UV light will kill cat5 cable pretty fast. Underground does as well but no were near as fast. Generally you can use the standard stuff but if your cable gets any water in it the copper rusts out pretty fast so be careful was baring the cable.
I am sorry. But I install both Windows and Linux machines as part of my Job. A linux OS install wins bar none compared to windows XP or 2003. Hardware just works. Were as Windows you generally have to track down Video and Network Card drivers. Sometime you need to install hard-drive controller drivers. Under Windows XP or 2003 that requires a floppy drive. Do you know how hard it is sometimes to find a working floppy drive.
Post install software install. Depending on the age of the product they both can take time to download updates.
Software install. Most everything in Linux is put a check next to what you want to install and it is there. On Windows Insert CD. Run installer. Find the anywhere from 10 to 128 char lic. key. Install. Sometimes requires a reboot.
I recently had my Laptop running Linux have an HD failure. I know it was coming but was hoping it could hold off until the weekend when I could rebuild. In under 1 hour I had a running kubuntu 8.04 install. Connected to my Network using Wireless. Took me a few hours to restore my files and get my desktop the way I like it.
Last Windows 2003 install I did took me two days to get they box running as I need to download drivers. Get them on the system. I ended up having to use a usb stick since it had no working network card drivers out of the box. Then windows update kicked in. Finally I had a working Windows system. Now the the joy of installing windows software nothing like having to type in lic. keys into installers. 2 Days later I had a system up and running.
Granted I have had installs under windows only take a few hours and Linux installs that just wouldn't work right and take days but as a whole Linux installs take less time.
No they are not. I have used several distros and I have to say that Kubuntu is one of the worse setup of kde I have every used and that includes Redhat 5 with kde RPM's from mandrack.
If you are lucky enough to only use Linux that is great but I still have to switch to windows on some systems at work. I pretty always double click when I used signal clicking I keep latching two copy's of every program. I like the fact it gives you a choice.
You would likely get branded a spammer and end up on a few black list.
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Generally one of 3 things. 1) you repeat the same process until the user finally does what you tell them to. 2) You repeat the same process until the user hangs up and becomes someone else headache. 3) You get local tech to go to system and fix it usually in 10 seconds. You have to be careful with 3 because then person will become the local persona worst nightmare because when they get on the help desk from that point on all they want if for someone to come to his desk and do is work.
I am guessing there network inside the county is in tack. Meaning there Military can still use there local network to pass data back and forth as for cheap intel that is what CNN and sat are for.
Simpler Fix report it to you distro. I have reported issue in Fedora many times. People who do the porting look at find the issue a either back port the fix or fix it and send it upstream. Either way they are the best way to fix many thing.
YUI is open source bsd based license you can fork it all you want. You might not get updates any more from Yahoo but they can never take your existing code away.
I agree part of the problem is management but you can't let the users off the hook either of curse IT does stupid things as well. Users will do crazy things. Just the other day I saw a report from someone who opened a port up for an employee so they could do there Job as certain piece of software required a certain port be opened. He didn't think about limiting that port to just a certain IP or address. For those that hadn't guessed it he found several users who setup games to use that port to work around the firewall so the could play games on company hardware using company bandwidth during work hours. He never posted if anything happen to the users over this. Some people wonder why IT sometimes goes overboard and that is a good example of why.
High School I wish. I worked for 10 Years outside of IT before I moved to IT about 5 Years ago. I have lots of experience on these issues. Since it appears you don't lets review the two examples given.
