Thanks - knew about that but it's not 'native' and falls into "...or are you still stuck with the pile-of-crap BIS/BES services for email (or using Web interfaces or third party java apps)?"
It amuses me when users that opt for technology with a fair degree of vendor lock-in, feature control (or plain, simple pose/fanboi value) 'look forward' to features that the rest of us have had for years.
I have an HTC Rhodium (Touch Pro 2) and HTC have done a good job to hide the abomination that is Windows Mobile with a fairly decent (but not perfect) touch interface, wireless works, I have VNC, PockeTTY and Remote Desktop support loaded (for 'emergency support'), I am about to load up a VoIP app (SJPhone) and I can browse networks & print. TomTom satnav's on and I have just installed a Spanish-English dictionary for a holiday next week. The developer community (eg: xda-developer) is very strong so there are lots of commercial, free and shareware tools and apps available and, well, it's a decent phone too!
Does it support IMAP/POP/SMTP natively or are you still stuck with the pile-of-crap BIS/BES services for email (or using Web interfaces or third party java apps)?
I won't even consider looking at this model for the rest of our small (16) corporate team unless we can use our own (postfix-based) mail servers. The fact that we have to hand over our email account usernames and passwords AND pay just so the Vodafone BIS server can pick up mail and kindly pass it on to the Blackberries (and vice versa) is simply crap, a security risk and a PITA if a user changes their password via our mail server's Web interface.
He probably spends most of his spare time writing to the makers of Scrabble trying to persuade them that surnames should be allowed as legitimate words.
Ballmer thinks he had a scheduled chair toss 'sometime next week', but his phone seems to have lost its calendar entries and so he's not so sure any more.
I was stating that if I read the report I hope I don't just learn that MS/Danger concluded that backups would have been a good idea.
FWIW: Our corporate backup strategy (for which I am responsible) comprises a mesh of servers across some of our sites (we have 35) that run daily backups, syncing data sets between sites and providing a three-tier level of daily, weekly and monthly snapshots. I can restore any single file back to its state within the last 90 days (more if needed) at the click of a button OR dump entire backups to tape/DVD/USB stick to take them back to site in the event of a major outage.
Forget all the speculation and semi-random after-the-fact suggestions, I am waiting for the write-up to discover how this monumental cock-up occurred. I hope I don't just learn that 'backups would have been a good idea'.
Wow, that's some support bill - or was the House doing the usual Government thing and buying its 'Government Grade' punch tapes at $500 for a pack of 5!? I expect there was also one very highly paid guy who was the only living person left who knew the correct sequence of toggle key entries to start the IPL!
A corporate for which I once did some consulting was transitioning their code from an ancient mainframe to a group of PC-based servers. For some bizarre reason, the Company decided to make their in-house hardware engineer/support guy redundant BEFORE they had finished the change-over! Suffice to say, his consulting daily (or part daily) rate to come back in and kick the old system back to life as needed during its last few months was *very* high as he was the only one who knew how to sweet-talk some of the bespoke hardware. I heard of times where a 10-minute site visit was netting him a 1/2 day fee of something mad like 700UKP
No doubt the House mainframe's replacement is the $900 Dual Xeon unit previously used as a front-end processor for the mainframe's 32-port serial mux!
Back in the early 90s one CAD vendor (no, not that one) had a novel approach to licence renewal..
We got a call from one of our big customers saying that a number of machines in the drawing office had popped up a cryptic message saying that there was a problem with an installed application and to stop using the computer otherwise data may be lost. I rushed over to find that the company had ordered all staff off their (networked) PCs and had shut them down in case there was a spreading virus.
I isolated one PC and powered it up, scanned it to death and found nothing. I scanned a few more (nothing) and slowly got the company up and running. Then one of the CAD PCs popped up the message again and I had a read and noticed a phone number - our customer had not got that far before panicking and switching the PC off.
I rang the number and found myself speaking to the CAD Company's sales team, who glibly informed us "Oh yes, that means their licence has expired and the message is designed to make customers call us as soon as possible to renew!"
I passed the matter back to our customer and "words were had". I think some form of compensation for downtime and our charges was agreed.
Look, I know it's fashionable to make negative remarks about MS round here, but it's only fair to say 'well done' to them for bettering their previous high count. Hopefully they haven't run out of bugs to fix and they'll work hard to find and fix even more next time. Who knows, this time next year they could be fixing hundreds of bugs every month - and if we're lucky, some of them could be quite serious or critical - wouldn't that be just awesome!
I'm sorry, but that infringes on my patent #401005666 "A method for eliminating third party organisations or persons engaged in activities likely to affect the capital value of a business"
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...aaaand we're in Clippy land...
"Hi - it seems you are thinking naughty thoughts of sexy ladies. Do you want me to..."
...and just grit your teeth and think happy thoughts when your doctor approaches you with a USB stick.
1943: Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, may have said: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
2009: Jeff Dean says 10 million servers is all you need.
Fine-grained permissions are somewhat difficult. Locking everything down is really easy: just don't give the user a computer.
FTFY
...and MS has only granted Dell a 1 person CAL (Companion Association Licence) so they can't be seen with other people.
There is no spoon.
(And that's no moon.)
Thanks - knew about that but it's not 'native' and falls into "...or are you still stuck with the pile-of-crap BIS/BES services for email (or using Web interfaces or third party java apps)?"
It amuses me when users that opt for technology with a fair degree of vendor lock-in, feature control (or plain, simple pose/fanboi value) 'look forward' to features that the rest of us have had for years.
