I spent a year as a subsitute teacher in the local ISD, Independent School District, and every school I was ever in had 90% Macs and 10% Windows, in fact the only "Windows" machines where in the "Windows Lab." Yet they still continued trying to run MS Office on the Macs. They were horribly unreliable and always crashed at the wrong time. Classes from "Keyboarding" to "Desktop Publishing" where all taught on Macs and only the "Computer Application" classes where taught in Windows.
In fact the district I spent most of time in was using some form of Novell Network w/ Macs. I found the opposite form of "monoculture" was involved where Windows/MS was on the outside looking in. BTW the "Network" was unstable, had all kinds of problems and crashed often. Always at the wrong times....
And if it was the Democrats that were the majority and they had chosen to keep the vote open for an extra 15 minutes would Slashdot care? Or if it was the Democrats that were in charge and forced/bribed/threatened people to change votes, would Slashdot care? I doubt it
I agree with the parent. The only times my windows boxes crash is when I am running BETA software, ie Service Pack 2 for XP. So I have no clue what he is talking about. Seems more like he has an axe to grind then he is some great techno-wizard. Learn Office or figure out why IE crashes? Maybe you forgot to patch your box and it has a virus/worm or some other problem. windowsupdate.microsoft.com should help you out there, or just install Opera or Firebird or whatever your favorite browser is.
This is nothing but one person's pissed off view of the world. I have a Windows 2000 box at home that I use as my main computer for gamin and my wife uses it for her day to day operations. The box has been running smoothly for 3 years with no problems.
In fact, I have had no system problems, nothing "deterioriate", and no need to reinstall the box. I upgrade my PC when I have the time to download, I have a dial up modem. I keep my virus protection updated, once a week and have had no problems. My quarintine folder is full of possible viruses but nothing is installed, nothing is corrupted.
Checking for service packs at windowsupdate.microsoft.com is never a good thing to do. One should always search for the exact download location and then you can figure out all the fixes and changes in the service pack. www.microsoft.com/downloads is always a better place for these packs, something I thought any good windows sysadmin would know. The whole article should be labeled as flamebait
One of the best places for thin-client computing should be in banks where most of the information is either through a green screen, client access, connection to an AS/400 or other midrange server, or through some form of browser based product.
At the bank I work at, we use terminals throughout for processors and for tellers. For people that just need access to email and one or two applications it cuts down on the cost and need for everything else a pc provides. Plus it simplies management and administration which is a huge bonus for the small bank I work at.
We use Citrix for these terminals and they run like a dream.
I have to agree with this, while I am not as anti-Microsoft as some other people are here. It is all the bulk and garbage that is preinstalled that takes time to clean off a PC before it is distributed. Right now on a Dell I purchased, it came with AOL, Earthlink, Norton Antivirus suite, some jukebox player, Dell "Support Utilities", and several other pieces of software.
So I connected the PC, loaded the company image w/o the software and promptly spent the next couple hour downloading patches since the last image was made. Didn't need any of the OEM software in my company, so it was pointless of getting it in the first place.
I disagree, last week's episdoe with Marge telling the various history stories was classic. I thought it had everything some of the old episodes had and is perhaps the best so far this season. There were way too many good parts in the episode to list, but perhaps the greatest was when Lisa tried to grow a penis. I laughed so hard I was crying.
While last season was pretty terrible, this season has improved. Hopefully it will continue
Do you really think the average user, espcially one that buys computers at Walmart will spend hours every day patching it and downloading updates for every security hole?
I have talked to numerous people that have problems with PCs and the first question I ask them is not "When was the last time you updated your PC from windows update?" It is "when was the last time you looked at your anti-virus program." 90% of the time the answer is: "I don't know, I just got Anti-Virus when I bought the PC three years" or something along that line.
In fact all most people need a PC for is email, games and word processing. For all but games current PCs are way overpowered. How many of us have friends or relatives with just one of those "Mail Stations" that they receive email on?
As someone who works in a bank, I have seen a Diebold repair tech hook up his laptop directly to the ATM to do some work on it. So the laptop could have been the one that was infected.
Also you most of the program information comes from the Processing Center that is driving the ATMs which are all on a network. For example when we changed ATM Processors, the tech had to connect to the system and get a "load" from the new processing center to connect. These ATMs are connected over some form of leased line.
