Absolutely a funny movie.GuyRitchie+Tarantino+mel Brooks.
The movie has some of the best dialogue in it that I have heard in a flick in a long time. And although cheesy at times the two main characters were good actors.
And where else do you get to see a Gay Wilhem Defoe? In drag no less.
[A Russian gangster comes into the bar] Murphy MacManus: So you're Chekov, huh? Well, this here's McCoy. Find a Spock, we got us an away team.
Murphy MacManus: There are many forms of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the boundaries into true corruption, into our domain.
Murphy MacManus: We're sorta like 7-11. We're not always doin' business, but we're always open.
Conner MacManus: Jesus! He brought a six-shooter! Murphy MacManus: There were nine guys. What were you going to do? Laugh the last three to death?
Rosengurtie: Rule of thumb!? Do you know where that expression comes from? In the early 1900's it was legal to beat your wife so long as you used a stick no wider than your thumb. Conner MacManus: Well, you can't do much damage with that...maybe it should have been a rule of wrist then.
Absolutely a funny movie. Guy Ritchie+Tarantino+mel Brooks.
The movie has some of the best dialogue in it that I have heard in a flick in a long time. And although cheesy at times the two main characters were good actors.
And where else do you get to see a Gay Wilhem Defoe? In drag no less.
[A Russian gangster comes into the bar]
Murphy MacManus: So you're Chekov, huh? Well, this here's McCoy. Find a Spock, we got us an away team.
Murphy MacManus: There are many forms of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the boundaries into true corruption, into our domain.
Murphy MacManus: We're sorta like 7-11. We're not always doin' business, but we're always open.
Conner MacManus: Jesus! He brought a six-shooter!
Murphy MacManus: There were nine guys. What were you going to do? Laugh the last three to death?
Rosengurtie: Rule of thumb!? Do you know where that expression comes from? In the early 1900's it was legal to beat your wife so long as you used a stick no wider than your thumb.
Conner MacManus: Well, you can't do much damage with that...maybe it should have been a rule of wrist then.
Puto
Ok, I just downloaded six of their songs from another source(ends with lite)
Six songs should be enough to pass judgement.
Listening to this makes me feel like I am the loner in a John Hughes movie that has been forsaken by the popular crowd but I am about to become cool and prove that even the geek can get the girl/friends/car/LAID/ scholarship, papal dispensation.
It has the poppy vibe of the Pet Shop boys and the whininess of Morrisey after he has spent a night crying on his 'platonic' male friends shoulder(Michael Stipe, anyone else remember their fling, ewwwwww)
I am an 80s child and love music and went to many concerts(BauHaus, SugarCubes, Cure, Smiths, Escape Club) And Black Flag, Femmes, Dayglow Abortions, Vandals. Did the whole punk thing, and no the Offpsring and Green Day are not punk bands. And the Police were doing ska before most you them were born.
Cannot remember this band, I remember Kajagoogoo.
Just when I thought I would never hear another whiney voice like Morrisey, I listen to this and wow, I am back in a dark bar with with everyone all dressed in black eating X and grinding up on each other. Smoking marlboro lights and pretending I am Andrew Macarthy in Less than Zero.
Honestly it is better than the dance music you here in clubs today, it is soft on the ears and you can shake a leg to it. I could see being in a crowd and bopping to it, and maybe putting the moves on the old lady, kindy scmaltzy and sexy at the same time.
As for buying it. Dunno, as I write this and I am listening to it and it grows on me. I might order it, cause it brings back some memories, and every now and then the old krewe and I embark on nights out fueled by memories, music, and other remnants of the 80s, and it would be a good cd to slip in.
I give it an 8, cause you can dance to it. Denny Theriot, theres a man!
Puto
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Well here is my advice to your friend.
Considering the way the patent arguement has been hashed out here many times he can follow two schools of thought.
1. Patents for the sole sake of patenting an idea should not be allowed. Your friend thought about patenting the idea for controlling a device with SMS. He has done nothing to develop it, but as you say"has just been waiting to see if someone uses the idea". So in essence he is like Amazon and many other entities out there. Jeff Bezos anyone?
2. Sue companies for using "his idea" and PROFIT.
HOWEVER, if you quickly google the net you will find that many companies, research centers, robotics people, computer nerds, have all been using sms to control devices for quite some time. So I think your friends patent might not hold up and there is plenty of prior art hanging around.
Is it moral? No you could argue that it is not. But then again, sometimes a big pile of cash for no work is not the worst thing in the world to happen to you. Just tell your friend to remember his pal if he dies strike it rich.
Novell owned Wordperfect at one time. Wordperfect was having horrible financial difficulties at Novell bought them out. I even still have a CD that says Novell WordPerfect. The entire product became Groupwise.
The word on the street at the time was that Wordperfect was going under and since both are Mormom companies, the church steps in and gets Novell to bail them out.
Novell does this and decides to integrate the office suite with the Novell NOS. To compete with NT, as NetWare had the Market but MS had a total package of NOS and Office. Whereas Novell just had the NOS.
Following link is an article about the purchase in the day. Very interesting, and predicted Novells and Corels demise.
Novell sells the Suite to Corel cause they could not do anything with it.
Read about it here.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-203536.html
And if you want to hear about Novell being a mormon company.
This article is about a guy who left the church and they tried to get his patent revoked.
Well having spent a good part of my live in my homeland the(US) and a good part on the road in other countries I can answer you in this way.
Mad Max was called Mad MAx here. I even saw in the US as Mad Max. The second movie was called Mad Max 2, the Road Warrior. And Road Warrior sounds a Helluva lot better than Mad Max 2.
And Gibson was born in New York, pop shipped the whole family back to Aussie Land cause that was where mom was from and to avoid his sons possible conscription into the service into Vietnam.
And we do acknowledge philossopy. But alchemy? Hmmm.
Movie name changes are made all over the world. They do it so that wherever they are showing the flick can get a general idea of what the original title is about. Somethings cannot be transalates.
Knocking on Heavens door is one of the most famous songs in the US, and in English, so I would venture they did it to avoid confusion. And it is actually quite a beautiful tune.
So you know what? Cool your jets, wherever your are from. People are people. Including this yank with one grampaw from Madrid and the other Cajun French(which is better than regular Frog any ol' day") we is all just people.
Say you have 10 million people who each pirate 10 movies worth 25 dollars a year. That gets you 2.5 billion dollars.
