But in the office its always the IT person's fault. It has to do with computers right? The system administrator is there to prevent things from going heywire and it should not happen in the first place. It sucks but its life and politics as usual.
The sysadmin needs to lock things down and if encryption is needed for certain pieces of data then the IT department needs a procedure and forms for the person to sign to CYA. There are third party software to do this that let the administrator have a key to access if needed, but if something is so secreative that even the IT department can't know about, then they should be held accountable. This is why installing any software and not locking computers down is unacceptable.
.. by including Kubuntu in its official project and also it may add Xubuntu for the XFCE based distro. Debian feedback is also provided as they still use alot of the same base for their bundled applications.
... until one of these emloyees who lost data was working on something very important to some special. Like the CFO for example. If the employee tells teh CFO he lost all the data and can't do the presention for him and the CEP because "Mike" said it was my fault and wont solve the problem, then you can kiss your job good bye! Yes the sentance was passive but you get my point?
Every employee needs the tools to do their job. Yes it is the administrators fault for the incompentance of the (l)user. After all how did private folders get installed in teh first place. Why didn't "mike" the administrator not have a plan to deal with this? But most of all people who want things done NOW dont give a shit and firing obstacles is a great way to continue doing that.
Glad I dont do administrative work currently. I would be upset if this was installed via windowsUpdate without me knowing and I would be pretty pissed.
Yes encrypting data should be required but only in limited circumstances and those who do should sign documents from the IT department and be made aware of the ramifications of this and your own. Ass covering is needed indeed.
It sounds to me alot of IT folks dont know how to sell themselves. It shows if your organization thinks it only supports. I have seen posts here where IT reports to HR rather than implement plans like MRP and ERP systems that can really make a difference to cut costs and bring information to employees.
A good intranet site linked to a database with suppliers or a customized accounting app is alot more value than Excel and some as/400 terminal app for employees to search for information. This has been forgetton as soon as the y2k bug ended and cost cutting began. Many organizations dont want to invest in their own companies due to short term profit constraints to satisfy wall street.
But IT is support + a whole lot more. Maybe some business anaylists with IT backgrounds at your organization might be something you may consider?
Where are ou going to raise enough capital to start your own business? My guess is you could lose your home and maybe your marriage as your bank takes it for equilateral for giving you money for the startup.
It takes money to make money. I suppose you could be a consultant if you want to save money without renting an office but you need years and years of experience and know alot of people via networking to do this.
But starting a business is not for everyone. We need only so many chiefs but lots of Indians.
Then adults like us buy a Wii which nintendo will be marketing towards casual and hardcore gamers alike. I hate consoles compared to pc's because the games are not as customizable and the controls are not as good. Net play is another reason.
But nintendo actually makes some fun and fine games like Zelda and mariokart. I think I will keep the pc for FPS's though for obvious reasons.
"... Then the suits sit around in slack-jawed befuddlement at why the numbers are down, and business is dropping."
Well the problem is simple. The fact is the programmers dont work hard enough and we need to increase productivity by firing people and have 1 programmer do the work of 2. That will make us so much money and solve the problem.
But not if he or his customer purchased an extended warranty. Then yes they didn't get what they paid for. Cheap or not they must follow their own warranty. You wouldnt want to pay me 7/hr to relandscape your yard and not show up when you paid me. Sure 7/hr is what most mexicans make and a good landscapper charges 12/hr or more. But I didn't follow jy obligations with the pay and you could take me to court to recoup the cost.
Also many larger customers have contracts and its harder to switch desktops. For example if everyone in an office uses the same image from a network to save money with installation then a different desktop will cause havoc and require a new image to be tested and then deployed.
Dell used to rock and be more expensive than their counterparts in the 1990's. It seems like only yesterday. Many organizations bought contracts to buy in bulk and now its difficult to leave them. Its a very different world than the consumer world we live in.
