What seems particularly damning to me is the marketing materials. Perhaps there really is only one way to design a touchscreen phone. But check out this packaging comparison and then say that Samsung really only had one option to do *packaging* the way that they did.
You have to consider the whole, and on the whole, it doesn't look good.
Um. If you are on the helpdesk - unjamming printers and unfreezing outlook is your job. Your work isn't being interrupted every five minutes, but rather you are being called on to do your job every five minutes.
To be fair, in a 200 person shop, he may also be expected to do sysadmin duties as well as helpdesk. It tends to get lumped together a lot. But even as a sysadmin, your job is ultimately to serve the company and it's clients, and in a small to midsize company, that means rebooting the boss' PC every now and then. Try to take pride in the fact that you tangibly made his life slightly better.
My role in a similarly sized company is basically sysadmin without the title, so I feel for you. There are days I'd love to play with the tech and roll out cool things, and it does get annoying to handle the level 2 stuff (fortunately, I have a part-time helpdesk guy for the basics).
One tip would be to get an intern, and dump some of the support tickets on them. Honestly, I'm not sure how viable a solution that is (I'd be eager to hear others experiences), because I don't know if a CS person will want an internship like that. But maybe someone from a business background would be intrigued; you likely touch every part of the business, and there could be appeal there.
If you're interested in web development, heck, just do it! Do your own site. Do your friends' sites, though set some clear boundaries. This will get you estimating experience, and you can play with whatever strikes your fancy. Then hit up some local small businesses and do their sites. Use that experience to get your next job. A CS Masters seems like overkill for web development. I can't say I know one, but then again, see my second paragraph.:) I do know many web folk without masters, though.
The last thing I'd suggest is to get yourself involved on larger projects in the company. I don't always think to ask my helpdesk guy to help out, but I'm glad when he volunteers. This is a way to learn the tech, the business, and all those fuzzy skills that we don't think should matter but really, really do.
Yes, I imagine it's fantastically expensive to get started with the cell tower infrastructure. And yes, as soon as they become a network, Apple won't have too many mobile partners anymore.
On the other hand, Apple loves selling the whole widget. And they certainly wouldn't mind the margins on SMS. And they have a big pile of money in the bank. And they must have some decent infrastructure to handle selling the music and apps.
I'm completely ignorant on the details, but I wonder if the expiration of the AT&T exclusivity doesn't mean doesn't mean they hop to Verizon, but try to do it themselves. In theory, they could even make the iPhone 8 Xtreme hop to 802.11(x) networks. Imagine if all those Apple Base Stations got turned into microcells in a software update.
So are these crazy ramblings? Well, yes.;) But tell me why they might be true or false.
I know I'm a few days late on this, but Tessitura is seriously good if your nonprofit is arts-related. The Met Opera wrote it for themselves, and it was so good the Met spun the software off.
I'm honestly not sure how much I can say without violating NDA, but from an IT standpoint, it's pretty straightforward if you have IT staff. If you don't, then you should look into some sort of sharing/hosting arrangement.
I'm not sure how it would work if you were a social agency, though. Tessitura shines with it's ticketing integration, but that won't help much if you run, say, a women's shelter.
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If VLC counts as a popular Mac application that Apple should be responsible for, then the MOAB is going to be very easy for the researchers. All they have to do is wait for Patch Tuesday, and claim any patches to WinXP as an Apple bug! I'm sure that Parallels is a very popular application here, so it stands to reason that it's Apples fault that Parallels runs buggy code. And think of the children running Ubuntu in Parallels that unknowingly are pwned by a Tux Racer exploit!
Now if you'll excuse me, I *know* I have an asbestos suit here somewhere...:)
Very close, anyway...Mac experience, freelance tech support, crazy liberal arts degree (mine is in Theater!).
The best advice that I can offer is don't be proud about your first job. If I was starting out now, I'd find a place to do helpdesk for a decent-sized company with room for advancement. Even though my work-study job gave me 2 years of great computer support experience, I had a very difficult time getting my foot in the door for an interview. I ended up hired to do break/fix for a small support company. That was fine with me, because I figured I would learn on the job, and I did. Once you get in, if you are a competent problem-solver, you will do just fine.
Play to your strengths. My first company had a lot of advertising and marketing clients, so my Mac skills were a big plus there. If you're going to a sizable city, you should be able to find a niche on the Mac skills alone.
Finally, don't be ashamed of the psych degree! Figure out a way to make something that could be a weakness into a strength. I'm sure that you had classes that relied upon careful analysis of data; you'll use that in sysadmin jobs when you're trying to troubleshoot problems. Setting up psych experiments probably has some similarities to project management. When questioned about my degree, I cheerfully state that while I know what I'm doing technically, my people skills are even better.
