I was part of a team that migrated 20000 GroupWise 5.5 users to Exchange 2003. Something on the order of 2 terabytes of mail was moved, and the overall message colume was about 200000-300000 day (very large hospital, best in the US for a few of their specialities)
Exchange can handle more mailflow than you might think, and that is why MS provides stress testing tools.
Exchange is the most popular Enterprise mail package for a reason, and not all of it is because of anti-competitive practices.
There is no monthly fee, you buy an XBox live card once a year.
You don't have to buy one, but it does bring with it a lot of goodies. You only need look at how successful MS is with console online gaming in relation to Sony, meaning that they are beating the pants off of them.
I should have thought of that angle, because that certainly makes sense.
It seems like all these companies believe that owning a physical object isn't important to us as consumers. Apparently we don't care if we have a CD, just that we have the music.
This is of course a huge mistake, but I wonder if that even matters at this point. Too many consumers are willing to bend over and accept whatever they are given, no matter what the long term ramifications are.
The only hope at this point is that they get so batcrap crazy/greedy that they really do piss off the average consumer, only then might they feel it in their pocketbooks.
Downloading music or movies that you don't own is illegal, I agree with them there.
However this "belief" is just horse poo poo. Is their goal now to kill the MP3 player market and drive us back to portable CD players? It would seem so.
I realize that this is their opinion, hopefully they won't convince a judge/senator/congressman that they are right.
That being said: where do you think R&D money comes from?
Once example: You do realize that developing new medicines costs a crapload of money right? You do realize that companies who develop medicines depend on patents to guarantee that it cannot be copied so they can make more money and make more medicines right? Thankfully, the patents expire and the drugs become generics, bringing costs down.
R&D costs money, plain and simple. One day maybe we will adopt the Star Trek method (everyone works for the common good) but I just don't see it happening in my lifetime. Hell I would do it if everyone else would!
I'm not saying it can't be done, but please repeat after me:
Excel macros, Exchange/Entourage, repeat
Those two "technologies" continue to tie people to Office, and they will until someone takes the crown away. Hate Exchange as much as you want, but it still is used by nearly 50% of Fortune 1000 companies (the next competitor is about 15% behind that number). Plus Exchange 12 will integrate fax and voice messages, and Exchange webmail is going to improve even more. Excel macros are another trojan horse, I know of companies who depend on them for so much crap it is unbelieveable.
My 360 power supply sits on carpet behind my entertainment center, and works fine. Thinking about it, it is also close to a heating vent and yet it still works. I also keep the unit itself inside my entertainment center, and it works fine as well.
MS is no different than anyone else when it comes to (occasional) hardware defects. Any mass produced object will have a certain percentage of problematic units, and the percentage should decrease over time.
Whatever is causing troubles with these units isn't design related, it's manufacturing related. If it were a design issue the defect rate would be MUCH greater than what it is right now.
I know everyone likes to bash MS here, but this arguement is as weak as they come.
Here comes the "Well "Platform X" doesn't need all the fancy firewalls, etc.
Any large business that has any concerns about security will have the following, regardless of what desktop OS is in use:
Firewall
Spam filtering
Web monitoring
Antivirus software
Combine those three things (properly configured) with a set of well designed group policies and maybe a free hosts file and you have a stable network, Windows or not.
200 PC's, 8 cities/3 states, 1 admin that handles everything. All XP/2000, all running well. Mostly thanks to: isolating all emails with executables, ad-blocking hosts file deployed at login, and Windows Update Services.
I distribute the famous ad blocking hosts file via login script to my users. Plus I add some sites to it like weatherbug, webshots, etc.
Spyware isn't a problem for my network. The only viruses I see come in via email and are caught either by the Exchanve AV tools (99.9% of the time) or the end user tools.
Jesus fracking..... you act like Linux never gets patched!
Do you know how many beta testers Microsoft uses? Over 100,000 end users PLUS the corporate testers. Even the service packs go through end user beta testing. Even the patches go through end user beta testing. I've been a tester since Win98 and I've never seen more tests going on than right now. You've got tests for windows update, Service Packs, future service releases. Heck Longhorn isn't even in general beta yet!
