At my company we have SBC internet and webhosing. Their support for web access sucks to high heaven, but that is because they outsource it to another company who is incompantant. The webhosting is another outsourced service which I have been very happy with since I have to make the call when there is a problem or we make a change. I have yet to wait longer then 2 minutes unless there is a major outage, and then they have a recording saying what the problem is.(I think most of their problems are from their windoz servers, we use their Linux hosting.) If SBC were to buy DirecTv, I would hope they used the same outsourcing stratagy that has worked for their webhosting. Their internet was so bad we cancelled a few weeks ago, and found out that the eaisiest part of SBC net access was the cancellation! What a precision team working in that department, it is such a shame thay are associated with SBC. In the end it all comes down to what stupid desicion the new managment will make. And stupid managers are everywere!
Certian apps move nicely, but using a 800MHz iMac on an Airport through a VPN is horrably slow comparied to XP on the same Airport through the same VPN. Just opening the finder on the fileserver involves getting a cup of coffee. The ones on the LAN are faster, but the hesatation is still there. I am starting to hate that spinning pinwheel. Aqua is such a pain, eventually I'll get Linux running on my dual 867 then I can fiannaly get work done.
OS X, the power of UNIX with a screwed up interface.
I have bounced from Red Hat to Mandrake, and gave Debian a try. The installer can be a pain if you have odd hardware that is supported by Linux. You just have to keep tring the install untill you find the right combo of drivers. Or, use Libranet. The installer is still text based, but it will auto detect hardware most of the time. Using Libranet 2.7 I installed a whitebox I bought and it found and detected the NIC and video card the first time around. The only thing it did not like was the SIIG ATA133 card for the the extra hard drives and the onboard sound. I have installed Libranet on a few machines and only had a few problems with M$ specific devices, and onboard sound cards. The 2.7 version has default options for people that do not understand disk partitioning and is even on a bootable disk!:O
My mom was happy to give me the ring my dad gave here. It was just sitting in her jewle box gather dust, and he did't mind. At least it was being used. And now it is more then a mere ring from the store, it's a family heirloom now! Total cost, about $20 for the adjustment to fit.
Having once worked in a small Librariy I can say thay we could not keep track of all the books ckeked out. The server just could not handle keeping that much data,even the AIX server that ran it all. The couple of thousand books ckecked out every week would be a maintance money pit for the IS staff to keep backed-up. We keept track of fines and what is CURRENTLY checked out only and who has a library card. Anything else is too expensive for the tight budgets of any Library.
Yas, most people like MS the way it is. The average American does not understand all of what MS has done in the past to get were it is now, and remember that MS caters to the computer ignorant. In a simeler poll after the break-up of AT&T most people(around 70% I think) said thay were happy with AT&T.
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At my company we have SBC internet and webhosing. Their support for web access sucks to high heaven, but that is because they outsource it to another company who is incompantant. The webhosting is another outsourced service which I have been very happy with since I have to make the call when there is a problem or we make a change. I have yet to wait longer then 2 minutes unless there is a major outage, and then they have a recording saying what the problem is.(I think most of their problems are from their windoz servers, we use their Linux hosting.)
If SBC were to buy DirecTv, I would hope they used the same outsourcing stratagy that has worked for their webhosting. Their internet was so bad we cancelled a few weeks ago, and found out that the eaisiest part of SBC net access was the cancellation! What a precision team working in that department, it is such a shame thay are associated with SBC.
In the end it all comes down to what stupid desicion the new managment will make. And stupid managers are everywere!
Certian apps move nicely, but using a 800MHz iMac on an Airport through a VPN is horrably slow comparied to XP on the same Airport through the same VPN. Just opening the finder on the fileserver involves getting a cup of coffee. The ones on the LAN are faster, but the hesatation is still there. I am starting to hate that spinning pinwheel. Aqua is such a pain, eventually I'll get Linux running on my dual 867 then I can fiannaly get work done.
OS X, the power of UNIX with a screwed up interface.
I have bounced from Red Hat to Mandrake, and gave Debian a try. The installer can be a pain if you have odd hardware that is supported by Linux. You just have to keep tring the install untill you find the right combo of drivers. Or, use Libranet. The installer is still text based, but it will auto detect hardware most of the time. Using Libranet 2.7 I installed a whitebox I bought and it found and detected the NIC and video card the first time around. The only thing it did not like was the SIIG ATA133 card for the the extra hard drives and the onboard sound. :O
I have installed Libranet on a few machines and only had a few problems with M$ specific devices, and onboard sound cards. The 2.7 version has default options for people that do not understand disk partitioning and is even on a bootable disk!
My mom was happy to give me the ring my dad gave here. It was just sitting in her jewle box gather dust, and he did't mind. At least it was being used. And now it is more then a mere ring from the store, it's a family heirloom now!
Total cost, about $20 for the adjustment to fit.
Having once worked in a small Librariy I can say thay we could not keep track of all the books ckeked out. The server just could not handle keeping that much data,even the AIX server that ran it all. The couple of thousand books ckecked out every week would be a maintance money pit for the IS staff to keep backed-up. We keept track of fines and what is CURRENTLY checked out only and who has a library card. Anything else is too expensive for the tight budgets of any Library.
Yas, most people like MS the way it is. The average American does not understand all of what MS has done in the past to get were it is now, and remember that MS caters to the computer ignorant. In a simeler poll after the break-up of AT&T most people(around 70% I think) said thay were happy with AT&T.