They dont learn from their own mistakes. I have one friend working on her 3rd PhD.... she still loses stuff to never backing something up.
ALL SHE HAS TO DO IS PUSH THE BUTTON ON THE HARD DRIVE... and it starts the backup software. She cant be bothered with pushing that button before bed.
I just look at her and say," Lack of education is not your excuse... You're simply dumb."
And it is simply being dumb. because she KNOWS that pushing that magical button will make it all better, she makes a conscious decision to NOT push that button. Which equates to stupidity.
I did a simulated data disaster at Comcast a decade ago. but I informed only one important key person that I was going to cause a very real data loss event in the billing system. I would back thing up myself, but the backups that IT were running I would silently fail for a WEEK before the event.
at the event horizon I deleted the SQL database, the SQL team yawned and went to restore the database.... Oh crap nothing to restore but week old backups....
They shit themselves and we let them panick for a good hour before we walked in and asked...
What do you mean? you check your backups of critical data daily dont you? how about vertifying the validity of those backups? when was the last time you did a test restore on a backup server to make sure it was right?
I knew they were not backing it up or testing, I used that to my advantage to scare the hell out of them in hopes of getting what I have been telling them for a year through their skulls.
It also proved my point to the IT director that his "teams" were NOT ready for this.
I'll bet you $1000.00 they STILL dont test the backups, and rarely check to see if they are running.
Different people find different interfaces more or less intuitive. Microsoft operating systems for most are more _familiar_ which trumps intuitiveness for initial use.
I have yet to find a person that does not take to a stock ubuntu install withing minutes. Your argument has no merit anymore.
give you two pc's, 1 for your specialized apps, one for the office integration. it also helps stability as your specialized machine is not cluttered up with crap like an office suite and web litter.
In fact workflow is far smoother when you isolate important apps to their own PC and platform.
Using a well established vendor software (like say windows), means it's easier (cheaper) to educate people in the software they'll be using, and similarly easier to find qualified support (in house and outsourced alike).
wait, what? how the hell can you say that with a straight face? I don't have Microsoft coming out here to train my people. I don't have MSFT offering training classes. Hell they wont even support it without a credit card number.
I get BETTER support from redhat than I ever got from microsoft. In fact I have a larger pool of educational materials and peer support with our linux servers than I ever had with microsoft products.
Microsoft gives you support if you are willing to pay through the nose. They drag out all their help to make sure they charge a lot of hours. I have never had a problem even a complex SQL server problem that the OSS support companies I have dealt with did not solve in a very quick manner.
Compared to a MSSQL server issue that microsoft took 40 billed hours to solve, that was a problem they discovered 6 hours in but ignored it.
(8 processor SQL server with 64 gig ram and a 3TB raid 50 array in 2004, this was big iron... and it was a BUG in MSSQL Enterprise edition, MSSQL large amount of ram caused a memory leak that makes the server slowly die.)
better than the weekly exchange outages we have had over the past 3 years.
Exchange is NOT stable in a 29,000 user environment. and it does not scale well to our size. 2010 will fix that, but we are abandoning exchange because it's cheaper than migrating to 2010.
So switching your office from Windows XP to Windows 7 and switching the Servers from Server 2003 to Server 2010 would actually have MORE of a cost than switching to OSS alternatives as the costs you talk about are exacerbated by the fact that you have to buy all new software licenses from microsoft, bot all new Apps as well AND new hardware.
I just saw a client do this, their upgrade from XP and 2003 to current cost them a whole lot more than expected. Drivers for Windows 7 did not exist for a lot of the older hardware that was chugging along on XP, so that hardware had to be thrown away and replaced with new.
Then the final insult, they did all this and discovered their upgrade to Exchange 2010 caused their room scheduling system that interfaces to the touchpanels at each conference room to break.
OOPS! that scheduler they relied on now does not work, they tape printouts on the doors until the vendor certifies their plugin with microsoft.
ALL switching has costs, Microsoft upgrades cost as much as Switching to OSS lately and it will only get worse.
I have ZERO problems with all the mentioned sites through the Proxy that everyone here at work has to use. His whine is with his script that auto changes or inserts ad's for his proxy to spam the life out of you with.
If I was a site admin that a proxy site was trying to inject ad's onto, I'd code it to break their ad injection.
I have no sympathy for a proxy operator that whines about a site changing it's design to stop ad injection. I dont want my site looking like I support some scumbag company because a proxy company injected a ad into my site to an end user. I would have less problems with it if the proxy companies would inject their ad with "THIS IS NO THIS WEBSITES AD, IT WAS PUT HERE BY YOUR PROXY" but they wont do that.
Batman? NOT. Batman would be chewed up and eaten by Anonymous. They are made up of Predators and aliens. together they would chew up Batman and eat him, using his bones as toothpicks.....
P.S. Dont kill one of the Anonymous predators. they will explode wiping out a 10 city block area...
