Ive got the same unit, and got it setup by myself. It cost me an afternoon in bed with back spasms though. I had to back my SUV up into the garage all the way to the doorway and drag it 30' around corners, turn it on its side and hoist it on to the stand.
And you are correct, there is no TV anywhere with a better picture period. People who think they can get a picture this good from LCD or Plasma are nuts. To date, 3 people have purchased one of these after watching a HD football game broacast on my XBR.
Tell ya what; Any company that would not agree to go this route, I would leave.
Why push a boulder uphill? Very dumb to not force users to generate their own tickets. I actually agree with having a single person from a department fill out the tickets, as long as the system schema differentiates between ORIGINATOR and ENDUSER on the web form.
Silly to even allow users to get someone on the phone. Write an Web App, and force users or department heads to fill out trouble tickets online. Users fill them out, they are time stamped, and only users can close them upon satisfaction of the issue being resolved. The time taken to do the work is logged for reports, and your management can get a report anytime they want.
Your people have access to a list of open tickets sorted by priority, and they simply go about their business. If they need more information on a ticket, they request it online as well. This way, EVERYTHING is logged, and you cut way down on time wasting interaction with users while trying to fill out a ticket.
As users discover what is involved in reporting a problem, they will cut way back on bugging you with stupid stuff, or stuff they could figure out on their own if they tried. If you are managing things correctly as far as user rights go, you can keep them from doing more harm than good.
Filling out tickets by phone opens you up to misinterpretations, unlogged calls, and stupid user interactions undocumented. By moving the whole thing online, you eliminate 90% of your problem right off the bat, and the auto-reporting will make it clear to everyone who is productive and who is not.
Folks, the DOD is NOT blocking HTML mail, just converting it to plain text and disabling scripts, something ANY Exchange admin should already be doing in addition to Sender ID.
Instead of facts, we get just another bash Microsoft thread. Figures.
Dude, when I got my first HD set, I started watching PBS because they had these incredible wildlife and wilderness images on their HD channel. PB-fucking-S! I hate those wankers, but I could not get over the picture quality. If not for DirecTV-HD (who is just now shipping their HD-DVR) I would still be watching cheetahs drag racing antelope over desert tundra.
You've got thousands of companies betting their life on a single SBS server, with no clue about what to do when they have a problem. Think about 75-person organizations betting their life on a single hard disk. I've seen it. Often. I have had to develop a professional vocabulary in order to stop asking clients if they are "fucking nuts" all the time.
SBS is a great deal for what you get in the box, but it is DANGEROUS if not handled properly with additional file servers and backups. I had a customer a few months back who lost everything because their former consultant set them up on RAID 0, doubling their risk for a little more speed.
Exchange 2007 is an AWESOME product, but I fear few people will ever realize how good it is, because it seems there are so few people who really understand how to perform even the basics of Exchange Administration.
I know its going to come up, from those of you who cant figure out how to restore your Exchange mailboxes, and with the 2G thing it becomes even more important.
First, keep your transaction logs on a separate disk array. If you dont, FORGET reliably restoring your mailboxes.
Second, make sure you use the VSS (Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service) when backing up your mailboxes.
The number one issue I see when called in to fix these messes, is Exchange Admins keeping the Transaction logs and the database on the same hardware, as though you could lose one without losing the other.
Restoring Exchange is hard, but it CAN BE DONE, bitches!
I should have been more clear, as I only meant best game out during the launch season, when Sony should have captured all the attention. Gears of War is good, but not earthshaking. I expect Halo 3 to accomplish that, though. The big winner is the Wii, and Microsoft did okay for not having any big news of their own.
Sony lost this one big-time.
Has another corporation ever had such a single bad year?
Who'd thought that the Wii would suck the life out of the PS3 launch?
The Wii gets all kinds of free press and publicity, if not for Sports, then for idiots destroying their plasma screens and blaming the Wii-mote strap for being too weak.
In the mean time, Microsoft has the best game out in Gears of War for the 360, while the only thing I hear about the PS3 is that it is so hard to program that most games will suck on it for another year.
Oh, and thanks for the root kit, Sony. Karma is a bitch, eh?
Employees will have time to chase you into the parking lot in a desparate attempt to get you to agree to that extended warranty. Hell, they might even follow you home, bitches!
I'm serious.
