It's not just Hardware you also have application software with limits, I support several at work that were purchased/developed in the last two year that require connection to a server running a background service.
The field for the server "REQUIRES" a x.x.x.x IP format (won't even except a host-name) and won't work any other way, some of this software is required by state law so it can't be replace with another product. (we have to wait for the lazy software devs at the company to change it)
I hate cheap-ass devs who still write software using their dusty copy of VisualBasic 4,5, or 6 and sell it to our users today for $50K.
I guess you missed the part where the govt. "illegally" bypassed the bankruptcy laws/courts and "Gave" the UAW their ownership of GM shares (who were very generous with political contributions of the politicians making the decisions) As well as themselves a 60% slice using "Our" money.
And regardless of their "former" CEO's pathetic attempt at a "we're fine" commercial, they did NOT pay back their bail-out money!
The Consumer lines are total Crap! (had a few personally before)
Buy from the Business lines (Inspiron for Laptops and Optiplex for Desktops), they are mostly fairly common/generic Intel parts on these and the drivers on their site (and Intel) work inter-changeably.
I love my various 755/760/780 desktops and D630 (don't really like the new layout of the our new e5400s), i use daily at work.
Hahahahahahaha "Amber Alerts", "Tornado Warnings", SPAM? don't make me LMAO too much.
"The Emergency Broadcast System that interrupts TV programming in times of crisis" HA!
CRISIS MY ASS the only time i ever saw these damn things was the fucking annoying tests running 2-3 times a day. (Conveniently run during the height of the plot of some show)
They didn't even run the damn thing on 09/11/2001, So what would constitute an "Emergency" for this so called govt. money (possibly millions$) sink-hole called "EBS" anyway?
I'm glad i switched from Cable to Satellite (DirectTV will have me as a customer just for the fact that they don't running these damn things)
If all it really takes is for the one with the most money to make the most campaign commercials to win, Then i have news for you...
The Money/Campaigning is NOT the problem, the Problem are the FUCKING IDIOTS who will vote for whoever has the flashiest commercial, hip slogans, and the most air time!
The Supreme Court got this right, Put the blame where it really belongs.
Exactly how was the President (part of the "Executive" branch) responsible for balancing the Budget (a responsibility of the "Legislative" branch)?
The President and govt. branches can ONLY spend money that "Congress" has authorized and approved, The President can not spend money that has not been authorized by an act of congress allocating the funds. (you seem to be blaming/crediting the wrong person(s) and branch of govt.)
And you are aware that there is a difference between the "National Debt" and the "Annual Budget"? That's disregarding the fact that our govt. is so screwed up that we have separate books to begin with. (something that would be illegal for any person/company to get away with if they did this)
It is out of date and old but some of our software vendors keep trying to peddle this crap along with 3rd party SSL Accelerator switches (i think they must get a cut or something) to offload SSL traffic for their product. I have persistently told them we don't need them on our brand new Dual Xeon 56xx Quad-Cores systems with 32GB RAM and 6x SAS HDD servers do not need SSL off-loading but they just won't stop with this 90s era SSL adds load nonsense and that these SSL boxes may help the speed of their poorly programmed POS (piece of Sh**) web app. running on linux servers (with 100 active users) that they have sold us.
Part of the problem with these certs. (i have an MCSE and took the classes) is that they teach you the MS way of doing things and that (like apple) everything just magically works, until you actually implement them in the "Real World" and find all the various tricks/hacks that you have to do to get it working. (luckily i had one of those instructors who was always telling us the parts that we need to know for the MS tests and what we "Really" needed to about xyz setup types like AD, Permissions, File Shares, various methods, etc... what worked and what didn't from various experiences and that every thing else we would learn over time and that would not getting a cert and put directly in charge at the top of any of this (seriously who thinks they can just get a cert for something new a be put in charge on day one for something they've never done before)
Every AD/File Share/GPO/Exchange setup is different there is no magic standard one-size fits all way of windows, And the only thing I've learned after 10 years is that books/tests don't actually teach you anything except how to pass the damn test which is basically just look at the MS website and note whatever marketting bullet points are listed and read everything you can about them.
When i took my test for 2000 Pro./Server/AD the sales pitch of the year was the all new RIS in Windows 2000 guess how many actually 2000 Pro./Server/AD questions i had to answer? "NONE AT ALL!", now guess how many were RIS? "EVERY DAMN ONE!" I've never actually used RIS in our environment once, never even installed the damn thing outside a test server once or twice to play with. (always used Ghost and Sysprep for our production deployment) Don't care if i ever use RIS or not.
