What's the big deal about gold or silver? Why should our money represent shiny metal? Just like our current currency gold and silves don't have any value except what we give it. Why not back our money with arsenic? It's an element just like gold and silver.
You keep on dreaming. Joe Six pack doesn't want to know what TCP/IP is and he doesn't want to learn command line or any shell scripting. He simply want to turn his machine on and play a game, surf the internet or send an email.
If installing software he simply wants to click OK or NEXT and that's it. Unzipping and compiling is foreign to him. If you can't throw the CD in and have it play automatically it's too hard and he doesn't want to be bothered.
Joe Six Pack doesn't care about computers like we do. He simply wants to enjoy his machine without having to know 1500 commands and their arguments.
But the big companies can still get their machines shipped with NT4 even though XP is out. If GE or any other Fortune 500 company wants to keep buying NT 4 for the next two years the OEM's will oblige. But most likely they already have a site license and won't have to worry whether MS is still selling NT or not.
I used to roll out WIndows 2000 with Ghost 6 Enterprise. Instead of ghostwalker you had to use sysprep from microsoft. Worked great. For XP as far as I know if you buy the professional corporate version you won't have to register it. My guess is MS is charging more for it as a sort of a tax. They know some people will pirate it so they are charging more.
I got out from the army last year. The military ID always said Geneva Convention Identification Card. It's supposed to identify you if you get taken prisoner.
That's why in my E1-E4 days it said Category 1 and when I got promoted to E5 I got a new one saying Category 2. It's one thing the US government or a private company tracking access to certain areas, but why should the government track me as a private citizen if I'm not a suspect in any crime?
It's one thing taking pictures of people at airports and comparing them to terrorists faces. having the government track people reminds me of my birthplace in the USSR. One time when I was 5 the police came to our house and wanted to know why my parents went to moscow so often.
I wouldn't trust any report like that from a foreign newspaper. The washington post and some of the domestic newspapers probably have the best sources in our government.
Besides in war you always send out misinformation to confuse your enemy.
We learned it in the army. Any media questions you give them the public affairs speech and send them to the public affairs officer.
But my point was that reporters don't really know anything about any subject they cover. Military operations are enormously complex. Mastering logistics takes decades of experience. Just like any other subject the reporters cannot grasp the details. Even in the military everyone has their specialties and usually don't know very much about other jobs.
But then there would be nothing for the media to report. If we go in full force as a conventional army, it'll be a catastrophe. What a great story for the media.
Besides most reporters don't know very much. Everyone knows how well the general media reports on technology matters. Why should the military be any different?
I started doing tech support in SETAF . As a sys admin you can help run a classified email system, but I can't talk about that.
Another unit is the 5th Signal Command in Germany. They do network monitoring for the US Army Europe Wide Area Network. They also have deployable units that can go anywhere in the world and set up LAN's. In 1997 I was deployed to Africa and they set up non-classified and classified info LAN's with a satellite link back to Germany and Internet access. I was surfing the Internet form Central Africa. It was great.
Or you can go to 18th Airborne Corps . You can be in one of the higher level signal units or 82nd Airborne where you'll jump from planes with you servers and set up LAN's when you land.
I was just kidding, but you're right. I've seen a Sony laptop that's set up with almost every service running. It was horrible. And the worst part was you couldn't just use a normal W2k CD to install. You had to use their CD restore thingy.
I'm an MCSE, but it's what you make of it. You can spend all your time and not get past the wizards or you canlearn the concepts. It's up to the individual. I visit the microsoft.public.exchange.admin newsgroup daily and there are a bunch of unix people there learning nt and exchange for the first time. They are always asking questions. I'm learning linux and have a lot of questions.
There are good and bad sys admins on every platform. My company we run 95% NT and were OK.
Back in ancient Persia they would tie someone to a boat and pour honey on his stomach. They would also leave some meat. And add the maggots and other cute little lifeforms. In the space of a few weeks they would eat the victim alive.