Example 1. You have someone who created a spreadsheet for her own use to keep stuff straight. It is a pretty good sheet and she references it someone asks her to copy them on it. She agrees and starts sending it to them. Then some else who does something else with that same basic data see it and wants to use the work she already put into it so they doesn't have to redue all that data entry in the end. She agrees and sends to them as well. Now they start to have problem with the data keeping multiple sheets in sync can be hard once it is maintained by more then one person. At some point something will eventually go wrong with the process and they need a better solution so they call in IT. IT gets called in. There is no budget to buy anything for this. There is always one user who will fight you tooth and nail on any changes you make because they are use to doing it 1 way and they hate change. In the end you make something to replace it but feature creep starts to kick in and you start getting tons of little simple changes like find a cure for the common cold(That isn't hard is it?). So you create something to replace it and get those little features added. All is great not so fast. Remember there boss's. They aren't getting there reports anymore because all the data is inside the new system. Now you have to go back and add reports and extra features for them. You finally get all that done just to get a request to create a new users that needs to access the following fields that aren't the same as the previous users. I hope the programmers made that easy but he was under the gun so it take 3 weeks to get that users added and meanwhile you have someone asking for hourly reports on getting this user added with no idea why it takes so long to do such a simple process.
Example 2. This is happen to me right now. Someone from my company works with someone from other company and they come up with an agreement aka contract to handle real time reports over email and clueless user sees nothing wrong with that. After contract are signed I am called in to setup the email address. Now a few weeks later we are close to losing the customer because email is NOT reliable and NOT real time so we are late handling of some of there messages. Pressure is coming down to fix the issue. How do you make email reliable and real time? To make matter worse we charged them $100 to setup as clueless user thought there would be nothing really to setup and that is our min setup charge.
I wish I could say things like this are unusual but they aren't.
Spoken like someone who doesn't work in IT. I get request the day stuff is suppose to start with the users IDEA of what should work. Not requirements or information and what needs to be done then I get weeks of little issues tiring to make this Square Peg fit into a round whole until I figure out what is going on and replace it with something that works. The problem is IT is the last step in the process not the 1st step and that will always cause issues. Sometime we just can't do what the user thinks is simple. Just this week I had a issue with someone deciding that email made a good real time alert system from an external customer. Problem email isn't real time and/or reliable. So every hick up in email is an issue. If IT was consult we could have either a)set the expection or b)developed sometime that was real time and reliable they could use.
I think he was refering to more along the lines of running Windows 98, 2000, 2k3, XP, XP SP1, XPSP2 with IE6, XP SP2 with IE7 etc. For testing not a testing server that runs web apps.
I doubt it was just a list of numbers. It likley was a list of numbers, names, addresses, other personal info that the State IRS would keep that would likely give someone everything they need to open lines of credit and fake being those people.
I call BS. I never do a contract over 1 Year. Less then 2 Years ago with Verzion I got a contract for 1 Year has to do with how fast I break most cell phones. I had to pay a little more for my Cell phone but I got the one year contract. They tried hard to sell me a 2 Year plans. I said it is a 1 year plan or no phone then the sales person backed off. Did you read you contract before you signed it. They made a mistake on mine as well but they fixed it when I pointed it out. The forgot my data plan. Once everything was right in the contract I signed the form and had no problems with the computer deciding I had anything diff. then what was in the contract.
T-Mobile and AT&T are the only GSM providers. Verzion the Bigest is CDMA. Sprint/nextel is something else as well. So an unlocked GSM phone can go between AT&T and T-Mobile it can't be used with Verzion and Sprint. Verzion has the best coverage of all the carriers it is the one that will work in most of New Mexico well the GSM phones only really work well in urban area's although that is changing some. I think in a few years all the US will switch over to GSM simple because fewer and fewer Manf want to deal in the CDMA and Sprint/nextel phone's. But right now in the US if you need good coverage you use Verzion. That means very limited choice in phones.
A laptop doesn't limit you to a finite number of places to work from. For most people, the best solution would be to get a good laptop, NAS if necessary, and a single docking station for when they need to do work that requires a larger monitor or optical mouse. (By the way, a docking station with peripherals is always going to cost less than a desktop PC with the same peripherals. If that weren't the case, it would never have been profitable to sell docking stations. And docking stations have always been designed to minimize the hassle of docking and undocking.)
