I have an amazing ability to end up the exact same situation that you did. My luck got so bad after awhile that, if we were talking about education, I would ask the other person, "Are you a teacher? Is your SO a teacher, Any children or parents teach?"
I've corresponded with Jerry many times. He's a pretty nice guy (even if he was shortsighted about the debris field).
and it better than I expected. The problems come during initial setup (as expected) as you have to figure out a sea of acronyms and discover inherent shortcomings in various products/interfaces/software. The other problem is the sometimes very specific driver versions that one has to use that aren't clearly marked as such by the manufacturer. The hauppage cards are chief among them (or were 6 months ago when I setup the beast). There is a lot of knowledge that is taken for granted by the manufacturers of these things that most people don't have or can't figure out.
Having said that, MCE is pretty damn cool. We use the XBOX extender to bring life to the XBOX that had been collecting dust for the past year and it works great. The interface is easy to use and easy to see. I haven't used previous versions of MCE but if it like other MS software, it takes at least 2 revs to get it about right. This version is "about right."
The next hurdle will be integrating HDTV into the whole lash-up but I'm putting that off for awhile. Right now, I just switch to a different video input to get HD.
in my area of the country. A couple of years ago when I started out there were a great number of consultants in the area. Most of them had the social skills of Atilla the Hun but people used them because they just figured that all IT people were freaks. Currently, these consulting companies are having a very difficult time. Other companies (like mine) are hiring people that have people skills. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out. I must have interviewed 15 people trying to find a guy (no women applied) that fit the bill.
Good advice. We don't get involved in many projects that would have milestones but we do require that most customers pay hardware/software costs upfront. Unless they are long-term customers in which case we require 25%.
shit, we were just did some digging through digital security footage from 2000. Place had cameras everywhere and it wasn't Fort Knox either, just some office building. We were looking to see if someone was in the building 4 years ago. This may not be typical but most places now are installing recorders that go to a hard drive which means you can archive it (almost) forever.
The amazing thing to me is that the data that safeway, giant and all of the other supermarket chains are collecting is pretty much the holy grail of marketing. At least as far as I understand it anyway. Back in the.com hayday this was what everyone wanted to know - more and more about each customer so that the website could ostensibly be tailored to each visitor. If you had good customer data you could get almost anyone to advertise or sponsor who was interested in your segment. Near as I can tell, the supermarkets do nothing with their data in terms of customized mailings or email. Perhaps they sell all of that data but for now they don't appear to be any customer-facing promotions or activities.....
This always the way it is. Adaware updates their files and it finds stuff that spybot doesn't. Spybot updates and finds stuff left over from adaware. I switched between believing in one or the other until I figured out that you simply have to run both. There isn't any way around it. If it is more than minimally infected you're going to have to hijaak it and continue to dig....
I know that/. isn't a general news site so maybe the submission pool is a little low but what is this shit? How can this be posted but the story about the government buying up columnists to generate public press is nowhere to be found? It isn't technology news but maybe YRO or something.
His name wan't Steve is it? The trading stocks part sounds just like him. He sat in one of those glass-walled offices like on "24" and essentially never came out. When we were called in it was pretty clear he was day-trading non-stop as you could see the Datek streamer on his screen and about 10 browser windows minimized.
Best war-story of my career: He came back from a Java convention and informed me that instead of continuing to use our Windows NT server (this was awhile ago) to run our small business that we were going to buy a Sun Ultra 400 or something. It was about the size of a trash compactor and cost like $75k. In addition, we were going to use Oracle.
It was here that I pointed out that we only had 12 people working per shift and wouldn't spending over $150k (hardware/software, etc) be a bit over the top? He didn't respond favorably. I got torn a new ass for not seeing the big picture and understanding the strategic plan. I was "thinking above my pay grade."
8 months later, the first paychecks started to bounce. At about the same time it was revealed that the President was banging this hot blonde sales manager (for whom he had purchased a new Jag). I heard he got coked up in his car in a downtown parking lot and the cops caught him in there with her. His wife wasn't happy.
This is real late and you'll probably never see it but importing from an older version of OE is just a huge nightmare. I think I had to export the file as some other format, upgrade OE, import it and then import that file into Outlook. Thanks to google groups I found the process. Well, the old version. The new version is simply useless.
As soon as I saw this thread I was trying to dig that name out of my head. I thought that evolution was free for awhile but then wasn't and it seems that now novell owns it?
I don't mean to insult but how many people are in your business? How many offices? For a small office where everyone is within shouting distance, there isn't much need for email/calendaring clients that talk. My consulting biz runs exchange but only because it was free(action pack). Depending on the type of business, an organization with more (~15 or so) people and with more than one office, it (can) rapidly becomes crucial. I do a lot of work with Title companies (place where you sign papers to settle on house) and many times they have several offices but share guys that roam around and do the actual closings. Our largest has 35 offices in various states. Integrated calendars are crucial.
