Jokes about Exchange aside (which I know people will make), this would be big. Of the 6-12 Exchange migrations I do a year Exchange ActiveSync is always a big selling point. Why buy Goodlink/Blackberry software (please donut bring up BlackBerry redirector) and another server when EAS is built in? If Apple does this I will be more than happy to bring them phone customers, which will be easy once they try out my phone. If I can sell them Exchange after they try out a "average" Audiovox XV6700 I'm fairly sure I can sign them up after playing with an iPhone.
Read after me: Steve will never license the OS. Back in the Mac clone days he considered clone makers theives because their cheap machines bit into the high end Mac sector, just like it would do now.
Ignore the FUD. We run it on everything going back to 3.5 year old P4's with crappy video cards and 512MB of ram. Does full Aero work? No. Does it work fine for Office/daily business use: Yes.
My home machine is a 18 month old P4 3.2GHZ with an upgraded (for games, $125) video card, 1gb ram, and Vista runs with full effects.
Even under the Macbook Pro (C2D, stock ram) it runs fine under paralells. You will never get Aero under virtual machines, but the OS works fine.
More FUD. We are running Vista on everything from 4 year old (1st gen P4) PC's on up.
All this "have to upgrade" stuff is crap. Unless you want the full "Aero" gui your PC (assuming a gig of ram) is fine. We even run it on some old P4 machines at work with 512MB, and it runs ok.
My Windows PC gets the full Aero gui (which I admittedly don't care about anyway) and it is 1.5 years old. The only new part is a newer video card ($100) that I bought for a game, not for Vista.
Sony needs killer apps to retake the crown from the XBox360. They have lost quite a few exclusives in the last 6 months, and that *will* hurt them.
Backwards compatibility is moot as the 360 has it as well. So what if it doesn't do every game, it does enough of them.
Yes PS3 developers will catch up, but don't think that 360 developers won't learn some new tricks in that time as well.
Sony should have *at least* copied XBox Live. For $3 a month (less if I catch a good deal on the service renewal) I get an online gaming portal that blows everything else away. Plus the prices of downloads are less, which makes up even more of the difference.
As far as 3 times more powerful, I won't even touch that one. Remember the Sega Saturn? Remember "blast processing"?. A system is only as powerful as the games that are released for it....
Large companies bend over and buy tools that take care of this automatically. Many of them have a SQL (or similar) back end interface directly with the mail server.
If you have exchange you can just use the old alternate delivery functionality to copy all email to a depository account, and then do frequent exmerge dumps of that account to a PST file (lest your mail store get too big).
Do you want in the door at Fortune 500 companies? I mean lots of them? Then this is a good thing.
If Linux is to displace Microsoft then it needs exposure exposure exposure. It needs people seeing if they can run complex Excel spreadsheets with VB Macros on other platforms. It needs people seeing if there are alternate Exchange backends that allow full Outlook frontends.
If Linux works well with Microsoft more people will at least *try* Linux, plain and simple. When people try it, they either stay with it or come back and say why it won't work.
For example, there are tons of popular PC platforms that various Linux distros won't work on without changing things. Just 2 weeks ago I attempted to install the newest Ubuntu build on a 3 year old P4 IBM business class PC and you know what, it wouldn't install. I was able to troubleshoot it to a lack of onboard video memory, but a quick bios fix took care of that. Unfortunately the error that came up was so vague that the "average" user would have probably given up.
Linux needs all the "new" users it can get. They are the ones that find the funky errors, the ones that the "elites" otherwise consider a "minor" issue.
One of the reasons that Windows is so popular is that for the most part it installs without any problems, especially on PC's from major manufacturers (which Fortune 500 companies tend to buy).
This is normal for California and New York. It is a privilege to work in those states so you should expect an effective pay cut (when compared to cost of living) versus living in another inferior state.
Of course where I live (Raleigh, NC) companies from New York and Cali are moving here because it is nice, the taxes are much lower, and talent pool is just as good. RTP has more PHD's per capita than anywhere except for Silicon Valley. Heck the unemployment rate in the RDP area is ~4%!
Of course if you like Cali and NYC more power to you. I'm not knocking them, just saying that it is possible to live elsewhere and be very very happy.
Spoken by someone who thinks Citrix is nothing more than a terminal server.
Call me when you have a X-Windows/VNC solution that scales to 30000 people (my example), supports seamless clustering/failover, allows for deployment of specific apps to specific users/groups, is available over a web interfance (behind RSD SecureID of course), thin client, or even deployed *over* an existing Windows desktop without the user even realizing that they are using Citrix deployed apps. Oh, and it can be managed from 1 console. Expensive? Yes. The best at what it does? Yes
Hello? Read up on your history. Monitoring communications is nothing new, nor are investigations such as this.
Did you know Abe Lincoln had reporters that weren't "on his side" thrown in jail?
Do you know how throughly people were monitored during WW2? Let along during other parts of the 50's through 70's?
