AT&T won't provide the services or will do so at triple the prices paid now. This is also a very convenient way of shorting the school system what they need, and thus have more ammo to go after them for not providing what our kids need. Thus making schools the root of all evil again. Most voters will go along with it, and the GOP in Wisconsin gets more of what it wants.
Good enough is already many IT "professionals" operate. They don't look for the best solution but the bare minimum. And often times they don't consider any other options but the "good enough" one.
The meaning changes depending on who you're talking to, what they're representing and what seems to be convenient at the time.
Is it the OS? The hardware? The protocols implemented? Please.
I get this all the time in the enterprise systems space. "Industry standard servers" based on "open standards" really? Intel chips are open? Windows is open? You'll give me the source code & designs for those?
Or hey "open systems" storage. I.E. everything that's WinTel. Oh but hey UNIX is supposed to be open too, right? Oh wait, unless it's running on something other than x86 hardware, then it's the evil "proprietary."
Whatever. It's gone from being a legitimate technology premise to politics as usual. And of course Microsoft would try to spin this their way.
What's idiocy is thinking how you like to use a device is how everyone else will want to use one. GPS on my phone might be nice but so is my Garmin. It has a much larger screen, doesn't depend on a cell network to function and I can easily mount it forward in the vehicle to see while driving.
I just love it when some fool reporter tries to push an agenda or tell me how I'm supposed to use a product.
The three consoles: Wii, Xbox, PS all use IBM chips. The Wii's version isn't as powerful as the CellBE used in the PS for example...and the video of the Wii isn't quite as high end.
But then again, it's a different device. Why does it need to be the same as the others? If you think it's watered down, then go use something else. Pretty simple.
When you really position IT as a solution provider to the business, in addition to not being an elitist arse.
There will always be aholes in an organization who treat IT as scum. Mainly that's because IT has treated their customers (user base) as ignorant scum for years.
Policy is fine, but it needs support from on high. If you have that, then have the upper ups send out the notes on IT policy if you have to.
If you're cordial, offer solutions and value, and still get treated like crap then fine...BOFH it is then.
You can be nice while being treated like crap for only so long. Then look for another job.
Ethanol isn't the problem. How we're making it, is.
It cracks me up how quickly some folks want to dismiss it. Like it has to be 100% perfect the first time out. Gee, gasoline has what a 100 year head start?
You don't have to mod the whole engine. Just from the injector rails on back. Mainly the supply feed. Otherwise it'll run it fine. And I anticipate the 10 vs 15% thing is BS too, other than the supply side of it.
I talked to the Chevy engineer who worked on the Corvette pace car at Indy last year. It ran E85. I asked him what all needed to be changed and that was it. Injector rails on back. Things that would have direct contact with the fuel for extended periods of time. They happened to use neoprene to get the job done.
And oh by the way, methanol has been an additive in gasoline for years. Also an alcohol based product. It would have the same "issues" - or not - as ethanol as a fuel additive.
Oh and the stuff you put in your tank to eliminate fuel line freeze up? Alcohol based.
It takes forever to boot up, which is my primary issue. And this is on a T61 Thinkpad, 3gig memory and a T8300 chip. Yes there are apps there but honestly it goes to the OS itself at the end of the day.
And if we're just going to discount any os issues by saying it's all the apps fault then well that just does well for this whole "open systems" thing now doesn't it.
Just means if it's open then it sucks because it can be screwed by other's apps. Gee, how nice.
For folks who want everyone to move to Linux, well show me all the apps that look, feel and have all the functions of what Joe User would have in his blessed WinDOHs world and ok maybe it would work.
You just can't expect the average Joe to have any patience with that.
Some have moved to Mac because honestly at this point you can be totally MS free on there, and have the app function you want. All in what would be much easier for Joe to use than trying to run with Linux.
I've downloaded Windows 7 and will try it on a couple boxes here both in 32 and 64 bit mode. We'll see.
My personal setup is two systems with Q6600 CPUs, 8 GB memory, intel 1000GT nic. I use a NAS box with an NFS share for shared storage in between them so I can do VMotion.
The big caveat I've found is that most desktop boards embedded eth won't work.
Use a lower end or cheap video card. I picked up some 128meg ATIs for $16 on ebay.
What I've seen on LED bulbs is that they tend to be rather directional in nature. They don't produce as much of an omnidirectional light as other bulbs do.
I also don't much care for the "white" lights having more of a blue spectrum quality to them, vs the incandescent yellow spectrum glow.
The reason I haven't bothered to use them in any of my holiday lights.
Ok so Exchange/Outlook because you have it in org today. I can see that, assuming that you also believe that's the best platform or the one that you prefer to use.