Experience/Time and Actually setting the damn thing up and playing with it in a test environment are the only things that actually teach you anything. i.e. setup an AD server and some clients, make some groups and see how GPOs are applied and how they work, delete your DNS zone files, hose the AD registry, lockout all the domain admin account, delete some exchange folders blindly, etc... and then try to fix them.
Basically TEST everything, then do it again everything else is most likely something that isn't in the books and you just have to learn as you go.
It's probably best not to try and deploy it as a replacement, but as a supplement.
For a several years now we would install it and have users use it turn their.doc files into.pdf (instead of buying $150 Adobe Pro.) We have added it as part of our default image for the last 3 years (now Office 2007 Pro. % OO 3.x)
There are some features that we have used in OO for auto-document creation from a SQL Database (used it to pull fields from a system and autocreate 1000's of cards pre-printed with Names and other info to reduce the amount that had to be filled in later, Could not find anything like this in Word 2002/2003 (have not tried in 2007) and using Access forms just looked horrible and would never come out right but OO Writer did this from a blank document to a template to an exported.pdf ready to print in minutes.
It's there and every now and then it is able to actually fix MS documents that hang while loading, i.e. if a user created a file from a corrupted template that was originally in an OLD outdated network share years ago and the file still has it referenced somehow, now every time a file created from that template is opened (after the server the share was on died) it times out trying to open the old UNC location. we could find no way to fix this within office, but found that by opening it OO it would load immediately so they opened then re-saved them and now Office has no issue with them.
Ah, The hippie-commie argument about Linux/FOSS (even free stuff can "make" money.)
Just send these to the upper management types and tell them to open up thier WSJ paper and look in the finance section. (Linux "is" making money)
GOOG IBM RHT ORCL
They may not know as much about RedHat or Oracle, but you would have to be living in a cave for 20 Years not to know who Google is and they Damn sure know who IBM is. Hell as far as the hippie crowds go tell them to look at Apple (APPL) which is starting to surpass Microsoft. (Even Hippies are greedy capitalists.)
FOSS is actually a prime example of how Free-Market capitalism is "supposed" to work, Undercut the competition and create a better product for less. Seems that free can undercut the big boys and make money. (win-win)
I've never understood the need for DRM for huge pieces of Hardware, It's not like you can upload a 300lb printer to piratebay and run it through bit-torrent and the software is useless without the hardware.
I had to deal with a driver for a braille machine once. The damn license came on a proprietary formatted floppy (no file system that could be recognized by any OS) In order to move the hardware (or even use it on any machine) it had to run through the transfer wizard to copy the license to/from the floppy through a special program, The thing cost a few thousand $ a license. Are the blind really big software pirates or something?
Why do some extreme niche products where it is not likely to get pirate have some of the most complicated DRM there is?
I can see why there is some legitimate software pirating. (It saves headaches)
And then will be the Commercial saying that the guy who did the commercial about the guy who voted against it had twice the volume, then there will be the commercial about the guy had did the commercial about the guy who did the commercial also used twice the volume, then........./ LOOP DETECETED
Are Domain GPO is set to disable the Windows FW on the internal net, and set to Enable when it is not, And the options are Disabled to users who are not Administrators on the machine (People would be surprised how much users not being an Admin helps)
Internally it is practically impossible to have Desktop firewalls as they usually generate 10x the work in troubleshooting alone plus complex software issues,
Then there are the programs that tell you on page1 to disable A/V and FW programs I don't disable A/V ever (I don't care how many pretty pie graphs that plug-in will generate in your reports it's not happening), and if any tech support idiot tries to tell me this is why their crap won't work i fail the software eval.) Software firewalls are great, But unless you have the man-power and time (yeah right) desktop Firewalls are just not always practical in all environments. (and our A/V product has Anti-Spyware/Malware/Ad-Ware/IDS/Suspicious behavior built in)
Except the MAC version of BSOD has virtually no information (error codes/mem registers) to start troubleshooting just the "Your MAC had a boo-boo reboot it to make it all better"
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It's not just Hardware you also have application software with limits, I support several at work that were purchased/developed in the last two year that require connection to a server running a background service.
The field for the server "REQUIRES" a x.x.x.x IP format (won't even except a host-name) and won't work any other way, some of this software is required by state law so it can't be replace with another product. (we have to wait for the lazy software devs at the company to change it)
I hate cheap-ass devs who still write software using their dusty copy of VisualBasic 4,5, or 6 and sell it to our users today for $50K.
You mean like voting yourselves freebie entitlements with no money to pay for itand not voting the taxes to fund it?
It's called California and it's been near bankruptcy for years, It does NOT work.
Our country is a republic because tyranny of the majority has more problems.
