heh. Just trying the opposite of "more evil than satan". Was REALLY surprised to see Firefox there. I'm not sure I'd like to debate the theological implications of any such premise.
Remember when Telstra (Australias largest telecoms provider) went to Linux. Then it turned out they were doing it just to get a discount from MS? Hilarious. Wonder if this is the same. I can't imagine an australian government agency would use any software that doesn't contribute to the American Corporate machine. I'm sure that's illegal under John Howard.
Basically yes. You could split your high-load terminal services over two single-core single-cpu servers (pay more licences) or use just a single server with dual-core chips (effectively two cpu's). Domino (ie the lotus notes server) licence this way. It means I have to disable the hyperthreading at a bios level on my servers or pay two server licences as a single physical processor counts as two logical processors. This really blows as our standard servers come like this and you don't want to pay two licences for a small office/small server. It makes licencing more difficult and gives them more cash without providing any more value in their software. Just another reason why I want to dump notes/domino as a corporate product.
I use VNC daily for admin on a large number of servers and desktops across Europe. Regardless of VNC flavour I'd be lost without fastpush, which allows me to push a vnc install onto a machine that doesn't have it installed (or reset the password if I don't know it). It supports various VNC flavours and configurable options.
Another (though not free) app I've discovered is helpdeskvnc. This allows someone to make the connection to my server, but gives me control over their desktop. This means someone who is behind a nat/firewall can connect to a vnc server on my DMZ but I can control their machine. Which is immensely useful if they're at home behind a software firewall/broadband router and their VPN client isn't working.
I beleive in this stuff, I really do. I can't rtfa as it's/.'d currently - but we all know the content - "Install insulation, drive a fuel-efficient car". Lovely, great thought - but how do you put it into practice. I don't own a car, I make a point of not owning one but how do you convince Mr Tinyknob in his suv-sports-environment killer to drive something fuel efficient? He's never going to impress people any other way.
OK, I'm being harsh, but it's fair. I take all sorts of precautions to leave a fair planet for my (currently) 5 week old daughter, but I frequently wonder what the "£$%ing point is if the guy at the next desk drives 500 miles weekly in his V8 5litre penis extension because he's got no self esteem what-so-ever?
Definately. This is the key to good management. Most people respond to some pressure - too much and you just piss them off. Some people put too much pressure on themselves and you need to help them take some off to get the best out of them I like pressure. If there's no pressure, it's not a challenge. If it's not a challenge there's no joy in doing a good job
As someone that needs to manage techs daily this is probably the skill I'd like to be a master of - giving each my staff the right pressure for them to perform at their best. Oh, and I wish my manager would become a master of this!
Log on to the local machine rather than the domain
How is a restricted user going to create a local account?
taking the HDD home for the night works well
Never worked for a big corporation? That's pretty much illegal. They'll work out what you're doing soon enough.
Don't like it? Work somewhere else. It's their machine. Stop your bitching and get on with what you're paid to do. If they choose to turn this on and it affects your ability to work... THEIR problem. Not yours. Sorry mate, but you've clearly never hard to admin a few thousand PC's. We'll talk when you have.
Maybe a little OT, but my first real excitement of computer sound was a proper (err sound blaster 16) sound card with Escape from Castle Wolfenstein running through the hifi. The "big" sound of the machine gun was something pretty exciting back then.
Wondering what first popped the clogs of other/.'s from a PC sound experience.
Don't know about you lot, but I'm quite happy having them seperate. I've got a 15 year old swiss army knife. It's been soaked/dropped/heated and been through every other possible mistreatment and it's still great. I don't see one of these coping with that. Will 128mb still be enough space for useful storage in 15 years, will we still have USB? My way I only ever buy top quality tools and keep them many, many years. My technology I can replace whenever I like.
Good question. We all know linux is the operation system of choice for terrorists and criminals.
Sounds like those that want their imaging software to actually open and edit images will be forced into an open source solution where they could comment out protection like this (assuming it made it in there in the first place).
Fair comment. It seems every few months someone decides to sail/row/swim around the world solo. When they arse the whole thing up they expect the Australian Navy to come and rescue them, putting a boat with 400 people off course for a week.
My wife works for the NHS here in London. We dual-boot here and she finds linux too difficult. She's OK to read email and the like but installation of hardware or software is just too difficult under linux for your average NHS worker (not that they're stupid, they just know about other things).
I see it in every linux debate I read - this will only succeed when linux becomes easier to use. No more editing obscure text files or reading howto's. Things just have "to work" before people will change
(OK, things don't always "just work" in MS, but mostly it does and people need some incentive to sell them on a change like that).