I am glad to know that our ATMs are running OS/2 Warp and were unaffected by this bug
I receive a lot of "junk mail" from Cisco and received an offer for this book free of charge. I threw it away, looks like I should have used it and take advantage of the book.
Recently at my company we tried to contact HP for more KVM cables for our KVM switch. This is an "older" HP product. Talk about a joke trying to get the product.
Upon contact support, the only number findable on the website I was transfered to parts and spoke with someone thier. After giving the part number to the lady, she said "I don't know if we still make that product." How can the company not know if they make something anything more. It took her almost a half-hour to try and find the product or the replacement product. I finally asked her if this was because of the merger between HP and Compaq. She said yes, that it is a nightmare in the parts department because no one knows when or if they cancel a product.
I don't understand how they can run a business when no one knows what is happening in the parts department
I've found my enjoyment has shifted. I still play on various MUDs and still enjoy them. However I have moved from the actual running eq and quests to working on developing my favorite mud. Its where I have learned how to code several langagues and work with databases that I would never had the opportunity or desire before.
I agree that jobs and responsibilities have helped in the shift from the day to day exping and getting eq. Who has time to spend 5 hours on a single piece of eq when family, work, friends and other jobs are calling you.
I have always been that level 10 when everyone I know is a level 50 uber player. I the person that will always ask for help because the 10 minutes I am, maybe the only time I have that day for a game. That is why I will never again be some uber gamer.
I agree totatlly with this. I am one of those that has a 8 certifications to thier name but knows more then what is just on paper. It is funny how every test I have studied for there are those wonderful cheatsheets with comments of "I only used this cheetsheat/braindump and I passed the test." I would hate to have to rely on those types of kiddies to work in my network.
I would not declare myself a Linux expert, I am knowledge about things but not an expert. The best way I learned about Linux was through the Linux+ exam by CompTIA. It explained things better then any other howto or man page could. So some certifications are worthwhile.
I am currently an MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2000), Network+, A+, Linux+ and have an additional MCP in Windows XP Professional. All of these certifications have taught me more about what I do on a day to day basis and have also reinforced what I already knew.
For everything I know about longhorn the big part of it is not the server market, who would run anything as a server under Windows XP Pro? As to stability of thier server, due to the recent patch for MSBLast and Service Pack 4 at the same time, it was the first reboot since Service Pack 3 came out. Thats pretty stable considering I am runing Exchange and AD on the box with 250+ mailboxes on it. (or am I too small time?)
I haven't read the other book, but like I stated earlier it is an interesting read, great ideas and was a great book for teaching me how to use Snort.
I was a brand new person to Snort and it got me up and rolling. I am now using RedHat 8.0, MySQL, and ACID in my small company and things go quite smoothly.
The book has my recomendation to it. Was better then googling for everything.
Just wanted to add my.02 to the mention about Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection from Syngress. I was brand new to Snort, boss came home from a confrence and he heard people were using Snort and wondered why we weren't. So I picked up the book and it was a great book to learn. Also comments from the Snort mailing list are another great place to learn more information. But you all probablly know that stuff already
I agree, I think Linux is wonderful for the things it can do and also Windows for the things they do.
If I was given the chance to design an IT solution for a company with no technology I would choose MS. Why? Exchange simple as that. Find something that can replace Exchange and Outlook and you found the way to kick MS out of the workplace.
In fact an ISP I worked for ran Exchange for its internal mail and qmail for its customers simply for the calendaring, tasks and other stuff found in Outlook and Exchange.
As a Linux Newbie, I've just started learning it, a lot of these books just don't cut it. They are either too technical or everything has changed by the time the book is available. Nothing like trying to learn an OS from a book based on Mandrake 6.0 when the version you have is 8.0. Or learning from an old version of Red Hat when it is out of date because a newer version of the operating system
The biggest place where internships are not paid is student teaching. In fact you have to pay for your internship as it is a part of your required education.
On top of that, some of the supervising teachers get a bonus per diem for taking on a student teacher and some colleges give a thank you gift to the teacher as well.
Not only do you not get paid for it, other people make money off your hard work. The only time I got any money was when I substituted for a teacher during my prep hour.
I am a Linux "newbie" and Slack was my first real distro. I started with a LinuxGuru introducing it to me a year ago and gave me Slack on CD. I have been hooked on it since then. I have strayed to other distros over the year but have always returned to the fold.
