I used to work in an IT department, for a medium sized company (500-600 PCs/servers/control computers, 300-400 users). Most of our users were enigineers, and dispite what people say, not all engineers are good with computer, and in my case a majority were computer-idiots.
The one thing engineers do though is read, not manuals like a smart person would but the internet. I got so sick and tired of hearing EVERY other person say "So whats the deal with microsoft?", Or "I have this problem with my home computer..." that I started telling people that microsoft was a bunch of dolts who cant program and screw every thing up (Which, mod me if you want, I don't believe).
The people who I said this too began to call less and less frequently and when they did call the questions where considerably more complex. Instead of the usual "How do I print this out on its side?" (Landscape, THERE IS EVEN A PICTURE!) I started getting calls, about how to expose the formatting stroks, or how to get a feature that we didn't even have installed.
So though it may not be a good idea to tell people that the software we purchased for them was crap, or to tell people that they got ripped off, it seemed to work in some cases in my experience.
Ghost 6+ have utilities to create ghost disks for you. Really easy to use, and you can use it to create Network Share Access, Multicast, CD-ROM, CD-RW (Write, and Read)... "Ghost Boot Wizard" Check it out.:)
Does this mean you have found your solution. I noticed some people suggesting the batch file in the start up script. (If you are running NT4.0) Does your patch need to be done as administrator or can it be done as a user.
On a ghost note... Norton Enterprise Ghost 7.x has the ability to remotly install applications. If you have Ghost Enterprise, you can make a img that only contains the changes that need to be made to the system. Again, with this you need to have all the machices setup with the Console service. Ghost is a wonderful package.
The other things you could use are the MS BackOffice suite, which is a bear to setup but, doesn't always require you to touch a machine to deploy settings. (By Your sig you pretty experienced in this area but)... I hope you didn't disable your administrative shares (I.E. C$, REG$ and the other ones), if you did, its going to take a lot more work then you want to upgrade your boxes. I have seen other programs that have the ability to apply registry settings, and modify files on the computers, some that need services some that don't. Which can all be done manually or while logged in as the domain administrator.
Ghost isn't as easy as you think, I was in charge of upgrading 800 machines to support Ghost. 1st You must (or atleast should) create an image for each type of machine. 2nd, in order to use ghost from the network, you must create a ghost partition, and install a ghost service. In order for this guy to install his keyboard fix, he would need to physically touch EVERY machine on his network. I, personally, would wait untill your next MAJOR upgrade to install Ghost. (Although he is probably already using it, just not the console server.)
On a more positive note, if you have 4000 machines and you don't have ghost GET IT, you NEED IT! You'll save 1000's of hours building machices. I personally loaded 100 machince from no OS-to ready to put on the floor (each with a unique hostname and static-ip address) in about 1 hour.
It does not say they are editing LIVE feeds, what (I assume) they need is a method of transfering sound data faste the 1x. In other words it can't take 10 minute to transport 10 minutes of audio.
I would have to completly disagree with you. The reason people use windows is because they have always used windows. The only reason people don't use linux is because 1. They already have windows. 2. They don't know how to install linux (those people can't install Windows either). or 3. They don't even know it exists.
Linux (ok I am really talking about an installed system running KDE or GNOME) is not hard to use for the point and click user. Its surly not any harder then windows. And they are less likly to get one of those pesky BSOD's (or a crash like equivilent). In order for people to start using Linux it has to be used in Schools (High Schools, and secondary), OEM's need to offer it as the default OS (A Majority), And businesses need to use it as thier Desktop of choice.
Short: People can't use linux because they never have!
I see no problem with using GIF's for small images. In most cases they are smaller the JPG's of the same size (see here; I made these images for another topic but it shows my point). They are (as far as I know) lossless. Using JPG on small images is a waste, and often has noticible compression marks.
GIF's do come with baggage but no other popular format can do animation.
leaving your keys oin your car is pretty damn stupid. I live in a extreamly low crime area, we leave our doors unlocked, but leaving the keys in the car is just dumb.
Can't tell if your joking but, a lot of people do leave there keys on the visor, and its dumb:)
It seams to me that most people disagree with you. There is evidence of significant ammounts of water on mars. If you perform the same calculations for Earth what are your results? I highly doubt that there is enough energy from the Sun to create water on this planet, yet we have water and tons(an understatement) of iron.
We know there is water on a couple moons, which would get significantly less exposure to the sun. I am really just curious.
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You know I never thought about that. Good call. What gas could have been in a propane tank, that would have floated?:)
"why would you sell a house with 22 million dollars still hidden in the safe? How did these guys think they could just walk into a bank with million-dollar bonds"
The Guy died.
"I am not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that a sledgehammer blow like that would be fatal!"