BOUGHT?
I guess you missed the part where the govt. "illegally" bypassed the bankruptcy laws/courts and "Gave" the UAW their ownership of GM shares (who were very generous with political contributions of the politicians making the decisions) As well as themselves a 60% slice using "Our" money.
And regardless of their "former" CEO's pathetic attempt at a "we're fine" commercial, they did NOT pay back their bail-out money!
Because they are all using their corporation approved desktop's instead of working.
Users not posting on /. from work? You must be new here...
The Consumer lines are total Crap! (had a few personally before)
Buy from the Business lines (Inspiron for Laptops and Optiplex for Desktops), they are mostly fairly common/generic Intel parts on these and the drivers on their site (and Intel) work inter-changeably.
I love my various 755/760/780 desktops and D630 (don't really like the new layout of the our new e5400s), i use daily at work.
Fuck You Ray LaHood
Seriously a demise projection of Linux from one of it's most prominent haters that dream about it going away.
Who the Hell allowed this to be put on the front page or the RSS feed?
Hahahahahahaha "Amber Alerts", "Tornado Warnings", SPAM? don't make me LMAO too much.
"The Emergency Broadcast System that interrupts TV programming in times of crisis" HA!
CRISIS MY ASS the only time i ever saw these damn things was the fucking annoying tests running 2-3 times a day. (Conveniently run during the height of the plot of some show)
They didn't even run the damn thing on 09/11/2001, So what would constitute an "Emergency" for this so called govt. money (possibly millions$) sink-hole called "EBS" anyway?
I'm glad i switched from Cable to Satellite (DirectTV will have me as a customer just for the fact that they don't running these damn things)
If all it really takes is for the one with the most money to make the most campaign commercials to win, Then i have news for you...
The Money/Campaigning is NOT the problem, the Problem are the FUCKING IDIOTS who will vote for whoever has the flashiest commercial, hip slogans, and the most air time!
The Supreme Court got this right, Put the blame where it really belongs.
Exactly how was the President (part of the "Executive" branch) responsible for balancing the Budget (a responsibility of the "Legislative" branch)?
The President and govt. branches can ONLY spend money that "Congress" has authorized and approved, The President can not spend money that has not been authorized by an act of congress allocating the funds. (you seem to be blaming/crediting the wrong person(s) and branch of govt.)
And you are aware that there is a difference between the "National Debt" and the "Annual Budget"? That's disregarding the fact that our govt. is so screwed up that we have separate books to begin with. (something that would be illegal for any person/company to get away with if they did this)
It is out of date and old but some of our software vendors keep trying to peddle this crap along with 3rd party SSL Accelerator switches (i think they must get a cut or something) to offload SSL traffic for their product. I have persistently told them we don't need them on our brand new Dual Xeon 56xx Quad-Cores systems with 32GB RAM and 6x SAS HDD servers do not need SSL off-loading but they just won't stop with this 90s era SSL adds load nonsense and that these SSL boxes may help the speed of their poorly programmed POS (piece of Sh**) web app. running on linux servers (with 100 active users) that they have sold us.
Apple is taking up all the room.
Part of the problem with these certs. (i have an MCSE and took the classes) is that they teach you the MS way of doing things and that (like apple) everything just magically works, until you actually implement them in the "Real World" and find all the various tricks/hacks that you have to do to get it working. (luckily i had one of those instructors who was always telling us the parts that we need to know for the MS tests and what we "Really" needed to about xyz setup types like AD, Permissions, File Shares, various methods, etc... what worked and what didn't from various experiences and that every thing else we would learn over time and that would not getting a cert and put directly in charge at the top of any of this (seriously who thinks they can just get a cert for something new a be put in charge on day one for something they've never done before)
Every AD/File Share/GPO/Exchange setup is different there is no magic standard one-size fits all way of windows, And the only thing I've learned after 10 years is that books/tests don't actually teach you anything except how to pass the damn test which is basically just look at the MS website and note whatever marketting bullet points are listed and read everything you can about them.
When i took my test for 2000 Pro./Server/AD the sales pitch of the year was the all new RIS in Windows 2000 guess how many actually 2000 Pro./Server/AD questions i had to answer? "NONE AT ALL!", now guess how many were RIS? "EVERY DAMN ONE!" I've never actually used RIS in our environment once, never even installed the damn thing outside a test server once or twice to play with. (always used Ghost and Sysprep for our production deployment) Don't care if i ever use RIS or not.
