Actually, in Chicago it's against the law to sleep on public transportation, but not illegal to talk on a cell phone (at a resonable volume).
Best quote I ever heard on the train: "Honey, I've got to hang up - everyone's looking at me like I'm 'That Guy' ". Got quite a laugh out of the other riders.
Hmm - I've switched a small elementary school to Google Apps, and my opinion of it is *slightly* different.
Don't get me wrong - Google Mail just plain rocks. There's no getting around that. But the calendar, chat and docs integration is just kind of just meh. Why do I have to switch web sites to view a calendar? And Docs, well, it just plane sucks compared to Office Online. I'm sure it will eventually get better, but geez - its been a beta product for *years* and while improving, still has a long way to go. And Office 2007 has been out for a while. Support the damned format already.
But my biggest gripe - Where the F* is Google Groups for Apps users? How friggin' hard would it be to integrate an email group for my teacher's classroom, without going out to plain old google groups - As an admin, not being able to do *anything* with email other than setting up distribution groups is just plain wrong. And asking one of my teachers to set this up? No thank you - they're there to teach, not be techies.
So yea, great compared to our old email system. Replacing Small Business Server or Office any time soon? Never.
Well, given this http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN12-18-98/intel_story.htm was in 1998, and about 10 years of development and testing, I guess we're finally seeing CPU's on the B2's that will actually allow them to fly through some of the massive radiation/electrical crap that they would be generating.
So will we now see a mass return of all the recently bought BluRay players?
This is *exactly* friggin' why technology gets such a crappy reputation. Products not ready for mainstream are pushed out because marketing says its time.
I really hope that this does in BluRay - friggin' DRM ridden POS.
BTW - why don't you see a huge backlash against BluRay for region coding? I was just visiting friends that are ex-pats in Spain, and in order to watch their DVD's, they have *3* players hooked up - US, Europe and Australian - to deal with DVD's they have from everywhere they've lived.
None of that crap with HD-DVD - they eliminated regionalization.
Not to download an update from windows update, but to update the ActiveX control needed to view the Windows update site.
Allow Updates is a configuration for the Windows Update SERVICE which automatically downloading updates in the background.
This user turned off Allow Updates, THEN WENT TO THE WINDOWS UPDATE SITE. The SITE then prompted them if they wanted to update the ActiveX control for the SITE.
I would be EXTREMELY concerned if the SITE could read the registry to determine if Allow Updates was set. But it can't, which is why the SITE needs the ActiveX control. He was asked if he wanted to download the update, and HE SAID YES.
Every time I've gone to Windows update and there's been an update, I see the Windows Update needs to update files, then a prompt to INSTALL A NEW PROGRAM. It then prompts me with "Windows Update needs to update your files to work with this version of Windows Update". It doesn't run the installer until I click OK. (I just watched it in ProcExp).
So what, the end user just clicks the Install ActiveX Dialog, then the "update my system" dialog, and is pissed off because their system did what they just let it do?
W. T. F.
I'm more pissed off when MS askes me to update my system and NOTHING HAPPENS. This guy is complaining because MS asked him if they could update his system, he said yes (TWICE) and it did.
If you don't want updates, don't go to the friggin' Update Site.
So $4000 to cover *all* unsupported systems, and to have a human to call and say "Your patch screwed up my server" and have them fix it, is to be cliche, Priceless
Add 8-10 JRE's per server, versions 1.3.x through 1.5.x and a different JRE updater for each vendor, the upcoming MSVCRT.DLL updates and it quickly becomes a huge world of hurt.
The Sun JRE updater has to be run on each installed version of the JRE. Remove the old ones? Not a chance - could break an app. What about 1.3, well, you're SOL.
IBM thought they were brilliant with their 1.4 & 1.5 implimentation - They roll the ZI info into the Core.JAR file. No one will monkey with it there. Their updater unpacks the CORE.Jar file, updates the ZI table, then zips it back up and copies it to the JRE directory. Unless the JRE is running, in which case the jar file is locked and can't be over written. Copy it to the JRE directory, mark it for replacement? No chance, you have to unload the JRE and run the tool again.
Where's the IBM JRE? MQ Series, IBM Director for our blades, Tivoli. So I need to log on to each box, stop tivoli, MQ Series and the director agent, run the IBM patch tool (which is a POS, since you have to run it *twice*, once to "discover" the JRE's and versions, once to fix them) then reboot the box.
Next week MS is releasing the CRT library patches, since they fubar the _tzset() Posix call. And oh yes, that's a server reboot there also.
What a PITA.
I've definitely lost more of my hair this month then ever before.
Maybe it's there to allow you to convert a document *from* word 95 with full-width East Asian characters into something from the 21st century that understands Unicode...
Basically, moving from a proprietary, bad hack for a problem that didn't have a solution (unicode) into something that's much more universally acceptable.
Geez. Give them a break on this. Converting docs from old Word is going to be *hard*. All the stuff that MS did before unicode (win 3.1, 95 & 98, so word 6, 7, 95) to get alternate character sets working was hackish, proprietary and non-portable, but it certainly worked.
