have you seen her clothing line? http://www.clearplastic.com/ she better be wearin' clean undies more ofthen than the once every 10 years when she hits the mall.
casinos do it (track cheaters), so do insurance companies (track fraudsters) so it will trickle down for sure, as the cost of implementing the systems matches the proportional level of the value of the abuse, it will get there.
if that increases the value of my stock portfolio (less retail 'shrink' = more profit), or shortens checkout lines or "check my receipt" idiots at the gates, fine with me.
don't like it, shop at home or at a flea market (also like those methods myself).
it's not fear of "them", it's actually a trait assigned to 'traditional' liberals (protection of life/liberty types) - check out Christopher Hitchens, and Victor David Hanson's "switches" as you'd call them - due to 9/11- when they're not a switch, rather, an expression of what they see as a crucial issue stance. (VDH is still a pro-agrarian professor and Hitchens as Social Liberal columnunist)
There's an expression, not 100% true in my mind, but it fits your model: "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged"; wait for it.... and on 9/11 our country was mugged. Based on your statement above, you may find this points to xenophobia, and fear as the drivers for their 'conversion'. I submit, the mugee may still be 'liberal' as before, but want more deterrants and punative measures (pole-mounted cameras, stricter sentencing, fewer paroles, harsher on repeat offenders, etc.)
Some would say that make them 'conservative' on crime. I disagree. Tougher on crime, yes.
Just because a point of view is shared by many from a political camp, doesn't make it the property of that camp, nor those who also hold that view, members of that camp.
Amen to him standing on this issue "immediately" after 9/11, you write it like it's a fault (like he was supposed to wait a few months and reflect before deciding: "yeah, we were attacked. we've been attacked as a country consistantly by islamo-fascism since the Iranian kidnappings -> Beirut -> flights -> kidnappings -> and the domestic and military and embassy attacks of the last 10 years)
periodic re-evaluation, yes. finger in the air to check opinion polls, no.
Maybe a thin client working environment can take over for corporate users, and it does have some benefits, but don't underestimate the inherent drawbacks.
Like? some of what you consider drawbacks may be pluses to the reader, such as homogeneous software footprint, less hardware (space and power) at the end-node, no DVD drive to break; but since you don't list them, we won't know.
And without an ever-present network, the thin client model does not work for everyone.
huh? a network is a prerequisite for any corporarate network, thin or fat client - this makes no sense (strawman anyone?) PLUS if you do have a network outage, and your user is on a client/server model using a fat-client, they may get data corruption on the backend (doc, sql, etc) with a thin- client, they reconnect after the power cord to the main switch get's plugged back in - and guess what? all their sessions are still alive - so i submit that a thin client model needs less 100% contiguous uptime (most clients will reconnect automatically up to 30 seconds, so if the user was looking away at the time, they won't even know it had a blip) PLUS most thin clients can have a Cisco or Orinioco like pcmcia card internally mounted, and be wireless post boot, so no LAN cables needed.
Mobile devices need to function in the absence of the network and are critical to many everyday uses.
what does that have to do with thin clients? (and with direct to exchange access / OMA you don't sync with your PC anyway but with your central exchange/notes server anyway) so a mobile device, now that you bring it up, is actually a nice pair to a thin client - both for 1/2 the cost of pc and 1/3 the cost of a laptop.
Until we have fast networking available everywhere, the thin client model will be limited to a small subset of the market.
now you're just being silly. Thin clients using ICA, VNC, RDP 5.x you only need 30 - 80k (*as in 0.030-0.080 of a mb/s) - the same as a VOIP conversation. Are you saying your 10/100 to the node and 1gb-10gb corporate backbone can't handle 80k to each desktop? give it a rest.
I manage 3 org's fat + thin networks and the servers that power them. and when i'm off campus, my EVDO connection gives me my Mobile 5.0 device (vx6700) a great RDP connection back to the servers, my Powerbook uses RDP for server management and user remote control.
I use thin clients in any classroom that needs a "teacher workstation" and they also have a 'real' pc for cd burning, digicamera syncing, DVD playing, etc. But the thin clients are 0 (zero) node maintenance and much easer softare admin'ing than the many pcs i support (and yes, i do use Group Policy and Altiris to manage those, not just running around touching all the fat clients) but thins still win for ease of managing - i update the Terminal Servers after hours, and voila, all done.