I am NOT saying that MSDN is great, only that it is better than anything provided for competing platforms. Sometimes MSDN assumes a level of knowledge with products that is beyond the average developer. Take BizTalk for example. Trying to learn that product strictly through MSDN is a lesson in futility. Only after you gain a basic knowledge does MSDN become really useful. I would say the same for Dynamics CRM too.
You can argue about.NET, and about Visual Studio dude, but there is NOTHING that compares to MSDN, and the resources Microsoft makes available to developers. On this, there is no contest.
"We are almost broke, and wrong or right, Microsoft can sue us until our kids are geriatric."
"Or, we can take a hundred mil or so from Microsoft, and have some black ink on our balance sheet, and I wont be the 20th Novell CEO to get fired."
"But, I run the risk of losing the love, respect and admiration of the Linux Community, be labeled a sell-out, and be forced to eat alone at trade shows."
Novell CEO's wife:
"What would your cut be of that hundred Mil?........Really?..........Well,....look bitch, if you want a friend, get a dog. Mama needs a new SUV!
"Is it commonplace for Microsoft employees (and former Microsoft employees) to develop the attitude that market competition is the equivalent of terrorism?"
Come on, dude.
What I was getting at, is that maybe Open Source needs to not try to compete with Exchange, and come up with a whole new thinking behind Messaging\Calendar\Scheduling instead? As for market competition, that is exactly what I am asking about; Where is it with respect to Exchange? Why do so many think that Microsoft should just play fair and give up? You would have to be some kind of nut to think that Microsoft would not use every advantage available to them to stomp competition. That is BUSINESS!
Why cant Microsoft stomp Google? Google changed the game, and didn't try to fight on Microsoft's turf. I think Open Source needs to do the same thing. What stops Open Source? Lack of a profit motive. Sorry to play the old "Greed is Good" line, but when it comes to motivating disparate entities to cooperate and collaborate effectively, Singing Kumbaya(lets all code for nothing but joy) wont do, my brother. Microsoft doesn't stop Open Source from competing more than Open Source stops itself.
The point of the question is: WHERE IS THE OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVE?
Every time this subject comes up on/., you get myriad statements on how nice it would be to have integrated calendar/scheduling, et all, but is Open Source any closer to delivering on that? If not, why not? I ask because it would appear that there is not going to be a real Exchange alternative soon, and I wonder if energy might best be used on something else?
Its like Excel, in that whatever you come up with, it WONT be better, but maybe just as good? At what point, when you cant win the game, do you just CHANGE the game so you can win?
You haven't lived until you take over an account with a Notes server with 500 users in the Notesdata directory, and 400 of the id files are named "user.id".
Okay, hate Microsoft all you want, but will someone tell me just what is so wrong with Exchange Server that makes it such a target for Open Source replacement? Is it that Exchange is basically an anchor for Windows Servers, or does anyone have a problem with Exchange itself?
When you consider the available alternatives, is their any room here for suggesting that in this ONE case, Microsoft did something right, when it comes to Exchange Server? I would like someone to honestly tell me either that Exchange has problems that need fixing, or that Exchange must go for Linux to gain more share in the Enterprise space.
Which is it, and why?
Disclaimer: I was on the original Exchange team, but no longer work for Microsoft. I'm really just curious at this point what is driving the anti-Exchange bandwagon, because I don't see a real, viable competitor out there.
The current problems of the A380 are not its weight, but the cabling.
Bullshit. The cabling problem is NOTHING compared to the weight issues. Airbus caused potential customers to have to completely remodel their profit models for fuel consumption and passenger numbers due to weight issues. On top of that, since the A380 wing failed during initial stress tests, they had to beef up the structure adding even more weight. Ask someone as Airbus if they are really concerned about cabling, when that fat bird of theirs is causing airlines to second-guess their purchase decisions.
I answered your second question in the original post. Airbus wouldn't be here if not for Government subsidies, something NOBODY can say about Boeing.
"Whats wrong with being a socalist? We have great healthcare, educaton and transportation system here and even gret unemployment benifits!"
Oh brother, are you serious?
What is wrong with socialism, is that it allows no respect for the individual. It assumes that we are all the same, that we can all function and achieve at the same rate, and in an effort to equalize the playing field, it is the achievers who suffer in favour of the under-achievers.
