Yeah, Sure, Blocking malicious downloads has the potential for bad, but it also has the potential for good. You get hit with Cryptolocker and not have any good backups then tell me how much you hate a feature like this. I have already seen it too many times, companies that loose data because of that virus and the sysadmins that are too proud to pay the ransom. Or even worse, the employees who get hit with it then doesn't say anything until after the timer runs out.
People might hate on features like this, but at the business level it can be a life saver.
The NSA has been caught, granted, but what about other countries like China? They are known for having a cyber army division as a part of their offense/defense. Other countries have the same, recognized and funded divisions of their military devoted to cyber warfare and defense. How deep do their fingers go?
I Work in IT. Today I was asked to work on a computer that was not managed by my company and I had zero knowledge of current network setup. Within thirty minutes I had privilege escalated up to the point where I could created my own local administrator account was logged into it fixing the issue. The other day, domain controller goes down early AM, i arrive get it back up. The database built and used by their clinic software was corrupted. Restored from backup my company doesn't give me info about because they don't think I'm smart enough to use it and had company back up and running. I only have a GED.
As an owner of a windows mobile device it has to be data gathering and transmitting it to the NSA because the mobile device damn sure doesn't do much else besides look good. WP fan boys can hate, the more I use this device the more I utterly dislike it. Do you know how much I miss being able to tap inside of a word and the cursor go where you tap, instead of tapping and highlight the whole word, tap again and unhighlight the whole word. Tap again and highlight the whole word. No. I have to press and hold and then the cursor appears like half an inch from where I want it then I have to move the cursor to where I need it. Oh how I miss a swiping keyboard too. On top of that, I violated my EULA with this post. Thou shalt not use Microsoft products to speak Ill of Microsoft!
IE10 broke many things. Want to edit your Shortel configuration? Better not do it in IE10 or you will wind up with a corrupt database. AdvancedMD? Stray far from such things, broken in IE9 as well without a registry hack. Inspire E-Learning? Not going to work in IE10 Speaking of Advanced MD, any medical website that any of our(the company I work for) clients use is broken and unsupported in IE 10. Calling the tech support line results in something like this,
ME: "My client is having such and such issue, I have been looking at everything for 15 - 20 minutes, I can't find anything wrong, do you have any ideas?
Tech: "We only support Internet Explorer, are you using Internet Explorer?"
Me: "Yes"
Tech: "What version of Internet Explorer are you using?"
Me: "IE10 64bit."
Tech: "Oh...... We don't support Internet Exploder 10.... I can't help you..." *click*
Me: "Da Fuq?"
The IT company I work for co-hosted a clinic with Baylor Health, Baylor switched the clinic over to Citrix. I will go along with your statement, "Citrix applications seem to work." The clinic had a lot of problems with Citrix. Personally, one thing that really grinded my gears with citrix is when you added a new printer to the machine. You had to completely exit out of Citrix and then restart it before the printer would appear in a Citrix application for use. Small, I know, but can be a pain when you are replacing a printer with a newer model, different brand, etc.
I really liked my LG Optimus L9, i think it was a very solid buy for $200. I had the T-Mobile version (P769n) and couldn't unlock the boot loader, but I did root it. I used a different launcher, removed all of the worthless T-Mobile apps and everything else I didn't need. I ended up with a snappy, responsive phone that had a Galaxy S2 or S3 (don't remember which now) users envious. My mistake was going for one of those confounded WP that T-Mobile gives away for my GF after breaking the screen on her phone. She basically threw it at me so I had to give her my droid and use this WP8 phone. Its..... Its.... Not a day goes by that I look at my old LG and think about stealing my phone back. I've even gone as far as to plot this out. As soon as I'm able I am getting back on Droid and I would like another LG. As I said, I was very happy with my Optimus L9.
