If they have a 503c number, then filling out all the proper forms ahead of time and talking to the people constantly over the phone is good for the first order. After the first order I just used it like any other website.
Also consider cancelling the order via the control panel (if they havent received everything). Also, faxing everything, including the order form, seems to expedite the process sometimes.
Old guy bought Office 2003, which was the only smart thing he did (a month too soon to get the free upgrade to 2007 though). I just bought Outlook 2007 (4$ a seat woooo) which is dead useful since the Ribbon isn't used throughout and gmail/internet calendar downloading is 1000x faster now and more reliable.
Pretty much he ordered them straight from the same source as the wiki, which is about 50~ characters between Garfield and the farm sub-show.
Seeing 50 computers named after a garfield show made me want to turn him in. Seriously. I wouldn't have minded much if the main server was Calvin and the file storage one was Hobbes, but Odie and Nermal are horrible names.
Now I'm following the ol' LT5VOS1510 format, which means its the 5th Vostro 1510 laptop that we have.
Done months ago. And no, I don't make shit up. They settled (out of pity) for the money they found that he took after going through their books, but he's pretty much blacklisted in the city we're located in so he moved.
The whole branch nonprofit is over to free software (minus xp/2003 on the dell computers they have and office 2003/outlook 2007 VLKs bought from techsoup).
The last thing they need to do is switch to voip and get rid of the horrible lease they're on for their ancient PBX that this idiot convinced them to get.
Heh...I'm actually just doing a paid internship at a non-profit after their full-time guy left. It was supposed to end on May 1st, but hey I guess they love what I've done.
Got them a cheap dedicated backup system, updated all the systems and reinstalled an NLite-ed XP on every computer, and moved them from Exchange to Google. Oh, and the lab computers run Ubuntu.
They also loved it when I found the IT guy's secret paypal business account with 3000$ sitting in it that was supposed to be used for something else (battery backup replacement batteries). Putting passwords in a file on the administrator's desktop called "passwords for everything.txt" is sooooo helpful for when you're trying to be sneaky.
I actually found the administrator password on a post-it note on the back of the server's CRT monitor while cleaning the server room.
"Fucking amazing" I said out loud, and as I pulled it off, on the back was the AmEx credit card number, expiration date, and 3digit pin for our organization to order IT stuff.
Then I noticed on the left underside of the CRT there was another post-it that said Ctrl Shift Alt Num+....so I pressed that and up came a hidden menu of hidden apps running (SysTrayX + a sketchy prog to hide services in TaskManager), 90% of them illegal. Also uTorrent was running, seeding about 50 anime series buried deep within the network and using about half of the T3 connection's throughput.
And to top it all off, I deduced that the server had never had a fresh install of Windows. It used to have NT Server, then they used software to upgrade it to 2000 Server, and software again to upgrade it to Server 2003.......
Day 7:
I get a call from the old IT guy asking me whats wrong with the connection, and I told him I reinstalled Server 2003, deleted his anime cache, changed the WPA-PSK keys from 1111111111 to something way more secure, reported the AmEx card as stolen to get a new one, changed the admin password and set password age limits on all accounts, and replaced the rootkit infected SCSI drives with new ones that would last longer. Also, I told the managers that his 5000$ quote for network-wide unlimited antivirus was utter bullshit and that he only got a cracked key for Norton 2003 and installed it only on the server, and prolly pocketed the money.
Damn dude was like "BUT I DIDNT BACK UP THE ANIME TO DVD YET!!!". Now I love anime as much as the next person, but I think he has other stuff to worry about at this point.
But you know what got me the most mad and prompted all of this? The server was named Odie, and the computers were all garfield characters.
Ummm....You're electing the same guy every time by picking XP over and over and over again. You know he has vulnerabilities with IE6 and other security issues, and now that 80% of new computers have 1GB of RAM or more, he's too barebones for you anymore. He's looking a bit dated. You can put bandages on him forever, but he's very prone to infection.
What this survey says is that 40% of companies surveyed have plans to deploy Windows 7 in the next 1.5 years (2009 is half over, iirc).
