The truth is, it won't do any good. If employees have a good working relationship with each other, the ones who leave will try to entice the ones who stay behind. I've gotten 3 jobs that way in the last 10 years.
I imagine that, if you are external to the Exchange Server, your only access to it would be through OWA. I don't know any organisations that have their Exchanger Servers on public IPs.
1.) The company is BP
2.) I don't give a damn about what a fine design it is. What I'm telling
you is that a number of problems the helpdesk see on a regular basis
regarding locked or undeletable files, security certificates that
can't be updated or general, incremental slowness, among other rarer
problems have been solved or alleviated by running scandisk on boot
and sometimes by defragging afterwards.
For most of these types of problems that are not related to IE,
defragging alone isn't much help.
3.) Your financial argument doesn't hold water - the FAT/VFAT/FAT32 filesystems
4.) Direct lines to M$ isn't enough although it is a big help for things that
are CLEARLY related to their software, such as Active Directory and Exchange
which is very heavily used here. Since the company used several thousand applications
on Windows, it can be very difficult to find exactly where the problem lies but
my take is that, if the fixing the filesystem, fixes the problem, then it's a problem
with the filesystem.
had huge problems and limitations compared to NTFS and were used for a long time by up, until
2002 by many more people and M$ still managed to make billions.
Come sit in my chair for a few weeks. I have the unmitigated joy of supporting one of the 10 largest companies in the world with nearly 100,000 Windows XP SP2 desktops. Let me assure you that NTFS is far from flawless - I've fixed a number of strange, seemingly illogical errors or problems by doing bootup disk scans which also have the effect of, in almost all cases, speeding up the system. I've done some reading on NTFS and plan on doing more but my REAL WORLD experience with it shows that it ain't all that, yet no matter what M$ claims.
Is it still true that fiber costs more than copper? Considering that copper's price
has long been at the point where thieves have been stealing copper plating off church
roofs, that is a shocking statement of the relative cost of fiber-optics.
Don't we need ethanol/methanol to produce biodiesel? At least for the transesterification process.
Biobutanol is not very different from gasoline. Perhaps that's why Vinod Khosla is much more enthusiastic
about butanol than my preferred choice, biodiese.
I suggest you take your own advice. The fact is that it's that way but it can be changed, if you really want it to. Even M$, for all their present clout was once an insignificant player and they worked to change that.
"Government has no place in business, you always end up with cronyism, corruption and an entrenched pile of criminals pillaging the rest of the country."
Perhaps you should spend some time looking at the history of corporations.
They have not needed the influence of government in order to indulge in unethical
or criminal practices.
My Toshiba Satellite Pro was the ONLY laptop I've ever owned that couldn't boot a 2.88 MB boot image
bootable CD. Haven't used Toshiba since then but I hope that's one issue they've fixed.
After all these years, the same software bugs seem to continually crop up. I guess that no currently available
platform is safe but can't we do better? It has been 2 decades of worrying about viruses, worms,trojans, format
string errors, buffer overflows, etc.
Microsoft was a latecomer to the "make software secure" game but it has been about 5 years now and the song
remains the same. So, my question is, who's doing it right and how ?
Wow, you must be the poster child for the effects of Microsoft marketing spin. It's sad that this is what we've come to. VMware is not the only product that does what it does but it does it very well. And, it's their main product, their bread-and-butter. That's not the case with Virtual Server so there is no guarantee that Microsoft will continue to support it - and, with the release of Vista on the horizon, they have a lot bigger fish to fry in the short term.
As to whether, or not, Virtual Server will overtake it, who can say? It will probably take a few years and VMware won't stand still
Water flows downhill, and men do what is easy ( or easier ). Petrochemicals are incredibly useful compounds - far too useful to use to keep burning them up to the tune of hundreds of billions of gallons per year. Also, let's not forget that burning oil is one of the major contributors to atmospheric pollution.
