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Although every situation is unique, I would disagree with support costs being the same. Not in the beginning. Whoever switches is going to take a bit of a hit on support to make the transition along with retraining. But with some care, the transition costs can still come in under their overall licensing costs for the year and then future years are where the savings really start to kick in.
It's important, if you are a consultant, not to oversell it. And, if you are a small company, target only small companies. A transitition plan for a large company would take several analysts quite a lot of time to put together a rationale proposal, then there's the huge logistics of the change over.
The one company I spoke with will do it in stages. They will leave their IIS and SQL server as is, move file and print over, and move some office workers desktops over (the ones who just do word processing on standardized company templates).
I also advised them that they should leak the fact that they are switching to their Microsoft rep because they may get a big break to stay with Microsoft since Microsoft is on the defensive now and from what I've read, have empowered their reps to make special deals.
Blasphemy you say? Then you're not a good consultant. Your job is to save your client money, not push a religion. If they can get a break from Microsoft, then more power to them. While the break won't last forever, it will give them more time to explore alternative options down the road.
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I've talked with a few companies that are looking to move away from Windows to Linux. The main reason is that they are fed up with the new licensing terms and the cost. It's a very very big line item in their expense budgets these days and they see no end to it. They felt helpless after Microsoft pushed through many licensing changes over the years, the first being the end of the concurent licensing several years back. Each change makes many business owners feel impotent because they have no alternative but to pay up -- until now. Businesses do not like to lose control of anything.
Now they have no illusion that this is all going to be free or easy. Not a one of them was against shifting a good portion of their licensing fees to consulting and support costs. For example, I explained the advantages of Redhat's advanced server and the annual cost for support, plus costs for consulting support, and none of them were the least bit concerned about that aspect (not to say there are not other concerns, like current IT staff resistance for example).
It's the bottom line here. If they can reduce their overall costs for IT, it gives them a competitive edge. If your company can get a slice of what remains, all the better.
There's a market brewing here, and with all good new markets, only the wise can see it coming. Here's a chance to steal some market dollars from Microsoft.
I bought a 12" PB and have used it extensively in many places in Delaware, Phoenix, and on flights in between. I'm really amazed at how well the Apple ad for these things have worked. People that I don't know, and others that I do know but don't have Macs, have remarked to me "Oh, I see you got the Yao version."
Remarks that are a dream of a markeeter. Not only brand awareness, but retention and recall of the ad too... (remains to be seen if it actually drives people to buy the things though...)
I got a 12" PB too. I absolutely love it. Plus, it opens up and sits nicely on a tray table in coach on an airplane. My former Dell laptop was useless on a flight unless I was in first class, or leaned the seat back and rested the laptop on my chest so I could watch a movie on it.
Why do people go to the right? Is this a result of which side people drive on? I've noticed in shopping malls too, people walk down the right side of the aisle, but when I was in UK, I didn't see any real pattern, people just kinda walked wherever. (Not a scientific study of course).
Anyone from countries like Japan, Australia, or UK care to offer any insight? Do you walk to the left when entering a shop?
The small wearable camera spooks me out. I'll never again walk through the YMCA locker room in the nude again, that's for sure. I can't risk that all that bragging I do at work might be exposed and have the real truth come out.
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No, not Media Player, but that Real crap. I wish they'd just go tits up (nod to the reg). If Microsoft reigns for a thousand years and slaughters helpless companies left and right, it'll be a small price to pay if it rids the earth of the real player. Oh forgive me, the realone player.
Hey, having a media player come with windows server is the kind of value added benefit that Microsoft talks about when comparing Windows server to other operating systems. Now if only my racks came equipped with speakers in them, I'd be set. Maybe some zero-U solution can be found out there for me. The idea of watching streaming media while doing sys admin tasks is something that you just can't beat...
Yeah, I'd like an EV too. I've been watching the Sparrow, but being on the East Coast has me concerned about support issues, bugs, and the ages it seems to take them to build the things (plus their long-term survival prospects).
You said the Sparrow "was"... From the looks of their web site they are still building the things.
Care to share any more insights for those of us who might still be interested in some sort of EV?
Such wisdom stated in so few easy words. Touche. I hear there's going to be a vacancy in the federal reserve chairman position soon, please apply!:)
btw, one could argue that hurting shareholders hurts the public at large anyway indirectly. And there is some truth to that. Anything that reduces productivity ends up removing wealth from the system. But in this case, any loss suffered due to bandwidth charges is income to those who sell it, so it all shakes out.
That looks really sweet. Is the source open for this? I looked around and didn't see it. Any similar capability out there? I've been wondering how to provide wifi to our students and avoid WEP hassles. The kerberos bit shouldn't be a problem since we could use AD. I'm assuming there is a gateway that after authentication, starts routing the packets beyond the gateway.
