I was just up in Berkeley where they installed these things everywhere. They are awful. Totally user hostile.
At least in Berkeley some enterprising constituents will neutralize these things. They'll disappear, or all somehow stop working. Amazing how that happens.
These things are obviously the brain child of some MBA twit who's only responsibility was to show the ROI to the city, or in the case of Chicago, the investor.
Parking on public streets is a public resource and must be managed as such. As it is now, it's seen as a revenue center. You know what bureaucrats; "They're OUR friggin parking spaces! Get out of our way, out of commerce's way, let us use them. and do your job of keeping the spaces rotating, period.
I've been testing AV solutions for the same setup; Windows clients, samba server, no AD or domain. AVG worked great for the first couple years, but sometime in 2008 they took a huge turn for the worse. Their support, even enterprise, is abysmal and absurd (email only!) Their more recent products are such huge resource hogs that most of my users just uninstalled it as it made their workstations unusable. Month's of round and round with email support and no solution.
I've tested most of the products mentioned here, nod32, Avast, Kaspersky, etc. I finally stumbled on a pretty new entrant to the space, Vipre, by sunbeltsoftware, http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/ . Support has been fantastic, and I'm just using a trial version. The admin interface is modern, quick, and well thought out. Most of the other admin interfaces seem like an afterthought or an engineering prototype. The test users are happy so far. And it's cleaned up a few severe threats that were not found by AVG.
Disclaimer - I am not affiliated with these guys at all. I am just a happy trial user, so far.
That's a great idea. I'm going to start charging all the phone companies for the money they make on the calls that are made to my house. That last 50 ft of wire is mine, as is the handset, and of course if not for me, the call wouldn't have been made in the first place.
Back in the mid '90s I was an IT lacky at Microprose. We did games like Civilization, Tetris, and Falcon (the flight sim).
There were at least 3 large development teams working away in the building; Falcon 4, Star Trek Generations, Tornado, etc. I was in the server room, making some notes about backup tapes, sitting, legs crossed. I was swinging my foot back and forth a little listening to the tunes in the server room over the loud hum of about 15 servers. And all of sudden, click, my foot gently tapped the power switch on the main UPS, the room fell silent, severe lashing ensued. ack!/r
It was the best. We even upgraded to First Class sometime in the late 80's I think; no more zterm. I used to dowload every piece of new software I could./Randoms
If ads were informative and smart, useful and entertaining instead of the usual offensive, condescending and misleading people wouldn't mind watching them.
It's up to the ad companies to make compelling ads.
It's just like my hosts file. Once I get an offensive or misleading ad on the web, i'll add that site to my hosts file and redirect it. It's not that I mind seeing ads, but ads that make false claims or assume undue control of my screen I won't tolerate./R
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Indeed. The one with the money wins.
Yep!
I'm curious, what are the "MicrosoftS" and "OracleS" that the OP is referring to? AFAIK there is only one of each of those companies.
I was just up in Berkeley where they installed these things everywhere. They are awful. Totally user hostile.
At least in Berkeley some enterprising constituents will neutralize these things. They'll disappear, or all somehow stop working. Amazing how that happens.
These things are obviously the brain child of some MBA twit who's only responsibility was to show the ROI to the city, or in the case of Chicago, the investor.
Parking on public streets is a public resource and must be managed as such. As it is now, it's seen as a revenue center. You know what bureaucrats; "They're OUR friggin parking spaces! Get out of our way, out of commerce's way, let us use them. and do your job of keeping the spaces rotating, period.
I've been testing AV solutions for the same setup; Windows clients, samba server, no AD or domain. AVG worked great for the first couple years, but sometime in 2008 they took a huge turn for the worse. Their support, even enterprise, is abysmal and absurd (email only!) Their more recent products are such huge resource hogs that most of my users just uninstalled it as it made their workstations unusable. Month's of round and round with email support and no solution.
I've tested most of the products mentioned here, nod32, Avast, Kaspersky, etc. I finally stumbled on a pretty new entrant to the space, Vipre, by sunbeltsoftware, http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/ . Support has been fantastic, and I'm just using a trial version. The admin interface is modern, quick, and well thought out. Most of the other admin interfaces seem like an afterthought or an engineering prototype. The test users are happy so far. And it's cleaned up a few severe threats that were not found by AVG.
Disclaimer - I am not affiliated with these guys at all. I am just a happy trial user, so far.
That's a great idea. I'm going to start charging all the phone companies for the money they make on the calls that are made to my house. That last 50 ft of wire is mine, as is the handset, and of course if not for me, the call wouldn't have been made in the first place.
Back in the mid '90s I was an IT lacky at Microprose. We did games like Civilization, Tetris, and Falcon (the flight sim).
/r
There were at least 3 large development teams working away in the building; Falcon 4, Star Trek Generations, Tornado, etc. I was in the server room, making some notes about backup tapes, sitting, legs crossed. I was swinging my foot back and forth a little listening to the tunes in the server room over the loud hum of about 15 servers. And all of sudden, click, my foot gently tapped the power switch on the main UPS, the room fell silent, severe lashing ensued. ack!
It was the best. We even upgraded to First Class sometime in the late 80's I think; no more zterm. I used to dowload every piece of new software I could. /Randoms
only for those that don't get headaches from the godawful mp3 and aac sound quality. CD's are bad enough but these things .. ouch.
If ads were informative and smart, useful and entertaining instead of the usual offensive, condescending and misleading people wouldn't mind watching them.
/R
It's up to the ad companies to make compelling ads.
It's just like my hosts file. Once I get an offensive or misleading ad on the web, i'll add that site to my hosts file and redirect it. It's not that I mind seeing ads, but ads that make false claims or assume undue control of my screen I won't tolerate.