This [thin clients] could work, but it is an inefficient model.
based on my posting above, you can see how wrong you are - but to be specific, for anyone who has a common set of apps, with even 10 users, can come ahead using a dual proc box, 2-4 gig ram, dual 73g 15k drives, raid 1, dual power supplies (think Dell 2850 or HP GL385) and keep your data on your san/nas - this is your application server and will speed along with just winserver 2003, need app metering and real loadbalancing? (not with 10 users..) but still, look at Citrix 3rd party tools.
10 users on fat = $12,000 in hardware and hardware support contract
10 usres on thin = $9,000 (10 x 300 for thins w/ 3 yr hw warranty, and $6k for server, plus TS CALS - already $3k ahead...)
a dual proc box, with 4gb ram and fast disks can handle 20 users running IE, Office, SQL front-end app (accounting and grades), Acrobat Pro..
and all the zealots here will tell you, the largest part of TCO is maintenance - and again, above, the thin + TermServer will be lower there, too.
"... Maybe instead of spending $2 Trillion on Iraq (which is creating a terrorist breeding ground that wasn't there before), we should spend a few million to bring the main US domestic police force against terrorism into this century."
"THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials."
but maybe you only read the WashPost and NYT, so feel you have all the facts. Was it the center of Terrorism? No, there is no center. But to say "[iraq] wasn't a terrorist breeding ground" ignores facts. Beyond what's linked above, consider:
so, like it or not, saying there were no terror ties in Iraq before the 2003 invastion is now no longer a question of ignorance, just stupidity; or, if like some on the left, a blind rage in hating Bush that would drive you to ignore these facts.
Is it messy? Yes. Is it costly? Yes. But don't trumpet Gore/Kennedy/Kerry blindly and reinvent history just to have a handy cocktail party agrument to denounce the guy you didn't vote for.
to main poster: first, organize your thougths (your post was kinda rambly). Then, put it in terms they (mgmt) would understand:
quoted post'er: "I would agree that you need a tech to work with you; a ratio of 1:100 is ridiculous."
[i say this because i hit 210 nodes (13 servers, 35 laptops, 30 thin clients the rest desktop PCs, and when i broke 175 nodes I needed an intern to keep my sanity]
the original GP is now a highly trained/tuned sysadmin (vis a vis the company's current setup), and an intern (think $15/hr to start, budget $25/hr after a few years) at 20hr/week can do wonders. management understands the idea of not paying the lead engineer to tighten lug-nuts, so brining on an intern will 'save them' money.
Don't get me wrong, i dig Altiris (used to use ghost), we host our own mail (spamassassin on *nix, postini, then exchange) host multiple DBs on sql, remote access, i've done all i can to automate and streamline (all XP PCs -5 year cycle on Dell Optiplexes 3yr + 2yr extended warr + more ram in year 4) WSUS for updates when altiris is buggy, i keep all my hardware under warr (nbd for end-user gear, 4hr same day on data closet gear), automated scripts and GroupPolicy is used a lot... but there are only so many printer jams one can clear in a day and be able to support/manage the 'high-level' systems that do the automation (plus look ahead, eval software, architect things, etc)
i assume you do a budget... write-in $15k for 20hr/wk - $15/hr employee, it's the cost of 2-3 servers or 13 PCs... put it in or be ready to walk.
Don't worry about the title now... mgmt thinks title = "he'll want more money" - which may be the case - but get the help to keep your sanity... and with the new-found time, implement a helpdesk system, or other value-added projects and get some momentum behind your 'team building' excercise. then once you have a team, and the network and service is 'better' than it was before, get the title and the raise... b/c you'll be more valuable there.
but, at 100 nodes it's not so bad that you need 2 other FTEs. one half-timer will do.
"When I get around to buying a HD television (not any time soon, I do all my televisioning on my computer), it will be a true 1080i (are there 1080p televisions?) display so I'll know I'm getting the full potential of HD."
why do you think all of the 'source' material at the hi-end AV stores that's showing on 'real' 1080i displays are "nature" videos showing ducks flying/migrating gracefully over marshes? Nice and smooth, graceful... (blah)
B/C sports and action look better at 720p. I compared side by side before buying my 720p display device (which happened to be a projector...)
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i have my projector (Sanyo Z2) set to 720p (not auto) to see if my Comcast HD cablebox sent out 720, and it does.
I tried sending 1080i, and (after changing the projector to 'auto' input) letting the Projector 'downscale' it, and it looked 95% as good (had to look for stuff and still couldn't find differences on some source material)
Yet...
