However let me add, the problem with the interaction of Office with the rest of the Mac system is a very real one. Thats where Mac excels, or why many people choses Mac/OSX over Linux. And Microsoft is either deliberately ruining their experience, or is doing a very shoddy job porting Office.
Word is the only app is still use from Office; OmniGraffle is a very decent implementation of Visio, and Keynote beats powerpoint any day. The only complaint I got about numbers is that it doesn't read some excel files, and does not read excel password protected files at all, but we all know it is the way Microsoft tries that people don't migrate to the competition. I do agree Pages is a toy at the moment, however I do hope Apple works in that. We all know MS was dragging is feet into launching the Intel version of Office for Mac, and Apple used iWork as a leverage point.
To better clarify it. What I do believe Microsoft Basic was a partnership and I strongly suspect Gates put the money and Allen the coding skills. I clearly remember reading of them writing Microsoft Basic for the 8080 *before* the chip itself was available in the market, in a simulation running a time-shared mainframe. Processor time in mainframe systems was expensive, and fairly well paid. And for that kind of work, you need at least a couple of months. You would need connections and *money*, which the Gates family obviously had.
Yeah, and lets not forget how Microsoft killed the market for WordPerfect and Lotus in the word processing arena, pushing out to the market a defective product (Windows 95), and putting the patches together with using secret APIs into Microsoft Word.
The interface is or used to be more pleasant, truth indeed. However the interface doesnt really obey to Apple Human Interface guidelines, all the Mac functionalities don't work like dragging images from other applications, and Office is unwieldy and slow. I avoid using it as much as i can, and have to concede Office 2004 for Mac despite all limitations had a more intuitive interface.
What I do remember it was Paul Allen writing the Basic code, and Bill Gates taking the credits, as far as the story goes. Bill Gates has been a businessman from the start.
Hi don't know really which part of the story you missed about his family being millionaire, his mother being influential in Washington, and IBMs president being a friend of his mother Despite everything, I take my hat to Mr. Gates as a shrewd businessman, if the not the most one of the 80s. Pity they based their entire business model into asphyxiating the competition and not really innovating.
What I don't buy the tale of his "hobby success", and "visionary" approach.
You don't get it, do you? Linux and free alternatives were born due to their shady policies. Their policies of going out of their way to create incompatibilities with competing products or already established standards haven't gone unnoticed, and for most professionals, the burden of the problem is on their side. Plus, had they diverted all this energy to actually produce new offerings, it could be they weren't between a rock and a hard place now.
It had to. They never intended it to work, just take the better ideas for themselves. OS/2 was a superior product in every way to Windows 3.x. Alas, Windows before Windows 95 was a sad joke.
The truth is Office is bloated. At the moment the only truly product is has still no genuine competition because it managed to kill the competition with their market stronghold in the windows 95, is Office. Excel nowadays got really good competitors, unless you are heavily into accounting/macro usage. Office for Mac is intentionally crippled to give a leverage to the Windows OS and it is a shame.
SQLServer is a robust product, however is too heavy, unwieldy and power hungry. From the two evils, I would prefer to go to Oracle, or for smaller projects MySQL. Often people make a mistake of using Gorillas like Oracle or SqlServer to power corporate sites.
Apache and newer competitors beat the living daylights out of IIS. I have strong security concerns of deploying IIS servers.
C# and.NET, my developer friends say it is the best thing next to sliced bread. Given the track records of Microsoft killing or changing the core functionality of products, I doubt I will ever invest my time on them.
I would make a further comment. Are really they able to open source Windows? How much code was taken from the Linux/BSD project without proper acknowledgements? How much code all intellectual property of others? How many bad code coming from DOS days is there?
Are they taking Apple? Apple has already mutated into 3 different platforms, and are already migrating to a 4th (hello iPhone and iPads). Intel is a very convenient (cheap) partner at the moment, but I would be much surprised if they have already ARM versions in-house. If they managed to keep the Intel project going for a decade till they launched it
In my opinion Ballmer is an operational that was promoted in the wrong time. The problems of Microsoft are symptomatic of a larger disease, and Ballmer is just a scapegoat. Truth to be said, the only product I can remember of being their truly innovation, is Microsoft Basic. The rest was a matter of having the right influence, a matter at time on their side, the right partners, sheer luck, buying what they needed at the right time. It is a known fact after all this years, that DOS was bought to seal a business Gates mom got with his influence, power and political cloud. The fact that consumers preferred a cheaper machine 20 years behind its time just because it had a IBM sticker, and the misguided monopoly that ensued for 3 decades, was a pure stroke of luck. that movement is losing momentum IMO. They had also terrible problems of judgment. The worst of all, was basing their business model in the dominance of the Wintel platform. I don't know for how long their Office platform will hold waters - for instance in a couple of years iWork from Apple will be a real competitor (it already is, minus the Pages utility). They failed to see the Internet coming, and had to buy Internet Explorer. The Zune (music player) was a commercial failure. Windows CE based hardware is/was a terrible flop. Windows 8 and Surface, a customer PR disaster. Their phone platform, despite how many billions they throw at it - 2 billions to Nokia alone, product placement in holywood series, is a product nobody want to touch. They killed their excellent TechNet offering which was the staple of many Microsoft houses. Androids are iPhones are the trojans that are showing whole generations they are not depending anymore on WIntel compatibles to handle their data - either work, emails, documents, spreadsheets. Mac is also making inroads in several faculties. Linux has gained corporate acceptance. VMWare is the king of virtualisation platforms, and XEN a close second The cat is out of the bag it is not mandatory to use IBM compatible/Microsoft products, specially in corporate environments, and the terrible news for MS is this a very different world from the 80s, and customer loyalty isnt up what it used to be.