You speak of humanity needing time but neglect to mention how much time we've simply wasted. If measures towards greater fuel efficiency had been taken as little as one decade ago, imagine just how much brighter even the gloomiest outlook would be. And, if we'd never lost the impetus from the Oil Crisis of 1973, we'd all be sitting pretty right about now. I certainly don't want to live in a collapsed civilization - We didn't own a television or phone till I was 10 years old and lived for nearly 2 years without electricity and I certainly don't want to repeat that experience. And, I can tell you that most people are disgustingly extragavant with their resources and less than 1 in 5, in my experience are capable of change without some sort of catastrophe ( be it financial or physical ).
I think the biggest problem is that we readily confuse needs with wants and what we want comes with a cost far greater than the price tag.
I regret to inform you that you have fed a Troll. If you click on the link at the end of his message, you'll find a nearly identical post, except that instead of KDE vs shell, his rant is Mac vs NT 4.
Well, I'd heard good things about an image editing package called Photogenics but that was several years ago. I believe that it was originally written by a single developer on the Amiga and also ported by him to Windows and Linux.
Personally, I have no problem with a smart guy making money. But I do also believe in giving back.
From the article:
Although he was not formally trained in computer or software design, he perfected his craft by learning from programmers on an Internet mailing list focusing on the Linux operating system for the Alpha chip. His curiosity quickly became a passion that he pursued in his free time and during his twice daily two-hour train commute between his job in Tokyo and his home in Kanagawa Prefecture
So, while it's clear that his talent is God-given and his hard work is to his own credit, he cut his teeth on open source - and that was a LONG time ago. So, I would think that a little reciprocity is overdue.
You can't be sure that you're reading Stranger in a Strange Land, as you haven't completed it yet. All you can be certain of is that you've read half of a book that appears to be Stranger in a Strange Land. Of course, when you're done, you will have completed a book that CLAIMS to be a copy of Stranger in a Strange Land. And, you may want to turn back to the earlier pages every so often to make sure that the pages you've already read haven't changed.
I've done very little recompiling on Linux over the years - never had to yet for GNOME or KDE although upgrading them did take some extra work on several occasions because some of the necessary components weren't automatically upgraded as well ( I believe this was on Mandrake - a rare failure of their rpmdrake utility).
Also, I don't think that Hotmail has any non-M$ servers in production; I'm pretty sure they finally got rid of all those when W2K3 Server went live.
Well, that "modularity" that Microsoft denigrated about Linux means that you can rip out just about anything you don't need. Just because an access point is running Linux doesn't mean it has all the features and possible weaknesses that one might find on a desktop or server.
I was regular donor to the Canadian Red Cross, now called Canadian Blood Services, I think. But, I got fed up with answering all those questions about where I might have gone ( haven't left Canada in 15 years), have I had sex with a man since '78 ( 1. I'm straight, 2. Sex with men isn't the only way to get AIDS 3. I was 9 in '78. 4.) Where are you hiding the lie-detector).
I give up trying to understand why they were wasting a trained nurse's time asking me questions that I might lie to, they couldn't verify and didn't matter since, no matter what, they'd test the blood anyway. Also, I noticed that there was an easy way for someone to look at the sticker I'd attached to the silly questionnaire to determine which option I'd chosen: Use my blood or discard. I brought this up with a supervisor but didn't get anywhere. Finally, I gave up and stopped giving.
I would very much like to know what hardware on your laptop isn't supported by Linux. I've used multiple releases of at least 8 Linux distros over the last 6 years and I've rarely found hardware that I couldn't get working - although there were several that needed software compiled or a wrapper of Windows drivers.
Nevertheless, the United States is a signatory of the UN's convention against Torture for ANY reason - a fact they conveniently forgot when they deported Maher Arar, who has dual Canadian/Syrian citizenship, from the US to Syria.
From what I understand, there is an ongoing attempt to broaden the definition of terrorist - which would place a greater number of people beyond the reach of international conventions.
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The truth is, it won't do any good. If employees have a good working relationship
with each other, the ones who leave will try to entice the ones who stay behind.
I've gotten 3 jobs that way in the last 10 years.
