An early version of the computer game "Axis and Allies" wouldn't install on a Windows 2k box of mine. Kept insisting that it worked only on NT5 or greator.
Nice post, haven't really thought of it that way, but I too use the best tool for the job.
I am working on implmenting our first Open Source project, request tracker, into our domain simply because it is the right tool for the job.
I wish linux users were more about using the right tool instead of Linux is the only tool
I would love to hear this. We use IE throughout our company and I have forced the home page, some bookmarks, security settings and other things from Group Policy. Now I can't do that in Firefox which means no Firefox at the company. I've been looking for something that I can setup and forget it. My GPO just works.
Shouldn't a school prepare a kid for a job. If that job requires use of Microsoft products to work, which most jobs do, the biggest MS product would be of course Office which a large majority of companies use, then shouldn't we be teaching them how to do spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations, create publications, etc?
In high school, granted this was almost 10 years ago.... I learned basic Excel, Word, Power Point that helped me out in college and beyond and I am grateful for it. Will these students that no longer use MS now be further behind?
It does work great. I know the Ubuntu doc team is using it to translate the various help guides and docs they are working on. It makes everything a whole lot easier
Isn't the piont of loading "fake hardware" some of the problems license wise Microsoft is having with its vitural pc? I remember seeing some vidoe over at channel9.msdn.com about Virtual PC and they guy mentioned part of the reason they are having emulating OS X is due to a license problem or something like that. Also they were running into problems w/ NVIDIA?
I work at a community bank and for our core processing solution as a part of the state wide user group we do in fact vote for improvements and changes to the system
Thats exactly why I have been using Ubuntu and working on the doc-team as well.
Two things for me that increase my love for Ubuntu.
1. It just works right out of the box, even on old hardware I can run Gnome. I have several old boxes and I can run Gnome on them w/o trying to figure out exactly what chipset my graphics card is and the refresh rate of the monitor and the.... it just works.
2. Community support is great. You don't have to be a developer to try and give back. I work w/ the doc-team and help out minor w/ the Wiki. Other distros I've always felt that I needed to be able to sling code or create packages or something like that, which I don't know how to do.
If I recall correctly, WUS has been renamed to Windows Software Update Services, or WSUS as it will update Office, Exchange, and the OS. Maybe more but don't remember off the top of my head.
If you don't have the budget for SMS then WSUS is indeed the way to go.
And how many PCs have you installed SP2 on? How many applications of yours did it break or are you just relying on the same old news stories and the tired I heard from a friend who had a friend that once installed SP2 and had an issue with it.
This whole mess about automagically downloading Service Pack 2 is so overated and misunderstood. At my work I have deployed SUS and have even deployed Service Pack 2 through it.
In Group Policy one sets how Automatic Updates work, one can even turn them off or redirect it to the SUS server of your choice. Come on people, this is so much crap about how everything breaks and the sky is falling. I call FUD
Why would you be installing this on SBS 2003? You would break more then its worth. SBS 2003 SP1 will help you out instead.
Service Packs for SBS are special due to ISA, SQL and everything else installed on it. A Windows 2003 Server service pack will cause more headaches for any SBS user. Just wait until MS gets it service pack uploaded
Right on... Any illegal should go back right over the board. They are not disadvantage students they are ILLEGAL students. I read something that California's Health Care System is falling apart because of treating Illegals. Why don't they treat them and then arrest them for breaking the law. Thne send them back over the border.
Better yet, lets deal harshly with the goverment of Mexico that is producing a guide on how to bypass the border patrol in COMIC book form so illegals that can't read know how to make it to America. President Bush needs to get tough on immigration and no more pardons for ILLEGALS
The only passion I really get when reading anything about Slashdot editors is when they get to go to free confrences and speak about how great their site is. Maybe we should stop paying them w/ all of our traffic. Maybe go to another site?
How does one become an editor? Is it a personal friend of someone here on Slashdot? Like if I knew CowboyNEal in real life and was good friends w/ him and didn't have a real job I could become an editor of slashdot?
I have never seen how this person becomes an editor. There really isn't much about the back process of this site. I know CowboyNeal posts a journal about thoughts that may one day in the future become a change, but besides that we don't know anything about our great Overloads.
Mod grandparent up. I agree totally with these two posts. Just because you don't agree w/ it doesn't mean it is not informative and it isn't flamebait. Read the Geneva Convention, then comment on what that says and not what you think it says.