What he said was the combined cost of the laptop and docking were greater not the cost of just the docking station. However they do get close. My laptop the docking station is $150.00 and I get simple connection to mouse, USB, power. No place to insert PCI cards or anything else. And my laptop isn't the norm many laptop just don't have a docking station avaible.
Or it could be that that small county's have Just one Phone Network and only a small number of tower to update to make changes to there network to support things like 3G and other advanced Features were in the USA we have the opposite effect Large Area Lots of Towers and slow upgrade cycles. Plus the existing Networks of Verizon and Cell One Plus the Newer GSM networks that phones have to be setup to work with. It was less then 1 Year ago when Verzion phones droped the analog network and just support 3 Differnet Digital systems now. Not to mention the 2 or 3 Different Data Standard that have came up over the years as well.
My understanding is these moving have a label added to them so if you bought a movie that said the movie has been edited to remove object-able scenes and you still bought it that who is the idiot here.
Depends on the state. Some states have much harder standards on buying any gun some just on handguns. The paperwork on the Fed Side takes less then an hour but the state side could be weeks in some states.
Wrong. Wal-Mart does filter there moving I use to work at wal-mart and one movie wal-mart had pulled because the objected to a 7 Second scene in a movie and had that tape pulled. That movie came back in 2 Months later without that 7 seconds. This ruling will have zero effect on this as the copyright holder thought there managing interest are making the cut up versions so that is legal what isn't legal now is if wal-mart took the movie off there shelf took it to a studio and had the 7 seconds cut out that would now be illegal but that isn't what they do they simple refuse to sell unless the 7 seconds isn't there. The studio who has the right still under this ruling cuts out those 7 seconds and now wal-mart will sell that movie/CD.
I have been running it on FC 5 for about 2 Days now and it has yet to crash. It has quirks and required a reboot for my sound to work after install but overall works better then anything else I have tried.
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UV light will kill cat5 cable pretty fast. Underground does as well but no were near as fast. Generally you can use the standard stuff but if your cable gets any water in it the copper rusts out pretty fast so be careful was baring the cable.
I am sorry. But I install both Windows and Linux machines as part of my Job. A linux OS install wins bar none compared to windows XP or 2003. Hardware just works. Were as Windows you generally have to track down Video and Network Card drivers. Sometime you need to install hard-drive controller drivers. Under Windows XP or 2003 that requires a floppy drive. Do you know how hard it is sometimes to find a working floppy drive.
Post install software install. Depending on the age of the product they both can take time to download updates.
Software install. Most everything in Linux is put a check next to what you want to install and it is there. On Windows Insert CD. Run installer. Find the anywhere from 10 to 128 char lic. key. Install. Sometimes requires a reboot.
I recently had my Laptop running Linux have an HD failure. I know it was coming but was hoping it could hold off until the weekend when I could rebuild. In under 1 hour I had a running kubuntu 8.04 install. Connected to my Network using Wireless. Took me a few hours to restore my files and get my desktop the way I like it.
Last Windows 2003 install I did took me two days to get they box running as I need to download drivers. Get them on the system. I ended up having to use a usb stick since it had no working network card drivers out of the box. Then windows update kicked in. Finally I had a working Windows system. Now the the joy of installing windows software nothing like having to type in lic. keys into installers. 2 Days later I had a system up and running.
Granted I have had installs under windows only take a few hours and Linux installs that just wouldn't work right and take days but as a whole Linux installs take less time.
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Robert
No they are not. I have used several distros and I have to say that Kubuntu is one of the worse setup of kde I have every used and that includes Redhat 5 with kde RPM's from mandrack.
If you are lucky enough to only use Linux that is great but I still have to switch to windows on some systems at work. I pretty always double click when I used signal clicking I keep latching two copy's of every program. I like the fact it gives you a choice.
You would likely get branded a spammer and end up on a few black list.