You think you have great healthcare? You must be daft. What you have is common availability of AVERAGE healthcare. The best healthcare in the world, like just about any other endeavour is right here in the United States of America. Why? Because self-interest is attached to our achievement. We don't work to glorify the state, we work to sustain and better ourselves. We have a stake in how good or bad our lives can be, so we take risks that socialist countries never imagine.
You think your education is great? I couldn't tell that from your spelling, but whatever. Most nations strive to send their best and brightest to America for a college-level education. Where we DO have socialism (public schools, welfare) you also find our least productive people. The average American puts in more work hours per week than the workers of any other nation, and our poor people live better than 90% of people in other nations.
In Socialist nations, they tax success and achievement until many pick up and head for the closest tax shelter. (Ask Bono)
What is wrong with Socialism, is that it negates human individuality and talent, punishes achievement, subsidizes failure, accepts the average as "good enough" because it is available to all, crushes initiative and creativity, and prevents people from reaching beyond their imagination.
Transportation? Lets take Airbus vs. Boeing for example? Without Government subsidies (confiscated income from citizens)Airbus wouldn't even exist. Even now, as the overweight A380 risks cancellation due to its design being based more on French ego, than sound business logic, Europe is forced to pump additional billions into an aircraft without a market just to save face. Boeing, with the understanding that they are in business to make a PROFIT for their shareholders, is currently beating Airbus like a drum with the 777ER, and the coming 787 Dreamliner. Airbus had to scrap their A350 design, and lacks the technical ability of Boeing in the usage of composite materials.
A single American company is kicking the crap out of a subsidized European consortium, due to decisions made on capitalist principles rather than state pride.
I could go on, but I think you get my point.
Flame away, Socialist bitches, I got Karma to burn!
You can almost hear all the knee-jerking going on around here.
For all the things you can say about Microsoft, regardless of your perspective, you have to agree that what keeps Microsoft in business is the way they have treated developers.
Raise your hand (if you are used to being PAID for your code) if you have time to develop your own version of the ribbon within the scope of your next project?
Look, Microsoft has all this new shit coming out with Vista and Office 07, and those of us who see coding as a PROFIT center, instead of just something to do to earn our Geek Cred, will take this latest offering and run with it all the way to the bank.
You can say its all about lock-in, you can say that they are stifling innovation all you want. Someday, it would be cool for Slashdot to understand that there are thousands of developers who code for MONEY, not self-esteem, and dont care where their tools come from if those tools help get projects completed faster and better than without them.
If Microsoft can give me tools that insure that every project I do next year comes in on time and on budget, they can slap my momma for all I care.
"Developers, Developers, Developers" may be a running joke around here, and you may not be a fan of MSDN and the other tool sets, but if you code Windows solutions for pay, fuck you, I'm using them.
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And you are correct, there is no TV anywhere with a better picture period. People who think they can get a picture this good from LCD or Plasma are nuts. To date, 3 people have purchased one of these after watching a HD football game broacast on my XBR.
Why push a boulder uphill? Very dumb to not force users to generate their own tickets. I actually agree with having a single person from a department fill out the tickets, as long as the system schema differentiates between ORIGINATOR and ENDUSER on the web form.
Silly to even allow users to get someone on the phone. Write an Web App, and force users or department heads to fill out trouble tickets online. Users fill them out, they are time stamped, and only users can close them upon satisfaction of the issue being resolved. The time taken to do the work is logged for reports, and your management can get a report anytime they want.
Your people have access to a list of open tickets sorted by priority, and they simply go about their business. If they need more information on a ticket, they request it online as well. This way, EVERYTHING is logged, and you cut way down on time wasting interaction with users while trying to fill out a ticket.
As users discover what is involved in reporting a problem, they will cut way back on bugging you with stupid stuff, or stuff they could figure out on their own if they tried. If you are managing things correctly as far as user rights go, you can keep them from doing more harm than good.
Filling out tickets by phone opens you up to misinterpretations, unlogged calls, and stupid user interactions undocumented. By moving the whole thing online, you eliminate 90% of your problem right off the bat, and the auto-reporting will make it clear to everyone who is productive and who is not.
Instead of facts, we get just another bash Microsoft thread. Figures.
Dude, when I got my first HD set, I started watching PBS because they had these incredible wildlife and wilderness images on their HD channel. PB-fucking-S! I hate those wankers, but I could not get over the picture quality. If not for DirecTV-HD (who is just now shipping their HD-DVR) I would still be watching cheetahs drag racing antelope over desert tundra.
