A couple of years back the hottest job you could have was it but not anymore. The pay has gone down and the work is pretty dull and booring in many places. Apply patches, watch the consultants do all the fun stuff, reinstall some broken app since its pretty impossible to find exactly what causes things to break in Windows and so on. Its really very repetitive work where you dont really learn anything in many places.
Luckily i work as a Linux admin and get to play with my precious linux all day long. For me the work is about doing my hobby at worktime. Hadnt it been for Linux i would never set my foot on an it department. The work as an admin can be very infuriating many times with PHP's making decisions so idiotic at the micro level you just want to slap them silly.
In my work as a network administrator i work more with Windows than i do with linux. Still after i have worked with Windows since Windows 95 and Linux since a couple of years back i still think its easier to manage linux servers. The ones having most difficulties with linux is the ones trying to use it like they was using Windows. You have to grasp the ground rules first and then linux aint hard at all. Finding an error in Linux is much easier than in Windows for eg. This is ofcourse if you dont see a reinstall as a successful error checking style. Personally i want to know why something break and how to prevent it the next time. Thats impossible with Windows from my experience.
Funny you ask, it looks like the biggest improvements is all the mimicing of *nix that is taking place like reduced rights for users and services. I suppose copying is the cincerest form of flattering.
The biggest security issue still remainging is the darkness. That is, no entity outside Microsoft has any knowledge whatsoever about what is happening behind the closed doors. For all we know it could well be thousands of unpatched but known remote holes in Windows this very day. Microsoft has a really long way to go before anyone security concious will trust them on their word.
The glibc upgrade was if i understood it correctly done instead of just compiling MySQL manually. I was boggled, why would you change glibc instead of making a fast compile? Upgrading glibc will make the whole OS and all its applications unstable, its almost as it was intentional. I have a hard time beleiving a seasoned linuxadmin would do such a stupid thing as upgrading glibc.
What many of you miss to realize(Microsoft included), is that there are a large group of current Microsoft only customers that are unhappy with their current offerings. Just because someone is against Microsofts decisions doesnt meen they like Linux. Many just see Linux as a catalysator wich will free the market, push standards and make interopability more common between vendors. Its very rare with 100% Microsofts network still Microsoft refuses to support any standard that would make life for their customers easier. The constant steering towards 100% MS networks is pissing people off.
This really isnt about Linux its about making computers and their software be as standard as the internet.
No problem, just apply yourself with some integrity. Sadly this is a rarely seen trade theese days. This kid is an Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) so its not only the funding that makes it hard to see him as unbiased.
The study seemed to only compare comercial applications on the various platforms and not the alternatives. Its very common that comercial apps on Linux have poor support on Linux while the free alternatives blows most out of the water on Windows too. Its not especially hard to select a couple of apps with stellar support on Windows and SAP like support on Linux and blame Linux when the problem really lies in the lack of vendor support. Some vendors even support just one specific linux version without! any patches applied.
What care was taken in selecting applications with similar support offerings to not bias the study heavily to Microsofts advantage?
How will this differ in any way from you normal spyware and adware ridden Windows machine? They might as well just give away todays Windows for free.
Since im no Windows user this isnt for me but i suspect people are as sick of ads as i am. Showcased Firefox with flashblock for my neighbor and he was stuck instantly. He said it was like surfing on a whole other internet without all the ads, the popups and the ad/spyware. He is a windows user to the bone but one thing is for sure, his tolerance for ads are as low as Microsofts business tactics.
Firstly i think you confuse OpenLDAP with Linux. OpenLDAP runs on Windows amongst other things.
LDAP on linux isnt as hard as many think. Ive just installed Open Enterprise for the first time and i find it very easy to use and setup into a functional network. It took me two days until i had everything working, not to shabby considering most time was spent on fighting the Windows machines into submission. Skolelinux has a nice setup with LDAP thats very neat. RedHat has their offering as well wich i look forward to try later on.
The people having problems with this wont be the ones who are efficient at using computers. Expect huge retraining costs for a migration to Office 12. You can take Microsofts own calculations on how expensive a move to OO would be as a base for you calculations. Should come up with a pretty interesting result.
What are the training costs and migrations costs with this new Office suite? If you just are about to spend some retraining costs you might as well spend it on a free alternative with no vendor lockin, especially since youre changing document format. Why lock oneself in again.
Most of my users know Office by their picture memory, they never read what the toolbars say. The change for Office 12 will be bigger than the change to OpenOffice. I suspect thats the case for most users. Its going to be fun watching Microsoft talk about costs for switching to OpenOffice and at the same time tout the virtue of migrating to Office 12, without mentioning the very same costs.