Also my gf's grandma just bought a Toshiba and it broke with 5 days and wont even post. A simple battery and and power cord would not fix it. She bought a contract with geeksquad and they refuse to touch and just tell her to mail it to Toshiba headquarters. Also they looked big and bulky compared to my smaller presario.
I almost bought one and of course typing "The lazy brown fox jumped over teh fence" showed the keyboard was not that good on it.
I looked into them and was planning to buy a used Thinkpad or a powerbook (not the crappy intel ones) on Ebay. But I didn't have the dough for a $600 payement.
Funny you mentioned Sony. My gf's Vio has constant heating problems and needs a special USB powered cooling unit. Also its the same speed as my compaq. but it was purchased 6 months earlier. She used a usb powered wireless mouse which I told her would drain battery power but she doesn't care. I wonder if that could cause the overheating?
But my compaq is discontinued as it was the last Centrino chipset powered notebook by them. The duo cores are waaayyy too hot for a notebook and I worry about lifetime for that reason? My compaq has slow inferior 4200 rpm 80 gig drive and slow ddr1 512 megs of ram. But its for school work only and even bloated java apps run snappy on it compared to my athlonXP +2400 with a 7200 rpm drive. I guess because of the crap on the other computer like Itunes. So your right its not the best laptop there.
But I want something that lasts fo 2 years til I graduate and was cheap. Supperior cooling and a great keyboard and bright screen for simple word processing and java programing for $730! Of course it was opened and discoounted. Beats a Dell anyday.
I love my compaq notebook. It had the best keyboard and cooling around when I bought it. It was very cheap and I can tell its well built. HP notebooks I still would not touch as they turned into emachine like quality.
I believe quality is turning around with their pc's (I hope) since Hurd took over.
Until wages go up to the point where Chinese and American firms outsource to India next.
India made an investment with education while their rival Pakistan made an investment iwth military spending. Its paying off.
In bangalore the cost of living has went up hundreds of % points and is as expensive to live as rural America. These landlords now have a ton of money and so do many small bussinesses there. Bombay now has a thriving financial sector like wall street that not American companies trade, but rather Indian ones. More wealth is being created down there. Accountants and fincancial anaylists are being outsourced there now. Wall street is very cheap and doesnt give a shit about its own workers. especially those who recommended to outsource to India in the first place.:-)
All this money will amplify like a balloon as money grows to the rest of the economy which in return creates even more wealth as Indians can afford to buy more things.
Yes its a very large country but the outsourced jobs are middle class and they tend to spend more rather than the very wealthy in the US who just have the money sit in the stock market doing nothing. Supply side economics dont work for that reason.
Yes the other 400 million will benefit but the most rural areas will do so last unfortunately. But look at rural Mississippi and Indiana? How much money does the average person make? All the crop is subsidized by your tax dollars so they dont starve. This will be universal.
Last farmers in India will benefit from newly rich Indian investors who will put in electricity and buy farming equipment and land so they can be more productive on their farms which in return will give them more money.
My hypothesis is that perhaps China will grow and then India and Latin America will grow next. Mexico surprissingly was supposed to be very rich from NAFTA and in return all the factors left for China for cheaper labor.
Of course the poor sponsored the french revolution but the middle class and many merchants grew tired of monopolistic rules governing trade with foreign nations and saw what America was becoming. So the middle class took part as well.
Raid5 is expensive for all but servers and you need hot swappable drives to replace a bad drive and continue on.
For cheaper you can purchase a DVD rw and Roxio that can archive your system. I have never had a hard drive fail on my home computers. I dont leave them on 24x7 but alot of my drives are older adn therefore better built.
How many disks do you need for a raid5 setup? Its been years since I was in IT but I remember seeing at least 4 disks. Also joe six pack doesn't want to open his box and try to guess which drive failed in his raid and replace teh drive himself. So raid is not recommend for all but workstation users who know what they are doing or work in a place with an IT department.
