Oddly enough, the "Will It Blend" video for SuSE has disappeared from the site. That's a bummer, since it was the best video clip from BrainShare 2007! You can still find it out on YouTube, fortunately.... There is a great one-liner about end users in there!
I hear that... My team installed that damn IntelliAdmin patch on over 100 Windows 2000 servers back in January, and it looks like most of them didn't update their clocks this morning. Almost all of those servers were rebooted when the patch was installed, too, since our server room had scheduled downtime for a planned power outage a few weeks ago.
I guess that I can't complain too loudly, though. The patch was free, and we got what we paid for.
Speaking of jobs with military background, I hear that Haliburton still needs a bunch of contractors with IT skills in Iraq. The hazard pay is probably great, but that might be a little TOO much excitement for you.
Ferrari caters to the uber-wealthy and their products aren't supposed to have high sales volume and mass market appeal. The same cannot be said for Apple.
Besides... Car analogy's never to work that well with technology anyway.
Thanks to this guy, IBM management is probably going to have to make stricter guidelines stating what you can and can't view online while you're at work. I bet that will piss off a ton of employees!
The last game that Will Wright tried like this was SimEarth, which also covered the full timespan of evolution from single cells to space fairing civilizations. Most people thought that it was overly tedious, though, and wasn't all that fun to play. I hope that he doesn't make the same mistakes this time!
Why can't movie studios come up with plans this ingenious for robbing a bank? The last bank robbing movie I saw involved some terrorist types kidnapping the head of bank security and having him steal the account numbers with a wacky device made out of scanner module from a fax machine and the hard drive from an iPod Mini.
HTML mail annoys me as well... I block images from most incoming mail by default as an anti-spam measure, so fancy HTML formatted messages like this end up looking like crap when I open them. I wish that these "e-mail designers" would give their users an choice between plain text and HTML messages before sending us junk mail!
Reading the stories of those retired millionaires, it sounds like Google is slowly turning into another big bureaucratic tech company like IBM or Microsoft. Stories about suits roaming the hallways and ingenious ideas for server consolidation being shot down due to risk doesn't exactly make me feel enthusiastic about the companies future.
I just hope that Google's management is careful about managing it's growth, and doesn't allow the bean counters to take over and end the era of free gourmet lunches and time for creative side projects.
There were a bunch of security patches released after the Rollup, so you need to install those as well. IE 5 isn't supported anymore, either, so you might want to upgrade to IE 6 for those few sites that don't work right with Firefox.
Now that the next version of Windows has been announced, I think that Slashdot should start taking wagers on the ACTUAL release date. Profit from Microsoft's ability to ship an OS on time!
Anyway, I'll start the pool by putting $5 on October 12th, 2010. Any other takers?:)
Yeah, I could imagine an RIAA/MPAA lawsuit coming out of this. They seem to go after practically ANY device that allows folks to share and copy files from more than one computer. Hell... If the modem was invented today, they would probably sue the inventor of that as well.
Not only that, but most "normal" people aren't really interested in changing their operating system. I got sick of hearing my Dad complain about how much Windows XP sucked, so I gave him a Red Hat Linux distribution for Christmas along with the other gifts that he asked for a few years ago. Even though I offered to help him with the installation, I doubt that he even cracked open the jewel case on those CD's. Some people are just more comfortable with the devil they know, I guess.
Exactly. Companies like Sun and Oracle have been preaching the gospel of the "Network Computer" since 1996. Ten years later, very few people are using smart terminal environments at work, and even fewer people are using them at home. The cost advantage over cheap PC's still isn't there yet, and there are still network reliability issues.
Considering that HardOCP's web site has been covered with those obnoxiously animated KillerNIC ads for the past three months, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they "tweaked" their testing methods in order to come up with a favorable opinion of the card.
People have already been giving Kyle Bennett a hard time about those ads already, so I'm surprised that he escalated the issue even further by being one of the few hardware review sites to give it a positive review. I can only imagine how many "HardOCP sells out!" style editorials are going to come out of this decision.