I tried setting the cable box at 480p and letting the projector upscale, and didn't look as hot (I'm 114" from a 96" screen) -you could see the source material pixels at times, or artifacts from them.
If i send my DVD signal at 480p and let the projector upscale to 720p, not bad. But my DVD has a built-in upscaler (momitsu) that is nice, and having it send things at 720 down the component cables (or dvi) is better.
So, i'd say that Comcast in VA on the Scietific Atlanta 3250HD box isn't doing this "1080 / 2 then upscaling" trick, b/c the "720p" picture on my HD cable looks a lot better than either method of me feeding 480p and upscaling (and the projector has a highly rated upscaling chip)
"He did tell me that he was able to tether his Powerbook and get online via his 9500's T-Mobile connection"
i've been doing this with an MS smartphone (Samsung i600) and a Mac Powerbook Al.15" 1.25ghz since Sept 2003 (10.2, now 10.3), onto Verizon using a standard plan.
no need for 10.4 check out pdaphonehome.com
just add a new modem, to a new location. get the modem to emulate from the forum, then dial the VZE number w/ std. username and pw.
you should read macosxhints - and the agony of several users who encrypted their disk when 10.3 came out (an option in it)
it was "buggy" per apple, and these folks lost all their data (when they turned off the buggy encryption, their data was still encrypted, but now the key didn't work)
so blanket statements are worthless, even this one. but in the case above, i'd have taken the XP encryption:)
it works, but just be sure to not loose the login password for the account that does this 'encryption' step.
if you log in as local/domain admin and [have to] forcibly change the dumb user's PW - you'll loose access to all this date (they key is tied to the user's un/pw)
remote assistance with XP - no driving. and if you have AV and spyware and firewall the system will never get so bad that you cannot get in and fix it.
you obviously don't know what you're talking about.
At least since corp 8.x (and for sure now on 9.x) you can have [the cetnral server or clients] check for updates every N minutes, and further have them check with symantec 'home base' a random number of minutes past a certain point (i use between 1 and 180 minutes past Thursday night)
you can even have the central server (if you use an av server to store def's locally) check "constantly" - and it warns you about the add'l bandwidth. that's even more frequently than the "N" minutes that my Kaspersky installs offer. (or your quoted software)
stop the FUD. if you install Corp AV without the MMC snap-in (and know how to manage it) you'll continue to be as ignorant as you are- have fun! But this is a user problem, not a software problem.
remember, The Islamists' chief spokesman in Iraq, Musab al-Zarqawi was very straightforward: "We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this wrong ideology," Zarqawi declared in a statement. "Democracy is also based on the right to choose your religion," he said, and that is "against the rule of God."
if he spoke for the "people" they wouldn't've shown up like they did.
now imagine how many more would've shown up if they weren't threatened with execution and hanging and torture of their family(ies).
read bernard goldberg's books, if you dont' think there is (left) bias in those other networks you're just as biased.
remember, corporate != conservative
"..All, more or less. Look at how all of those channels let the White House get away with things that had Clinton done it the Republicans would have howled about endlessly...." examples?
"The SAIC team offers a modular architecture that emphasizes the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products and maximizes the use of existing infrastructure, while supporting the insertion of emerging information technologies," said Dr. Dana Hall, SAIC group senior vice president. "Most importantly, our solution is designed to meet the day-to-day real world requirements of FBI agents."
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and they've become self aware:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=419+&ctab=0
so, even when it's a Deomocrat making the st00pid comments, it's Bush's fault?
Myopia - meet bias, have fun together!
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one acronym: RADIUS
have you seen her clothing line? http://www.clearplastic.com/ she better be wearin' clean undies more ofthen than the once every 10 years when she hits the mall.
casinos do it (track cheaters), so do insurance companies (track fraudsters) so it will trickle down for sure, as the cost of implementing the systems matches the proportional level of the value of the abuse, it will get there.
if that increases the value of my stock portfolio (less retail 'shrink' = more profit), or shortens checkout lines or "check my receipt" idiots at the gates, fine with me.
don't like it, shop at home or at a flea market (also like those methods myself).
web front-end to search the 2gb log file http://czern.homeip.net/aolsearch/
You're missing the impetus.
it's not fear of "them", it's actually a trait assigned to 'traditional' liberals (protection of life/liberty types) - check out Christopher Hitchens, and Victor David Hanson's "switches" as you'd call them - due to 9/11- when they're not a switch, rather, an expression of what they see as a crucial issue stance. (VDH is still a pro-agrarian professor and Hitchens as Social Liberal columnunist)
There's an expression, not 100% true in my mind, but it fits your model: "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged"; wait for it.... and on 9/11 our country was mugged. Based on your statement above, you may find this points to xenophobia, and fear as the drivers for their 'conversion'. I submit, the mugee may still be 'liberal' as before, but want more deterrants and punative measures (pole-mounted cameras, stricter sentencing, fewer paroles, harsher on repeat offenders, etc.)
