I was about to correct you on the Outlook CAL requirement for Exchange, but nope, your right. All versions prior to Exchange 2007 included Outlook CALs so that you had some software to connect to the server. Apparently, this isn't correct any longer unless you had Software Assurance on your Exchange server.
Now, normally any larger client has an EA (Enterprise Agreement) and negotiates a standard per user CAL which would include whatever of the backoffice components are required (SQL server, Exchange, Host Access Server, Windows, Terminal Services etc) as well as any office components (Sharepoint, Office 2007, Communicator) but still, for smaller shops who just use Exchange and Windows server to run it on, it's a bit nuts. Quite ridiculous actually. I know a few businesses that don't use Office, as their business doesn't use it, they use web interfaces. One who I think of doesn't have office at all, they again use web interfaces to order entry and customer management, Oracle apps for their workflow, accounting and picking lines, and Outlook for their email.
They have Open Office for the odd time that they have to open stuff, but for 90% of their users, they don't go near it.
Customers like this, with a couple of hundred employees would have just been screwed by this one.
Having just come back from there, I was suprised at the lack of GPS devices in cars etc. Aside from the size of the gap between the rich and poor, GPS devices are banned from cars because of questions over their intelligence.
If you have seen Cairo, having a GPS doesn't mean you can drive on the roads or even go in the right direction, having a death wish or a lot of faith in God / Allah does.
I don't have a single piece of paper since I left high school. I do have 12 years work experience though. What you are saying is complete and utter crap. I work in Europe now, having started in Australia. I know people from the US that would hire me in a heartbeat if I ever even suggested that I would be interested in coming over there. Degree or not, they don't care.
So, quite simply, yes, it's possible to get a great job in this industry without one, you just have to have the work experience behind you. If you don't have the work experience, you just have to work hard. Do that and you will get pushed up the ladder faster than anyone with a degree, or alternatively, if you want to change jobs (Sysadmin to networking or to security) it's easy.
The only benefit I have seen to having a degree is actually to pass immigration in different countries.
Yes and no, as you stated, they did put Linux on the PS2 but it really didn't take off.
Linux is getting there, but it's not there yet. Mark Shuttleworth even said a while ago that Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
People want things to be the same between their computers, it's easy for us, as we keep hunting, we get determined till we find an answer. The typical user doesn't think like this. They think "The bold button isn't in the same place, or it's a different icon, it must be broken". So Timmy is going to be harassing his parents as things aren't the same (Take this with a pinch of salt as kids seem to pick up Linux better than adults. They grew up with more tech) or otherwise Sony is going to think "Who is going to support it?". My personal opinion would be that they should just go through and put Linux on the PS3 and pay someone to maintain a distribution for them and just see who picks it up as they go through and explore the unit.
Regarding Linux deployment and market share: I am hoping with the way that the market is going, if people get into a crunch that Linux will move from Wall St to Main St. The cost of the platform for things like POS (Point of Sale, think combined cost of good FTP servers, database servers, messaging) that people will move development to Linux for specific tasks. This is where Linux / OSS got it's foot in the door to large business in the first place, by providing some small stuff very well, and as the software grew and matured, that it started taking larger and larger tasks within the business. Looking at what happens within financial markets now, a lot of people are using Linux in place of typical Unixes for database servers, applications servers and the rest. The fact that the platform itself (x86) is cheaper than the others due to competition and more mass manufacture helps a lot.
I appreciate the theory, but there are people out there with a vested interest in the PC platform (iD, EA, Activision etc etc) if DirectX was dropped, you think these people are going to just let their investment fade? No, my bet would be that they would latch onto the closest thing available (OpenGL) and help develop that to the point where it delivers what they need to be able to continue to make money.
I hate to add to what I think is flamebait, but....
Microsoft saw the PS2, and was concerned that Sony was going to get the "Gateway to the lounge room" or whatever it was that they were thinking at the time. They were concerned that they were going to lose out to Sony in regards to a market they didn't know about. They started looking and realised that they could make money from it. Gaming in the lounge room has always been a large industry, and with the addition of the Wii it has become larger as they now have casual gamers added in there too.