Great explanation. I can't figure out why the OFAC, Office of Finincial Account and Controls, list didn't catch this transfer first.
Any transaction should go through this list before the transaction actually hits the account. The list matches the "known terrorists" phonetically to customers of the bank. The system is not the greatest but it should have forced the person performing the transfer to verify this person or the location it was going to was "not a terrorist" or on any "terror watchlists."
I wonder if you will find in the logs, the person who processed the transfer was lazy and just responded automatically to the prompt if there was one.
I work for a community bank and at a smaller bank like one of those you should and most time will find better service for your money then one of those Chase/Bank One/Bank of America/Fifth Third/etc. 99% of the time a true community bank will know you well enough to understand how your transactions work. Chances are you might get even better rates as well w/ the better service.
I've been running my Windows 2000 box at home since it came out, no virus, no spamware, no garbage and it runs great. Last time I checked uptime was 3 months and 12 days.
I'm the network administrator for a community bank. We use the online banking service provide by our core banking software provider w/ a link to a third party bill paying software.
All of the "work" is done through a web interface, non-browser dependent. So use your favorite....
We use Microsoft Money here at home, actually my wife does most of the balancing. While we can download our statements in Money's format, we just enter the transactions manually and when the statement comes we balance it that way.
For bill paying, we use the third party bill pay, through our web browser, and it is easy to setup re-occuring bill payments. Configure in re-occuring payments in Money as well and everything is synced up. Total cost is the use of the internet, Microsoft Money which came with the purchase of our Dell and having an account at the bank. Bill pay and online banking is free and we get to see the images of any check or debit/credit ticket that is processed through the proof and capture system.
In fact, hardly any banks in the area charge for online banking and bill payment. So that whole $6 fee is silly find a bank that has two things: a. Good intrest rates and b. Free online banking and billypay
The default homepage of a Firefox install, did one just yesterday, was to put a FireFox branded google page as the homepage. Hmmm already working on driving up revenue???
At work we use it for "kiosk"-like web browser. The use of the txt file to force settings down is a lot easier then trying to setup IE to run in the same locked mode.
It was a pain to get setup but once setup it runs like a dream w/ no problems
Meant to add one more thing:
Also we are implementing an AVID solution (Cisco's VoIP offering) and one of the pieces unified messaging (voicemail through email) comes with an Outlook plugin. Any way to use Evolution to connect to my voicemail server? Exchange and Unity working together. I have exchange through the connector
Looking foward to this then. I need to figure out my connector correctly through OOo and set things up. I've setup my network inventory in rough database format and can manipulate it through phpmyadmin or somewhat through the query analyzer GUI from mysql.com.
But back to Access: At work we have power users that can easily slap together a database, manipulate the data and export it to a nice form or even into some way of dealing w/ excel. Until we can do that, we won't replace Access.
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An early version of the computer game "Axis and Allies" wouldn't install on a Windows 2k box of mine. Kept insisting that it worked only on NT5 or greator.
Nice post, haven't really thought of it that way, but I too use the best tool for the job. I am working on implmenting our first Open Source project, request tracker, into our domain simply because it is the right tool for the job. I wish linux users were more about using the right tool instead of Linux is the only tool
I would love to hear this. We use IE throughout our company and I have forced the home page, some bookmarks, security settings and other things from Group Policy. Now I can't do that in Firefox which means no Firefox at the company. I've been looking for something that I can setup and forget it. My GPO just works.
Shouldn't a school prepare a kid for a job. If that job requires use of Microsoft products to work, which most jobs do, the biggest MS product would be of course Office which a large majority of companies use, then shouldn't we be teaching them how to do spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations, create publications, etc? In high school, granted this was almost 10 years ago.... I learned basic Excel, Word, Power Point that helped me out in college and beyond and I am grateful for it. Will these students that no longer use MS now be further behind?
It does work great. I know the Ubuntu doc team is using it to translate the various help guides and docs they are working on. It makes everything a whole lot easier
Isn't the piont of loading "fake hardware" some of the problems license wise Microsoft is having with its vitural pc? I remember seeing some vidoe over at channel9.msdn.com about Virtual PC and they guy mentioned part of the reason they are having emulating OS X is due to a license problem or something like that. Also they were running into problems w/ NVIDIA?
I work at a community bank and for our core processing solution as a part of the state wide user group we do in fact vote for improvements and changes to the system
Two things for me that increase my love for Ubuntu.