Raid5 also slows down access with all the mirroring and ecc parity stripping going on. This would annoy a home user and slow it down considerable. Fine for servers if you have a fiber connection and 5 drives spinning simultanously.
I wish there was a way I could get a "legal" copy of Xp for my compaq. The default image contains spyware and bloatware that is mostly uninstalled but not totally. It pisses me off.
I tried calling compaq and talked to Mike with a heavy Indian accent who spoke no english who said it was piracy and refused to ship the cd's.
During the 1970's it was a common fact that you would no longer have commercials if you switched to cable. The commercials in there were only for antenna users and they promised to cut them out as soon as the networks made oontent just for the cable.
Then they decided to get even more money by charging us and getting money from advertisers. Then they decided to get even more money by putting more commercials. Then they decided they could get even more money by raising rates and tying users with tiers with crap they dont need. Now they want even more money by skipping commercials ff options. Where does it end? People are paying $100 a month because there is a show they like on HBO on only that tier offers it and for every 30 minute show there are over 15 minutes of commercials.
Is this what this crap buys?
No wonder I refuse to watch any tv. There are some shows I like such as Boston Legal and the West wing but I refuse to just sit there and stare at a tube?? Especially if half the content is now crap.
Back in the 60's you had only 1 or 2 30 second commercials and you could live with antenna.
All I see is Media player when I walk on any college campus and look at users laptops.
Winamp is gone and only a few Ipod users use Itunes. Most prefer mediaplayer for regular cd's.
This means the Urge store pops up on every system in the world expect for a few apple and unix boxes and users can stick with what came with their computer (MS media player!). Look what happened with IE when MS bundled it?
Sure some people are educated about firefox but most go back to IE because its what they are familiar with. MS has an unfair advantage here and of course if I were an executive at one of the RIAA companies I would be drooling to go in bed with MS for this reason.
"Errrm, I assume by this you think that the DRM is somehow fragile and will self destruct the songs if you somehow handl it wrong? Nope, not gonna happen."
Yes after what happened you bet damn right I consider it fragile. I didn't even recieve a warning dialog. Itunes will start deleting all yoru music if you dont follow the procedures just right.
Maybe you have not used Itunes enough or upgraded yoru Ipods or reinstalled windows and Itunes? Sorry but I dont care if Apple is hip if they treat me like a criminal and make something simple as listening to a file and transfering it from computer to my mp3 player so difficult. Even Hillary Rosen called Itunes fairplay drm a pain in the end.
Have you ever tried switching players? Hmmm the only way to get around to transfer your music is to crack the keys or burn all your aac's to cd and then recode to mp3.
Exactly. Maybe it is fragile and why is it that when I mention Apple has drm too I got modded down as a troll but its insightful when someone says the same with Microsoft? Drm sucks.
So I guess I wont show the RIAA that you can make a good model selling music over the internet.
I heard the same thing with something... hmmm.. I thought it was called a Palm Pilot. They enjoyed a 90% marketshare before MS became serious and created a good Windows Powered CE. Now where is palm?
I like competition as it will give us better products and maybe it will force Apple to tone down their drm and make their ipods more consumer friendly.
Though I dislike the dependence on media player as more and more sites have wmv's and wma's with crappy MS drm that makes viewing it on macs or Linux boxes difficult.
Microsoft has access to %96 of all desktops in the world. Apple does not even come close though the Ipod has a nice marketshare at the current moment.
Also Vista will come with Surge which is MTV's video/audio store with WM11. So its likely the RIAA already has a deal with Microsoft and they are sick of Apple telling them to screw themselves with price controls. With more competition it gives the RIAA leveredge because they can sell their music to Microsoft and ignore Apple if the terms are not favorable enough.
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So yeah, I can get pussy.
And a hot babe and gf with it.
But in the office its always the IT person's fault. It has to do with computers right? The system administrator is there to prevent things from going heywire and it should not happen in the first place. It sucks but its life and politics as usual.