Terminal Services licensing is pretty easy to bypass, which is good because my customers have a bad habit of losing the license keys that they paid for. Windows 2000 works on the honor system, so that's a non-issue. For Windows Server 2003, just set the terminal server to check users instead of machines, since user licenses are not tracked.
The results for "spreadsheet" are kinda fishy, though... Both the top three search links and the top sponsor links are for Google's spreadsheet product, and I don't see ANY links to Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet sites on the first page of results. Considering that Excel is the dominant spreadsheet product (for better or worse), doesn't it seem odd that it didn't it was excluded?
Last I heard, millions of people were still using tapes for backup. Up until very recently, they were a cheaper archival medium than disks, and they're still more durable and easily stored off-site.
This would be a great idea if Windows power management actually worked half decently. A lot of the Windows XP machines that I worked with crash when you put them into standby mode, and even more of them will not come back out of standby without an application hanging or a hardware device disappearing from the hardware profile until you reboot the system. I'm not sure if it's a problem with Windows itself or with the drivers that manufacturers are releasing (probably a mix of both), but it's certainly not something that I could rely on if I had open applications running when I was away from my desk.
I have a hunch that this blogger is a Mac user, and hasn't experienced how bad Windows power management can be. My Mac Mini comes in and out of sleep mode without any problems (as long as I don't have my HP printer plugged into it), but that's a lot easier for Apple to do considering that they more control as to what hardware and software goes on their systems.
Not to mention that you needed to download and reinstall Firefox in 1.0.x versions in order to get the latest security patches. They fixed that in version 1.5, but I'm sure that all of those downloads got counted as well.
Well Duh... It's Forbes! Forbes seems to hate everything about the Free Software movement, mostly since they haven't figured out how to profit from it yet. I guess that you can't blame them... When was the last time you saw Debian or MySQL buy full page ads in business magazines like Microsoft and Oracle do every month?
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I'm wondering that as well. It it was a relatively small amount (under $50,000), it would be worthwhile just from the PR advertising value alone.
Oddly enough, the "Will It Blend" video for SuSE has disappeared from the site. That's a bummer, since it was the best video clip from BrainShare 2007! You can still find it out on YouTube, fortunately.... There is a great one-liner about end users in there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NeR2LyILWQ
If you looked at any of my Windows 2000 servers, they would say that it hasn't happened yet. :-)
Damned "unofficial" Windows 2000 DST patch...
I hear that... My team installed that damn IntelliAdmin patch on over 100 Windows 2000 servers back in January, and it looks like most of them didn't update their clocks this morning. Almost all of those servers were rebooted when the patch was installed, too, since our server room had scheduled downtime for a planned power outage a few weeks ago.
I guess that I can't complain too loudly, though. The patch was free, and we got what we paid for.
Speaking of jobs with military background, I hear that Haliburton still needs a bunch of contractors with IT skills in Iraq. The hazard pay is probably great, but that might be a little TOO much excitement for you.
Ferrari caters to the uber-wealthy and their products aren't supposed to have high sales volume and mass market appeal. The same cannot be said for Apple.
Besides... Car analogy's never to work that well with technology anyway.
Thanks to this guy, IBM management is probably going to have to make stricter guidelines stating what you can and can't view online while you're at work. I bet that will piss off a ton of employees!
The last game that Will Wright tried like this was SimEarth, which also covered the full timespan of evolution from single cells to space fairing civilizations. Most people thought that it was overly tedious, though, and wasn't all that fun to play. I hope that he doesn't make the same mistakes this time!
Why can't movie studios come up with plans this ingenious for robbing a bank? The last bank robbing movie I saw involved some terrorist types kidnapping the head of bank security and having him steal the account numbers with a wacky device made out of scanner module from a fax machine and the hard drive from an iPod Mini.
HTML mail annoys me as well... I block images from most incoming mail by default as an anti-spam measure, so fancy HTML formatted messages like this end up looking like crap when I open them. I wish that these "e-mail designers" would give their users an choice between plain text and HTML messages before sending us junk mail!
Reading the stories of those retired millionaires, it sounds like Google is slowly turning into another big bureaucratic tech company like IBM or Microsoft. Stories about suits roaming the hallways and ingenious ideas for server consolidation being shot down due to risk doesn't exactly make me feel enthusiastic about the companies future.