I have an HTC Rhodium (Touch Pro 2) and HTC have done a good job to hide the abomination that is Windows Mobile with a fairly decent (but not perfect) touch interface, wireless works, I have VNC, PockeTTY and Remote Desktop support loaded (for 'emergency support'), I am about to load up a VoIP app (SJPhone) and I can browse networks & print. TomTom satnav's on and I have just installed a Spanish-English dictionary for a holiday next week. The developer community (eg: xda-developer) is very strong so there are lots of commercial, free and shareware tools and apps available and, well, it's a decent phone too!
Does it support IMAP/POP/SMTP natively or are you still stuck with the pile-of-crap BIS/BES services for email (or using Web interfaces or third party java apps)?
I won't even consider looking at this model for the rest of our small (16) corporate team unless we can use our own (postfix-based) mail servers. The fact that we have to hand over our email account usernames and passwords AND pay just so the Vodafone BIS server can pick up mail and kindly pass it on to the Blackberries (and vice versa) is simply crap, a security risk and a PITA if a user changes their password via our mail server's Web interface.
That is why I have an HTC Rhodium (Touch Pro 2)!
He probably spends most of his spare time writing to the makers of Scrabble trying to persuade them that surnames should be allowed as legitimate words.
Computer 1: MOV AL...what? No more? MOV AL what? I need a value! WTF am I supposed to do with that!?
Computer 2: 09? Nine? Who gave me nine on its own. That doesn't make any sense! Jeez! Hey, anyone out there missing some data?
Computer 3: Not me, I'm pushing the registers onto the stack
Computer 4: Nope, I've got an INT
Computer 5: Oh, hey, it could be me - does NOP have a value. No? Sorry, my bad!
Computer 1: Nine - yeah, nine - Well, I could stick that in AL if no-one else wants it!?
Computer 3: Oh, heck, give it to 1. I've just got a POP instruction so I am going to obliterate it anyway.....
I don't read Ted Dziuba's articles in my free time...or when I am working, actually.
Nope, I already use OpenOffice!
In Ian Clarke's Swarm, World "Hellos" you!
Ballmer thinks he had a scheduled chair toss 'sometime next week', but his phone seems to have lost its calendar entries and so he's not so sure any more.
Erm, not quite.
I was stating that if I read the report I hope I don't just learn that MS/Danger concluded that backups would have been a good idea.
FWIW: Our corporate backup strategy (for which I am responsible) comprises a mesh of servers across some of our sites (we have 35) that run daily backups, syncing data sets between sites and providing a three-tier level of daily, weekly and monthly snapshots. I can restore any single file back to its state within the last 90 days (more if needed) at the click of a button OR dump entire backups to tape/DVD/USB stick to take them back to site in the event of a major outage.
Forget all the speculation and semi-random after-the-fact suggestions, I am waiting for the write-up to discover how this monumental cock-up occurred. I hope I don't just learn that 'backups would have been a good idea'.
I stress my Linux boxes by telling them that if they develop a fault I'll re-image them with Vista.
Not a single one has dared to fail on me yet.
You didn't mention a sensor array or inverse tachyon pulses so I call your suggestion total shenanigans.
The Cloud = Mainframe V2.0?
'scuse me while I try and calm down my hysterical laughter.
(what U smokin'?)
Wow, that's some support bill - or was the House doing the usual Government thing and buying its 'Government Grade' punch tapes at $500 for a pack of 5!? I expect there was also one very highly paid guy who was the only living person left who knew the correct sequence of toggle key entries to start the IPL!
A corporate for which I once did some consulting was transitioning their code from an ancient mainframe to a group of PC-based servers. For some bizarre reason, the Company decided to make their in-house hardware engineer/support guy redundant BEFORE they had finished the change-over! Suffice to say, his consulting daily (or part daily) rate to come back in and kick the old system back to life as needed during its last few months was *very* high as he was the only one who knew how to sweet-talk some of the bespoke hardware. I heard of times where a 10-minute site visit was netting him a 1/2 day fee of something mad like 700UKP
No doubt the House mainframe's replacement is the $900 Dual Xeon unit previously used as a front-end processor for the mainframe's 32-port serial mux!
Back in the early 90s one CAD vendor (no, not that one) had a novel approach to licence renewal..
We got a call from one of our big customers saying that a number of machines in the drawing office had popped up a cryptic message saying that there was a problem with an installed application and to stop using the computer otherwise data may be lost. I rushed over to find that the company had ordered all staff off their (networked) PCs and had shut them down in case there was a spreading virus.
I isolated one PC and powered it up, scanned it to death and found nothing. I scanned a few more (nothing) and slowly got the company up and running. Then one of the CAD PCs popped up the message again and I had a read and noticed a phone number - our customer had not got that far before panicking and switching the PC off.
I rang the number and found myself speaking to the CAD Company's sales team, who glibly informed us "Oh yes, that means their licence has expired and the message is designed to make customers call us as soon as possible to renew!"
I passed the matter back to our customer and "words were had". I think some form of compensation for downtime and our charges was agreed.
Look, I know it's fashionable to make negative remarks about MS round here, but it's only fair to say 'well done' to them for bettering their previous high count. Hopefully they haven't run out of bugs to fix and they'll work hard to find and fix even more next time. Who knows, this time next year they could be fixing hundreds of bugs every month - and if we're lucky, some of them could be quite serious or critical - wouldn't that be just awesome!
Go MS!
I'm sorry, but that infringes on my patent #401005666 "A method for eliminating third party organisations or persons engaged in activities likely to affect the capital value of a business"
...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror...and in completely uncoordinated voices, scenes, style, gender, costumes, visual effects, height, weight, gestures, inflection, lighting, weather conditions, technology, continuity, tone, background, accent, mood, passion, interpretation, make-up, age, production techniques, storyboarding, stock types, DV formats, exposure, sound levels...