First, my piece of advice. Hire someone who know what is doing to debug this situation. Now for my suspicion. I wouldnt be much surprised if the Peru provider has some data/monetary limitation and just optimise the most common traffic. This often is done with deep packet inspection at the layer 7, so i doubt it would be easy to try to work around it, besides changing providers.
I hate to break it to you, but 15 years in the field and managin server (depends what you call managing, btw), is not "help desk". Why don't you do some certs? A CNNA or some low level system admin certs don't certainly break the bank. However, being 15 years with a "help desk" title won't help. You should have jumped companies long time ago.
Meh, do you really thing that despite people being old, they are willing to put up with you, extra responsibility, work and work for peanuts? Consultants are consultants, they want to be properly and far better paid. Thats why you should keep employees around, besides having personalised assistance and better security in the long term, they are actually *cheaper* than consultants. A consultancy gig in half a year, can be 5 times the full salary of an employee. That is way people prefer to be constants.
The point is that everyone nowadays doesn't think long term, and just wants cheap labor, and then complains it can't find competent applicants, because the competent ones are already with a stable job, and/or don't bother applying for cheap ass salaries.
In my opinion, ageing is a curse, death is a gift. I wouldn't want to live forever, however I wouldn't mind to die in my own time, with a 25 years old body.
Explain than to me why *I* as a customer should shoulder the costs of what you don't want to pay. Because at the end of the day, the ISP is a business and has to recover costs somewhere. Maybe hmmm, they will invent *tier* contracts in alternative of having a socialist alternative reality where I share your costs for a service I don't need or want?
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However let me add, the problem with the interaction of Office with the rest of the Mac system is a very real one. Thats where Mac excels, or why many people choses Mac/OSX over Linux. And Microsoft is either deliberately ruining their experience, or is doing a very shoddy job porting Office.
Word is the only app is still use from Office; OmniGraffle is a very decent implementation of Visio, and Keynote beats powerpoint any day. The only complaint I got about numbers is that it doesn't read some excel files, and does not read excel password protected files at all, but we all know it is the way Microsoft tries that people don't migrate to the competition. I do agree Pages is a toy at the moment, however I do hope Apple works in that. We all know MS was dragging is feet into launching the Intel version of Office for Mac, and Apple used iWork as a leverage point.
To better clarify it. What I do believe Microsoft Basic was a partnership and I strongly suspect Gates put the money and Allen the coding skills. I clearly remember reading of them writing Microsoft Basic for the 8080 *before* the chip itself was available in the market, in a simulation running a time-shared mainframe. Processor time in mainframe systems was expensive, and fairly well paid. And for that kind of work, you need at least a couple of months. You would need connections and *money*, which the Gates family obviously had.
Yeah, and lets not forget how Microsoft killed the market for WordPerfect and Lotus in the word processing arena, pushing out to the market a defective product (Windows 95), and putting the patches together with using secret APIs into Microsoft Word.
The interface is or used to be more pleasant, truth indeed. However the interface doesnt really obey to Apple Human Interface guidelines, all the Mac functionalities don't work like dragging images from other applications, and Office is unwieldy and slow. I avoid using it as much as i can, and have to concede Office 2004 for Mac despite all limitations had a more intuitive interface.
What I do remember it was Paul Allen writing the Basic code, and Bill Gates taking the credits, as far as the story goes. Bill Gates has been a businessman from the start.
Hi don't know really which part of the story you missed about his family being millionaire, his mother being influential in Washington, and IBMs president being a friend of his mother Despite everything, I take my hat to Mr. Gates as a shrewd businessman, if the not the most one of the 80s. Pity they based their entire business model into asphyxiating the competition and not really innovating. What I don't buy the tale of his "hobby success", and "visionary" approach.
You don't get it, do you? Linux and free alternatives were born due to their shady policies. Their policies of going out of their way to create incompatibilities with competing products or already established standards haven't gone unnoticed, and for most professionals, the burden of the problem is on their side. Plus, had they diverted all this energy to actually produce new offerings, it could be they weren't between a rock and a hard place now.
It had to. They never intended it to work, just take the better ideas for themselves. OS/2 was a superior product in every way to Windows 3.x. Alas, Windows before Windows 95 was a sad joke.
