If you have a support contract with IBM for the applications your company has purchased then you might not want to change the underlying OS.. cause IBM could quite easily turn around and tell you to bugger off and fix it yourself if you have a problem (because you will be running an unsupported configuration).
I'm a Brit, but trying hard to become an Ex-Brit and new Kiwi... we really don't care that the police and councils are watching our every move while outside, it's just no big deal and we rather like the comfort factor.
We understand that some other less intelligent races are rather paranoid about their goverments watching them.. why is that ?
If you stand on what is supposed to be the beach at Sheerness, you can see the ship at low tide anyway.. the radio mast sticks up about 12 feet above water.
Many a time I've stood on the beach and thrown rocks at it, hopeing by some fluke of luck I could throw a stone the mile distance and cause it to blow... then Sheerness would be toast! MUHAHAHHAAHAA!!
I HATE Sheppy!
Trust me, the world would be a nicer place without the Isle of Sheppy! It's aweful!
It doesn't have beachs or sea it has mud! Aethiests could work on the water there!
It's a nasty horrible, unpleasant place, with no charming features at all, a website called http://www.sheppyscum.com summed it up brialliantly! (pity thse site is gone now)
And sadly my father is from their and my gransparents and family are STILL there.. which means I have to visit! I even ran away to New Zealand to get as far away as possible!
Now I feel unclean after thinking about Sheppy and Sheerness-on-Sea(mud), need to go get drunk now to forget it.;-)
I've got quite a good nose as well, I walk down the street and every person who walks past me wafts a different smell, some nice some not so nice... just do what dogs do, sniff the interesting ones and ignore the rest:-)
Wow! Reading through that makes me sound weird(er):-)
Not give local administrator rights to the users machine would be a good start... can't install it then can they:-)
Or you could ban internet access entirely, most users don't need it anyway.
Actually we can install stuff on our destop and laptop machines, just so long as it isn't illegal... they rely on our commonsense.
If we do stuff up our machines they'll just blank them off and re-image them, after all our work docs should be on the network drives.
The reason we're being told to hold off is that the new IE might not be compatible with some internal applications on the intranet (stuff like, payroll, expenses claims etc).
There's no wording that SP2 breaks stuff in general, just that some critical IBM apps are effected.
So stop scare mongering!
What is the point in his test ? Did he think that Google hadn't done any testing at all ? Did he think that if a mailbox hit 100% something dreadful would happen ?
Of course it's going to work just fine, 1Mb, 10Mb, 100Mb, 1000Mb or even 10,000Mb is just a tiny dribble in the ocean that is Googles' infrastructure.
He's just looking for some kind of kudos... "Hey dude I filled up my Gmail account!" "Wow! That's so... so... actually that's pretty lame.."
I have enough trouble keeping enough storage space on our SAN and NAS boxes as it is, now if things move to 10Gbps I'll never get to sleep for the pager going off to tell me that "volume is 95% full"... it's far too easy to overwhelm the infrastructure as it is without making it 10 times easier!:-(
Wonderful! They showed that you can indeed play Doom3 on top of the line hardware... but didn't bother to benchmark the game on hardware that ID say is the minimum "1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440"
Or in fact anything in between those ranges:-(
Pointless review as only the minority of people have extreme PC's... even most Slashdotters don;t have extreme hardware!
It's the schools job to give students skills they can use in the real world... Microsoft is in 97% of the businesses and homes, Apple 2% and all the other hangerson are in that last 1%.
Otherwise kids go out into the world and go to job interviews saying "I can use MacOS!".. "Whoopee!" say the interviewers, "Come back later when you have skills we can use."
Probably because it was made by uber-nerds who might still not have seen a woman naked now let alone back then!;-)
I'm just having a joke is all! No disrepect intended as I'm artistically challenged.
.. you discover that you're a fat, balding computer geek who get's out of breath when climbing the stairs!
