Now, if only people produced that much paper that was worth reading instead of just printing out their email or a PDF they could have read at the monitor.
Err... If I recall, the Christians make up more of the Indian population than the Sikh. 2.3% vs 1.9%, which might sound small until you remember that we're talking about over a billion people.
You reveal your own pathetic personal character by assuming that I'm in any way associated with Kansas or a fundamentalist Christian. Hope that helps you out somehow in life. I guess you're not one of the nice Indian folk I met while traveling there.
The most important thing in a corporate environment is going to be centralized administration. Norton has a console that shows that status of all clients in the Corporate Edition AntiVirus product. McAfee has a web-managed interface similar to Red Hat's RHN. Does ClamAV have a similar interface for administration and summarizing the current corporate status? If so, that's a definite win right there.
Miscommunication has a *lot* to do with it, but you can't blame everything on it. The skill level is not there for all. Yes, there is some talent, and the salaries are going to float up as competition rises - it's already hitting a fever pitch. And then it will no longer be economical to outsource and the jobs will either come back or float elsewhere, like China or Eastern Europe.
Please do not construe my comments as anything like "screw India" so much as "build the USA back up, please....please?" I've been to India and frankly it's the friendliest place I've been. But, you see, I've developed a fondness for eating and shelter.
Now would be a great time to pull the rug out and bring those jobs back here. And so would right now. And now. Any day now.
Seriously, we hire then at 1/3 the cost, but we've found it takes 3x them, plus the time of US workers to clean up the sloppy work. With a huge lag in communications, this really doesn't add up to being in the black in the long run. Does anyone remember the long run?
*WHY* on earth are you using XP as a server?!? And what is so much more difficult about Win2k3 than Win2k? For all intents and purposes, they are practically clones except for the extra security bolted on. If present apps work on Win2k, keep it on Win2k and move new projects onto Win2k3.
Worried about the systems getting hacked? They should be firewalled off on a separate network anyway.
We wouldn't be so compelled to do so if UF didn't take it hard and fast in the nether-regions. Seriously, UF is suckling at the teats of mediocrity. I'm *in* tech support and I find it untolerable.
And then there's always http://www.linuxiso.org which has been doing this for a very long time. I always recall their download speeds being pretty decent, unlike some if the 2k/sec torrents I've gotten.
Lets start by the most rapid injection into the media possible. You start killing people, then I'll say I'm your spokesperson and I'll tell the talkshows about how you're angry that phishing is not nice.
Just gather 2 × 10^30 kg of hydrogen together in one spot and watch the magic as energy is released. This process is called nuclear fission. The article can be found here.
Education about phishing and spam and viruses, which you and I have, is the only thing that will save people, not these glorified band-aids. The question is, how concerned are you by this? Will you talk to all your friends and family and get them to stop blindly clicking email links? Will you get on a soap box in Manhattan and shout it out to the throngs passing by? Will you campaign on television? Will you buy an ad in the New York Times?
Or will you just complain about it like the rest of us, crowing how you know how to deal with it while nobody else does? =)
Wrong. Time==money and travel takes too long. Some of us have better things to do than getting frisked every few days, sleeping in crappy hotels, or trying to get the double-wide guy in the next seat to stop leaning over on us - all for a few hours face to face. You're a prima donna if you demand that people came pay respect at your royal court for every little decision, your highness.
I second his comment. As tempted as some might be, do not skimp anything, especially microphones or mixing equipment. The Polycom VSX systems are nice and powerful for multipoint conferencing and The Polycom stuff should be used for conference phones, too, if you have any other conference rooms that are likely to talk to this one. If it sounds crappy from the source, not even Crestron is going to be able to dress up that pig. And yes, the Crestron displays are going to be expensive, but that's what it's going to take. He will be able to do things like hit a button for Presentation and have lights dim everywhere except for a spot over a podium and turn a screen to projector use. You're likely to have a number of screens so taht people's faces are displayed at the same time as remote and/or local presentation materials. I'm not sold on document cameras anymore as most presentation materials should be of the Powerpoint variety rather than dead tree.
Make sure you get professional guys that are going to hide the wires properly and mount projectors in the ceiling, etc, instead of leaving things laying around or under the table. Lastly the little things like PLENTY of CAT5 ports and power outlets are important. Consider some sort of way to secure ports (VLANs?) if it's a conference room that will handle visitors. And make sure that any WiFi access is practically under their seats with four bars of access all the way around the room. Make sure the pros balance out the sound in the room, and then document all final settings on the mixing boards in case someone comes into the room and ignorantly plays with the slides and knobs.
