Yup, working long hours, on business critical systems with almost no tolerance for errors or mistakes form management, thats glory I guess 8)
I guess it depends where in IT you are working. It might be glamourous to work on a cruise liner, but only if you are the captain, not one of the grunts shovelling coal into the boiler 8)
If I want a great multiplayer strategy game with complex rules and takes a lot of time to learn, I'll play that on my PC or Mac, if I want to blow a couple of hours in a racecar or fragging aliens in an FPS, then my console is pretty good at that. If I am on the bus and have 30 minutes, I might play Assasins Creed or bejewled on the iPhone. (or listen to a podcast, or watch a TV episode, or listen to music etc) Sometimes I even play board games with my kids and soccer outside. All sorts of games have their place and I hope none of them goes away.
The nice thing is tha tonce you design your network and applications for Mac OS X and Linux, Windows PC's can fit right in too, because you no longer require anything that is proprietary.
2007 Shuttle PC, dead after one year (just out of warantee) Custom PC tower, 5 years, finally fails to make it past post last week. 2006 Mac Mini - still rocking on.
Most of our corporate machines are towers or standard desktops, internals never upgraded since purchase. A fleet of 2009 minis would be fine for these, and iMacs for reception (or senior managers).
Savings: no AV software, easier deployment of apps and policies, dont require MS Active directory or client CALs to manage them - however, not knowing month to month what hardware is going to come available from Apple would suck. Windows apps could be easily delivered using citrix or teminal server for those that need it. Ever tried to manage 100 notebooks and backup personal data? Howabout encryption software - finally available with bitlocker if you get Vista Pro or premium - but then system folders encrypted too, a pain to manage. I liek just the encrypted home folders - which can also be mounted from an OS X server - and replicated for laptops. Also how about common accessories like power adapters for 100 laptops and a single OS image that will work for everything?
If you can break the MS monopoly then there are savings to be made up to a certain scale. However I will admit managing more than 1000 of these puppies could be challenging and I havent seen much that would help except maybe Zenworks from Novell - but then eDirectory is not cheap, but again savings from requiring fewer people to manage everything and fewer servers required.
For a bulk deployment I'd also look at splitting home off from the boot drive, and have a spare boot image with minimum required apps on every Mac, and script an RSync to keep it fresh from a single image.
Nope, just see what happend with RIM and the claim against them for using a mobile device that gets mail pushed to it from a server. A small patent holder was completly screwed over, and the main reason there was no injunction - lots of US government offices use Blackberrys and would have been "crippled" without them. The whole thing with the patent laws as they are enforced today is they are really only a way for the rich to keep somone else form joining them at the trough.
Microsoft to TomTom - hey, you use use a method of shortening long filenames to 8.3 characters that we patented for our FAT32 (not the code, just the same rule as to where to put the "~1". I know you use FAT as your file system and that is OK, but shortening your long filename like this is just not on. Please rewrite your primary product or pay us lots of money to settle" Or.... Little guy to Microsoft - "Hey you know we descibed how to store format for an XML based document way back in the '90's You can't do this with your current version of Office." "Shut up" says MS. "Lots of people would find it really hard to keep getting richer off your idea if we had to stop selling Word or change the file format to a non infringing method right now. US courts! Make them stop bugging us." "OK, just let me roll over" Says Uncle Sam.
The "Man" managed to strangle AllofMP3.com by cutting off the credit card processing ability, but with TPB, there is no money to choke off. No client register to attack, no official records of user activity, and the site can be hosted by anyone with the bandwidth and storage. Long live TPB!
Where the design of the unit should cater for this location option. I dont stuff my servers under my TV with my amp and DVD payer, but my Mac Mini works fine 8)
Games consoles and cost: I have two old XBoxes as media players and they are still working fine, and have daily use. The MS Controllers that came with them are still working fine. the only controller that cost more than the MS ones was a cordless logitech, which is also still going strong, however I also have three dead or useless (thimbsticks or buttons no longer working) controllers from other clone companies.