Some would say that make them 'conservative' on crime. I disagree. Tougher on crime, yes.
Just because a point of view is shared by many from a political camp, doesn't make it the property of that camp, nor those who also hold that view, members of that camp.
Amen to him standing on this issue "immediately" after 9/11, you write it like it's a fault (like he was supposed to wait a few months and reflect before deciding: "yeah, we were attacked. we've been attacked as a country consistantly by islamo-fascism since the Iranian kidnappings -> Beirut -> flights -> kidnappings -> and the domestic and military and embassy attacks of the last 10 years)
periodic re-evaluation, yes. finger in the air to check opinion polls, no.
You're all over the place...
Maybe a thin client working environment can take over for corporate users, and it does have some benefits, but don't underestimate the inherent drawbacks.
Like? some of what you consider drawbacks may be pluses to the reader, such as homogeneous software footprint, less hardware (space and power) at the end-node, no DVD drive to break; but since you don't list them, we won't know.
And without an ever-present network, the thin client model does not work for everyone.
huh? a network is a prerequisite for any corporarate network, thin or fat client - this makes no sense (strawman anyone?) PLUS if you do have a network outage, and your user is on a client/server model using a fat-client, they may get data corruption on the backend (doc, sql, etc) with a thin- client, they reconnect after the power cord to the main switch get's plugged back in - and guess what? all their sessions are still alive - so i submit that a thin client model needs less 100% contiguous uptime (most clients will reconnect automatically up to 30 seconds, so if the user was looking away at the time, they won't even know it had a blip) PLUS most thin clients can have a Cisco or Orinioco like pcmcia card internally mounted, and be wireless post boot, so no LAN cables needed.
Mobile devices need to function in the absence of the network and are critical to many everyday uses.
what does that have to do with thin clients? (and with direct to exchange access / OMA you don't sync with your PC anyway but with your central exchange/notes server anyway) so a mobile device, now that you bring it up, is actually a nice pair to a thin client - both for 1/2 the cost of pc and 1/3 the cost of a laptop.
Until we have fast networking available everywhere, the thin client model will be limited to a small subset of the market.
now you're just being silly. Thin clients using ICA, VNC, RDP 5.x you only need 30 - 80k (*as in 0.030-0.080 of a mb/s) - the same as a VOIP conversation. Are you saying your 10/100 to the node and 1gb-10gb corporate backbone can't handle 80k to each desktop? give it a rest.
I manage 3 org's fat + thin networks and the servers that power them. and when i'm off campus, my EVDO connection gives me my Mobile 5.0 device (vx6700) a great RDP connection back to the servers, my Powerbook uses RDP for server management and user remote control.
I use thin clients in any classroom that needs a "teacher workstation" and they also have a 'real' pc for cd burning, digicamera syncing, DVD playing, etc. But the thin clients are 0 (zero) node maintenance and much easer softare admin'ing than the many pcs i support (and yes, i do use Group Policy and Altiris to manage those, not just running around touching all the fat clients) but thins still win for ease of managing - i update the Terminal Servers after hours, and voila, all done.
This [thin clients] could work, but it is an inefficient model.
based on my posting above, you can see how wrong you are - but to be specific, for anyone who has a common set of apps, with even 10 users, can come ahead using a dual proc box, 2-4 gig ram, dual 73g 15k drives, raid 1, dual power supplies (think Dell 2850 or HP GL385) and keep your data on your san/nas - this is your application server and will speed along with just winserver 2003, need app metering and real loadbalancing? (not with 10 users..) but still, look at Citrix 3rd party tools.
10 users on fat = $12,000 in hardware and hardware support contract
10 usres on thin = $9,000 (10 x 300 for thins w/ 3 yr hw warranty, and $6k for server, plus TS CALS - already $3k ahead...)
a dual proc box, with 4gb ram and fast disks can handle 20 users running IE, Office, SQL front-end app (accounting and grades), Acrobat Pro..
and all the zealots here will tell you, the largest part of TCO is maintenance - and again, above, the thin + TermServer will be lower there, too.
