Also, to throw another argument out there, what's child pr0n to one country is not child porn to another. With the internet being without boundaries and usenet being without propper labels you can put money on a binary grabber getting something considered child porn in the states pretty easily.
With the state of technological education in this nation you can also bet that the judge you end up sitting in front of would have little chance comprehending, let alone understanding your situation. Bottom line, you broke the "LAW" by doing that, so you should pay the "CONSEQUENCES." To hell with the fact that your possesion of it was unintentional, or that it didn't even violate any laws in the act of producing the pr0n (if it happens to be illegal here and legal in Denmark for instance.)
If you wanna keep up binary-grabbing encrypt your communication to and from usenet, and encrypt your data stores, and don't be an idiot with porn images in aim/myspace etc.
Commonly used packages: Windows: Download package from some site (possibly Sourceforge, possibly some spyware ridden godawful adsite) unzip/execute and follow prompts to install. Ubuntu: System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager; with possible alternative of downloading and using.debs manually or.rpms with alien. Debian: $dselect; with possible alternative of downloading and using.debs manually or.rpms with alien. (Open)Suse: yast2
Typical Bleeding Edge Software installs: Windows: Double Click Zip file, hunt and peck for a README, extract to a location, run an AV or two against any executables and double click while crossing fingers. Find ini/registry import and manually hack it till you get it right. *Nix: tar -zxvf $tarball.tar.gz; cd $tarball... Hunt and peck for README...run./configure;make; test the app, edit some config files and make install.
I'm sure there's a fedora/rhe easy way as well, but I haven't used them seriously in over 4 years.
On a side note, this shit ain't as hard as it used to be; you probably haven't tried Ubuntu/Knoppix et al in years.
Only time I've had to go to command line at all is for installing custom BS that most won't be doing anyways. I spend more time in the Registry and in a CMD shell at work than I do in a bash shell on my fully driver supported Ubuntu lappy.
Because this argument was prevelant the last time this was posted. (read: dupe, dupe,dupe, editors wake up, it's another dupe.) I'll repost the rebuttal: the energy removed from the slipstream is estimated at 1/10th of 1 percent if the entire planet were to be powered by these devices.
And to reiterate my rebuttal in the last dupe: The energy removed from the atmosphere when the planet's coal plants were disabled might far overshadow the energy harnessed and reused...
Wind energy is prevelant, replenished by the sun, and available around the globe. If we can use even a small portion of the wind's energy I'm all for it.
The whole unclean hands bit actually holds up in court. If you had RTFA you'd see the rebuttal is that PJ has not reported on sealed documents or closed transcript hearings. Obvious SCO shills have.
It's hard to claim that the documents that are given out by IBM PR and the court (with court stamps, and volunteer's picking the crap up) is privileged. If you actually read Groklaw, that's nearly all that's reported (albeit, with a heavy dose of op-ed.)
Cause a user never has had a corrupt office install and had to call on their sixpack of beer a fix friend to hack their registry and reinstall office.
Shit happens, but yeah there should be an automated system to solve package issues. The brilliant bit is, you can submit a feature request to the ubuntu team and it might actually get implimented.
someone mod parent insightful, it ain't funny. Thinking back, it was fucking brilliant. Everything after had to be hotfixed/quickpatched (remember 6.0-6.1-6.22 debacle?.) 3.0-3.1 etc market pressures pushed the software crippling bugs and all out the door before it was ready for prime time.
I hope microsoft realizes their legacy is that every Windows sysadmin worth his salt waits for the 1st service pack before going production with their cock-ups.
Cause, the first taste is free, but M$ makes sure you're hooked for life.
OSS lets you sit down at any chair at the bar, and pick a beer that matches your taste, and the worst thing that could happen is you get drunk off the result... and maybe have a mild hangover. But at least it's all down to discipline, rather than addiction.
Too literal a response. Just say, "Yeah but, it's called $oss-packagename." The end user for the most part doesn't care. If "Linux can't do it" then it can't do it. The fact that there are 123123551 alternatives never hit their ears because they use software titles and functions interchangeably. If they're smart enough to know the difference you can explain it, but otherwise it's just becomes semantics.
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Not to be a technical smart-ass, but everyone with a modern browser with default settings makes an electronic copy of her website every time they visit (in their memory cache immediately and their disk cache shortly thereafter.) If the system doesn't have enough physical memory to keep everything in ram, it might even get dumped to swap. Making it possible to have a round total of 3 copies without even trying. Since she hasn't sued every visitor one could argue she's given up her right to do so.