People: That's not a bad number. After a failboat like Vista and with the current economy, its actually quite good.
The reality of the situation is that companies will not be buying the OS and installing it on current computers....they will be buying new computers with Windows 7 already them most likely. They don't want to deal with upgrade procedures and any other nonsense. Look: It even says "We have skipped upgrades or delayed purchases - 34.8%"....I'd love to assume that alot of that number is for actual computers onsite and not just server/datacenter room equipment.
MS extended XP so that Win7 could be tested by organizations and they could just do a full jump from XP to 7 and skip Vista like it never happened.
Plus the ability to sync everything with your blackberry sorta outweighs alot of other issues.
Now if only they could get thunderbird more user-friendly with a calendar app that was better integrated into the program, then I feel that more people would be switching alot of their stuff instead of paying for Office 2007 and an Exchange server.
Comodo was OK back when it was ONLY the AV. Now its a bunch of shit integrated horribly into one.....trying to uninstall it and sometimes update it reminds me of Norton or McAfee. I'd avoid it like the plague.
The only true free solution left besides Comodo for businesses is Rising antivirus, but I haven't seen any performace tests of it yet by the popular magazines.
You cannot have an NT installation on the same drive as a 2000/XP installation, as the NTFS differs so much between them that your system would become highly unstable.
You cannot move ringtones so easily at all. You could use BitPim (which some Verizon workers even recommend), but thats almost a hassle. The only other way is to save the ringtone as a sound and as a ringtone, as sounds can be emailed and then resaved onto the new phone as a sound and/or ringtone.
Basically everyone's complaining cause verizon's current smartphone selection sucks....two touchscreens and an ancient blackberry. People that have verizon (and get the huge corporate discount, like me (30% off)), don't want to switch and would rather complain and try to port a phone over from sprint.
Most of the east coast also loves having Verizon. because the quality is the best over here (anywhere else, not so much).
When they say "Support for rt3070 driver for recent RaLink Wi-Fi chipsets", they really mean support for RT2870, RT2770, RT307X, RT3572 chipsets (they're all the same, with just features enabled or disabled, or signal strength improved between them).
This was the one last thing for me to fully switch over to linux. Netgear and alot of other Wireless-N USB adapters use these chipsets, and they are the best around.
Previously, the method of installing this driver was the largest pain in the ass I've ever had to go through as a linux noob (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=960642) and I'm so very very glad to see that this chipset is now supported.
The reason it was so hard is that the normal controlling app for the USB device has many advanced features you normally don't see on a wireless adapter (act as a router, full cisco network compatibility, etc etc).
One of his major points is that they complain about how long things take to get done. I suggest giving them a timeframe of how long it will take to accomplish a task, and reasoning behind it. Works well in my place, and people better understand the hard work that I put into a project, even if they don't understand what I'm doing.
At my local community college (CCAC), we just had a 13 and a 88yr old graduate. The president of the Pittsburgh Penguins was the keynote speaker, and he got on stage and cried for two minutes about how CCAC changed his life and was better than his 4 years at Harvard.
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I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE and I bring you......flaming iPods!!!!
IIRC (even though its not really comparable), LinuxMint moved to the 6 month scheme too and has gotten alot better from it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/167040-46-registry-login-script#t612376
or
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/23744-changing-permissions-registry-key.html#post230094
might be of interests to you
If they have a 503c number, then filling out all the proper forms ahead of time and talking to the people constantly over the phone is good for the first order. After the first order I just used it like any other website.
Also consider cancelling the order via the control panel (if they havent received everything). Also, faxing everything, including the order form, seems to expedite the process sometimes.
Old guy bought Office 2003, which was the only smart thing he did (a month too soon to get the free upgrade to 2007 though). I just bought Outlook 2007 (4$ a seat woooo) which is dead useful since the Ribbon isn't used throughout and gmail/internet calendar downloading is 1000x faster now and more reliable.
Eh, they don't even need elevated privledges :)
You're in luck!
Seeing as how its related to the font html tag, I bet its backwards compatible a few versions!