The sysadmin needs to lock things down and if encryption is needed for certain pieces of data then the IT department needs a procedure and forms for the person to sign to CYA. There are third party software to do this that let the administrator have a key to access if needed, but if something is so secreative that even the IT department can't know about, then they should be held accountable. This is why installing any software and not locking computers down is unacceptable.
.. by including Kubuntu in its official project and also it may add Xubuntu for the XFCE based distro. Debian feedback is also provided as they still use alot of the same base for their bundled applications.
... until one of these emloyees who lost data was working on something very important to some special. Like the CFO for example. If the employee tells teh CFO he lost all the data and can't do the presention for him and the CEP because "Mike" said it was my fault and wont solve the problem, then you can kiss your job good bye! Yes the sentance was passive but you get my point?
Every employee needs the tools to do their job. Yes it is the administrators fault for the incompentance of the (l)user. After all how did private folders get installed in teh first place. Why didn't "mike" the administrator not have a plan to deal with this? But most of all people who want things done NOW dont give a shit and firing obstacles is a great way to continue doing that.
Glad I dont do administrative work currently. I would be upset if this was installed via windowsUpdate without me knowing and I would be pretty pissed.
Yes encrypting data should be required but only in limited circumstances and those who do should sign documents from the IT department and be made aware of the ramifications of this and your own. Ass covering is needed indeed.
What about business process reengineering?
It sounds to me alot of IT folks dont know how to sell themselves. It shows if your organization thinks it only supports. I have seen posts here where IT reports to HR rather than implement plans like MRP and ERP systems that can really make a difference to cut costs and bring information to employees.
A good intranet site linked to a database with suppliers or a customized accounting app is alot more value than Excel and some as/400 terminal app for employees to search for information. This has been forgetton as soon as the y2k bug ended and cost cutting began. Many organizations dont want to invest in their own companies due to short term profit constraints to satisfy wall street.
But IT is support + a whole lot more. Maybe some business anaylists with IT backgrounds at your organization might be something you may consider?
Where are ou going to raise enough capital to start your own business? My guess is you could lose your home and maybe your marriage as your bank takes it for equilateral for giving you money for the startup.
It takes money to make money. I suppose you could be a consultant if you want to save money without renting an office but you need years and years of experience and know alot of people via networking to do this.
But starting a business is not for everyone. We need only so many chiefs but lots of Indians.
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Then adults like us buy a Wii which nintendo will be marketing towards casual and hardcore gamers alike. I hate consoles compared to pc's because the games are not as customizable and the controls are not as good. Net play is another reason.
But nintendo actually makes some fun and fine games like Zelda and mariokart. I think I will keep the pc for FPS's though for obvious reasons.
" ... Then the suits sit around in slack-jawed befuddlement at why the numbers are down, and business is dropping."
Well the problem is simple. The fact is the programmers dont work hard enough and we need to increase productivity by firing people and have 1 programmer do the work of 2. That will make us so much money and solve the problem.
But not if he or his customer purchased an extended warranty. Then yes they didn't get what they paid for. Cheap or not they must follow their own warranty. You wouldnt want to pay me 7/hr to relandscape your yard and not show up when you paid me. Sure 7/hr is what most mexicans make and a good landscapper charges 12/hr or more. But I didn't follow jy obligations with the pay and you could take me to court to recoup the cost.
Also many larger customers have contracts and its harder to switch desktops. For example if everyone in an office uses the same image from a network to save money with installation then a different desktop will cause havoc and require a new image to be tested and then deployed.
Dell used to rock and be more expensive than their counterparts in the 1990's. It seems like only yesterday. Many organizations bought contracts to buy in bulk and now its difficult to leave them. Its a very different world than the consumer world we live in.
Also my gf's grandma just bought a Toshiba and it broke with 5 days and wont even post. A simple battery and and power cord would not fix it. She bought a contract with geeksquad and they refuse to touch and just tell her to mail it to Toshiba headquarters. Also they looked big and bulky compared to my smaller presario.
