But try Skype. It works on Linux and Windows, its basically like an IM program, Skype to Skype calls are free, you can IM other Skype users (its got all the basic IM features you see on a IM program), sound quality is about that of a cell phone, and computer to POTS calls aren't just cheap, their extra geeky.
I've been doing a lot of research for the past 2 day and the Wisip phones are what your talking about. I've been drooling ever since I saw it.
Since SIP phones seem to be pretty damn cool (open standards, I guess companies like Lingo and Packet8 use proprietary hardware which can spell limited choices and hardware lock-in) Wisip phones seem to be the way to go (it helps that they've got that tech-fetishist look going on too!).
An added bonus of using a SIP based service is you can use plain old computer hardware to connect too, which means even if you don't have the extra change for the Wisip, you can schlep your laptop with you and when you plug it into a (broadband) network you can access your phone, make calls, etc.
I don't know anything about any of that though, because I just started doing research. Maybe someone can jump in, I'm curious how well (or not) this all works.
So far my favorite company seems to be BroadVoice. Anyone have any experience? Is Vonage SIP based?
But I have a stumble blog account I use to photoblog, I photoblog art/images from around the web that I like. I'd hate to bore someone with incidental images of my own (I'm no photographer!) but photo/image blogging can be fun (to do) and fun to view if you find someone with taste you find interesting.
Mine in particular includes particularly racy pictures, so if you see my link and are at work/offended/etc don't click it.
This appears to be one of those questions that doesn't get answers. How about Linux based authentication schemes? If I have a FreeBSD/Mac OSX/BeOS/Win32/Linux workstation can I log into "the network" using a Linux server for authentication? Can a single authentication server work in tandem with secondary servers and can they be configured to replicate any users accounts/configuration I set up on the first one?
I hear a lot of blurbs about the exchange server and it seems like Linux has support for most (all?) of the important features, what distro take advantage of that? Do any include decent configuration tools?
I know Linux has made some big headway into corporate business and since I'm going to be trying to make a career out of this stuff any insight would really be appreciated.
And of course the fun ones, like tht and dosen't does not make you stupid any more then I'd seriously suggest that Bush is stupid simply because he sometimes (very publicly) acts that way.
But I'm curious how Linux distro's compete with Active Directory and the slew of enterprise configuration utilities available on Windows 2003 Server?
I'm a full time Linux user, but as a workstation doesn't require these types of tools I've never actually come across them before.
To be honest, in my Windows server classes I've been pretty impressed with some of their enterprise solutions. Considering, for the forseeable future, we'll be developing networking around mainly Windows clients whats Linux got to compete or outdo Windows on the controller end?
I'd guess Suse is going to have the best chance, if Novell really tosses everything they had going in Netware into making Suse Enterprise a competative product. I'd be curious to hear what Linux admins are doing in the real world.
Does Linux have a serious enterprise grade alternative?
I've been using Linux since the late 90's and I do remember, back in the day, support for almost any hardware could be a real pain. But that was years ago.
For video I believe *both* Nvidia and ATI are supported. Personally I've been using Nvidia cards the whole time, XFree86/Xorg goes so far as to include a 2D video driver but NVidia makes their closed driver available and updates it about as frequently as their Win32/64 counterparts. For that matter I'm working right now on a Mandrake 10 amd64 system with the 64 bit drivers installed and working great.
With sound I've used Soundblaster for ages (since I finally upgraded my Monster Sound Aureal based card) and I've never had trouble with getting sound to work. And for that matter, its been years since I've actually had to do anything myself to get it working (god bless hardware autodetection!).
The only screwy issue I can think of is pc builders should probably take the trouble to preinstall the Nvidia drivers (I'd hope they do) so Linux new comers don't have to jump right in (if you've ever done it, you know its not hard, but its a new way of doing things..so..:)).
I can say in complete confidence, hot offices kill productivity too. Aside from making staff miserable, it also makes it...you guessed it, hard to stay awake! Yay!
