Even the exchange 2007 gui uses powershell commands for administration. And even then they have designed it so you can't do all the admin through a gui, you have to use the cli to get the full functionality. It's going to make scripting for exchange a piece of cake with full native support for xml through the CLI too.
although that said, i've been doing windows admin since before 2000 and I've never had need of ssh on a wondows server and i've not met another admin who has.
Well, apart from the move with products like exchange 2007 to use the powershell exclusively for their administration, all the gui does is execute various powershell commands and even then there is about 20% of the administration which can only be done from the CLI. I've not played with the server tools, but the 2007 shell is pretty nifty and one of the best designed shell scripting environments i've seen, even non shell people seem to pick up the syntax pretty easily. I have heard rumors that you can actually run server 2008 with no gui and just a shell on the server which would be very interesting...... I've not seen it yet myself.
Outlook 2003 certainly does minimise when you click on teh taskbar button, i can't speak for other versions however. It also minimises with win+M. unless you are talking about older versions, or possibly 2007 which is a bit of a law unto itself.
The BBC micro had 4 channel sound as standard from 1981. I remember that being pretty revolutionary at the time. I suspect if the BBC had been released outside of the UK it would have been a lot more influential though.
That and the fact that it's a lot cheaper for a lot of people to buy oblivion + 360 than it is to upgrade their gaming pc to the point where the game is playble and looks above average.
5.1 was probably where novell peaked for me. 4.x was pretty good, and 3.x was so stable that apart from NDS most file servers didn't need an upgrade, but for me 5.1 was where it was at. When it came to file/print servers in any small to huge multi site setups 5.1 was stable, damn easy to administer and it just worked (apart from the initial implimentation of the java based management console, but the less said about that beast the better)
IMO the thing that killed Novell was a combination of two things. Firstly Microsoft stole the march with AD, which was and is still a poor mans implimentation of NDS. And secondly most companies had no logical upgrade path. When you were running a 10,000 user company happily on 4.x or 5.1 with virtually no downtime there was no real need to upgrade. From what i saw 6 added virtually no obvious benefit to the average company which wanted file/print services. There was no inbuild obselecence to the systems and no 2 year enforced upgrade to a syatem that worked better ALA microsoft. I suspect that Netware still has a significent marketshare out there, but people aren't buying the new version every year because they don't have to, therefore novell don't get revenues.
Interestingly enough the company i currently work for (an in store music producer..) has a product which we have worked on which will allow youto download directly to an mp3 player in a store from a selection of potentially millions of tracks.
People like creative and diamond have been more than happy to work with us (and other manufacturers allow direct file transfer anyway) to allow us to directly copy to the devices.
Apple have refused in any way to deal with us, even though we have the backing of all the major players in the record industry. Basically they want to do whatever they can to maintain the vertical market.
As far as they see it I-tunes is their tie in to iPods. They don't want anyone potentially drawing custom away from i-tunes as that is one of the best ways that they can keep selling ipods.
Interestingly enough, pretty much all locks are easy to pick, as long as you know what you are doing. A decent locksmith/picker will be able to pick most standard locks in a matter of seconds (supposedly secure bike locks by people like kryptonite, etc, take less than 10 seconds to pick) and i've seen a supposedly invulnerable safe lock picked (although that said that took about 3 hours for the locksmith to pick) I've seen demonstrations of car thieves taking no longer than 5 seconds to break into any car that was supplied to them....
Computers, as we all know are not particually different, all it takes is knowledge and a bit of practice and knowing what tools to use.
A company i worked for previously had us remove all the cd drives and floppy drives from all installed machines, this made a lot more work for all of us in the support team, but it certainly made the company secure. Combined with the fact the only WAN connection was for email and back office stuff (no interweb for the employees, such bliss!) meant that we were a reasonably secure shop. + THe fact we used ZenWorks Desktop to lock everyone in the company down to the Nth degree. Sure, someone could walk out of the office with a pile of paper stuffed down their pants, but it would have been quite obvious. AFAIR nothing got stolen from that office apart from pens and paperclips (which were kept under lock and key and needed authorisation to remove;) )
We still need full sensor DSLR's to come down in price before it really kills off film. With my SLR's i could easily manually fucus in low light gig situations whereas with my Canon 10D i have to rely on the autofocus which is a pain in the arse when trying to get decent action shots. This is mainly due to the size of the image presented in the viewfinder, it's just not big and sharp enough on the smaller sensers.
He funds terrorists and paid for Saddam Hussain to gas his own people too. No really, he did, i'm not just making this up due to bitterness and jealousy!
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"1. Showing the hacks who run Disney that not all movies have to suck. It is possible to make an animated movie that's actually watchable and somewhat entertaining. Just think about the crappy cartoons that existed before Pixar movies, in case you don't agree."