Many of the games that come out now have really amazing visuals/graphics/etc, but they all lack something the old classics had. What that something is, I'm not sure. I miss Sierra games with things like Police Quest, Kings Quest, The Island of Dr. Brain. Then you had other games like Hugo: House of horrors and Hugo 2: Who done it? Dune and Dune 2. Their graphics where horrid, but those games were a blast to play. I don't know why, but those older games just seem to have more character and spirit then the games that come out now. Don't get me wrong, there are good games that come out every year, but it seems like a majority of the games coming out now are just the same things rehashed over and over with better graphics and slight variations in the story line. It's almost like the gaming industry has homogenized somewhat. Want to make a FPS, just remake Halo or CoD. Want to make an open world game, just remake GTA,. What to make an RPG, remake Final Fantasy, Kings Quest or Elder Scrolls. Again, don't misunderstand, there are games that come out that do not follow this form such as Dear Esther or Portals and are awesome. I am simply talking the gaming industry as a whole, it way different then what it used to be. The indie game scene, however, seems to be pumping out some pretty awesome stuff these days.
Hi,
Not quite sure at your last job if you had actual people using the computers or if the computers just sat there unused, but at mine we have real people sitting in front of them that put the hardware to use.You know, people that:
Hard reboot the machine in the middle of an update "because it takes to long."
When a fan begins to make noise they hit the machine until it stops instead of reporting it
Want to lean back in their chair with their keyboard in their lap and instead of requesting a wireless keyboard and mouse combo, grab the keyboard and yank
Try to send an email with 80+Mb worth of PDF attachments and when it doesn't work they hit the machine a few times, then they notify IT something is wrong
claims they ran a server "at home" and instantly knows better then you and insists that anti-malware and anti-virus software should not be installed on their computers and will do everything they can to circumvent them
Will move hardware around, e.g. remodel their desk, and yank and pull cables when they are not long enough to reach
Seem to think that computer towers make excellent dinner/coffee tables
Believe that the computer tower makes an excellent foot rest.
Will replace their UPS with a $3 powerstrip because their UPS starts making annoying beeps and instead of notifying IT they just remove the UPS all together.
Will make every effort to install software that shouldn't be installed on the computer
Will make every effort to circumvent proxies/firewalls that do website/content filtering
Will have Chrome and Firefox open with each browser having 15-20 tabs open and each browser having 10-15 plugins, while having quickbooks open, and outlook, and their CRM and skype, and 10 emails, and pandora, and their VoIP softphone, and who knows what else
Dialog prompt pop up? Who needs to read it, just keep clicking "OK" until it goes away.
This list can easily go on. And again, I am not quite sure what magical section of the universe you live in where once the issue is resolved the user does everything they are supposed to with their computer, but I don't live there.
And for disambiguation, I don't own a computer with Windows or OSX on it. I have a laptop with Linux and this laptop with ChromeOS. None of which I have any issues with. My GF, on the other hand, went with a snazzy Windows 8 laptop and I am always fixing that damn thing. Along with other users I deal with that have Windows 7 and 8, I am always fixing their computers. The users that have iMacs? Never hear a peep out of them. The servers that run Linux? Often times forget they exist because never have a problem with them. But those windows machines and servers? Always get reminded they are there. Haters gonna hate, but that is what it is in my corner of the world.
Not trolling, I work in IT and i'm part of a team that services around 500 computer. I see the BSOD everyday. Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP even the occasional Windows 2000.
Where did anyone get this idea of the BSOD taking a hiatus? I deal with it almost daily in Windows 7. Maybe these win7 systems were not informed of the BSOD furlough?
As someone who has owned both Windows Phone and Android, bad idea for HTC. Yeah, WP looks cool, but that is about where it stops. I can customize the hell out of my Android, different launchers, different lockers, different dialers, different SMS apps, different search applications, etc. I can make my Android look and act like WP, I can make my Android look and act like iOS, I can make my Android look and act like Ubuntu Touch, I can even install a complete linux distribution inside my Android phone. There really isn't a whole lot you can do on a WP. Change a few tiles around, change their color, but that is about it. The apps suck for WP, I tried looking for a different web browser and you are pretty much stuck with IE or some other browser based off of IE. My work uses google talk/hangouts. I tried searching for that, there were two or three apps that supported this eBuddy and IM+. I don't use social media so the Twitter and Facebook integration in WP is useless to me. Don't want to use Bing as the default search provider? You are going to have to install a custom WP Rom for that. I can get my Android to do everything I want it to do, but I can't get my WP to do anything close.