Also, I don't agree to something simply by reading it. I have to indicate it (see: Electronic Signature) in a legally binding manner. And the 1996-era pop-up (that does no checking to prevent me from clicking no and continuing) certainly doesn't constitute a legal agreement.
Sounds like someone just wants to make a buck through the legal system.
... Unless I'm mistaken you can modularize the testing and say "This works at the kernel level, module blah" and you can isolate the testing from the distro...
And the best way to do that would be to use a source based distro and then build out from there. If dell was serious about Linux support they'd make sure their gear was supported in Linux, not just this set of binary compiled packages slapped on top of a static kernel.
Hell I bet if they just donated the gear they want supported to the right people with full spec sheets (Debian team would probably be a good start) the damn things would be pretty close to 99% supported before the next incremental release. Offer up a free piece of gear to the person who writes any of the 1% fixes and you close the gap. It'd probably cost loads less than applying proprietary processes to F/OSS and nothing gets geeks going on a project faster than shiny things.
Shit, you could take it a step further, just make sure the most basic drivers are supported (at the least) plug in a nic and give VPN access to the all contribute-level developers on different distro teams with the promise of the gear they can write X number of fixes/drivers/patches for. Plop the specs out on a website they have access to and offer the team with the most fixes a load of cash in the form of a donation and one piece of gear per team member.
Most of the fixes would apply to all distros, it would just be the packaging mechanisms that would differ. Whichever team wins the donation gets a nice prize for doing what they love. Dell wins cause it only costs them gear (which they've already got piles of) and the consumer ultimately wins in the end.
...and then there are monopolistic OEM distribution deals. If you had to retool your fuel computer to get better mileage you probably couldn't do it yourself, but a mechanic with some experience in that field could throw down a fix in a few minutes/hours giving the environment and your pocketbook a nice weight lifted from them.
Unfortunately as with the complex system of a modern combustion engine it takes a rudimentary knowledge of a computer to install an operating system. On top of which, since Microsoft uses their own nomenclature for what would otherwise be easy to describe concepts you need to translate the rudiments of POSIX to the MCP/MCSEs of the world for them to even be able to perform most installs outside of the Microsoft world.
Let the argument begin with confusing filesystem structure (directories and files) with Folders and Icons. By changing language you create an alien environment and you create ambiguity in communication between professionals. This creates a seemingly chaotic landscape for those in the comfort-zone of Microsquish. For there to be conversation you need common ground, and barring a few cross-over exceptions (Network Administrators/Engineers mostly) I have yet to find an MCSE with the propensity to seek this common ground, let alone have an intelligent conversation regardint the Pros and Cons of both environments.
Microsoft spread the seed of FUD and it has blossomed and grown firm and strong as the tree of ignorance in many an MCSE.
I still don't understand what all you crazy people are talking about... It's a laundry detergent for crying out loud.
Seriously though, as much as the obsessive compulsive in me wants to demand Linux refers to the kernel, in common usage Linux is also used to describe Linux Distributions.
Confusing? Probably, but just think Windows used to be synonymous with Operating System to most people and although Linux may be a misnomer in this sense, it applies in common usage.
And the sad part is, one could easily speculate that when "someone" told him "not to write" about Linux, he may have just appended "about Linux" in his own world. As it stands, anyone with half a brain wouldn't think he should be writing for an audience at all.
Lets put it this way, the next major junction in the evolution of humanity will ride heavily on math and science. You can argue about what that junction is, but what you can't do is say Steinbeck had the answer.
If you believe that, or even worse, you believe that Mayan, and Aztec cultures are the fundamental branch of history you should be studying to understand the now (rather than actually teaching an understanding of the historiography of the past 200 years) you're also off your rocker.
There are lessons to be learned from philosophy, psychology, history and basic language skills. Ignoring basic literacy, which should be developed in elementary school, and should be a pre-requisite to get INTO high school these courses should _NOT_ be stressed as heavily in high school as they are, they are for the FURTHER enrichment of an individual. They are the tools used to piece together how reality uses math and science to help grow a broader view of the world. The fact that they are so heavily stressed, and equally weighted, in high school is a travesty.
Now if your really serious about a pay differential, how about all the teachers getting paid extra periods in Central Valley Schools to teach K-5th grade reading fundamentals to 13-18 year old students. It is a sick sick educational system that allows this sort of thing to happen in the first place, and to perpetuate it at the High school levels through artificial pre-school indexes (API) is just demonstrative of the larger problems our society faces.