I suppose we could switch them to a web-based calendar deal but Exchange provides that already with OWA so why go to the bother? Inter-office email rides the VPN so sensitive stuff can be sent without having to teach all the ding-dongs about encryption. In addition, there are some great add-ons for exchange that do some really cool stuff with exchange calendars (team calendar by MS is one).
The other thing about exchange is the centralized storage of email/calendar/contact data. I don't have to worry about backing up 10-20 seperate pst/mbx/dbx/whatever email files. There are automated ways of backing up these files but you might (or might not) be surprised at how often users can fuck that up.
I will grant you this though: for many businesses the genesis of a new exchange installation is due to a new employee who used to work someplace else and simply can't do without it. Even when the $$thousands spent on purchase and implementation would pay for a web solution for years to come. In this much it is psychological.
it's the client software that's a pain. I use wolverine (linux based firewall) that has pptp and ipsec built in. The pptp connections are easy as windows has a client built in. I cannot, however, find a free client for windows on the ipsec side. Anyone know of one? Yeah, I'm cheap but it's for my home network.
how I miss the Microprose of the early days. The boxes for the games were nice, the manuals were a work unto themselves and the games were magnificent. I suppose that the mass-market game turned out by a little shop is a bygone thing but I do miss it. Now that it is mass-market I suppose that whenever a small shop comes up with a good idea EA or MS ride into town and buy it up. I can see their side, slave away forever or just take a nice buyout...
I haven't used anything of theirs - exept Crystal. After my disastrous experience with their "support" of Crystal, I swore them off. Fortunately, Crystal is a reasonably mature product that doesn't have a lot of problems that can't be solved without a bit of legwork.
What's really strange is that tons of people use crystal but I couldn't find a usenet group for it. I searched and most of the posts were from those using crystal inside of VB of some such.
They buy these companies and then "poof" goes decent support. Except that shitty knowledgebase. The only company that has managed to fuck things up worse is Business Objects. They bought Crystal reports (the most sold company around) and their support is just aweful. They have forums that people post to but no employees seem to monitor. The instructions in the Crystal reports for installing things like the report server are written as if they wrote a functional version and then stripped any pertinent technical info.
These software companies are becoming like patent holding companies. They're just there to collect the tolls at the tech support gate. Sure, the software is expensive but nothing compared to the revenue they can get by squeezing people that plunk down $700 for the software and then pay several hundred per incident.
I'd like to flog whomever it was that sold crystal reports to those idiots.
I don't have much to say about your being singled out due to your looks and I don't much care how you spell your father's name. However, the logic behind "anywhere in Europe" is frighteningly accurate - with the possible exception of the word "society." I wish we had a leader with a world view that extended beyond his pig pen in Texas. It wouldn't fix "society" (at least anytime soon) but maybe we could interact with the rest of the world again. The French and Germans are no prize but they are longtime allies.
Holy shit! It's hard to believe that this actually does something. I've written quite a bit of code and Lisp is the only language I've used that looks as screwy as this....
I am a nextel customer. Have been for years. The PTT is the only reason. With the spectrum swap in the recent past and now this, I wonder what happens to the phones that I use for my business? I don't know a hell of a lot about cell phone tech but I don't imagine that my nextel will work on multiple freqs. It is starting to sound like I'm gonna have to buy all new phones. Access to the fast data network on the sprint side would be nice but I don't need it so bad that I'm gonna junk $1500 worth of phones....
I actually got the screen to fit on the tv by changing the colors from 16 bit to 32 bit. Or maybe it was the other way around. In any event, it didn't make any difference in picture quality.
I've fooled around with a couple of linux solutions and a couple of windows solutions. The really frustrating part for me is getting the hookup to the TV right. I wanted to use the TV as the display for both the desktop and for full-screen TV. With a standard def tv the desktop was unreadable but TV was ok. Now I've got an HD Sony Wega that has a tube. The DVI connector works but I've had problems with resolution and whatnot. I finally settled on component input but the resolution is limited to 640 and the desktop runs over the edges. The TV part looks ok though. I'm still screwing around with it and sorting my way through the alphabet soup of resolutions and connectors though. Hopefully I'll get something better. As far as software goes, I got Media Center 2005 in Action Pack and it is pretty cool. The media extender deal using an xbox just kicks ass but many of the other PVR programs I've used are easier to get working as MCE is picky about the drivers....
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I have an amazing ability to end up the exact same situation that you did. My luck got so bad after awhile that, if we were talking about education, I would ask the other person, "Are you a teacher? Is your SO a teacher, Any children or parents teach?"