I'm not even going to comment on your statements about the seriousness of terrorism and child porn. It's easy to think nothing of them when they haven't touched your life in any way, so I'll just end this by saying that your opinion is hypocritical to say the least.
If you are willing to bust your ass (or you have an inherent "gift") you don't need a degree. People have gotten rich picking up other peoples dog poop for fracks sake.
That being said, if you are just another joe schmoe a degree will probably do you some good, assuming it isn't in basketweaving or something similar.
What do you think "Directory Services Restore Mode" is for? You boot into it to restore AD backups, which you can make with included products such as Windows Backup or even Veritas.
Either you love the FUD or your Windows helper is an idiot. You can most certainly backup AD, it's called part of the "system state".
Unemployment in the Raleigh/Durham area is sub 4% (statewide is sub 5). Forget the pharm and biotech companies; we have Cisco, Symantec, Red Hat, Microsoft, GFI, and countless others. There are constantly tons of houses for sale because some many "northerners" (of which I am one, an Ohio transplant from last year) are moving down here, and cost of living is more than fair.
There are tons of tech jobs of every kind out there, especially programming positions. My wife is a teacher and the market for her is evening better than it is for me (as a network engineer/admin type).
I love Ohio, and I bleed scarlet and grey, but there is just no comparison between RTP and any major area in Ohio)
And for you elitest types (I keed!), RDP is home to the second highest percentage of PHD's (per capita) outside of Silicon Valley.
Here we go again.
OSX is what it is (for the most part) because of the limited hardware options. Bill Gates wrote Jobs a fricking letter 20 years ago (prior to Windows) saying that Apple should license the OS to premier HW vendors and Microsoft should stay an applications company; Steve didn't do it then and he won't now.
No OS supports more hardware than Windows. Some of that support (or should I say unsigned vendor drivers) is the cause of Windows instability, but the support is there nonetheless. If you choose all mainstream (meaning solid drivers) hardware an XP PC can be as stable is anything else, no matter what anyone thinks.
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Sigh.... Control Panel -> Programs -> Use and older program with this version of Windows. Is it really that hard?
Jokes about Exchange aside (which I know people will make), this would be big. Of the 6-12 Exchange migrations I do a year Exchange ActiveSync is always a big selling point. Why buy Goodlink/Blackberry software (please donut bring up BlackBerry redirector) and another server when EAS is built in? If Apple does this I will be more than happy to bring them phone customers, which will be easy once they try out my phone. If I can sell them Exchange after they try out a "average" Audiovox XV6700 I'm fairly sure I can sign them up after playing with an iPhone.
Yes, but was she hot?
"Mr Yamamoto?"
Ever read the infamous Bill Gates memo about this very subject (circa 1985).
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Read after me: Steve will never license the OS. Back in the Mac clone days he considered clone makers theives because their cheap machines bit into the high end Mac sector, just like it would do now.
Ignore the FUD. We run it on everything going back to 3.5 year old P4's with crappy video cards and 512MB of ram. Does full Aero work? No. Does it work fine for Office/daily business use: Yes.
My home machine is a 18 month old P4 3.2GHZ with an upgraded (for games, $125) video card, 1gb ram, and Vista runs with full effects.
Even under the Macbook Pro (C2D, stock ram) it runs fine under paralells. You will never get Aero under virtual machines, but the OS works fine.
More FUD. We are running Vista on everything from 4 year old (1st gen P4) PC's on up.
All this "have to upgrade" stuff is crap. Unless you want the full "Aero" gui your PC (assuming a gig of ram) is fine. We even run it on some old P4 machines at work with 512MB, and it runs ok.
My Windows PC gets the full Aero gui (which I admittedly don't care about anyway) and it is 1.5 years old. The only new part is a newer video card ($100) that I bought for a game, not for Vista.
Sony needs killer apps to retake the crown from the XBox360. They have lost quite a few exclusives in the last 6 months, and that *will* hurt them.
Backwards compatibility is moot as the 360 has it as well. So what if it doesn't do every game, it does enough of them.
Yes PS3 developers will catch up, but don't think that 360 developers won't learn some new tricks in that time as well.
Sony should have *at least* copied XBox Live. For $3 a month (less if I catch a good deal on the service renewal) I get an online gaming portal that blows everything else away. Plus the prices of downloads are less, which makes up even more of the difference.
As far as 3 times more powerful, I won't even touch that one. Remember the Sega Saturn? Remember "blast processing"?. A system is only as powerful as the games that are released for it....
Too bad people don't pay them directly, you use prepaid cards.
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Have you even browsed the site?
http://research.microsoft.com/
Google touchlight display for starters, it is one of my favorites.
Large companies bend over and buy tools that take care of this automatically. Many of them have a SQL (or similar) back end interface directly with the mail server.
If you have exchange you can just use the old alternate delivery functionality to copy all email to a depository account, and then do frequent exmerge dumps of that account to a PST file (lest your mail store get too big).