My siblings and myself read most of the books these NEAR adults are having difficulty reading with my mother before I began kindergarten. What makes it even WORSE is the libraries in the highschools where this is taking place are FLOODED with garbage material that stops being interesting once one has learned to read past a 5th grade level. (IE Romeo and Juliet re-written for a 5th grade reader: 70 pages, in 16 point font...)
I am a recent graduate (7 years now) and at least while I was going the opportunity for research and personal enrichment was there. But now that the libraries are making room for the hooked on phonics equivalent material there is not even the chance for the self-driven learners. This is not how you train a productive, world-class competitive workforce it's how you teach elementary school children the basics of reading. Hell even the methodology is the same, students read out loud, internal dialog is discouraged. Since the applications (costing millions just in the Pajaro and Salinas Valley) that review student progress require the student read aloud into a microphone so the teacher can playback and score the student later.
Dumbing down the material, dumbs down the end result. Algebra is a concept easily taught to 3rd graders, and yet they are barely being taught division in our schools. All our base are belong to the CTA
please disregard. Since you know there's lots of stuff ignored here anyways, it probably will be but hopefully not since I have to get it to show up in the first place.
Since DRM has been proven insecure over and over again, it is simply a matter of time before your R&D is completely subverted by pirates who will just re-encode/recapture your media and release it with no DRM for distribution. Hell most DRM laden crap is just that, crap. Low quality etc. As many have said before, pirates are after the highest quality rips not the garbage, so *shrug* it's a 50:50 proposition honestly. Put the money into keeping shit most pirates wouldn't touch, semi-offlimits (to the customer) or releasing something without all the money in the DRM (which the recording industry won't touch, because they've drank the DRM cool-aid) that the customer can actually use.
Since when does watching a show on my computer, portable media device of laptop have to require a license for each device? If the media outlets think that the average consumer will swallow that pill they've got another thing coming. Instead of creating a ubiquitous platform for their media they've developed a thousand little niches that all waste so much time and effort in DRM it's only their insane margins that keep them making a profit.
This was a big no brainer for me. The only RPM based distro I use any longer is Trustix (because it solves dependency hell it's own way.) It's been that way since Yum has been around. Fedora & RH have always had these problems, and the first time I was pigeon-holed into --force --nodeps on a removal was the last time I loaded a RH/Fedora box for production.
Wow, took ESR long enough. With how vocal an advocate he is, you'd think he'd have had these problems long ago. I guess only us lowly systems guys see this shit first hand and throw it out before it hits the floor.
This all relies on the assumption that: Hold Time + Call Time*2 is less than Research Time + DIY Time
Which is old world thinking. Since many places Research is as simple as typing in the Intranet search bar, or even faster by clicking the "Top 10 FAQ" on the Intranet portal. Tack on the fact that the DIY is typically provided a nice set of instructions (sometimes with screencaps etc to perform the requested operation.) and you've got yourself a complete timesink of ~15 minutes.
Which if you add together the left side of the equation (The hold time of the person with the question, plus the time of both individuals on the phone, the requestor and the requestee) is easily pushed towards that 20minute mark even if both sides are able to communicate problems & solutions quickly. Add one inept user with pointy hair and queue time goes up markedly for all 100 waiting. Whereas with an efficient self supporting system, you'll still hear from the inept, but you won't be holding up any where near the same number of people.
Self-supporting isn't the paradigm it is a reality, and efficient IT depts create user documentation that is useful to the end user, and saves them (the IT staff) time. You'll never get the capslock and cup-holding cdrom geniouses out of the L 1 queue, but you can give those who have an IQ in the double & triple digits a way of solving their own problems.
The desktop is not the place for files, your dorito workstation will be placed, altiris will load the image (give it an hour or so to complete loading all your old applications.) Anything you saved in your my documents, or on your groupspace mapped drives is fine. Hopefully you don't save anything on the hard drive again. If your manager thinks the data is important enough after I update him/her as to your violation of policy, they can then decide if they are going to pay to have the drive recovered at a reputable recovery service. (And if they're a nice person they won't take it out of your pay.)
Is the day hundreds of callcenters close down their Level 1 support. I always thought it funny to have columns and rows of people that do nothing but open the documentation the users have and read it to them over the phone. Since the phones are still ringing, I think this announcement is still quite a bit premature.
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Also, to throw another argument out there, what's child pr0n to one country is not child porn to another. With the internet being without boundaries and usenet being without propper labels you can put money on a binary grabber getting something considered child porn in the states pretty easily.