I've corresponded with Jerry many times. He's a pretty nice guy (even if he was shortsighted about the debris field).
and it better than I expected. The problems come during initial setup (as expected) as you have to figure out a sea of acronyms and discover inherent shortcomings in various products/interfaces/software. The other problem is the sometimes very specific driver versions that one has to use that aren't clearly marked as such by the manufacturer. The hauppage cards are chief among them (or were 6 months ago when I setup the beast). There is a lot of knowledge that is taken for granted by the manufacturers of these things that most people don't have or can't figure out.
Having said that, MCE is pretty damn cool. We use the XBOX extender to bring life to the XBOX that had been collecting dust for the past year and it works great. The interface is easy to use and easy to see. I haven't used previous versions of MCE but if it like other MS software, it takes at least 2 revs to get it about right. This version is "about right."
The next hurdle will be integrating HDTV into the whole lash-up but I'm putting that off for awhile. Right now, I just switch to a different video input to get HD.
I wonder about the cost? Surely there must be something better to spend the schools money on?
in my area of the country. A couple of years ago when I started out there were a great number of consultants in the area. Most of them had the social skills of Atilla the Hun but people used them because they just figured that all IT people were freaks. Currently, these consulting companies are having a very difficult time. Other companies (like mine) are hiring people that have people skills. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out. I must have interviewed 15 people trying to find a guy (no women applied) that fit the bill.
Good advice. We don't get involved in many projects that would have milestones but we do require that most customers pay hardware/software costs upfront. Unless they are long-term customers in which case we require 25%.
shit, we were just did some digging through digital security footage from 2000. Place had cameras everywhere and it wasn't Fort Knox either, just some office building. We were looking to see if someone was in the building 4 years ago. This may not be typical but most places now are installing recorders that go to a hard drive which means you can archive it (almost) forever.
The amazing thing to me is that the data that safeway, giant and all of the other supermarket chains are collecting is pretty much the holy grail of marketing. At least as far as I understand it anyway. Back in the .com hayday this was what everyone wanted to know - more and more about each customer so that the website could ostensibly be tailored to each visitor. If you had good customer data you could get almost anyone to advertise or sponsor who was interested in your segment. Near as I can tell, the supermarkets do nothing with their data in terms of customized mailings or email. Perhaps they sell all of that data but for now they don't appear to be any customer-facing promotions or activities.....
I could use George Washington's card. They don't check those things.
Is VX2 the one where the executable is renamed every time you reboot? That one is nasty.
This always the way it is. Adaware updates their files and it finds stuff that spybot doesn't. Spybot updates and finds stuff left over from adaware. I switched between believing in one or the other until I figured out that you simply have to run both. There isn't any way around it. If it is more than minimally infected you're going to have to hijaak it and continue to dig....
I know that /. isn't a general news site so maybe the submission pool is a little low but what is this shit? How can this be posted but the story about the government buying up columnists to generate public press is nowhere to be found? It isn't technology news but maybe YRO or something.
His name wan't Steve is it? The trading stocks part sounds just like him. He sat in one of those glass-walled offices like on "24" and essentially never came out. When we were called in it was pretty clear he was day-trading non-stop as you could see the Datek streamer on his screen and about 10 browser windows minimized.
Best war-story of my career: He came back from a Java convention and informed me that instead of continuing to use our Windows NT server (this was awhile ago) to run our small business that we were going to buy a Sun Ultra 400 or something. It was about the size of a trash compactor and cost like $75k. In addition, we were going to use Oracle.
It was here that I pointed out that we only had 12 people working per shift and wouldn't spending over $150k (hardware/software, etc) be a bit over the top? He didn't respond favorably. I got torn a new ass for not seeing the big picture and understanding the strategic plan. I was "thinking above my pay grade."
8 months later, the first paychecks started to bounce. At about the same time it was revealed that the President was banging this hot blonde sales manager (for whom he had purchased a new Jag). I heard he got coked up in his car in a downtown parking lot and the cops caught him in there with her. His wife wasn't happy.
This is real late and you'll probably never see it but importing from an older version of OE is just a huge nightmare. I think I had to export the file as some other format, upgrade OE, import it and then import that file into Outlook. Thanks to google groups I found the process. Well, the old version. The new version is simply useless.
As soon as I saw this thread I was trying to dig that name out of my head. I thought that evolution was free for awhile but then wasn't and it seems that now novell owns it?