Thing is though, and I know this to be true, that I can find folks who are ticked they have to use Notes and folks who are ticked they have to use Outlook.
My last org switched to Exchange/Outlook from Notes/Domino and it set off a firestorm of protests from workers because they lost a TON of functionality. Productivity went into the toilet because Outlook simply couldn't keep up with the business.
Your comments alone indicate what little you know about the ND marketplace or even the collaborative application space.
The entire Fortune 1000 is not going to Exchange my friend, no matter how much you want it to.
And in classic/. style, half the thread is bitching about Idle and whether or not this story should be main page news because it isn't geeky enough or whatever the pathetic standard is supposed to be...instead of actually discussing the story.
Ahh yes, great stuff.
Fact is that after 2000 our governments did what they do best. Have knee-jerk reactions to a problem.
There's nothing wrong with electronic voting systtems if they were to be done properly, which they weren't. Thus we've got nearly zero voter confidence in them ever working.
So, we're going to be stuck with more paper. Lovely. That worked out so well for Florida last time. Nevermind that the "evil technology" is in those optical scanner machines as well.
Any discussion of Lotus brings out the trolls & haters. Look I'll say it again. If you haven't been looking at Notes 8, then you can't really complain much.
Complaining about Notes 6 or 7 or when you worked on Notes R5 10 years ago isn't a valid critique. Get over yourselves.
The problem really is that we seem to have to find a way to classify something as "rage" and you also no longer have the right to be annoyed at anyone for any reason.
Seriously, when the moron woman in the Escalade on her cell phone blows through the 4-way stop as I am in the middle of the intersection after making an appropriate stop DOES piss me off!
The definition of what is "road rage" is pretty much anything other than driving the speed limit, not overtaking, and generally being a wart on the road. Speeding, overtaking or what they'd call excessive or aggressive...all equals road rage, so you're pretty well screwed.
And remember it doesn't matter what the other dude did if the cop only sees you.
Catch up how exactly? Sure Office interoperates with Exchange but show me what other features they have that competitors just don't have?
Lotus Quickr is a good competitor to Sharepoint, no question about it. It integrates with Windows Explorer, Office, and even Outlook.
Sametime for IM also works in Outlook as well as with mobile devices like Blackberry.
I'd like to hear what functionality you think folks lose when switching from MSFT to Lotus. Microsoft's document centric model IS the "old way" vs the Lotus model which is more activity & community collab based which IS the "new way."
Yea there are definately issues depending on what state/province/country you're in.
The way I look at it, if I create something during the normal course of doing my job then OK I can see that work being owned by the company. I believe the next thing though is that the employee should get some kind of payment for said invention if the company profits from it. I seem to recall that's how things worked at IBM some time back and at Bell Labs, but I could be wrong there.
What I have an issue with here is the notion that I don't own what I create for my own edification outside of the workplace with no tie to the company I work for. If I created, on my own time at home, the next great spatula, my company should not own my new spatula invention.
Our IT staff takes the "one size fits all" mentality. They have no idea what we do, they pick a box for everyone and say here you go with really no way to get anything different without insanely difficult processes.
Our team for example is a bunch of systems architects. We design and put the specs together for customer hardware & software solutions. We are all "IT people" who's role at our company isn't in IT. Thus we get the blow off. Nevermind we could do many of the jobs our IT folks do. We aren't in that role and are reminded of that all the time.
Well there happens to be a number of tools we need that aren't part of the standard image. So we load them. IT have an issue? Tough. I don't personally care, nor does the rest of the team. Even better when they try to blame us for the systems being slow. LOL Yea that's right. Nevermind the load of monitoring code they run. A full machine inventory EVERY DAY?!? WTF is that?
But hey that's what you get with an IT department full of Windoze geeks who don't know squat about enterprise IT. They do however know they're totally cool because they know how to deploy yet another useless policy. It comes down to IT being a service entity or a policy governance body. I ran my IT shop as a service, and I think that is how it should be.
These admins that talk about "my system" "my network" should be smacked. It is "the company's system" and "the company's network" you idiot.
Now, thankfully we're starting to make some progress whereby we actually get systems that can handle what we need to throw at them, IT be damned.
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AT&T won't provide the services or will do so at triple the prices paid now. This is also a very convenient way of shorting the school system what they need, and thus have more ammo to go after them for not providing what our kids need. Thus making schools the root of all evil again. Most voters will go along with it, and the GOP in Wisconsin gets more of what it wants.
Good enough is already many IT "professionals" operate. They don't look for the best solution but the bare minimum. And often times they don't consider any other options but the "good enough" one.
Bit twiddlers vs technologists.
And a reason why the MS empire is what it is. : )
The meaning changes depending on who you're talking to, what they're representing and what seems to be convenient at the time.