I read somewhere the following about being a Systems Admin:
Systems Administation is about knowing what you know, knowing what you don't know and figuring out how to know what you don't know.....or something like that.
I believe that is the Donald Rumsfeld "known unknowns" school of SysAdmin.
I don't think so. Natural selection will lead to bears who will be able to swim farther. Eventually, these superbears and their powerful legs will be able to rip our homes apart. No honey will be safe!
Bears, you're on notice...if you aren't already for replacing Santa on Coke cans.
As someone who runs a non-profit theatre, I can tell you that ticketing is necessary, but not exactly cheap. You can go with TicketMaster, and have their fees add to the cost of your ticket. If you're looking to provide affordable programs, TicketMaster's additional fees may end up pricing you right out of your target market all by themselves.
In Chicago, the big non-profits have soup-to-nuts solutions; look here for a more in-depth look at what's involved. The Chicago Symphony actually rolled their own, but most of the big institutions use software like Tessitura, Theater Manager, or other such programs. These are more like custom CRM programs that deal with specific arts management concerns, like volunteers, donors, and subscriptions. They are also not cheap, and of course, those who could most use them are least able to afford them.
To answer the original post, perhaps the project can apply for a grant, or create a non-profit group (a la Mozilla) to take care of the software. However, you're going to need organizational help to do it. Start with a local university that has an arts administration program, and they'll probably give you better pointers.
I'm sure you're just being funny, but you do know that from a purely technical standpoint, he was correct, yes? Even in the mid 90s, AppleShare over IP was available and was far superior in speed (a fourfold increase, I believe to AppleTalk. If you were a graphic shop printing files over 10 or 100 Mbit networks, that was a huge boost in raw speed, at the cost of setting up IP print queues and server aliases, and purchasing AppleShareIP 5 or 6 (I don't believe that a Unix or WinNT would have helped you then, as they all used AppleTalk only until Win2K).
I understand that AppleTalk is helpful for ease of configuration, but if you were fulltime IT, well, then the consultants had a point! Of course, when my old firm generated these reports, we told you how to do it.:)
Sounds like you want Target Disk mode for PCs, but I don't think that such a beast exists. I believe Target Disk mode is a lower level feature than the OS (perhaps in Open Firmware?). I don't know a BIOS that supports anything similar, though I am no maven there.
You could put your Mac into Target Disk mode on your PC, but then you'd have to software for the PC that reads HFS+ formatted disks. Ugh...
IP-over-FireWire won't work because the VPN client locks out other network connections, so that knocks that idea out.
If you are willing to tear out your drive each time you work at home, then I suppose you could use one of the Wiebe Tech USB/FireWire enclosures, but I doubt that would be worth your time.
Or better yet, OGG, so that finally the 4 people who care about OGG support will have something to crow about. "We get to listen to Microsoft PR without any DRM!"
And would this affect the DirecTiVo? That hasn't been updated much either, and doesn't support the Home Media Option or the other fancy Series2 tricks.
To me, complaints on this seem to be much ado about nothing. I thought the whole point of PPV was avoiding running down to Blockbuster, and being able to watch it right now?
If you're a new startup, how did they happen to come across *your* open source project so swiftly? Could you have a disgrutled ex-employee who decided to up the stakes for you?
That said, if it's a patent, the patent is public information. They should have to provide the number of the patent that you have infringed, and proof of their ownership of said patent. It should then be easy enough to get the relevant info from the Patent Office. There's no incentive for you to settle until they do those 2 things. They *could* try to directly file a legal case, but it looks like they are out for a quick buck, and they are just hoping to scare you into a bad call.
It depends on the Palm. My old Palm (can't remember what it was, but it was the low-end grayscale Clie) didn't need Missing Sync, but my new one (TG-50) most assuredly does. I've read that it doesn't if you use Bluetooth to sync, but BT syncing is soooo slow. My fault for using Vindigo, I suppose.
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I'll admit that I really only hear about Enderle's weak Apple-related predictions (iPod Mini would be flash-based, Mac moving to x86, etc.). However, I just attributed that to not being knowledgable about the Mac world. However, after glossing over the tech stuff to basically say "It's pretty", I'm wondering who his audience is exactly. I thought it was high-level IT management, but hsi arguments seem like they won't hold a lot of weight with them.
Yes, the Ferrari name has cachet, but if given the choice, I'll take a quality product from a company that focuses on the market and the users. It doesn't mean cross-branding can't work, but this seems like an odd pairing.
I used to work for a reseller, and we were beta-testing Mac OS Server 10.1. We noticed that on a 10 user license, AppleShare clients did indeed top out at 10 users. However, SMB, NFS, Apache, etc. was unlimited. We asked if this was normal behavior, and the answer was that if you were using MOSXS for anything other than AppleShare, there was intentionally *no* difference between 10-user and unlimited. Therefore, if you had 5 Macs, and 500 other clients, you could still use the 10-user version!