I manage 190 Windows desktops/laptops/servers (multi domain, multi exchange server, multi SQL server, BlackBerry server, SurfControl, etc, etc)at work that are spread out in 8 cities in multiple states. My machines are all patched using WUS, and spyware isn't a problem thanks to a hosts file I use and some well thought out group policies. All servers and desktops/laptops are completely up to date with patches (even 2003 Server SP1) and I have ZERO problems whatsoever.
I'm sorry but most of these "problems" are caused by the end user/poor IT staff. Even my archaic NT4 servers still run well.
Exchange servers stores have to pause for backups. We've got smaller stores (6-7 gigs) and they take about an hour to backup to our older DLT library.
Disk to disk would reduce that quite a bit.
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The King of the UAE comes to the Cleveland Clinic (Ohio) when he needs medical care.
When he comes the Clinic snatches some Middle East programming off the satellites. The usual fare includes what we call the "camel racing channel" and the "belly dancing channel."
Come on people, you have had time to get ready for this.
/250 machines, all XP have been SP2 for months since I flipped the switch in WUS//99.5% spyware free///Properly implemented and secured Windows network
The freaking beta programs last for 1-2 years as it is, involve hundreds of thousands of corporate and IT professional testers, etc.
Software is never perfect because it cannot be. Unless you lock down every aspect of the hardware and envorinment (Apple does this somewhat) you will pretty much always be playing catch up.
Compare the frequency of operating system releases between that of Microsoft and other companies; Microsoft is less frequent than most.
More FUD.
XP stopped asking you to re-activate after hardware changes a long time ago. The only time I've ever been forced to activate is upon first bootup after a new install.
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The bad thing about Gauntlet is that it never ends.
Had I known that growing up (32 now) I would probably have enough spare quarters to buy a Ferrari (with interest of course).
Offline registry edit and/or ERD Commander.
The address bar says what it should....
Smells like FUD if you are fully patched.
Yes, actually I have.
I was part of a team that migrated 20000 GroupWise 5.5 users to Exchange 2003. Something on the order of 2 terabytes of mail was moved, and the overall message colume was about 200000-300000 day (very large hospital, best in the US for a few of their specialities)
Exchange can handle more mailflow than you might think, and that is why MS provides stress testing tools.
Exchange is the most popular Enterprise mail package for a reason, and not all of it is because of anti-competitive practices.
There is no monthly fee, you buy an XBox live card once a year.
You don't have to buy one, but it does bring with it a lot of goodies. You only need look at how successful MS is with console online gaming in relation to Sony, meaning that they are beating the pants off of them.
I should have thought of that angle, because that certainly makes sense.
It seems like all these companies believe that owning a physical object isn't important to us as consumers. Apparently we don't care if we have a CD, just that we have the music.
This is of course a huge mistake, but I wonder if that even matters at this point. Too many consumers are willing to bend over and accept whatever they are given, no matter what the long term ramifications are.
The only hope at this point is that they get so batcrap crazy/greedy that they really do piss off the average consumer, only then might they feel it in their pocketbooks.
Downloading music or movies that you don't own is illegal, I agree with them there.
However this "belief" is just horse poo poo. Is their goal now to kill the MP3 player market and drive us back to portable CD players? It would seem so.
I realize that this is their opinion, hopefully they won't convince a judge/senator/congressman that they are right.
FYI: I'm not defending all patents.
That being said: where do you think R&D money comes from?
Once example: You do realize that developing new medicines costs a crapload of money right? You do realize that companies who develop medicines depend on patents to guarantee that it cannot be copied so they can make more money and make more medicines right? Thankfully, the patents expire and the drugs become generics, bringing costs down.
R&D costs money, plain and simple. One day maybe we will adopt the Star Trek method (everyone works for the common good) but I just don't see it happening in my lifetime. Hell I would do it if everyone else would!
I'm not saying it can't be done, but please repeat after me:
Excel macros, Exchange/Entourage, repeat
Those two "technologies" continue to tie people to Office, and they will until someone takes the crown away. Hate Exchange as much as you want, but it still is used by nearly 50% of Fortune 1000 companies (the next competitor is about 15% behind that number). Plus Exchange 12 will integrate fax and voice messages, and Exchange webmail is going to improve even more. Excel macros are another trojan horse, I know of companies who depend on them for so much crap it is unbelieveable.