They are now trying to make good with this crap by giving you config options to deal with these hacks. I would think that you could load one of these old docs, and save it as DOCX and it would look and print the same as before.
Would certainly save a lot of head aches for archival document conversion...
We had a clause in our contract with our wedding DJ that if he played any songs in our "No Play List" he would forfit the remainder of his pay.
The no play list was pretty much *all* the bad wedding songs: Chicken Dance Electric Slide Hokey Pokey We Are Family and a bunch of others I can't remember off the top of my head...
Quite funny seeing a bunch of drunk college friends trying to get the poor guy to play chicken dance, with him knowing that playing that one song would cost him about $750.
Quick scan of some of our servers was showing between 5 & 10 Java.exe's, mostly in non standard locations. Some in user's home storage, some in our central binary shares. And *none* capable of handling the DST change.
The end result is that each server is going to have to be addressed *by hand* - no automated patching on this beast.
The bitch of it is that we're not only planning major work before March, but also next October - because there's a huge chance that there will be someone, not paying attention, who installs an older app with its own, out of date, java executable. And by older, we're talking July of 2006.
I *really* hope this gets some more steam - Y2K we had years to plan and fix, this one, basically a couple of months.
The whole IT world is going to end up looking like idiots.
Nice to know that the IRS has the same Tivoli issues that we do at Bank of America:-)
We *finally* got a GateKeeper system up and running on our VPN for AV and critical patches. Took an act of the CIO to get the traders to agree to this...
Slashdot Mirror
So I hate to be tech support on /., but geez...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281308
The only thing hard is the Kerberos/SPNs, which just requires approporiate rights.
Actually, in Chicago it's against the law to sleep on public transportation, but not illegal to talk on a cell phone (at a resonable volume).
Best quote I ever heard on the train: "Honey, I've got to hang up - everyone's looking at me like I'm 'That Guy' ". Got quite a laugh out of the other riders.
Excellent Grill Cover Holderrs...
Sounds like the plot line to Avatar...
Hmm - I've switched a small elementary school to Google Apps, and my opinion of it is *slightly* different.
Don't get me wrong - Google Mail just plain rocks. There's no getting around that. But the calendar, chat and docs integration is just kind of just meh. Why do I have to switch web sites to view a calendar? And Docs, well, it just plane sucks compared to Office Online. I'm sure it will eventually get better, but geez - its been a beta product for *years* and while improving, still has a long way to go. And Office 2007 has been out for a while. Support the damned format already.
But my biggest gripe - Where the F* is Google Groups for Apps users? How friggin' hard would it be to integrate an email group for my teacher's classroom, without going out to plain old google groups - As an admin, not being able to do *anything* with email other than setting up distribution groups is just plain wrong. And asking one of my teachers to set this up? No thank you - they're there to teach, not be techies.
So yea, great compared to our old email system. Replacing Small Business Server or Office any time soon? Never.
I posted this below:
http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN12-18-98/intel_story.htm
1998 Intel and the US Gov starting working on hardened Pentium CPUs.
Well, given this http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN12-18-98/intel_story.htm was in 1998, and about 10 years of development and testing, I guess we're finally seeing CPU's on the B2's that will actually allow them to fly through some of the massive radiation/electrical crap that they would be generating.
Did you make up that word?
/dpso/
If so, my hat's off to you:
Dipso
dipso
-noun, plural -sos. Slang. a dipsomaniac; habitual drunk.
Aurigal
Au*ri"gal\, a. [L. aurigalis.] Of or pertaining to a chariot. [R.]
So will we now see a mass return of all the recently bought BluRay players?
This is *exactly* friggin' why technology gets such a crappy reputation. Products not ready for mainstream are pushed out because marketing says its time.
I really hope that this does in BluRay - friggin' DRM ridden POS.
BTW - why don't you see a huge backlash against BluRay for region coding? I was just visiting friends that are ex-pats in Spain, and in order to watch their DVD's, they have *3* players hooked up - US, Europe and Australian - to deal with DVD's they have from everywhere they've lived.
None of that crap with HD-DVD - they eliminated regionalization.
Great Slashdot story submission - much better then the actual Slashdot article :-)
But IT DID ASK PERMISSION!
Not to download an update from windows update, but to update the ActiveX control needed to view the Windows update site.
Allow Updates is a configuration for the Windows Update SERVICE which automatically downloading updates in the background.
This user turned off Allow Updates, THEN WENT TO THE WINDOWS UPDATE SITE. The SITE then prompted them if they wanted to update the ActiveX control for the SITE.
I would be EXTREMELY concerned if the SITE could read the registry to determine if Allow Updates was set. But it can't, which is why the SITE needs the ActiveX control. He was asked if he wanted to download the update, and HE SAID YES.
OK, let me get this straight.
Every time I've gone to Windows update and there's been an update, I see the Windows Update needs to update files, then a prompt to INSTALL A NEW PROGRAM. It then prompts me with "Windows Update needs to update your files to work with this version of Windows Update". It doesn't run the installer until I click OK. (I just watched it in ProcExp).