A lot of the "padding/filling" in NASCAR is done to help explain things to the average person, not the "diehard" fan who understands what aero push, front downforce, tight, and loose mean. Fox does a good job at this with the cut-away car they use to demonstrate the parts of a car that might break or the problems a certain driver is having some place. Another way this is done is through cameras on the breaks, a la NBC that showed the heat of the breaks during a lap. Not only does it make the event more entertaining but it helps people understand the sport more.
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In fact the district I spent most of time in was using some form of Novell Network w/ Macs. I found the opposite form of "monoculture" was involved where Windows/MS was on the outside looking in. BTW the "Network" was unstable, had all kinds of problems and crashed often. Always at the wrong times....
I just read recently that Yahoo and AOL were dumping all of their "Enterprise" solutions for instant messaging and chat. Does this go against that?
And if it was the Democrats that were the majority and they had chosen to keep the vote open for an extra 15 minutes would Slashdot care? Or if it was the Democrats that were in charge and forced/bribed/threatened people to change votes, would Slashdot care? I doubt it
Who would win, Alex or Ken in a head to head contest? I bet they could even do a prime time show on that
Or better yet, while a "Halloween" document has come out in June.... A little slow?
I agree with the parent. The only times my windows boxes crash is when I am running BETA software, ie Service Pack 2 for XP. So I have no clue what he is talking about. Seems more like he has an axe to grind then he is some great techno-wizard. Learn Office or figure out why IE crashes? Maybe you forgot to patch your box and it has a virus/worm or some other problem. windowsupdate.microsoft.com should help you out there, or just install Opera or Firebird or whatever your favorite browser is.
In fact, I have had no system problems, nothing "deterioriate", and no need to reinstall the box. I upgrade my PC when I have the time to download, I have a dial up modem. I keep my virus protection updated, once a week and have had no problems. My quarintine folder is full of possible viruses but nothing is installed, nothing is corrupted.
Checking for service packs at windowsupdate.microsoft.com is never a good thing to do. One should always search for the exact download location and then you can figure out all the fixes and changes in the service pack. www.microsoft.com/downloads is always a better place for these packs, something I thought any good windows sysadmin would know. The whole article should be labeled as flamebait
One of the best places for thin-client computing should be in banks where most of the information is either through a green screen, client access, connection to an AS/400 or other midrange server, or through some form of browser based product.
At the bank I work at, we use terminals throughout for processors and for tellers. For people that just need access to email and one or two applications it cuts down on the cost and need for everything else a pc provides. Plus it simplies management and administration which is a huge bonus for the small bank I work at.
We use Citrix for these terminals and they run like a dream.
So I connected the PC, loaded the company image w/o the software and promptly spent the next couple hour downloading patches since the last image was made. Didn't need any of the OEM software in my company, so it was pointless of getting it in the first place.
While last season was pretty terrible, this season has improved. Hopefully it will continue
Do you really think the average user, espcially one that buys computers at Walmart will spend hours every day patching it and downloading updates for every security hole? I have talked to numerous people that have problems with PCs and the first question I ask them is not "When was the last time you updated your PC from windows update?" It is "when was the last time you looked at your anti-virus program." 90% of the time the answer is: "I don't know, I just got Anti-Virus when I bought the PC three years" or something along that line. In fact all most people need a PC for is email, games and word processing. For all but games current PCs are way overpowered. How many of us have friends or relatives with just one of those "Mail Stations" that they receive email on?
As someone who works in a bank, I have seen a Diebold repair tech hook up his laptop directly to the ATM to do some work on it. So the laptop could have been the one that was infected.
Also you most of the program information comes from the Processing Center that is driving the ATMs which are all on a network. For example when we changed ATM Processors, the tech had to connect to the system and get a "load" from the new processing center to connect. These ATMs are connected over some form of leased line.
I am glad to know that our ATMs are running OS/2 Warp and were unaffected by this bug
I receive a lot of "junk mail" from Cisco and received an offer for this book free of charge. I threw it away, looks like I should have used it and take advantage of the book.
Recently at my company we tried to contact HP for more KVM cables for our KVM switch. This is an "older" HP product. Talk about a joke trying to get the product.