Sources for Piracy 1. Edonkey 2. Gnutella 3. Kazaa 4. Budddies 5. Warez Groups
Then add into the people in other countries who buy the movie reproduce the cover art, and resell it for ten bucks in the street. Or worse, 10 bucks to video stores who then then rent it 100 times for 2 bucks a piece.
I just Kazzaed the word DVD, and got about 30 full titles. And then you can be specific and just abt find anything.
Kazaa has 4 million users online now. if each user pirates one ten dollar movie a day for 30 days. That is 1.2 billion bucks a month.
Or these people who do not feel like ripping their own DVD? If you got the DVD who rips it, takes up space and processor cycles.
I know guys who have complete cd cases of 100-200 movies in Divx they have gotten off the net. And then they SVCD them and pass them around.
Hell when I was in South America I could buy them on the street. My old lady just got back from Turkey with an assload of them.
They would not be all over the net if people were not pirating them.
We need to look at piracy for what it is, not run around saying it does not happen. It is rampant and we can't hide behind the worn out excuse that information should be free.
I am gonna have two subjects in this message. One a suggestion to fix the problem, and two, some advice on the medical software industry.
You are running dos software? I am assuming you are peer to peered unless you are running it across NT. Also assuming you want to put in a Linux box so you can have a fileserver, web proxy, and whatever your heart desires.
I dont know your office but i cant imagine it is very large if you are using DOS, otherwise you could have used novell. You dont have NT, or why would you worry about Samba?
Heres what I would do. Goto ebay. You can Lantastic with 10 licenses for 40 bucks. You can acquire as many as you need at that price or lower. You acquire an old p2 or p3 for 200 bucks and your choice of ram. make sure it is in good shape. Pricewatch a new one. 150 bucks for a new p3 750, kick another 100 for hard drive and nic. You ever seen DOS run on a p///??? Like a scalded dog.
Pop lantastic on that baby and fire it up and walk away. Problem solved for 300 bucks. And whatever labor you charge.
Give me some more details on what you want to do and what you currently have installed. Then I can probably be a lot more helpful.
My father ran a medical management company from 1970 to 1998. He had a mainframe installed in his office in 1970 to manage the financial end of the business then. He was way a head of his time. Offer the years I saw him switch systems from IBM/36s, in house Cobol Programmers, Sco boxes, Lantastic, Novell and finally to NT. And I learned them as they came out.
I installed and supported a variety of systems over a 10 year period in the medical industry. So let me drop a dime on you and save you some headaches. I also did a stint for a group of 8 clinics as the IT guy. 30k active patienrs running through my box. AS400, 8 modems. All locations dialed in with 286, 386s. with a client. Ran smooth as hell.
PLUS I was an actual clinic manager. I know the financial side as well.
****KEEP THE OLD SYSTEM RUNNING***** Whether it is still on the network or you got one station.
1. They have access to all the old records, as will be explained. 2. Something happens(employees refuse to learn new stuff) your box blows up. You got the old one as back up.
1. Doctors make plenty of money. But they do not like to spend it in their practice, usually the least amount is done on the system. And with good reason. Late 80's billing systems that filed electronically could cost a 250k and upwards. But most medical tech sales people approach it the wrong way. Tell them to finance it(yes banks will finance software and hardware together) make it a part of operating costs, and they can write the whole thing off, so no need to skimp. Get the numbers together. When you give final bid. Show them total cost. Then show them that they can finance for three years at 500 a month.
And remember all of this really hinges on docs being cheapskates.
2. DONT SKIMP ON HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE that manages peoples money. Because that 400 you saved you went with some cheaper hardware. It craps out. The manufacturer doesnt get the blame, you get the blame. You cant say"well you wanted to save money on the hardware" A doctor will have a lawyer on your ass in a heartbeat. And then tell all his doctor buddies at the club you are a louse. Remember you have to fix the hardware. Get a Dell. They make good on the warranty and quick. Docs also like big named companies, might have stock in them. Docs will throw a bone that way.
3. Most real practice management software, legacy software was made to run on old Unix boxes. AS400's. Some of it was later ported to dos boxes, or to run on Novell. However, the medical industry preffered UNIX. I have seen logs of uptimes of 5 years plus, and even one for 8. NT and SQL has made heavy inroads. Honestly, in all my years I only saw a few dos apps, and most were just clients that hit a nix box.
4.And if you glean anything from this post make it this. It is a good selling point, headache saver, and NECCESITY if you are going to have peace of mind.
NO DATA CONVERSION. Unless you intimatley know both databases, or someone has written a tool to go from one to the other. Do not do it.
A. You usually can only get patient demographics and money owed. Too difficult, costly, to get all historical data. Those old 'bases aint pretty. And it costs money. And the first time Betty Sue Blowjob whines to the doc all the history aint there(cause she is too lazy to fill it in) he reams you.
B. Docs carry around a load of DEAD Accounts receivables. So you been using a system for 8 years, you are carrying around loads of deadbeats. If they hadn't paid in three, they will not pay ever. So any reporting on the A/R is useless. I knew a doc with 8 million in outstanding. And i did a couple queries, and it was because since he started practicing, he kept people on the books. Now is a good time to start fresh. Make this point to him. They alway go for it if you can explain it concerning money. Tell them that he can get current real A/R totals,and on the old machine turn over all stuff over three years out to a collection agency(careful with this, some people are on payment plans and do not deserve collections).
5. Whenever a patient comes in the girls can say"Hey we have a new system, new encounter form, whatever" and have the patient fill it out. As each patient comes in, they do this. You clean up the patients files this way, mistakes, get all the new info, and it really is not too much work for the girls to do. And they do not have to sit 100 hours in a row rekeying. Just as necessary. And really, takes about 6 minutes for a normal typist to whip this on in. I did a study of this with 10 office workers.
So I hope I hope I have given you some ideas and things to look out for. You gotta really go head to head with docs. But 90% of it are people issues. I no longer work in this part of IT because it burned me out. I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone. And I left good money.
Re:I hated Neuromancer. You should re-read it.
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When you say Gibson is trying to hide the fact that he doesn't know what he is talking about?
Just what doesn't he know?
Tech?
All his books are written in the future. Any tech that he writes about is his own creation. So really since it is a future I have not been to, I can judge the tech there.But as a techie, it is beleivable. And for a non tech person he does a damn fine job. And did a damn fine job as defining the genre. Do really know the cyberpunk thing, Gibson is a must.
When was the last time you read good sci fi tech book that had some real tech, and was interesting?