I use it as a desktop and find it very usable. Thats enough for me. Linux has never been about snagging market share wich is something many Windows jockeys has a hard time understanding. Linux success doesnt stand and fall with the number of users. If it stays at 10% so what? There should really be 10 different OS out there competing and 10% of that is pretty good.
Sad thing is you can get punished for copyright infringement by painting a building, a landmark or other things. In theory you can with this law get thrown into jail for having done your class assignment of drawing a picture of the Golden gate bridge.
As a side note, building an economy on fictional values with no coupling to the real world whatsoever will make a very unstable and dangerous market indeed. The house of cards will come tumbling down hard and ferocious.
Thats pretty much my experience of expensive software. The more it costs the more bugs and stiffness from the vendor. While i can install Apache on almost anything running a CPU i can only install some expensive software on specific hardware with tightly controlled patch revisions and with a squadron of elite consultans. It should be the other way around. SAP is scared shitless no doubt since its easier to implement many of the functions in their systems by yourself in open source than to use SAPs systems.
The transfer from an industrial society to an IP based is purely based on the fact that the current economical system drives manual labour to countries with cheap labour costs, no unions and poor economies. When we cant have our own industry our only option in the rich countries is to put a pricetag on all our current knowledge and sell that to the emerging economies. We can have them inventing things and selling it without paying us can we. The IP market is more of a defense against the now emerging countries like China. If we cant sell goods we sell ideas, IP and culture to them.
The proper way would be to fix the system so that it isnt that much benefit in putting all the workforce abroad and keep on manufacturing our own goods. Seen from a global non economic perspective its not a good idea to ship things around the globe.
This is just a ten second selection, if you take your time you will find hundreds if not thousands of apps capable of handling PDF files. Im fairly sure you will find an application that suits your needs if you just lift a couple of rocks. Start by collecting a bunch of PDF files to test the different apps on.
As a matter of fact i think they do have a trademark on the word "Windows". In court that would not stand for long and should this guy had challenged Microsoft i think they would have rather pony up the dough than loose their trademark. This is evident since Microsoft gladly settled the dispute with Lindows about it rather than go to court.
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From my point of view this really puts the blame on the comercial vendors. The fact that they only support one configuration on one specifik platform makes the OSS alternatives look much better from a customers view.
I do alter source code pretty often infact. It has been invaluable to me at work since i can find an error, fix it and continue as nothing happened. I have had problems in commercial software that hasnt been fixed for years and could do nothing.
And i suppose its possible to change the code for a small fee in Windows then? Not? STFU then.
Ofcourse RedHat cant support somebody elses code, the programmer changing the code might as well be a monkey and there is no way RedHat can magically fix things if an idiot sits down and hits the keyboard with a pillow. What you can do is send those fixes upstream and if the fixes are good it will get incorporated into the next release.
Im getting really pissed at this now. Google is not evil until they have proven themselves othervise. While Microsoft has been and continues to be drawn into court upon various charges about killing any and all competition. I havent seen that from Google yet. I feel this is but a PR war to make it look as if Google is a vivious predatory company just as Microsoft but its really a battle in vein. Until Google really does something stupid not many will believe the FUD hammered around. Its really strange that other companies isnt held up to the same saint status as google. Measure any other company like this with google and you will find google coming out ontop in most cases.
I dont mind a bit handing over my personal information to a company i can trust. Its a whole different matter to hand that information over to a predatory monopolist who stop at nothing to kill its competition and will gladly sell its soul to the devil for some money.
A move to gnome isnt that much of a fuss. You can still run KDE without any problems. The big difference from what i understand is that all apps from Novell will be coded for Gnome but they will as before work just as well under KDE. The dafault desktop is easily changed at installation time.
The only thing i think Gnome needs is a profile choice for the user. Like a couple of different gconf setting to choose from. One "Gnome" mode, one "XP" mode and perhaps an "Mac OS" mode. This would make transition much easier without letting go of what i percive as what the Gnome developers like their desktops like. This ofcourse damands easier profile handling in Linux but thats very needed anyway, I run a couple of terminal servers on linux and managing gnome or Kde profiles aint no picnick.
"I guess, though, unlike most/monkeys I need an actual reason to hate a company, not just the fact that they are big, and most people use them."
If you havent noticed/. is pretty much under seige by Microsofties and astroturfers. Not many dislike google since they have done nothing wrong yet. Except ofcourse your average MS fanboy who hates everything that MS hates. It would be a sweet task to break down the visitors IP and do some tracking. I suspect a fair number of google hating IP goes to MS VARs, partners or Redmond.
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A couple of years back the hottest job you could have was it but not anymore. The pay has gone down and the work is pretty dull and booring in many places. Apply patches, watch the consultants do all the fun stuff, reinstall some broken app since its pretty impossible to find exactly what causes things to break in Windows and so on. Its really very repetitive work where you dont really learn anything in many places.