That's easy. do what Microsoft suggests. if after updaing a customers PC will not validate and says it's "pirated" you tell the customer that Microsoft knows they have an illegal copy of windows and they need to buy a legit copy right away.
If they disagree, you say, I am bound by microsoft to report this, but I will look the other way for you just this one time.
You come out looking like a good guy, and it shuts them down and points them at little cousin johnny that gave them the copy of XP.
If the Scope of work document is inaccurate then the estimate on time will be inaccurate.
Give me a real Scope of work, I'll give you a real estimate of time. If someone would clamp battery terminals to the Executives nipples and not stop shocking them until they get it through their heads, we all would not have to guess.
It got canned because they chose a vaporware fake idea over a freaking working prototype.
X33 was a joke. They did not even have a working idea on how to make it, they never got the aerospike engine to fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X was a working prototype that they flew a whole bunch of times until they had a landing gear failure and it tipped over and blew up when full of fuel. They did not rebuild it as they were running out of money and NASA wanted something that was vaporware instead.
Exactly. Just because a bunch of luddite Photoshop users whine like babies that the UI looks different they cave in and degrade the interface to 1995 design ideas.
Yet I dont hear the photoshop guys whining how Photoshop's lats iteration in UI changes match closer to the Gimp now with all the windows seperate and floating "all over the place" to put it into the words of a Photoshop user that snubed Gimp when I last showed him.
What I want gimp to focus on is more of the tools like the "save for web" features that photoshop has and more perspective controls...
Dude, as a phone the N900 lacks a LOT. I was able to sell mine on Ebay to buy a unlocked Nexus One.
I tried to love the N900, as I loved my N710. but it's clunky.
This is coming from a guy that has been die-hard Nokia forever. I tried like heck to love my Nokia 5800 xpressmusic phone. it had a great idea, but was only half there. They almost made it, but not close enough for me to suffer using it day in and day out.
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They dont learn from their own mistakes. I have one friend working on her 3rd PhD.... she still loses stuff to never backing something up.
ALL SHE HAS TO DO IS PUSH THE BUTTON ON THE HARD DRIVE... and it starts the backup software. She cant be bothered with pushing that button before bed.
I just look at her and say," Lack of education is not your excuse... You're simply dumb."
And it is simply being dumb. because she KNOWS that pushing that magical button will make it all better, she makes a conscious decision to NOT push that button. Which equates to stupidity.
The new ZUNE tablet! a 10.1" LCD screen ZUNE! You've never seen tablet computing like this before!
now available in moss green, turd brown and Ballmer Blue.
yes and no.
I did a simulated data disaster at Comcast a decade ago. but I informed only one important key person that I was going to cause a very real data loss event in the billing system. I would back thing up myself, but the backups that IT were running I would silently fail for a WEEK before the event.
at the event horizon I deleted the SQL database, the SQL team yawned and went to restore the database.... Oh crap nothing to restore but week old backups....
They shit themselves and we let them panick for a good hour before we walked in and asked...
What do you mean? you check your backups of critical data daily dont you? how about vertifying the validity of those backups? when was the last time you did a test restore on a backup server to make sure it was right?
I knew they were not backing it up or testing, I used that to my advantage to scare the hell out of them in hopes of getting what I have been telling them for a year through their skulls.
It also proved my point to the IT director that his "teams" were NOT ready for this.
I'll bet you $1000.00 they STILL dont test the backups, and rarely check to see if they are running.
Different people find different interfaces more or less intuitive. Microsoft operating systems for most are more _familiar_ which trumps intuitiveness for initial use.
I have yet to find a person that does not take to a stock ubuntu install withing minutes. Your argument has no merit anymore.
give you two pc's, 1 for your specialized apps, one for the office integration. it also helps stability as your specialized machine is not cluttered up with crap like an office suite and web litter.
In fact workflow is far smoother when you isolate important apps to their own PC and platform.
webapps? ewwww. turn those puppies into thin clients and run the apps on the server.
$12,000 buys a single broadcast quality lens. It's fricking pocket change for a 20 editor studio.
Avid licensing on ONE station is more than that.
Using a well established vendor software (like say windows), means it's easier (cheaper) to educate people in the software they'll be using, and similarly easier to find qualified support (in house and outsourced alike).
wait, what? how the hell can you say that with a straight face? I don't have Microsoft coming out here to train my people. I don't have MSFT offering training classes. Hell they wont even support it without a credit card number.
I get BETTER support from redhat than I ever got from microsoft. In fact I have a larger pool of educational materials and peer support with our linux servers than I ever had with microsoft products.
Microsoft gives you support if you are willing to pay through the nose. They drag out all their help to make sure they charge a lot of hours. I have never had a problem even a complex SQL server problem that the OSS support companies I have dealt with did not solve in a very quick manner.
Compared to a MSSQL server issue that microsoft took 40 billed hours to solve, that was a problem they discovered 6 hours in but ignored it.