The truth is Office is bloated. At the moment the only truly product is has still no genuine competition because it managed to kill the competition with their market stronghold in the windows 95, is Office. Excel nowadays got really good competitors, unless you are heavily into accounting/macro usage. Office for Mac is intentionally crippled to give a leverage to the Windows OS and it is a shame. SQLServer is a robust product, however is too heavy, unwieldy and power hungry. From the two evils, I would prefer to go to Oracle, or for smaller projects MySQL. Often people make a mistake of using Gorillas like Oracle or SqlServer to power corporate sites. Apache and newer competitors beat the living daylights out of IIS. I have strong security concerns of deploying IIS servers. C# and .NET, my developer friends say it is the best thing next to sliced bread. Given the track records of Microsoft killing or changing the core functionality of products, I doubt I will ever invest my time on them.
I would make a further comment. Are really they able to open source Windows? How much code was taken from the Linux/BSD project without proper acknowledgements? How much code all intellectual property of others? How many bad code coming from DOS days is there?
wouldn't. English not being my mother tongue, I am making this mistake too many times.
Are they taking Apple? Apple has already mutated into 3 different platforms, and are already migrating to a 4th (hello iPhone and iPads). Intel is a very convenient (cheap) partner at the moment, but I would be much surprised if they have already ARM versions in-house. If they managed to keep the Intel project going for a decade till they launched it
In my opinion Ballmer is an operational that was promoted in the wrong time. The problems of Microsoft are symptomatic of a larger disease, and Ballmer is just a scapegoat. Truth to be said, the only product I can remember of being their truly innovation, is Microsoft Basic. The rest was a matter of having the right influence, a matter at time on their side, the right partners, sheer luck, buying what they needed at the right time. It is a known fact after all this years, that DOS was bought to seal a business Gates mom got with his influence, power and political cloud. The fact that consumers preferred a cheaper machine 20 years behind its time just because it had a IBM sticker, and the misguided monopoly that ensued for 3 decades, was a pure stroke of luck. that movement is losing momentum IMO. They had also terrible problems of judgment. The worst of all, was basing their business model in the dominance of the Wintel platform. I don't know for how long their Office platform will hold waters - for instance in a couple of years iWork from Apple will be a real competitor (it already is, minus the Pages utility). They failed to see the Internet coming, and had to buy Internet Explorer. The Zune (music player) was a commercial failure. Windows CE based hardware is/was a terrible flop. Windows 8 and Surface, a customer PR disaster. Their phone platform, despite how many billions they throw at it - 2 billions to Nokia alone, product placement in holywood series, is a product nobody want to touch. They killed their excellent TechNet offering which was the staple of many Microsoft houses. Androids are iPhones are the trojans that are showing whole generations they are not depending anymore on WIntel compatibles to handle their data - either work, emails, documents, spreadsheets. Mac is also making inroads in several faculties. Linux has gained corporate acceptance. VMWare is the king of virtualisation platforms, and XEN a close second The cat is out of the bag it is not mandatory to use IBM compatible/Microsoft products, specially in corporate environments, and the terrible news for MS is this a very different world from the 80s, and customer loyalty isnt up what it used to be.
First, my piece of advice. Hire someone who know what is doing to debug this situation. Now for my suspicion. I wouldnt be much surprised if the Peru provider has some data/monetary limitation and just optimise the most common traffic. This often is done with deep packet inspection at the layer 7, so i doubt it would be easy to try to work around it, besides changing providers.
I hate to break it to you, but 15 years in the field and managin server (depends what you call managing, btw), is not "help desk". Why don't you do some certs? A CNNA or some low level system admin certs don't certainly break the bank. However, being 15 years with a "help desk" title won't help. You should have jumped companies long time ago.
Meh, do you really thing that despite people being old, they are willing to put up with you, extra responsibility, work and work for peanuts? Consultants are consultants, they want to be properly and far better paid. Thats why you should keep employees around, besides having personalised assistance and better security in the long term, they are actually *cheaper* than consultants. A consultancy gig in half a year, can be 5 times the full salary of an employee. That is way people prefer to be constants.
It is not wanting the folks "who are only on it for the money". The point is paying a honest/good salary to start attracting people competent enough.
The point is that everyone nowadays doesn't think long term, and just wants cheap labor, and then complains it can't find competent applicants, because the competent ones are already with a stable job, and/or don't bother applying for cheap ass salaries.
I guess that paying them a decent salary is out of question, then?
Next thing you know, he will volunteer as a human bomb to punish Assange, I bet.
I have dreaming about having a display in my car for decades now. It is wonderful to see some of this technologies come to life.
In my opinion, ageing is a curse, death is a gift. I wouldn't want to live forever, however I wouldn't mind to die in my own time, with a 25 years old body.
google port knocking http://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock/
A sane post, what a pearl.
Explain than to me why *I* as a customer should shoulder the costs of what you don't want to pay. Because at the end of the day, the ISP is a business and has to recover costs somewhere. Maybe hmmm, they will invent *tier* contracts in alternative of having a socialist alternative reality where I share your costs for a service I don't need or want?