Steve Jobs had a vision beyond metrics. He believed in something more then making a profit and pursued that dream. It is little things like that which get missed. 99.99% of all micromanagers have no vision beyond their own paycheck.
It paints a picture of a company with deep engineering talent but hamstrung by arrogance, indecision, slowness to embrace change, and a lack of internal accountability.
This honestly sounds like most companies that I have worked for. The one that really grinds my gears is the lack of internal accountability. I hate it when a mistake happens and fingers start pointing in every direction. Then the person it gets pinned on is the one poor sap that didn't CYA even though it was clearly not their fault. Or, if someone actually steps up to admit a mistake, corporate america views them as weak and unworthy of the company. I have never understood how people in business want to get lied to, they just don't want to know they are getting lied to.
My comment is completely off topic.
I have come across a couple of the scroogled adds. I have to say that I am not impressed by Microsoft's recent add campaigns. Watching their commercials and seeing their adds around the internet, I get the impression of a spoiled child not getting their way so they last out and throw a tantrum. Am I right or wrong in that? I don't know, but that is the impression I get from Microsoft's advertising.
I don't have time to type up an entire paper on this or anything as I have got to run out the door for work, but.
Evolutionist have faith also.
For example, to overcome the delicate balance that is needed for life to exist evolutionist have invented the multiverse. We just happen to be one of an infinite number of universes out there that just happened to get all the combinations correct. Evolutionists are always saying something like "Show me your God." Well, I say show me one of these other universes. Oh, but you can't because there is even a get out of jail clause in the multiverse theory for the evolutionists that says something to the effect of, the universe is expanding faster then the speed of light therefor we will never be able to see one of the other universe despite have the best possible equipment at the time. At least I believe I will eventually see God, your theory says you will never get to see one of the other universes and just accept it on blind faith.
Great Idea, however, I don't think Obama understand cell phone technology in America.
There are only two carriers that conform to global standards, T-Mobile and AT&T. There are MNVOs that piggy back off of those two carriers, Simple Mobile for example, but they are the only two that use GSM technology. Verizon, Sprint, Virgin Mobile, etc all use a nonstandard cellular technology that is US specific. You could unlock an AT&T phone but the only other network you could use it on in America is T-Mobile's. Good luck using a phone made for Sprints network on GSM technology or on Verizon's network.
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Yeah, Sure, Blocking malicious downloads has the potential for bad, but it also has the potential for good. You get hit with Cryptolocker and not have any good backups then tell me how much you hate a feature like this. I have already seen it too many times, companies that loose data because of that virus and the sysadmins that are too proud to pay the ransom. Or even worse, the employees who get hit with it then doesn't say anything until after the timer runs out. People might hate on features like this, but at the business level it can be a life saver.
The NSA has been caught, granted, but what about other countries like China? They are known for having a cyber army division as a part of their offense/defense. Other countries have the same, recognized and funded divisions of their military devoted to cyber warfare and defense. How deep do their fingers go?
Can confirm, and despite being a plumber you still deal with less crap.
I Work in IT. Today I was asked to work on a computer that was not managed by my company and I had zero knowledge of current network setup. Within thirty minutes I had privilege escalated up to the point where I could created my own local administrator account was logged into it fixing the issue. The other day, domain controller goes down early AM, i arrive get it back up. The database built and used by their clinic software was corrupted. Restored from backup my company doesn't give me info about because they don't think I'm smart enough to use it and had company back up and running. I only have a GED.
As an owner of a windows mobile device it has to be data gathering and transmitting it to the NSA because the mobile device damn sure doesn't do much else besides look good. WP fan boys can hate, the more I use this device the more I utterly dislike it. Do you know how much I miss being able to tap inside of a word and the cursor go where you tap, instead of tapping and highlight the whole word, tap again and unhighlight the whole word. Tap again and highlight the whole word. No. I have to press and hold and then the cursor appears like half an inch from where I want it then I have to move the cursor to where I need it. Oh how I miss a swiping keyboard too. On top of that, I violated my EULA with this post. Thou shalt not use Microsoft products to speak Ill of Microsoft!
