On the education side of IT, your end users range in age from 4 to 18 (students) and then staff/adults. The simpler you can make things, and make them work, the better. For example, a teacher will have 20+ kids in the room, need to get them all signed in to AD, then signed into Google/GAFE. Depending on the age of the group, this can be extremely challenging, especially if usernames are different, and passwords are different. If they could sign in *once* with a short username, and standard password - then be able to dive right into what they need, we'd have more time for the teachers to do what they need to do, and less time for them to be techs. SSO has been something that's been elusive for years, both in public and private sector, and it's always *sort of* worked, but not quite, and not reliably. I hadn't looked at it for some time, but it came up again recently, hence my question to/.
Maybe they aren't exercising.. perhaps they are climbing in to investigate what it is, start to walk/run and just can't get out as they don't yet understand it? I'd buy that more than an animal exercising because it wants to. Sure animals can be very smart.. but I don't see them being vain as some humans, or worried about their figure.
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The past few years have also seen a great increase in microbreweries. Near where I live, there is one that makes some very amazing flavors, and some great full bodied selections. Not everyone in the US drinks Bud Light or Coors.. that stuff you can pour back in the horse!
Typically products use URL filtering and search filtering - very challenging and full of false positives (and false negatives). The newest trend seems to be actual content filtering, where the page is pre-loaded on the filter, analyzed, and allowed through if OK, blocked if not. It seems to greatly increase the correct response of the filter to the pages in question. I only know of a couple of companies who are offering this now, but I definitely see it as where things are headed.
Good to know and hear - I have not used it for years because it became useless pre-moderated, and my current ISP (who I've been with for 10+ years) doesn't carry newsgroups. Glad to know that it's at least in part working well.
Once mIRC was released to the masses, however, IRC mostly crashed and burned, in my opinion. You went from a smaller group of people who could discuss things intelligently (even non-geek topics) to a flood of CTC? ASL? and similar. I still keep in touch with a pile of friends from IRC of the old days.. but I doubt any still go to the channel itself anymore.
True, and Usenet could be handy. But basically it became a spam forest, and you'd have to wade thru 200 spam emails for one on the topic. Maybe if they would have developed filters for it, it could have gone on further.
Back in the pre-SMS days, http://www.trillian.im/ Trillian did this nicely. You would think there would be an app to combine all as well. Couldn't be that hard if it's been done once before.
I have to respectfully disagree. I've seen the DVDs and went to see a live show.. with a crowd of mixed races, etc. and everyone was on the floor laughing.
Oh, it's still happening. I was just told today that an iPad that couldn't connect to a WAP, that uses cablemodem must have also broken the phone line (not over cable, separate phone company). Was totally convinced. Nevermind we got a hellacious ice storm last night, with power lines down all over... nah.. that couldn't be it!
They have an established successful business run out of their home, that requires rural setting and outbuildings. It's been challenging to expand to their national base of customers with unreliable high speed. Some of the other neighbors in the area are in their 70s, and happily use the internet as much as it allows them, but moving isn't a possibilty, nor should it be. Also, not everybody chooses to live in a city. See the post by QuantumRiff for an excellent example of how the world works outside of your corner of it.
Won't improve the neighbor down the road who can't afford the high speed alternatives (dish or cellular) and is stuck on dialup, on old copper, that gets about 24K connections, on a good day. I get that it's going to improve the backbone - it'll probably help me, as I have great DSL service, but it's only going to filter down so far. Local telcos need to suck it up and do the upgrades.
Now we just need more locations to actually *have* fiber, or some similar high speed bandwidth. My in-laws can only get celluar (unreliable), and satellite isn't worth it. They are just within range of DSL if the phone company would do the upgrade - and there are several customers on their street that would happily switch - apparently not enough for them to spend the dollars to do the upgrade.
Upgrades only are cool if everyone has the opportunity to use it.
Even when you've worked in IT, it's not always possible to work in IT. I spent many years doing desktop support, network administration, and related items. Worked for a company and had my job downsized - the famous "you've been awesome at the position and we really like you, but you don't have a job anymore" speech. Now, I'm nowhere near the IT field, and haven't been for over 5 years. Anytime a position opens, there is a plethora of resumes. Since I'm not fresh out of school, I'm not hire-able at the cheap wage that companies are willing to pay (their decision, not mine). At this point, I'm just grateful to be employed.
Because I don't wanna deal with the warez BS, and for right now, it does everything I need, and truly have greater priorities in life than computers (read: wife n kids). It's actually been in storage for.. almost a year now because we're re-wiring the house we bought:P
Heh.. my main PC still runs Win98SE. I can't afford a new PC, don't game as much as I used to, and it plays the games that I enjoy anyway. It's a P3/1GHz, 512MB RAM so I could easily run XP on it, but if it's stable, and does everything I need to.. and I keep my computer secure via other means (firewall, AV, etc) I figure why bother. I'll likely put SUSE or somesuch on it at some point when I get bored, I just don't have the $100 to spend on an OEM Windows XP license and CD, much less affording Vista.
I've not used WMP much for many years, simply because it's become a resource hog. When I listen to music on my PC, it's for something to listen to while I work. For that, I don't need a huge program taking up system taskbar space, or screen space. I have relied on winamp classic for years, just because of this. It's got all the functions, it plays the music I like, and I don't have to deal with WMPs crap.
