I don't think there's any evidence that President Obama obstructed justice in any of those investigations. For the "cops acted stupidly" - Obama personally apologized to the cop involved and even went out to lunch with him.
On Benghazi - again no obstructed justice and the Republican Party carried out no less than 7 investigations and found nothing (and if you're thinking only 7 - that's actually more house/senate investigations than 9/11 got).
I mean most of that stuff - the Justice department investigated and found that a lot people made some bad mistakes - nothing malicious.
This whole story I think is a bit overblown. We use AMT where I work - recently I went to a client management event called "midwest management summit" - clients being PC/Mac devices.
Anyhow in one of the AMT seminars I was the only one who raised my hand when asked who uses this (there were customers as big as Sprint, and Wells Fargo in the same room).
The other thing - its not totally clear if this affects "Admin Control Mode" or "Small Business Mode" - most enterprises use admin control mode - as far as I know without the private key you're still not getting into the machine.
Because of the first mention that no-one uses this - most of these articles are rather sensationalist and really have no idea what the capabilities are of AMT. Its essentially just a lights out controller - some (quite a few) devices don't even have working KVM support (unless your using intel integrated gfx entirely). At must it will get you whatever the customer see's on the screen (Ars Technica claimed it would get you local admin - which isn't true).
Lastly - all machines come from the factory (assuming you paid the $8 license - otherwise its not included and there's no way to enable it) in "factory mode" - its off, and unless you have LMS installed - its not being turned on anytime soon.
There's this strange notion that freezing or suffocating (storing something in a vacuum) something kills bacteria/mold. But its generally not true (yes there are microbes that die in the freezing cold, but they are the exception) - freezing things only slows down growth.
There's an old (but good) article Nasa wrote about this: https://science.nasa.gov/scien... - also one of the reasons sattelites and other spacecraft are made in clean rooms these days.
But if you do a survey and 98% of your monkey's say they like your thing - you might want to either check the survey itself, or check who you're surveying.
Fwiw - I ride public transit to work every single day of the year (except weekends and holidays) and I've never once seen a pair of them in use.
If a process (like a Chrome.exe tab) crashes - windows/mac logs it. In our environment that log is forwarded on every client and index'd on site.
Even though we have less Firefox usage - it still crashes more than IE 11 or Chrome (they both crash too, but far less - even though there's more usage).
The one place I ran into Windows 3.1 where I work (state agency) it was running a product called Johnson Controls Metasys - its used to program HVAC controllers - that control the physical devices to cool/heat/duct buildings (and read all the zillions of temperature sensors in a given building). There are newer versions of Metasys that will run on Windows 10, but they require upgrading all the controllers. Upgrading the controllers in a single building was around 250,000 dollars. It was one of those things where I was like - if facilities wants to deal with this I'll wash my hands of it.
I'm sure a lot of these 95 machines are doing stuff like this. While I'm sure the DOD could do a RFP for a Linux based open source HVAC control system (software and hardware) - and actually succeed - it would probably cost millions of dollars.
In real life (tm) when someone has a project - 9 times out of 10 your going to buy something off the shelf and make it work - hopefully with a budget for maintenance (which was our problem really - if we had kept it up to date - it would have been far cheaper to maintain on a current OS).
On 6200 Windows clients and 1900 Mac's. Firefox is above and beyond the most crash prone browser - it even tops IE 11 (Fwiw Chrome > IE 11 > Firefox are the most used browsers in my organization according to software metering).
The headline makes this sound much worse than it actually is - a lot of this is fallout from the sheer amount of testing and driver development one needs to do to make legacy OS work on a modern CPU/Motherboard - and the slow and steady move to secure boot and efi.
Intel's 7th generation cpu's and motherboards aren't even going to let you run Windows 2000 or XP either.
It's the equivalent of trying to run OSX 10.6 on a Macbook you just bought today (Apple also denies you from doing this, and yes 10.6 is the same vintage as Windows 7 - and it's long since been end of lifed).
Use google much? Yeah its a broken promise, but gitmo had 242 prisoners in it when he took office - congress did everything they could to block the closure of that base. Trump then made promises to keep it open - so we don't have icky terrorists living on US soil.