Luckily i work as a Linux admin and get to play with my precious linux all day long. For me the work is about doing my hobby at worktime. Hadnt it been for Linux i would never set my foot on an it department. The work as an admin can be very infuriating many times with PHP's making decisions so idiotic at the micro level you just want to slap them silly.
IT is just like any other job theese days.
In my work as a network administrator i work more with Windows than i do with linux. Still after i have worked with Windows since Windows 95 and Linux since a couple of years back i still think its easier to manage linux servers. The ones having most difficulties with linux is the ones trying to use it like they was using Windows. You have to grasp the ground rules first and then linux aint hard at all. Finding an error in Linux is much easier than in Windows for eg. This is ofcourse if you dont see a reinstall as a successful error checking style. Personally i want to know why something break and how to prevent it the next time. Thats impossible with Windows from my experience.
Funny you ask, it looks like the biggest improvements is all the mimicing of *nix that is taking place like reduced rights for users and services. I suppose copying is the cincerest form of flattering.
The biggest security issue still remainging is the darkness. That is, no entity outside Microsoft has any knowledge whatsoever about what is happening behind the closed doors. For all we know it could well be thousands of unpatched but known remote holes in Windows this very day. Microsoft has a really long way to go before anyone security concious will trust them on their word.
The glibc upgrade was if i understood it correctly done instead of just compiling MySQL manually. I was boggled, why would you change glibc instead of making a fast compile? Upgrading glibc will make the whole OS and all its applications unstable, its almost as it was intentional. I have a hard time beleiving a seasoned linuxadmin would do such a stupid thing as upgrading glibc.
Its smells funny indeed.
What many of you miss to realize(Microsoft included), is that there are a large group of current Microsoft only customers that are unhappy with their current offerings. Just because someone is against Microsofts decisions doesnt meen they like Linux. Many just see Linux as a catalysator wich will free the market, push standards and make interopability more common between vendors. Its very rare with 100% Microsofts network still Microsoft refuses to support any standard that would make life for their customers easier. The constant steering towards 100% MS networks is pissing people off.
This really isnt about Linux its about making computers and their software be as standard as the internet.
No problem, just apply yourself with some integrity. Sadly this is a rarely seen trade theese days. This kid is an Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) so its not only the funding that makes it hard to see him as unbiased.
The study seemed to only compare comercial applications on the various platforms and not the alternatives. Its very common that comercial apps on Linux have poor support on Linux while the free alternatives blows most out of the water on Windows too. Its not especially hard to select a couple of apps with stellar support on Windows and SAP like support on Linux and blame Linux when the problem really lies in the lack of vendor support. Some vendors even support just one specific linux version without! any patches applied.
What care was taken in selecting applications with similar support offerings to not bias the study heavily to Microsofts advantage?
How will this differ in any way from you normal spyware and adware ridden Windows machine? They might as well just give away todays Windows for free.
Since im no Windows user this isnt for me but i suspect people are as sick of ads as i am. Showcased Firefox with flashblock for my neighbor and he was stuck instantly. He said it was like surfing on a whole other internet without all the ads, the popups and the ad/spyware. He is a windows user to the bone but one thing is for sure, his tolerance for ads are as low as Microsofts business tactics.
Firstly i think you confuse OpenLDAP with Linux. OpenLDAP runs on Windows amongst other things.
LDAP on linux isnt as hard as many think. Ive just installed Open Enterprise for the first time and i find it very easy to use and setup into a functional network. It took me two days until i had everything working, not to shabby considering most time was spent on fighting the Windows machines into submission. Skolelinux has a nice setup with LDAP thats very neat. RedHat has their offering as well wich i look forward to try later on.
The people having problems with this wont be the ones who are efficient at using computers. Expect huge retraining costs for a migration to Office 12. You can take Microsofts own calculations on how expensive a move to OO would be as a base for you calculations. Should come up with a pretty interesting result.
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What are the training costs and migrations costs with this new Office suite? If you just are about to spend some retraining costs you might as well spend it on a free alternative with no vendor lockin, especially since youre changing document format. Why lock oneself in again.
Most of my users know Office by their picture memory, they never read what the toolbars say. The change for Office 12 will be bigger than the change to OpenOffice. I suspect thats the case for most users. Its going to be fun watching Microsoft talk about costs for switching to OpenOffice and at the same time tout the virtue of migrating to Office 12, without mentioning the very same costs.
I use it as a desktop and find it very usable. Thats enough for me. Linux has never been about snagging market share wich is something many Windows jockeys has a hard time understanding. Linux success doesnt stand and fall with the number of users. If it stays at 10% so what? There should really be 10 different OS out there competing and 10% of that is pretty good.