On the other hand, my 14 year old bought his own WinXP Dell from their refurbish center, and he's never had spyware issues. We have Microsoft Antispyware, some free AV software, chats on Trillian, has a Yahoo account, and uses Firefox exclusively. The thing runs like a champ and he runs all his games on there without a hitch. No need for slapping - the kid understood right away that some stuff that's out there can damage the thing HE paid for. Seriously, can't the head of Intel raise his kids better? Or is he one of those management types that works for a tech company but doesn't know a damn thing about tech? If that's the case, Apple should disassociate itself from this bozo's recommendation.
Sorry, but Netscape's crappy "way behind the times" browser updating can't be called anything but that. They have a responsibility to their users to provide the updates ASAP if they are claiming security as one of the features of their browser. It appears that all the branding and in-browser advertising gets in the way of pushing those updates out in time. Do they have dedicated staff for monitoring Mozilla code daily and coordinating with Firefox rollouts, or is this just something they do for fun?
If someone grabs some open-source, and puts out a shitty version of it with an old unsecure release, are we supposed to coddle them and tell them what a good job they are doing, or are we supposed to push them towards best practices and proper code management/release? I don't see any problem with those remarks unless it's suddenly in fashion to be very thin skinned. Wha wha wha. Grow up folks.
Let's be careful here. Lucas said that out of the prequel material, the meat of the story (60%) was in Sith and the rest was in Clones with some left over for Phantom Menace. The man has said that he has no more stories to tell in the Star Wars world. If we push him to make something up on the spot, we're going to end up with more Jedi Babies movies.
The only way anything better is going to come out of this is if one of the better novel trilogies, like Heir to the Empire or Jedi Search. Or heck, just give us a Tales of the Jedi story from 4000 years ago to give us the story of the old Jedi order that was worth preserving instead of the fading arrogant order that Palpatine toppled.
Rolling out Mozilla 1.7.8 to a few hundred Windows clients tonight. We're using Symantec CCM (actually still labeled ON Technology CCM) for doing package rollouts. The thing basically scripts the whole install process and blasts the installs out to all the target clients. Very cool.
I don't see him. One of the reasons I like QT is that I can view it frame-by-frame - going through to see all of the little details in the quick stream of images that flash by. He aint there.
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Now, if only people produced that much paper that was worth reading instead of just printing out their email or a PDF they could have read at the monitor.
Err... If I recall, the Christians make up more of the Indian population than the Sikh. 2.3% vs 1.9%, which might sound small until you remember that we're talking about over a billion people.
You reveal your own pathetic personal character by assuming that I'm in any way associated with Kansas or a fundamentalist Christian. Hope that helps you out somehow in life. I guess you're not one of the nice Indian folk I met while traveling there.
The most important thing in a corporate environment is going to be centralized administration. Norton has a console that shows that status of all clients in the Corporate Edition AntiVirus product. McAfee has a web-managed interface similar to Red Hat's RHN. Does ClamAV have a similar interface for administration and summarizing the current corporate status? If so, that's a definite win right there.
Miscommunication has a *lot* to do with it, but you can't blame everything on it. The skill level is not there for all. Yes, there is some talent, and the salaries are going to float up as competition rises - it's already hitting a fever pitch. And then it will no longer be economical to outsource and the jobs will either come back or float elsewhere, like China or Eastern Europe.
Please do not construe my comments as anything like "screw India" so much as "build the USA back up, please....please?" I've been to India and frankly it's the friendliest place I've been. But, you see, I've developed a fondness for eating and shelter.
Now would be a great time to pull the rug out and bring those jobs back here. And so would right now. And now. Any day now.
Seriously, we hire then at 1/3 the cost, but we've found it takes 3x them, plus the time of US workers to clean up the sloppy work. With a huge lag in communications, this really doesn't add up to being in the black in the long run. Does anyone remember the long run?
*WHY* on earth are you using XP as a server?!? And what is so much more difficult about Win2k3 than Win2k? For all intents and purposes, they are practically clones except for the extra security bolted on. If present apps work on Win2k, keep it on Win2k and move new projects onto Win2k3.
Worried about the systems getting hacked? They should be firewalled off on a separate network anyway.
We wouldn't be so compelled to do so if UF didn't take it hard and fast in the nether-regions. Seriously, UF is suckling at the teats of mediocrity. I'm *in* tech support and I find it untolerable.
And then there's always http://www.linuxiso.org which has been doing this for a very long time. I always recall their download speeds being pretty decent, unlike some if the 2k/sec torrents I've gotten.
I don't drink coffee.
Lets start by the most rapid injection into the media possible. You start killing people, then I'll say I'm your spokesperson and I'll tell the talkshows about how you're angry that phishing is not nice.
I'll be in touch.
In other news, here is how to make your own Sun!
