Hardware is definitely at issue -- Linux rocked with APM, and I was able to do things like sleep in the middle of kernel compilation and resume without missing a beat, on a Sony Vaio 505R or HP Omnibook 900. On these same three IBM laptops, XP needs ethernet drivers sneakernetted in, and can't install at all on the T60 without building an nLite disk or dropping the SATA drives into AHCI mode. But, once installed, XP's power management and sleep is nearly flawless on all three systems. It gets "nearly" because after a week or two of frequent suspend/resume it will eventually fail to suspend or get stuck in low-power CPU mode. A reboot fixes it.
Ditto -- I let my Mandrake subscription lapse two years ago for the same reason. I switched to SuSE at the time, but I've been disappointed by it as well; everything's great 98% of the time, but then YaST2 will get confused and wipe out something critical (like your kernel, or your smb.conf). Debian or Ubuntu will probably go on my replacement servers when these SuSE systems die off.
Unfortunately, it won't be going on any laptops, because it still sucks. I recently gave Feisty Fawn a try on a T40, T43, and T60. All three had major hardware issues -- only the T40 could suspend and resume properly, none of them could play video on a projector unless the projector was connected during a hard power off/power on, the T60 couldn't use AHCI for its SATA drives, the T43's wireless card wasn't recognized, the T60 could only join an open AP, not a WPA2 one... &c, &c, &c.
This was four years ago, I don't recall Oracle for Windows being an option at the time. I could be wrong. I know there were Oracle client tools for Windows because installing it destroyed the OS on one of my workstations:) I haven't had to install Oracle since, but I have worked with a few Oracle installations since then, but they were all on Solaris.
I repeat: Still, we were able to put together a document that took users from bare metal to RHEL+Postgres in four hours if they had all their media handy.
I presume that you are not a user, and that you are not including OS installation.
I worked for a company whose product ran on MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Should I explain why we didn't support MySQL or not? It'll draw fanboys either way. I used the same server, reinstalled the OS (Red Hat Enterprise 3 or Windows 2000) and database between each test, and rebuilt the application server to be extra sure.
Since it was more difficult to write Oracle-compliant SQL and we didn't have a lot of Oracle customers, the developers didn't care to spend time on it, and our stuff ran about 20 percent slower there. That's after a lot of tuning time, it was 50% slower on a default install. Oracle 9 took two days to install and tune, plus another two days of preparation. I was particularly underwhelmed that I had to deal with stupid errors like tarballs that extracted onto themselves and assumptions about the shell being used. At the time, Oracle was a very Solaris-like experience; user-unfriendly to the extreme.
Postgresql 7 ran great; it was neck and neck with MS-SQL in all tests, after proper tuning, and 30 percent slower on a default install. Postgres took half a day to install and tune, but it took me a week and conversation with the postgres mailing lists to find out what needed tuning. Still, we were able to put together a document that took users from bare metal to RHEL+Postgres in four hours if they had all their media handy.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 ran great with no tuning at all, and took fifteen minutes to install. It also cost as much as paying me to do the entire set of tests. OS installation/patching times and tested workloads were the same for all three tests.
It's okay, your conversations would actually cause the eavesdropper to literally fall over dead from boredom. I've worked for and with large companies for a long time, it's shocking how little of importance is actually said.
Anyway, the T-mobile dude at the top of the thread said it's a GSM call tunneled through wifi, so the packet sniffer would get the same data that a radio sniffer would pull. http://www.gsm-security.net/
Wait a minute though, the movie was targeted at the 22-32 generation. Go take a look at the IMDB reviews and watch the trailers. For fun, watch the trailers for Starship Troopers and Robocop at the same time. I can't find the link now, but I read about 6 weeks ago that it initially had an R, until strings were pulled to get it back to PG-13.
All of which means that my 9 year old son and his friends aren't going to go see it, which is a shame because they're bigger fans than I ever was. I guess we'll just rent the 1985 movie again.
Because Apples aren't designed for the enterprise, they're designed for your mom's kitchen table. No out of the box remote management capability, no thought to hardware maintenance, and you're supposed to go to an Apple store to get that maintenance done? While they do have enterprise programs and salespeople, the organization as a whole still seems slightly shocked that people want to use them in groups larger than 25.
Hopefully they'll grow out of this mindset sometime soon... their sales in the working world are going up by quite a lot and that means they'll be getting more pressure to do it right. Then again, they're a remarkably stubborn company (witness the one-mouse-button, alt-tab-vs-alt-tilde, closing-windows-doesn't-close-programs, and can't-maximize-a-window features). I know that there are people in Apple defending the lack of remote management capability as a security feature. I wouldn't be surprised if there are similar people considering difficult hardware maintenance as a feature.
