Ever hear of IBM? I understand that they're a pretty big company.
I spent five years there, and always had full admin rights on my machines. My lab had a standard image that was deployed on all new machines, and the owner's account was an admin account by default. Whenever I compared notes with other IBMers at other facilities, they always had full admin rights on their Thinkpads too.
I left a few months ago, but I doubt that it's changed in that time./nm
Just who, other than Mac cultists and SFF geeks, is going to buy a Mac Mini?
Well, my dad, for one. He's a sysadmin for a state government, although most of his time these days is going to various departments to try to whip users and their systems into shape.
I visited at Christmas. I let him play with my PowerBook because he hadn't had the opportunity to use one before. Three hours later, he had drained my battery but had fallen in love with it. We looked at the iMac while I was visiting, and he liked the form factor and the interface but wasn't ready to spend that much.
I told him about the miniMac when it was announced, and told him to go poke at one when he could make it to an Apple store. He did, and called me on Friday to ask me to order one for him. So I did, and bought some RAM separately 'cause his birthday is coming up.
(Just to be clear, he only asked me to order one 'cause my company gets discounts on Apple hardware.)
IBM has done a fair amount for the open source community as a whole, which is more than just Linux.
There's eclipse, which was originally developed by IBM, and which has a sizeable team of IBM developers who work on it. There are other IBM development teams across the world that work directly on Linux. There's the pledge from IBM to not make any patent attacks against Linux. There's the 500 patents that were donated last week for open source use.
ObDisclaimer: I'm an IBMer in the Software Group, although I don't work on anything that's open source, and none of my patents are included in the 500 that were released./nm
Not all of IBM's tech support is in the US. The last time that I called tech support, I was connected to someone in Bangalore. Ever since IBM moved [at least some of] its tech support overseas, everyone at my office whinges if their ThinkPad dies or Notes goes belly-up.
Hardware support still seems to be exclusively in Atlanta, but software support seems to be either Bangalore or Toronto. I haven't connected to anyone in Atlanta or Boulder (the previous two main sources of software support) for software support in at least a year./nm
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Ever hear of IBM? I understand that they're a pretty big company.
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I spent five years there, and always had full admin rights on my machines. My lab had a standard image that was deployed on all new machines, and the owner's account was an admin account by default. Whenever I compared notes with other IBMers at other facilities, they always had full admin rights on their Thinkpads too.
I left a few months ago, but I doubt that it's changed in that time.
Just who, other than Mac cultists and SFF geeks, is going to buy a Mac Mini?
Well, my dad, for one. He's a sysadmin for a state government, although most of his time these days is going to various departments to try to whip users and their systems into shape.
I visited at Christmas. I let him play with my PowerBook because he hadn't had the opportunity to use one before. Three hours later, he had drained my battery but had fallen in love with it. We looked at the iMac while I was visiting, and he liked the form factor and the interface but wasn't ready to spend that much.
I told him about the miniMac when it was announced, and told him to go poke at one when he could make it to an Apple store. He did, and called me on Friday to ask me to order one for him. So I did, and bought some RAM separately 'cause his birthday is coming up.
(Just to be clear, he only asked me to order one 'cause my company gets discounts on Apple hardware.)
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IBM has done a fair amount for the open source community as a whole, which is more than just Linux.
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There's eclipse, which was originally developed by IBM, and which has a sizeable team of IBM developers who work on it. There are other IBM development teams across the world that work directly on Linux. There's the pledge from IBM to not make any patent attacks against Linux. There's the 500 patents that were donated last week for open source use.
ObDisclaimer: I'm an IBMer in the Software Group, although I don't work on anything that's open source, and none of my patents are included in the 500 that were released.
That's what happened (on paper) with the sale of the hard drive unit to Hitachi, but that doesn't seem to be the actual outcome. /nm
Not all of IBM's tech support is in the US. The last time that I called tech support, I was connected to someone in Bangalore. Ever since IBM moved [at least some of] its tech support overseas, everyone at my office whinges if their ThinkPad dies or Notes goes belly-up.
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Hardware support still seems to be exclusively in Atlanta, but software support seems to be either Bangalore or Toronto. I haven't connected to anyone in Atlanta or Boulder (the previous two main sources of software support) for software support in at least a year.