Think this all is bad, the first college I attended used SSNs as your logon id. All one had to do is logon and type "?WHO" to get a list of 100s of usernames logged onto the system, then run *system/who to tie it to a name.
(Extra credit props points to anyone who can name the system that I am talking about... Hint, this was late 70s to early 80s)
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And how is this different in truth from the common statement "You are receiving this message because you opted-in to our marketing list to receive special offers."
I was thinking the same thing. But it might work if they don't support channel ops, kick, and bots. It sounds like it's invite only.
But rest assured, even good friends get into wars, and sooner or later someone is going to get thrown out of a posse and then be determined that if he can't be in it, no one can, and launch massive DOSes against the network.
Microsoft still doesn't understant the culture. They need to join an irc network and spend all day on it. Then again, for a lot of people, the irc anarchy is part of its charm. I doubt that can ever be duplicated on a commercial net!
ActiveX: Designed to be secure, can only run trusted/signed controls. Due to a few holes, bad implementation, and a microsoft-cert accidently released, it's been possible to get around this in the past. ActiveX didn't really work as designed
Java: Protected by a sandbox. At numberous points in past, some implentation flaw has allowed java apps to get around the sandbox.
DVD: Trotted out to content providers as secure since content could be encrypted and secured on the disk. Then one vendor makes a mistake and includes an unencrypted key in their DVD player, some kid in Europe finds it, and the entire house of cards falls down. If that one vendor didn't screw up, DVD's probably would still be unrippable.
In all technologies, the apologists have pointed to the fact that they are secure by design, but flaws in implementation or procedures caused the faults.
So even if I wanted TCPA/Palladium to be a smashing success, I wouldn't bet my fortune on it. Someone will screw it up...
OK, if they are really just flying a flag up, then all of us bitching and over-reacting is a good thing then. It means they are less likely to bring this puppy outside to see the light.
I make a smart play list of songs with number of listens == 0, max 100, selected at random. Then on my iPod I select that playlist and have *it* do random play (otherwise the playlist tends to clump songs by each artist together). When I'm done my daily iPod listening, I plug back into mac, and quickly go through and rate the songs that I heard that day. Hopefully that way I'll listen to my entire collection at least once before I die!
An attacker can boot up XP and start the Windows 2000 Recovery Console
OK, how does this work? It doesn't say boot the w2k CD and go into recovery console. It says boot XP and start the console. How does one do that?
This means that if you have your BIOS password protected to disallow booting from CD or floppy and your bootloader protected, you can still just boot XP and gain admin access.
So everyone here is describing booting XP or Linux into single user mode or whatever. But that's not what the article is describing, so I'd like to know how this is done exactly (I don't have a w2k CD here...). Has anyone actually tried this and got it working?
By corporate mandate, Marketing had to ditch their Macs and switch to Dells. We, the tech department, gleefully went down there one day and confiscated their G4 towers. We then hooked them up in our offices and started playing. I loved mine so much I bought an iMac for home last summer and just yesterday took delivery of my new 12" G4 PB.
Meanwhile, Marketing's switch to dells and XP has left them miserable. Does that count? Sure was a sensible switch in my mind. Their loss, my gain! In fact I'm typing this in using Safari right now!
What ever happened to fsp? I remember for a while in the early 90s I believe, we (I am a sysadmin at a college) had quite a few problems with students running fsp servers out of their unix accounts. fsp uses udp, not tcp, and sat on a >1024 port so any user could run one and since it wasn't listening on a tcp socket, it didn't stick out as much as other file transfer servers.
I'm not suggesting this is the answer to your problem, I haven't seen any GUI-based fsp clients (or a unix cli one for ages for that matter).
But it did seem very useful for what it was designed to do, serve out large files to anonymous outsiders.
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It's important, if you are a consultant, not to oversell it. And, if you are a small company, target only small companies. A transitition plan for a large company would take several analysts quite a lot of time to put together a rationale proposal, then there's the huge logistics of the change over.
The one company I spoke with will do it in stages. They will leave their IIS and SQL server as is, move file and print over, and move some office workers desktops over (the ones who just do word processing on standardized company templates).
I also advised them that they should leak the fact that they are switching to their Microsoft rep because they may get a big break to stay with Microsoft since Microsoft is on the defensive now and from what I've read, have empowered their reps to make special deals.
Blasphemy you say? Then you're not a good consultant. Your job is to save your client money, not push a religion. If they can get a break from Microsoft, then more power to them. While the break won't last forever, it will give them more time to explore alternative options down the road.
Now they have no illusion that this is all going to be free or easy. Not a one of them was against shifting a good portion of their licensing fees to consulting and support costs. For example, I explained the advantages of Redhat's advanced server and the annual cost for support, plus costs for consulting support, and none of them were the least bit concerned about that aspect (not to say there are not other concerns, like current IT staff resistance for example).