That's nothing to do with Jobs though. Pixar has always been John Lassiter's baby, he is the creative genius behind it, Jobs is just the money/business man in the operation. Lassiter made and now makes sure that the cartoons produced are good stories first and that the technology is not more important than the story. It's amazing that these days Jobs is seen as the main man behind the company when it was always Lassiter's creation. This leads to my one worry about a sell off. If sold, will Lassiter lose creative control of the company. Then it would suck.
And in fact, although a number of more recent disney movies might have sucked, Lassiter drew his imfluence from earlier drawn cartoons, which often were incredibly clever, funny and well written.
Actually computers are very useful for growing food. It just requires a bit of lateral thinking.
My father is going to africa to set up some education centers with donated computers. Whilst he was doing this he spoke to some people (might have been geekcore, but i can't remember exactly) who are actually doing projects to build databases and coms equipment to pool things like farming practice information, local methods and various other things to help farmers and other locals to get the most out of the land they have.
+ remember that starvation in africa and other areas isn't always the fault of drought and famine, most of the problems come from civil war and conflict. Education can be used to combat the ignorance which is exploited by individuals and groups to get backing for their coups and armies.
My one experience of SAP was an eye opener. We had an entire floor of consultants, business analysts and programmers (probably about 70/80 people. The project took well over a year to impliment and 10's of millions of pounds. I think it ran over 40 or 50 million. This was nearly 8 years ago now, but i can't imagine a full scale implimenation being done by a 1 man team. Although i guess they do some lighter installs. Ironically before the project finished the company was bought out for 2bn and the organisation structure was completely changed. Which amused me totally.
Suffice to say, i've since worked for small companies who want SAP style business integration software because they think that's what they need, but i've yet to see a cost of ownership which doesn't run into 6 figures for any implimentation worth it's salt.
Although Ben and Jerrys threw out most of their hippy ethos when they sold out to one of the biggest chemical/pharmacutical companies in the world. Although even before that the chief exectives voted to throw out their rule of capped salaries so they could give themselves big fat payrises...
Really *looks behind him* then that isn't actually custom software i'm running behind me on windows CE on Ipaq 4700's running as music sample stations and scanning devices.
Actually some of us aren't screaming for attention, we just like the way the modifications look (and in some cases, feel)
Although that said I haven't gotten any modifications which can't be hidden during the work day. My friends have no problem with them (in fact i'm one of the lest outrageously modified of my peer group) but I want to be judged at work for the standards of my work. In an ideal world i'd be able to look however i want without any prejudice, but there is prejudice out there and thats not going to change any time soon. I don't want to be seen purely as the freak with the metal in his face, and to do that unfortunately i have to have totally hidden mods. I probably could take a pay cut and work for a more relaxed company, but I'm good at what I do and have worked in relatively conservative industries where I am well respected for my expertise.
Would people respect my expertise less if i turned up with tattoos and piercings on show, maybe not, but i suspect that some of them would, and our big corporate clients would pass judgement on me.
There are laws concerning this. I worked until recently for a Financial Institution and if out auditors had found us losing client data and not keeping decent records and backups they could and would fine us and potentially withdraw our Financial Services Authority accreditation which would have ment we would have been barred from trading.
We use Iron Mountain. They sent someone to pick up the tapes last friday. It was a courier who turned up with no authorisation, no scanning sevice and who got really quite nasty when we told him to sod off and that we wouldn't give tapes to anyone without the proper authorisation. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone out there takes security seriously.
there are a lot of problems with the G5 though. It's a great chip, but there are major issues with power and size on it, so much so that it's looking unlikely it will make it into a laptop any time soon, and remember it's the sexy titanium powermacs's that everyone has been drooling over in recent years. + they have had so much trouble sorting out supplies for power chips with motorola and IBM messing them about in recent years. It makes sense to shift to intel. the architecture isn't as good, but the supply is readily available and development is going on a lot faster than with the power chips. A move to AMD 64's or pentium M's would do apple a great deal of good, especially with the integtation into advanced motherboard architecture which again is a problem with the Power.
We have a number of automated lines. THe Docklands Light Railway is fully automated and runs really well. At least 3 of the lines on the Tube are computer controlled too with the drivers there to monitor the doors.
However the automation ahd led to some interesting and unforseen difficulties. The automated systems speed up and slow down at the same points in the track it is putting extra stresses on certain sections of track and sleepers which leads to degraded track safety.
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Even the exchange 2007 gui uses powershell commands for administration. And even then they have designed it so you can't do all the admin through a gui, you have to use the cli to get the full functionality.