(8 processor SQL server with 64 gig ram and a 3TB raid 50 array in 2004, this was big iron... and it was a BUG in MSSQL Enterprise edition, MSSQL large amount of ram caused a memory leak that makes the server slowly die.)
better than the weekly exchange outages we have had over the past 3 years.
Exchange is NOT stable in a 29,000 user environment. and it does not scale well to our size. 2010 will fix that, but we are abandoning exchange because it's cheaper than migrating to 2010.
Exactly!
So switching your office from Windows XP to Windows 7 and switching the Servers from Server 2003 to Server 2010 would actually have MORE of a cost than switching to OSS alternatives as the costs you talk about are exacerbated by the fact that you have to buy all new software licenses from microsoft, bot all new Apps as well AND new hardware.
I just saw a client do this, their upgrade from XP and 2003 to current cost them a whole lot more than expected. Drivers for Windows 7 did not exist for a lot of the older hardware that was chugging along on XP, so that hardware had to be thrown away and replaced with new.
Then the final insult, they did all this and discovered their upgrade to Exchange 2010 caused their room scheduling system that interfaces to the touchpanels at each conference room to break.
OOPS! that scheduler they relied on now does not work, they tape printouts on the doors until the vendor certifies their plugin with microsoft.
ALL switching has costs, Microsoft upgrades cost as much as Switching to OSS lately and it will only get worse.
I have ZERO problems with all the mentioned sites through the Proxy that everyone here at work has to use. His whine is with his script that auto changes or inserts ad's for his proxy to spam the life out of you with.
If I was a site admin that a proxy site was trying to inject ad's onto, I'd code it to break their ad injection.
I have no sympathy for a proxy operator that whines about a site changing it's design to stop ad injection. I dont want my site looking like I support some scumbag company because a proxy company injected a ad into my site to an end user. I would have less problems with it if the proxy companies would inject their ad with "THIS IS NO THIS WEBSITES AD, IT WAS PUT HERE BY YOUR PROXY" but they wont do that.
Which proves that normal people are incredibly stupid.
And we allow these retards to make laws...
Batman? NOT. Batman would be chewed up and eaten by Anonymous. They are made up of Predators and aliens. together they would chew up Batman and eat him, using his bones as toothpicks.....
P.S. Dont kill one of the Anonymous predators. they will explode wiping out a 10 city block area...
That's easy. do what Microsoft suggests. if after updaing a customers PC will not validate and says it's "pirated" you tell the customer that Microsoft knows they have an illegal copy of windows and they need to buy a legit copy right away.
If they disagree, you say, I am bound by microsoft to report this, but I will look the other way for you just this one time.
You come out looking like a good guy, and it shuts them down and points them at little cousin johnny that gave them the copy of XP.
You nailed it.
If the Scope of work document is inaccurate then the estimate on time will be inaccurate.
Give me a real Scope of work, I'll give you a real estimate of time. If someone would clamp battery terminals to the Executives nipples and not stop shocking them until they get it through their heads, we all would not have to guess.
He knows where to look and can measure depth. now all he needs to do is map out where to drill and how deep, insert probe into hole and voila!
refining the hack to increase reliability is very easy once you have more information.
who are you? and where are my pants?
It got canned because they chose a vaporware fake idea over a freaking working prototype.
X33 was a joke. They did not even have a working idea on how to make it, they never got the aerospike engine to fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X was a working prototype that they flew a whole bunch of times until they had a landing gear failure and it tipped over and blew up when full of fuel. They did not rebuild it as they were running out of money and NASA wanted something that was vaporware instead.
Because the disney corporation is against it.
No they learned it from us...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_program
Why? they can get it from the Russians. They have had most of the details to the shuttle program for decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_program
Honestly, I'm betting they will sell all their info to china for cheap low prices!
You mean middle. PC windows users get confused when presented with a proper 3 button mouse.
to you.
To many that understood the reason it makes a lot of sense.
Select in window A, Ctrl-C to copy, mouse to window B Ctrl-V to paste. works great... It's all how open you were to learning new input interfaces.
Exactly. Just because a bunch of luddite Photoshop users whine like babies that the UI looks different they cave in and degrade the interface to 1995 design ideas.
Yet I dont hear the photoshop guys whining how Photoshop's lats iteration in UI changes match closer to the Gimp now with all the windows seperate and floating "all over the place" to put it into the words of a Photoshop user that snubed Gimp when I last showed him.
What I want gimp to focus on is more of the tools like the "save for web" features that photoshop has and more perspective controls...
Dude, as a phone the N900 lacks a LOT. I was able to sell mine on Ebay to buy a unlocked Nexus One.
I tried to love the N900, as I loved my N710. but it's clunky.
This is coming from a guy that has been die-hard Nokia forever. I tried like heck to love my Nokia 5800 xpressmusic phone. it had a great idea, but was only half there. They almost made it, but not close enough for me to suffer using it day in and day out.