Just gather 2 × 10^30 kg of hydrogen together in one spot and watch the magic as energy is released. This process is called nuclear fission. The article can be found here.
Education about phishing and spam and viruses, which you and I have, is the only thing that will save people, not these glorified band-aids. The question is, how concerned are you by this? Will you talk to all your friends and family and get them to stop blindly clicking email links? Will you get on a soap box in Manhattan and shout it out to the throngs passing by? Will you campaign on television? Will you buy an ad in the New York Times?
Or will you just complain about it like the rest of us, crowing how you know how to deal with it while nobody else does? =)
Wrong. Time==money and travel takes too long. Some of us have better things to do than getting frisked every few days, sleeping in crappy hotels, or trying to get the double-wide guy in the next seat to stop leaning over on us - all for a few hours face to face. You're a prima donna if you demand that people came pay respect at your royal court for every little decision, your highness.
I second his comment. As tempted as some might be, do not skimp anything, especially microphones or mixing equipment. The Polycom VSX systems are nice and powerful for multipoint conferencing and The Polycom stuff should be used for conference phones, too, if you have any other conference rooms that are likely to talk to this one. If it sounds crappy from the source, not even Crestron is going to be able to dress up that pig. And yes, the Crestron displays are going to be expensive, but that's what it's going to take. He will be able to do things like hit a button for Presentation and have lights dim everywhere except for a spot over a podium and turn a screen to projector use. You're likely to have a number of screens so taht people's faces are displayed at the same time as remote and/or local presentation materials. I'm not sold on document cameras anymore as most presentation materials should be of the Powerpoint variety rather than dead tree.
Make sure you get professional guys that are going to hide the wires properly and mount projectors in the ceiling, etc, instead of leaving things laying around or under the table. Lastly the little things like PLENTY of CAT5 ports and power outlets are important. Consider some sort of way to secure ports (VLANs?) if it's a conference room that will handle visitors. And make sure that any WiFi access is practically under their seats with four bars of access all the way around the room. Make sure the pros balance out the sound in the room, and then document all final settings on the mixing boards in case someone comes into the room and ignorantly plays with the slides and knobs.
Nice reference! Thanks.
On the other hand, my 14 year old bought his own WinXP Dell from their refurbish center, and he's never had spyware issues. We have Microsoft Antispyware, some free AV software, chats on Trillian, has a Yahoo account, and uses Firefox exclusively. The thing runs like a champ and he runs all his games on there without a hitch. No need for slapping - the kid understood right away that some stuff that's out there can damage the thing HE paid for. Seriously, can't the head of Intel raise his kids better? Or is he one of those management types that works for a tech company but doesn't know a damn thing about tech? If that's the case, Apple should disassociate itself from this bozo's recommendation.
88 years? In Phantom Menace it was said that "there haven't been any Sith for 1000 years".
That's very hysterical-like. You are easily amused. Go play with this little red rubber ball. No XBox for you.
Sorry, but Netscape's crappy "way behind the times" browser updating can't be called anything but that. They have a responsibility to their users to provide the updates ASAP if they are claiming security as one of the features of their browser. It appears that all the branding and in-browser advertising gets in the way of pushing those updates out in time. Do they have dedicated staff for monitoring Mozilla code daily and coordinating with Firefox rollouts, or is this just something they do for fun?
If someone grabs some open-source, and puts out a shitty version of it with an old unsecure release, are we supposed to coddle them and tell them what a good job they are doing, or are we supposed to push them towards best practices and proper code management/release? I don't see any problem with those remarks unless it's suddenly in fashion to be very thin skinned. Wha wha wha. Grow up folks.
Let's be careful here. Lucas said that out of the prequel material, the meat of the story (60%) was in Sith and the rest was in Clones with some left over for Phantom Menace. The man has said that he has no more stories to tell in the Star Wars world. If we push him to make something up on the spot, we're going to end up with more Jedi Babies movies.
The only way anything better is going to come out of this is if one of the better novel trilogies, like Heir to the Empire or Jedi Search. Or heck, just give us a Tales of the Jedi story from 4000 years ago to give us the story of the old Jedi order that was worth preserving instead of the fading arrogant order that Palpatine toppled.
Rolling out Mozilla 1.7.8 to a few hundred Windows clients tonight. We're using Symantec CCM (actually still labeled ON Technology CCM) for doing package rollouts. The thing basically scripts the whole install process and blasts the installs out to all the target clients. Very cool.
On the other hand, they might taste really good with some buffalo sause, starting a new craze in genetically engineered breeding.
So if I download it 1 million times to my hard drive over the next few days, I count as 1 million people? Stupid on both counts. =)
I don't see him. One of the reasons I like QT is that I can view it frame-by-frame - going through to see all of the little details in the quick stream of images that flash by. He aint there.