Ok, Ok he would have been killed, but what would the fun in that be?
Holy shit dude, don't attack the average slashdoter (Mr. 571791, ok mines not much better) Everyone here knows Katz is a dolt, No one thinks the Matrixs is real (Ok maybe there are a few). And in fight club the point wasn't to blow up the buildings, that was an insanly meaningless part of the plot.
I do agree with you though, Resident Evil was really BAD, and this movie was really good WTF is wrong with you slashdot movie reviewers?
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Someone please mod that post up.
(I'm agreeing with you:)):
Its absurd to think that the phone would work the first night, it has to be hooked up, they even say in the movie that it has to activated via the security service.
Secondly, the movie contained none of those "Why the hell arn't you running!!" scenes that annoy the hell out of me (an I imagine a lot of people) When they needed suspense they did slow motion, the movie was timed really well.
There were only two things that I found kinda dumb (but it was just a movie!): 1. The fact that they had access to the houses main phone line from the P.R. If it was self contained those wires wouldn't run anywhere near that room. 2: The fact that they "bad guys" could pump gas into the room.
Regardless, the movie was awesome and I suggest anyone who has not seen it to see it. Its one thing to bitch about technical issues in a computer tech movie (Hackers, Swordfish) its completely another to bitch about it in a suspense film.
I don't even thick ours was taht complicated. Our Windows boxes just authenticated via Samba, so when a user attemped to change a password it would change via samba which updated the NIS stuff, so most of the password changes were almost instant. Which is a plus becuase most of the time users where required to change the passwords every 3 months or so, and most of the work was done in via an ssh client, so users would need to log in right after changing their passwords. Samba, for this problem, is probably the right way to go.
The company I used to work for used Samba to conenct the Unix Network to the windows network. All it really does is allow the windows machines to authenticate against the unix network (which you probably already have in place.) With a few scripts you could create new accounts pretty easily (I think we even used LDAP to connect to a corporate interface of some kind)
If you have an existing *nix net Samba would probably be the way to go.
Other benifits include a centralized "Share" so all your machines could easily mount the same drives, and centralized printing (You don't need samba for this unless your network prints from the windows network) Check it out, the new versions also support encyrpted passwords...
its easier then that, there is a fuse that is just for the dash, if you take it out, it stops. I've seen cars that the cruise, and all internal gauges still work after the fuse blows (or the switch is flipped;) )
The problem with this is in some (if not most) newer cars not only store the odometer reading digitally but also mechanically somewhere else. (Usually its the other way around the odometer is mechanical, but the milage is also stored in the computer to turn the "change oil" lights and the service engine (on those annoying prissy cars:)). And I have even heard of some with the odometer reading stored twice digitally, one in the dashboard unit and then a separate on in the cars computer. (I believe the lincoln towncar ~94 did this). Its much easier (speaking from real experience) to avoid adding the miles by turning the dashboard off and using a separate circuit to the computer. The DMV (at least in NY) checks for odometer fruad anyway so if you rolled it back you most likly get caught, but if it just stopped or significantly slowed you'd probably get away with it
All I request in return is that you do your part to incress the awarness of fellow text browser users every where.:) Someone just gave me the tip, I couldn't sit on it.
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The one thing engineers do though is read, not manuals like a smart person would but the internet. I got so sick and tired of hearing EVERY other person say "So whats the deal with microsoft?", Or "I have this problem with my home computer..." that I started telling people that microsoft was a bunch of dolts who cant program and screw every thing up (Which, mod me if you want, I don't believe).
The people who I said this too began to call less and less frequently and when they did call the questions where considerably more complex. Instead of the usual "How do I print this out on its side?" (Landscape, THERE IS EVEN A PICTURE!) I started getting calls, about how to expose the formatting stroks, or how to get a feature that we didn't even have installed.
So though it may not be a good idea to tell people that the software we purchased for them was crap, or to tell people that they got ripped off, it seemed to work in some cases in my experience.
Do you pronounce "Yohdh" "Yoda" by any chance?
Ghost 6+ have utilities to create ghost disks for you. Really easy to use, and you can use it to create Network Share Access, Multicast, CD-ROM, CD-RW (Write, and Read)... "Ghost Boot Wizard" Check it out. :)
On a ghost note... Norton Enterprise Ghost 7.x has the ability to remotly install applications. If you have Ghost Enterprise, you can make a img that only contains the changes that need to be made to the system. Again, with this you need to have all the machices setup with the Console service. Ghost is a wonderful package.
The other things you could use are the MS BackOffice suite, which is a bear to setup but, doesn't always require you to touch a machine to deploy settings. (By Your sig you pretty experienced in this area but)... I hope you didn't disable your administrative shares (I.E. C$, REG$ and the other ones), if you did, its going to take a lot more work then you want to upgrade your boxes. I have seen other programs that have the ability to apply registry settings, and modify files on the computers, some that need services some that don't. Which can all be done manually or while logged in as the domain administrator.