IE10 broke many things. Want to edit your Shortel configuration? Better not do it in IE10 or you will wind up with a corrupt database. AdvancedMD? Stray far from such things, broken in IE9 as well without a registry hack. Inspire E-Learning? Not going to work in IE10 Speaking of Advanced MD, any medical website that any of our(the company I work for) clients use is broken and unsupported in IE 10. Calling the tech support line results in something like this,
ME: "My client is having such and such issue, I have been looking at everything for 15 - 20 minutes, I can't find anything wrong, do you have any ideas?
Tech: "We only support Internet Explorer, are you using Internet Explorer?"
Me: "Yes"
Tech: "What version of Internet Explorer are you using?"
Me: "IE10 64bit."
Tech: "Oh...... We don't support Internet Exploder 10.... I can't help you..." *click*
Me: "Da Fuq?"
Not much in the way of options for WP8 either. You pretty much have the choice of IE, or some browser based on IE.
The IT company I work for co-hosted a clinic with Baylor Health, Baylor switched the clinic over to Citrix. I will go along with your statement, "Citrix applications seem to work." The clinic had a lot of problems with Citrix. Personally, one thing that really grinded my gears with citrix is when you added a new printer to the machine. You had to completely exit out of Citrix and then restart it before the printer would appear in a Citrix application for use. Small, I know, but can be a pain when you are replacing a printer with a newer model, different brand, etc.
I really liked my LG Optimus L9, i think it was a very solid buy for $200. I had the T-Mobile version (P769n) and couldn't unlock the boot loader, but I did root it. I used a different launcher, removed all of the worthless T-Mobile apps and everything else I didn't need. I ended up with a snappy, responsive phone that had a Galaxy S2 or S3 (don't remember which now) users envious. My mistake was going for one of those confounded WP that T-Mobile gives away for my GF after breaking the screen on her phone. She basically threw it at me so I had to give her my droid and use this WP8 phone. Its..... Its.... Not a day goes by that I look at my old LG and think about stealing my phone back. I've even gone as far as to plot this out. As soon as I'm able I am getting back on Droid and I would like another LG. As I said, I was very happy with my Optimus L9.
Many of the games that come out now have really amazing visuals/graphics/etc, but they all lack something the old classics had. What that something is, I'm not sure. I miss Sierra games with things like Police Quest, Kings Quest, The Island of Dr. Brain. Then you had other games like Hugo: House of horrors and Hugo 2: Who done it? Dune and Dune 2. Their graphics where horrid, but those games were a blast to play. I don't know why, but those older games just seem to have more character and spirit then the games that come out now. Don't get me wrong, there are good games that come out every year, but it seems like a majority of the games coming out now are just the same things rehashed over and over with better graphics and slight variations in the story line. It's almost like the gaming industry has homogenized somewhat. Want to make a FPS, just remake Halo or CoD. Want to make an open world game, just remake GTA,. What to make an RPG, remake Final Fantasy, Kings Quest or Elder Scrolls. Again, don't misunderstand, there are games that come out that do not follow this form such as Dear Esther or Portals and are awesome. I am simply talking the gaming industry as a whole, it way different then what it used to be. The indie game scene, however, seems to be pumping out some pretty awesome stuff these days.
touché
Cool story, bro, but to you I gift you this: http://i.imgur.com/DPDXQqb.jpg
This list can easily go on. And again, I am not quite sure what magical section of the universe you live in where once the issue is resolved the user does everything they are supposed to with their computer, but I don't live there.