So what, the end user just clicks the Install ActiveX Dialog, then the "update my system" dialog, and is pissed off because their system did what they just let it do?
W. T. F.
I'm more pissed off when MS askes me to update my system and NOTHING HAPPENS. This guy is complaining because MS asked him if they could update his system, he said yes (TWICE) and it did.
If you don't want updates, don't go to the friggin' Update Site.
Critical Windows Services can't be disabled... Not that you or I think WMI is critical, but MS does...
No.
Have you ever seen a talk by Mark?
While he might be on the Microsoft payroll, he is definitely NOT one to sell-out.
Well, yes, if the windows are on the 2nd floor and are covered with bars.
Wow.
It's comments like this that actually keep me coming back to Slashdot.
Thanks!
Sorry - Failed to mention we run over 20,000 windows servers. That's SERVERS, not desktops. Our desktop count is close to the 1/2 million range.
:-)
We have a little more leverage then most
This fee is all inclusive. That means any product in extended support, and any DST related patch.
So that includes:
Windows 2000 Server straight DST patch
Windows 2000 CRT DST patch (Never heard of that one? See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932955/en-us/ and here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932590/en-us/
Exchange running on W2K
Visual Studio 6.0 patches (I believe...)
So $4000 to cover *all* unsupported systems, and to have a human to call and say "Your patch screwed up my server" and have them fix it, is to be cliche, Priceless
Add 8-10 JRE's per server, versions 1.3.x through 1.5.x and a different JRE updater for each vendor, the upcoming MSVCRT.DLL updates and it quickly becomes a huge world of hurt.
The Sun JRE updater has to be run on each installed version of the JRE. Remove the old ones? Not a chance - could break an app. What about 1.3, well, you're SOL.
IBM thought they were brilliant with their 1.4 & 1.5 implimentation - They roll the ZI info into the Core.JAR file. No one will monkey with it there. Their updater unpacks the CORE.Jar file, updates the ZI table, then zips it back up and copies it to the JRE directory. Unless the JRE is running, in which case the jar file is locked and can't be over written. Copy it to the JRE directory, mark it for replacement? No chance, you have to unload the JRE and run the tool again.
Where's the IBM JRE? MQ Series, IBM Director for our blades, Tivoli. So I need to log on to each box, stop tivoli, MQ Series and the director agent, run the IBM patch tool (which is a POS, since you have to run it *twice*, once to "discover" the JRE's and versions, once to fix them) then reboot the box.
Next week MS is releasing the CRT library patches, since they fubar the _tzset() Posix call. And oh yes, that's a server reboot there also.
What a PITA.
I've definitely lost more of my hair this month then ever before.
Makes me *really* want to leave IT.
Maybe it's there to allow you to convert a document *from* word 95 with full-width East Asian characters into something from the 21st century that understands Unicode...
Basically, moving from a proprietary, bad hack for a problem that didn't have a solution (unicode) into something that's much more universally acceptable.
Geez. Give them a break on this. Converting docs from old Word is going to be *hard*. All the stuff that MS did before unicode (win 3.1, 95 & 98, so word 6, 7, 95) to get alternate character sets working was hackish, proprietary and non-portable, but it certainly worked.
They are now trying to make good with this crap by giving you config options to deal with these hacks. I would think that you could load one of these old docs, and save it as DOCX and it would look and print the same as before.
Would certainly save a lot of head aches for archival document conversion...
We had a clause in our contract with our wedding DJ that if he played any songs in our "No Play List" he would forfit the remainder of his pay.
The no play list was pretty much *all* the bad wedding songs:
Chicken Dance
Electric Slide
Hokey Pokey
We Are Family
and a bunch of others I can't remember off the top of my head...
Quite funny seeing a bunch of drunk college friends trying to get the poor guy to play chicken dance, with him knowing that playing that one song would cost him about $750.
Yep - Java is going to bite us in the A$$.
Quick scan of some of our servers was showing between 5 & 10 Java.exe's, mostly in non standard locations. Some in user's home storage, some in our central binary shares. And *none* capable of handling the DST change.
The end result is that each server is going to have to be addressed *by hand* - no automated patching on this beast.
The bitch of it is that we're not only planning major work before March, but also next October - because there's a huge chance that there will be someone, not paying attention, who installs an older app with its own, out of date, java executable. And by older, we're talking July of 2006.
I *really* hope this gets some more steam - Y2K we had years to plan and fix, this one, basically a couple of months.
The whole IT world is going to end up looking like idiots.
Geriatrics!!!
Nice to know that the IRS has the same Tivoli issues that we do at Bank of America :-)
:-)
We *finally* got a GateKeeper system up and running on our VPN for AV and critical patches. Took an act of the CIO to get the traders to agree to this...
Now please don't audit me
Why oh why in the world do you still have machines at SP1?
What's the name of your organization. I'd like to make sure I don't have any of your stock.