I imagine that, if you are external to the Exchange Server, your only access
to it would be through OWA. I don't know any organisations that have their
Exchanger Servers on public IPs.
1.) The company is BP
2.) I don't give a damn about what a fine design it is. What I'm telling
you is that a number of problems the helpdesk see on a regular basis
regarding locked or undeletable files, security certificates that
can't be updated or general, incremental slowness, among other rarer
problems have been solved or alleviated by running scandisk on boot
and sometimes by defragging afterwards.
For most of these types of problems that are not related to IE,
defragging alone isn't much help.
3.) Your financial argument doesn't hold water - the FAT/VFAT/FAT32 filesystems
4.) Direct lines to M$ isn't enough although it is a big help for things that
are CLEARLY related to their software, such as Active Directory and Exchange
which is very heavily used here. Since the company used several thousand applications
on Windows, it can be very difficult to find exactly where the problem lies but
my take is that, if the fixing the filesystem, fixes the problem, then it's a problem
with the filesystem.
had huge problems and limitations compared to NTFS and were used for a long time by up, until
2002 by many more people and M$ still managed to make billions.
Come sit in my chair for a few weeks. I have the unmitigated joy of supporting one
of the 10 largest companies in the world with nearly 100,000 Windows XP SP2 desktops.
Let me assure you that NTFS is far from flawless - I've fixed a number of strange,
seemingly illogical errors or problems by doing bootup disk scans which also
have the effect of, in almost all cases, speeding up the system.
I've done some reading on NTFS and plan on doing more but my REAL WORLD experience with
it shows that it ain't all that, yet no matter what M$ claims.
Is it still true that fiber costs more than copper? Considering that copper's price
has long been at the point where thieves have been stealing copper plating off church
roofs, that is a shocking statement of the relative cost of fiber-optics.
Don't we need ethanol/methanol to produce biodiesel? At least for the transesterification process.
Biobutanol is not very different from gasoline. Perhaps that's why Vinod Khosla is much more enthusiastic
about butanol than my preferred choice, biodiese.
I suggest you take your own advice.
The fact is that it's that way but it can be changed, if
you really want it to. Even M$, for all their present clout
was once an insignificant player and they worked to change that.
"Government has no place in business, you always end up with cronyism, corruption and an entrenched pile of criminals pillaging the rest of the country."
Perhaps you should spend some time looking at the history of corporations.
They have not needed the influence of government in order to indulge in unethical
or criminal practices.
My Toshiba Satellite Pro was the ONLY laptop I've ever owned that couldn't boot a 2.88 MB boot image
bootable CD. Haven't used Toshiba since then but I hope that's one issue they've fixed.
You, sir, are clearly incapable of appreciating the YAMI (Yet Another Micro$oft Innovation) paradigm.
After all these years, the same software bugs seem to continually crop up. I guess that no currently available platform is safe but can't we do better? It has been 2 decades of worrying about viruses, worms,trojans, format string errors, buffer overflows, etc. Microsoft was a latecomer to the "make software secure" game but it has been about 5 years now and the song remains the same. So, my question is, who's doing it right and how ?
Wow, you must be the poster child for the effects of Microsoft marketing spin. It's sad that this is what we've come to. VMware is not the only product that does what it does but it does it very well.
And, it's their main product, their bread-and-butter.
That's not the case with Virtual Server so there is no guarantee that Microsoft will continue to support it - and, with the release of Vista on the horizon, they have a lot bigger fish to fry in the short term.
As to whether, or not, Virtual Server will overtake it, who can say? It will probably take a few years and VMware won't stand still
I guess from your point of view ME was a dream come true - it broke frequently but
wasn't hard to fix. Talk about job security.
Water flows downhill, and men do what is easy ( or easier ). Petrochemicals are incredibly useful compounds - far too useful to use to keep burning them up to the tune of hundreds of billions of gallons per year.
Also, let's not forget that burning oil is one of the major contributors to atmospheric pollution.