My 360 power supply sits on carpet behind my entertainment center, and works fine. Thinking about it, it is also close to a heating vent and yet it still works. I also keep the unit itself inside my entertainment center, and it works fine as well.
MS is no different than anyone else when it comes to (occasional) hardware defects. Any mass produced object will have a certain percentage of problematic units, and the percentage should decrease over time.
Whatever is causing troubles with these units isn't design related, it's manufacturing related. If it were a design issue the defect rate would be MUCH greater than what it is right now.
I know everyone likes to bash MS here, but this arguement is as weak as they come.
Here comes the "Well "Platform X" doesn't need all the fancy firewalls, etc.
Any large business that has any concerns about security will have the following, regardless of what desktop OS is in use:
Firewall
Spam filtering
Web monitoring
Antivirus software
Combine those three things (properly configured) with a set of well designed group policies and maybe a free hosts file and you have a stable network, Windows or not.
200 PC's, 8 cities/3 states, 1 admin that handles everything. All XP/2000, all running well. Mostly thanks to: isolating all emails with executables, ad-blocking hosts file deployed at login, and Windows Update Services.
I distribute the famous ad blocking hosts file via login script to my users. Plus I add some sites to it like weatherbug, webshots, etc.
Spyware isn't a problem for my network. The only viruses I see come in via email and are caught either by the Exchanve AV tools (99.9% of the time) or the end user tools.
Gotta love the FUD
Jesus fracking..... you act like Linux never gets patched!
Do you know how many beta testers Microsoft uses?
Over 100,000 end users PLUS the corporate testers.
Even the service packs go through end user beta testing. Even the patches go through end user beta testing.
I've been a tester since Win98 and I've never seen more tests going on than right now. You've got tests for windows update, Service Packs, future service releases. Heck Longhorn isn't even in general beta yet!
I manage 190 Windows desktops/laptops/servers (multi domain, multi exchange server, multi SQL server, BlackBerry server, SurfControl, etc, etc)at work that are spread out in 8 cities in multiple states. My machines are all patched using WUS, and spyware isn't a problem thanks to a hosts file I use and some well thought out group policies. All servers and desktops/laptops are completely up to date with patches (even 2003 Server SP1) and I have ZERO problems whatsoever.
I'm sorry but most of these "problems" are caused by the end user/poor IT staff. Even my archaic NT4 servers still run well.
Yes but what is the payload capacity of Soyuz?
I'm not saying the Shuttle is perfect, but it serves a unique purpose at this moment.
Just like DVD's killed VHS tapes right?
/Yes I know VHS sales have slowed, but they are still out there is pretty big numbers
Oh wait....
It depends on what you commute is like. If traffic and an out of the way route are part of your daily commute, it might be more efficient.
Did you read the article? Stay under 400 feet in non-restricted airspace = no pilots license
Exchange servers stores have to pause for backups. We've got smaller stores (6-7 gigs) and they take about an hour to backup to our older DLT library. Disk to disk would reduce that quite a bit.
The King of the UAE comes to the Cleveland Clinic (Ohio) when he needs medical care.
When he comes the Clinic snatches some Middle East programming off the satellites. The usual fare includes what we call the "camel racing channel" and the "belly dancing channel."
Sigh... if you don't like it turn off automatic updates... The force to install SP2 hasn't come yet.
Come on people, you have had time to get ready for this.
/250 machines, all XP have been SP2 for months since I flipped the switch in WUS //99.5% spyware free ///Properly implemented and secured Windows network
.... because software is never finished.
The freaking beta programs last for 1-2 years as it is, involve hundreds of thousands of corporate and IT professional testers, etc.
Software is never perfect because it cannot be. Unless you lock down every aspect of the hardware and envorinment (Apple does this somewhat) you will pretty much always be playing catch up.
Compare the frequency of operating system releases between that of Microsoft and other companies; Microsoft is less frequent than most.
Laugh....
So I'll bite and run a manual sync of our WUS (Windows Update Services) servers.
No 2003 SP1 yet. Try to more creative with your trolling.
This is not what is currently on TV, this is the miniseries that lauched the "current" season. The title is a little misleading.
More FUD.
XP stopped asking you to re-activate after hardware changes a long time ago. The only time I've ever been forced to activate is upon first bootup after a new install.