(Yes, I know you can manage Apples remotely through many tools, but none of them can be used without first personally visiting the Mac in question. You'd better turn on ssh and set a known account/password, or install a management tool before you hand that machine over to a user.)
That's why I started, and I keep doing it for two reasons: you keep learning, and you maintain a reputation as the one who knows. The latter is not for ego-stroking purposes, it's for career maintenance purposes.
Word up -- I used to repair HP printers and refill their toner cartridges, back when that was a legally questionable activity. II and III were unbeatable, IV and V were a bit shoddier, after that it was downhill fast.
They are being honest, the software acts like that on OS X too. You're supposed to like OS X because it's pretty, and if it's not your idea of pretty, then you are a philistine.
I don't use Safari on OS X, no idea why I'd want it on Windows XP. Firefox provides a unified web experience across all the machines I use it on.
It's called a modern Virtual Memory Manager. Linux and OS X behave in the same way.
All computer systems suck, more or less equally, though they usually suck in different ways, prompting silly roolz/sucks arguments. Nothing to see here, move along.
I just put conduit into my remodel, and yes, pulling a bundle of wire through a long piece of conduit is challenging. If you have a partner/friend/spouse helping, have them whack on the side of the conduit, the vibration keeps your cables from getting stuck in the grooves of the conduit.
Rockbox is the answer to all music player questions... it's greatly extended the life of my iRiver iHP120, and I won't buy a replacement player if Rockbox doesn't run on it.
There's a good reason for the attitude -- as the things we buy get more complex, we the consumers are no longer really the customers. Rather than copy and paste my ranting, I'll just link it: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/race
These are the same people who crowed about PPC's superiority until they were forcibly switched to Intel chips, then congratulated themselves on having faster computers.
These are the same people who address each limitation of OS X by claiming it's a design feature. Of course you can't maximize a window so that it fills the screen, why would you want to?
grammar errors are annoying... a logical error in which the meaning is reversed is beyond annoying, especially in a forum of admins, coders and wannabe coders.
"...area that Exchange has been dominated in." means Exchange is losing "...area that Exchange has dominated in." means Exchange is winning/cue submitter's annoyed "I barely speak english and you people are being unfair" message in 5, 4, 3...
I think you're missing the point... for "tablet", don't think "laptop with a flipped touch screen", but instead think "ebook reader".
As useless as they are for pleasure reading, I could imagine some mild utility in an educational setting. But as a previous poster suggested, it should be offered as an option rather than presented free to everyone.
Maybe the only 100% sustainable power, but Anderson Valley Brewing Company is 50% solar powered, and the beer doesn't taste like burned grains of paradise./me loves microbrew, but Fat Tire is undrinkably nasty, especially in bottles. It's better on draft, though still nothing to write home about.
How's your suspend/resume functionality? I haven't seen that work properly* in Linux on any laptop since ACPI replaced APM.
*read: no less reliable than Windows/OSX, not too much slower than Windows/OSX, and suspend state should actually consume less battery power than running state (I'm looking at you, SLED). Oh, "it works great as long as I leave my X session before I suspend" isn't a good answer. A good answer is "I shut the lid, it goes to sleep within 60-90 seconds; I open the lid, it wakes up within 60-90 seconds."
First, there's the pressure from microsoft, which will lead to things like XP drivers being hard to get, broken, and feature-poor.
Second, there's the fact the IT people with a new OS are comparable to monkeys with a box of razor blades. Everywhere I go people tell me that they have no plans to go to Vista, unless Microsoft is strong-arming them into it... but these same people have it on their own desktops, and are griping about problems and gushing about cool features.
Official policy will have Vista rollout starting in late 2008; actual de facto rollout will be fifty per cent done by that time.
Because, in the immortal words of Al Franken, they're lying liars who lie. They're getting called out for their monopolistic behavior in the EU, and they're pointing the finger at someone else while they squeeze another few years of lock-in out of the folks who buy in to the system. DRM will be removed from iTunes when an external force makes it happen, and then Steve Jobs or his replacement will play the saint and parade his "great achievement" all over the news.
Sounds like we've worked for some of the same companies:) Though too be fair, I don't think I've ever tossed something over the fence to deployment that couldn't be implemented. I have had to go in and implement it myself because the DE wasn't capable or willing, but that's only when I foolishly believe the DE's manager's presentation about their great new staff's capabilities. If the DE is any good, they'll quickly get sick of their travel schedule and become something that lets them stay home more often.
One thing that's been very clear from my time as an SE... IT Departments are not loved. Look around yourself next time you're at work. I bet you're in: 1) A dank basement 2) A stuffy attic 3) A sub-building, preferably portable 4) A core, walled off from the rest of the cube farm.
if option 3 or 4, I'll bet you're very far from a window...