Thanks
Robert
Generally one of 3 things. 1) you repeat the same process until the user finally does what you tell them to. 2) You repeat the same process until the user hangs up and becomes someone else headache. 3) You get local tech to go to system and fix it usually in 10 seconds. You have to be careful with 3 because then person will become the local persona worst nightmare because when they get on the help desk from that point on all they want if for someone to come to his desk and do is work.
I am guessing there network inside the county is in tack. Meaning there Military can still use there local network to pass data back and forth as for cheap intel that is what CNN and sat are for.
Simpler Fix report it to you distro. I have reported issue in Fedora many times. People who do the porting look at find the issue a either back port the fix or fix it and send it upstream. Either way they are the best way to fix many thing.
Thanks
Robert
YUI is open source bsd based license you can fork it all you want. You might not get updates any more from Yahoo but they can never take your existing code away.
I agree part of the problem is management but you can't let the users off the hook either of curse IT does stupid things as well. Users will do crazy things. Just the other day I saw a report from someone who opened a port up for an employee so they could do there Job as certain piece of software required a certain port be opened. He didn't think about limiting that port to just a certain IP or address. For those that hadn't guessed it he found several users who setup games to use that port to work around the firewall so the could play games on company hardware using company bandwidth during work hours. He never posted if anything happen to the users over this. Some people wonder why IT sometimes goes overboard and that is a good example of why.
Thanks
Robert
High School I wish. I worked for 10 Years outside of IT before I moved to IT about 5 Years ago. I have lots of experience on these issues. Since it appears you don't lets review the two examples given.
Example 1. You have someone who created a spreadsheet for her own use to keep stuff straight. It is a pretty good sheet and she references it someone asks her to copy them on it. She agrees and starts sending it to them. Then some else who does something else with that same basic data see it and wants to use the work she already put into it so they doesn't have to redue all that data entry in the end. She agrees and sends to them as well. Now they start to have problem with the data keeping multiple sheets in sync can be hard once it is maintained by more then one person. At some point something will eventually go wrong with the process and they need a better solution so they call in IT. IT gets called in. There is no budget to buy anything for this. There is always one user who will fight you tooth and nail on any changes you make because they are use to doing it 1 way and they hate change. In the end you make something to replace it but feature creep starts to kick in and you start getting tons of little simple changes like find a cure for the common cold(That isn't hard is it?). So you create something to replace it and get those little features added. All is great not so fast. Remember there boss's. They aren't getting there reports anymore because all the data is inside the new system. Now you have to go back and add reports and extra features for them. You finally get all that done just to get a request to create a new users that needs to access the following fields that aren't the same as the previous users. I hope the programmers made that easy but he was under the gun so it take 3 weeks to get that users added and meanwhile you have someone asking for hourly reports on getting this user added with no idea why it takes so long to do such a simple process.
Example 2. This is happen to me right now. Someone from my company works with someone from other company and they come up with an agreement aka contract to handle real time reports over email and clueless user sees nothing wrong with that. After contract are signed I am called in to setup the email address. Now a few weeks later we are close to losing the customer because email is NOT reliable and NOT real time so we are late handling of some of there messages. Pressure is coming down to fix the issue. How do you make email reliable and real time? To make matter worse we charged them $100 to setup as clueless user thought there would be nothing really to setup and that is our min setup charge.
I wish I could say things like this are unusual but they aren't.
Thanks
Robert
Spoken like someone who doesn't work in IT. I get request the day stuff is suppose to start with the users IDEA of what should work. Not requirements or information and what needs to be done then I get weeks of little issues tiring to make this Square Peg fit into a round whole until I figure out what is going on and replace it with something that works. The problem is IT is the last step in the process not the 1st step and that will always cause issues. Sometime we just can't do what the user thinks is simple. Just this week I had a issue with someone deciding that email made a good real time alert system from an external customer. Problem email isn't real time and/or reliable. So every hick up in email is an issue. If IT was consult we could have either a)set the expection or b)developed sometime that was real time and reliable they could use.
I think he was refering to more along the lines of running Windows 98, 2000, 2k3, XP, XP SP1, XPSP2 with IE6, XP SP2 with IE7 etc. For testing not a testing server that runs web apps.