1. It just works right out of the box, even on old hardware I can run Gnome. I have several old boxes and I can run Gnome on them w/o trying to figure out exactly what chipset my graphics card is and the refresh rate of the monitor and the.... it just works.
2. Community support is great. You don't have to be a developer to try and give back. I work w/ the doc-team and help out minor w/ the Wiki. Other distros I've always felt that I needed to be able to sling code or create packages or something like that, which I don't know how to do.
If you don't have the budget for SMS then WSUS is indeed the way to go.
And how many PCs have you installed SP2 on? How many applications of yours did it break or are you just relying on the same old news stories and the tired I heard from a friend who had a friend that once installed SP2 and had an issue with it.
In Group Policy one sets how Automatic Updates work, one can even turn them off or redirect it to the SUS server of your choice. Come on people, this is so much crap about how everything breaks and the sky is falling. I call FUD
Service Packs for SBS are special due to ISA, SQL and everything else installed on it. A Windows 2003 Server service pack will cause more headaches for any SBS user. Just wait until MS gets it service pack uploaded
Better yet, lets deal harshly with the goverment of Mexico that is producing a guide on how to bypass the border patrol in COMIC book form so illegals that can't read know how to make it to America. President Bush needs to get tough on immigration and no more pardons for ILLEGALS
The only passion I really get when reading anything about Slashdot editors is when they get to go to free confrences and speak about how great their site is. Maybe we should stop paying them w/ all of our traffic. Maybe go to another site?
Both of the links to www.iso.ch are broken any other non-broken links? Was actually interested to find this list but disappointed the link was broken.
I have never seen how this person becomes an editor. There really isn't much about the back process of this site. I know CowboyNeal posts a journal about thoughts that may one day in the future become a change, but besides that we don't know anything about our great Overloads.
Mod grandparent up. I agree totally with these two posts. Just because you don't agree w/ it doesn't mean it is not informative and it isn't flamebait. Read the Geneva Convention, then comment on what that says and not what you think it says.
Any transaction should go through this list before the transaction actually hits the account. The list matches the "known terrorists" phonetically to customers of the bank. The system is not the greatest but it should have forced the person performing the transfer to verify this person or the location it was going to was "not a terrorist" or on any "terror watchlists."
I wonder if you will find in the logs, the person who processed the transfer was lazy and just responded automatically to the prompt if there was one.
I work for a community bank and at a smaller bank like one of those you should and most time will find better service for your money then one of those Chase/Bank One/Bank of America/Fifth Third/etc. 99% of the time a true community bank will know you well enough to understand how your transactions work. Chances are you might get even better rates as well w/ the better service.
I've been running my Windows 2000 box at home since it came out, no virus, no spamware, no garbage and it runs great. Last time I checked uptime was 3 months and 12 days.
We use Microsoft Money here at home, actually my wife does most of the balancing. While we can download our statements in Money's format, we just enter the transactions manually and when the statement comes we balance it that way.
For bill paying, we use the third party bill pay, through our web browser, and it is easy to setup re-occuring bill payments. Configure in re-occuring payments in Money as well and everything is synced up. Total cost is the use of the internet, Microsoft Money which came with the purchase of our Dell and having an account at the bank. Bill pay and online banking is free and we get to see the images of any check or debit/credit ticket that is processed through the proof and capture system.
In fact, hardly any banks in the area charge for online banking and bill payment. So that whole $6 fee is silly find a bank that has two things: a. Good intrest rates and b. Free online banking and billypay
The default homepage of a Firefox install, did one just yesterday, was to put a FireFox branded google page as the homepage. Hmmm already working on driving up revenue???
It was a pain to get setup but once setup it runs like a dream w/ no problems
Ah but that doesn't matter here. As long as it is pro linux and anti microsoft its good news :)
Meant to add one more thing: Also we are implementing an AVID solution (Cisco's VoIP offering) and one of the pieces unified messaging (voicemail through email) comes with an Outlook plugin. Any way to use Evolution to connect to my voicemail server? Exchange and Unity working together. I have exchange through the connector
Looking foward to this then. I need to figure out my connector correctly through OOo and set things up. I've setup my network inventory in rough database format and can manipulate it through phpmyadmin or somewhat through the query analyzer GUI from mysql.com. But back to Access: At work we have power users that can easily slap together a database, manipulate the data and export it to a nice form or even into some way of dealing w/ excel. Until we can do that, we won't replace Access.