Now the price on the 360 started well less than what the first XBox cost, and looking at the design there are many places where the industial design is weak - CD trays that scratch the disks when on its side, over-hot power bricks, and high temp components right near sensitive parts of the DVD ROM, and awful rough white plastic that starts looking grubby right after you open the box. And the noise!!! OMG. It wouldn't be a problem if you didnt actually have to play games from that horrible drive.
Just be thankful Apple hasn't owned search. It would cost you $0.99 per search, you would have to use Safari, and you would not be able to search for porn unless you agreed to buy and iPod and confirm you are over 18.
Google does seem to be odd though when it coes to open source - they leverage Linux, lots of javascript, they produced Chrome and Android, and are planing ChromeOS, yet they could have helped a major linux distro, or another opensource phone project, or produced open source hardware for Android, etc. Yes they are open, but how much of their stuff can you actually get the source for and use, and how much can you contribute to if you want to? I bet much of it is patented to death.
The real kicker with a netbook would be cheap 3G data. For something I take everywhere, it is useless on its own but makes a great citrix or X11 terminal, but it needs network! I just need a 3G card that works for Linux. The machine only has 7GB flash and 512 MB ram so is not suitable for Windows (this is what makes it a netbook to me, not just a small laptop)
Now if this harrdrive is at my place of work, but I use the jacked wireless from the neighbouring company, and I still personally liable for the possibly illegal content uploaded by random users on the internet?
And then we will be backt to "it will be this price and released in this time in your region." Fuck off, I'll just goe somewhere else. Where is the next tracker?
No, but a proper smart system might use cheap electricity to store in a large batttery or flywheel etc, then suppliment peak time power from the storage.
Maybe that means if they release the game new for $30, thy may sell 3 times as many copies? Here in NZ a new XBox 360 title goes for NZ$90 to $130, but second hand, you can get some good games for NZ$30-50. I've got about 40 games for my old Xbox, and the secondhand market is great for that, and I pick up one or two games a month for the XB360 second hand and I may trade back 50% of those. Much less hassel than ripping the disks 8)
I always thought they should have got the blueray DRM team to do the security for passports too. 8) Interesting how the systems/protections designed to stop you enjoying the freedom of Hollywoods data aren't applied to protecting the security of YOUR data.
Sharepoint does nothing that other web based collaboration systems haven't done for the last 10 years, but unlike most of those others it has good basic functionality out of the box and doesn't require much tweaking, however, you better have MS Office installed for most of the collaboration to work seamlessly. 8) There is the tie in again keeping the Windows OS on desks
The issue is responsibility for the result. Whoever creates someone using these techniques should be held responsible for the outcome. Death through genetic disease or deformity would be grounds for negligence or manslaughter. I've no problems with human cloning or messing around with stem sells or artificial reproduction but those participating had better be aware of the risks and results.
But there are some who cant. No imagine if there is someone who is a carrier of a male line genetic disease. Maybe they would still like the chance to have sperm created and selected without this defect. However I see the problem is what diseases would you correct for, what are the chances of other abnormalities with this process. Still a very dangerous and questionable game to play with potential peoples lives.
First they came for my digital media rights, I said nothing as I did not rip movies, then they came for my operating system choice, but I said nothing as I always just used whatever came with my PC, then they came for my freedom, and I could say nothing as we were all muzzled and controlled.
Also to play HD content,especially Blueray, they say you need lots of CPU power. This is not true, you only need the CPU power to decrypt the copy protection. My 1.6GHz netbook plays 1080i HD content seamlessly thanks. DRM just ads complexity and an enforced lack of compatibility.
