What you need to do is contact your Dell Small Business account rep (I'm assuming you have one) and talk to him about Open Business Licensing. All you need to do is purchase 5 MS licenses in one chunk (it can be Office, Project, Visio, XP, Vista, 2003, SQL Server, whatever, but it must be 5 licenses in one order) and you can get Open Business licenses.
What happens after that is that you are given an authorization number and an agreement number (for each license or block of like licenses, say you purchase 3 copies of Office Standard) and you go to eopen.microsoft.com (Live account required:/ ) and login, plugin all your info and BAM! you are given keys for Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007. I've been doing this for two years and it is great because I was able to stick with 2003, but now that we are switching to 2007, 2/3rds of my organization (approx 55 people) already have licenses for both (obviously you can only use one license at a time). You can still purchase Office 2003 install media, afaik. Overall, you will find your licenses are cheaper than retail, but not OEM, but then they aren't tied to a single machine. There is also less headache in tracking because you can view all your agreements/keys on MS's site.
Email me if you want more information, if you don't have an account representative, I can point you at mine.
I've seen a lot of your comments on Kerberos, LDAP, etc and the success you've had with your home network. In fact I've browsed through your past comments just to read up on interesting comments you make in relation to that topic. But I notice you haven't put anything online about the steps you went through to get everything working. I'd be really interested to see you write and publish something. If you'd be interested in entertaining the idea, please email me brandon [at] inatree [dot] org
Simple answer, maybe he is smart enough not to accumulate a shitton of debt and has stashed away enough money to live comfortable for two-three months, like a smart person should. Even if it requires sacrifice, like not get that new nVidia card or hot new AMD64 processor as soon as it hits the shelfs. Therefore, he can afford to take some time off to fuck around waiting for a movie he hopes will be worth it, maybe he was smart and invested in some Mutual Funds, bought some I-Bonds, and has a few grand in a savings account or two. But those are just my thoughts.
What in the hell are you talking about? I can ping just fine from any of the three Linux machines and the OpenBSD machine, the MacOS X machine, and the various Windows Machines, all sitting on one Midco provided cable modem in Brookings, SD. Not sure what your problem, but icmp in and out works fine for me and Midco is a great company, their tech that installed my stuff didn't give two hoots that I had an OpenBSD router, he just sat there will we figured out why things wouldn't work initially, which turned out to be me needed to add Midco's DNS Servers to my/etc/resolv.conf
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I have not seen this mentioned yet, but I think it should be noted that it is not Gentoo's fault that the UT2003 LiveCD does not run on ATI cards. Epic made the call to only support the newer nVidia cards in the demo and it has nothing to do with Gentoo or the fact that XFree86 has less than ample support for the newer Radeon card line.
I have been using Evolution 1.0.7 on my Debian Unstable system, this being my main workstation here at work. I have so far had to problems using anything from the Mail part of the program to importing my Calendar and Contact information. I am not however using Exchange with it, so I can't comment on the usability of that particular portion.
Now, I am just offering you my opinion and experience in this, but I am also a Senior and will be graduating in just three days. I have been working in a small office for the last 10 months as the Systems Administrator and I also plan to be attending college in the fall. ( http://www.sdsmt.edu ) My advice to you would be to do the same, considering the only reason that I have my current position is that I had, at the time of my hiring, plans to pursue a Computer Science Degree, well that and fairly good experience, for the position. On another note, my friend's father is the Head of Network Operations for a local isp and though he uses mainly Linux and Unices for his infrastructure, he has no say over hiring and has mainly those with a BS in CS or MIS and a MSCE or CNAA along with the degree and that is the primary reason they were hired. So I would say, to sum it up, that you should persue your degree and also try to work part time in a position that will give you Systems Administration experience.
To begin with, let me say that I understand spam is a problem and it causes problems for many people by filling their inboxes'(?). However, I for one have never had a spam problem. I use a single Yahoo! Mail account for personal and a domain one for corporate use, I have over the years signed up and used many, many free resources on the web (i.e. hosting, services, newsletters, etc.) I have used the same email for all and I also subscribe to Bugtraq, Focus IDS, and Pen-Test among other lists yet I see maybe one piece of "spam" but that usually turns out to be from somewhere I wanted it to come from. So, spam doesn't seem to be a big problem with me. Maybe I am just lucky?
The more I hear about the many "features/modules" of Emacs/XEmacs the more I want to dowload and try it out, seems to me that it is not "monolithic", but rather customizable to the point of a development evironment you do nopt have to leave, most of the time, that is for those of us who prefer the console style environment. And I am thinking this coming from four years of using straight vi/vim.