Personally, having grown up in the North West I'd take a cold office over a hot office any day. I don't mind wearing a sweater or a parka or whatever, but bosses tend to get kind of wierd when you start stripping down to your skivvies.:)
Just keep in mind Xandros (or whoever) isn't Linux and couldn't possibly be. I don't think your cathedral comment holds weight if you think about the thousands of hackers/developers working across the globe that enabled Xandros to do their beta. It boggles my mind when I think of how much work goes into any distro and I'm not even talking about the work done creating the actuall distro! Beta indeed!:)
Beta is when you CVS into the developers site, download; configure; make; make install and then take the time to politely post feedback about any tweaking you might have had to do to get the stuff to work on your system. And it can be a lot of fun (and sometimes you might have an idea that the developers decides might actually be a good idea and it get implemented).
And for what it's worth I did read the book, years ago. Most of these guys aren't as anti business as you might think they are. The idea being, even after the vendors have lost interest (if they ever do) we still have all the code. The Bazaar doesn't need the cathedral.
Not to mention the way the state are going to try to jump in and bleed the industry with state-level regulation (taxation). On the one hand states (if no federal regulation exists) will be taking TONS of complaints (who are you going to turn to?) as less reputable companies try to cash in on VOIP and on the other you'll have politicians eyeing VOIP as an untapped source of new revenue (or old telcom tax replacement, whatever).
I was with you right up until you said penalties. How many work environments will let the IT department waste time and valuable (well, sometimes) resources with petty penalties? I'm all for limiting what a user can do, after that its just them and god (and their boss of course).:)
But how about just locking the systems down? I worked for a small business (I know that doesn't really translate to 2000 users) and we (I) used GS98 to secure our Windows 98 clients (again, I know, they are out of business and no-one should be using 98 by now anyway). This worked pretty good, we had desk staff sitting on them at least 17 hours a day 365 days a year, checking their email, everything you don't want them to do. But they couldn't access settings (no, not even custom desktops, I'm *that* mean) and they couldn't install software on their own.
It made a little more work for me. There was no walking them through the steps to fix something over the phone (almost any administrative stuff required a password). But every time I had to come by and do work on one of the pc's I was amazed at..well how good they still worked.
The software I was using had multiple levels of admin login, so I could even give the ding-bat managers "special" passwords with a few extra abilities (not as if they'd ever actually configure/fix anything, but it made them feel better).
Anyhow, there must be something like this with Windows XP (or for it) and I don't see any reason that wouldn't fix 99% of your problems.
Since I'm currently a networking student I'd be really curious what people in industry really do do (I'm not sure we'll actually be covering that in my education!).
For the record, I know circumventing GS98 is trivial. I wouldn't have deployed it if I didn't try breaking it first myself (simplest way was to rename an executable to any application on your allowed list). But that *never* came up with my users.;)
This is simple copyright violation. So a gross abuse of a GPL product would probably involve someone profiting off it. And then, hopefully, a law suit and monetary damages. Building a business and losing your assets because you violated someones copyright can't be *that* attractive a deal.
Just hot air. Microsoft has already lost too much trust even in the eyes of mainstream media to pull something like this off. Media would have a field day with this and I'm sure even Microsoft knows that.
Isn't it nice when things like this just work! Effectively, with the disk you can rebuild a broken Windows computer if you have to. Thats job security!
1.5GHz Intel Pentium M Processor..
on
Hip-e All-In-One PC
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· Score: 0, Redundant
512MB SDRAM Memory (expandable to 2GB)
120GB Hard Drive
17" WideScreen Ultra High Res LCD (1400 x 900)
ATI Radeon 9700 graphics controller - 64MB
DVD Player/CD Burner Drive
Wireless keyboard/mouse
Firewire/USB/Built-in Ethernet
They definately need to clean up there specs pages, I had to read 2 seperate pages to get most of the useful stuff (the first is a little short). Interesting idea, looks a little shakey in its implementation though (and that price!).
