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I worked for a university as a sys admin for awhile. Since most computers are basically the same in certain areas... I would use ghost. Even if you have to create a ghost image of every pc or generic pc image (example student lab pc). Then once that is done, I would zap all machines for length of audit except for ones that absolutely have to be accessable (finance mainframe, etc) or you can prove are absolutely compliant. If all machines are zapped, audit shouldn't last long:) Then after audit. Re-Image the PC back. Bet that would be a cheaper solution than legal recourse or installing their crapware. Presuming a legal copy of Ghost of course.:)
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Sony having real problems selling the PS1 at any sort of profit. I also seem to remember that the PS1 had a very complicated/expensive IDE at the time. There was even some doubt as to the future of the PS1. Then people started making games for it. It all comes down to the games. How many average console consumers plan to use HDTV or 5 channel dolby surround sound? Maybe 10%. If the games are crap, the console is crap. I have a gamecube myself, and I bemoan the lack of real games but plan to wait. Don't discount the fact that the whole situation could turn around if MS holds on for a year or two. Then we'll all have toasters and refrigerators giving us blue screens of death and reporting our eating habits back to the continuum.
I will concur with that. I have seen two different companies try to make interwoven work, just to have it cost a lot of money, take a lot of time, and end up "re-creating" the system in ASP/VB instead of the horrible job of PERL coding it comes with
this is the most idiotic answer I have ever seen on slashdot. All it would take would be any financial organization (this includes more than "banks") and any government or law enforcement agency to determine under very loose guidelines who should be watched. Given current technology and trends this could end up being most of us for some arbitrary reason or another. George Washington was a terrorist in his day. I'm not saying he was evil, just that to his government (British Empire) he fostered rebellion. This is a tremendous amount of power to hand a few people who are supposed to be representatives of the people not a ruling class with near omnipotent power. I am very conservative but we should never forgot that our government is not a ruling body but a governing one. Remember mccarthyism and the internment of japanese americans during the later part of WWII before making such inane statements.
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I worked for a university as a sys admin for awhile. Since most computers are basically the same in certain areas... I would use ghost. Even if you have to create a ghost image of every pc or generic pc image (example student lab pc). Then once that is done, I would zap all machines for length of audit except for ones that absolutely have to be accessable (finance mainframe, etc) or you can prove are absolutely compliant. If all machines are zapped, audit shouldn't last long :) Then after audit. Re-Image the PC back. Bet that would be a cheaper solution than legal recourse or installing their crapware. Presuming a legal copy of Ghost of course. :)
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Sony having real problems selling the PS1 at any sort of profit. I also seem to remember that the PS1 had a very complicated/expensive IDE at the time. There was even some doubt as to the future of the PS1. Then people started making games for it. It all comes down to the games. How many average console consumers plan to use HDTV or 5 channel dolby surround sound? Maybe 10%. If the games are crap, the console is crap. I have a gamecube myself, and I bemoan the lack of real games but plan to wait. Don't discount the fact that the whole situation could turn around if MS holds on for a year or two. Then we'll all have toasters and refrigerators giving us blue screens of death and reporting our eating habits back to the continuum.
I will concur with that. I have seen two different companies try to make interwoven work, just to have it cost a lot of money, take a lot of time, and end up "re-creating" the system in ASP/VB instead of the horrible job of PERL coding it comes with
remember the income tax laws of the 30's were supposed to be temporary. Doesn't seem so temporary now.
this is the most idiotic answer I have ever seen on slashdot. All it would take would be any financial organization (this includes more than "banks") and any government or law enforcement agency to determine under very loose guidelines who should be watched. Given current technology and trends this could end up being most of us for some arbitrary reason or another. George Washington was a terrorist in his day. I'm not saying he was evil, just that to his government (British Empire) he fostered rebellion. This is a tremendous amount of power to hand a few people who are supposed to be representatives of the people not a ruling class with near omnipotent power. I am very conservative but we should never forgot that our government is not a ruling body but a governing one. Remember mccarthyism and the internment of japanese americans during the later part of WWII before making such inane statements.