"... Maybe instead of spending $2 Trillion on Iraq (which is creating a terrorist breeding ground that wasn't there before), we should spend a few million to bring the main US domestic police force against terrorism into this century."
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you may want to read this: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Arti
the lead paragraph:
"THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials."
but maybe you only read the WashPost and NYT, so feel you have all the facts. Was it the center of Terrorism? No, there is no center. But to say "[iraq] wasn't a terrorist breeding ground" ignores facts. Beyond what's linked above, consider:
Sadam's payouts to Palestinian suicide bombers.
Or maybe you say: "TWS, that's a righT wing mag, it must be fake" [You should 'really' be asking: 'why didn't the networks pick this up?'] - even so, check this out: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gun
straight from a trainer at terrorist camps' mouth.
and if you like big pictures with your text, this one should make you happy: http://www.husseinandterror.com/
so, like it or not, saying there were no terror ties in Iraq before the 2003 invastion is now no longer a question of ignorance, just stupidity; or, if like some on the left, a blind rage in hating Bush that would drive you to ignore these facts.
Is it messy? Yes. Is it costly? Yes. But don't trumpet Gore/Kennedy/Kerry blindly and reinvent history just to have a handy cocktail party agrument to denounce the guy you didn't vote for.
someone please tall Lou Dobbs, so he shuts up already.
i'm sorry, but if the Onion, Homer, and PETA every got put in a blender that would be the product.
maybe it was the voice work, but i couldn't stop laughing.
to main poster: first, organize your thougths (your post was kinda rambly). Then, put it in terms they (mgmt) would understand:
quoted post'er: "I would agree that you need a tech to work with you; a ratio of 1:100 is ridiculous."
[i say this because i hit 210 nodes (13 servers, 35 laptops, 30 thin clients the rest desktop PCs, and when i broke 175 nodes I needed an intern to keep my sanity]
the original GP is now a highly trained/tuned sysadmin (vis a vis the company's current setup), and an intern (think $15/hr to start, budget $25/hr after a few years) at 20hr/week can do wonders. management understands the idea of not paying the lead engineer to tighten lug-nuts, so brining on an intern will 'save them' money.
Don't get me wrong, i dig Altiris (used to use ghost), we host our own mail (spamassassin on *nix, postini, then exchange) host multiple DBs on sql, remote access, i've done all i can to automate and streamline (all XP PCs -5 year cycle on Dell Optiplexes 3yr + 2yr extended warr + more ram in year 4) WSUS for updates when altiris is buggy, i keep all my hardware under warr (nbd for end-user gear, 4hr same day on data closet gear), automated scripts and GroupPolicy is used a lot... but there are only so many printer jams one can clear in a day and be able to support/manage the 'high-level' systems that do the automation (plus look ahead, eval software, architect things, etc)
i assume you do a budget... write-in $15k for 20hr/wk - $15/hr employee, it's the cost of 2-3 servers or 13 PCs... put it in or be ready to walk.
Don't worry about the title now... mgmt thinks title = "he'll want more money" - which may be the case - but get the help to keep your sanity... and with the new-found time, implement a helpdesk system, or other value-added projects and get some momentum behind your 'team building' excercise. then once you have a team, and the network and service is 'better' than it was before, get the title and the raise... b/c you'll be more valuable there.
but, at 100 nodes it's not so bad that you need 2 other FTEs. one half-timer will do.
i have the SLI lan-party uT4 board and my single 6600gt pci-E is just plain awesome. at $197 from new egg - it fits the bill
"When I get around to buying a HD television (not any time soon, I do all my televisioning on my computer), it will be a true 1080i (are there 1080p televisions?) display so I'll know I'm getting the full potential of HD."
why do you think all of the 'source' material at the hi-end AV stores that's showing on 'real' 1080i displays are "nature" videos showing ducks flying/migrating gracefully over marshes? Nice and smooth, graceful... (blah)
B/C sports and action look better at 720p. I compared side by side before buying my 720p display device (which happened to be a projector...)
i have my projector (Sanyo Z2) set to 720p (not auto) to see if my Comcast HD cablebox sent out 720, and it does.
I tried sending 1080i, and (after changing the projector to 'auto' input) letting the Projector 'downscale' it, and it looked 95% as good (had to look for stuff and still couldn't find differences on some source material)
Yet...