Experience/Time and Actually setting the damn thing up and playing with it in a test environment are the only things that actually teach you anything. i.e. setup an AD server and some clients, make some groups and see how GPOs are applied and how they work, delete your DNS zone files, hose the AD registry, lockout all the domain admin account, delete some exchange folders blindly, etc... and then try to fix them.
Basically TEST everything, then do it again everything else is most likely something that isn't in the books and you just have to learn as you go.
It's probably best not to try and deploy it as a replacement, but as a supplement.
For a several years now we would install it and have users use it turn their .doc files into .pdf (instead of buying $150 Adobe Pro.) We have added it as part of our default image for the last 3 years (now Office 2007 Pro. % OO 3.x)
There are some features that we have used in OO for auto-document creation from a SQL Database (used it to pull fields from a system and autocreate 1000's of cards pre-printed with Names and other info to reduce the amount that had to be filled in later, Could not find anything like this in Word 2002/2003 (have not tried in 2007) and using Access forms just looked horrible and would never come out right but OO Writer did this from a blank document to a template to an exported .pdf ready to print in minutes.
It's there and every now and then it is able to actually fix MS documents that hang while loading, i.e. if a user created a file from a corrupted template that was originally in an OLD outdated network share years ago and the file still has it referenced somehow, now every time a file created from that template is opened (after the server the share was on died) it times out trying to open the old UNC location. we could find no way to fix this within office, but found that by opening it OO it would load immediately so they opened then re-saved them and now Office has no issue with them.
Ah, The hippie-commie argument about Linux/FOSS (even free stuff can "make" money.)
Just send these to the upper management types and tell them to open up thier WSJ paper and look in the finance section. (Linux "is" making money)
GOOG
IBM
RHT
ORCL
They may not know as much about RedHat or Oracle, but you would have to be living in a cave for 20 Years not to know who Google is and they Damn sure know who IBM is. Hell as far as the hippie crowds go tell them to look at Apple (APPL) which is starting to surpass Microsoft. (Even Hippies are greedy capitalists.)
FOSS is actually a prime example of how Free-Market capitalism is "supposed" to work, Undercut the competition and create a better product for less. Seems that free can undercut the big boys and make money. (win-win)
But there are already a billion entries for flashlight in the apple store.
I've never understood the need for DRM for huge pieces of Hardware, It's not like you can upload a 300lb printer to piratebay and run it through bit-torrent and the software is useless without the hardware.
I had to deal with a driver for a braille machine once. The damn license came on a proprietary formatted floppy (no file system that could be recognized by any OS) In order to move the hardware (or even use it on any machine) it had to run through the transfer wizard to copy the license to/from the floppy through a special program, The thing cost a few thousand $ a license. Are the blind really big software pirates or something?
Why do some extreme niche products where it is not likely to get pirate have some of the most complicated DRM there is?
I can see why there is some legitimate software pirating. (It saves headaches)
And then will be the Commercial saying that the guy who did the commercial about the guy who voted against it had twice the volume, then there will be the commercial about the guy had did the commercial about the guy who did the commercial also used twice the volume, then ........./ LOOP DETECETED
In other news a wave of unprecedented Productivity swept through the world... Oh wait, only Facebook is down.
It's Call an "Intranet" (F*^&ing Govt. Idiots)
In other words, it would have removed a union backed job and that just couldn't happen.
If your job requires a big powerful union to protect it from automation, the position is not needed.
Are Domain GPO is set to disable the Windows FW on the internal net, and set to Enable when it is not, And the options are Disabled to users who are not Administrators on the machine (People would be surprised how much users not being an Admin helps)
Internally it is practically impossible to have Desktop firewalls as they usually generate 10x the work in troubleshooting alone plus complex software issues,
Then there are the programs that tell you on page1 to disable A/V and FW programs I don't disable A/V ever (I don't care how many pretty pie graphs that plug-in will generate in your reports it's not happening), and if any tech support idiot tries to tell me this is why their crap won't work i fail the software eval.) Software firewalls are great, But unless you have the man-power and time (yeah right) desktop Firewalls are just not always practical in all environments. (and our A/V product has Anti-Spyware/Malware/Ad-Ware/IDS/Suspicious behavior built in)
KILL HIM NOW! And send a message to any other A$$HOLE That might think along the same lines.
Marketers, Advertisers, and Spammers (Phone/E-Mail/Mail) must learn we Don't want or tolerate their crap!
Seriously why would he create this (other than to annoy people)
-- If you think the above is serious intent you do not belong on the internet and won't last long
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is U.S. law, I doubt this would apply in Australia (last i check they are not one of our 50 states)
Except the MAC version of BSOD has virtually no information (error codes/mem registers) to start troubleshooting just the "Your MAC had a boo-boo reboot it to make it all better"