Its shocking too it costs 11 million dollars per inmate - but they don't care.
I'd hate to pin a percentage on anything Trump says about business - because we don't actually know the extent of his financial empire (or ruin) as he never released the necessary documentation:(.
Its funny to think there's a company with worse support than HP out there;) - I stopped buying (and my IT dept stopped buying) anything Lexmark for the last 15 or so years. I honestly haven't seen one of their printers in a really long time.
I think the article is poorly written - because it says just after that "equates to nearly 48 million bot accounts" - so we can assume they meant to type 319 million users.
But Trump was the one who was going to drain the swamp - how is that going? I get tired of this "but Obama did worse" excuses - start draining already.
To be fair - Chromebooks have to be purchased with a management license - only certain vendors even let you do that. iPad's can be managed from the get-go using device enrollment program - then tie them in with your existing mdm.
I was a tam at a company really large software company (you've used their products - even if you only use OSX or Linux) - they offshored all the support work, and then justified it by forging the customer satisfaction surveys. They'd only send survey's to customers on calls they'd knock out of the park. So the front lines/tier 1 would get something like 4000+ phone calls a day, and we were getting like a hundred surveys a month.
Anyhow the guy who's brilliant idea this was - still works there and gets accolades and bonuses for everything he's done, but the fallout is - hundreds of people lost their jobs in the US, and - I've never met anyone who's actually called them and gotten something solved, I heard they lost every contract I used to manage (because why pay for support if nothing is getting solved).
One of the problems while we were working on the transition was in India - we not only had to train them on how to use some of this complex software, but we had to train them how to type (this was when Windows XP was still king, and Vista had just been released), and how to use computers in general - really basic stuff like this is files/folders/icons etc.
Management wanted support trees for everything, but it was really clear they had never answered a single call on any of these apps or tools - or even listened to the typical call - you had to be haflway decent at troubleshooting a computer to fix these issues in some cases.
Mind you this is basically call center work - so outsourcing developers is probably easier.
Agreed:). I actually used to work in a community college - now I work in higher ed. I left because no raises for the last 5-6 years (other than a paltry cost of living increase) - plus I felt the place was draining my intelligence. When I started work at a 4 year uni I get those benefits as well, but I still get raises and I made 4x what I did at a CC. I did find at the community college - people seemed to be stuck in the 90s with a lot of technology that we had in place.
I've found Community College's and K-12 are kind of bottom feeders though (obviously this isn't always true - one of the best network admins I know works for half what I do and does it at a community college - but he loves rural america) - because their wages are so low the only people who apply are the ones who didn't get hired at other IT shops.
I work at a university as well (not a community college - one that does research grants and has doctorate programs) - not that you'll read this, but I find a lot of this cross billing madness that happens at the management level.
For instance all those things you mentioned we do for free - the only thing we change for is when you actually need physical servers, licensing, and storage space.
We probably finish over a hundred projects a year - as central IT - it's well over a quarter of all projects the university works in total (both academic and administrative).
Anyhow outsourcing all your IT management isn't going to change this.
I actually work in IT at a major university - and I would never have thought any outsourcing company could do this job.
Its an environment where BYOD is a thing - it's not up for discussion (students and professors bring a lot of devices on and off campus) and it's an environment where researchers have dynamic and changing requirements for really massive projects (we just built a 128 node supercomputer with intel terabit interconnects for a multimillion dollar research grant). It's also an environment where a lot of really boring legacy applications that no-one uses outside higher ed (like Banner or Datatel) manage accounting and registration.
Personally I think it would be funny to watch a bunch of guys from India show up and do this job. It really is unlike any kind of IT environment I've ever worked in.
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We know this didn't happen because Trump would have blabbed about it on Twitter.
When people asked him to put up or shut up - he changed the topic. That's how you know there's no truth to the rumor he and Fox News spread.
I don't think there's any evidence that President Obama obstructed justice in any of those investigations. For the "cops acted stupidly" - Obama personally apologized to the cop involved and even went out to lunch with him.