I tried setting the cable box at 480p and letting the projector upscale, and didn't look as hot (I'm 114" from a 96" screen) -you could see the source material pixels at times, or artifacts from them.
If i send my DVD signal at 480p and let the projector upscale to 720p, not bad. But my DVD has a built-in upscaler (momitsu) that is nice, and having it send things at 720 down the component cables (or dvi) is better.
So, i'd say that Comcast in VA on the Scietific Atlanta 3250HD box isn't doing this "1080 / 2 then upscaling" trick, b/c the "720p" picture on my HD cable looks a lot better than either method of me feeding 480p and upscaling (and the projector has a highly rated upscaling chip)
my projector is 1280x720 native: http://www.projectorcentral.com/Sanyo-PLV-Z2.htm
I have PS Elements 2.0, 3.0 and PS-CS all on 10.3.9 running fine.
10.4 on the way, will know more then. (CS has built-in automation, that's (one reason) why you pay more for it)
see above for the post on 'games of chance' (gambling) and 'games of skill'
RPG's by definition are games of chance b/c they use 'dice' but they're not (yet) recognized 'games of chance'
so it'll work, then someone will get sued, then there'll be case law. but for now, game on.
go pick up 'snow crash' a Neal Stephenson book, and enjoy.
"He did tell me that he was able to tether his Powerbook and get online via his 9500's T-Mobile connection"
i've been doing this with an MS smartphone (Samsung i600) and a Mac Powerbook Al.15" 1.25ghz since Sept 2003 (10.2, now 10.3), onto Verizon using a standard plan.
no need for 10.4 check out pdaphonehome.com
just add a new modem, to a new location. get the modem to emulate from the forum, then dial the VZE number w/ std. username and pw.
you should read macosxhints - and the agony of several users who encrypted their disk when 10.3 came out (an option in it)
:)
it was "buggy" per apple, and these folks lost all their data (when they turned off the buggy encryption, their data was still encrypted, but now the key didn't work)
so blanket statements are worthless, even this one. but in the case above, i'd have taken the XP encryption
it works, but just be sure to not loose the login password for the account that does this 'encryption' step.
if you log in as local/domain admin and [have to] forcibly change the dumb user's PW - you'll loose access to all this date (they key is tied to the user's un/pw)
remote assistance with XP - no driving. and if you have AV and spyware and firewall the system will never get so bad that you cannot get in and fix it.
ounce of prevention....
At least since corp 8.x (and for sure now on 9.x) you can have [the cetnral server or clients] check for updates every N minutes, and further have them check with symantec 'home base' a random number of minutes past a certain point (i use between 1 and 180 minutes past Thursday night)
you can even have the central server (if you use an av server to store def's locally) check "constantly" - and it warns you about the add'l bandwidth. that's even more frequently than the "N" minutes that my Kaspersky installs offer. (or your quoted software)
stop the FUD. if you install Corp AV without the MMC snap-in (and know how to manage it) you'll continue to be as ignorant as you are- have fun! But this is a user problem, not a software problem.
look at the 60% election turn out, it's obvious that the 'insurgents' do not represent the views of the majority.
So to call them "minutemen" (a la Michael Moore) is so obviously wrong it's sad.
so now, they are by definition: insurgents
remember, The Islamists' chief spokesman in Iraq, Musab al-Zarqawi was very straightforward: "We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this wrong ideology," Zarqawi declared in a statement. "Democracy is also based on the right to choose your religion," he said, and that is "against the rule of God."
if he spoke for the "people" they wouldn't've shown up like they did.
now imagine how many more would've shown up if they weren't threatened with execution and hanging and torture of their family(ies).
read bernard goldberg's books, if you dont' think there is (left) bias in those other networks you're just as biased.
remember, corporate != conservative
"..All, more or less. Look at how all of those channels let the White House get away with things that had Clinton done it the Republicans would have howled about endlessly. ..." examples?
I don't know why it didn't work. After all:
"The SAIC team offers a modular architecture that emphasizes the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products and maximizes the use of existing infrastructure, while supporting the insertion of emerging information technologies," said Dr. Dana Hall, SAIC group senior vice president. "Most importantly, our solution is designed to meet the day-to-day real world requirements of FBI agents."
from: http://www.saic.com/news/jun01/news06-12a-01.html
MSM sees it too: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/technology/circu its/06powe.html?oref=login&8dpc