And for disambiguation, I don't own a computer with Windows or OSX on it. I have a laptop with Linux and this laptop with ChromeOS. None of which I have any issues with. My GF, on the other hand, went with a snazzy Windows 8 laptop and I am always fixing that damn thing. Along with other users I deal with that have Windows 7 and 8, I am always fixing their computers. The users that have iMacs? Never hear a peep out of them. The servers that run Linux? Often times forget they exist because never have a problem with them. But those windows machines and servers? Always get reminded they are there. Haters gonna hate, but that is what it is in my corner of the world.
Not trolling, I work in IT and i'm part of a team that services around 500 computer. I see the BSOD everyday. Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP even the occasional Windows 2000.
Where did anyone get this idea of the BSOD taking a hiatus? I deal with it almost daily in Windows 7. Maybe these win7 systems were not informed of the BSOD furlough?
As someone who has owned both Windows Phone and Android, bad idea for HTC. Yeah, WP looks cool, but that is about where it stops. I can customize the hell out of my Android, different launchers, different lockers, different dialers, different SMS apps, different search applications, etc. I can make my Android look and act like WP, I can make my Android look and act like iOS, I can make my Android look and act like Ubuntu Touch, I can even install a complete linux distribution inside my Android phone. There really isn't a whole lot you can do on a WP. Change a few tiles around, change their color, but that is about it. The apps suck for WP, I tried looking for a different web browser and you are pretty much stuck with IE or some other browser based off of IE. My work uses google talk/hangouts. I tried searching for that, there were two or three apps that supported this eBuddy and IM+. I don't use social media so the Twitter and Facebook integration in WP is useless to me. Don't want to use Bing as the default search provider? You are going to have to install a custom WP Rom for that. I can get my Android to do everything I want it to do, but I can't get my WP to do anything close.
Steve Jobs had a vision beyond metrics. He believed in something more then making a profit and pursued that dream. It is little things like that which get missed. 99.99% of all micromanagers have no vision beyond their own paycheck.
Glad to see some sense in the world and this gentleman get some positive recognition for what he has done.
Well played, Sir. Well, played.
It paints a picture of a company with deep engineering talent but hamstrung by arrogance, indecision, slowness to embrace change, and a lack of internal accountability.
This honestly sounds like most companies that I have worked for. The one that really grinds my gears is the lack of internal accountability. I hate it when a mistake happens and fingers start pointing in every direction. Then the person it gets pinned on is the one poor sap that didn't CYA even though it was clearly not their fault. Or, if someone actually steps up to admit a mistake, corporate america views them as weak and unworthy of the company. I have never understood how people in business want to get lied to, they just don't want to know they are getting lied to.
so they last out and throw a tantrum.
Meant to say "lash out and throw a tantrum."
My comment is completely off topic. I have come across a couple of the scroogled adds. I have to say that I am not impressed by Microsoft's recent add campaigns. Watching their commercials and seeing their adds around the internet, I get the impression of a spoiled child not getting their way so they last out and throw a tantrum. Am I right or wrong in that? I don't know, but that is the impression I get from Microsoft's advertising.
I don't have time to type up an entire paper on this or anything as I have got to run out the door for work, but. Evolutionist have faith also. For example, to overcome the delicate balance that is needed for life to exist evolutionist have invented the multiverse. We just happen to be one of an infinite number of universes out there that just happened to get all the combinations correct. Evolutionists are always saying something like "Show me your God." Well, I say show me one of these other universes. Oh, but you can't because there is even a get out of jail clause in the multiverse theory for the evolutionists that says something to the effect of, the universe is expanding faster then the speed of light therefor we will never be able to see one of the other universe despite have the best possible equipment at the time. At least I believe I will eventually see God, your theory says you will never get to see one of the other universes and just accept it on blind faith.
Great Idea, however, I don't think Obama understand cell phone technology in America. There are only two carriers that conform to global standards, T-Mobile and AT&T. There are MNVOs that piggy back off of those two carriers, Simple Mobile for example, but they are the only two that use GSM technology. Verizon, Sprint, Virgin Mobile, etc all use a nonstandard cellular technology that is US specific. You could unlock an AT&T phone but the only other network you could use it on in America is T-Mobile's. Good luck using a phone made for Sprints network on GSM technology or on Verizon's network.