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Hardware is definitely at issue -- Linux rocked with APM, and I was able to do things like sleep in the middle of kernel compilation and resume without missing a beat, on a Sony Vaio 505R or HP Omnibook 900. On these same three IBM laptops, XP needs ethernet drivers sneakernetted in, and can't install at all on the T60 without building an nLite disk or dropping the SATA drives into AHCI mode. But, once installed, XP's power management and sleep is nearly flawless on all three systems. It gets "nearly" because after a week or two of frequent suspend/resume it will eventually fail to suspend or get stuck in low-power CPU mode. A reboot fixes it.
Ditto -- I let my Mandrake subscription lapse two years ago for the same reason. I switched to SuSE at the time, but I've been disappointed by it as well; everything's great 98% of the time, but then YaST2 will get confused and wipe out something critical (like your kernel, or your smb.conf). Debian or Ubuntu will probably go on my replacement servers when these SuSE systems die off.
Unfortunately, it won't be going on any laptops, because it still sucks. I recently gave Feisty Fawn a try on a T40, T43, and T60. All three had major hardware issues -- only the T40 could suspend and resume properly, none of them could play video on a projector unless the projector was connected during a hard power off/power on, the T60 couldn't use AHCI for its SATA drives, the T43's wireless card wasn't recognized, the T60 could only join an open AP, not a WPA2 one... &c, &c, &c.
This was four years ago, I don't recall Oracle for Windows being an option at the time. I could be wrong. I know there were Oracle client tools for Windows because installing it destroyed the OS on one of my workstations :) I haven't had to install Oracle since, but I have worked with a few Oracle installations since then, but they were all on Solaris.
I presume that you are not a user, and that you are not including OS installation.
I worked for a company whose product ran on MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Should I explain why we didn't support MySQL or not? It'll draw fanboys either way. I used the same server, reinstalled the OS (Red Hat Enterprise 3 or Windows 2000) and database between each test, and rebuilt the application server to be extra sure.
Since it was more difficult to write Oracle-compliant SQL and we didn't have a lot of Oracle customers, the developers didn't care to spend time on it, and our stuff ran about 20 percent slower there. That's after a lot of tuning time, it was 50% slower on a default install. Oracle 9 took two days to install and tune, plus another two days of preparation. I was particularly underwhelmed that I had to deal with stupid errors like tarballs that extracted onto themselves and assumptions about the shell being used. At the time, Oracle was a very Solaris-like experience; user-unfriendly to the extreme.
Postgresql 7 ran great; it was neck and neck with MS-SQL in all tests, after proper tuning, and 30 percent slower on a default install. Postgres took half a day to install and tune, but it took me a week and conversation with the postgres mailing lists to find out what needed tuning. Still, we were able to put together a document that took users from bare metal to RHEL+Postgres in four hours if they had all their media handy.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 ran great with no tuning at all, and took fifteen minutes to install. It also cost as much as paying me to do the entire set of tests. OS installation/patching times and tested workloads were the same for all three tests.
YMMV.
It's okay, your conversations would actually cause the eavesdropper to literally fall over dead from boredom. I've worked for and with large companies for a long time, it's shocking how little of importance is actually said.
Anyway, the T-mobile dude at the top of the thread said it's a GSM call tunneled through wifi, so the packet sniffer would get the same data that a radio sniffer would pull. http://www.gsm-security.net/
Finally, I was wondering how long that would take. See ya'll later, I'm off to go prospecting!i k-Pohl/dp/0345475836/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6095192-7 879221?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183654729&sr=8-1
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Wait a minute though, the movie was targeted at the 22-32 generation. Go take a look at the IMDB reviews and watch the trailers. For fun, watch the trailers for Starship Troopers and Robocop at the same time. I can't find the link now, but I read about 6 weeks ago that it initially had an R, until strings were pulled to get it back to PG-13.
All of which means that my 9 year old son and his friends aren't going to go see it, which is a shame because they're bigger fans than I ever was. I guess we'll just rent the 1985 movie again.
Because Apples aren't designed for the enterprise, they're designed for your mom's kitchen table. No out of the box remote management capability, no thought to hardware maintenance, and you're supposed to go to an Apple store to get that maintenance done? While they do have enterprise programs and salespeople, the organization as a whole still seems slightly shocked that people want to use them in groups larger than 25.
Hopefully they'll grow out of this mindset sometime soon... their sales in the working world are going up by quite a lot and that means they'll be getting more pressure to do it right. Then again, they're a remarkably stubborn company (witness the one-mouse-button, alt-tab-vs-alt-tilde, closing-windows-doesn't-close-programs, and can't-maximize-a-window features). I know that there are people in Apple defending the lack of remote management capability as a security feature. I wouldn't be surprised if there are similar people considering difficult hardware maintenance as a feature.
(Yes, I know you can manage Apples remotely through many tools, but none of them can be used without first personally visiting the Mac in question. You'd better turn on ssh and set a known account/password, or install a management tool before you hand that machine over to a user.)
