Make a list of all the software you actually DO need, and propose a budget for the next year. Take it to the owner/CFO. They'll love you for it, and it gives you the ability explain why these things need to be licensed and what the real IT costs are going to be moving forward.
Every one of the 4 different Palm OS smartphones I've owned had cut/paste. And not just between Palm apps either, I could cut/paste between the phone dialer interface as well.
No kidding, the US nuke subs dock in San Diego harbor and you can see the damn things from every building in downtown. Not to mention there's a national park (old lighthouse) on the cliffs directly above them.
If you want the things to be a secret from the skies, COVER THEM UP.
Actually, I posed this question to someone IN the industry who does editing and disc authoring work (for one of the biggest producers) before the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray war was decided. He said the general consensus in the industry this time was to wait and see which format would win out. There wasn't a rush to go to one format or the other. There's far more players involved than there was during the classic VHS/Beta example, which skews the simple mantra of "porn drives technology selection". Just like the mainstream movie producers were afraid of taking the gamble.
And the New York Times intentionally leaves genres off its best-seller list, otherwise LOTR, the Bible, and various sci-fi novels would routinely top the list.
Hell, they created a children's best-seller list specifically because of Harry Potter.
Firefox already has a drag-n-drop installer for OSX, so they are already doing it the OSX way. And they do it the Linux way by making it available in the package libraries. The *.exe installer is already a Windows-only way, so just take the plunge and do it as an.msi already.
So you can have cheap dedicated hardware that isn't some power-hungry monster.
Mac mini starts at $600. 1U servers from Dell/HP/Apple start around $1800. Sure you could have the same specs as the mini in a $300 generic box (or even build it yourself) but you won't have something that damn small and draws so little power. And you certainly wouldn't have something OSX Server could be run on.
The problem is that even if you did that, certain programs would still launch IE (Autodesk's feedback utitlity for software crashes for example) instead of the default system browseer.
IE != Gecko. Gecko is used to render help files and other system-wide things that need an HTML rendering engine (same think as WebKit on OSX), but that does not mean that the IE application needs to be present to do so.
You can. Call up a hosting company with datacenters and ask. But obviously the person asking the question IS NOT the nonprofit, but rather the "expert" that they hired to figure this out. He IS their "maintenance guy" and he IS asking how to install the new capacitor (or better analogy, asking which HVAC system he should build and install)
Get some real numbers. If it's like the non-profit I worked with, it's around a thousand visitors a month. They were confusing hits with visitors. They also requested forums several times, but every time I got it up and running for them, they wanted it turned off because they were scared of them being empty, and not inclined to post/admin in the forums themselves.
Best approach is to start small and grow it as you need. Get the basic site up first, then add the forums, then the archive - see what they really do and don't need.
Because MS doesn't get the $60, the OEM does. MS is saying the small fraction of that $60 they see isn't even enough to cover the admin costs of licensing.
I agree... I'm so tired of the "old people don't know what's going on...." canard. My grandmother has asked me about it and knew it was coming, and she doesn't even OWN a TV.
I disagree. His "I just answered that" response was referring the interviewer/reader to the previous question, to which his answer was basically "Read my blog".
The blog link is a post to a mostly-empty, non-informative wiki. If you aren't going to answer the questions, don't take the interview. This was just a cop-out of "I'm to lazy to explain things to you, figure it out yourself" which is a horrible stance to take when you're trying to launch a new venture and gain interest.
If a blackhat already has access to something like a university's mail system (say through someone's weak password), and sends a message to these known-bad addresses (aka, honyepot) through the university's mail system, then he's successfully blacklisted the university's mail servers.
My iPhone and Jawbone both charge off USB (in fact, you only get a USB cable with a wall adapter with both). Considering how easy mini USB steps up to regular USB, I'd say that things are nicely progressing without the need of this "Green" company. I would argue that most manufacturers that'd be willing to switch to USB chargers would most likely have the know-how to do it without going to a proprietary-standard-provider.
And the only difference between those two main SKUS?
Whether you can bind to Active Directory or not.
Thats it. The hooks and APIs are even in Home for Active Directory, just disabled through registry keys and other such nonsense. So why not just roll it into one distro and be done with it?
You're getting funny mods, but you're more on target than you think. All the jailbreaking stuff for the iPhone is open-source, as are the package mangers you can install after jailbreaking, and most of the apps available through those package managers. It's a pretty big collection of stuff.
Bullshit. If I'm paying $40,000 a year to get an education, I expect that the university do all in it's power to facilitate the education.
Note that they're reducing failures by 50%, not because of aptitude or student ability, but purely by changing the delivery format. Hands-on small classrooms with a low student to professor ratio has been proved time and time again to be a good thing. This is true at all levels of education, from grade school through PhD programs.
In a big class, if you don't understand something, and aren't given the opportunity to discuss it with the professor for clarification, you're far more likely to lose interest and motivation. There's a reason why every university when recruting high school students tries to brag about low student to teacher ratios.
Bullshit, even big-box retail like Best Buy caries coupon-approved boxes, and I'm sure RadioShack and whatever mom 'n pop stores that are left are cashing in as well.
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Make a list of all the software you actually DO need, and propose a budget for the next year. Take it to the owner/CFO. They'll love you for it, and it gives you the ability explain why these things need to be licensed and what the real IT costs are going to be moving forward.
Every one of the 4 different Palm OS smartphones I've owned had cut/paste. And not just between Palm apps either, I could cut/paste between the phone dialer interface as well.