Not following the reasoning here. You are completely responsible. Unless you are hacked. If the hacker is untraceable, you get off? The problem here is that you can root shedloads of boxes on the net if you can guess any of about 5 passw0rds - do your dirty work, clean up your evidence and the owner goes to jail?? Just because they're my parents and think passw0rd is a reasonable password? or apples1?
Thats true, but raid == raid it's different to having a 6 week offsite tape rotation strategy, but does protect you against a disk failure, which is what the original post wanted. I backup my servers as work, I also raid them. To me, doing both makes perfect sense.
So your suggestion is those with less money have less right to the roads. Those that choose to make less money (ethical careers, nurses, teachers and coders that choose not to work for MS/SCO) should have to wait twice as long to get where they are going.
I suggest a system where those who are creating the least congestion get a box that gives them right of way. Pedestrians and cycles first, then motorcycles, then cars in order of size.
Nice thought, but if they're planning on cutting IT costs in half, thats not ALL going to be MS licencing costs. If they do cut $750 million from their IT budget alot of that is going to come in the form for Australian IT workers (be they working for Telstra or IBM).
It isn't really a case of close enough. Using DNA they were able to track the murderer through a relative.
But the DNA evidence against him was so overwhelming that he confessed to the murder.
It's not like he was convicted based on the DNA of his relative and he IS still entitled to a fair trial. Sounds like a great case of geeky technology solving crime. Us geeks are the next crime-fighting super-heroes.
In defence of my comment,
the US just bombed the absolute "£$^ out of another country. There are two sides to the argument as to whether this was right, or not, and I won't comment on that here.
However the US now has some much bigger responsiblities. As I see it, if the US wants to bomb other countries then they need to be prepared to put their resources into rebuilding that country, not worrying about beating China/India/whoever to whichever particular goal some nasa person has decided is important this week.
Since the Aussie police have raided all the Universities and removed MP3/DivX collections they've had to turn their attention to work.
Hope noone at my company realises this.
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heh. Just trying the opposite of "more evil than satan". Was REALLY surprised to see Firefox there.
I'm not sure I'd like to debate the theological implications of any such premise.
OK. This is really freaky. Try
more evil than god and you get FIREFOX as the first result (then google, of course)
Remember when Telstra (Australias largest telecoms provider) went to Linux. Then it turned out they were doing it just to get a discount from MS?
Hilarious. Wonder if this is the same. I can't imagine an australian government agency would use any software that doesn't contribute to the American Corporate machine. I'm sure that's illegal under John Howard.
Basically yes. You could split your high-load terminal services over two single-core single-cpu servers (pay more licences) or use just a single server with dual-core chips (effectively two cpu's).
Domino (ie the lotus notes server) licence this way. It means I have to disable the hyperthreading at a bios level on my servers or pay two server licences as a single physical processor counts as two logical processors. This really blows as our standard servers come like this and you don't want to pay two licences for a small office/small server.
It makes licencing more difficult and gives them more cash without providing any more value in their software.
Just another reason why I want to dump notes/domino as a corporate product.
I use VNC daily for admin on a large number of servers and desktops across Europe. Regardless of VNC flavour I'd be lost without fastpush, which allows me to push a vnc install onto a machine that doesn't have it installed (or reset the password if I don't know it). It supports various VNC flavours and configurable options.
Another (though not free) app I've discovered is helpdeskvnc. This allows someone to make the connection to my server, but gives me control over their desktop. This means someone who is behind a nat/firewall can connect to a vnc server on my DMZ but I can control their machine. Which is immensely useful if they're at home behind a software firewall/broadband router and their VPN client isn't working.
ever want to slap someone for saying it Eff Ay Queue, rather than fack?
When will people learn?
I beleive in this stuff, I really do. /.'d currently - but we all know the content - "Install insulation, drive a fuel-efficient car". Lovely, great thought - but how do you put it into practice. I don't own a car, I make a point of not owning one but how do you convince Mr Tinyknob in his suv-sports-environment killer to drive something fuel efficient? He's never going to impress people any other way.
I can't rtfa as it's
OK, I'm being harsh, but it's fair. I take all sorts of precautions to leave a fair planet for my (currently) 5 week old daughter, but I frequently wonder what the "£$%ing point is if the guy at the next desk drives 500 miles weekly in his V8 5litre penis extension because he's got no self esteem what-so-ever?
Definately. This is the key to good management. Most people respond to some pressure - too much and you just piss them off. Some people put too much pressure on themselves and you need to help them take some off to get the best out of them
I like pressure. If there's no pressure, it's not a challenge. If it's not a challenge there's no joy in doing a good job
As someone that needs to manage techs daily this is probably the skill I'd like to be a master of - giving each my staff the right pressure for them to perform at their best.