On Benghazi - again no obstructed justice and the Republican Party carried out no less than 7 investigations and found nothing (and if you're thinking only 7 - that's actually more house/senate investigations than 9/11 got).
I mean most of that stuff - the Justice department investigated and found that a lot people made some bad mistakes - nothing malicious.
This whole story I think is a bit overblown. We use AMT where I work - recently I went to a client management event called "midwest management summit" - clients being PC/Mac devices.
Anyhow in one of the AMT seminars I was the only one who raised my hand when asked who uses this (there were customers as big as Sprint, and Wells Fargo in the same room).
The other thing - its not totally clear if this affects "Admin Control Mode" or "Small Business Mode" - most enterprises use admin control mode - as far as I know without the private key you're still not getting into the machine.
Because of the first mention that no-one uses this - most of these articles are rather sensationalist and really have no idea what the capabilities are of AMT. Its essentially just a lights out controller - some (quite a few) devices don't even have working KVM support (unless your using intel integrated gfx entirely). At must it will get you whatever the customer see's on the screen (Ars Technica claimed it would get you local admin - which isn't true).
Lastly - all machines come from the factory (assuming you paid the $8 license - otherwise its not included and there's no way to enable it) in "factory mode" - its off, and unless you have LMS installed - its not being turned on anytime soon.
There's this strange notion that freezing or suffocating (storing something in a vacuum) something kills bacteria/mold. But its generally not true (yes there are microbes that die in the freezing cold, but they are the exception) - freezing things only slows down growth.
There's an old (but good) article Nasa wrote about this: https://science.nasa.gov/scien... - also one of the reasons sattelites and other spacecraft are made in clean rooms these days.
But if you do a survey and 98% of your monkey's say they like your thing - you might want to either check the survey itself, or check who you're surveying.
Fwiw - I ride public transit to work every single day of the year (except weekends and holidays) and I've never once seen a pair of them in use.
If a process (like a Chrome.exe tab) crashes - windows/mac logs it. In our environment that log is forwarded on every client and index'd on site.
Even though we have less Firefox usage - it still crashes more than IE 11 or Chrome (they both crash too, but far less - even though there's more usage).
The one place I ran into Windows 3.1 where I work (state agency) it was running a product called Johnson Controls Metasys - its used to program HVAC controllers - that control the physical devices to cool/heat/duct buildings (and read all the zillions of temperature sensors in a given building). There are newer versions of Metasys that will run on Windows 10, but they require upgrading all the controllers. Upgrading the controllers in a single building was around 250,000 dollars. It was one of those things where I was like - if facilities wants to deal with this I'll wash my hands of it.
I'm sure a lot of these 95 machines are doing stuff like this. While I'm sure the DOD could do a RFP for a Linux based open source HVAC control system (software and hardware) - and actually succeed - it would probably cost millions of dollars.
In real life (tm) when someone has a project - 9 times out of 10 your going to buy something off the shelf and make it work - hopefully with a budget for maintenance (which was our problem really - if we had kept it up to date - it would have been far cheaper to maintain on a current OS).
If my social circle is any indicator - Trump voters ;).
Ironically it does mean less TV choice for people who live in rural America.
On 6200 Windows clients and 1900 Mac's. Firefox is above and beyond the most crash prone browser - it even tops IE 11 (Fwiw Chrome > IE 11 > Firefox are the most used browsers in my organization according to software metering).
This is true, but some hardware that could run 10.6 can't run 10.11 or 10.12 either (as in - yeah it probably could, but apple disallows it).
It's ok - I have access to your machine and will fix all your security problems for you.
The headline makes this sound much worse than it actually is - a lot of this is fallout from the sheer amount of testing and driver development one needs to do to make legacy OS work on a modern CPU/Motherboard - and the slow and steady move to secure boot and efi.
Intel's 7th generation cpu's and motherboards aren't even going to let you run Windows 2000 or XP either.
It's the equivalent of trying to run OSX 10.6 on a Macbook you just bought today (Apple also denies you from doing this, and yes 10.6 is the same vintage as Windows 7 - and it's long since been end of lifed).