I will give you an example:
"Nick Burns had spent the entire day running cat-5 through his new clients office. He was suprised to find some left over vampire taps from a previous network installation. Pocketing his Leatherman(the one with the expansion kit)he strolled over to the server room while pondering the schema of an LDAP configuration he had read on a/. thread. I had been an interesting day to the say the least for the young network engineer."
I get all the tech I need at work and at play. I dont need to be reading and thinking "FOOL use the crossover cable, THATS WHY IT WONT UPLINK TO THE SWITCH"
I like Snow Crash, good book. I like Stephenson, he is a good read. But hardly a wordsmith. And he appeals to us techies cause he throws in some of our geekspeak.
Pot meet kettle?
"Gibson's prose is pretentious and obfuscatory, seemingly crafted to sound "gritty" but more likely written so as to hide the fact that he doesn't know what he's talking about."
I am not attacking here but a writer writes like his favorite authors. You see their influnces. You can see Gibson is extremely well read and has a command on language that few do.
I can suggest a really good book for you. Walter Jon Williams. HardWired. Nueromancer like, but great characters and war story.
Look, HTML and ASCII, are standards. And have bodies that govern them. They are free to use and are cross platform compatible because of standards.
ASCII is probably the oldest and most standard spec in the computer world(I am saying probably cause I do not really know, and if i say it is the oldest i will get the pundits here with thier Junior exyclopedia guide to the universe saying i am wrong).
Oh, yeah and ASCII is gonna change all that much. Must be some good hydroponic.
HTML has matured and can be parsed by all systems. Perfect cross platform.
Why reinvent the wheel?
And what the hell? Don't use ASCII or HTML because non open OS's use them? WTF? Really, man that is just silly. I am a unix and windows guy. Dont see anything wrong with either on any platform.
This is the problem with most of the community. If it ain't open dont use it. But this is just so fucking stupid.
Should we rip all use of ASCII and HTML out of Linux cause Windows ans Apple use them? I mean that is what you are saying. Every computer since the dawn of time has used ASCII(mention Babbage and I will bitch slap you). Non open OS's use TCPIP. Shit rip that outta there. WAIT, IEEE governs how electrons/light flow across any type of medium, FUCK, we gotta throw that out too, cause non OSS systems use cables, hard drives, electricity.
We need standards, we do not need to throw up another project on source forge everyime someone gets a wild hair.
And really this is not even an OSS arguement.
ASCII and HTML would be the best choice because of cross platform.
We do not need a format when one exits. Easy enough.
The old Tracey Ullman's were brliiant, the orginal Simpons were so funny, especially with Homer being horribly cruel to bart.
Hermans Head! Wow, that was a great show. Hank Azaria as his dirtbag friend. All those nutty people in his head. Truly an original and funny sitcom. Herman getting a date with the real Marsha Brady.
Also remember Flying Blind with Tea Leone and some other guy? About a jewish kid who falls in lover with a goy redhead model. Really funny show. Fox in its ealy years, such fond memories.
This is pretty funny. However, I gues he could have spent that time doing priestly things, like helping the poor, collecting money for the missions(do they really exist?).
I went to a boarding school run by priests. And they do treat themselves well. Their cafeteria and ours were quite different.
Well, how many people have a degree from harvard Princeton, MIT, Yale? I mean that is not a fair reply. As the URL you posted are salaries offered to MIT graduates. The best of the best but hardly fair numbers to throw at the real world.
Also these days companies will go after the graduates than experienced people. You have to pay the experienced people more.
When you are younger you will take less cash. You are happy to be on the job, doing what you like, you do not think of car, home family, at 21 as you do 35+.
I should have made myself a little clearer as well.
1. In many disciplines it is hard to get a job these days. Not just engineering. 2. Tech is rough right now. You can see the posts on slashdot. Hard to find a job.
I was making 55 in 1996, sitting on my hands bossing script kiddies. Good money in New Orleans then. And as a single guy I was loaded. 3 bedroom apartment cost me a 1000 a month with utils. Plus broadband free. I had about 3 grand a month to burn on booze and broads.
I live in La cause the cost of living is low, and well I like it. Easy going people..
Fast forward 99, bottom falls out. I am working for Verio, making loot. But was disastisfied with the corporate culture. Took a job managing a large bar in the French Quarter. 42 a year. Still decent money, not really a pay cut cause I ate and drank free 5 days a week.
2000 moved to Colombia. Taught English and did tech.
2002 came home. Loafed for a year, did odd tech jobs, got the skills back.
So now I just grabbed a job making 42 a year. Well, three bedroom apartment, nice side of town(small town in La now) 675 a month. Same thing in San Diego 2000 if not more. All told got about 2 grand a month to play with after taxes and rent and food. Work pays for broadband.
So I i pinch the pennies I can save 24k a year. A nice little sum. Wait, my wife works she makes 40. We clip 20 off that to savings. Puts me 44k in the bank.
Oops, I made 25 grand this year doing networks and some retainers off of websites. Thans makes close to 70k we have saved. In one year, and we live high off the hog, wear nice clothes, spoil our selves rotten. From tech friend in Austin, Seattle, and Cali, they come to see me and they got the big jobs with the big names. They tell me my standard of living is 200% better than theirs.
But hell I only make 42k a year, so people on Slashdot can rag me cause of my low end job. And with my extra work I pull in 67 a year. Not too shabby.
I guess my point is that 50k jobs are few and far between upon grad, unless you go to a big name school. And reading big name school salary surveys don't mean shit.
I went to a school with only 7k students in the asshole of the swamp.
An engineer? What kind? Mechanical? Electrical? Give me the type please.
There are very few jobs that you get right out of college paying 50k a year, I don't care what your GPA was, if you were student body pres, or blew the dean of men.
I have 13 years tech experience, plus an IS degree, and two years doing tech work in Latin America(speak fluent spanish) I just got a job pulling 42 grand a year with full benefits. AND I AM DAMN GLAD OF IT. The job is in Louisiana where the cost of living is dirt ass cheap, so it is like 55 any where else.
My friends who become engineers all, got jobs making 25-30k when they started out, and these are guys with GPAS from great school.
A college degree does not guarantee you a 50k job, nor does a masters.
And I hate to say it, but all my jobs looked at past projects and years on the job. Though the degree does open a lotta doors.
A college graduate with a good 8 years under his built might make 50.
Just did a Sprint DSL install this morning and here are some interesting facts from Sprint here in FLA. Who use PPOE routers, before in software now in hardware.
The new sprint routers hand out 10 dynamic IPS if plugged into a hub or switch. Pretty decent of them. And the new router has the ppoe in hardware.
However, I went to the install with a Gigafast DSL router which is also a which is also a 4 port 10/100 switch, plus does PPOE as well.