It's going to make scripting for exchange a piece of cake with full native support for xml through the CLI too.
although that said, i've been doing windows admin since before 2000 and I've never had need of ssh on a wondows server and i've not met another admin who has.
Well, apart from the move with products like exchange 2007 to use the powershell exclusively for their administration, all the gui does is execute various powershell commands and even then there is about 20% of the administration which can only be done from the CLI. I've not played with the server tools, but the 2007 shell is pretty nifty and one of the best designed shell scripting environments i've seen, even non shell people seem to pick up the syntax pretty easily.
I have heard rumors that you can actually run server 2008 with no gui and just a shell on the server which would be very interesting...... I've not seen it yet myself.
Outlook 2003 certainly does minimise when you click on teh taskbar button, i can't speak for other versions however. It also minimises with win+M. unless you are talking about older versions, or possibly 2007 which is a bit of a law unto itself.
The BBC micro had 4 channel sound as standard from 1981. I remember that being pretty revolutionary at the time. I suspect if the BBC had been released outside of the UK it would have been a lot more influential though.
That and the fact that it's a lot cheaper for a lot of people to buy oblivion + 360 than it is to upgrade their gaming pc to the point where the game is playble and looks above average.
5.1 was probably where novell peaked for me. 4.x was pretty good, and 3.x was so stable that apart from NDS most file servers didn't need an upgrade, but for me 5.1 was where it was at. When it came to file/print servers in any small to huge multi site setups 5.1 was stable, damn easy to administer and it just worked (apart from the initial implimentation of the java based management console, but the less said about that beast the better)
IMO the thing that killed Novell was a combination of two things. Firstly Microsoft stole the march with AD, which was and is still a poor mans implimentation of NDS. And secondly most companies had no logical upgrade path. When you were running a 10,000 user company happily on 4.x or 5.1 with virtually no downtime there was no real need to upgrade. From what i saw 6 added virtually no obvious benefit to the average company which wanted file/print services. There was no inbuild obselecence to the systems and no 2 year enforced upgrade to a syatem that worked better ALA microsoft. I suspect that Netware still has a significent marketshare out there, but people aren't buying the new version every year because they don't have to, therefore novell don't get revenues.
Interestingly enough the company i currently work for (an in store music producer..) has a product which we have worked on which will allow youto download directly to an mp3 player in a store from a selection of potentially millions of tracks.
People like creative and diamond have been more than happy to work with us (and other manufacturers allow direct file transfer anyway) to allow us to directly copy to the devices.
Apple have refused in any way to deal with us, even though we have the backing of all the major players in the record industry. Basically they want to do whatever they can to maintain the vertical market.
As far as they see it I-tunes is their tie in to iPods. They don't want anyone potentially drawing custom away from i-tunes as that is one of the best ways that they can keep selling ipods.
Interestingly enough, pretty much all locks are easy to pick, as long as you know what you are doing. A decent locksmith/picker will be able to pick most standard locks in a matter of seconds (supposedly secure bike locks by people like kryptonite, etc, take less than 10 seconds to pick) and i've seen a supposedly invulnerable safe lock picked (although that said that took about 3 hours for the locksmith to pick) I've seen demonstrations of car thieves taking no longer than 5 seconds to break into any car that was supplied to them....
Computers, as we all know are not particually different, all it takes is knowledge and a bit of practice and knowing what tools to use.
A company i worked for previously had us remove all the cd drives and floppy drives from all installed machines, this made a lot more work for all of us in the support team, but it certainly made the company secure. Combined with the fact the only WAN connection was for email and back office stuff (no interweb for the employees, such bliss!) meant that we were a reasonably secure shop. + THe fact we used ZenWorks Desktop to lock everyone in the company down to the Nth degree. Sure, someone could walk out of the office with a pile of paper stuffed down their pants, but it would have been quite obvious. AFAIR nothing got stolen from that office apart from pens and paperclips (which were kept under lock and key and needed authorisation to remove ;) )
We still need full sensor DSLR's to come down in price before it really kills off film. With my SLR's i could easily manually fucus in low light gig situations whereas with my Canon 10D i have to rely on the autofocus which is a pain in the arse when trying to get decent action shots. This is mainly due to the size of the image presented in the viewfinder, it's just not big and sharp enough on the smaller sensers.
He funds terrorists and paid for Saddam Hussain to gas his own people too. No really, he did, i'm not just making this up due to bitterness and jealousy!
Or you could just buy cd's from one of the many people producing the technology to make mix CDs on demand (with no DRM i might add [at least from us])
It's what we http://www.vmusicstores.com/ and people like Mix and Burn are doing.....
"1. Showing the hacks who run Disney that not all movies have to suck. It is possible to make an animated movie that's actually watchable and somewhat entertaining. Just think about the crappy cartoons that existed before Pixar movies, in case you don't agree."