Weird, but true. Of course that was over 2 years ago, so the policy may have changed, but I still believe that the 10-user limit is only for AppleShare clients. Odd, as you could have more than 10 OS X boxes browse SMB shares on OS X Server without exceeding the limit!
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You have to consider the whole, and on the whole, it doesn't look good.
I'm pretty sure 1.21 gigawatts ought to be enough for anybody.
Um. If you are on the helpdesk - unjamming printers and unfreezing outlook is your job. Your work isn't being interrupted every five minutes, but rather you are being called on to do your job every five minutes.
To be fair, in a 200 person shop, he may also be expected to do sysadmin duties as well as helpdesk. It tends to get lumped together a lot. But even as a sysadmin, your job is ultimately to serve the company and it's clients, and in a small to midsize company, that means rebooting the boss' PC every now and then. Try to take pride in the fact that you tangibly made his life slightly better.
My role in a similarly sized company is basically sysadmin without the title, so I feel for you. There are days I'd love to play with the tech and roll out cool things, and it does get annoying to handle the level 2 stuff (fortunately, I have a part-time helpdesk guy for the basics).
One tip would be to get an intern, and dump some of the support tickets on them. Honestly, I'm not sure how viable a solution that is (I'd be eager to hear others experiences), because I don't know if a CS person will want an internship like that. But maybe someone from a business background would be intrigued; you likely touch every part of the business, and there could be appeal there.
If you're interested in web development, heck, just do it! Do your own site. Do your friends' sites, though set some clear boundaries. This will get you estimating experience, and you can play with whatever strikes your fancy. Then hit up some local small businesses and do their sites. Use that experience to get your next job. A CS Masters seems like overkill for web development. I can't say I know one, but then again, see my second paragraph. :) I do know many web folk without masters, though.
The last thing I'd suggest is to get yourself involved on larger projects in the company. I don't always think to ask my helpdesk guy to help out, but I'm glad when he volunteers. This is a way to learn the tech, the business, and all those fuzzy skills that we don't think should matter but really, really do.
HTH,
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Yes, I imagine it's fantastically expensive to get started with the cell tower infrastructure. And yes, as soon as they become a network, Apple won't have too many mobile partners anymore.
On the other hand, Apple loves selling the whole widget. And they certainly wouldn't mind the margins on SMS. And they have a big pile of money in the bank. And they must have some decent infrastructure to handle selling the music and apps.
I'm completely ignorant on the details, but I wonder if the expiration of the AT&T exclusivity doesn't mean doesn't mean they hop to Verizon, but try to do it themselves. In theory, they could even make the iPhone 8 Xtreme hop to 802.11(x) networks. Imagine if all those Apple Base Stations got turned into microcells in a software update.
So are these crazy ramblings? Well, yes. ;) But tell me why they might be true or false.
I'm honestly not sure how much I can say without violating NDA, but from an IT standpoint, it's pretty straightforward if you have IT staff. If you don't, then you should look into some sort of sharing/hosting arrangement.
I'm not sure how it would work if you were a social agency, though. Tessitura shines with it's ticketing integration, but that won't help much if you run, say, a women's shelter.
Good luck,
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Original submitter here. It seems the root link to the the author's blog is gone, though it's in the firehose submission:
http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus
He's posting his entire dealings with Apple, mostly of the form letter variety. Hope this app nonsense gets cleared up soon.
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Half-pony, half-monkey. For best results, reduce the number of monkeys in the recipe.
If VLC counts as a popular Mac application that Apple should be responsible for, then the MOAB is going to be very easy for the researchers. All they have to do is wait for Patch Tuesday, and claim any patches to WinXP as an Apple bug! I'm sure that Parallels is a very popular application here, so it stands to reason that it's Apples fault that Parallels runs buggy code. And think of the children running Ubuntu in Parallels that unknowingly are pwned by a Tux Racer exploit!
Now if you'll excuse me, I *know* I have an asbestos suit here somewhere... :)
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Very close, anyway...Mac experience, freelance tech support, crazy liberal arts degree (mine is in Theater!).
The best advice that I can offer is don't be proud about your first job. If I was starting out now, I'd find a place to do helpdesk for a decent-sized company with room for advancement. Even though my work-study job gave me 2 years of great computer support experience, I had a very difficult time getting my foot in the door for an interview. I ended up hired to do break/fix for a small support company. That was fine with me, because I figured I would learn on the job, and I did. Once you get in, if you are a competent problem-solver, you will do just fine.
Play to your strengths. My first company had a lot of advertising and marketing clients, so my Mac skills were a big plus there. If you're going to a sizable city, you should be able to find a niche on the Mac skills alone.