I pulled the sprint router off, entered my PPOE settings in the router/switch and boom.
It will route up to 253 machines.
Makes a nice home job as SOHO. 50 bucks from new egg. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?su bmit=m anufactory&catalog=28&manufactory=1605&DEPA=0&sort by=14&order=1
I agree with on your points except for where you say"Pointy haired bosses don't know a good coder from a hole in the ground, so they hire the janitor-cum-MCP with the $20,000 salary expectation."
Last time I checked an MCP had nothing to do with punching code.
A systems engineer and a coder or two very different animals.
A coder might do a little admin and and an admin might code a little. But otherwise on two seperate ends of the spectrum. Not a very good comparison.
I have also had the pointy haired bosses who have hired utter embeciles as admins. But also cause they listened to the stringy haired coders who thought cause they could could they were admin gods as well.
I am a RHCE, MCSE,MCSA,CCNA, A+ and NET+
RHCE - A little difficlut but if you have the Unix experience and study hard you can pass it.
MCSE 2000 - Well the MCSE NT 4 was a joke. The 2000 track(if you dont use cheats) recquires a lot of study and experience to pass. Active Directory and Migration are two hard topics. Yeah, people used the cheats, but I tell you, I just took the AD 2000 examn, and it was no joke. Don't punish us MCSEs who actually know what they are doing.
A+ If you need to study for this, you need to choose another field. But their is a lotta cumaltive knowledge here.
Net+ A very good primer before you hit the CCNA if your only experience is your home network.(which 90% of the people in the world makes them gurus cause they got a speedstream router with a web based admin) but I would reccomend it to anyone who wanted to get into networking.
CCNA - Best beginners network course there is. Learn the theory and you will go far.
My problem with Linux admins is this. They consistently dog MS and their products when 90% of them do not know enough about them. Like any OS you have to live it and breath it to know it. And Windows 2000 is a damned fine product if you know how to admin it. Many don't. And people on the nix side dont tend to learn. I run headless 2000 servers, yep no gui, i turn it on when i need to do something. Always astound people when they see this.
MS Admins, are very inflexible, reboot and restore seems to be their main fixes for all. Instead of installing right the first time and doing the maintenance.
I use *nix and Windows for different things. Each has its good and bad. But a mentor of mine told me that the best way is to learn them all and take from each. That is what I have done. FUD is for children.
Well as much as I liked seeing skydiving vehicles in the odd James Bonf Flick and all I don't see this as an good way to protest SUV's.
1. You need to gas the planes to get the cars up into the wild blue yonder. MORE POLLUTION.
2. Crashing theme into the desert. I am sure that this does wonders for the native wildlife and natural look of the desert. Just cause it is empty space doesn't mean we have to throw trashed cars into it. Even if you remove all the hydrocarbons and glass, it's still junk.
3. Then blowing up a Nissan Pathfinder. Hmmm, releasing smoke and debris and further polluting the enviroment. Could have recycled the metal into something else.
I am all about making a statement about SUV's and pollution. But you doing things like driving a small car, riding a bike, using the bus. But spending money, resources, and then further polluting the air with a Jack Ass like stunt. Just don't make much sense to me.
So your clients have site licenses. But every new machine arrives with a Windows license affixed?
1. You can get PC's without windows on them. Even from the big guys.
2. ANY big company will sell you a PC without a windows license if you provide them with a verifiable fax of your current MS license status.
I have ordered from 20 to 500 machines a throw from Dell. Provided them with my site license, and they came empty.
MS also reccomends using Ghost.
PUTO
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No this is not correct. Even though some basn MS for anything people replied to it.
From 2000 to XP you can prepare a hard drive. Use a tool called SYSPREP which prepares a drive for cloning.
Once you clone the drive to x number of systems(as covered by your site licenses). The initial boot of the system conigures each one with a seperate SID. It also automates user responses. You can accept the EULA automatically.
MS reccomends this for roll outs and even teaches you how to do it on their site.
I have used this many times. Nothing against the EULA.
See below link.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defaul t. asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/deploy/depopt/sysprep.asp
I love Linux. And thing MS is evil in a lotta ways. But above all hate misinformation.
You know I have been tinkering with computer equipment since HeathKit. Yep, OLD SKOOl, bread boarding and soldering, and learned a great deal by doing it.
I love the hacker ethic, kludge something until it works. Sometimes you have to, sometimes you want to, and sometimes just for the hell of it.
I understand trying to save a few bucks, but COME ON PEOPLE.
What I am seeing more and more is these whack hardware hacks which 20% of the time do increase the hardware potential and the 80% fry whatever you are fooling with. So you clean the part of real good, RMA it, and get a new one. Screwing the rest of the world in the process cause you wanted to hack it.
I remember in the day of the Celeron 300A, I was working in a shop that sold them hand over fist. And we got them back hand over fist due to over clockers"Dunna what happened man, just didn't work one day, I didn't over clock it though, musta been defective"
You futz up the graphic card, clean the solder off, and bring it back to Best Buy. They don't look it, they just give you another, and prices go up.
But everyone doesn't take that into account when they bring it back.
I don;t have unlimited funds, but I know you get what you pay for.
People that buy that Athlon 1800, cheap ass board, cheap ass fan, cheap ass power supply, overclock it, then spend 200 bucks on cooling, which could have applied to just buying a better cheap, board, and power supply.
And what scares me is this is the next generation of admins. I see the result now in the field. Some young computer whiz has outfitted an entire office with no name stuff, only a years guarantee, then he quits, six months later stuff starts to go out. And I have to tell them they have to buy new stuff cause they nearly new stuff was crap.
So I ask the community this. If you mod it and fry it. Throw it in the garbage, dont make me pay by bringing it back or RMA ing New Egg. But howsa about this. If it ain't broke. Don't fuck with it.
I use Linux and Free BSD. BSD was my first real delve into the Unix fold. A damn fine server OS and used by more people than most would think. SMP at its finest IMHO.
The team takes its time with updates, does them right the first time and make it a true pleasure to work with.
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Alien beachball with feet that made strange wheezing noises.
And howsabout the Grateful Dead soundtrack?
Of course the talking nuclear bomb.
But the end where the guy knows he is gonna die so he surfs the piece of space debris into the planets atmosphere. Whole new meaning to reentry.
Puto
Absolutely a funny movie.GuyRitchie+Tarantino+mel Brooks.
The movie has some of the best dialogue in it that I have heard in a flick in a long time. And although cheesy at times the two main characters were good actors.