Besides the universally lamented cut&paste, I'd love to have rules/filters in email so I can autosort incoming messages (particularily spam).
I'd also love the ability to have multiple email signatures, instead of one global email signature for all accounts.
No kidding, the US nuke subs dock in San Diego harbor and you can see the damn things from every building in downtown. Not to mention there's a national park (old lighthouse) on the cliffs directly above them.
If you want the things to be a secret from the skies, COVER THEM UP.
Actually, I posed this question to someone IN the industry who does editing and disc authoring work (for one of the biggest producers) before the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray war was decided. He said the general consensus in the industry this time was to wait and see which format would win out. There wasn't a rush to go to one format or the other. There's far more players involved than there was during the classic VHS/Beta example, which skews the simple mantra of "porn drives technology selection". Just like the mainstream movie producers were afraid of taking the gamble.
And the New York Times intentionally leaves genres off its best-seller list, otherwise LOTR, the Bible, and various sci-fi novels would routinely top the list.
Hell, they created a children's best-seller list specifically because of Harry Potter.
Firefox already has a drag-n-drop installer for OSX, so they are already doing it the OSX way. And they do it the Linux way by making it available in the package libraries. The *.exe installer is already a Windows-only way, so just take the plunge and do it as an .msi already.
So you can have cheap dedicated hardware that isn't some power-hungry monster.
Mac mini starts at $600. 1U servers from Dell/HP/Apple start around $1800. Sure you could have the same specs as the mini in a $300 generic box (or even build it yourself) but you won't have something that damn small and draws so little power. And you certainly wouldn't have something OSX Server could be run on.
Errr... Trident that is. Gecko is Mozilla's rendering engine. Too many hours staring at CSS today....
The problem is that even if you did that, certain programs would still launch IE (Autodesk's feedback utitlity for software crashes for example) instead of the default system browseer.
IE != Gecko. Gecko is used to render help files and other system-wide things that need an HTML rendering engine (same think as WebKit on OSX), but that does not mean that the IE application needs to be present to do so.
You can. Call up a hosting company with datacenters and ask. But obviously the person asking the question IS NOT the nonprofit, but rather the "expert" that they hired to figure this out. He IS their "maintenance guy" and he IS asking how to install the new capacitor (or better analogy, asking which HVAC system he should build and install)
Get some real numbers. If it's like the non-profit I worked with, it's around a thousand visitors a month. They were confusing hits with visitors. They also requested forums several times, but every time I got it up and running for them, they wanted it turned off because they were scared of them being empty, and not inclined to post/admin in the forums themselves.
Best approach is to start small and grow it as you need. Get the basic site up first, then add the forums, then the archive - see what they really do and don't need.
Because Adobe's patch wont be to just disable JS, so in other words, it won't be simply a registry hack to fix.
They'll have to figure out how to close the security hole WITHOUT disabling javascript functionality. That tends to take a bit more work.
Because MS doesn't get the $60, the OEM does. MS is saying the small fraction of that $60 they see isn't even enough to cover the admin costs of licensing.
I agree... I'm so tired of the "old people don't know what's going on...." canard. My grandmother has asked me about it and knew it was coming, and she doesn't even OWN a TV.
It's still better for the cat than putting it down...
I disagree. His "I just answered that" response was referring the interviewer/reader to the previous question, to which his answer was basically "Read my blog".
The blog link is a post to a mostly-empty, non-informative wiki. If you aren't going to answer the questions, don't take the interview. This was just a cop-out of "I'm to lazy to explain things to you, figure it out yourself" which is a horrible stance to take when you're trying to launch a new venture and gain interest.
And you missed the parent...
If a blackhat already has access to something like a university's mail system (say through someone's weak password), and sends a message to these known-bad addresses (aka, honyepot) through the university's mail system, then he's successfully blacklisted the university's mail servers.
I can. I've successfully charged my iPhone using the USB wallwart from the Jawbone, and visa versa
My iPhone and Jawbone both charge off USB (in fact, you only get a USB cable with a wall adapter with both). Considering how easy mini USB steps up to regular USB, I'd say that things are nicely progressing without the need of this "Green" company. I would argue that most manufacturers that'd be willing to switch to USB chargers would most likely have the know-how to do it without going to a proprietary-standard-provider.
And the only difference between those two main SKUS?
Whether you can bind to Active Directory or not.
Thats it. The hooks and APIs are even in Home for Active Directory, just disabled through registry keys and other such nonsense. So why not just roll it into one distro and be done with it?
Try putting them on KVM switches and then see how much of a pain they can be in Windows
You're getting funny mods, but you're more on target than you think. All the jailbreaking stuff for the iPhone is open-source, as are the package mangers you can install after jailbreaking, and most of the apps available through those package managers. It's a pretty big collection of stuff.
Bullshit. If I'm paying $40,000 a year to get an education, I expect that the university do all in it's power to facilitate the education.
Note that they're reducing failures by 50%, not because of aptitude or student ability, but purely by changing the delivery format. Hands-on small classrooms with a low student to professor ratio has been proved time and time again to be a good thing. This is true at all levels of education, from grade school through PhD programs.
In a big class, if you don't understand something, and aren't given the opportunity to discuss it with the professor for clarification, you're far more likely to lose interest and motivation. There's a reason why every university when recruting high school students tries to brag about low student to teacher ratios.
Bullshit, even big-box retail like Best Buy caries coupon-approved boxes, and I'm sure RadioShack and whatever mom 'n pop stores that are left are cashing in as well.