With the state of technological education in this nation you can also bet that the judge you end up sitting in front of would have little chance comprehending, let alone understanding your situation. Bottom line, you broke the "LAW" by doing that, so you should pay the "CONSEQUENCES." To hell with the fact that your possesion of it was unintentional, or that it didn't even violate any laws in the act of producing the pr0n (if it happens to be illegal here and legal in Denmark for instance.)
If you wanna keep up binary-grabbing encrypt your communication to and from usenet, and encrypt your data stores, and don't be an idiot with porn images in aim/myspace etc.
Or you could just install off the Server CD and then apt up to whatever you really want...
System Components:
.debs manually or .rpms with alien. .debs manually or .rpms with alien.
./configure;make; test the app, edit some config files and make install.
Windows: Start->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs
Ubuntu: System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager
Debian: $dselect
(Open)Suse: yast2
Commonly used packages:
Windows: Download package from some site (possibly Sourceforge, possibly some spyware ridden godawful adsite) unzip/execute and follow prompts to install.
Ubuntu: System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager; with possible alternative of downloading and using
Debian: $dselect; with possible alternative of downloading and using
(Open)Suse: yast2
Typical Bleeding Edge Software installs:
Windows: Double Click Zip file, hunt and peck for a README, extract to a location, run an AV or two against any executables and double click while crossing fingers. Find ini/registry import and manually hack it till you get it right.
*Nix: tar -zxvf $tarball.tar.gz; cd $tarball... Hunt and peck for README...run
I'm sure there's a fedora/rhe easy way as well, but I haven't used them seriously in over 4 years.
On a side note, this shit ain't as hard as it used to be; you probably haven't tried Ubuntu/Knoppix et al in years.
Only time I've had to go to command line at all is for installing custom BS that most won't be doing anyways. I spend more time in the Registry and in a CMD shell at work than I do in a bash shell on my fully driver supported Ubuntu lappy.
Because this argument was prevelant the last time this was posted. (read: dupe, dupe,dupe, editors wake up, it's another dupe.) I'll repost the rebuttal: the energy removed from the slipstream is estimated at 1/10th of 1 percent if the entire planet were to be powered by these devices.
And to reiterate my rebuttal in the last dupe: The energy removed from the atmosphere when the planet's coal plants were disabled might far overshadow the energy harnessed and reused...
Wind energy is prevelant, replenished by the sun, and available around the globe. If we can use even a small portion of the wind's energy I'm all for it.
2 service packs later :P
The whole unclean hands bit actually holds up in court. If you had RTFA you'd see the rebuttal is that PJ has not reported on sealed documents or closed transcript hearings. Obvious SCO shills have.
It's hard to claim that the documents that are given out by IBM PR and the court (with court stamps, and volunteer's picking the crap up) is privileged. If you actually read Groklaw, that's nearly all that's reported (albeit, with a heavy dose of op-ed.)
I remember reading about it from a luddite *keep the emf out* website
A quick google reveals this
There's no doubt more.
There are coated double pane glass windows work pretty well at blocking EM if I recall correctly.
Cause a user never has had a corrupt office install and had to call on their sixpack of beer a fix friend to hack their registry and reinstall office.
Shit happens, but yeah there should be an automated system to solve package issues. The brilliant bit is, you can submit a feature request to the ubuntu team and it might actually get implimented.
someone mod parent insightful, it ain't funny. Thinking back, it was fucking brilliant. Everything after had to be hotfixed/quickpatched (remember 6.0-6.1-6.22 debacle?.) 3.0-3.1 etc market pressures pushed the software crippling bugs and all out the door before it was ready for prime time.
I hope microsoft realizes their legacy is that every Windows sysadmin worth his salt waits for the 1st service pack before going production with their cock-ups.
Cause, the first taste is free, but M$ makes sure you're hooked for life.
OSS lets you sit down at any chair at the bar, and pick a beer that matches your taste, and the worst thing that could happen is you get drunk off the result... and maybe have a mild hangover. But at least it's all down to discipline, rather than addiction.
Too literal a response. Just say, "Yeah but, it's called $oss-packagename." The end user for the most part doesn't care. If "Linux can't do it" then it can't do it. The fact that there are 123123551 alternatives never hit their ears because they use software titles and functions interchangeably. If they're smart enough to know the difference you can explain it, but otherwise it's just becomes semantics.