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robert
Verizon offers a card the connections to your notebook.
I doubt it was just a list of numbers. It likley was a list of numbers, names, addresses, other personal info that the State IRS would keep that would likely give someone everything they need to open lines of credit and fake being those people.
I call BS. I never do a contract over 1 Year. Less then 2 Years ago with Verzion I got a contract for 1 Year has to do with how fast I break most cell phones. I had to pay a little more for my Cell phone but I got the one year contract. They tried hard to sell me a 2 Year plans. I said it is a 1 year plan or no phone then the sales person backed off. Did you read you contract before you signed it. They made a mistake on mine as well but they fixed it when I pointed it out. The forgot my data plan. Once everything was right in the contract I signed the form and had no problems with the computer deciding I had anything diff. then what was in the contract.
T-Mobile and AT&T are the only GSM providers. Verzion the Bigest is CDMA. Sprint/nextel is something else as well. So an unlocked GSM phone can go between AT&T and T-Mobile it can't be used with Verzion and Sprint. Verzion has the best coverage of all the carriers it is the one that will work in most of New Mexico well the GSM phones only really work well in urban area's although that is changing some. I think in a few years all the US will switch over to GSM simple because fewer and fewer Manf want to deal in the CDMA and Sprint/nextel phone's. But right now in the US if you need good coverage you use Verzion. That means very limited choice in phones.
A laptop doesn't limit you to a finite number of places to work from. For most people, the best solution would be to get a good laptop, NAS if necessary, and a single docking station for when they need to do work that requires a larger monitor or optical mouse. (By the way, a docking station with peripherals is always going to cost less than a desktop PC with the same peripherals. If that weren't the case, it would never have been profitable to sell docking stations. And docking stations have always been designed to minimize the hassle of docking and undocking.)
What he said was the combined cost of the laptop and docking were greater not the cost of just the docking station. However they do get close. My laptop the docking station is $150.00 and I get simple connection to mouse, USB, power. No place to insert PCI cards or anything else. And my laptop isn't the norm many laptop just don't have a docking station avaible.
Because it replaced even more people scraping there pages using even more bandwidth.
Or it could be that that small county's have Just one Phone Network and only a small number of tower to update to make changes to there network to support things like 3G and other advanced Features were in the USA we have the opposite effect Large Area Lots of Towers and slow upgrade cycles. Plus the existing Networks of Verizon and Cell One Plus the Newer GSM networks that phones have to be setup to work with. It was less then 1 Year ago when Verzion phones droped the analog network and just support 3 Differnet Digital systems now. Not to mention the 2 or 3 Different Data Standard that have came up over the years as well.
I guess it depends on if MS decides to offer IE7 for Windows 2000 for $4.99 I would bet there would be several people who would jump at it.
My understanding is these moving have a label added to them so if you bought a movie that said the movie has been edited to remove object-able scenes and you still bought it that who is the idiot here.
Depends on the state. Some states have much harder standards on buying any gun some just on handguns. The paperwork on the Fed Side takes less then an hour but the state side could be weeks in some states.
Wrong. Wal-Mart does filter there moving I use to work at wal-mart and one movie wal-mart had pulled because the objected to a 7 Second scene in a movie and had that tape pulled. That movie came back in 2 Months later without that 7 seconds. This ruling will have zero effect on this as the copyright holder thought there managing interest are making the cut up versions so that is legal what isn't legal now is if wal-mart took the movie off there shelf took it to a studio and had the 7 seconds cut out that would now be illegal but that isn't what they do they simple refuse to sell unless the 7 seconds isn't there. The studio who has the right still under this ruling cuts out those 7 seconds and now wal-mart will sell that movie/CD.
I have been running it on FC 5 for about 2 Days now and it has yet to crash. It has quirks and required a reboot for my sound to work after install but overall works better then anything else I have tried.
Thanks
Robert