And where else do you get to see a Gay Wilhem Defoe? In drag no less.
[A Russian gangster comes into the bar] Murphy MacManus: So you're Chekov, huh? Well, this here's McCoy. Find a Spock, we got us an away team.
Murphy MacManus: There are many forms of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the boundaries into true corruption, into our domain.
Murphy MacManus: We're sorta like 7-11. We're not always doin' business, but we're always open.
Conner MacManus: Jesus! He brought a six-shooter! Murphy MacManus: There were nine guys. What were you going to do? Laugh the last three to death?
Rosengurtie: Rule of thumb!? Do you know where that expression comes from? In the early 1900's it was legal to beat your wife so long as you used a stick no wider than your thumb. Conner MacManus: Well, you can't do much damage with that...maybe it should have been a rule of wrist then.
Puto
500 megs. 10 gigs a month SSH Nekkid Chicks
http://www.myprohost.com [myprohost.com]
Absolutely a funny movie. Guy Ritchie+Tarantino+mel Brooks. The movie has some of the best dialogue in it that I have heard in a flick in a long time. And although cheesy at times the two main characters were good actors. And where else do you get to see a Gay Wilhem Defoe? In drag no less. [A Russian gangster comes into the bar] Murphy MacManus: So you're Chekov, huh? Well, this here's McCoy. Find a Spock, we got us an away team. Murphy MacManus: There are many forms of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the boundaries into true corruption, into our domain. Murphy MacManus: We're sorta like 7-11. We're not always doin' business, but we're always open. Conner MacManus: Jesus! He brought a six-shooter! Murphy MacManus: There were nine guys. What were you going to do? Laugh the last three to death? Rosengurtie: Rule of thumb!? Do you know where that expression comes from? In the early 1900's it was legal to beat your wife so long as you used a stick no wider than your thumb. Conner MacManus: Well, you can't do much damage with that...maybe it should have been a rule of wrist then. Puto
Ok, I just downloaded six of their songs from another source(ends with lite)
Six songs should be enough to pass judgement.
Listening to this makes me feel like I am the loner in a John Hughes movie that has been forsaken by the popular crowd but I am about to become cool and prove that even the geek can get the girl/friends/car/LAID/ scholarship, papal dispensation.
It has the poppy vibe of the Pet Shop boys and the whininess of Morrisey after he has spent a night crying on his 'platonic' male friends shoulder(Michael Stipe, anyone else remember their fling, ewwwwww)
I am an 80s child and love music and went to many concerts(BauHaus, SugarCubes, Cure, Smiths, Escape Club) And Black Flag, Femmes, Dayglow Abortions, Vandals. Did the whole punk thing, and no the Offpsring and Green Day are not punk bands. And the Police were doing ska before most you them were born.
Cannot remember this band, I remember Kajagoogoo.
Just when I thought I would never hear another whiney voice like Morrisey, I listen to this and wow, I am back in a dark bar with with everyone all dressed in black eating X and grinding up on each other. Smoking marlboro lights and pretending I am Andrew Macarthy in Less than Zero.
Honestly it is better than the dance music you here in clubs today, it is soft on the ears and you can shake a leg to it. I could see being in a crowd and bopping to it, and maybe putting the moves on the old lady, kindy scmaltzy and sexy at the same time.
As for buying it. Dunno, as I write this and I am listening to it and it grows on me. I might order it, cause it brings back some memories, and every now and then the old krewe and I embark on nights out fueled by memories, music, and other remnants of the 80s, and it would be a good cd to slip in.
I give it an 8, cause you can dance to it. Denny Theriot, theres a man!
Puto
Well here is my advice to your friend.
Considering the way the patent arguement has been hashed out here many times he can follow two schools of thought.
1. Patents for the sole sake of patenting an idea should not be allowed. Your friend thought about patenting the idea for controlling a device with SMS. He has done nothing to develop it, but as you say"has just been waiting to see if someone uses the idea". So in essence he is like Amazon and many other entities out there. Jeff Bezos anyone?
2. Sue companies for using "his idea" and PROFIT.
HOWEVER, if you quickly google the net you will find that many companies, research centers, robotics people, computer nerds, have all been using sms to control devices for quite some time. So I think your friends patent might not hold up and there is plenty of prior art hanging around.
Is it moral? No you could argue that it is not. But then again, sometimes a big pile of cash for no work is not the worst thing in the world to happen to you. Just tell your friend to remember his pal if he dies strike it rich.
Puto
Novell owned Wordperfect at one time. Wordperfect was having horrible financial difficulties at Novell bought them out. I even still have a CD that says Novell WordPerfect. The entire product became Groupwise.
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The word on the street at the time was that Wordperfect was going under and since both are Mormom companies, the church steps in and gets Novell to bail them out.
Novell does this and decides to integrate the office suite with the Novell NOS. To compete with NT, as NetWare had the Market but MS had a total package of NOS and Office. Whereas Novell just had the NOS.
Following link is an article about the purchase in the day. Very interesting, and predicted Novells and Corels demise.
Novell sells the Suite to Corel cause they could not do anything with it.
Read about it here.
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-203536.html
And if you want to hear about Novell being a mormon company.
This article is about a guy who left the church and they tried to get his patent revoked.
http://www.base.com/software-patents/articles/b
So get a clue on the history of things. Corel had problems long before MS, and MS actually helped Corel in its own screwed up way.
Puto
http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1995/0700/w
Well having spent a good part of my live in my homeland the(US) and a good part on the road in other countries I can answer you in this way.
Mad Max was called Mad MAx here. I even saw in the US as Mad Max. The second movie was called Mad Max 2, the Road Warrior. And Road Warrior sounds a Helluva lot better than Mad Max 2.
And Gibson was born in New York, pop shipped the whole family back to Aussie Land cause that was where mom was from and to avoid his sons possible conscription into the service into Vietnam.
And we do acknowledge philossopy. But alchemy? Hmmm.
Movie name changes are made all over the world. They do it so that wherever they are showing the flick can get a general idea of what the original title is about. Somethings cannot be transalates.
Knocking on Heavens door is one of the most famous songs in the US, and in English, so I would venture they did it to avoid confusion. And it is actually quite a beautiful tune.
So you know what? Cool your jets, wherever your are from. People are people. Including this yank with one grampaw from Madrid and the other Cajun French(which is better than regular Frog any ol' day") we is all just people.
Puto
Say you have 10 million people who each pirate 10 movies worth 25 dollars a year. That gets you 2.5 billion dollars.