Because I don't agree to this:
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Not to be a technical smart-ass, but everyone with a modern browser with default settings makes an electronic copy of her website every time they visit (in their memory cache immediately and their disk cache shortly thereafter.) If the system doesn't have enough physical memory to keep everything in ram, it might even get dumped to swap. Making it possible to have a round total of 3 copies without even trying. Since she hasn't sued every visitor one could argue she's given up her right to do so.
Also, I don't agree to something simply by reading it. I have to indicate it (see: Electronic Signature) in a legally binding manner. And the 1996-era pop-up (that does no checking to prevent me from clicking no and continuing) certainly doesn't constitute a legal agreement.
Sounds like someone just wants to make a buck through the legal system.
... Unless I'm mistaken you can modularize the testing and say "This works at the kernel level, module blah" and you can isolate the testing from the distro...
And the best way to do that would be to use a source based distro and then build out from there. If dell was serious about Linux support they'd make sure their gear was supported in Linux, not just this set of binary compiled packages slapped on top of a static kernel.
Hell I bet if they just donated the gear they want supported to the right people with full spec sheets (Debian team would probably be a good start) the damn things would be pretty close to 99% supported before the next incremental release. Offer up a free piece of gear to the person who writes any of the 1% fixes and you close the gap. It'd probably cost loads less than applying proprietary processes to F/OSS and nothing gets geeks going on a project faster than shiny things.
Shit, you could take it a step further, just make sure the most basic drivers are supported (at the least) plug in a nic and give VPN access to the all contribute-level developers on different distro teams with the promise of the gear they can write X number of fixes/drivers/patches for. Plop the specs out on a website they have access to and offer the team with the most fixes a load of cash in the form of a donation and one piece of gear per team member.
Most of the fixes would apply to all distros, it would just be the packaging mechanisms that would differ. Whichever team wins the donation gets a nice prize for doing what they love. Dell wins cause it only costs them gear (which they've already got piles of) and the consumer ultimately wins in the end.
...and then there are monopolistic OEM distribution deals. If you had to retool your fuel computer to get better mileage you probably couldn't do it yourself, but a mechanic with some experience in that field could throw down a fix in a few minutes/hours giving the environment and your pocketbook a nice weight lifted from them.
Unfortunately as with the complex system of a modern combustion engine it takes a rudimentary knowledge of a computer to install an operating system. On top of which, since Microsoft uses their own nomenclature for what would otherwise be easy to describe concepts you need to translate the rudiments of POSIX to the MCP/MCSEs of the world for them to even be able to perform most installs outside of the Microsoft world.
Let the argument begin with confusing filesystem structure (directories and files) with Folders and Icons. By changing language you create an alien environment and you create ambiguity in communication between professionals. This creates a seemingly chaotic landscape for those in the comfort-zone of Microsquish. For there to be conversation you need common ground, and barring a few cross-over exceptions (Network Administrators/Engineers mostly) I have yet to find an MCSE with the propensity to seek this common ground, let alone have an intelligent conversation regardint the Pros and Cons of both environments.
Microsoft spread the seed of FUD and it has blossomed and grown firm and strong as the tree of ignorance in many an MCSE.
I still don't understand what all you crazy people are talking about... It's a laundry detergent for crying out loud.
Seriously though, as much as the obsessive compulsive in me wants to demand Linux refers to the kernel, in common usage Linux is also used to describe Linux Distributions.
Confusing? Probably, but just think Windows used to be synonymous with Operating System to most people and although Linux may be a misnomer in this sense, it applies in common usage.
And the sad part is, one could easily speculate that when "someone" told him "not to write" about Linux, he may have just appended "about Linux" in his own world. As it stands, anyone with half a brain wouldn't think he should be writing for an audience at all.
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Lets put it this way, the next major junction in the evolution of humanity will ride heavily on math and science. You can argue about what that junction is, but what you can't do is say Steinbeck had the answer.
If you believe that, or even worse, you believe that Mayan, and Aztec cultures are the fundamental branch of history you should be studying to understand the now (rather than actually teaching an understanding of the historiography of the past 200 years) you're also off your rocker.
There are lessons to be learned from philosophy, psychology, history and basic language skills. Ignoring basic literacy, which should be developed in elementary school, and should be a pre-requisite to get INTO high school these courses should _NOT_ be stressed as heavily in high school as they are, they are for the FURTHER enrichment of an individual. They are the tools used to piece together how reality uses math and science to help grow a broader view of the world. The fact that they are so heavily stressed, and equally weighted, in high school is a travesty.