He'd stop making movies on par with the Cabage Patch Kids. I'm not worried about my childhood memories, I'd really like to see him make a movie with the imagination of an adult. These dumbed down Star Wars movies have been thinner then a childrens cartoon and all the while the real world has continued grow more complex. Give me a Star Wars with characters with flaws. Something to sink my teeth into.
Last I heard write was still experiencing random failures, not that it matters for data recovery.
But I'd recommend using this to work on/repair Windows computers. You get read/write (its really just Windows, so..) and a lot of crap can be repaired with a virus/adware scan (or two). If your comfortable enough with Windows there really isn't much you can't recover from once you can read the disk (sort of a complete hardware failure).
As a side note, it also reads ext2 and 3. Handy for working on your friends dual-boot systems too.
Personally, I carry on of these and either Knoppix or an older Gentoo live disk.
As a computer networking student I'm absolutely AMAZED this hasn't gotten more attention then it has.
Under your MS stuff (I know, I know, but in industry it really is a necessary evil) you should definitely have a Windows Boot CD. And I don't mean a DOS floppy! Its basically a live, say Windows XP disk with preinstalled software (virus scan, adware removers, registry editors, complete networking setup). It really has all the tools you commonly use when fixing the obligatory windows box and probably a few you've never even known you'd need.
I highly recommend you build one, and if the directions sound a little complicated, just take your time and reread them, there's about 3 step and none of the are actually complicated.
The worst thing you can do is boot a infected PC from an infected hard drive, not to mention the trouble accessing NTFS with FULL read-write.
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But try Skype. It works on Linux and Windows, its basically like an IM program, Skype to Skype calls are free, you can IM other Skype users (its got all the basic IM features you see on a IM program), sound quality is about that of a cell phone, and computer to POTS calls aren't just cheap, their extra geeky.
I've been doing a lot of research for the past 2 day and the Wisip phones are what your talking about. I've been drooling ever since I saw it.
Since SIP phones seem to be pretty damn cool (open standards, I guess companies like Lingo and Packet8 use proprietary hardware which can spell limited choices and hardware lock-in) Wisip phones seem to be the way to go (it helps that they've got that tech-fetishist look going on too!).
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An added bonus of using a SIP based service is you can use plain old computer hardware to connect too, which means even if you don't have the extra change for the Wisip, you can schlep your laptop with you and when you plug it into a (broadband) network you can access your phone, make calls, etc.
I don't know anything about any of that though, because I just started doing research. Maybe someone can jump in, I'm curious how well (or not) this all works.
So far my favorite company seems to be BroadVoice. Anyone have any experience? Is Vonage SIP based?
Um..no?
/mnt/movies/
Seriously though, vobcopy -l -o
Thats what big drives are for (I really only hoard a few movies at any given time..)!
You represent a drop in the bucket. Background noise.
But I have a stumble blog account I use to photoblog, I photoblog art/images from around the web that I like. I'd hate to bore someone with incidental images of my own (I'm no photographer!) but photo/image blogging can be fun (to do) and fun to view if you find someone with taste you find interesting.
Mine in particular includes particularly racy pictures, so if you see my link and are at work/offended/etc don't click it.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer. I really appreciate the extra information.
This appears to be one of those questions that doesn't get answers. How about Linux based authentication schemes? If I have a FreeBSD/Mac OSX/BeOS/Win32/Linux workstation can I log into "the network" using a Linux server for authentication? Can a single authentication server work in tandem with secondary servers and can they be configured to replicate any users accounts/configuration I set up on the first one?
I hear a lot of blurbs about the exchange server and it seems like Linux has support for most (all?) of the important features, what distro take advantage of that? Do any include decent configuration tools?