That's nothing to do with Jobs though. Pixar has always been John Lassiter's baby, he is the creative genius behind it, Jobs is just the money/business man in the operation. Lassiter made and now makes sure that the cartoons produced are good stories first and that the technology is not more important than the story. It's amazing that these days Jobs is seen as the main man behind the company when it was always Lassiter's creation. This leads to my one worry about a sell off. If sold, will Lassiter lose creative control of the company. Then it would suck.
And in fact, although a number of more recent disney movies might have sucked, Lassiter drew his imfluence from earlier drawn cartoons, which often were incredibly clever, funny and well written.
Actually computers are very useful for growing food. It just requires a bit of lateral thinking.
My father is going to africa to set up some education centers with donated computers. Whilst he was doing this he spoke to some people (might have been geekcore, but i can't remember exactly) who are actually doing projects to build databases and coms equipment to pool things like farming practice information, local methods and various other things to help farmers and other locals to get the most out of the land they have.
+ remember that starvation in africa and other areas isn't always the fault of drought and famine, most of the problems come from civil war and conflict. Education can be used to combat the ignorance which is exploited by individuals and groups to get backing for their coups and armies.
My one experience of SAP was an eye opener. We had an entire floor of consultants, business analysts and programmers (probably about 70/80 people. The project took well over a year to impliment and 10's of millions of pounds. I think it ran over 40 or 50 million. This was nearly 8 years ago now, but i can't imagine a full scale implimenation being done by a 1 man team. Although i guess they do some lighter installs. Ironically before the project finished the company was bought out for 2bn and the organisation structure was completely changed. Which amused me totally.
Suffice to say, i've since worked for small companies who want SAP style business integration software because they think that's what they need, but i've yet to see a cost of ownership which doesn't run into 6 figures for any implimentation worth it's salt.
Although Ben and Jerrys threw out most of their hippy ethos when they sold out to one of the biggest chemical/pharmacutical companies in the world. Although even before that the chief exectives voted to throw out their rule of capped salaries so they could give themselves big fat payrises...
Really *looks behind him* then that isn't actually custom software i'm running behind me on windows CE on Ipaq 4700's running as music sample stations and scanning devices.
Actually some of us aren't screaming for attention, we just like the way the modifications look (and in some cases, feel)
Although that said I haven't gotten any modifications which can't be hidden during the work day. My friends have no problem with them (in fact i'm one of the lest outrageously modified of my peer group) but I want to be judged at work for the standards of my work. In an ideal world i'd be able to look however i want without any prejudice, but there is prejudice out there and thats not going to change any time soon. I don't want to be seen purely as the freak with the metal in his face, and to do that unfortunately i have to have totally hidden mods. I probably could take a pay cut and work for a more relaxed company, but I'm good at what I do and have worked in relatively conservative industries where I am well respected for my expertise.
Would people respect my expertise less if i turned up with tattoos and piercings on show, maybe not, but i suspect that some of them would, and our big corporate clients would pass judgement on me.
There are laws concerning this. I worked until recently for a Financial Institution and if out auditors had found us losing client data and not keeping decent records and backups they could and would fine us and potentially withdraw our Financial Services Authority accreditation which would have ment we would have been barred from trading.
We use Iron Mountain. They sent someone to pick up the tapes last friday. It was a courier who turned up with no authorisation, no scanning sevice and who got really quite nasty when we told him to sod off and that we wouldn't give tapes to anyone without the proper authorisation. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone out there takes security seriously.
there are a lot of problems with the G5 though. It's a great chip, but there are major issues with power and size on it, so much so that it's looking unlikely it will make it into a laptop any time soon, and remember it's the sexy titanium powermacs's that everyone has been drooling over in recent years. + they have had so much trouble sorting out supplies for power chips with motorola and IBM messing them about in recent years. It makes sense to shift to intel. the architecture isn't as good, but the supply is readily available and development is going on a lot faster than with the power chips. A move to AMD 64's or pentium M's would do apple a great deal of good, especially with the integtation into advanced motherboard architecture which again is a problem with the Power.
We have a number of automated lines. THe Docklands Light Railway is fully automated and runs really well. At least 3 of the lines on the Tube are computer controlled too with the drivers there to monitor the doors.
However the automation ahd led to some interesting and unforseen difficulties. The automated systems speed up and slow down at the same points in the track it is putting extra stresses on certain sections of track and sleepers which leads to degraded track safety.
Mel Gibsons native accent being american of course as he was born there, lived there as a boy and never revoked his US citizenship.
Johnny Ball > any science guy out there.
http://www.nyt.co.uk/johnny.ball.htm
Although i think his shows were only shown in the UK