Sad thing is you can get punished for copyright infringement by painting a building, a landmark or other things. In theory you can with this law get thrown into jail for having done your class assignment of drawing a picture of the Golden gate bridge.
As a side note, building an economy on fictional values with no coupling to the real world whatsoever will make a very unstable and dangerous market indeed. The house of cards will come tumbling down hard and ferocious.
Thats pretty much my experience of expensive software. The more it costs the more bugs and stiffness from the vendor. While i can install Apache on almost anything running a CPU i can only install some expensive software on specific hardware with tightly controlled patch revisions and with a squadron of elite consultans. It should be the other way around. SAP is scared shitless no doubt since its easier to implement many of the functions in their systems by yourself in open source than to use SAPs systems.
Exactly my opinion. Let me explain why.
The transfer from an industrial society to an IP based is purely based on the fact that the current economical system drives manual labour to countries with cheap labour costs, no unions and poor economies. When we cant have our own industry our only option in the rich countries is to put a pricetag on all our current knowledge and sell that to the emerging economies. We can have them inventing things and selling it without paying us can we. The IP market is more of a defense against the now emerging countries like China. If we cant sell goods we sell ideas, IP and culture to them.
The proper way would be to fix the system so that it isnt that much benefit in putting all the workforce abroad and keep on manufacturing our own goods. Seen from a global non economic perspective its not a good idea to ship things around the globe.
This is just a ten second selection, if you take your time you will find hundreds if not thousands of apps capable of handling PDF files. Im fairly sure you will find an application that suits your needs if you just lift a couple of rocks. Start by collecting a bunch of PDF files to test the different apps on.
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Online:
http://www.sanface.com/webpdfviewer.html
http://view.samurajdata.se/
Windows:
http://www.hsinlin.com/software/pdf.html
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
http://www.cadkas.de/downengpdf5.php
http://www.freewarehome.com/Business_and_Producti
http://www.tucows.com/downloads/Windows/DesignToo
I have an idea. The Goatse picture should paint "open" in a very graphic manner. Change the icon!
As a matter of fact i think they do have a trademark on the word "Windows". In court that would not stand for long and should this guy had challenged Microsoft i think they would have rather pony up the dough than loose their trademark. This is evident since Microsoft gladly settled the dispute with Lindows about it rather than go to court.
From my point of view this really puts the blame on the comercial vendors. The fact that they only support one configuration on one specifik platform makes the OSS alternatives look much better from a customers view.
I do alter source code pretty often infact. It has been invaluable to me at work since i can find an error, fix it and continue as nothing happened. I have had problems in commercial software that hasnt been fixed for years and could do nothing.
And i suppose its possible to change the code for a small fee in Windows then? Not? STFU then.
Ofcourse RedHat cant support somebody elses code, the programmer changing the code might as well be a monkey and there is no way RedHat can magically fix things if an idiot sits down and hits the keyboard with a pillow. What you can do is send those fixes upstream and if the fixes are good it will get incorporated into the next release.
Im getting really pissed at this now. Google is not evil until they have proven themselves othervise. While Microsoft has been and continues to be drawn into court upon various charges about killing any and all competition. I havent seen that from Google yet. I feel this is but a PR war to make it look as if Google is a vivious predatory company just as Microsoft but its really a battle in vein. Until Google really does something stupid not many will believe the FUD hammered around. Its really strange that other companies isnt held up to the same saint status as google. Measure any other company like this with google and you will find google coming out ontop in most cases.
I dont mind a bit handing over my personal information to a company i can trust. Its a whole different matter to hand that information over to a predatory monopolist who stop at nothing to kill its competition and will gladly sell its soul to the devil for some money.
Woa man those drugs are bad for you.
A move to gnome isnt that much of a fuss. You can still run KDE without any problems. The big difference from what i understand is that all apps from Novell will be coded for Gnome but they will as before work just as well under KDE. The dafault desktop is easily changed at installation time.
The only thing i think Gnome needs is a profile choice for the user. Like a couple of different gconf setting to choose from. One "Gnome" mode, one "XP" mode and perhaps an "Mac OS" mode. This would make transition much easier without letting go of what i percive as what the Gnome developers like their desktops like. This ofcourse damands easier profile handling in Linux but thats very needed anyway, I run a couple of terminal servers on linux and managing gnome or Kde profiles aint no picnick.
"I guess, though, unlike most /monkeys I need an actual reason to hate a company, not just the fact that they are big, and most people use them."
/. is pretty much under seige by Microsofties and astroturfers. Not many dislike google since they have done nothing wrong yet. Except ofcourse your average MS fanboy who hates everything that MS hates. It would be a sweet task to break down the visitors IP and do some tracking. I suspect a fair number of google hating IP goes to MS VARs, partners or Redmond.
If you havent noticed