Our shitty phones and system can't even properly handle any more than 3 people on a "conference call" at once....it sucks and is quite unstable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_and_Friends#The_cast
Pretty much he ordered them straight from the same source as the wiki, which is about 50~ characters between Garfield and the farm sub-show.
Seeing 50 computers named after a garfield show made me want to turn him in. Seriously. I wouldn't have minded much if the main server was Calvin and the file storage one was Hobbes, but Odie and Nermal are horrible names.
Now I'm following the ol' LT5VOS1510 format, which means its the 5th Vostro 1510 laptop that we have.
Done months ago. And no, I don't make shit up. They settled (out of pity) for the money they found that he took after going through their books, but he's pretty much blacklisted in the city we're located in so he moved.
The whole branch nonprofit is over to free software (minus xp/2003 on the dell computers they have and office 2003/outlook 2007 VLKs bought from techsoup).
The last thing they need to do is switch to voip and get rid of the horrible lease they're on for their ancient PBX that this idiot convinced them to get.
Heh...I'm actually just doing a paid internship at a non-profit after their full-time guy left. It was supposed to end on May 1st, but hey I guess they love what I've done.
Got them a cheap dedicated backup system, updated all the systems and reinstalled an NLite-ed XP on every computer, and moved them from Exchange to Google. Oh, and the lab computers run Ubuntu.
They also loved it when I found the IT guy's secret paypal business account with 3000$ sitting in it that was supposed to be used for something else (battery backup replacement batteries). Putting passwords in a file on the administrator's desktop called "passwords for everything.txt" is sooooo helpful for when you're trying to be sneaky.
Seriously, this shit is a soap opera of IT-isms.
Oh, and his DAT72 backups had been failing for the last 2 years and he had never checked the logs.
Good thing he left to start his own business! /shudder
My Day 1:
I actually found the administrator password on a post-it note on the back of the server's CRT monitor while cleaning the server room.
"Fucking amazing" I said out loud, and as I pulled it off, on the back was the AmEx credit card number, expiration date, and 3digit pin for our organization to order IT stuff.
Then I noticed on the left underside of the CRT there was another post-it that said Ctrl Shift Alt Num+....so I pressed that and up came a hidden menu of hidden apps running (SysTrayX + a sketchy prog to hide services in TaskManager), 90% of them illegal. Also uTorrent was running, seeding about 50 anime series buried deep within the network and using about half of the T3 connection's throughput.
And to top it all off, I deduced that the server had never had a fresh install of Windows. It used to have NT Server, then they used software to upgrade it to 2000 Server, and software again to upgrade it to Server 2003. ......
Day 7:
I get a call from the old IT guy asking me whats wrong with the connection, and I told him I reinstalled Server 2003, deleted his anime cache, changed the WPA-PSK keys from 1111111111 to something way more secure, reported the AmEx card as stolen to get a new one, changed the admin password and set password age limits on all accounts, and replaced the rootkit infected SCSI drives with new ones that would last longer. Also, I told the managers that his 5000$ quote for network-wide unlimited antivirus was utter bullshit and that he only got a cracked key for Norton 2003 and installed it only on the server, and prolly pocketed the money.
Damn dude was like "BUT I DIDNT BACK UP THE ANIME TO DVD YET!!!". Now I love anime as much as the next person, but I think he has other stuff to worry about at this point.
But you know what got me the most mad and prompted all of this? The server was named Odie, and the computers were all garfield characters.
CALVIN AND HOBBES FTW!!!!
It sure as hell doesn't work like a dog on my HP Mini, and your assumptions only shit on MS's name more.
Go lurk moar and try out W7 on any basic system with 1GB of RAM, cause it runs flawlessly.
Ummm....You're electing the same guy every time by picking XP over and over and over again. You know he has vulnerabilities with IE6 and other security issues, and now that 80% of new computers have 1GB of RAM or more, he's too barebones for you anymore. He's looking a bit dated. You can put bandages on him forever, but he's very prone to infection.
What this survey says is that 40% of companies surveyed have plans to deploy Windows 7 in the next 1.5 years (2009 is half over, iirc).
