Says you. I'm a "generalist", but damned if I don't solve tons of problems around the office that stymie specialists because they don't know the full system, or how to think of it from any other angle than what they've been trained. As in, the Java interface programmer who keeps asking me how to use LDAP, which he hasn't had experience with, or why the 64bit version isn't working. Generalism still has a lot of place in a business.
I hate to tell you, but even if you're male you have to prove you belong there. Do you not think that there's still a pecking order among the males? I can tell you who's really technically capable at my company, and who isn't, and we separate ourselves that way. Who deserves to advance, who doesn't, who knows what things that are valuable in a project.
The problem is that you seem to think that all the boys think they're all equals, and we don't. We have our own internal competitions, and set up the "technical" order that way, depending on personality, skills, and many other things. If you don't understand that, there's little to wonder as to why you didn't fit in. Men don't relate to each other by making sure everyone fits in and feels like they're a member of the team. That's a female group dynamic you're foisting upon males. Men primarily compete with each other. It's competitive and hostile to both males and females. I'm supportive of women being in IT, but you better be able to cut the mustard, and be competitive and try to do better than everyone else, always. That's what the rest of us do.
And if another guy has one IP pointing at two IIS servers in a round-robin type serving, then the count would be Apache 2, IIS 1, even though the actual install is different. It's still a better metric than just doing hostname based counting, because vhosts are MUCH more common than multiple IP servers, or even multiple server IP's. It's not perfect, but nothing is, and it sure as hell is a lot closer.
Nintendo makes money on licensing of games sold as well. If they force you to buy more copies of games by doing this, they'll make more money, and attract more developers to their hardware by showing that they're hard on piracy and won't put up with we customers trying to think we're more than mere consumers. It's not that hard to understand.
I take a phone in case I need to be contacted. But I keep it on vibrate, so no one else hears it, and I make a hasty, silent exit before I answer it. Now if only everyone did that, the theater would be a much better place...
What about when the professional won't do as good of a job as I would? I hate hiring people for most anything except major plumbing, mostly because it requires a whole array of expensive, specialized tools. I've had inspectors tell me that they're surprised a homeowner can that quality of work, that they've seen professional jobs they like less. My point is that those "home improvement" stores aren't a sham for those of us who really know what we're doing. It would have cost me a ton of money to hire an electrician to put a new circuit in the basement. If I can just spend some time and pay for the materials, why wouldn't I do so? It's basically money in my pocket.
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You haven't met many business men, have you?
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And if it prevents people from using the media at all, it's not their problem? The reason people dislike DRM is because they're looking at all their customers as criminals and consumers, not people who want a fair product. If you only look at the people who would copy without prevention, you aren't growing your market, you're fighting the river. Build a boat by making it easier for people to buy the content and use it fairly, go with the stream, and you'll make headway (profit) much faster.
So tell your boss you want to install another dozen boxes, and then they'll be able to tell the board that they doubled capacity for half of what it normally costs, more than halved electricity consumption, and freed up a lot of physical space for future expansion without having to acquire new property. It's all in how you spin it, and get your boss to realize how he'll look good for doing so.
this page has a great walkthrough of how to accomplish it. It's the USB->Serial drivers that suck, not the devices themselves. Use a properly stable and functioning OS and drivers, and you don't run into those issues nearly as often.
In what form factor, ATX-XL? Give me more, smaller more useful ports. USB2, SATA, GigE, Firewire, and maybe, MAYBE serial. That's what 99% of people need anyway. Let the other 1% with special needs spend the whole $30 to get a port replicator.
If I can control an industrial pump from a USB->Serial port dongle, your printer will work fine. And if it requires specific software, make sure to set it to replicate something in the range of port 1-4. And if you want a parallel port, get an expansion card. The 99% of us who don't have much legacy shit don't want you Luddites ruining progress for the rest of us.
The problem comes when my power-walking is as fast as running is to them:/ It just makes it impossible to do much of anything physical with them, because they're always out-classed, and nobody likes losing. That's why I don't try to go shot-for-shot with my buddies... I'd die;)
Half for photography apps, maybe. But the Gimp is more portable (Krita won't run on Windows), and has a lot of filters, guides, scripting, etc. for it. Basically, it's the same reason that Windows is more common than Linux... it's entrenched, and it does the job "good enough" for most people.
So, how's that SLI working for you under Vista? Because it wasn't working only a month ago. I'd mutter something about glass houses, stones, etc., but hey, who am I to judge? Your system isn't even doing what it's supposed to with your shiny Vista and shiny new hardware, and you expect Linux to be somehow better with cutting-edge hardware support, even when traditionally Linux gets the scraps and pieces of company support, if at all? What are you smoking? Driver support under Linux IS fast and easy. Easier than under Windows. It's that manufacturers don't support Linux.