I know Linux has made some big headway into corporate business and since I'm going to be trying to make a career out of this stuff any insight would really be appreciated.
Isn't that a little petty?
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inteference interference
excercise exercise
And of course the fun ones, like tht and dosen't does not make you stupid any more then I'd seriously suggest that Bush is stupid simply because he sometimes (very publicly) acts that way.
But I'm curious how Linux distro's compete with Active Directory and the slew of enterprise configuration utilities available on Windows 2003 Server?
I'm a full time Linux user, but as a workstation doesn't require these types of tools I've never actually come across them before.
To be honest, in my Windows server classes I've been pretty impressed with some of their enterprise solutions. Considering, for the forseeable future, we'll be developing networking around mainly Windows clients whats Linux got to compete or outdo Windows on the controller end?
I'd guess Suse is going to have the best chance, if Novell really tosses everything they had going in Netware into making Suse Enterprise a competative product. I'd be curious to hear what Linux admins are doing in the real world.
Does Linux have a serious enterprise grade alternative?
There are private networks and interconnected networks, but there's still only one Internet.
But its all bananna's to monkey boy.
Like a bic lighter? If your talking about a typical gas heater the only electrical element I know of would be the igniter.
I'd save the money for another rainy day project.
I've been using Linux since the late 90's and I do remember, back in the day, support for almost any hardware could be a real pain. But that was years ago.
For video I believe *both* Nvidia and ATI are supported. Personally I've been using Nvidia cards the whole time, XFree86/Xorg goes so far as to include a 2D video driver but NVidia makes their closed driver available and updates it about as frequently as their Win32/64 counterparts. For that matter I'm working right now on a Mandrake 10 amd64 system with the 64 bit drivers installed and working great.
With sound I've used Soundblaster for ages (since I finally upgraded my Monster Sound Aureal based card) and I've never had trouble with getting sound to work. And for that matter, its been years since I've actually had to do anything myself to get it working (god bless hardware autodetection!).
The only screwy issue I can think of is pc builders should probably take the trouble to preinstall the Nvidia drivers (I'd hope they do) so Linux new comers don't have to jump right in (if you've ever done it, you know its not hard, but its a new way of doing things..so..:)).
I can say in complete confidence, hot offices kill productivity too. Aside from making staff miserable, it also makes it...you guessed it, hard to stay awake! Yay!
:)
Personally, having grown up in the North West I'd take a cold office over a hot office any day. I don't mind wearing a sweater or a parka or whatever, but bosses tend to get kind of wierd when you start stripping down to your skivvies.
Just keep in mind Xandros (or whoever) isn't Linux and couldn't possibly be. I don't think your cathedral comment holds weight if you think about the thousands of hackers/developers working across the globe that enabled Xandros to do their beta. It boggles my mind when I think of how much work goes into any distro and I'm not even talking about the work done creating the actuall distro! Beta indeed! :)
Beta is when you CVS into the developers site, download; configure; make; make install and then take the time to politely post feedback about any tweaking you might have had to do to get the stuff to work on your system. And it can be a lot of fun (and sometimes you might have an idea that the developers decides might actually be a good idea and it get implemented).
And for what it's worth I did read the book, years ago. Most of these guys aren't as anti business as you might think they are. The idea being, even after the vendors have lost interest (if they ever do) we still have all the code. The Bazaar doesn't need the cathedral.
Not to mention the way the state are going to try to jump in and bleed the industry with state-level regulation (taxation). On the one hand states (if no federal regulation exists) will be taking TONS of complaints (who are you going to turn to?) as less reputable companies try to cash in on VOIP and on the other you'll have politicians eyeing VOIP as an untapped source of new revenue (or old telcom tax replacement, whatever).