Darn kids - you get off my lawn!
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
Use google much? Yeah its a broken promise, but gitmo had 242 prisoners in it when he took office - congress did everything they could to block the closure of that base. Trump then made promises to keep it open - so we don't have icky terrorists living on US soil.
Its shocking too it costs 11 million dollars per inmate - but they don't care.
I'd hate to pin a percentage on anything Trump says about business - because we don't actually know the extent of his financial empire (or ruin) as he never released the necessary documentation :(.
http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/...
Documents 6 bankruptcies, and 13 businesses that closed up shop - at the very least suggests he doesn't know what he's doing.
Its funny to think there's a company with worse support than HP out there ;) - I stopped buying (and my IT dept stopped buying) anything Lexmark for the last 15 or so years. I honestly haven't seen one of their printers in a really long time.
Or a libertarian think tank:
http://www.independent.org/new...
I think the article is poorly written - because it says just after that "equates to nearly 48 million bot accounts" - so we can assume they meant to type 319 million users.
But Trump was the one who was going to drain the swamp - how is that going? I get tired of this "but Obama did worse" excuses - start draining already.
To be fair - Chromebooks have to be purchased with a management license - only certain vendors even let you do that. iPad's can be managed from the get-go using device enrollment program - then tie them in with your existing mdm.
I was a tam at a company really large software company (you've used their products - even if you only use OSX or Linux) - they offshored all the support work, and then justified it by forging the customer satisfaction surveys. They'd only send survey's to customers on calls they'd knock out of the park. So the front lines/tier 1 would get something like 4000+ phone calls a day, and we were getting like a hundred surveys a month.
Anyhow the guy who's brilliant idea this was - still works there and gets accolades and bonuses for everything he's done, but the fallout is - hundreds of people lost their jobs in the US, and - I've never met anyone who's actually called them and gotten something solved, I heard they lost every contract I used to manage (because why pay for support if nothing is getting solved).
One of the problems while we were working on the transition was in India - we not only had to train them on how to use some of this complex software, but we had to train them how to type (this was when Windows XP was still king, and Vista had just been released), and how to use computers in general - really basic stuff like this is files/folders/icons etc.
Management wanted support trees for everything, but it was really clear they had never answered a single call on any of these apps or tools - or even listened to the typical call - you had to be haflway decent at troubleshooting a computer to fix these issues in some cases.
Mind you this is basically call center work - so outsourcing developers is probably easier.
Agreed :). I actually used to work in a community college - now I work in higher ed. I left because no raises for the last 5-6 years (other than a paltry cost of living increase) - plus I felt the place was draining my intelligence. When I started work at a 4 year uni I get those benefits as well, but I still get raises and I made 4x what I did at a CC. I did find at the community college - people seemed to be stuck in the 90s with a lot of technology that we had in place.
I've found Community College's and K-12 are kind of bottom feeders though (obviously this isn't always true - one of the best network admins I know works for half what I do and does it at a community college - but he loves rural america) - because their wages are so low the only people who apply are the ones who didn't get hired at other IT shops.
I work at a university as well (not a community college - one that does research grants and has doctorate programs) - not that you'll read this, but I find a lot of this cross billing madness that happens at the management level.
For instance all those things you mentioned we do for free - the only thing we change for is when you actually need physical servers, licensing, and storage space.
We probably finish over a hundred projects a year - as central IT - it's well over a quarter of all projects the university works in total (both academic and administrative).
Anyhow outsourcing all your IT management isn't going to change this.
I actually work in IT at a major university - and I would never have thought any outsourcing company could do this job.
Its an environment where BYOD is a thing - it's not up for discussion (students and professors bring a lot of devices on and off campus) and it's an environment where researchers have dynamic and changing requirements for really massive projects (we just built a 128 node supercomputer with intel terabit interconnects for a multimillion dollar research grant). It's also an environment where a lot of really boring legacy applications that no-one uses outside higher ed (like Banner or Datatel) manage accounting and registration.
Personally I think it would be funny to watch a bunch of guys from India show up and do this job. It really is unlike any kind of IT environment I've ever worked in.