The mind might be willing but the body sure as hell won't!:-)
Personally I'd like any identified virus writers to be publically, maybe they can let all us poor buggers who get on the receiving end of their "proof of concept" programs.
Bet he has no friends and lives with his mum!:-)
How about if MS detect a user has a pirated copy of Windows that they let them download a patch that does the job but also has extra code in it to pop-up a window saying "This is a pirate copy" or change the background to something similar ?
Let's face it NO-ONE should be running pirated software... some people think "Ahhh they're a big company earning shed loads of money I deserve to get something for free from them!", but this could lead to them pirating someone elses software who happens to be a one man band, spent 5 years of his life developing it and has 10 kids to feed (actually not that likely, how many computer nerds get to see women let alone breed!:-)
Piracy is bad bad bad and far to easy a thing for people to fall into in either big or little ways.
Hands up who actually owns a license for Winzip ?
Mark
Well I know I do it, doesn't take much effort, and you just keep revising it everytime a good change comes to mind.
It makes it easier so that if I get run over by a bus then Mark V2 can come along and quickly pick up where I was interrupted.
People who don't do proper docs and designs are shoddy workers.
hehehe... well having a % of his money would be nice;-)
I just like things to be done properly is all... shame so few people and companies want to put the effort in to do it that way.
Yes they should be.. the structural engineers of the world have insurance in case their design is flawed and kills people, so why not software "engineers" ? Software can accidently kill people just as easily (darn +/- symbols are so confusing;-)
Problem is software engineers these days just chop straight into coding with hardly a thought to designing what they want... if a structural engineer turned up at a construction site and started to ad-hoc direct where things were to go how long do you think he would remain in a job ?
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What are the salvage rights on a nuke ?
:-)
If Joe Bloggs had found it and hauled it back up into his boat, could he keep it ?
If you have a support contract with IBM for the applications your company has purchased then you might not want to change the underlying OS .. cause IBM could quite easily turn around and tell you to bugger off and fix it yourself if you have a problem (because you will be running an unsupported configuration).
I'm a Brit, but trying hard to become an Ex-Brit and new Kiwi ... we really don't care that the police and councils are watching our every move while outside, it's just no big deal and we rather like the comfort factor.
We understand that some other less intelligent races are rather paranoid about their goverments watching them .. why is that ?
If you stand on what is supposed to be the beach at Sheerness, you can see the ship at low tide anyway .. the radio mast sticks up about 12 feet above water.
Many a time I've stood on the beach and thrown rocks at it, hopeing by some fluke of luck I could throw a stone the mile distance and cause it to blow ... then Sheerness would be toast! MUHAHAHHAAHAA!!
I HATE Sheppy!
Trust me, the world would be a nicer place without the Isle of Sheppy! It's aweful! It doesn't have beachs or sea it has mud! Aethiests could work on the water there! It's a nasty horrible, unpleasant place, with no charming features at all, a website called http://www.sheppyscum.com summed it up brialliantly! (pity thse site is gone now) And sadly my father is from their and my gransparents and family are STILL there .. which means I have to visit! I even ran away to New Zealand to get as far away as possible!
Now I feel unclean after thinking about Sheppy and Sheerness-on-Sea(mud), need to go get drunk now to forget it. ;-)
Honestly now, is this for real ? Do people actually pay to have someone "burn-in" their cables ? What is the science behind it ? If any!
I've got quite a good nose as well, I walk down the street and every person who walks past me wafts a different smell, some nice some not so nice ... just do what dogs do, sniff the interesting ones and ignore the rest :-)
Wow! Reading through that makes me sound weird(er) :-)
Well there are some people I wouldn't even trust with pen and paper .... ;-)
Not give local administrator rights to the users machine would be a good start ... can't install it then can they :-)
Or you could ban internet access entirely, most users don't need it anyway.
Actually we can install stuff on our destop and laptop machines, just so long as it isn't illegal ... they rely on our commonsense.
If we do stuff up our machines they'll just blank them off and re-image them, after all our work docs should be on the network drives.