Actually at my last posting in SETAF the planning started 10 months out. Every one put their dream sheet in for unfunded projects months out and hoped for the best. That's how they found the money to dig up the streets and lay fiber.
Scanner. Some software. Don't really remember. It's the way things work. If you don't spend your budget, it gets cut next year. And nobody wants their budget cut. So you find a way to spend the money. I didn't like it, but I didn't contrlo the money.
My first job out of the army was consultant for a gov't agency. They didn't have the same mentality. Maybe that's why we had a surplus.
I totally agree. I spent 8 years in the army and the last four years at this link . October 1 is the beggining of the fiscal year for the US Government. That means every last penny from FY 2001 funds has to be spent or "lost".
I remember some cool shopping trips with my US Government VISA card in September. Basically we throw stuff in the cart just to spend the money. Whether you need it or not important.
Actually I meant that they will be paid every time a transaction is performed. Kind of like the royalties they get with some online photo processing operations.I'm not very good at proofreading.
The challenge for Microsoft is to find a recurring revenue stream. Jack Welch says don't let anyone get between you and your customers. Bill Gates listened, and others didn't. They are letting Microsoft get between them and their customers.
Don't forget the money saved from not paying theter prices on foods in the popcorn, sugar, fat, butter and soft drink food groups. But since you won't be buying 3 liter cokes at $6 each with free refills you may not be getting the best value.
I'm not 100% sure, but an RCE disk is locked only for Region 1. It won't play in region free or non-region 1 players. Just another feature of the movie studios.
I usually support patents, trademarks and copyrights but this is way too far. People pay extra for the region free players and that money goes to the studios as a tax. And they use it to develop rce disks.
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What's the big deal about gold or silver? Why should our money represent shiny metal? Just like our current currency gold and silves don't have any value except what we give it. Why not back our money with arsenic? It's an element just like gold and silver.
That's funny. I live in NYC and right after the WTC thing my CC wouldn't work in my liquor store. My ATM card worked fine.
Why didn't you go to another store? There are plenty that don't charge CC surcharges. Web and B&M based.
You keep on dreaming. Joe Six pack doesn't want to know what TCP/IP is and he doesn't want to learn command line or any shell scripting. He simply want to turn his machine on and play a game, surf the internet or send an email.
If installing software he simply wants to click OK or NEXT and that's it. Unzipping and compiling is foreign to him. If you can't throw the CD in and have it play automatically it's too hard and he doesn't want to be bothered.
Joe Six Pack doesn't care about computers like we do. He simply wants to enjoy his machine without having to know 1500 commands and their arguments.
But the big companies can still get their machines shipped with NT4 even though XP is out. If GE or any other Fortune 500 company wants to keep buying NT 4 for the next two years the OEM's will oblige. But most likely they already have a site license and won't have to worry whether MS is still selling NT or not.
I used to roll out WIndows 2000 with Ghost 6 Enterprise. Instead of ghostwalker you had to use sysprep from microsoft. Worked great. For XP as far as I know if you buy the professional corporate version you won't have to register it. My guess is MS is charging more for it as a sort of a tax. They know some people will pirate it so they are charging more.
I think they should do it with a few thousand servers running Datacenter and SQL 2000. Of course they should let MS run the whole operation.
I got out from the army last year. The military ID always said Geneva Convention Identification Card. It's supposed to identify you if you get taken prisoner.
That's why in my E1-E4 days it said Category 1 and when I got promoted to E5 I got a new one saying Category 2. It's one thing the US government or a private company tracking access to certain areas, but why should the government track me as a private citizen if I'm not a suspect in any crime?
It's one thing taking pictures of people at airports and comparing them to terrorists faces. having the government track people reminds me of my birthplace in the USSR. One time when I was 5 the police came to our house and wanted to know why my parents went to moscow so often.
I wouldn't trust any report like that from a foreign newspaper. The washington post and some of the domestic newspapers probably have the best sources in our government.