Your first sentence describes 90% of Windows users. Show me a default XP install that is set up to run as anything BUT administrator, from a major manufacturer. Almost all Linux installs (the ones that matter at least, Ubuntu/Redhat/SuSE) don't run any applications that could be exploited under root by default, which would be great for those 90% of Windows users who just want to IM gibberish to each other.
I'm a seasoned Linux user, and I routinely run XP for weeks on my laptop before rebooting it (it hibernates regularly though), and I think Ubuntu is the greatest thing since sliced bread. More things work more reliably under Ubuntu than not. I use Kubuntu, but it should be the same kind of thing. You were out on a limb, and you fell off.
Ever tried taking a drive out of one computer, and putting it in another, different model? Linux handles that flawlessly, from my experience. And Windows has never once done it nicely, without a full OS reinstall or at least upgrade or major driver reinstalls and hacking.
I have an opinion on Bestiality. It's bad. I've never tried it, though. You don't need to use something to have an opinion on it. Just read some of the reviews and it'll become clear that you don't need to test it to see if it's "good". Simple answer is that it's not.
So stop using crappy hardware. If you buy a Winmodem, do you expect it to work on your Mac? It's not hard to check whether your hardware is supported under Linux, and if you spend a bit more and get quality components rather than Broadcom wireless cards or laptops and video cards with broken ACPI implementations, you'd have a much better experience. My laptop works flawlessly from the get-go with Linux, as do many, many others. I know you expect Linux to replace Windows, but it won't completely. It requires non-broken hardware to run.
Powertools allow you to configure things that way, but apps (especially MS Office apps) steal focus regularly. Middle-click paste you may be able to get to work via special mouse drivers and such, but it won't be a X-Windows style copy via highlighting and middle-click pasting.
I'll stick up for Ubuntu here. I've got the 7.04 64bit version, and it works flawlessly on my laptop. Not even a desktop system, a laptop. Linux has been 64bit on the desktop for a while.
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Says you. I'm a "generalist", but damned if I don't solve tons of problems around the office that stymie specialists because they don't know the full system, or how to think of it from any other angle than what they've been trained. As in, the Java interface programmer who keeps asking me how to use LDAP, which he hasn't had experience with, or why the 64bit version isn't working. Generalism still has a lot of place in a business.
I hate to tell you, but even if you're male you have to prove you belong there. Do you not think that there's still a pecking order among the males? I can tell you who's really technically capable at my company, and who isn't, and we separate ourselves that way. Who deserves to advance, who doesn't, who knows what things that are valuable in a project.
The problem is that you seem to think that all the boys think they're all equals, and we don't. We have our own internal competitions, and set up the "technical" order that way, depending on personality, skills, and many other things. If you don't understand that, there's little to wonder as to why you didn't fit in. Men don't relate to each other by making sure everyone fits in and feels like they're a member of the team. That's a female group dynamic you're foisting upon males. Men primarily compete with each other. It's competitive and hostile to both males and females. I'm supportive of women being in IT, but you better be able to cut the mustard, and be competitive and try to do better than everyone else, always. That's what the rest of us do.
And if another guy has one IP pointing at two IIS servers in a round-robin type serving, then the count would be Apache 2, IIS 1, even though the actual install is different. It's still a better metric than just doing hostname based counting, because vhosts are MUCH more common than multiple IP servers, or even multiple server IP's. It's not perfect, but nothing is, and it sure as hell is a lot closer.
Slightly better than integrating spell checking into all web browsers, it would seem...
Nintendo makes money on licensing of games sold as well. If they force you to buy more copies of games by doing this, they'll make more money, and attract more developers to their hardware by showing that they're hard on piracy and won't put up with we customers trying to think we're more than mere consumers. It's not that hard to understand.
I take a phone in case I need to be contacted. But I keep it on vibrate, so no one else hears it, and I make a hasty, silent exit before I answer it. Now if only everyone did that, the theater would be a much better place...
What about when the professional won't do as good of a job as I would? I hate hiring people for most anything except major plumbing, mostly because it requires a whole array of expensive, specialized tools. I've had inspectors tell me that they're surprised a homeowner can that quality of work, that they've seen professional jobs they like less. My point is that those "home improvement" stores aren't a sham for those of us who really know what we're doing. It would have cost me a ton of money to hire an electrician to put a new circuit in the basement. If I can just spend some time and pay for the materials, why wouldn't I do so? It's basically money in my pocket.