I was with you right up until you said penalties. How many work environments will let the IT department waste time and valuable (well, sometimes) resources with petty penalties? I'm all for limiting what a user can do, after that its just them and god (and their boss of course). :)
But how about just locking the systems down? I worked for a small business (I know that doesn't really translate to 2000 users) and we (I) used GS98 to secure our Windows 98 clients (again, I know, they are out of business and no-one should be using 98 by now anyway). This worked pretty good, we had desk staff sitting on them at least 17 hours a day 365 days a year, checking their email, everything you don't want them to do. But they couldn't access settings (no, not even custom desktops, I'm *that* mean) and they couldn't install software on their own.
;)
It made a little more work for me. There was no walking them through the steps to fix something over the phone (almost any administrative stuff required a password). But every time I had to come by and do work on one of the pc's I was amazed at..well how good they still worked.
The software I was using had multiple levels of admin login, so I could even give the ding-bat managers "special" passwords with a few extra abilities (not as if they'd ever actually configure/fix anything, but it made them feel better).
Anyhow, there must be something like this with Windows XP (or for it) and I don't see any reason that wouldn't fix 99% of your problems.
Since I'm currently a networking student I'd be really curious what people in industry really do do (I'm not sure we'll actually be covering that in my education!).
For the record, I know circumventing GS98 is trivial. I wouldn't have deployed it if I didn't try breaking it first myself (simplest way was to rename an executable to any application on your allowed list). But that *never* came up with my users.
This is simple copyright violation. So a gross abuse of a GPL product would probably involve someone profiting off it. And then, hopefully, a law suit and monetary damages. Building a business and losing your assets because you violated someones copyright can't be *that* attractive a deal.
Just hot air. Microsoft has already lost too much trust even in the eyes of mainstream media to pull something like this off. Media would have a field day with this and I'm sure even Microsoft knows that.
Isn't it nice when things like this just work! Effectively, with the disk you can rebuild a broken Windows computer if you have to. Thats job security!
512MB SDRAM Memory (expandable to 2GB)
120GB Hard Drive
17" WideScreen Ultra High Res LCD (1400 x 900)
ATI Radeon 9700 graphics controller - 64MB
DVD Player/CD Burner Drive
Wireless keyboard/mouse
Firewire/USB/Built-in Ethernet
They definately need to clean up there specs pages, I had to read 2 seperate pages to get most of the useful stuff (the first is a little short). Interesting idea, looks a little shakey in its implementation though (and that price!).
He'd stop making movies on par with the Cabage Patch Kids. I'm not worried about my childhood memories, I'd really like to see him make a movie with the imagination of an adult. These dumbed down Star Wars movies have been thinner then a childrens cartoon and all the while the real world has continued grow more complex. Give me a Star Wars with characters with flaws. Something to sink my teeth into.
Thats what we're paid for. Sometimes small miricles.
With a vanilla client ghosting would probably be quicker anyway.
Last I heard write was still experiencing random failures, not that it matters for data recovery.
But I'd recommend using this to work on/repair Windows computers. You get read/write (its really just Windows, so..) and a lot of crap can be repaired with a virus/adware scan (or two). If your comfortable enough with Windows there really isn't much you can't recover from once you can read the disk (sort of a complete hardware failure).
As a side note, it also reads ext2 and 3. Handy for working on your friends dual-boot systems too.
Personally, I carry on of these and either Knoppix or an older Gentoo live disk.
As a computer networking student I'm absolutely AMAZED this hasn't gotten more attention then it has.
Under your MS stuff (I know, I know, but in industry it really is a necessary evil) you should definitely have a Windows Boot CD. And I don't mean a DOS floppy! Its basically a live, say Windows XP disk with preinstalled software (virus scan, adware removers, registry editors, complete networking setup). It really has all the tools you commonly use when fixing the obligatory windows box and probably a few you've never even known you'd need.
I highly recommend you build one, and if the directions sound a little complicated, just take your time and reread them, there's about 3 step and none of the are actually complicated.
The worst thing you can do is boot a infected PC from an infected hard drive, not to mention the trouble accessing NTFS with FULL read-write.