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It was Robert Heinlein as a quote from Lazarus Long, http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/an_elephant_is_a_mouse_built_to_government/262486.html
Another potential Diane's Steam Carpet Cleaning customer? :D
What you need to do is contact your Dell Small Business account rep (I'm assuming you have one) and talk to him about Open Business Licensing. All you need to do is purchase 5 MS licenses in one chunk (it can be Office, Project, Visio, XP, Vista, 2003, SQL Server, whatever, but it must be 5 licenses in one order) and you can get Open Business licenses.
:/ ) and login, plugin all your info and BAM! you are given keys for Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007. I've been doing this for two years and it is great because I was able to stick with 2003, but now that we are switching to 2007, 2/3rds of my organization (approx 55 people) already have licenses for both (obviously you can only use one license at a time). You can still purchase Office 2003 install media, afaik. Overall, you will find your licenses are cheaper than retail, but not OEM, but then they aren't tied to a single machine. There is also less headache in tracking because you can view all your agreements/keys on MS's site.
What happens after that is that you are given an authorization number and an agreement number (for each license or block of like licenses, say you purchase 3 copies of Office Standard) and you go to eopen.microsoft.com (Live account required
Email me if you want more information, if you don't have an account representative, I can point you at mine.
I've seen a lot of your comments on Kerberos, LDAP, etc and the success you've had with your home network. In fact I've browsed through your past comments just to read up on interesting comments you make in relation to that topic. But I notice you haven't put anything online about the steps you went through to get everything working. I'd be really interested to see you write and publish something. If you'd be interested in entertaining the idea, please email me brandon [at] inatree [dot] org
Cheers!
Simple answer, maybe he is smart enough not to accumulate a shitton of debt and has stashed away enough money to live comfortable for two-three months, like a smart person should. Even if it requires sacrifice, like not get that new nVidia card or hot new AMD64 processor as soon as it hits the shelfs. Therefore, he can afford to take some time off to fuck around waiting for a movie he hopes will be worth it, maybe he was smart and invested in some Mutual Funds, bought some I-Bonds, and has a few grand in a savings account or two. But those are just my thoughts.
What in the hell are you talking about? I can ping just fine from any of the three Linux machines and the OpenBSD machine, the MacOS X machine, and the various Windows Machines, all sitting on one Midco provided cable modem in Brookings, SD. Not sure what your problem, but icmp in and out works fine for me and Midco is a great company, their tech that installed my stuff didn't give two hoots that I had an OpenBSD router, he just sat there will we figured out why things wouldn't work initially, which turned out to be me needed to add Midco's DNS Servers to my /etc/resolv.conf
I have not seen this mentioned yet, but I think it should be noted that it is not Gentoo's fault that the UT2003 LiveCD does not run on ATI cards. Epic made the call to only support the newer nVidia cards in the demo and it has nothing to do with Gentoo or the fact that XFree86 has less than ample support for the newer Radeon card line.
I have been using Evolution 1.0.7 on my Debian Unstable system, this being my main workstation here at work. I have so far had to problems using anything from the Mail part of the program to importing my Calendar and Contact information. I am not however using Exchange with it, so I can't comment on the usability of that particular portion.
Now, I am just offering you my opinion and experience in this, but I am also a Senior and will be graduating in just three days. I have been working in a small office for the last 10 months as the Systems Administrator and I also plan to be attending college in the fall. ( http://www.sdsmt.edu ) My advice to you would be to do the same, considering the only reason that I have my current position is that I had, at the time of my hiring, plans to pursue a Computer Science Degree, well that and fairly good experience, for the position. On another note, my friend's father is the Head of Network Operations for a local isp and though he uses mainly Linux and Unices for his infrastructure, he has no say over hiring and has mainly those with a BS in CS or MIS and a MSCE or CNAA along with the degree and that is the primary reason they were hired. So I would say, to sum it up, that you should persue your degree and also try to work part time in a position that will give you Systems Administration experience.
That must take on hell of a large microwave, and what setting would you use? "Half-Baked"
That We name the MySQL Dolphin . . .
<drumroll> Sea-Biscuit
I do not know why, I just thought it would be a good name.
To begin with, let me say that I understand spam is a problem and it causes problems for many people by filling their inboxes'(?). However, I for one have never had a spam problem. I use a single Yahoo! Mail account for personal and a domain one for corporate use, I have over the years signed up and used many, many free resources on the web (i.e. hosting, services, newsletters, etc.) I have used the same email for all and I also subscribe to Bugtraq, Focus IDS, and Pen-Test among other lists yet I see maybe one piece of "spam" but that usually turns out to be from somewhere I wanted it to come from. So, spam doesn't seem to be a big problem with me. Maybe I am just lucky?
The more I hear about the many "features/modules" of Emacs/XEmacs the more I want to dowload and try it out, seems to me that it is not "monolithic", but rather customizable to the point of a development evironment you do nopt have to leave, most of the time, that is for those of us who prefer the console style environment. And I am thinking this coming from four years of using straight vi/vim.