That's why I started, and I keep doing it for two reasons: you keep learning, and you maintain a reputation as the one who knows. The latter is not for ego-stroking purposes, it's for career maintenance purposes.
Word up -- I used to repair HP printers and refill their toner cartridges, back when that was a legally questionable activity. II and III were unbeatable, IV and V were a bit shoddier, after that it was downhill fast.
I still see the occasional HP LJ III.
You should check out this book: Blindsight, by Peter Watts
Hard sci fi that plays along the lines you're referencing.
They are being honest, the software acts like that on OS X too. You're supposed to like OS X because it's pretty, and if it's not your idea of pretty, then you are a philistine.
I don't use Safari on OS X, no idea why I'd want it on Windows XP. Firefox provides a unified web experience across all the machines I use it on.
It's called a modern Virtual Memory Manager. Linux and OS X behave in the same way.
All computer systems suck, more or less equally, though they usually suck in different ways, prompting silly roolz/sucks arguments. Nothing to see here, move along.
I just put conduit into my remodel, and yes, pulling a bundle of wire through a long piece of conduit is challenging. If you have a partner/friend/spouse helping, have them whack on the side of the conduit, the vibration keeps your cables from getting stuck in the grooves of the conduit.
Rockbox is the answer to all music player questions... it's greatly extended the life of my iRiver iHP120, and I won't buy a replacement player if Rockbox doesn't run on it.
There's a good reason for the attitude -- as the things we buy get more complex, we the consumers are no longer really the customers. Rather than copy and paste my ranting, I'll just link it: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/race
These are the same people who crowed about PPC's superiority until they were forcibly switched to Intel chips, then congratulated themselves on having faster computers.
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These are the same people who address each limitation of OS X by claiming it's a design feature. Of course you can't maximize a window so that it fills the screen, why would you want to?
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grammar errors are annoying... a logical error in which the meaning is reversed is beyond annoying, especially in a forum of admins, coders and wannabe coders.
/cue submitter's annoyed "I barely speak english and you people are being unfair" message in 5, 4, 3...
"...area that Exchange has been dominated in." means Exchange is losing
"...area that Exchange has dominated in." means Exchange is winning
I think you're missing the point... for "tablet", don't think "laptop with a flipped touch screen", but instead think "ebook reader".
As useless as they are for pleasure reading, I could imagine some mild utility in an educational setting. But as a previous poster suggested, it should be offered as an option rather than presented free to everyone.
Maybe the only 100% sustainable power, but Anderson Valley Brewing Company is 50% solar powered, and the beer doesn't taste like burned grains of paradise. /me loves microbrew, but Fat Tire is undrinkably nasty, especially in bottles. It's better on draft, though still nothing to write home about.
How's your suspend/resume functionality? I haven't seen that work properly* in Linux on any laptop since ACPI replaced APM.
*read: no less reliable than Windows/OSX, not too much slower than Windows/OSX, and suspend state should actually consume less battery power than running state (I'm looking at you, SLED). Oh, "it works great as long as I leave my X session before I suspend" isn't a good answer. A good answer is "I shut the lid, it goes to sleep within 60-90 seconds; I open the lid, it wakes up within 60-90 seconds."
First, there's the pressure from microsoft, which will lead to things like XP drivers being hard to get, broken, and feature-poor.
Second, there's the fact the IT people with a new OS are comparable to monkeys with a box of razor blades. Everywhere I go people tell me that they have no plans to go to Vista, unless Microsoft is strong-arming them into it... but these same people have it on their own desktops, and are griping about problems and gushing about cool features.
Official policy will have Vista rollout starting in late 2008; actual de facto rollout will be fifty per cent done by that time.
Because, in the immortal words of Al Franken, they're lying liars who lie. They're getting called out for their monopolistic behavior in the EU, and they're pointing the finger at someone else while they squeeze another few years of lock-in out of the folks who buy in to the system. DRM will be removed from iTunes when an external force makes it happen, and then Steve Jobs or his replacement will play the saint and parade his "great achievement" all over the news.
Sounds like we've worked for some of the same companies :) Though too be fair, I don't think I've ever tossed something over the fence to deployment that couldn't be implemented. I have had to go in and implement it myself because the DE wasn't capable or willing, but that's only when I foolishly believe the DE's manager's presentation about their great new staff's capabilities. If the DE is any good, they'll quickly get sick of their travel schedule and become something that lets them stay home more often.
One thing that's been very clear from my time as an SE... IT Departments are not loved. Look around yourself next time you're at work. I bet you're in:
1) A dank basement
2) A stuffy attic
3) A sub-building, preferably portable
4) A core, walled off from the rest of the cube farm.
if option 3 or 4, I'll bet you're very far from a window...