Isn't Slashdot the home of 'just because it can be used for something bad doesn't make it wrong!' type arguments?:)
Ah yes, the famous "Don't hate the play--"...wait, that's the opposite. I can agree with you. If we don't want this thing watching us, perhaps we should speak up when governments put these policies into place. It is our government, after all. Don't let that get in the way of progress.
Our IT department is split into two/three areas depending on how you look at it. The main division is between the Clinical Applications staff and the Network/Desktop Services staff, with a further division in the latter section. IT itself falls along a line equal to all other areas and directly below Administration.
Sadly, you can't flag blatant copyright violations unless you own them. I tried to flag some car dealership using a movie clip with their dealership's name pasted over it in a crappy font for an advertisement that I'm pretty sure they did not license, but it screamed at me because I wasn't the copyright holder.
A lot of companies still need backward compatibility for their ancient ass applications, though. They still need to replace hardware and it's really difficult to run an old OS on modern hardware properly. I thought it was an accomplishment when I managed to jam NT 4.0 Workstation on Optiplex 755
In my dealings with bluetooth, a lot of vendors like to use Broadcom chips. These utilize Broadcom's own WIDCOMM stack, a finicky piece of crap that bothers you all the time about being undiscoverable and doesn't like to remember your settings. Sadly, people using these probably won't ever see the Windows 7 BT stack, as WIDCOMM pretty much says FU to it. Sad, as I've always enjoyed the Windows stack for its integration and simplicity. I know you can hack most Broadcom chips to use the Windows stack, but after dealing with the Dell 365/370 modules, which require a hardware reset after bootup before Windows sees them, I'm just totally put off by them.
Yeah, they were clamoring about those damned hippies. Their parents were complaining about those damned hipsters. The generation before that was going on about those damned flapper girls.
I did this at home on the kitchen PC that gets most of its use surfing the web. It's worked rather well so far, at least until the Ubuntu 9.10 update in which a kernel bug caused my wireless adapter to no longer connect to my hidden WPA2 network. I still think it's a great idea.
We recently went through this where I work, one of the suggested ideas for this was this very crazy cryptic scheme that I found was difficult to read and self referential -- not very good when you are dealing with a limited number of characters. We ended up settling on [City or special campus]-[Department]-[Asset number]. We are on a smaller scale, mind you, but we should be able to easily deal with up to 10,000 machines on our network and with some reworking, many more. My main point here is that simplicity works the best. Make sure you keep an inventory database of equpiment and you should have no trouble as long as you stick with the convention.
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Isn't Slashdot the home of 'just because it can be used for something bad doesn't make it wrong!' type arguments? :)
Ah yes, the famous "Don't hate the play--"...wait, that's the opposite. I can agree with you. If we don't want this thing watching us, perhaps we should speak up when governments put these policies into place. It is our government, after all. Don't let that get in the way of progress.
I like to think of it as being similar to juggling plates. You'll continuously be fought, ridiculed and ignored, winning some all along the way.
Step 6: profit?
Our IT department is split into two/three areas depending on how you look at it. The main division is between the Clinical Applications staff and the Network/Desktop Services staff, with a further division in the latter section. IT itself falls along a line equal to all other areas and directly below Administration.
I'll take a case of it! Anyone in a country that trades with North Korea willing to be my shipping proxy?
Sadly, you can't flag blatant copyright violations unless you own them. I tried to flag some car dealership using a movie clip with their dealership's name pasted over it in a crappy font for an advertisement that I'm pretty sure they did not license, but it screamed at me because I wasn't the copyright holder.
I'd imagine it's just XPe. A place I worked at had a few machines running this and they still managed to get conficker.
Haha, most epic review ever. http://www.amazon.com/review/R3HESUQA4KOLP5/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000IZGIA8&nodeID=172282
As nice as that is, it's far more expensive and convoluted than my Dell E Series dock that has a nice port on the bottom and a handy eject button.
I learned about it in high school, but I completely forgot about it. I had to look it up as well, sadly.
A lot of companies still need backward compatibility for their ancient ass applications, though. They still need to replace hardware and it's really difficult to run an old OS on modern hardware properly. I thought it was an accomplishment when I managed to jam NT 4.0 Workstation on Optiplex 755
In my dealings with bluetooth, a lot of vendors like to use Broadcom chips. These utilize Broadcom's own WIDCOMM stack, a finicky piece of crap that bothers you all the time about being undiscoverable and doesn't like to remember your settings. Sadly, people using these probably won't ever see the Windows 7 BT stack, as WIDCOMM pretty much says FU to it. Sad, as I've always enjoyed the Windows stack for its integration and simplicity. I know you can hack most Broadcom chips to use the Windows stack, but after dealing with the Dell 365/370 modules, which require a hardware reset after bootup before Windows sees them, I'm just totally put off by them.
Isn't that one of those things they make from trees?
Yeah, they were clamoring about those damned hippies. Their parents were complaining about those damned hipsters. The generation before that was going on about those damned flapper girls.
Yeah, I tend to make a regular deposit in the toilet once a morning. That's a pretty common thing.
$16.00! I can finally get that steak I've been craving!
I can remove Linux bloat.
...but my Windows is still ugly?
No, you want the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
I read that as "...were found to be orbiting 61 Virginians..."
You're so angry! I... I like... things.... I'm scared.
Give him the sack! He's being soft on piracy! ...wait... he's not an elected official, so it's okay. He can be soft on things. :D
If you're not guilty of something, you have nothing to hide. That always works out well. What next? Think of the children?
I did this at home on the kitchen PC that gets most of its use surfing the web. It's worked rather well so far, at least until the Ubuntu 9.10 update in which a kernel bug caused my wireless adapter to no longer connect to my hidden WPA2 network. I still think it's a great idea.
Err... deal with up to 99,999.
We recently went through this where I work, one of the suggested ideas for this was this very crazy cryptic scheme that I found was difficult to read and self referential -- not very good when you are dealing with a limited number of characters. We ended up settling on [City or special campus]-[Department]-[Asset number]. We are on a smaller scale, mind you, but we should be able to easily deal with up to 10,000 machines on our network and with some reworking, many more. My main point here is that simplicity works the best. Make sure you keep an inventory database of equpiment and you should have no trouble as long as you stick with the convention.