I don't mean to insult but how many people are in your business? How many offices? For a small office where everyone is within shouting distance, there isn't much need for email/calendaring clients that talk. My consulting biz runs exchange but only because it was free(action pack). Depending on the type of business, an organization with more (~15 or so) people and with more than one office, it (can) rapidly becomes crucial. I do a lot of work with Title companies (place where you sign papers to settle on house) and many times they have several offices but share guys that roam around and do the actual closings. Our largest has 35 offices in various states. Integrated calendars are crucial.
I suppose we could switch them to a web-based calendar deal but Exchange provides that already with OWA so why go to the bother? Inter-office email rides the VPN so sensitive stuff can be sent without having to teach all the ding-dongs about encryption. In addition, there are some great add-ons for exchange that do some really cool stuff with exchange calendars (team calendar by MS is one).
The other thing about exchange is the centralized storage of email/calendar/contact data. I don't have to worry about backing up 10-20 seperate pst/mbx/dbx/whatever email files. There are automated ways of backing up these files but you might (or might not) be surprised at how often users can fuck that up.
I will grant you this though: for many businesses the genesis of a new exchange installation is due to a new employee who used to work someplace else and simply can't do without it. Even when the $$thousands spent on purchase and implementation would pay for a web solution for years to come. In this much it is psychological.
it's the client software that's a pain. I use wolverine (linux based firewall) that has pptp and ipsec built in. The pptp connections are easy as windows has a client built in. I cannot, however, find a free client for windows on the ipsec side. Anyone know of one? Yeah, I'm cheap but it's for my home network.
how I miss the Microprose of the early days. The boxes for the games were nice, the manuals were a work unto themselves and the games were magnificent. I suppose that the mass-market game turned out by a little shop is a bygone thing but I do miss it. Now that it is mass-market I suppose that whenever a small shop comes up with a good idea EA or MS ride into town and buy it up. I can see their side, slave away forever or just take a nice buyout...
I haven't used anything of theirs - exept Crystal. After my disastrous experience with their "support" of Crystal, I swore them off. Fortunately, Crystal is a reasonably mature product that doesn't have a lot of problems that can't be solved without a bit of legwork.
What's really strange is that tons of people use crystal but I couldn't find a usenet group for it. I searched and most of the posts were from those using crystal inside of VB of some such.
They buy these companies and then "poof" goes decent support. Except that shitty knowledgebase. The only company that has managed to fuck things up worse is Business Objects. They bought Crystal reports (the most sold company around) and their support is just aweful. They have forums that people post to but no employees seem to monitor. The instructions in the Crystal reports for installing things like the report server are written as if they wrote a functional version and then stripped any pertinent technical info.
These software companies are becoming like patent holding companies. They're just there to collect the tolls at the tech support gate. Sure, the software is expensive but nothing compared to the revenue they can get by squeezing people that plunk down $700 for the software and then pay several hundred per incident.
I'd like to flog whomever it was that sold crystal reports to those idiots.
I don't have much to say about your being singled out due to your looks and I don't much care how you spell your father's name. However, the logic behind "anywhere in Europe" is frighteningly accurate - with the possible exception of the word "society." I wish we had a leader with a world view that extended beyond his pig pen in Texas. It wouldn't fix "society" (at least anytime soon) but maybe we could interact with the rest of the world again. The French and Germans are no prize but they are longtime allies.
Holy shit! It's hard to believe that this actually does something. I've written quite a bit of code and Lisp is the only language I've used that looks as screwy as this....
I am a nextel customer. Have been for years. The PTT is the only reason. With the spectrum swap in the recent past and now this, I wonder what happens to the phones that I use for my business? I don't know a hell of a lot about cell phone tech but I don't imagine that my nextel will work on multiple freqs. It is starting to sound like I'm gonna have to buy all new phones. Access to the fast data network on the sprint side would be nice but I don't need it so bad that I'm gonna junk $1500 worth of phones....
I actually got the screen to fit on the tv by changing the colors from 16 bit to 32 bit. Or maybe it was the other way around. In any event, it didn't make any difference in picture quality.
for those dicks: get rid of the groups beta.
I've fooled around with a couple of linux solutions and a couple of windows solutions. The really frustrating part for me is getting the hookup to the TV right. I wanted to use the TV as the display for both the desktop and for full-screen TV. With a standard def tv the desktop was unreadable but TV was ok. Now I've got an HD Sony Wega that has a tube. The DVI connector works but I've had problems with resolution and whatnot. I finally settled on component input but the resolution is limited to 640 and the desktop runs over the edges. The TV part looks ok though. I'm still screwing around with it and sorting my way through the alphabet soup of resolutions and connectors though. Hopefully I'll get something better. As far as software goes, I got Media Center 2005 in Action Pack and it is pretty cool. The media extender deal using an xbox just kicks ass but many of the other PVR programs I've used are easier to get working as MCE is picky about the drivers....