I almost bought one and of course typing "The lazy brown fox jumped over teh fence" showed the keyboard was not that good on it.
I am a college student so no Thinkpad. :-(
I looked into them and was planning to buy a used Thinkpad or a powerbook (not the crappy intel ones) on Ebay. But I didn't have the dough for a $600 payement.
Funny you mentioned Sony. My gf's Vio has constant heating problems and needs a special USB powered cooling unit. Also its the same speed as my compaq. but it was purchased 6 months earlier. She used a usb powered wireless mouse which I told her would drain battery power but she doesn't care. I wonder if that could cause the overheating?
But my compaq is discontinued as it was the last Centrino chipset powered notebook by them. The duo cores are waaayyy too hot for a notebook and I worry about lifetime for that reason? My compaq has slow inferior 4200 rpm 80 gig drive and slow ddr1 512 megs of ram. But its for school work only and even bloated java apps run snappy on it compared to my athlonXP +2400 with a 7200 rpm drive. I guess because of the crap on the other computer like Itunes. So your right its not the best laptop there.
But I want something that lasts fo 2 years til I graduate and was cheap. Supperior cooling and a great keyboard and bright screen for simple word processing and java programing for $730! Of course it was opened and discoounted. Beats a Dell anyday.
I love my compaq notebook. It had the best keyboard and cooling around when I bought it. It was very cheap and I can tell its well built. HP notebooks I still would not touch as they turned into emachine like quality.
I believe quality is turning around with their pc's (I hope) since Hurd took over.
You know Carly was so paranoid that she refused a chief Operating officer. For some reason she thinks that him or her would threaten her job.
If one part of the company doesn't know what the other is doing then yes it meant Carly tried to micromange it. What a disaster?
Until wages go up to the point where Chinese and American firms outsource to India next.
:-)
India made an investment with education while their rival Pakistan made an investment iwth military spending. Its paying off.
In bangalore the cost of living has went up hundreds of % points and is as expensive to live as rural America. These landlords now have a ton of money and so do many small bussinesses there. Bombay now has a thriving financial sector like wall street that not American companies trade, but rather Indian ones. More wealth is being created down there. Accountants and fincancial anaylists are being outsourced there now. Wall street is very cheap and doesnt give a shit about its own workers. especially those who recommended to outsource to India in the first place.
All this money will amplify like a balloon as money grows to the rest of the economy which in return creates even more wealth as Indians can afford to buy more things.
Yes its a very large country but the outsourced jobs are middle class and they tend to spend more rather than the very wealthy in the US who just have the money sit in the stock market doing nothing. Supply side economics dont work for that reason.
Yes the other 400 million will benefit but the most rural areas will do so last unfortunately. But look at rural Mississippi and Indiana? How much money does the average person make? All the crop is subsidized by your tax dollars so they dont starve. This will be universal.
Last farmers in India will benefit from newly rich Indian investors who will put in electricity and buy farming equipment and land so they can be more productive on their farms which in return will give them more money.
My hypothesis is that perhaps China will grow and then India and Latin America will grow next. Mexico surprissingly was supposed to be very rich from NAFTA and in return all the factors left for China for cheaper labor.
The french revolution as well.
Of course the poor sponsored the french revolution but the middle class and many merchants grew tired of monopolistic rules governing trade with foreign nations and saw what America was becoming. So the middle class took part as well.
In soviet russia your Your moma makes fat jokes about you!
Also in soviet russia fat orbits your moma!
Raid5 is expensive for all but servers and you need hot swappable drives to replace a bad drive and continue on.
For cheaper you can purchase a DVD rw and Roxio that can archive your system. I have never had a hard drive fail on my home computers. I dont leave them on 24x7 but alot of my drives are older adn therefore better built.