You haven't met many business men, have you?
And if it prevents people from using the media at all, it's not their problem? The reason people dislike DRM is because they're looking at all their customers as criminals and consumers, not people who want a fair product. If you only look at the people who would copy without prevention, you aren't growing your market, you're fighting the river. Build a boat by making it easier for people to buy the content and use it fairly, go with the stream, and you'll make headway (profit) much faster.
So tell your boss you want to install another dozen boxes, and then they'll be able to tell the board that they doubled capacity for half of what it normally costs, more than halved electricity consumption, and freed up a lot of physical space for future expansion without having to acquire new property. It's all in how you spin it, and get your boss to realize how he'll look good for doing so.
Wine + /dev/ttyUSBX ;)
this page has a great walkthrough of how to accomplish it. It's the USB->Serial drivers that suck, not the devices themselves. Use a properly stable and functioning OS and drivers, and you don't run into those issues nearly as often.
In what form factor, ATX-XL? Give me more, smaller more useful ports. USB2, SATA, GigE, Firewire, and maybe, MAYBE serial. That's what 99% of people need anyway. Let the other 1% with special needs spend the whole $30 to get a port replicator.
You can get a 20" 1680x1050 flatscreen from newegg for much closer to $200 than $300. My BenQ FP202W was only $220 I believe.
If I can control an industrial pump from a USB->Serial port dongle, your printer will work fine. And if it requires specific software, make sure to set it to replicate something in the range of port 1-4. And if you want a parallel port, get an expansion card. The 99% of us who don't have much legacy shit don't want you Luddites ruining progress for the rest of us.
The problem comes when my power-walking is as fast as running is to them :/ It just makes it impossible to do much of anything physical with them, because they're always out-classed, and nobody likes losing. That's why I don't try to go shot-for-shot with my buddies... I'd die ;)
Half for photography apps, maybe. But the Gimp is more portable (Krita won't run on Windows), and has a lot of filters, guides, scripting, etc. for it. Basically, it's the same reason that Windows is more common than Linux... it's entrenched, and it does the job "good enough" for most people.
So, how's that SLI working for you under Vista? Because it wasn't working only a month ago. I'd mutter something about glass houses, stones, etc., but hey, who am I to judge? Your system isn't even doing what it's supposed to with your shiny Vista and shiny new hardware, and you expect Linux to be somehow better with cutting-edge hardware support, even when traditionally Linux gets the scraps and pieces of company support, if at all? What are you smoking? Driver support under Linux IS fast and easy. Easier than under Windows. It's that manufacturers don't support Linux.
Your first sentence describes 90% of Windows users. Show me a default XP install that is set up to run as anything BUT administrator, from a major manufacturer. Almost all Linux installs (the ones that matter at least, Ubuntu/Redhat/SuSE) don't run any applications that could be exploited under root by default, which would be great for those 90% of Windows users who just want to IM gibberish to each other.
I'm a seasoned Linux user, and I routinely run XP for weeks on my laptop before rebooting it (it hibernates regularly though), and I think Ubuntu is the greatest thing since sliced bread. More things work more reliably under Ubuntu than not. I use Kubuntu, but it should be the same kind of thing. You were out on a limb, and you fell off.
Ever tried taking a drive out of one computer, and putting it in another, different model? Linux handles that flawlessly, from my experience. And Windows has never once done it nicely, without a full OS reinstall or at least upgrade or major driver reinstalls and hacking.
I have an opinion on Bestiality. It's bad. I've never tried it, though. You don't need to use something to have an opinion on it. Just read some of the reviews and it'll become clear that you don't need to test it to see if it's "good". Simple answer is that it's not.
So stop using crappy hardware. If you buy a Winmodem, do you expect it to work on your Mac? It's not hard to check whether your hardware is supported under Linux, and if you spend a bit more and get quality components rather than Broadcom wireless cards or laptops and video cards with broken ACPI implementations, you'd have a much better experience. My laptop works flawlessly from the get-go with Linux, as do many, many others. I know you expect Linux to replace Windows, but it won't completely. It requires non-broken hardware to run.
Powertools allow you to configure things that way, but apps (especially MS Office apps) steal focus regularly. Middle-click paste you may be able to get to work via special mouse drivers and such, but it won't be a X-Windows style copy via highlighting and middle-click pasting.
If I'm the one holding the gun, I don't claim that as failure... I claim that as genocide! Woo $GROUP superiority!
I'll stick up for Ubuntu here. I've got the 7.04 64bit version, and it works flawlessly on my laptop. Not even a desktop system, a laptop. Linux has been 64bit on the desktop for a while.