Finally, don't be ashamed of the psych degree! Figure out a way to make something that could be a weakness into a strength. I'm sure that you had classes that relied upon careful analysis of data; you'll use that in sysadmin jobs when you're trying to troubleshoot problems. Setting up psych experiments probably has some similarities to project management. When questioned about my degree, I cheerfully state that while I know what I'm doing technically, my people skills are even better.
Good luck!
CCSystems Administation is about knowing what you know, knowing what you don't know and figuring out how to know what you don't know. ....or something like that.
I believe that is the Donald Rumsfeld "known unknowns" school of SysAdmin.
Bears, you're on notice...if you aren't already for replacing Santa on Coke cans.
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Modest Mouse: The old 1-button mouse rebranded, but with indie music cred. Free iTunes Music Store credit for 'Roll On'.
Mickey Mouse: While using the mouse, you are gently sedated.
In Chicago, the big non-profits have soup-to-nuts solutions; look here for a more in-depth look at what's involved. The Chicago Symphony actually rolled their own, but most of the big institutions use software like Tessitura, Theater Manager, or other such programs. These are more like custom CRM programs that deal with specific arts management concerns, like volunteers, donors, and subscriptions. They are also not cheap, and of course, those who could most use them are least able to afford them.
To answer the original post, perhaps the project can apply for a grant, or create a non-profit group (a la Mozilla) to take care of the software. However, you're going to need organizational help to do it. Start with a local university that has an arts administration program, and they'll probably give you better pointers.
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I'm sure you're just being funny, but you do know that from a purely technical standpoint, he was correct, yes? Even in the mid 90s, AppleShare over IP was available and was far superior in speed (a fourfold increase, I believe to AppleTalk. If you were a graphic shop printing files over 10 or 100 Mbit networks, that was a huge boost in raw speed, at the cost of setting up IP print queues and server aliases, and purchasing AppleShareIP 5 or 6 (I don't believe that a Unix or WinNT would have helped you then, as they all used AppleTalk only until Win2K).
:)
I understand that AppleTalk is helpful for ease of configuration, but if you were fulltime IT, well, then the consultants had a point! Of course, when my old firm generated these reports, we told you how to do it.
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BeAfraid. BeVeryAfraid. I'm going to hide in my BlueBox.
Sounds like you want Target Disk mode for PCs, but I don't think that such a beast exists. I believe Target Disk mode is a lower level feature than the OS (perhaps in Open Firmware?). I don't know a BIOS that supports anything similar, though I am no maven there.
You could put your Mac into Target Disk mode on your PC, but then you'd have to software for the PC that reads HFS+ formatted disks. Ugh...
IP-over-FireWire won't work because the VPN client locks out other network connections, so that knocks that idea out.
If you are willing to tear out your drive each time you work at home, then I suppose you could use one of the Wiebe Tech USB/FireWire enclosures, but I doubt that would be worth your time.
Good luck,
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To me, complaints on this seem to be much ado about nothing. I thought the whole point of PPV was avoiding running down to Blockbuster, and being able to watch it right now?
That said, if it's a patent, the patent is public information. They should have to provide the number of the patent that you have infringed, and proof of their ownership of said patent. It should then be easy enough to get the relevant info from the Patent Office. There's no incentive for you to settle until they do those 2 things. They *could* try to directly file a legal case, but it looks like they are out for a quick buck, and they are just hoping to scare you into a bad call.
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Anyone remember the game You Don't Know Jack? They had fake commercials at the end of the 'show', and one of them was for MovieEndingPhone!(tm)
Darth is Luke's father!
Kevin Spacey is Keiser Soze!
Rosebud is a sled!
Hi-larious
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Disclaimer: My friend wrote the song, so check him out if you like it.
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Yes, the Ferrari name has cachet, but if given the choice, I'll take a quality product from a company that focuses on the market and the users. It doesn't mean cross-branding can't work, but this seems like an odd pairing.
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I'm not a /. subscriber, you insensitive clod!
I used to work for a reseller, and we were beta-testing Mac OS Server 10.1. We noticed that on a 10 user license, AppleShare clients did indeed top out at 10 users. However, SMB, NFS, Apache, etc. was unlimited. We asked if this was normal behavior, and the answer was that if you were using MOSXS for anything other than AppleShare, there was intentionally *no* difference between 10-user and unlimited. Therefore, if you had 5 Macs, and 500 other clients, you could still use the 10-user version!
Weird, but true. Of course that was over 2 years ago, so the policy may have changed, but I still believe that the 10-user limit is only for AppleShare clients. Odd, as you could have more than 10 OS X boxes browse SMB shares on OS X Server without exceeding the limit!
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