So, it was just another business venture, and MS knowing that they were behind decided to buy their way in. It wasn't that they wanted to kill off the PC gaming area, if that's really what they wanted to do they wouldn't have come up with DX10 or maintained DirectX full stop, they would just drop it and let it wither and die. The only problem with that would have been the competition from OpenGL that would have eventually caught up to the position DirectX was in (In regards to graphics) and that would be a threat they don't want. Simply it would just be easier to keep supporting the DirectX platform and have fingers in both pies.
Besides, they want to keep their monopoly on the OS business (Remember what everyone calls the MS tax?) if they let games die off, they would lose market share to Linux as there are a number of people who would keep Windows around to play games.
Absolutely nothing for the PC gaming sections of stores. Absolutely correct, they aren't doing anything, it's a simple business decision, they aren't making any money from it. Why burn money on a platform that you aren't getting anything from?
PC gaming was one of the major reasons DOS/Windows became so popular because all the IT guys in companies wanted to work on the same systems at work that they had at home Actually the PC platform was for business first, and the IT guys had to learn it for work. After that then the games came about. That turned a little bit cyclic as one of the reasons I got into IT was because of gaming, and learning the platform because of games.
I am not usually one for hacking into MS, I have worked with a number of businesses that have been quite successful using their software. On this occasion though, I have to call bullshit. The fact of the matter remains that a number of these drivers did pass WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) testing. The fact that MS *SIGNED* the steaming brown stuff de-values the program considerably.
Going back to NT4 and previous versions, there was MAJOR issues with quality of drivers, I know certain Xircom cards which would only work with very specific driver configurations as we found out places where the driver was hard coded to use specific ports and IRQs. This all changed with Windows 2000 and signed drivers.
Microsoft should have been harder in their WHQL driver certification for Vista. I know Microsoft only has a finite amount of resources, but they should have known that people were having trouble getting drivers signed and my outsider (un-informed) view is that they should have made more of an effort to work with the OEMs for drivers to work on day 1.
Avi: Shut up and sit down, you big, bald fuck. I don't like leaving my own country, Doug, and I especially don't like leaving it for anything less then warm sandy beaches, and cocktails with little straw hats.
Doug the Head: We've got sandy beaches...
Avi: So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em?
IE8? Slashdot? Promoting Microsoft? Wrong audience man
If the machine came in contact with this data, why the drives were even sold is beyond me. The drives should have been removed and run through a shredder / grinder.
Any machine that contained data or could have contained such as this should have been through a more... robust... decomissioning process.
You are flying ryan air, everything is an extra, I am suprised they don't charge to use the bathroom onboard (Having said that, they probably will now).
5 a person to rebook on your laptop, would have paid for a new laptop!
Network admins quite often scan large amount of network space especially for vulnerabilities, I know, I do it every day. Device discovery on networks for monitoring, IP address management, the list goes on.
Having bought the album etc, I can safely say that he probably did want the data. I think in all honesty what happened was that the site was getting absolutely hammered, and people who bought the album couldn't get it. Not everyone is a geek, and he was probably relying on someone else who told him "This system is bulletproof" and then he got/.ed and digged. Unfortunately, I think it was a bit of an after thought, now possibly he could have planned for it, he could have been asleep when it was released, I don't know. Given that he knows about BitTorrent etc, if he wanted it up there, he could have put it up there himself or got someone to do it (Based upon the sleeping theory). Either way, my ideas go back to "after thought"
Ever been to court? You might be waiting there for a day or more waiting to get called. If you have to fold laundry, take it, fold laundry and drop it back to the car at the next break. Read a book, listen to an iPod, anything to pass the time till you are called is probably a good thing.
I understand the point, but surely you have some kind of standards organisation. If the police have to respond to these things, why not just lean on the standards organisation to create a standard and then say to everyone "If you are calling in with a complaint, is your device certified?" Why not ban non-certified devices? Why go after the people? Why not just go after the crap that people buy?
Most handsets however, will behave as a modem, allowing you to use the handset as a 9.6k modem to call the destination number. This in the GSM world is known as a data call. I presume that something similar exists in the CDMA world.
All correct, the EDGE upgrade is a software upgrade of the 2G GSM cells in most situations, but because of the size and complexity of the networks, this can be enough of a challenge for operators not to do it as for most of the time, they don't get any money out of it.