It's the bottom line here. If they can reduce their overall costs for IT, it gives them a competitive edge. If your company can get a slice of what remains, all the better.
There's a market brewing here, and with all good new markets, only the wise can see it coming. Here's a chance to steal some market dollars from Microsoft.
Remarks that are a dream of a markeeter. Not only brand awareness, but retention and recall of the ad too... (remains to be seen if it actually drives people to buy the things though...)
I got a 12" PB too. I absolutely love it. Plus, it opens up and sits nicely on a tray table in coach on an airplane. My former Dell laptop was useless on a flight unless I was in first class, or leaned the seat back and rested the laptop on my chest so I could watch a movie on it.
Anyone from countries like Japan, Australia, or UK care to offer any insight? Do you walk to the left when entering a shop?
Beautiful comeback! :)
(must remember to hit post anon option before clicking submit button...)
For those of us who ride transit to/from work, this kind of stuff would be ideal.
No, not Media Player, but that Real crap. I wish they'd just go tits up (nod to the reg). If Microsoft reigns for a thousand years and slaughters helpless companies left and right, it'll be a small price to pay if it rids the earth of the real player. Oh forgive me, the realone player.
Damn, that sucks. Thanks for the link.... Guess I'll stop dreaming... sigh...
Hey, having a media player come with windows server is the kind of value added benefit that Microsoft talks about when comparing Windows server to other operating systems. Now if only my racks came equipped with speakers in them, I'd be set. Maybe some zero-U solution can be found out there for me. The idea of watching streaming media while doing sys admin tasks is something that you just can't beat...
You said the Sparrow "was"... From the looks of their web site they are still building the things.
Care to share any more insights for those of us who might still be interested in some sort of EV?
But -- beings that the half-life of a slashdot story is about 30 minutes, I'll post the answer now.
A Burroughs mainframe, b7700, b6900, etc... later to be Unisys A series...
btw, one could argue that hurting shareholders hurts the public at large anyway indirectly. And there is some truth to that. Anything that reduces productivity ends up removing wealth from the system. But in this case, any loss suffered due to bandwidth charges is income to those who sell it, so it all shakes out.
That looks really sweet. Is the source open for this? I looked around and didn't see it. Any similar capability out there? I've been wondering how to provide wifi to our students and avoid WEP hassles. The kerberos bit shouldn't be a problem since we could use AD. I'm assuming there is a gateway that after authentication, starts routing the packets beyond the gateway.
(Extra credit props points to anyone who can name the system that I am talking about... Hint, this was late 70s to early 80s)
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And how is this different in truth from the common statement "You are receiving this message because you opted-in to our marketing list to receive special offers."
But rest assured, even good friends get into wars, and sooner or later someone is going to get thrown out of a posse and then be determined that if he can't be in it, no one can, and launch massive DOSes against the network.
Microsoft still doesn't understant the culture. They need to join an irc network and spend all day on it. Then again, for a lot of people, the irc anarchy is part of its charm. I doubt that can ever be duplicated on a commercial net!
Java: Protected by a sandbox. At numberous points in past, some implentation flaw has allowed java apps to get around the sandbox.
DVD: Trotted out to content providers as secure since content could be encrypted and secured on the disk. Then one vendor makes a mistake and includes an unencrypted key in their DVD player, some kid in Europe finds it, and the entire house of cards falls down. If that one vendor didn't screw up, DVD's probably would still be unrippable.
In all technologies, the apologists have pointed to the fact that they are secure by design, but flaws in implementation or procedures caused the faults.
So even if I wanted TCPA/Palladium to be a smashing success, I wouldn't bet my fortune on it. Someone will screw it up...
so KEEP ON BITCHIN'
I make a smart play list of songs with number of listens == 0, max 100, selected at random. Then on my iPod I select that playlist and have *it* do random play (otherwise the playlist tends to clump songs by each artist together). When I'm done my daily iPod listening, I plug back into mac, and quickly go through and rate the songs that I heard that day. Hopefully that way I'll listen to my entire collection at least once before I die!
OK, how does this work? It doesn't say boot the w2k CD and go into recovery console. It says boot XP and start the console. How does one do that?
This means that if you have your BIOS password protected to disallow booting from CD or floppy and your bootloader protected, you can still just boot XP and gain admin access.
So everyone here is describing booting XP or Linux into single user mode or whatever. But that's not what the article is describing, so I'd like to know how this is done exactly (I don't have a w2k CD here...). Has anyone actually tried this and got it working?
Meanwhile, Marketing's switch to dells and XP has left them miserable. Does that count? Sure was a sensible switch in my mind. Their loss, my gain! In fact I'm typing this in using Safari right now!
I'm not suggesting this is the answer to your problem, I haven't seen any GUI-based fsp clients (or a unix cli one for ages for that matter).
But it did seem very useful for what it was designed to do, serve out large files to anonymous outsiders.