People: That's not a bad number. After a failboat like Vista and with the current economy, its actually quite good.
The reality of the situation is that companies will not be buying the OS and installing it on current computers....they will be buying new computers with Windows 7 already them most likely. They don't want to deal with upgrade procedures and any other nonsense. Look: It even says "We have skipped upgrades or delayed purchases - 34.8%"....I'd love to assume that alot of that number is for actual computers onsite and not just server/datacenter room equipment.
MS extended XP so that Win7 could be tested by organizations and they could just do a full jump from XP to 7 and skip Vista like it never happened.
For most businesses, using https is enough.
Plus the ability to sync everything with your blackberry sorta outweighs alot of other issues.
Now if only they could get thunderbird more user-friendly with a calendar app that was better integrated into the program, then I feel that more people would be switching alot of their stuff instead of paying for Office 2007 and an Exchange server.
Thank god for TechSoup.
You can just get the Real codecs instead of the apps and those will play in mplayer.
If you're watching flash video, that's your fault. But flash has many other valid uses.
Fuck Microsoft, but if you can't get XP to install, you're a fucking idiot.
The big FUCK here should be towards Apple. If it wasn't for them, we'd have support now.
And def don't fuck Java.
Comodo was OK back when it was ONLY the AV. Now its a bunch of shit integrated horribly into one.....trying to uninstall it and sometimes update it reminds me of Norton or McAfee. I'd avoid it like the plague.
The only true free solution left besides Comodo for businesses is Rising antivirus, but I haven't seen any performace tests of it yet by the popular magazines.
You cannot have an NT installation on the same drive as a 2000/XP installation, as the NTFS differs so much between them that your system would become highly unstable.
Verizon is hateable, not lovable.
You cannot move ringtones so easily at all. You could use BitPim (which some Verizon workers even recommend), but thats almost a hassle. The only other way is to save the ringtone as a sound and as a ringtone, as sounds can be emailed and then resaved onto the new phone as a sound and/or ringtone.
Basically everyone's complaining cause verizon's current smartphone selection sucks....two touchscreens and an ancient blackberry. People that have verizon (and get the huge corporate discount, like me (30% off)), don't want to switch and would rather complain and try to port a phone over from sprint.
Most of the east coast also loves having Verizon. because the quality is the best over here (anywhere else, not so much).
Another great installation tutorial for SLED
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux-enterprise-desktop-sled/sled-hardware/340340-ralink-rt2870-usb-stick-works-well-sled-10-a.html
When they say "Support for rt3070 driver for recent RaLink Wi-Fi chipsets", they really mean support for RT2870, RT2770, RT307X, RT3572 chipsets (they're all the same, with just features enabled or disabled, or signal strength improved between them).
This was the one last thing for me to fully switch over to linux. Netgear and alot of other Wireless-N USB adapters use these chipsets, and they are the best around.
Previously, the method of installing this driver was the largest pain in the ass I've ever had to go through as a linux noob (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=960642) and I'm so very very glad to see that this chipset is now supported.
The reason it was so hard is that the normal controlling app for the USB device has many advanced features you normally don't see on a wireless adapter (act as a router, full cisco network compatibility, etc etc).
One of his major points is that they complain about how long things take to get done. I suggest giving them a timeframe of how long it will take to accomplish a task, and reasoning behind it. Works well in my place, and people better understand the hard work that I put into a project, even if they don't understand what I'm doing.
Eh....very non-legit stuff going on there
At my local community college (CCAC), we just had a 13 and a 88yr old graduate. The president of the Pittsburgh Penguins was the keynote speaker, and he got on stage and cried for two minutes about how CCAC changed his life and was better than his 4 years at Harvard.
Community College is where its at...
USDA is supposed to be incharge of all illegal online pharmacies....they work directly with the FBI to shut them down. IIRC.
I feel like the article has some made-up bullshit spewing from it.
I'll file it under fake fad that never comes to be.
Unless they give us free mobile internet, I seriously doubt that streaming will overtake downloading.