From their point of view: "Faster access for the customer, more network utilisation for us, no more money for us, costs us money as we have to run a large project to do the upgrade.... Hmmm, how about we go do something that makes more money?"
With the iPhone release and everything else, O2 basically got pushed into doing the roll out. They figured that now they have the financial incentive to do so.
Have a hunt around for your providers. I use multiple connected to Asterisk to give myself multiple POPs (Points of Presence). This is to drop my call rate outbound as I phone different countries a lot, from there I have a DECT phone connected to a Sipura SPA-3000, the 1000 would do me now, I just had a couple of 3000s laying around, so I used them.
Sorry, I didn't put that in (I was in a rush at work) I am using G.711 for the codec, and using SIP back to my providers for signaling. All I am effectively doing is implementing multiple PSTN connections into different countries to give myself multiple POPs so that it's cheaper for people to call me, and local dial-out to drop my call rates when I dial out.
I use SIP extensively, it's an open protocol, used by Asterisk and is implemented by a heap of companies, providing a range of services in a range of countries. Skype uses their own protocol, and has low call quality. This isn't what I want to be paying for when buying services such as Skype In or Skype out.
SIP allows me to connect to networks without hassle and without problem. Half of Skype's problems that I see is the fact that they are using a closed protocol, again, the call quality is too low to be considered acceptable as well.
If they managed to fix this, I would be a lot happier to move everything onto one provider. I currently have to subscribe to three different service providers to get what I want, this means three bills, three accounts (In different countries, so different currencies as well) to manage and three times the headaches.
If they started offering a decent solution, and I would be one of the first to jump ship.
I haven't heard of insects committing suicide before, but there has been a couple that have walked under my feet as I am walking. I guess Darwin would have something to say about that....
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I was about to correct you on the Outlook CAL requirement for Exchange, but nope, your right. All versions prior to Exchange 2007 included Outlook CALs so that you had some software to connect to the server. Apparently, this isn't correct any longer unless you had Software Assurance on your Exchange server.
Now, normally any larger client has an EA (Enterprise Agreement) and negotiates a standard per user CAL which would include whatever of the backoffice components are required (SQL server, Exchange, Host Access Server, Windows, Terminal Services etc) as well as any office components (Sharepoint, Office 2007, Communicator) but still, for smaller shops who just use Exchange and Windows server to run it on, it's a bit nuts. Quite ridiculous actually. I know a few businesses that don't use Office, as their business doesn't use it, they use web interfaces. One who I think of doesn't have office at all, they again use web interfaces to order entry and customer management, Oracle apps for their workflow, accounting and picking lines, and Outlook for their email.
They have Open Office for the odd time that they have to open stuff, but for 90% of their users, they don't go near it.
Customers like this, with a couple of hundred employees would have just been screwed by this one.
Having just come back from there, I was suprised at the lack of GPS devices in cars etc. Aside from the size of the gap between the rich and poor, GPS devices are banned from cars because of questions over their intelligence.
If you have seen Cairo, having a GPS doesn't mean you can drive on the roads or even go in the right direction, having a death wish or a lot of faith in God / Allah does.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I don't have a single piece of paper since I left high school. I do have 12 years work experience though. What you are saying is complete and utter crap. I work in Europe now, having started in Australia. I know people from the US that would hire me in a heartbeat if I ever even suggested that I would be interested in coming over there. Degree or not, they don't care.
So, quite simply, yes, it's possible to get a great job in this industry without one, you just have to have the work experience behind you. If you don't have the work experience, you just have to work hard. Do that and you will get pushed up the ladder faster than anyone with a degree, or alternatively, if you want to change jobs (Sysadmin to networking or to security) it's easy.
The only benefit I have seen to having a degree is actually to pass immigration in different countries.
Where do I go on this one....
Yes and no, as you stated, they did put Linux on the PS2 but it really didn't take off.