The reason we're being told to hold off is that the new IE might not be compatible with some internal applications on the intranet (stuff like, payroll, expenses claims etc). There's no wording that SP2 breaks stuff in general, just that some critical IBM apps are effected. So stop scare mongering!
What is the point in his test ? Did he think that Google hadn't done any testing at all ? Did he think that if a mailbox hit 100% something dreadful would happen ? Of course it's going to work just fine, 1Mb, 10Mb, 100Mb, 1000Mb or even 10,000Mb is just a tiny dribble in the ocean that is Googles' infrastructure. He's just looking for some kind of kudos ... "Hey dude I filled up my Gmail account!" "Wow! That's so ... so ... actually that's pretty lame .."
I have enough trouble keeping enough storage space on our SAN and NAS boxes as it is, now if things move to 10Gbps I'll never get to sleep for the pager going off to tell me that "volume is 95% full" ... it's far too easy to overwhelm the infrastructure as it is without making it 10 times easier! :-(
So this half finished review was them just rushing to be first to show benchmarks ? Glad they are not in the aerospace industry ....
Wonderful! They showed that you can indeed play Doom3 on top of the line hardware ... but didn't bother to benchmark the game on hardware that ID say is the minimum "1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440"
Or in fact anything in between those ranges :-(
Pointless review as only the minority of people have extreme PC's ... even most Slashdotters don;t have extreme hardware!
It's the schools job to give students skills they can use in the real world ... Microsoft is in 97% of the businesses and homes, Apple 2% and all the other hangerson are in that last 1%.
.. "Whoopee!" say the interviewers, "Come back later when you have skills we can use."
Otherwise kids go out into the world and go to job interviews saying "I can use MacOS!"
Probably because it was made by uber-nerds who might still not have seen a woman naked now let alone back then! ;-)
I'm just having a joke is all! No disrepect intended as I'm artistically challenged.
Does this system appear as one big computer running a single instance of an OS .. or is it just a bunch of independant PC's networked together ?
.. you discover that you're a fat, balding computer geek who get's out of breath when climbing the stairs! The mind might be willing but the body sure as hell won't! :-)
Personally I'd like any identified virus writers to be publically, maybe they can let all us poor buggers who get on the receiving end of their "proof of concept" programs. Bet he has no friends and lives with his mum! :-)
How about if MS detect a user has a pirated copy of Windows that they let them download a patch that does the job but also has extra code in it to pop-up a window saying "This is a pirate copy" or change the background to something similar ? Let's face it NO-ONE should be running pirated software ... some people think "Ahhh they're a big company earning shed loads of money I deserve to get something for free from them!", but this could lead to them pirating someone elses software who happens to be a one man band, spent 5 years of his life developing it and has 10 kids to feed (actually not that likely, how many computer nerds get to see women let alone breed! :-)
Piracy is bad bad bad and far to easy a thing for people to fall into in either big or little ways.
Hands up who actually owns a license for Winzip ?
Mark
Sadly you will get paid bugger all as a graduate, unless you are exceptionally good and can prove it (and get lucky).
:-)
Your next job will be better as then you'll have real world experience
Well I know I do it, doesn't take much effort, and you just keep revising it everytime a good change comes to mind. It makes it easier so that if I get run over by a bus then Mark V2 can come along and quickly pick up where I was interrupted. People who don't do proper docs and designs are shoddy workers.
hehehe ... well having a % of his money would be nice ;-)
I just like things to be done properly is all ... shame so few people and companies want to put the effort in to do it that way.
Yes they should be .. the structural engineers of the world have insurance in case their design is flawed and kills people, so why not software "engineers" ? Software can accidently kill people just as easily (darn +/- symbols are so confusing ;-)
Problem is software engineers these days just chop straight into coding with hardly a thought to designing what they want ... if a structural engineer turned up at a construction site and started to ad-hoc direct where things were to go how long do you think he would remain in a job ?