You speak of humanity needing time but neglect to mention how much time we've simply wasted. If measures towards greater fuel efficiency had been taken as little as one decade ago, imagine just how much brighter even the gloomiest outlook would be.
And, if we'd never lost the impetus from the Oil Crisis of 1973, we'd all be sitting pretty right about now. I certainly don't want to live in a collapsed civilization - We didn't own a television or phone till I was 10 years old and lived for nearly 2 years without electricity and I certainly don't want to repeat that experience. And, I can tell you that most people are disgustingly extragavant with their resources and less than 1 in 5, in my experience are capable of change without some sort of catastrophe ( be it financial or physical ).
I think the biggest problem is that we readily confuse needs with wants and what we want comes with a cost far greater than the price tag.
I regret to inform you that you have fed a Troll. If you click on the link at the end of his message, you'll find a nearly identical post, except that instead of KDE vs shell, his rant is Mac vs NT 4.
Well, I'd heard good things about an image editing package called Photogenics but that was several years ago.
I believe that it was originally written by a single developer on the Amiga and also ported by him to Windows and Linux.
Personally, I have no problem with a smart guy making money. But I do also believe in giving back. From the article: Although he was not formally trained in computer or software design, he perfected his craft by learning from programmers on an Internet mailing list focusing on the Linux operating system for the Alpha chip. His curiosity quickly became a passion that he pursued in his free time and during his twice daily two-hour train commute between his job in Tokyo and his home in Kanagawa Prefecture So, while it's clear that his talent is God-given and his hard work is to his own credit, he cut his teeth on open source - and that was a LONG time ago. So, I would think that a little reciprocity is overdue.
You can't be sure that you're reading Stranger in a Strange Land, as you haven't completed it yet. All you can be certain of is that you've read half of a book that appears to be Stranger in a Strange Land.
Of course, when you're done, you will have completed a book that CLAIMS to be a copy of Stranger in a Strange Land.
And, you may want to turn back to the earlier pages every so often to make sure that the pages you've already read haven't changed.
I've done very little recompiling on Linux over the years - never had to yet for GNOME or KDE although upgrading them did take some extra work on several occasions because some of the necessary components weren't automatically upgraded as well ( I believe this was on Mandrake - a rare failure of their rpmdrake utility).
Also, I don't think that Hotmail has any non-M$ servers in production; I'm pretty sure they finally got rid of all those when W2K3 Server went live.
Well, that "modularity" that Microsoft denigrated about Linux means that you can rip out just about anything you don't need. Just because an access point is running Linux doesn't mean it has all the features and possible weaknesses that one might find on a desktop or server.
I was regular donor to the Canadian Red Cross, now called Canadian Blood Services, I think. But, I got fed up with answering all those questions about where I might have gone ( haven't left Canada in 15 years), have I had sex with a man since '78 ( 1. I'm straight, 2. Sex with men isn't the only way to get AIDS 3. I was 9 in '78. 4.) Where are you hiding the lie-detector).
I give up trying to understand why they were wasting a trained nurse's time asking me questions that I might lie to, they couldn't verify and didn't matter since, no matter what, they'd test the blood anyway.
Also, I noticed that there was an easy way for someone to look at the sticker I'd attached to the silly questionnaire to determine which option I'd chosen: Use my blood or discard.
I brought this up with a supervisor but didn't get anywhere. Finally, I gave up and stopped giving.
Yup, mine did the update while I was reading the post about the new release candidate :^)
I would very much like to know what hardware on your laptop isn't supported by Linux. I've used multiple releases of at least 8 Linux distros over the last 6 years and I've rarely found hardware that I couldn't get working - although there were several that needed software compiled or a wrapper of Windows drivers.
Stop looking in the mirror and don't be so hard on yourself!
Nevertheless, the United States is a signatory of the UN's convention against Torture for ANY reason - a fact they conveniently forgot when they deported Maher Arar, who has dual Canadian/Syrian citizenship, from the US to Syria.
From what I understand, there is an ongoing attempt to broaden the definition of terrorist - which would place a greater number of people beyond the reach of international conventions.