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Yup, working long hours, on business critical systems with almost no tolerance for errors or mistakes form management, thats glory I guess 8)
I guess it depends where in IT you are working. It might be glamourous to work on a cruise liner, but only if you are the captain, not one of the grunts shovelling coal into the boiler 8)
If I want a great multiplayer strategy game with complex rules and takes a lot of time to learn, I'll play that on my PC or Mac, if I want to blow a couple of hours in a racecar or fragging aliens in an FPS, then my console is pretty good at that. If I am on the bus and have 30 minutes, I might play Assasins Creed or bejewled on the iPhone. (or listen to a podcast, or watch a TV episode, or listen to music etc)
Sometimes I even play board games with my kids and soccer outside. All sorts of games have their place and I hope none of them goes away.
The nice thing is tha tonce you design your network and applications for Mac OS X and Linux, Windows PC's can fit right in too, because you no longer require anything that is proprietary.
2007 Shuttle PC, dead after one year (just out of warantee)
Custom PC tower, 5 years, finally fails to make it past post last week.
2006 Mac Mini - still rocking on.
Most of our corporate machines are towers or standard desktops, internals never upgraded since purchase. A fleet of 2009 minis would be fine for these, and iMacs for reception (or senior managers).
Savings: no AV software, easier deployment of apps and policies, dont require MS Active directory or client CALs to manage them - however, not knowing month to month what hardware is going to come available from Apple would suck. Windows apps could be easily delivered using citrix or teminal server for those that need it.
Ever tried to manage 100 notebooks and backup personal data? Howabout encryption software - finally available with bitlocker if you get Vista Pro or premium - but then system folders encrypted too, a pain to manage. I liek just the encrypted home folders - which can also be mounted from an OS X server - and replicated for laptops.
Also how about common accessories like power adapters for 100 laptops and a single OS image that will work for everything?
If you can break the MS monopoly then there are savings to be made up to a certain scale.
However I will admit managing more than 1000 of these puppies could be challenging and I havent seen much that would help except maybe Zenworks from Novell - but then eDirectory is not cheap, but again savings from requiring fewer people to manage everything and fewer servers required.
For a bulk deployment I'd also look at splitting home off from the boot drive, and have a spare boot image with minimum required apps on every Mac, and script an RSync to keep it fresh from a single image.
Nope, just see what happend with RIM and the claim against them for using a mobile device that gets mail pushed to it from a server. A small patent holder was completly screwed over, and the main reason there was no injunction - lots of US government offices use Blackberrys and would have been "crippled" without them.
The whole thing with the patent laws as they are enforced today is they are really only a way for the rich to keep somone else form joining them at the trough.
Microsoft to TomTom - hey, you use use a method of shortening long filenames to 8.3 characters that we patented for our FAT32 (not the code, just the same rule as to where to put the "~1". I know you use FAT as your file system and that is OK, but shortening your long filename like this is just not on. Please rewrite your primary product or pay us lots of money to settle"
Or....
Little guy to Microsoft - "Hey you know we descibed how to store format for an XML based document way back in the '90's You can't do this with your current version of Office."
"Shut up" says MS. "Lots of people would find it really hard to keep getting richer off your idea if we had to stop selling Word or change the file format to a non infringing method right now. US courts! Make them stop bugging us."
"OK, just let me roll over" Says Uncle Sam.
Or am I missing something here?
The "Man" managed to strangle AllofMP3.com by cutting off the credit card processing ability, but with TPB, there is no money to choke off. No client register to attack, no official records of user activity, and the site can be hosted by anyone with the bandwidth and storage.
Long live TPB!
Where the design of the unit should cater for this location option.
I dont stuff my servers under my TV with my amp and DVD payer, but my Mac Mini works fine 8)
Games consoles and cost: I have two old XBoxes as media players and they are still working fine, and have daily use. The MS Controllers that came with them are still working fine. the only controller that cost more than the MS ones was a cordless logitech, which is also still going strong, however I also have three dead or useless (thimbsticks or buttons no longer working) controllers from other clone companies.