Is it the OS? The hardware? The protocols implemented? Please.
I get this all the time in the enterprise systems space. "Industry standard servers" based on "open standards" really? Intel chips are open? Windows is open? You'll give me the source code & designs for those?
Or hey "open systems" storage. I.E. everything that's WinTel. Oh but hey UNIX is supposed to be open too, right? Oh wait, unless it's running on something other than x86 hardware, then it's the evil "proprietary."
Whatever. It's gone from being a legitimate technology premise to politics as usual. And of course Microsoft would try to spin this their way.
What's idiocy is thinking how you like to use a device is how everyone else will want to use one. GPS on my phone might be nice but so is my Garmin. It has a much larger screen, doesn't depend on a cell network to function and I can easily mount it forward in the vehicle to see while driving.
I just love it when some fool reporter tries to push an agenda or tell me how I'm supposed to use a product.
The three consoles: Wii, Xbox, PS all use IBM chips. The Wii's version isn't as powerful as the CellBE used in the PS for example...and the video of the Wii isn't quite as high end.
But then again, it's a different device. Why does it need to be the same as the others? If you think it's watered down, then go use something else. Pretty simple.
When you really position IT as a solution provider to the business, in addition to not being an elitist arse.
There will always be aholes in an organization who treat IT as scum. Mainly that's because IT has treated their customers (user base) as ignorant scum for years.
Policy is fine, but it needs support from on high. If you have that, then have the upper ups send out the notes on IT policy if you have to.
If you're cordial, offer solutions and value, and still get treated like crap then fine...BOFH it is then.
You can be nice while being treated like crap for only so long. Then look for another job.
Ethanol isn't the problem. How we're making it, is.
It cracks me up how quickly some folks want to dismiss it. Like it has to be 100% perfect the first time out. Gee, gasoline has what a 100 year head start?
You don't have to mod the whole engine. Just from the injector rails on back. Mainly the supply feed. Otherwise it'll run it fine. And I anticipate the 10 vs 15% thing is BS too, other than the supply side of it.
I talked to the Chevy engineer who worked on the Corvette pace car at Indy last year. It ran E85. I asked him what all needed to be changed and that was it. Injector rails on back. Things that would have direct contact with the fuel for extended periods of time. They happened to use neoprene to get the job done.
And oh by the way, methanol has been an additive in gasoline for years. Also an alcohol based product. It would have the same "issues" - or not - as ethanol as a fuel additive.
Oh and the stuff you put in your tank to eliminate fuel line freeze up? Alcohol based.
Oink, Oink.
It takes forever to boot up, which is my primary issue. And this is on a T61 Thinkpad, 3gig memory and a T8300 chip. Yes there are apps there but honestly it goes to the OS itself at the end of the day.
And if we're just going to discount any os issues by saying it's all the apps fault then well that just does well for this whole "open systems" thing now doesn't it.
Just means if it's open then it sucks because it can be screwed by other's apps. Gee, how nice.
For folks who want everyone to move to Linux, well show me all the apps that look, feel and have all the functions of what Joe User would have in his blessed WinDOHs world and ok maybe it would work.
You just can't expect the average Joe to have any patience with that.
Some have moved to Mac because honestly at this point you can be totally MS free on there, and have the app function you want. All in what would be much easier for Joe to use than trying to run with Linux.
I've downloaded Windows 7 and will try it on a couple boxes here both in 32 and 64 bit mode. We'll see.
Go visit sites like UltimateWhiteBox.com
My personal setup is two systems with Q6600 CPUs, 8 GB memory, intel 1000GT nic. I use a NAS box with an NFS share for shared storage in between them so I can do VMotion.
The big caveat I've found is that most desktop boards embedded eth won't work.
Use a lower end or cheap video card. I picked up some 128meg ATIs for $16 on ebay.
If the mainframe system is so good then why do you need to move off of it? Why is it a waste of taxpayer dollars when it works?
What I've seen on LED bulbs is that they tend to be rather directional in nature. They don't produce as much of an omnidirectional light as other bulbs do. I also don't much care for the "white" lights having more of a blue spectrum quality to them, vs the incandescent yellow spectrum glow. The reason I haven't bothered to use them in any of my holiday lights.
Ok so Exchange/Outlook because you have it in org today. I can see that, assuming that you also believe that's the best platform or the one that you prefer to use. Thing is though, and I know this to be true, that I can find folks who are ticked they have to use Notes and folks who are ticked they have to use Outlook. My last org switched to Exchange/Outlook from Notes/Domino and it set off a firestorm of protests from workers because they lost a TON of functionality. Productivity went into the toilet because Outlook simply couldn't keep up with the business.