Nope. I mean yes. :P
Listen.
Do you want in the door at Fortune 500 companies? I mean lots of them? Then this is a good thing.
If Linux is to displace Microsoft then it needs exposure exposure exposure. It needs people seeing if they can run complex Excel spreadsheets with VB Macros on other platforms. It needs people seeing if there are alternate Exchange backends that allow full Outlook frontends.
If Linux works well with Microsoft more people will at least *try* Linux, plain and simple. When people try it, they either stay with it or come back and say why it won't work.
For example, there are tons of popular PC platforms that various Linux distros won't work on without changing things. Just 2 weeks ago I attempted to install the newest Ubuntu build on a 3 year old P4 IBM business class PC and you know what, it wouldn't install. I was able to troubleshoot it to a lack of onboard video memory, but a quick bios fix took care of that. Unfortunately the error that came up was so vague that the "average" user would have probably given up.
Linux needs all the "new" users it can get. They are the ones that find the funky errors, the ones that the "elites" otherwise consider a "minor" issue.
One of the reasons that Windows is so popular is that for the most part it installs without any problems, especially on PC's from major manufacturers (which Fortune 500 companies tend to buy).
Enough now, I'm at work.
Yes, at $100 each. This was a charity drive to get them to people whose governments *weren't* buying them.
This is normal for California and New York. It is a privilege to work in those states so you should expect an effective pay cut (when compared to cost of living) versus living in another inferior state.
Of course where I live (Raleigh, NC) companies from New York and Cali are moving here because it is nice, the taxes are much lower, and talent pool is just as good. RTP has more PHD's per capita than anywhere except for Silicon Valley. Heck the unemployment rate in the RDP area is ~4%!
Of course if you like Cali and NYC more power to you. I'm not knocking them, just saying that it is possible to live elsewhere and be very very happy.
Amazing isn't it?
Spoken by someone who thinks Citrix is nothing more than a terminal server.
Call me when you have a X-Windows/VNC solution that scales to 30000 people (my example), supports seamless clustering/failover, allows for deployment of specific apps to specific users/groups, is available over a web interfance (behind RSD SecureID of course), thin client, or even deployed *over* an existing Windows desktop without the user even realizing that they are using Citrix deployed apps. Oh, and it can be managed from 1 console.
Expensive? Yes. The best at what it does? Yes
Hello? Read up on your history. Monitoring communications is nothing new, nor are investigations such as this.
Did you know Abe Lincoln had reporters that weren't "on his side" thrown in jail?
Do you know how throughly people were monitored during WW2? Let along during other parts of the 50's through 70's?
I'm not even going to comment on your statements about the seriousness of terrorism and child porn. It's easy to think nothing of them when they haven't touched your life in any way, so I'll just end this by saying that your opinion is hypocritical to say the least.
If you are willing to bust your ass (or you have an inherent "gift") you don't need a degree. People have gotten rich picking up other peoples dog poop for fracks sake.
That being said, if you are just another joe schmoe a degree will probably do you some good, assuming it isn't in basketweaving or something similar.
Can't back up Active Directory? What?
What do you think "Directory Services Restore Mode" is for? You boot into it to restore AD backups, which you can make with included products such as Windows Backup or even Veritas.
Either you love the FUD or your Windows helper is an idiot. You can most certainly backup AD, it's called part of the "system state".
Some people would say the same about SanFran, NYC, Chicago, etc.....
I think you were thinking of PHB!
My apologies to the doctors in the room; I just don't type Ph.D. much.
For the non-NC types, Cary (Corral Around Relocated Yankees) is the neighbor to Raleigh, and is home to many RTPers.
Unemployment in the Raleigh/Durham area is sub 4% (statewide is sub 5). Forget the pharm and biotech companies; we have Cisco, Symantec, Red Hat, Microsoft, GFI, and countless others. There are constantly tons of houses for sale because some many "northerners" (of which I am one, an Ohio transplant from last year) are moving down here, and cost of living is more than fair.
There are tons of tech jobs of every kind out there, especially programming positions. My wife is a teacher and the market for her is evening better than it is for me (as a network engineer/admin type).
I love Ohio, and I bleed scarlet and grey, but there is just no comparison between RTP and any major area in Ohio)
And for you elitest types (I keed!), RDP is home to the second highest percentage of PHD's (per capita) outside of Silicon Valley.
Here we go again.
OSX is what it is (for the most part) because of the limited hardware options. Bill Gates wrote Jobs a fricking letter 20 years ago (prior to Windows) saying that Apple should license the OS to premier HW vendors and Microsoft should stay an applications company; Steve didn't do it then and he won't now.
No OS supports more hardware than Windows. Some of that support (or should I say unsigned vendor drivers) is the cause of Windows instability, but the support is there nonetheless. If you choose all mainstream (meaning solid drivers) hardware an XP PC can be as stable is anything else, no matter what anyone thinks.