Now the price on the 360 started well less than what the first XBox cost, and looking at the design there are many places where the industial design is weak - CD trays that scratch the disks when on its side, over-hot power bricks, and high temp components right near sensitive parts of the DVD ROM, and awful rough white plastic that starts looking grubby right after you open the box. And the noise!!! OMG.
It wouldn't be a problem if you didnt actually have to play games from that horrible drive.
Just be thankful Apple hasn't owned search. It would cost you $0.99 per search, you would have to use Safari, and you would not be able to search for porn unless you agreed to buy and iPod and confirm you are over 18.
Google does seem to be odd though when it coes to open source - they leverage Linux, lots of javascript, they produced Chrome and Android, and are planing ChromeOS, yet they could have helped a major linux distro, or another opensource phone project, or produced open source hardware for Android, etc.
Yes they are open, but how much of their stuff can you actually get the source for and use, and how much can you contribute to if you want to?
I bet much of it is patented to death.
The real kicker with a netbook would be cheap 3G data. For something I take everywhere, it is useless on its own but makes a great citrix or X11 terminal, but it needs network! I just need a 3G card that works for Linux. The machine only has 7GB flash and 512 MB ram so is not suitable for Windows (this is what makes it a netbook to me, not just a small laptop)
Oh, and you have to be actually be running Windows and IE to access Windows Live services.
Now if this harrdrive is at my place of work, but I use the jacked wireless from the neighbouring company, and I still personally liable for the possibly illegal content uploaded by random users on the internet?
And then we will be backt to "it will be this price and released in this time in your region." Fuck off, I'll just goe somewhere else. Where is the next tracker?
No, but a proper smart system might use cheap electricity to store in a large batttery or flywheel etc, then suppliment peak time power from the storage.
Maybe that means if they release the game new for $30, thy may sell 3 times as many copies?
Here in NZ a new XBox 360 title goes for NZ$90 to $130, but second hand, you can get some good games for NZ$30-50.
I've got about 40 games for my old Xbox, and the secondhand market is great for that, and I pick up one or two games a month for the XB360 second hand and I may trade back 50% of those.
Much less hassel than ripping the disks 8)
I always thought they should have got the blueray DRM team to do the security for passports too. 8)
Interesting how the systems/protections designed to stop you enjoying the freedom of Hollywoods data aren't applied to protecting the security of YOUR data.
Sharepoint does nothing that other web based collaboration systems haven't done for the last 10 years, but unlike most of those others it has good basic functionality out of the box and doesn't require much tweaking, however, you better have MS Office installed for most of the collaboration to work seamlessly. 8) There is the tie in again keeping the Windows OS on desks
The issue is responsibility for the result. Whoever creates someone using these techniques should be held responsible for the outcome.
Death through genetic disease or deformity would be grounds for negligence or manslaughter. I've no problems with human cloning or messing around with stem sells or artificial reproduction but those participating had better be aware of the risks and results.
Actually I prefer the term "synthetic person" myself 8)
But there are some who cant. No imagine if there is someone who is a carrier of a male line genetic disease. Maybe they would still like the chance to have sperm created and selected without this defect. However I see the problem is what diseases would you correct for, what are the chances of other abnormalities with this process.
Still a very dangerous and questionable game to play with potential peoples lives.
I use Windows, OS X and Linux, and none of my PCs have ever been compromised, but the Windows one sure is harder to protect.
Once someone is able to sell e-books all over the world, amazon will fall.
First they came for my digital media rights, I said nothing as I did not rip movies, then they came for my operating system choice, but I said nothing as I always just used whatever came with my PC, then they came for my freedom, and I could say nothing as we were all muzzled and controlled.
Also to play HD content,especially Blueray, they say you need lots of CPU power. This is not true, you only need the CPU power to decrypt the copy protection. My 1.6GHz netbook plays 1080i HD content seamlessly thanks. DRM just ads complexity and an enforced lack of compatibility.
iPod, now if it just had a nice 30second forward skip for zipping past ads in podcasts ... oh yeah, sorry, I forgot I was talking about Apple.