countries that are not interested in using MS products anymore. A sales pitch is a sales pitch. I hope they got some good swag! As much as it takes. We don't have billions of dollars for nothing, you know.
It's another thing, entirely, to eat someone else's dog food when it's gone bad.
"We are The Borg, you will comply." It's right there in between the lines.
When my SO wonders where the crabs came from, I can mumble, "Ah, fucking gorillas."
I would expect that anybody who could generate a foulup of this magnitude could do it on pretty much any combination of OS, HW and DB.
I believe that that's what Knoppix uses. I've dumped an entire DVD to an NTFS partition, so I also think it works reasonably well, but it is (for whatever reason) somewhat slow -- but that may be an NTFS problem, as opposed to an ntfs-3g problem.
If they're going to a Microsoft-only solution for email, then this university might be (becoming) one of those university that has it's students live in a Microsoft-only environment... (i.e. you only learn MS languages, and MS solutions).
Now, this also depends on what he's studying at this university. If he's studying art or law, this isn't likely to be such a big problem, but if he's studying CS, then this could be a career-limiting problem.
Then, again, there's the problem that if the university is being this short-sighted about email, they're probably making stupid decisions about other issues that would be even more critical to the OP's future.
It's like being offered a lift by somebody with a mickey in his right hand ... he might still be sober, and he might even hold off on finishing the mickey until after I'm safely home, but I'd probably elect to find another way home.
From that pricing, I think that it's fair to say that they paid for patent licenses, and got the Linux coupons thrown in for 'free'. I doubt that you could justify assigning more than 10% of that 400M to the purchase of the Linux coupons.
Luckily they found it during simulations of the F-16. A bug in the fly-by-wire software caused the plane to think that it was upside-down whenever it crossed the equator. It would try to correct the problem immediately -- A maneuver that the plane could probably survive, but that would probably kill the pilot had it occured in real life.
Forget about the euphemism. Use a name that actually describes what DRM is... Digital Restriction Measures.
Either Microsoft paid Novell for more than just the Linux licenses, or they're really bad with money .... and I'm not gonna put my money on the latter possibility.
The other thing is that the intent of DRM is that, instead of charging me $20 for the CD, they want to charge me $.75 per track every time I play it.. After 25 plays, they get the whole $20, but they don't have to pay for the CD, and I still have to pay per track.
In other words, lies, damned lies and statistics will kill the average consumer. You pay less per track, (but you don't actually get the track).