Upon contact support, the only number findable on the website I was transfered to parts and spoke with someone thier. After giving the part number to the lady, she said "I don't know if we still make that product." How can the company not know if they make something anything more. It took her almost a half-hour to try and find the product or the replacement product. I finally asked her if this was because of the merger between HP and Compaq. She said yes, that it is a nightmare in the parts department because no one knows when or if they cancel a product.
I don't understand how they can run a business when no one knows what is happening in the parts department
I've found my enjoyment has shifted. I still play on various MUDs and still enjoy them. However I have moved from the actual running eq and quests to working on developing my favorite mud. Its where I have learned how to code several langagues and work with databases that I would never had the opportunity or desire before.
I agree that jobs and responsibilities have helped in the shift from the day to day exping and getting eq. Who has time to spend 5 hours on a single piece of eq when family, work, friends and other jobs are calling you.
I have always been that level 10 when everyone I know is a level 50 uber player. I the person that will always ask for help because the 10 minutes I am, maybe the only time I have that day for a game. That is why I will never again be some uber gamer.
I agree totatlly with this. I am one of those that has a 8 certifications to thier name but knows more then what is just on paper. It is funny how every test I have studied for there are those wonderful cheatsheets with comments of "I only used this cheetsheat/braindump and I passed the test." I would hate to have to rely on those types of kiddies to work in my network.
I would not declare myself a Linux expert, I am knowledge about things but not an expert. The best way I learned about Linux was through the Linux+ exam by CompTIA. It explained things better then any other howto or man page could. So some certifications are worthwhile.
I am currently an MCSA (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2000), Network+, A+, Linux+ and have an additional MCP in Windows XP Professional. All of these certifications have taught me more about what I do on a day to day basis and have also reinforced what I already knew.
For everything I know about longhorn the big part of it is not the server market, who would run anything as a server under Windows XP Pro? As to stability of thier server, due to the recent patch for MSBLast and Service Pack 4 at the same time, it was the first reboot since Service Pack 3 came out. Thats pretty stable considering I am runing Exchange and AD on the box with 250+ mailboxes on it. (or am I too small time?)
I haven't read the other book, but like I stated earlier it is an interesting read, great ideas and was a great book for teaching me how to use Snort.
I was a brand new person to Snort and it got me up and rolling. I am now using RedHat 8.0, MySQL, and ACID in my small company and things go quite smoothly.
The book has my recomendation to it. Was better then googling for everything.
Just wanted to add my .02 to the mention about Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection from Syngress. I was brand new to Snort, boss came home from a confrence and he heard people were using Snort and wondered why we weren't. So I picked up the book and it was a great book to learn. Also comments from the Snort mailing list are another great place to learn more information. But you all probablly know that stuff already
I agree, I think Linux is wonderful for the things it can do and also Windows for the things they do.
If I was given the chance to design an IT solution for a company with no technology I would choose MS. Why? Exchange simple as that. Find something that can replace Exchange and Outlook and you found the way to kick MS out of the workplace.
In fact an ISP I worked for ran Exchange for its internal mail and qmail for its customers simply for the calendaring, tasks and other stuff found in Outlook and Exchange.
As a Linux Newbie, I've just started learning it, a lot of these books just don't cut it. They are either too technical or everything has changed by the time the book is available. Nothing like trying to learn an OS from a book based on Mandrake 6.0 when the version you have is 8.0. Or learning from an old version of Red Hat when it is out of date because a newer version of the operating system
On top of that, some of the supervising teachers get a bonus per diem for taking on a student teacher and some colleges give a thank you gift to the teacher as well.
Not only do you not get paid for it, other people make money off your hard work. The only time I got any money was when I substituted for a teacher during my prep hour.
I also say "Yay for the slack..."
I am a Linux "newbie" and Slack was my first real distro. I started with a LinuxGuru introducing it to me a year ago and gave me Slack on CD. I have been hooked on it since then. I have strayed to other distros over the year but have always returned to the fold.
A lot of the "padding/filling" in NASCAR is done to help explain things to the average person, not the "diehard" fan who understands what aero push, front downforce, tight, and loose mean. Fox does a good job at this with the cut-away car they use to demonstrate the parts of a car that might break or the problems a certain driver is having some place. Another way this is done is through cameras on the breaks, a la NBC that showed the heat of the breaks during a lap. Not only does it make the event more entertaining but it helps people understand the sport more.
The Toyota vehicle is a truck that will take part in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, based on the fact the truck was built in North America.