Ever lose a RAID controller? You have not lived until you experience that kind of pain.
SBS is a great deal for what you get in the box, but it is DANGEROUS if not handled properly with additional file servers and backups. I had a customer a few months back who lost everything because their former consultant set them up on RAID 0, doubling their risk for a little more speed.
Exchange 2007 is an AWESOME product, but I fear few people will ever realize how good it is, because it seems there are so few people who really understand how to perform even the basics of Exchange Administration.
Ray baby! How you likin that Seattle weather?
First, keep your transaction logs on a separate disk array. If you dont, FORGET reliably restoring your mailboxes.
Second, make sure you use the VSS (Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service) when backing up your mailboxes.
The number one issue I see when called in to fix these messes, is Exchange Admins keeping the Transaction logs and the database on the same hardware, as though you could lose one without losing the other.
Restoring Exchange is hard, but it CAN BE DONE, bitches!
I should have been more clear, as I only meant best game out during the launch season, when Sony should have captured all the attention. Gears of War is good, but not earthshaking. I expect Halo 3 to accomplish that, though. The big winner is the Wii, and Microsoft did okay for not having any big news of their own. Sony lost this one big-time.
Who'd thought that the Wii would suck the life out of the PS3 launch?
The Wii gets all kinds of free press and publicity, if not for Sports, then for idiots destroying their plasma screens and blaming the Wii-mote strap for being too weak.
In the mean time, Microsoft has the best game out in Gears of War for the 360, while the only thing I hear about the PS3 is that it is so hard to program that most games will suck on it for another year.
Oh, and thanks for the root kit, Sony. Karma is a bitch, eh?
Equal number of pages with Open Document = "Microsoft sucks, they copied Open Document."
6000 pages = "Microsoft sucks, the format is too complex for anyone than Microsoft."
Apparently, no matter what they do, Microsoft cant suck enough.
Employees will have time to chase you into the parking lot in a desparate attempt to get you to agree to that extended warranty. Hell, they might even follow you home, bitches!
I haven't gone insane and killed anyone yet, so where is MY damn award?
I'm serious. I am NOT saying that MSDN is great, only that it is better than anything provided for competing platforms. Sometimes MSDN assumes a level of knowledge with products that is beyond the average developer. Take BizTalk for example. Trying to learn that product strictly through MSDN is a lesson in futility. Only after you gain a basic knowledge does MSDN become really useful. I would say the same for Dynamics CRM too.
You can argue about .NET, and about Visual Studio dude, but there is NOTHING that compares to MSDN, and the resources Microsoft makes available to developers. On this, there is no contest.
A completely flammable post, before I even commented! Tighten your seatbelts!
"We are almost broke, and wrong or right, Microsoft can sue us until our kids are geriatric."
"Or, we can take a hundred mil or so from Microsoft, and have some black ink on our balance sheet, and I wont be the 20th Novell CEO to get fired."
"But, I run the risk of losing the love, respect and admiration of the Linux Community, be labeled a sell-out, and be forced to eat alone at trade shows."
Novell CEO's wife:
"What would your cut be of that hundred Mil?........Really?..........Well,....look bitch, if you want a friend, get a dog. Mama needs a new SUV!
Come on, dude.
What I was getting at, is that maybe Open Source needs to not try to compete with Exchange, and come up with a whole new thinking behind Messaging\Calendar\Scheduling instead? As for market competition, that is exactly what I am asking about; Where is it with respect to Exchange? Why do so many think that Microsoft should just play fair and give up? You would have to be some kind of nut to think that Microsoft would not use every advantage available to them to stomp competition. That is BUSINESS!
Why cant Microsoft stomp Google? Google changed the game, and didn't try to fight on Microsoft's turf. I think Open Source needs to do the same thing. What stops Open Source? Lack of a profit motive. Sorry to play the old "Greed is Good" line, but when it comes to motivating disparate entities to cooperate and collaborate effectively, Singing Kumbaya(lets all code for nothing but joy) wont do, my brother. Microsoft doesn't stop Open Source from competing more than Open Source stops itself.
Every time this subject comes up on /., you get myriad statements on how nice it would be to have integrated calendar/scheduling, et all, but is Open Source any closer to delivering on that? If not, why not? I ask because it would appear that there is not going to be a real Exchange alternative soon, and I wonder if energy might best be used on something else?
