I can't comment on how well terminal services can handle the thin client thing since I've never used it for that in the first place, but I do administer some Citrix servers, and it really sounds like you're stuck with it. What version of Citrix are you running? Since you're on win2k, I'm guessing it is not the newest release. From what I've seen, the printing system is vastly improved (I know your pains concerning Citrix printing breaking). They went back and redid everything from scratch in that department.
You also mention that you have several servers running Citrix...what is the reasoning behind this? It looks like terminal services will not cluster in this manner as Citrix does, so if it's a high availability kind of deal, then that could be another reason to stick with Citrix.
It's an idiomatic phrase who's common usage has strayed from its literal meaning, is that such a hard concept to grasp? All languages have such phrases where the implied meaning is based upon the context in which it is often used instead of a rigid literal interpretation. Perhaps you guys need to step away from your computers for a second and learn how people communicate?
Hey, I got one....my invention automatically pops up the closest gas stations onto a car's GPS navigation screen when the low fuel light comes on. Or have the car flash a giant "YOU'RE SCREWED" across the screen when there are no longer any gas stations located within the car's "Distance Till Empty" range.
If their reasoning for not upgrading Office is because it is too expensive, then running everything from Citrix would be a little bit out of the question as well. Other solutions (RDP, NX, X) would present them with the "extra" desktop...which gives the users just that much more to screw up.
A large part of the problem is Win2k..XP boots up much faster. Linux boot times depend largely on the distribution...my Gentoo box at home boots up in about 20 seconds, and the same goes for Slackware. At work however, Novell's linux flavor du jour (SuSE, NLD, or SLES) takes a good 2 minutes. My work desktop boots into XP much faster than Novells Linux.
Novell's pricing on NLD is a huge bait and switch...they advertise all over that it is $50, but suddenly you find this price doubled when you actually call them about pricing. In a volume licensing situation (which does not really exist with NLD, they still want their $75 ("discounted") per seat), NLD is more expensive than WinXP and about as much as WinXP plus Office. I think each computer with windows where I work is about 40-something for the OS with the volume licensing.
In theory they would like you to pay for support...however I wouldn't necessarily call what Novell provides "support". They would do better if they tacked the number for the Psychic Friends helpline to the bulletin board.
Actually, Linux costs more from a licensing standpoint for a large enterprise (such as a local government) when forced to go with a distribution that comes with "tech support" and the like (such as the Novell Linux Desktop for example).
The volume license for windows is $50 a computer here...guess how much Novell wants for a Linux desktop license? About $75 per install (of course they don't come out and tell you that, it takes a call to Novell after trying to decipher the pricings listed on their site).
Granted no such license exists for Debian, so I'm really just venting. (The Debian tech support is probably as usefull as Novell's too)
I would say you're damn lucky then. My BS in Computer Engineering has been nigh worthless. I looked for jobs for about 6 months after graduating, online, networking, just walking up to places and handing out my resume, and I didn't get anything. I finally found a position as an office assistant (you know, making copies, filing things, etc) when a friend of mine told me his dad was looking for a temp employee at a government office. I worked there for about a year and a half, continued searching for a job, and finally got a position in the same local government's IT department after hounding the manager enough to get an interview. During this entire time, I had two other interviews (in about as many years). One of the jobs I lost because of my academic record, the other I lost because they were really looking for a mathematician. So now, I'm in the sysadmin game, using absolutely nothing I learned in school....aside from a small programming project, the work is nothing I couldn't have done right out of high school.
All the graduates I know with jobs got them through personal contacts...in the end this is far more important than grades or skills.
The Miami zoo is built on an old airship base, it's mentioned on that abandoned airfields site. Some of the hangar structures are still visible, the hangars themselves burned down awhile ago in a hurricane though.
Many of them are, I know of one in Florida that is currently used for autox. There's another in jacksonville that used to have a dragstrip on it...you can still see the two lanes on the aerial photo. Unfortunately, the surface is usually pretty crappy. One of the most famous tracks in the US, Sebring, is a converted airport too.
google for 'gimli glider' and you'll find a story about a 767 that had to make an emergency landing on an airstrip that was converted into a motorsports park. The pilot was completely unaware of its conversion, and he ended up landing on one of the drag strips.
went in looking for an oscillator crystal...surely they had one, that's where everybody got one for their red box, right? Nope, no crystals. Broke down and asked the clerk...the repsonse I got, "what do they look like?", then I was shown the 'crystal radio kit'.
ran out of wire wrap sockets the other day...I remember them selling a wire wrapping tool and miscellaneous sockets, surely they have this! No wire wrap sockets either...didn't even bother with the clerk this time.
now I need a capacitor...33pF, Radio Shack has capacitors, I've seen them there before and even bought some! The smallest they sell are.1uF...I gave up and scrounged around the lab for several small enough to wire up for 33pF of capacitance....now I just look online everytime I need something, too bad digikey charges $5 when you don't buy $25 worth of crap...