On a more positive note, if you have 4000 machines and you don't have ghost GET IT, you NEED IT! You'll save 1000's of hours building machices. I personally loaded 100 machince from no OS-to ready to put on the floor (each with a unique hostname and static-ip address) in about 1 hour.
[don@Mars>Kasei don]$ telnet terery.com
Wildcat! Interactive Net Server (c) 1998-2001 Santronics Software, Inc.
Registration number: 04-0238 v5.4.449 (Nov 18 2001) Node: 4
Connected with Telnet. Ansi detected.
You have connected to node 4 on Telery !
What is your first name?
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2109354,00. html
It does not say they are editing LIVE feeds, what (I assume) they need is a method of transfering sound data faste the 1x. In other words it can't take 10 minute to transport 10 minutes of audio.
Linux (ok I am really talking about an installed system running KDE or GNOME) is not hard to use for the point and click user. Its surly not any harder then windows. And they are less likly to get one of those pesky BSOD's (or a crash like equivilent). In order for people to start using Linux it has to be used in Schools (High Schools, and secondary), OEM's need to offer it as the default OS (A Majority), And businesses need to use it as thier Desktop of choice.
Short: People can't use linux because they never have!
GIF's do come with baggage but no other popular format can do animation.
Can't tell if your joking but, a lot of people do leave there keys on the visor, and its dumb :)
Hey if someone could hack this into it, that would kick ass. You would have a Mp3/DVD/PVR all in one convienent (and from the pictures) pretty box.
Isn't H2O2 (Hyrdogen Peroxide?) unstable, doesn't it break down into Water and Oxygen?
We know there is water on a couple moons, which would get significantly less exposure to the sun. I am really just curious.
You know I never thought about that. Good call. What gas could have been in a propane tank, that would have floated? :)
The Guy died.
"I am not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that a sledgehammer blow like that would be fatal!"
Ok, Ok he would have been killed, but what would the fun in that be?
I do agree with you though, Resident Evil was really BAD, and this movie was really good WTF is wrong with you slashdot movie reviewers?
"The Others" was pretty damn good
(I'm agreeing with you :)):
Its absurd to think that the phone would work the first night, it has to be hooked up, they even say in the movie that it has to activated via the security service.
Secondly, the movie contained none of those "Why the hell arn't you running!!" scenes that annoy the hell out of me (an I imagine a lot of people) When they needed suspense they did slow motion, the movie was timed really well.
There were only two things that I found kinda dumb (but it was just a movie!):
1. The fact that they had access to the houses main phone line from the P.R. If it was self contained those wires wouldn't run anywhere near that room.
2: The fact that they "bad guys" could pump gas into the room.
Regardless, the movie was awesome and I suggest anyone who has not seen it to see it. Its one thing to bitch about technical issues in a computer tech movie (Hackers, Swordfish) its completely another to bitch about it in a suspense film.
I don't even thick ours was taht complicated. Our Windows boxes just authenticated via Samba, so when a user attemped to change a password it would change via samba which updated the NIS stuff, so most of the password changes were almost instant. Which is a plus becuase most of the time users where required to change the passwords every 3 months or so, and most of the work was done in via an ssh client, so users would need to log in right after changing their passwords. Samba, for this problem, is probably the right way to go.
If you have an existing *nix net Samba would probably be the way to go.
Other benifits include a centralized "Share" so all your machines could easily mount the same drives, and centralized printing (You don't need samba for this unless your network prints from the windows network) Check it out, the new versions also support encyrpted passwords...
Just my 2cents
I just quickly made a few. Here you go.
its easier then that, there is a fuse that is just for the dash, if you take it out, it stops. I've seen cars that the cruise, and all internal gauges still work after the fuse blows (or the switch is flipped ;) )
The problem with this is in some (if not most) newer cars not only store the odometer reading digitally but also mechanically somewhere else. (Usually its the other way around the odometer is mechanical, but the milage is also stored in the computer to turn the "change oil" lights and the service engine (on those annoying prissy cars :)). And I have even heard of some with the odometer reading stored twice digitally, one in the dashboard unit and then a separate on in the cars computer. (I believe the lincoln towncar ~94 did this). Its much easier (speaking from real experience) to avoid adding the miles by turning the dashboard off and using a separate circuit to the computer. The DMV (at least in NY) checks for odometer fruad anyway so if you rolled it back you most likly get caught, but if it just stopped or significantly slowed you'd probably get away with it
All I request in return is that you do your part to incress the awarness of fellow text browser users every where. :) Someone just gave me the tip, I couldn't sit on it.