Its like Excel, in that whatever you come up with, it WONT be better, but maybe just as good? At what point, when you cant win the game, do you just CHANGE the game so you can win?
Again, I'm just asking.
You haven't lived until you take over an account with a Notes server with 500 users in the Notesdata directory, and 400 of the id files are named "user.id".
When you consider the available alternatives, is their any room here for suggesting that in this ONE case, Microsoft did something right, when it comes to Exchange Server? I would like someone to honestly tell me either that Exchange has problems that need fixing, or that Exchange must go for Linux to gain more share in the Enterprise space.
Which is it, and why?
Disclaimer: I was on the original Exchange team, but no longer work for Microsoft. I'm really just curious at this point what is driving the anti-Exchange bandwagon, because I don't see a real, viable competitor out there.
Enlighten me.
Bullshit. The cabling problem is NOTHING compared to the weight issues. Airbus caused potential customers to have to completely remodel their profit models for fuel consumption and passenger numbers due to weight issues. On top of that, since the A380 wing failed during initial stress tests, they had to beef up the structure adding even more weight. Ask someone as Airbus if they are really concerned about cabling, when that fat bird of theirs is causing airlines to second-guess their purchase decisions.
I answered your second question in the original post. Airbus wouldn't be here if not for Government subsidies, something NOBODY can say about Boeing.
Oh brother, are you serious?
What is wrong with socialism, is that it allows no respect for the individual. It assumes that we are all the same, that we can all function and achieve at the same rate, and in an effort to equalize the playing field, it is the achievers who suffer in favour of the under-achievers.
You think you have great healthcare? You must be daft. What you have is common availability of AVERAGE healthcare. The best healthcare in the world, like just about any other endeavour is right here in the United States of America. Why? Because self-interest is attached to our achievement. We don't work to glorify the state, we work to sustain and better ourselves. We have a stake in how good or bad our lives can be, so we take risks that socialist countries never imagine.
You think your education is great? I couldn't tell that from your spelling, but whatever. Most nations strive to send their best and brightest to America for a college-level education. Where we DO have socialism (public schools, welfare) you also find our least productive people. The average American puts in more work hours per week than the workers of any other nation, and our poor people live better than 90% of people in other nations.
In Socialist nations, they tax success and achievement until many pick up and head for the closest tax shelter. (Ask Bono)
What is wrong with Socialism, is that it negates human individuality and talent, punishes achievement, subsidizes failure, accepts the average as "good enough" because it is available to all, crushes initiative and creativity, and prevents people from reaching beyond their imagination.
Transportation? Lets take Airbus vs. Boeing for example? Without Government subsidies (confiscated income from citizens)Airbus wouldn't even exist. Even now, as the overweight A380 risks cancellation due to its design being based more on French ego, than sound business logic, Europe is forced to pump additional billions into an aircraft without a market just to save face. Boeing, with the understanding that they are in business to make a PROFIT for their shareholders, is currently beating Airbus like a drum with the 777ER, and the coming 787 Dreamliner. Airbus had to scrap their A350 design, and lacks the technical ability of Boeing in the usage of composite materials.
A single American company is kicking the crap out of a subsidized European consortium, due to decisions made on capitalist principles rather than state pride.
I could go on, but I think you get my point.
Flame away, Socialist bitches, I got Karma to burn!
For all the things you can say about Microsoft, regardless of your perspective, you have to agree that what keeps Microsoft in business is the way they have treated developers.
Raise your hand (if you are used to being PAID for your code) if you have time to develop your own version of the ribbon within the scope of your next project?
Look, Microsoft has all this new shit coming out with Vista and Office 07, and those of us who see coding as a PROFIT center, instead of just something to do to earn our Geek Cred, will take this latest offering and run with it all the way to the bank.
You can say its all about lock-in, you can say that they are stifling innovation all you want. Someday, it would be cool for Slashdot to understand that there are thousands of developers who code for MONEY, not self-esteem, and dont care where their tools come from if those tools help get projects completed faster and better than without them.
If Microsoft can give me tools that insure that every project I do next year comes in on time and on budget, they can slap my momma for all I care.
"Developers, Developers, Developers" may be a running joke around here, and you may not be a fan of MSDN and the other tool sets, but if you code Windows solutions for pay, fuck you, I'm using them.
Time is money, bitches!