Besides in war you always send out misinformation to confuse your enemy.
We learned it in the army. Any media questions you give them the public affairs speech and send them to the public affairs officer.
But my point was that reporters don't really know anything about any subject they cover. Military operations are enormously complex. Mastering logistics takes decades of experience. Just like any other subject the reporters cannot grasp the details. Even in the military everyone has their specialties and usually don't know very much about other jobs.
But then there would be nothing for the media to report. If we go in full force as a conventional army, it'll be a catastrophe. What a great story for the media.
Besides most reporters don't know very much. Everyone knows how well the general media reports on technology matters. Why should the military be any different?
Another unit is the 5th Signal Command in Germany. They do network monitoring for the US Army Europe Wide Area Network. They also have deployable units that can go anywhere in the world and set up LAN's. In 1997 I was deployed to Africa and they set up non-classified and classified info LAN's with a satellite link back to Germany and Internet access. I was surfing the Internet form Central Africa. It was great.
Or you can go to 18th Airborne Corps . You can be in one of the higher level signal units or 82nd Airborne where you'll jump from planes with you servers and set up LAN's when you land.
I was just kidding, but you're right. I've seen a Sony laptop that's set up with almost every service running. It was horrible. And the worst part was you couldn't just use a normal W2k CD to install. You had to use their CD restore thingy.
I'm an MCSE, but it's what you make of it. You can spend all your time and not get past the wizards or you canlearn the concepts. It's up to the individual. I visit the microsoft.public.exchange.admin newsgroup daily and there are a bunch of unix people there learning nt and exchange for the first time. They are always asking questions. I'm learning linux and have a lot of questions.
There are good and bad sys admins on every platform. My company we run 95% NT and were OK.
Back in ancient Persia they would tie someone to a boat and pour honey on his stomach. They would also leave some meat. And add the maggots and other cute little lifeforms. In the space of a few weeks they would eat the victim alive.
That's one way to solve the problem.
Is it on the website? Don't have time to look. Testing Veritas Intelligent Disaster Recovery now.
Yes, Microsoft makes Encarta. Check out the Encarta Website
Actually at my last posting in SETAF the planning started 10 months out. Every one put their dream sheet in for unfunded projects months out and hoped for the best. That's how they found the money to dig up the streets and lay fiber.
Scanner. Some software. Don't really remember. It's the way things work. If you don't spend your budget, it gets cut next year. And nobody wants their budget cut. So you find a way to spend the money. I didn't like it, but I didn't contrlo the money.
My first job out of the army was consultant for a gov't agency. They didn't have the same mentality. Maybe that's why we had a surplus.
I remember some cool shopping trips with my US Government VISA card in September. Basically we throw stuff in the cart just to spend the money. Whether you need it or not important.
I bet you either work for the government or do IT consulting for them. Is it for some kind of scientific work or to help kill of the terrorists?
Actually I meant that they will be paid every time a transaction is performed. Kind of like the royalties they get with some online photo processing operations.I'm not very good at proofreading.
The challenge for Microsoft is to find a recurring revenue stream. Jack Welch says don't let anyone get between you and your customers. Bill Gates listened, and others didn't. They are letting Microsoft get between them and their customers.
Don't forget the money saved from not paying theter prices on foods in the popcorn, sugar, fat, butter and soft drink food groups. But since you won't be buying 3 liter cokes at $6 each with free refills you may not be getting the best value.
that MS won't control all the data. They will just get every time you log in or access anything.
I'm not 100% sure, but an RCE disk is locked only for Region 1. It won't play in region free or non-region 1 players. Just another feature of the movie studios.
I usually support patents, trademarks and copyrights but this is way too far. People pay extra for the region free players and that money goes to the studios as a tax. And they use it to develop rce disks.
I got into DVD before the VHS came out and swore never to buy VHS again. I broke down once when I bought the OT on ebay for $10.