Sources for Piracy
1. Edonkey
2. Gnutella
3. Kazaa
4. Budddies
5. Warez Groups
Then add into the people in other countries who buy the movie reproduce the cover art, and resell it for ten bucks in the street. Or worse, 10 bucks to video stores who then then rent it 100 times for 2 bucks a piece.
I just Kazzaed the word DVD, and got about 30 full titles. And then you can be specific and just abt find anything.
Kazaa has 4 million users online now. if each user pirates one ten dollar movie a day for 30 days. That is 1.2 billion bucks a month.
Or these people who do not feel like ripping their own DVD? If you got the DVD who rips it, takes up space and processor cycles.
I know guys who have complete cd cases of 100-200 movies in Divx they have gotten off the net. And then they SVCD them and pass them around.
Hell when I was in South America I could buy them on the street. My old lady just got back from Turkey with an assload of them.
They would not be all over the net if people were not pirating them.
We need to look at piracy for what it is, not run around saying it does not happen. It is rampant and we can't hide behind the worn out excuse that information should be free.
Puto
I am gonna have two subjects in this message. One a suggestion to fix the problem, and two, some advice on the medical software industry.
,and on the old machine turn over all stuff over three years out to a collection agency(careful with this, some people are on payment plans and do not deserve collections).
You are running dos software? I am assuming you are peer to peered unless you are running it across NT. Also assuming you want to put in a Linux box so you can have a fileserver, web proxy, and whatever your heart desires.
I dont know your office but i cant imagine it is very large if you are using DOS, otherwise you could have used novell. You dont have NT, or why would you worry about Samba?
Heres what I would do. Goto ebay. You can Lantastic with 10 licenses for 40 bucks. You can acquire as many as you need at that price or lower. You acquire an old p2 or p3 for 200 bucks and your choice of ram. make sure it is in good shape. Pricewatch a new one. 150 bucks for a new p3 750, kick another 100 for hard drive and nic. You ever seen DOS run on a p///??? Like a scalded dog.
Pop lantastic on that baby and fire it up and walk away. Problem solved for 300 bucks. And whatever labor you charge.
Give me some more details on what you want to do and what you currently have installed. Then I can probably be a lot more helpful.
My father ran a medical management company from 1970 to 1998. He had a mainframe installed in his office in 1970 to manage the financial end of the business then. He was way a head of his time. Offer the years I saw him switch systems from IBM/36s, in house Cobol Programmers, Sco boxes, Lantastic, Novell and finally to NT. And I learned them as they came out.
I installed and supported a variety of systems over a 10 year period in the medical industry. So let me drop a dime on you and save you some headaches. I also did a stint for a group of 8 clinics as the IT guy. 30k active patienrs running through my box. AS400, 8 modems. All locations dialed in with 286, 386s. with a client. Ran smooth as hell.
PLUS I was an actual clinic manager. I know the financial side as well.
****KEEP THE OLD SYSTEM RUNNING***** Whether it is still on the network or you got one station.
1. They have access to all the old records, as will be explained.
2. Something happens(employees refuse to learn new stuff) your box blows up. You got the old one as back up.
1. Doctors make plenty of money. But they do not like to spend it in their practice, usually the least amount is done on the system. And with good reason. Late 80's billing systems that filed electronically could cost a 250k and upwards. But most medical tech sales people approach it the wrong way. Tell them to finance it(yes banks will finance software and hardware together) make it a part of operating costs, and they can write the whole thing off, so no need to skimp. Get the numbers together. When you give final bid. Show them total cost. Then show them that they can finance for three years at 500 a month.
And remember all of this really hinges on docs being cheapskates.
2. DONT SKIMP ON HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE that manages peoples money. Because that 400 you saved you went with some cheaper hardware. It craps out. The manufacturer doesnt get the blame, you get the blame. You cant say"well you wanted to save money on the hardware" A doctor will have a lawyer on your ass in a heartbeat. And then tell all his doctor buddies at the club you are a louse. Remember you have to fix the hardware. Get a Dell. They make good on the warranty and quick. Docs also like big named companies, might have stock in them. Docs will throw a bone that way.
3. Most real practice management software, legacy software was made to run on old Unix boxes. AS400's. Some of it was later ported to dos boxes, or to run on Novell. However, the medical industry preffered UNIX. I have seen logs of uptimes of 5 years plus, and even one for 8. NT and SQL has made heavy inroads. Honestly, in all my years I only saw a few dos apps, and most were just clients that hit a nix box.
4.And if you glean anything from this post make it this. It is a good selling point, headache saver, and NECCESITY if you are going to have peace of mind.
NO DATA CONVERSION. Unless you intimatley know both databases, or someone has written a tool to go from one to the other. Do not do it.
A. You usually can only get patient demographics and money owed. Too difficult, costly, to get all historical data. Those old 'bases aint pretty.
And it costs money. And the first time Betty Sue Blowjob whines to the doc all the history aint there(cause she is too lazy to fill it in) he reams you.
B. Docs carry around a load of DEAD Accounts receivables. So you been using a system for 8 years, you are carrying around loads of deadbeats. If they hadn't paid in three, they will not pay ever. So any reporting on the A/R is useless. I knew a doc with 8 million in outstanding. And i did a couple queries, and it was because since he started practicing, he kept people on the books. Now is a good time to start fresh. Make this point to him. They alway go for it if you can explain it concerning money. Tell them that he can get current real A/R totals
5. Whenever a patient comes in the girls can say"Hey we have a new system, new encounter form, whatever" and have the patient fill it out. As each patient comes in, they do this. You clean up the patients files this way, mistakes, get all the new info, and it really is not too much work for the girls to do. And they do not have to sit 100 hours in a row rekeying. Just as necessary. And really, takes about 6 minutes for a normal typist to whip this on in. I did a study of this with 10 office workers.
So I hope I hope I have given you some ideas and things to look out for. You gotta really go head to head with docs. But 90% of it are people issues. I no longer work in this part of IT because it burned me out. I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone. And I left good money.
When was the last time you read good sci fi tech book that had some real tech, and was interesting?
I will give you an example: "Nick Burns had spent the entire day running cat-5 through his new clients office. He was suprised to find some left over vampire taps from a previous network installation. Pocketing his Leatherman(the one with the expansion kit)he strolled over to the server room while pondering the schema of an LDAP configuration he had read on a /. thread. I had been an interesting day to the say the least for the young network engineer."