Linux is getting there, but it's not there yet. Mark Shuttleworth even said a while ago that Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
People want things to be the same between their computers, it's easy for us, as we keep hunting, we get determined till we find an answer. The typical user doesn't think like this. They think "The bold button isn't in the same place, or it's a different icon, it must be broken". So Timmy is going to be harassing his parents as things aren't the same (Take this with a pinch of salt as kids seem to pick up Linux better than adults. They grew up with more tech) or otherwise Sony is going to think "Who is going to support it?". My personal opinion would be that they should just go through and put Linux on the PS3 and pay someone to maintain a distribution for them and just see who picks it up as they go through and explore the unit.
Regarding Linux deployment and market share: I am hoping with the way that the market is going, if people get into a crunch that Linux will move from Wall St to Main St. The cost of the platform for things like POS (Point of Sale, think combined cost of good FTP servers, database servers, messaging) that people will move development to Linux for specific tasks. This is where Linux / OSS got it's foot in the door to large business in the first place, by providing some small stuff very well, and as the software grew and matured, that it started taking larger and larger tasks within the business. Looking at what happens within financial markets now, a lot of people are using Linux in place of typical Unixes for database servers, applications servers and the rest. The fact that the platform itself (x86) is cheaper than the others due to competition and more mass manufacture helps a lot.
I appreciate the theory, but there are people out there with a vested interest in the PC platform (iD, EA, Activision etc etc) if DirectX was dropped, you think these people are going to just let their investment fade? No, my bet would be that they would latch onto the closest thing available (OpenGL) and help develop that to the point where it delivers what they need to be able to continue to make money.
I hate to add to what I think is flamebait, but....
Microsoft saw the PS2, and was concerned that Sony was going to get the "Gateway to the lounge room" or whatever it was that they were thinking at the time. They were concerned that they were going to lose out to Sony in regards to a market they didn't know about. They started looking and realised that they could make money from it. Gaming in the lounge room has always been a large industry, and with the addition of the Wii it has become larger as they now have casual gamers added in there too.
So, it was just another business venture, and MS knowing that they were behind decided to buy their way in. It wasn't that they wanted to kill off the PC gaming area, if that's really what they wanted to do they wouldn't have come up with DX10 or maintained DirectX full stop, they would just drop it and let it wither and die. The only problem with that would have been the competition from OpenGL that would have eventually caught up to the position DirectX was in (In regards to graphics) and that would be a threat they don't want. Simply it would just be easier to keep supporting the DirectX platform and have fingers in both pies.
Besides, they want to keep their monopoly on the OS business (Remember what everyone calls the MS tax?) if they let games die off, they would lose market share to Linux as there are a number of people who would keep Windows around to play games.
Absolutely nothing for the PC gaming sections of stores. Absolutely correct, they aren't doing anything, it's a simple business decision, they aren't making any money from it. Why burn money on a platform that you aren't getting anything from?
PC gaming was one of the major reasons DOS/Windows became so popular because all the IT guys in companies wanted to work on the same systems at work that they had at home Actually the PC platform was for business first, and the IT guys had to learn it for work. After that then the games came about. That turned a little bit cyclic as one of the reasons I got into IT was because of gaming, and learning the platform because of games.
I am not usually one for hacking into MS, I have worked with a number of businesses that have been quite successful using their software. On this occasion though, I have to call bullshit. The fact of the matter remains that a number of these drivers did pass WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) testing. The fact that MS *SIGNED* the steaming brown stuff de-values the program considerably.
Going back to NT4 and previous versions, there was MAJOR issues with quality of drivers, I know certain Xircom cards which would only work with very specific driver configurations as we found out places where the driver was hard coded to use specific ports and IRQs. This all changed with Windows 2000 and signed drivers.
Microsoft should have been harder in their WHQL driver certification for Vista. I know Microsoft only has a finite amount of resources, but they should have known that people were having trouble getting drivers signed and my outsider (un-informed) view is that they should have made more of an effort to work with the OEMs for drivers to work on day 1.
Avi: Shut up and sit down, you big, bald fuck. I don't like leaving my own country, Doug, and I especially don't like leaving it for anything less then warm sandy beaches, and cocktails with little straw hats.
Doug the Head: We've got sandy beaches...
Avi: So? Who the fuck wants to see 'em?
IE8? Slashdot? Promoting Microsoft? Wrong audience man
If the machine came in contact with this data, why the drives were even sold is beyond me. The drives should have been removed and run through a shredder / grinder.