I first read the article title as "F-22 Avionics Require Inflight Robot"...at which point visions of R2 units on USAF craft started dancing in my head. I got 1/2-way through the article without seeing any mention of an astromech droid before I realized I read the title wrong...how disappointing
800 / 100000 = 0.008 That's not a bad percentage of workers who fell ill, especially considering what they were doing (the 800 doesn't include civilians in the surrounding areas of course, blah, blah), the rate of coal miners who fell ill because of their work was probably higher...the 800 workers contrasted against the 100000 total really isn't that significant.
when I first saw the trailer for it, I thought 'awesome, it looks like an anime that's a cross between metal gear solid and akira'...then I watched it, and unfortunately, that's all it is...the villains are almost exact replicas of those appearing in MGS, and the plot tries to take a 'blow your mind, wtf is happening, psycho-trip turn like akira, except it doesn't do either as well. If you already own MGS and akira, I'd suggest watching the MGS cut scenes, and then akira instead of buying/watching this anime, you'll be much better off.
Granted the animation/art isn't bad, but I had to force myself to sit through it. The only way I managed was by devising a little game with my roomate where we would take turns guessing which element from MGS or Akira they would throw up into the movie next.
If you are unfortunate enough to watch or buy this dvd, pay close attention when it brings up the 'data file' on our protagonist...along with the usual info (birthdate, blood type, country of origin, etc) you'll notice there's a field for 'eye slant', and his is 'extreme'...or something to that effect
If that is your criterion for not buying from a business, then I guess you'll have to make everything you use from now on...everybody does this, in every industry. Broken/unwanted goods that can't be sent back to the supplier get trashed...same way that unused food gets trashed at restaurants. There is a reason for this lying somewhere in the manager/accounting stratum...either reimbursment from the bigger fish, tax writeoff, or some kind of 'items we throw away' section of a company's operating budget...find a business major to figure out what's up.
Most areas around large colleges have apartment complexes with such wiring...so far the ones I've seen though really aren't worth living in. The apartments themselves are overpriced, generally crappy, and you're very likely to end up with 3-4 rather noisy and inconsiderate neighbors. The "broadband" access they offer is usually a T1 or 3 for the complex...or in some cases complexes. The one I lived at had our bandwidth capped at 150 k/s (up and down) and during the day and peak hours our rates would drop to sub dialup rates (2 k/s and less)...
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I can't comment on how well terminal services can handle the thin client thing since I've never used it for that in the first place, but I do administer some Citrix servers, and it really sounds like you're stuck with it. What version of Citrix are you running? Since you're on win2k, I'm guessing it is not the newest release. From what I've seen, the printing system is vastly improved (I know your pains concerning Citrix printing breaking). They went back and redid everything from scratch in that department.
You also mention that you have several servers running Citrix...what is the reasoning behind this? It looks like terminal services will not cluster in this manner as Citrix does, so if it's a high availability kind of deal, then that could be another reason to stick with Citrix.
It's an idiomatic phrase who's common usage has strayed from its literal meaning, is that such a hard concept to grasp? All languages have such phrases where the implied meaning is based upon the context in which it is often used instead of a rigid literal interpretation. Perhaps you guys need to step away from your computers for a second and learn how people communicate?
Hey, I got one....my invention automatically pops up the closest gas stations onto a car's GPS navigation screen when the low fuel light comes on. Or have the car flash a giant "YOU'RE SCREWED" across the screen when there are no longer any gas stations located within the car's "Distance Till Empty" range.
If their reasoning for not upgrading Office is because it is too expensive, then running everything from Citrix would be a little bit out of the question as well. Other solutions (RDP, NX, X) would present them with the "extra" desktop...which gives the users just that much more to screw up.
A large part of the problem is Win2k..XP boots up much faster.
Linux boot times depend largely on the distribution...my Gentoo box at home boots up in about 20 seconds, and the same goes for Slackware. At work however, Novell's linux flavor du jour (SuSE, NLD, or SLES) takes a good 2 minutes. My work desktop boots into XP much faster than Novells Linux.
why?
Novell's pricing on NLD is a huge bait and switch...they advertise all over that it is $50, but suddenly you find this price doubled when you actually call them about pricing. In a volume licensing situation (which does not really exist with NLD, they still want their $75 ("discounted") per seat), NLD is more expensive than WinXP and about as much as WinXP plus Office. I think each computer with windows where I work is about 40-something for the OS with the volume licensing.
In theory they would like you to pay for support...however I wouldn't necessarily call what Novell provides "support". They would do better if they tacked the number for the Psychic Friends helpline to the bulletin board.
Actually, Linux costs more from a licensing standpoint for a large enterprise (such as a local government) when forced to go with a distribution that comes with "tech support" and the like (such as the Novell Linux Desktop for example).
The volume license for windows is $50 a computer here...guess how much Novell wants for a Linux desktop license? About $75 per install (of course they don't come out and tell you that, it takes a call to Novell after trying to decipher the pricings listed on their site).
Granted no such license exists for Debian, so I'm really just venting. (The Debian tech support is probably as usefull as Novell's too)
I would say you're damn lucky then.