I get all the tech I need at work and at play. I dont need to be reading and thinking "FOOL use the crossover cable, THATS WHY IT WONT UPLINK TO THE SWITCH" I like Snow Crash, good book. I like Stephenson, he is a good read. But hardly a wordsmith. And he appeals to us techies cause he throws in some of our geekspeak.
Pot meet kettle?
"Gibson's prose is pretentious and obfuscatory, seemingly crafted to sound "gritty" but more likely written so as to hide the fact that he doesn't know what he's talking about." I am not attacking here but a writer writes like his favorite authors. You see their influnces. You can see Gibson is extremely well read and has a command on language that few do.
I can suggest a really good book for you. Walter Jon Williams. HardWired. Nueromancer like, but great characters and war story.
Puto
No way!
I got my ARC off of ebay in November for 25 bucks.
But I would have sold it for 100's. Well, probably not.
Puto
NTT shortchanged? Not really, they bought Verio for the marketshare in the US and the some 60 odd other countries that have Verio offices.
Each office that Verio had was done through a buy out. So Verio has an immense amount of IPv4 adresses. Hence NTT has them.
NTT is just being smart, thats all.
Puto
Look, HTML and ASCII, are standards. And have bodies that govern them. They are free to use and are cross platform compatible because of standards.
ASCII is probably the oldest and most standard spec in the computer world(I am saying probably cause I do not really know, and if i say it is the oldest i will get the pundits here with thier Junior exyclopedia guide to the universe saying i am wrong).
Oh, yeah and ASCII is gonna change all that much. Must be some good hydroponic.
HTML has matured and can be parsed by all systems.
Perfect cross platform.
Why reinvent the wheel?
And what the hell? Don't use ASCII or HTML because non open OS's use them? WTF? Really, man that is just silly. I am a unix and windows guy. Dont see anything wrong with either on any platform.
This is the problem with most of the community. If it ain't open dont use it. But this is just so fucking stupid.
Should we rip all use of ASCII and HTML out of Linux cause Windows ans Apple use them? I mean that is what you are saying. Every computer since the dawn of time has used ASCII(mention Babbage and I will bitch slap you). Non open OS's use TCPIP. Shit rip that outta there. WAIT, IEEE governs how electrons/light flow across any type of medium, FUCK, we gotta throw that out too, cause non OSS systems use cables, hard drives, electricity.
We need standards, we do not need to throw up another project on source forge everyime someone gets a wild hair.
And really this is not even an OSS arguement.
ASCII and HTML would be the best choice because of cross platform.
We do not need a format when one exits. Easy enough.
MAN got me going on a sunday.
Puto
The old Tracey Ullman's were brliiant, the orginal Simpons were so funny, especially with Homer being horribly cruel to bart.
Hermans Head! Wow, that was a great show. Hank Azaria as his dirtbag friend. All those nutty people in his head. Truly an original and funny sitcom. Herman getting a date with the real Marsha Brady.
Also remember Flying Blind with Tea Leone and some other guy? About a jewish kid who falls in lover with a goy redhead model. Really funny show. Fox in its ealy years, such fond memories.
Puto
This is pretty funny. However, I gues he could have spent that time doing priestly things, like helping the poor, collecting money for the missions(do they really exist?).
I went to a boarding school run by priests. And they do treat themselves well. Their cafeteria and ours were quite different.
Puto
Well, how many people have a degree from harvard Princeton, MIT, Yale? I mean that is not a fair reply. As the URL you posted are salaries offered to MIT graduates. The best of the best but hardly fair numbers to throw at the real world.
Also these days companies will go after the graduates than experienced people. You have to pay the experienced people more.
When you are younger you will take less cash. You are happy to be on the job, doing what you like, you do not think of car, home family, at 21 as you do 35+.
I should have made myself a little clearer as well.
1. In many disciplines it is hard to get a job these days. Not just engineering.
2. Tech is rough right now. You can see the posts on slashdot. Hard to find a job.
I was making 55 in 1996, sitting on my hands bossing script kiddies. Good money in New Orleans then. And as a single guy I was loaded. 3 bedroom apartment cost me a 1000 a month with utils. Plus broadband free. I had about 3 grand a month to burn on booze and broads.
I live in La cause the cost of living is low, and well I like it. Easy going people..
Fast forward 99, bottom falls out. I am working for Verio, making loot. But was disastisfied with the corporate culture. Took a job managing a large bar in the French Quarter. 42 a year. Still decent money, not really a pay cut cause I ate and drank free 5 days a week.
2000 moved to Colombia. Taught English and did tech.
2002 came home. Loafed for a year, did odd tech jobs, got the skills back.
So now I just grabbed a job making 42 a year. Well, three bedroom apartment, nice side of town(small town in La now) 675 a month. Same thing in San Diego 2000 if not more. All told got about 2 grand a month to play with after taxes and rent and food. Work pays for broadband.
So I i pinch the pennies I can save 24k a year. A nice little sum. Wait, my wife works she makes 40. We clip 20 off that to savings. Puts me 44k in the bank.
Oops, I made 25 grand this year doing networks and some retainers off of websites. Thans makes close to 70k we have saved. In one year, and we live high off the hog, wear nice clothes, spoil our selves rotten. From tech friend in Austin, Seattle, and Cali, they come to see me and they got the big jobs with the big names. They tell me my standard of living is 200% better than theirs.
But hell I only make 42k a year, so people on Slashdot can rag me cause of my low end job. And with my extra work I pull in 67 a year. Not too shabby.
I guess my point is that 50k jobs are few and far between upon grad, unless you go to a big name school. And reading big name school salary surveys don't mean shit.
I went to a school with only 7k students in the asshole of the swamp.
Don't mean to rant.
Puto
An engineer? What kind? Mechanical? Electrical? Give me the type please.
There are very few jobs that you get right out of college paying 50k a year, I don't care what your GPA was, if you were student body pres, or blew the dean of men.
I have 13 years tech experience, plus an IS degree, and two years doing tech work in Latin America(speak fluent spanish) I just got a job pulling 42 grand a year with full benefits. AND I AM DAMN GLAD OF IT. The job is in Louisiana where the cost of living is dirt ass cheap, so it is like 55 any where else.
My friends who become engineers all, got jobs making 25-30k when they started out, and these are guys with GPAS from great school.
A college degree does not guarantee you a 50k job, nor does a masters.
And I hate to say it, but all my jobs looked at past projects and years on the job. Though the degree does open a lotta doors.
A college graduate with a good 8 years under his built might make 50.
You need a reality check.
Puto
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Just did a Sprint DSL install this morning and here are some interesting facts from Sprint here in FLA. Who use PPOE routers, before in software now in hardware.