Now if your really serious about a pay differential, how about all the teachers getting paid extra periods in Central Valley Schools to teach K-5th grade reading fundamentals to 13-18 year old students. It is a sick sick educational system that allows this sort of thing to happen in the first place, and to perpetuate it at the High school levels through artificial pre-school indexes (API) is just demonstrative of the larger problems our society faces.
My siblings and myself read most of the books these NEAR adults are having difficulty reading with my mother before I began kindergarten. What makes it even WORSE is the libraries in the highschools where this is taking place are FLOODED with garbage material that stops being interesting once one has learned to read past a 5th grade level. (IE Romeo and Juliet re-written for a 5th grade reader: 70 pages, in 16 point font...)
I am a recent graduate (7 years now) and at least while I was going the opportunity for research and personal enrichment was there. But now that the libraries are making room for the hooked on phonics equivalent material there is not even the chance for the self-driven learners. This is not how you train a productive, world-class competitive workforce it's how you teach elementary school children the basics of reading. Hell even the methodology is the same, students read out loud, internal dialog is discouraged. Since the applications (costing millions just in the Pajaro and Salinas Valley) that review student progress require the student read aloud into a microphone so the teacher can playback and score the student later.
Dumbing down the material, dumbs down the end result. Algebra is a concept easily taught to 3rd graders, and yet they are barely being taught division in our schools. All our base are belong to the CTA
please disregard. Since you know there's lots of stuff ignored here anyways, it probably will be but hopefully not since I have to get it to show up in the first place.
Since DRM has been proven insecure over and over again, it is simply a matter of time before your R&D is completely subverted by pirates who will just re-encode/recapture your media and release it with no DRM for distribution. Hell most DRM laden crap is just that, crap. Low quality etc. As many have said before, pirates are after the highest quality rips not the garbage, so *shrug* it's a 50:50 proposition honestly. Put the money into keeping shit most pirates wouldn't touch, semi-offlimits (to the customer) or releasing something without all the money in the DRM (which the recording industry won't touch, because they've drank the DRM cool-aid) that the customer can actually use.
Since when does watching a show on my computer, portable media device of laptop have to require a license for each device? If the media outlets think that the average consumer will swallow that pill they've got another thing coming. Instead of creating a ubiquitous platform for their media they've developed a thousand little niches that all waste so much time and effort in DRM it's only their insane margins that keep them making a profit.
This was a big no brainer for me. The only RPM based distro I use any longer is Trustix (because it solves dependency hell it's own way.) It's been that way since Yum has been around. Fedora & RH have always had these problems, and the first time I was pigeon-holed into --force --nodeps on a removal was the last time I loaded a RH/Fedora box for production.
Wow, took ESR long enough. With how vocal an advocate he is, you'd think he'd have had these problems long ago. I guess only us lowly systems guys see this shit first hand and throw it out before it hits the floor.
This all relies on the assumption that:
Hold Time + Call Time*2 is less than Research Time + DIY Time
Which is old world thinking. Since many places Research is as simple as typing in the Intranet search bar, or even faster by clicking the "Top 10 FAQ" on the Intranet portal. Tack on the fact that the DIY is typically provided a nice set of instructions (sometimes with screencaps etc to perform the requested operation.) and you've got yourself a complete timesink of ~15 minutes.
Which if you add together the left side of the equation (The hold time of the person with the question, plus the time of both individuals on the phone, the requestor and the requestee) is easily pushed towards that 20minute mark even if both sides are able to communicate problems & solutions quickly. Add one inept user with pointy hair and queue time goes up markedly for all 100 waiting. Whereas with an efficient self supporting system, you'll still hear from the inept, but you won't be holding up any where near the same number of people.
Self-supporting isn't the paradigm it is a reality, and efficient IT depts create user documentation that is useful to the end user, and saves them (the IT staff) time. You'll never get the capslock and cup-holding cdrom geniouses out of the L 1 queue, but you can give those who have an IQ in the double & triple digits a way of solving their own problems.
The desktop is not the place for files, your dorito workstation will be placed, altiris will load the image (give it an hour or so to complete loading all your old applications.) Anything you saved in your my documents, or on your groupspace mapped drives is fine. Hopefully you don't save anything on the hard drive again. If your manager thinks the data is important enough after I update him/her as to your violation of policy, they can then decide if they are going to pay to have the drive recovered at a reputable recovery service. (And if they're a nice person they won't take it out of your pay.)
Is the day hundreds of callcenters close down their Level 1 support. I always thought it funny to have columns and rows of people that do nothing but open the documentation the users have and read it to them over the phone. Since the phones are still ringing, I think this announcement is still quite a bit premature.