My BS in Computer Engineering has been nigh worthless. I looked for jobs for about 6 months after graduating, online, networking, just walking up to places and handing out my resume, and I didn't get anything. I finally found a position as an office assistant (you know, making copies, filing things, etc) when a friend of mine told me his dad was looking for a temp employee at a government office. I worked there for about a year and a half, continued searching for a job, and finally got a position in the same local government's IT department after hounding the manager enough to get an interview. During this entire time, I had two other interviews (in about as many years). One of the jobs I lost because of my academic record, the other I lost because they were really looking for a mathematician. So now, I'm in the sysadmin game, using absolutely nothing I learned in school....aside from a small programming project, the work is nothing I couldn't have done right out of high school.
All the graduates I know with jobs got them through personal contacts...in the end this is far more important than grades or skills.
hmmm ...oh crap, my lease was up yesterday!
april 1st again so soon?
The Miami zoo is built on an old airship base, it's mentioned on that abandoned airfields site. Some of the hangar structures are still visible, the hangars themselves burned down awhile ago in a hurricane though.
Many of them are, I know of one in Florida that is currently used for autox. There's another in jacksonville that used to have a dragstrip on it...you can still see the two lanes on the aerial photo. Unfortunately, the surface is usually pretty crappy. One of the most famous tracks in the US, Sebring, is a converted airport too.
google for 'gimli glider' and you'll find a story about a 767 that had to make an emergency landing on an airstrip that was converted into a motorsports park. The pilot was completely unaware of its conversion, and he ended up landing on one of the drag strips.
so far radio shack is 0/3 in being useful...
.1uF...I gave up and scrounged around the lab for several small enough to wire up for 33pF of capacitance. ...now I just look online everytime I need something, too bad digikey charges $5 when you don't buy $25 worth of crap...
went in looking for an oscillator crystal...surely they had one, that's where everybody got one for their red box, right? Nope, no crystals. Broke down and asked the clerk...the repsonse I got, "what do they look like?", then I was shown the 'crystal radio kit'.
ran out of wire wrap sockets the other day...I remember them selling a wire wrapping tool and miscellaneous sockets, surely they have this! No wire wrap sockets either...didn't even bother with the clerk this time.
now I need a capacitor...33pF, Radio Shack has capacitors, I've seen them there before and even bought some! The smallest they sell are
I first read the article title as "F-22 Avionics Require Inflight Robot"...at which point visions of R2 units on USAF craft started dancing in my head. I got 1/2-way through the article without seeing any mention of an astromech droid before I realized I read the title wrong...how disappointing
800 / 100000 = 0.008
That's not a bad percentage of workers who fell ill, especially considering what they were doing (the 800 doesn't include civilians in the surrounding areas of course, blah, blah), the rate of coal miners who fell ill because of their work was probably higher...the 800 workers contrasted against the 100000 total really isn't that significant.
when I first saw the trailer for it, I thought 'awesome, it looks like an anime that's a cross between metal gear solid and akira'...then I watched it, and unfortunately, that's all it is...the villains are almost exact replicas of those appearing in MGS, and the plot tries to take a 'blow your mind, wtf is happening, psycho-trip turn like akira, except it doesn't do either as well. If you already own MGS and akira, I'd suggest watching the MGS cut scenes, and then akira instead of buying/watching this anime, you'll be much better off.
Granted the animation/art isn't bad, but I had to force myself to sit through it. The only way I managed was by devising a little game with my roomate where we would take turns guessing which element from MGS or Akira they would throw up into the movie next.
If you are unfortunate enough to watch or buy this dvd, pay close attention when it brings up the 'data file' on our protagonist...along with the usual info (birthdate, blood type, country of origin, etc) you'll notice there's a field for 'eye slant', and his is 'extreme'...or something to that effect
black background
light grey text
no images
no frames
no flash
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The difference is:
Family Guy gets cancelled after every season
It's kind of like their replacement for the season finale I guess.
If that is your criterion for not buying from a business, then I guess you'll have to make everything you use from now on...everybody does this, in every industry. Broken/unwanted goods that can't be sent back to the supplier get trashed...same way that unused food gets trashed at restaurants. There is a reason for this lying somewhere in the manager/accounting stratum...either reimbursment from the bigger fish, tax writeoff, or some kind of 'items we throw away' section of a company's operating budget...find a business major to figure out what's up.
I seem to remember a story about a fraudulent ebay seller that got hunted down and killed by one of his victims a year or two ago....
The R2D2 thing bears much resemblence to pikachu as well....um, so I've heard, I don't actually watch pokemon
this sounds like one of Disney's 'what the future will be like' from 1975...but where are the moon colonies and vast hydroponic gardens?
Most areas around large colleges have apartment complexes with such wiring...so far the ones I've seen though really aren't worth living in. The apartments themselves are overpriced, generally crappy, and you're very likely to end up with 3-4 rather noisy and inconsiderate neighbors. The "broadband" access they offer is usually a T1 or 3 for the complex...or in some cases complexes. The one I lived at had our bandwidth capped at 150 k/s (up and down) and during the day and peak hours our rates would drop to sub dialup rates (2 k/s and less)...
If it's car pranks you're into, perhaps this hack would impress you more?