Oh, and I wish my manager would become a master of this!
Log on to the local machine rather than the domain
How is a restricted user going to create a local account?
taking the HDD home for the night works well
Never worked for a big corporation? That's pretty much illegal. They'll work out what you're doing soon enough.
Don't like it? Work somewhere else. It's their machine. Stop your bitching and get on with what you're paid to do. If they choose to turn this on and it affects your ability to work... THEIR problem. Not yours.
Sorry mate, but you've clearly never hard to admin a few thousand PC's. We'll talk when you have.
Maybe a little OT, but my first real excitement of computer sound was a proper (err sound blaster 16) sound card with Escape from Castle Wolfenstein running through the hifi. The "big" sound of the machine gun was something pretty exciting back then.
/.'s from a PC sound experience.
Wondering what first popped the clogs of other
Don't know about you lot, but I'm quite happy having them seperate. I've got a 15 year old swiss army knife. It's been soaked/dropped/heated and been through every other possible mistreatment and it's still great. I don't see one of these coping with that.
Will 128mb still be enough space for useful storage in 15 years, will we still have USB?
My way I only ever buy top quality tools and keep them many, many years. My technology I can replace whenever I like.
Possibly. Compared to bombing another country and torturing it's inhabitants under false pretences I'd think spamming is a pretty minor offence.
and whats the big deal about being "more economical than an SUV".
Thats like being "less monopolistic than microsoft".
Good question. We all know linux is the operation system of choice for terrorists and criminals.
Sounds like those that want their imaging software to actually open and edit images will be forced into an open source solution where they could comment out protection like this (assuming it made it in there in the first place).
It's just free marketing etc. info for Microsoft
My thoughts exactly. Unless, of course, you answer with bollocks answers to make their marketing as worthless as their security.
Assuming you beleive this is a proper sanctioned MS survey not just one marketing manager making some noise (or a hoax).
Fair comment. It seems every few months someone decides to sail/row/swim around the world solo.
When they arse the whole thing up they expect the Australian Navy to come and rescue them, putting a boat with 400 people off course for a week.
My wife works for the NHS here in London. We dual-boot here and she finds linux too difficult. She's OK to read email and the like but installation of hardware or software is just too difficult under linux for your average NHS worker (not that they're stupid, they just know about other things).
I see it in every linux debate I read - this will only succeed when linux becomes easier to use. No more editing obscure text files or reading howto's. Things just have "to work" before people will change
(OK, things don't always "just work" in MS, but mostly it does and people need some incentive to sell them on a change like that).
Not following the reasoning here. You are completely responsible. Unless you are hacked. If the hacker is untraceable, you get off?
The problem here is that you can root shedloads of boxes on the net if you can guess any of about 5 passw0rds - do your dirty work, clean up your evidence and the owner goes to jail?? Just because they're my parents and think passw0rd is a reasonable password? or apples1?
Thats true, but raid == raid
it's different to having a 6 week offsite tape rotation strategy, but does protect you against a disk failure, which is what the original post wanted.
I backup my servers as work, I also raid them. To me, doing both makes perfect sense.
So your suggestion is those with less money have less right to the roads. Those that choose to make less money (ethical careers, nurses, teachers and coders that choose not to work for MS/SCO) should have to wait twice as long to get where they are going.
I suggest a system where those who are creating the least congestion get a box that gives them right of way. Pedestrians and cycles first, then motorcycles, then cars in order of size.
Nice thought, but if they're planning on cutting IT costs in half, thats not ALL going to be MS licencing costs.
If they do cut $750 million from their IT budget alot of that is going to come in the form for Australian IT workers (be they working for Telstra or IBM).
It isn't really a case of close enough. Using DNA they were able to track the murderer through a relative.
But the DNA evidence against him was so overwhelming that he confessed to the murder.
It's not like he was convicted based on the DNA of his relative and he IS still entitled to a fair trial.
Sounds like a great case of geeky technology solving crime. Us geeks are the next crime-fighting super-heroes.
In defence of my comment,
the US just bombed the absolute "£$^ out of another country. There are two sides to the argument as to whether this was right, or not, and I won't comment on that here.
However the US now has some much bigger responsiblities. As I see it, if the US wants to bomb other countries then they need to be prepared to put their resources into rebuilding that country, not worrying about beating China/India/whoever to whichever particular goal some nasa person has decided is important this week.
I don't want to be rude, but why does the US insist on racing everyone for everything?
Don't they have other things to worry about?
Since the Aussie police have raided all the Universities and removed MP3/DivX collections they've had to turn their attention to work.
Hope noone at my company realises this.