The new sprint routers hand out 10 dynamic IPS if plugged into a hub or switch. Pretty decent of them. And the new router has the ppoe in hardware.
However, I went to the install with a Gigafast DSL router which is also a which is also a 4 port 10/100 switch, plus does PPOE as well.
I pulled the sprint router off, entered my PPOE settings in the router/switch and boom.
It will route up to 253 machines.
Makes a nice home job as SOHO. 50 bucks from new egg.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?s
Puto
I agree with on your points except for where you say"Pointy haired bosses don't know a good coder from a hole in the ground, so they hire the janitor-cum-MCP with the $20,000 salary expectation."
Last time I checked an MCP had nothing to do with punching code.
A systems engineer and a coder or two very different animals.
A coder might do a little admin and and an admin might code a little. But otherwise on two seperate ends of the spectrum. Not a very good comparison.
I have also had the pointy haired bosses who have hired utter embeciles as admins. But also cause they listened to the stringy haired coders who thought cause they could could they were admin gods as well.
I am a RHCE, MCSE,MCSA,CCNA, A+ and NET+
RHCE - A little difficlut but if you have the Unix experience and study hard you can pass it.
MCSE 2000 - Well the MCSE NT 4 was a joke. The 2000 track(if you dont use cheats) recquires a lot of study and experience to pass. Active Directory and Migration are two hard topics. Yeah, people used the cheats, but I tell you, I just took the AD 2000 examn, and it was no joke. Don't punish us MCSEs who actually know what they are doing.
A+ If you need to study for this, you need to choose another field. But their is a lotta cumaltive knowledge here.
Net+ A very good primer before you hit the CCNA if your only experience is your home network.(which 90% of the people in the world makes them gurus cause they got a speedstream router with a web based admin) but I would reccomend it to anyone who wanted to get into networking.
CCNA - Best beginners network course there is. Learn the theory and you will go far.
My problem with Linux admins is this. They consistently dog MS and their products when 90% of them do not know enough about them. Like any OS you have to live it and breath it to know it. And Windows 2000 is a damned fine product if you know how to admin it. Many don't. And people on the nix side dont tend to learn. I run headless 2000 servers, yep no gui, i turn it on when i need to do something. Always astound people when they see this.
MS Admins, are very inflexible, reboot and restore seems to be their main fixes for all. Instead of installing right the first time and doing the maintenance.
I use *nix and Windows for different things. Each has its good and bad. But a mentor of mine told me that the best way is to learn them all and take from each. That is what I have done. FUD is for children.
Puto
Starting with Win 2000 there is some sort of portable drive standard. I know the OS 10 has built in support as well.
I have a portable drive that when plugged into XP,2000, and OSX, it recognizes and mounts.
I have a driver disk for 98.
The company I bought it from told me that Linux didn't have built in support for it yet.
Puto
Well as much as I liked seeing skydiving vehicles in the odd James Bonf Flick and all I don't see this as an good way to protest SUV's.
1. You need to gas the planes to get the cars up into the wild blue yonder. MORE POLLUTION.
2. Crashing theme into the desert. I am sure that this does wonders for the native wildlife and natural look of the desert. Just cause it is empty space doesn't mean we have to throw trashed cars into it. Even if you remove all the hydrocarbons and glass, it's still junk.
3. Then blowing up a Nissan Pathfinder. Hmmm, releasing smoke and debris and further polluting the enviroment. Could have recycled the metal into something else.
I am all about making a statement about SUV's and pollution. But you doing things like driving a small car, riding a bike, using the bus. But spending money, resources, and then further polluting the air with a Jack Ass like stunt. Just don't make much sense to me.
Put0
Collor me confused on this one.
So your clients have site licenses. But every new machine arrives with a Windows license affixed?
1. You can get PC's without windows on them. Even from the big guys.
2. ANY big company will sell you a PC without a windows license if you provide them with a verifiable fax of your current MS license status.
I have ordered from 20 to 500 machines a throw from Dell. Provided them with my site license, and they came empty.
MS also reccomends using Ghost.
PUTO
No this is not correct. Even though some basn MS for anything people replied to it.
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From 2000 to XP you can prepare a hard drive. Use a tool called SYSPREP which prepares a drive for cloning.
Once you clone the drive to x number of systems(as covered by your site licenses). The initial boot of the system conigures each one with a seperate SID. It also automates user responses. You can accept the EULA automatically.
MS reccomends this for roll outs and even teaches you how to do it on their site.
I have used this many times. Nothing against the EULA.
See below link.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defau
I love Linux. And thing MS is evil in a lotta ways. But above all hate misinformation.
Puto.
You know I have been tinkering with computer equipment since HeathKit. Yep, OLD SKOOl, bread boarding and soldering, and learned a great deal by doing it.
I love the hacker ethic, kludge something until it works. Sometimes you have to, sometimes you want to, and sometimes just for the hell of it.
I understand trying to save a few bucks, but COME ON PEOPLE.
What I am seeing more and more is these whack hardware hacks which 20% of the time do increase the hardware potential and the 80% fry whatever you are fooling with. So you clean the part of real good, RMA it, and get a new one. Screwing the rest of the world in the process cause you wanted to hack it.
I remember in the day of the Celeron 300A, I was working in a shop that sold them hand over fist. And we got them back hand over fist due to over clockers"Dunna what happened man, just didn't work one day, I didn't over clock it though, musta been defective"
You futz up the graphic card, clean the solder off, and bring it back to Best Buy. They don't look it, they just give you another, and prices go up.
But everyone doesn't take that into account when they bring it back.
I don;t have unlimited funds, but I know you get what you pay for.
People that buy that Athlon 1800, cheap ass board, cheap ass fan, cheap ass power supply, overclock it, then spend 200 bucks on cooling, which could have applied to just buying a better cheap, board, and power supply.
And what scares me is this is the next generation of admins. I see the result now in the field. Some young computer whiz has outfitted an entire office with no name stuff, only a years guarantee, then he quits, six months later stuff starts to go out. And I have to tell them they have to buy new stuff cause they nearly new stuff was crap.
So I ask the community this. If you mod it and fry it. Throw it in the garbage, dont make me pay by bringing it back or RMA ing New Egg. But howsa about this. If it ain't broke. Don't fuck with it.
Puto
I use Linux and Free BSD. BSD was my first real delve into the Unix fold. A damn fine server OS and used by more people than most would think. SMP at its finest IMHO.
The team takes its time with updates, does them right the first time and make it a true pleasure to work with.
Kudos guys.
Puto