SPAM is irritating but how effective is it really? Aside from the occasional well publicised ripoff who reads or responds to it? The US Congress must know something I don't.
That was true for me when I first started doing systems work as a colateral duty to software development. Many of the better sysads I've met started out as programmers. It's easier to relate to software development challenges and relate the systems group perspective which some developers do not see. Organizations are frequently a mix of end users and the IT shop; sysads are the glue.
Call it what you like but a free market economy even in the new world order will still cater to a product delivered at the lowest price. Outsourcing is a fact of economic life, innovation is the answer. If more "third world" programmers and designers rise above cookie cutter programming watch out.
It's all about accreditation
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This battle is wagged routinely in the large government agency in which I work and won or loss based on how literally the oganization policy is interpreted. One of the versions of SUSE Linux has met the accredidation requirements as has Solaris and Microsoft 2000. Our distro of choice is Red Hat which has not made the cut to my knowledge. Just this past week we tried to deploy a Apache web server on a Linux system and were denied access to the intended network because of the accredidation issue. We ended up reloading with W2K and Apache, a workable but less desirable platform. NIAP accredidation is tedious and expensive but it is the price to play and needs to be done to gain widespread acceptance. I can't tell you how many times I've been told NFW to Linux on a target network when it's clearly the right choice.
They don't need to even go that far. Office is one of their flagship products for which they answer to stock holders and are entitled to profit. It's the wholesale highjacking of standards that stymie interoperability that's the problem. My work environment routinely suffers as a result of this as we deal with Linux and Windows servers as well as workstations.
I was ready to uninstall IIS when it occured to me that Exchange 2K needs it. I was ready to uninstall
Exchange 2K when I realized users would not be able to function. Whew, luckily I came to my senses...
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SPAM is irritating but how effective is it really? Aside from the occasional well publicised ripoff who reads or responds to it? The US Congress must know something I don't.
Here Microsoft goes again repackaging something as innovation.
Work for the US governement as either a civil servant or contractor in a job requiring a US security clearance. No foreigners need apply.
Okay maybe not the oldest but I am forever in debt...
Slashdot, humor and sarcasm? Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.
Solaris 8/9 and CDE, what could be better...
Linux kernels are generally released when ready and not sooner.
That was true for me when I first started doing systems work as a colateral duty to software development. Many of the better sysads I've met started out as programmers. It's easier to relate to software development challenges and relate the systems group perspective which some developers do not see. Organizations are frequently a mix of end users and the IT shop; sysads are the glue.
Call it what you like but a free market economy even in the new world order will still cater to a product delivered at the lowest price. Outsourcing is a fact of economic life, innovation is the answer. If more "third world" programmers and designers rise above cookie cutter programming watch out.
This battle is wagged routinely in the large government agency in which I work and won or loss based on how literally the oganization policy is interpreted. One of the versions of SUSE Linux has met the accredidation requirements as has Solaris and Microsoft 2000. Our distro of choice is Red Hat which has not made the cut to my knowledge. Just this past week we tried to deploy a Apache web server on a Linux system and were denied access to the intended network because of the accredidation issue. We ended up reloading with W2K and Apache, a workable but less desirable platform. NIAP accredidation is tedious and expensive but it is the price to play and needs to be done to gain widespread acceptance. I can't tell you how many times I've been told NFW to Linux on a target network when it's clearly the right choice.
US tax preparation software, ie, Turbo Tax (shudders) or similar. There's not much else I can't do now with Linux.
Boot cdrom format load linux
They don't need to even go that far. Office is one of their flagship products for which they answer to stock holders and are entitled to profit. It's the wholesale highjacking of standards that stymie interoperability that's the problem. My work environment routinely suffers as a result of this as we deal with Linux and Windows servers as well as workstations.
It's really a one way street of interoperability since Windows is the playground bully refusing to share with anyone.
Apparently the Asian triad wants to go as far away from Microsoft as they can. The bigger question, will open source innovation be shared.
CSX decided that train engineers and systems engineers are the same thing. Look how much money they saved...
The real release date is 2006++
Set your phasers to stun gentlemen. -- Captain Kirk
I was ready to uninstall IIS when it occured to me that Exchange 2K needs it. I was ready to uninstall Exchange 2K when I realized users would not be able to function. Whew, luckily I came to my senses...
What happens when nmap discovers my linux box is running XPde...
Al Gore created that too, right?
hooker?
For many years working for US Defense Dept. was a dicey career choice but now we look like friggin' geniuses.