How many disks do you need for a raid5 setup? Its been years since I was in IT but I remember seeing at least 4 disks. Also joe six pack doesn't want to open his box and try to guess which drive failed in his raid and replace teh drive himself. So raid is not recommend for all but workstation users who know what they are doing or work in a place with an IT department.
Raid5 also slows down access with all the mirroring and ecc parity stripping going on. This would annoy a home user and slow it down considerable. Fine for servers if you have a fiber connection and 5 drives spinning simultanously.
I wish there was a way I could get a "legal" copy of Xp for my compaq. The default image contains spyware and bloatware that is mostly uninstalled but not totally. It pisses me off.
I tried calling compaq and talked to Mike with a heavy Indian accent who spoke no english who said it was piracy and refused to ship the cd's.
During the 1970's it was a common fact that you would no longer have commercials if you switched to cable. The commercials in there were only for antenna users and they promised to cut them out as soon as the networks made oontent just for the cable.
Then they decided to get even more money by charging us and getting money from advertisers. Then they decided to get even more money by putting more commercials. Then they decided they could get even more money by raising rates and tying users with tiers with crap they dont need. Now they want even more money by skipping commercials ff options. Where does it end? People are paying $100 a month because there is a show they like on HBO on only that tier offers it and for every 30 minute show there are over 15 minutes of commercials.
Is this what this crap buys?
No wonder I refuse to watch any tv. There are some shows I like such as Boston Legal and the West wing but I refuse to just sit there and stare at a tube?? Especially if half the content is now crap.
Back in the 60's you had only 1 or 2 30 second commercials and you could live with antenna.
All I see is Media player when I walk on any college campus and look at users laptops.
Winamp is gone and only a few Ipod users use Itunes. Most prefer mediaplayer for regular cd's.
This means the Urge store pops up on every system in the world expect for a few apple and unix boxes and users can stick with what came with their computer (MS media player!). Look what happened with IE when MS bundled it?
Sure some people are educated about firefox but most go back to IE because its what they are familiar with. MS has an unfair advantage here and of course if I were an executive at one of the RIAA companies I would be drooling to go in bed with MS for this reason.
"Errrm, I assume by this you think that the DRM is somehow fragile and will self destruct the songs if you somehow handl it wrong? Nope, not gonna happen."
Yes after what happened you bet damn right I consider it fragile. I didn't even recieve a warning dialog. Itunes will start deleting all yoru music if you dont follow the procedures just right.
Maybe you have not used Itunes enough or upgraded yoru Ipods or reinstalled windows and Itunes? Sorry but I dont care if Apple is hip if they treat me like a criminal and make something simple as listening to a file and transfering it from computer to my mp3 player so difficult. Even Hillary Rosen called Itunes fairplay drm a pain in the end.
Have you ever tried switching players? Hmmm the only way to get around to transfer your music is to crack the keys or burn all your aac's to cd and then recode to mp3.
Exactly. Maybe it is fragile and why is it that when I mention Apple has drm too I got modded down as a troll but its insightful when someone says the same with Microsoft?
Drm sucks.
So I guess I wont show the RIAA that you can make a good model selling music over the internet.
I heard the same thing with something ... hmmm.. I thought it was called a Palm Pilot. They enjoyed a 90% marketshare before MS became serious and created a good Windows Powered CE. Now where is palm?
I like competition as it will give us better products and maybe it will force Apple to tone down their drm and make their ipods more consumer friendly.
Though I dislike the dependence on media player as more and more sites have wmv's and wma's with crappy MS drm that makes viewing it on macs or Linux boxes difficult.
Microsoft has access to %96 of all desktops in the world. Apple does not even come close though the Ipod has a nice marketshare at the current moment.
Also Vista will come with Surge which is MTV's video/audio store with WM11. So its likely the RIAA already has a deal with Microsoft and they are sick of Apple telling them to screw themselves with price controls. With more competition it gives the RIAA leveredge because they can sell their music to Microsoft and ignore Apple if the terms are not favorable enough.