Any machine that contained data or could have contained such as this should have been through a more... robust... decomissioning process.
On top of that..
You are flying ryan air, everything is an extra, I am suprised they don't charge to use the bathroom onboard (Having said that, they probably will now).
5 a person to rebook on your laptop, would have paid for a new laptop!
Network admins quite often scan large amount of network space especially for vulnerabilities, I know, I do it every day. Device discovery on networks for monitoring, IP address management, the list goes on.
There is the alternative though...
http://xkcd.com/416/
That was supposed to be "The cake is a lie"
And 101 people taking the piss out of me on slashdot begins... now.
There is no cake!
Try 3, I get 200KB/s on my phone in Dublin no probs. Vodafone was useless, with 3KB/s being pretty normal for their "3G" service.
Having bought the album etc, I can safely say that he probably did want the data. I think in all honesty what happened was that the site was getting absolutely hammered, and people who bought the album couldn't get it. Not everyone is a geek, and he was probably relying on someone else who told him "This system is bulletproof" and then he got /.ed and digged. Unfortunately, I think it was a bit of an after thought, now possibly he could have planned for it, he could have been asleep when it was released, I don't know. Given that he knows about BitTorrent etc, if he wanted it up there, he could have put it up there himself or got someone to do it (Based upon the sleeping theory). Either way, my ideas go back to "after thought"
Ever been to court? You might be waiting there for a day or more waiting to get called. If you have to fold laundry, take it, fold laundry and drop it back to the car at the next break. Read a book, listen to an iPod, anything to pass the time till you are called is probably a good thing.
I understand the point, but surely you have some kind of standards organisation. If the police have to respond to these things, why not just lean on the standards organisation to create a standard and then say to everyone "If you are calling in with a complaint, is your device certified?" Why not ban non-certified devices? Why go after the people? Why not just go after the crap that people buy?
Most handsets however, will behave as a modem, allowing you to use the handset as a 9.6k modem to call the destination number. This in the GSM world is known as a data call. I presume that something similar exists in the CDMA world.
All correct, the EDGE upgrade is a software upgrade of the 2G GSM cells in most situations, but because of the size and complexity of the networks, this can be enough of a challenge for operators not to do it as for most of the time, they don't get any money out of it.
From their point of view: "Faster access for the customer, more network utilisation for us, no more money for us, costs us money as we have to run a large project to do the upgrade.... Hmmm, how about we go do something that makes more money?"
With the iPhone release and everything else, O2 basically got pushed into doing the roll out. They figured that now they have the financial incentive to do so.
Have a hunt around for your providers. I use multiple connected to Asterisk to give myself multiple POPs (Points of Presence). This is to drop my call rate outbound as I phone different countries a lot, from there I have a DECT phone connected to a Sipura SPA-3000, the 1000 would do me now, I just had a couple of 3000s laying around, so I used them.
Sorry, I didn't put that in (I was in a rush at work) I am using G.711 for the codec, and using SIP back to my providers for signaling. All I am effectively doing is implementing multiple PSTN connections into different countries to give myself multiple POPs so that it's cheaper for people to call me, and local dial-out to drop my call rates when I dial out.
True, for the record (I did put it in a post above) I am doing 64K uncomressed calls using G.711.
I codec I use is 64K uncompressed, so yes, my call quality is equivalent to a land line.
I use SIP extensively, it's an open protocol, used by Asterisk and is implemented by a heap of companies, providing a range of services in a range of countries. Skype uses their own protocol, and has low call quality. This isn't what I want to be paying for when buying services such as Skype In or Skype out.
SIP allows me to connect to networks without hassle and without problem. Half of Skype's problems that I see is the fact that they are using a closed protocol, again, the call quality is too low to be considered acceptable as well.
If they managed to fix this, I would be a lot happier to move everything onto one provider. I currently have to subscribe to three different service providers to get what I want, this means three bills, three accounts (In different countries, so different currencies as well) to manage and three times the headaches.
If they started offering a decent solution, and I would be one of the first to jump ship.
Berny
I haven't heard of insects committing suicide before, but there has been a couple that have walked under my feet as I am walking. I guess Darwin would have something to say about that....