I just hope that Google's management is careful about managing it's growth, and doesn't allow the bean counters to take over and end the era of free gourmet lunches and time for creative side projects.
More expensive than a Blackberry. Requires a two year Cingular service contract. Lame. :)
There were a bunch of security patches released after the Rollup, so you need to install those as well. IE 5 isn't supported anymore, either, so you might want to upgrade to IE 6 for those few sites that don't work right with Firefox.
Now that the next version of Windows has been announced, I think that Slashdot should start taking wagers on the ACTUAL release date. Profit from Microsoft's ability to ship an OS on time!
:)
Anyway, I'll start the pool by putting $5 on October 12th, 2010. Any other takers?
"Why do you think that US copyright laws apply to Russian businesses?"
I'm referring to the RIAA 1.65 Trillion dollar lawsuit against AllofMP3, of course.
Yeah, I could imagine an RIAA/MPAA lawsuit coming out of this. They seem to go after practically ANY device that allows folks to share and copy files from more than one computer. Hell... If the modem was invented today, they would probably sue the inventor of that as well.
Not only that, but most "normal" people aren't really interested in changing their operating system. I got sick of hearing my Dad complain about how much Windows XP sucked, so I gave him a Red Hat Linux distribution for Christmas along with the other gifts that he asked for a few years ago. Even though I offered to help him with the installation, I doubt that he even cracked open the jewel case on those CD's. Some people are just more comfortable with the devil they know, I guess.
Exactly. Companies like Sun and Oracle have been preaching the gospel of the "Network Computer" since 1996. Ten years later, very few people are using smart terminal environments at work, and even fewer people are using them at home. The cost advantage over cheap PC's still isn't there yet, and there are still network reliability issues.
Considering that HardOCP's web site has been covered with those obnoxiously animated KillerNIC ads for the past three months, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they "tweaked" their testing methods in order to come up with a favorable opinion of the card.
People have already been giving Kyle Bennett a hard time about those ads already, so I'm surprised that he escalated the issue even further by being one of the few hardware review sites to give it a positive review. I can only imagine how many "HardOCP sells out!" style editorials are going to come out of this decision.
Terminal Services licensing is pretty easy to bypass, which is good because my customers have a bad habit of losing the license keys that they paid for. Windows 2000 works on the honor system, so that's a non-issue. For Windows Server 2003, just set the terminal server to check users instead of machines, since user licenses are not tracked.
The results for "spreadsheet" are kinda fishy, though... Both the top three search links and the top sponsor links are for Google's spreadsheet product, and I don't see ANY links to Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet sites on the first page of results. Considering that Excel is the dominant spreadsheet product (for better or worse), doesn't it seem odd that it didn't it was excluded?
Last I heard, millions of people were still using tapes for backup. Up until very recently, they were a cheaper archival medium than disks, and they're still more durable and easily stored off-site.
This would be a great idea if Windows power management actually worked half decently. A lot of the Windows XP machines that I worked with crash when you put them into standby mode, and even more of them will not come back out of standby without an application hanging or a hardware device disappearing from the hardware profile until you reboot the system. I'm not sure if it's a problem with Windows itself or with the drivers that manufacturers are releasing (probably a mix of both), but it's certainly not something that I could rely on if I had open applications running when I was away from my desk.
I have a hunch that this blogger is a Mac user, and hasn't experienced how bad Windows power management can be. My Mac Mini comes in and out of sleep mode without any problems (as long as I don't have my HP printer plugged into it), but that's a lot easier for Apple to do considering that they more control as to what hardware and software goes on their systems.
Not to mention that you needed to download and reinstall Firefox in 1.0.x versions in order to get the latest security patches. They fixed that in version 1.5, but I'm sure that all of those downloads got counted as well.
Well Duh... It's Forbes! Forbes seems to hate everything about the Free Software movement, mostly since they haven't figured out how to profit from it yet. I guess that you can't blame them... When was the last time you saw Debian or MySQL buy full page ads in business magazines like Microsoft and Oracle do every month?