I really hope this happens. I'd be dead proud to see it happen. Renewable/sustainable energy is something that needs to be addressed pretty bloody quickly all over the world, not just in the UK.
I've always wanted to vote Green (when I've been living somewhere big enough to have the chance to:D), but have held back because they wouldn't have the first clue on how to run the country properly. I'm happy to finally see the people who are actually in power do something that the Green party would have done, hurray!
You'd be very, very surprised. Off the top off my head, my IT Dept support and maintain around 22 applications other than Office apps. Not including the fact that we run almost all these over Citrix, and have to look after about 14 Oracle 8-9i Databases too.
The Council I work for maintains thousands of documents for the various departments (Housing, Planning, Member Svcs, Legal, Audit, Finance, Council Tax, Environmental Health, Leisure & Tourism), and it's not a huge area to govern. Moving from Office 97 to Office XP (Not to mention migrating to a Citrix environment) caused enough problems with formats, etc.
I'd hate to work in the Support department of either of these much larger Councils, if they choose to go ahead with these desktop changes. The amount of documentation, archived information, templates and standards in place to update would be horrendous!
This can only be a good thing for suppliers of certain local government based software (SX3, Ocella) - many of their products used to run on UNIX alone, and even now some of them run emulated under W2K.
The council I work for runs iWorld, an SX3 product - unfortunately our UNIX admin is a bit of a fool and didn't notice when the project suggested running the system emulated. If he'd have been paying attention, we might have got some Linux boxen in!
Anyone who works in technical support will know, and most certainly dread this phrase and other similar sentences...
I know I get it all the time - friends, girlfriend, ex-girlfriends, parents, ex-girlfriend's parents, people who live down the road, colleague's friends and family even. Once someone knows that you work in a helpdesk or tech support environment - that's it, bub.
Doomed to be that guy who can "Have a look" and sort it out.
Very true - Billybob once got asked: "Shouldn't all software be free?" He replied: "Sure, all software should be free."
He had the idea from the start, Mickey$oft can bring out shoddy product after shoddy product, and can then charge daft prices for bug-fixes and patches.
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I really hope this happens. I'd be dead proud to see it happen. Renewable/sustainable energy is something that needs to be addressed pretty bloody quickly all over the world, not just in the UK.
:D), but have held back because they wouldn't have the first clue on how to run the country properly. I'm happy to finally see the people who are actually in power do something that the Green party would have done, hurray!
I've always wanted to vote Green (when I've been living somewhere big enough to have the chance to
My SSID is, quite simply:
DAVE
I really couldn't think what to call it. And then my friend picked up the box and said 'Hallo Daaave'.
That, was that.
Rise of the Machines?
More like Rise of the Robots.
Here's hoping no-one's forgotten the above abomination of gaming... =)
I can only say this:
You'd be very, very surprised. Off the top off my head, my IT Dept support and maintain around 22 applications other than Office apps. Not including the fact that we run almost all these over Citrix, and have to look after about 14 Oracle 8-9i Databases too.
We're a busy bunch.
The Council I work for maintains thousands of documents for the various departments (Housing, Planning, Member Svcs, Legal, Audit, Finance, Council Tax, Environmental Health, Leisure & Tourism), and it's not a huge area to govern. Moving from Office 97 to Office XP (Not to mention migrating to a Citrix environment) caused enough problems with formats, etc.
I'd hate to work in the Support department of either of these much larger Councils, if they choose to go ahead with these desktop changes. The amount of documentation, archived information, templates and standards in place to update would be horrendous!
This can only be a good thing for suppliers of certain local government based software (SX3, Ocella) - many of their products used to run on UNIX alone, and even now some of them run emulated under W2K.
The council I work for runs iWorld, an SX3 product - unfortunately our UNIX admin is a bit of a fool and didn't notice when the project suggested running the system emulated. If he'd have been paying attention, we might have got some Linux boxen in!
...You insensitive clods!
Anyone else notice this? Mine's a UK keyboard layout, but the lack of this key makes my life mildly difficult, especially when coding perl/xml.
For those of you who are less informed Anime fans, the 'Samurai X' referred to in the body of this post was originally titled Rourouni Kenshin.
Bad name for a good show. Bad dub, no doubt. I still cringe when I hear what the west did to Carcaptor Sakura....
Anyone who works in technical support will know, and most certainly dread this phrase and other similar sentences...
I know I get it all the time - friends, girlfriend, ex-girlfriends, parents, ex-girlfriend's parents, people who live down the road, colleague's friends and family even. Once someone knows that you work in a helpdesk or tech support environment - that's it, bub.
Doomed to be that guy who can "Have a look" and sort it out.
...Heck, every plane in the Virgin fleet should have an Elder symbol on it somewhere... ^_^ Boing! Huzzah for silly noises.
Wardriving at 30,000 feet...?
Hmmm... maybe we'll start to see crackers taking flying lessons.
Does this mean I'll be able to bring out extended special editions? Deleted scenes could be amusing... Out-takes and a gag reel! Woohoo!
I could get my folks to do Director's Commentary... ^_^
Now I just know there's got to be some Digi Charat fans out there that would love to see a Gema-gema mouse... ^_^
I 'm using internet exploder 3 on a University box.......the whole thing hung the moment i left Slashdot!
Very true - Billybob once got asked:
"Shouldn't all software be free?"
He replied:
"Sure, all software should be free."
He had the idea from the start, Mickey$oft can bring out shoddy product after shoddy product, and can then charge daft prices for bug-fixes and patches.
- "It all started with IBM............." ^_^