In the K-12 district for which I work, there have ~600 staff (teachers/non-teachers), ~7800 student users and about 3000 workstations + notebooks. We're a Windows (XP for educational software product requirements) shop and run AD. In the past two years we've reigned in administrative users [even I, the sysadmin, run as a limited user on my workstation] and implemented a fairly detailed SRP White Listing. These two changes alone greatly reduced not only issues with crap-ware infections, but greatly reduced technician support time requirements.
The vast majority of our users [excluding the students who can no longer run proxy software] Do. Not. Fucking. Hate. Us. You would be surprised how happy people are when their computers "just work" and don't require cleaning/futzing every couple weeks.
I/cannot/ recommend enough budgeting time to investigate what SRP can do for your network.
1. No, not really. 2. No, not when there is no incentive for brick-and-mortar rather than download/shipping. 3. No. OO is nice, but not even close to MS Office. 4. No. KDE still won't make non-native apps look good. 5. No. No. No.
No, it's not being negative, just a difference in opinion.
If spending hours of your life tweaking your system is not something you want to do, please skip the Linux move. I've been using some flavor of Linux [from Slack to Ubuntu] for a/long/ time now. Tweaking your system is a fact of life. Get a Mac if you don't want to futz around anymore.
BTW, we've been testing Vista at work [we will have to migrate there someday] and "yes", it sucks. Wait for SP2 before wasting your time.
Wide? Once it's stuck in the rack who cares? For a server, I couldn't care less about the video. The tiny PSU is fine too, I get them with redundancy. The only thing I'm likely to add to one of these is more RAM.
For under $2k each, we just got a bunch of HP DL360 G5s at work. Granted I work in education... But still $2,000 is too much for a goddamn desktop machine.
This may not be as big a deal with mountain bikes...even when they're on level trails, you don't want to go 25 MPH on a dirt trail...
If you don't want to get going at least 25 MPH on a flat dirt trail (or, even better, downhill), you're never going to scare the beejesus out of yourself.;)
Even if it started as labor-of-love coding project. By the time your doing mutil-version support, regression testing, dealing with inaccurate bug reports, "must have" feature implementation you being to wonder why you ever wanted to create a solution in the first place.
OTTH, I've seen plenty of QA people working 60+ hour weeks. Too bad more than half that time was spent checking email, reading/. and making runs to the coffee counter.
That's a shitty attitude to have....
Who actually pays attention to the GPL? Especially when it's quite dumb.
Who knows how much commerical (non-GPL) software steals snips, chunks, functions [etc.] from GPL sources?
Damn, I fed another troll.
Must stop posting....
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In the K-12 district for which I work, there have ~600 staff (teachers/non-teachers), ~7800 student users and about 3000 workstations + notebooks. We're a Windows (XP for educational software product requirements) shop and run AD. In the past two years we've reigned in administrative users [even I, the sysadmin, run as a limited user on my workstation] and implemented a fairly detailed SRP White Listing. These two changes alone greatly reduced not only issues with crap-ware infections, but greatly reduced technician support time requirements.
The vast majority of our users [excluding the students who can no longer run proxy software] Do. Not. Fucking. Hate. Us. You would be surprised how happy people are when their computers "just work" and don't require cleaning/futzing every couple weeks.
I /cannot/ recommend enough budgeting time to investigate what SRP can do for your network.
sigh, I'll bite.
NT4 SP15
You wouldn't download a pizza, would you?
.sig bug report:
ld: i386 architecture of input file `a.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
1. No, not really.
2. No, not when there is no incentive for brick-and-mortar rather than download/shipping.
3. No. OO is nice, but not even close to MS Office.
4. No. KDE still won't make non-native apps look good.
5. No. No. No.
No, it's not being negative, just a difference in opinion.
If spending hours of your life tweaking your system is not something you want to do, please skip the Linux move. I've been using some flavor of Linux [from Slack to Ubuntu] for a /long/ time now. Tweaking your system is a fact of life. Get a Mac if you don't want to futz around anymore.
BTW, we've been testing Vista at work [we will have to migrate there someday] and "yes", it sucks. Wait for SP2 before wasting your time.
Generation 5.
Wide? Once it's stuck in the rack who cares? For a server, I couldn't care less about the video. The tiny PSU is fine too, I get them with redundancy. The only thing I'm likely to add to one of these is more RAM.
No mod points today, sorry. I'm stuck at work on a Saturday -- so thanks for the laugh.
For under $2k each, we just got a bunch of HP DL360 G5s at work. Granted I work in education... But still $2,000 is too much for a goddamn desktop machine.
A $3,000 Windows desktop?! Fucking gamers...
It's like the a VP of Marlboro smoking Camels...
Um, I seriously doubt the VP of any tobacco company smokes. If anyone knows how terrible smoking *really* is, it's them.
If you ever find yourself in Rochester, NY [I apologize, for one, but] you can espouse on the virtues of BSD vs Linux with me.
My treat at my club.
This may not be as big a deal with mountain bikes...even when they're on level trails, you don't want to go 25 MPH on a dirt trail...
;)
If you don't want to get going at least 25 MPH on a flat dirt trail (or, even better, downhill), you're never going to scare the beejesus out of yourself.
Shares the same tedium.
/. and making runs to the coffee counter.
Even if it started as labor-of-love coding project. By the time your doing mutil-version support, regression testing, dealing with inaccurate bug reports, "must have" feature implementation you being to wonder why you ever wanted to create a solution in the first place.
OTTH, I've seen plenty of QA people working 60+ hour weeks. Too bad more than half that time was spent checking email, reading
Funny thing was opening up moz1.0 to read this story.
It sure looks like it reads "Solaris 8 on Intel" to me.
Yeah, like web-browsing, game "testing", phone call making, time-card fudging, etc.
;)
I know, I've been to plenty of QA depts.
See: QA confidential Be sure to read the whole strip to "get it"
Great... That's what I need. More crap to fold-up and put in my already-Constanza-sided wallet.
No Sun's JDK isn't installed by default but it is included in the CONTRIB directory (on the extras CD). Saved me from yet another huge download.
1.21 would be the correct.
Repeat after me: Flux Capacitor,
Mr. Fusion never seemed any better, to me at least, than a really expensive Ronco Food-Dehydator....
"Evil will always triumph of good because good is stupid..."
Or something like that. Actually I believe it really comes to: Money will always win because everything else can be bought.
linux_logo also displays BogoMips!
That's a shitty attitude to have.... Who actually pays attention to the GPL? Especially when it's quite dumb. Who knows how much commerical (non-GPL) software steals snips, chunks, functions [etc.] from GPL sources? Damn, I fed another troll. Must stop posting....