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On the education side of IT, your end users range in age from 4 to 18 (students) and then staff/adults. The simpler you can make things, and make them work, the better. For example, a teacher will have 20+ kids in the room, need to get them all signed in to AD, then signed into Google/GAFE. Depending on the age of the group, this can be extremely challenging, especially if usernames are different, and passwords are different. If they could sign in *once* with a short username, and standard password - then be able to dive right into what they need, we'd have more time for the teachers to do what they need to do, and less time for them to be techs. SSO has been something that's been elusive for years, both in public and private sector, and it's always *sort of* worked, but not quite, and not reliably. I hadn't looked at it for some time, but it came up again recently, hence my question to /.
Maybe they aren't exercising.. perhaps they are climbing in to investigate what it is, start to walk/run and just can't get out as they don't yet understand it? I'd buy that more than an animal exercising because it wants to. Sure animals can be very smart.. but I don't see them being vain as some humans, or worried about their figure.
The past few years have also seen a great increase in microbreweries. Near where I live, there is one that makes some very amazing flavors, and some great full bodied selections. Not everyone in the US drinks Bud Light or Coors.. that stuff you can pour back in the horse!
Typically products use URL filtering and search filtering - very challenging and full of false positives (and false negatives). The newest trend seems to be actual content filtering, where the page is pre-loaded on the filter, analyzed, and allowed through if OK, blocked if not. It seems to greatly increase the correct response of the filter to the pages in question. I only know of a couple of companies who are offering this now, but I definitely see it as where things are headed.
Why don't you bring this up on a CompuServe forum?
What we Oat to do is warn people about this pun-ishment.
They can't.. it's called "Job Security" for the digital crimes unit.
Well.. a plumber doing a colonscopy is actually pretty close.. considering..
I eagerly await the answer...
Good to know and hear - I have not used it for years because it became useless pre-moderated, and my current ISP (who I've been with for 10+ years) doesn't carry newsgroups. Glad to know that it's at least in part working well.
Once mIRC was released to the masses, however, IRC mostly crashed and burned, in my opinion. You went from a smaller group of people who could discuss things intelligently (even non-geek topics) to a flood of CTC? ASL? and similar. I still keep in touch with a pile of friends from IRC of the old days.. but I doubt any still go to the channel itself anymore.
True, and Usenet could be handy. But basically it became a spam forest, and you'd have to wade thru 200 spam emails for one on the topic. Maybe if they would have developed filters for it, it could have gone on further.
Back in the pre-SMS days, http://www.trillian.im/ Trillian did this nicely. You would think there would be an app to combine all as well. Couldn't be that hard if it's been done once before.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/wd-40.asp
They reviewed the list with the company.. arithritis is not on the list as far as I can see.
I have to respectfully disagree. I've seen the DVDs and went to see a live show.. with a crowd of mixed races, etc. and everyone was on the floor laughing.
Oh, it's still happening. I was just told today that an iPad that couldn't connect to a WAP, that uses cablemodem must have also broken the phone line (not over cable, separate phone company). Was totally convinced. Nevermind we got a hellacious ice storm last night, with power lines down all over... nah.. that couldn't be it!
They have an established successful business run out of their home, that requires rural setting and outbuildings. It's been challenging to expand to their national base of customers with unreliable high speed. Some of the other neighbors in the area are in their 70s, and happily use the internet as much as it allows them, but moving isn't a possibilty, nor should it be. Also, not everybody chooses to live in a city. See the post by QuantumRiff for an excellent example of how the world works outside of your corner of it.
Won't improve the neighbor down the road who can't afford the high speed alternatives (dish or cellular) and is stuck on dialup, on old copper, that gets about 24K connections, on a good day. I get that it's going to improve the backbone - it'll probably help me, as I have great DSL service, but it's only going to filter down so far. Local telcos need to suck it up and do the upgrades.
My point being, why upgrade the long haul transport when we can't get everyone on? Build a bigger highway for the same amount of cars.
Now we just need more locations to actually *have* fiber, or some similar high speed bandwidth. My in-laws can only get celluar (unreliable), and satellite isn't worth it. They are just within range of DSL if the phone company would do the upgrade - and there are several customers on their street that would happily switch - apparently not enough for them to spend the dollars to do the upgrade.
Upgrades only are cool if everyone has the opportunity to use it.
Even when you've worked in IT, it's not always possible to work in IT. I spent many years doing desktop support, network administration, and related items. Worked for a company and had my job downsized - the famous "you've been awesome at the position and we really like you, but you don't have a job anymore" speech. Now, I'm nowhere near the IT field, and haven't been for over 5 years. Anytime a position opens, there is a plethora of resumes. Since I'm not fresh out of school, I'm not hire-able at the cheap wage that companies are willing to pay (their decision, not mine). At this point, I'm just grateful to be employed.
Because I don't wanna deal with the warez BS, and for right now, it does everything I need, and truly have greater priorities in life than computers (read: wife n kids). It's actually been in storage for.. almost a year now because we're re-wiring the house we bought :P
Heh.. my main PC still runs Win98SE. I can't afford a new PC, don't game as much as I used to, and it plays the games that I enjoy anyway. It's a P3/1GHz, 512MB RAM so I could easily run XP on it, but if it's stable, and does everything I need to.. and I keep my computer secure via other means (firewall, AV, etc) I figure why bother. I'll likely put SUSE or somesuch on it at some point when I get bored, I just don't have the $100 to spend on an OEM Windows XP license and CD, much less affording Vista.
I've not used WMP much for many years, simply because it's become a resource hog. When I listen to music on my PC, it's for something to listen to while I work. For that, I don't need a huge program taking up system taskbar space, or screen space. I have relied on winamp classic for years, just because of this. It's got all the functions, it plays the music I like, and I don't have to deal with WMPs crap.
You're not nice.. you made me nearly choke on my drink of water. :-) Thank you for that laugh!!!