Your comments alone indicate what little you know about the ND marketplace or even the collaborative application space. The entire Fortune 1000 is not going to Exchange my friend, no matter how much you want it to.
Indeed. We actually use Notes here (fuck knows why)
And what would you rather use? And state a product, not "anything."
I'll rephrase say what I posted when Gene passed: May she live long and prosper in a better place.
And in classic /. style, half the thread is bitching about Idle and whether or not this story should be main page news because it isn't geeky enough or whatever the pathetic standard is supposed to be...instead of actually discussing the story.
Ahh yes, great stuff.
Fact is that after 2000 our governments did what they do best. Have knee-jerk reactions to a problem.
There's nothing wrong with electronic voting systtems if they were to be done properly, which they weren't. Thus we've got nearly zero voter confidence in them ever working.
So, we're going to be stuck with more paper. Lovely. That worked out so well for Florida last time. Nevermind that the "evil technology" is in those optical scanner machines as well.
My wife works with union issues all the time. They're struggling for their lives. The trickery, the BS...no way.
This issue comes up every now & again, and each and every time I say hell no. I want no part of that.
An association? Perhaps. But never a labor union as we know the term to mean.
Man this place is sooo predictable.
Any discussion of Lotus brings out the trolls & haters. Look I'll say it again. If you haven't been looking at Notes 8, then you can't really complain much.
Complaining about Notes 6 or 7 or when you worked on Notes R5 10 years ago isn't a valid critique. Get over yourselves.
Besides, Outlook sucks. : )
The problem really is that we seem to have to find a way to classify something as "rage" and you also no longer have the right to be annoyed at anyone for any reason.
Seriously, when the moron woman in the Escalade on her cell phone blows through the 4-way stop as I am in the middle of the intersection after making an appropriate stop DOES piss me off!
The definition of what is "road rage" is pretty much anything other than driving the speed limit, not overtaking, and generally being a wart on the road. Speeding, overtaking or what they'd call excessive or aggressive...all equals road rage, so you're pretty well screwed.
And remember it doesn't matter what the other dude did if the cop only sees you.
The Power Systems line is comprised of a line of servers which runs IBM i, AIX, and Power Linux. This includes the JS12 & JS22 POWER6 blades.
There is effectively no more System p or System i, just Power Systems.
System z isn't part of that.
You do know that all three of those consoles (Wii, PS3 & Xbox 360) are running the same CPU right?
They're all based on some derivative of the IBM POWER chip/cell processor that's in the IBM POWER Systems line of servers.
Catch up how exactly? Sure Office interoperates with Exchange but show me what other features they have that competitors just don't have?
Lotus Quickr is a good competitor to Sharepoint, no question about it. It integrates with Windows Explorer, Office, and even Outlook.
Sametime for IM also works in Outlook as well as with mobile devices like Blackberry.
I'd like to hear what functionality you think folks lose when switching from MSFT to Lotus. Microsoft's document centric model IS the "old way" vs the Lotus model which is more activity & community collab based which IS the "new way."
Yea there are definately issues depending on what state/province/country you're in.
The way I look at it, if I create something during the normal course of doing my job then OK I can see that work being owned by the company. I believe the next thing though is that the employee should get some kind of payment for said invention if the company profits from it. I seem to recall that's how things worked at IBM some time back and at Bell Labs, but I could be wrong there.
What I have an issue with here is the notion that I don't own what I create for my own edification outside of the workplace with no tie to the company I work for. If I created, on my own time at home, the next great spatula, my company should not own my new spatula invention.
Our IT staff takes the "one size fits all" mentality. They have no idea what we do, they pick a box for everyone and say here you go with really no way to get anything different without insanely difficult processes.
Our team for example is a bunch of systems architects. We design and put the specs together for customer hardware & software solutions. We are all "IT people" who's role at our company isn't in IT. Thus we get the blow off. Nevermind we could do many of the jobs our IT folks do. We aren't in that role and are reminded of that all the time.
Well there happens to be a number of tools we need that aren't part of the standard image. So we load them. IT have an issue? Tough. I don't personally care, nor does the rest of the team. Even better when they try to blame us for the systems being slow. LOL Yea that's right. Nevermind the load of monitoring code they run. A full machine inventory EVERY DAY?!? WTF is that?
But hey that's what you get with an IT department full of Windoze geeks who don't know squat about enterprise IT. They do however know they're totally cool because they know how to deploy yet another useless policy. It comes down to IT being a service entity or a policy governance body. I ran my IT shop as a service, and I think that is how it should be.
These admins that talk about "my system" "my network" should be smacked. It is "the company's system" and "the company's network" you idiot.
Now, thankfully we're starting to make some progress whereby we actually get systems that can handle what we need to throw at them, IT be damned.
Ok rant off, time for bed.