I care more about execution than I did in the old days. In the old days, vision was really important. Today, you've got to have execution with vision.
And Sun has neither, moving into Intel based servers and distributing Linux, kind of like selling parts and charging for assembly and certification? Where did Scott learn to rationalize, the Larry Ellison School of Public Speaking???
That's just funny stuff, since neither guy can put his company in the same financial condition as Dell and both continue losing floor space both in the data center and the workstation space to Dell. Michael Dell has to just sit back and laugh at these guys, if he's not in the same league why are they obsessed with him and his parts distributorship.
Seriously though, you guys are retards right? Only a retard couldn't get the sarcasm, right? Now back on the short bus with the rest of the moderators.
years for my current apartment complex to get DSL (baby Bell needed to upgrade stuff in the area). A year later I switched to cable at twice the speed for half the price. I don't take it for granted, but I can't say I know very many people who don't have it now. Northeast Ohio went from a drought of broadband to a glut it seems.
finding ways to fish money out of your pocket with every solution. I would love to see how many hours of consultation this migration (and ongoing support) will be out? IBM, single handedly making sure Linux isn't "free, as in beer".
implications don't seem that extreme (you can turn it off, needs an authentication server) it's perception that could either help or hurt MS. If the legions of PHBs think this is a must have feature, it will aid sales and MS will extend the existing document format monopoly. If times stay tight and companies can't see spending the money, then MS will be seen as a bully, and most likely continue the current size/structure monopoly while stuff like OpenOffice chips away.
The one person who should be scared is Pud of at FC, where will he get his content?
Yep, I will blame the handset, since it never happened with my cheap ass old phone. Of course my new phone will do about 409 more useless things than the old one did, and while overall a better phone, I would have gladly traded the ability to download games in order to insure no dropped calls.
Don't get my hopes up, I've hated him ever since that movie and the worst ham line ever "now let's drill this iron bitch". I laughed outloud when I heard that, I really thought he was goofing on it when he delivered that line in such an over the top manner. Yuck.
Preach on brother, preach on. I drop calls when I am a mile from my home, I get no connection to the network for 1/4 mile, then it magically comes back. Fix that and keep the games.
that a big spotlight with the outline of an obnoxious frat boy just started to shine on the Seattle skyline? "Steve, Steve, wake up, the FratSignal is shining, someone is trying to break our stranglehold on the desktop market. Get your briefcase and get down there ASAP!!"
my current PHB who can't wait for anything to open or appear on the screen and just clicks/types/mouses incessantly, no matter how large the program or file. I just have a visual of all his email and Words files plastered in his signature.
really enjoy driving anymore as it is, and with most major metros (and smaller metros as well) experiencing some level of gridlock, I drive as little as possible in areas where this would be of any real use. I know we are talking about a car company, but I would rather see this kind of effort go in to public transportation/mass transit.
but how would we move forward. I think our best bet would be if we all chipped in and bought our own lobbyist, and maybe a senator or two? Someone go dig up those articles on micro-payments and figure out how long it would take us to buy a democrat (no way we can afford our own republican). And no one bring up any third parties, they can't even get on to T.V. for debates, let alone push consumer rights. And we should probably circumvent PayPal for this idea since we know eBay and any compnay they are connected with give up user information at the drop of fax, and once we bring forth this kind of heretical talk Bill and Steve-O will be on the warpath. Think of it now, in addition to the Halloween papers we could have the Labor Day papers...this is gonna' be great!!!
Okay, here's a primer for all of you with Mod points... he's being sarcastic yet still making a point. I mean really, does Slashdot only give mod points to the people who rode the short bus? Just because you don't find a paticular piece of sarcasm funny doesn't automatically means it is a troll post. And if you live in denial that the RIAA and DHS won't be trying to scan this network, then I guess you would believe this is a troll post.
That sounds great in most cases, and it works perfectly in a controlled network. But in a school where students can carry in machines, where they can carry them offsite and connect to other networks, and where they can blindly apply upadtes without any testing, what your saying is just a good idea that won't happen.
My client with the network browse issue won't listen to my advice about setting up a testbed for each model machine he has (which he can easliy afford, and he does have spare machines) or at least testing on one machine before rolling it out. He has Windows Update on a nightly schedule and won't turn it off, even after this happened. Just yesterday he told me he was pushing some "suggested" update this weekend, without testing or justification of need. And his last sentence was "I have never been bitten by being completely up to date with Windows Update", as I turned away to continue working on his browse issues at a decent hourly rate. It's okay with me, job security, but his life could be easier and his wallet fatter if he would do exaclty what you say (and I have suggested). Now multiply that by the size of the student body.
No flaw here, I totally don't trust MS, but as a support person I have no choice but to deal with them, as do most of us. Too bad the school can't mandate load out on each laptop, sell 'em pre-loaded at a discount.
What an amazingly simplisitic viewpoint, do you work for MS support? Your blaming hardware that worked fine before a patch, so you must work for MS or Symantec, the world's largest purveyors of such ill logic.
Judging by your post you have never had to support end users, or you would know on some level you do have to make end users happy all the time. And your supposed solution only deals with the current threat, how many scans/cleans should we run at log in each day? I can see it now, you enter a classroom, fire up your laptop, and by time the entire class has been subjected to scrpts for every MS vulnerability the session is over.
Then who supports them when the latest Windows update hoses thier machine? It happens less than it used to, but I have one client who lets auto updates run, and one patch in paticular (810577) has brought network browsing to a crawl. We have done literally hundreds of test and narrowed it down to this patch, but neith the knowledge base, user community nor a direct (and expensive call) to MS support can fix his issue. Now he has users screaming about slow network browses to files and folders, time outs hitting their home-brewed data base and his phone never stops ringing. Now mulitply that by the body of a college campus?
You'll need something more reliable than Windows if your plan is to mandate that sort of thing.
I always enjoy it when rhetoric that sprung from MS public relations machine becomes a fact. MS product vulnerabilities are discovered in higher numbers because they exist in legion. MS operating systems are inherently insecure, period. XP was supposed to bring real security, but I spend much of my clients time and money applying MS security patches, updating A/V software and tightening firewalls. Between the draconian licensing policies, the vicous upgrade cycle and the total lack of security, I pray homeland security gets off of MS ASAP.
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I care more about execution than I did in the old days. In the old days, vision was really important. Today, you've got to have execution with vision.
And Sun has neither, moving into Intel based servers and distributing Linux, kind of like selling parts and charging for assembly and certification? Where did Scott learn to rationalize, the Larry Ellison School of Public Speaking???
I bet Scott sees penguins in his nightmares...
Seriously though, you guys are retards right? Only a retard couldn't get the sarcasm, right? Now back on the short bus with the rest of the moderators.
years for my current apartment complex to get DSL (baby Bell needed to upgrade stuff in the area). A year later I switched to cable at twice the speed for half the price. I don't take it for granted, but I can't say I know very many people who don't have it now. Northeast Ohio went from a drought of broadband to a glut it seems.
finding ways to fish money out of your pocket with every solution. I would love to see how many hours of consultation this migration (and ongoing support) will be out? IBM, single handedly making sure Linux isn't "free, as in beer".
The one person who should be scared is Pud of at FC, where will he get his content?
Yep, I will blame the handset, since it never happened with my cheap ass old phone. Of course my new phone will do about 409 more useless things than the old one did, and while overall a better phone, I would have gladly traded the ability to download games in order to insure no dropped calls.
Don't get my hopes up, I've hated him ever since that movie and the worst ham line ever "now let's drill this iron bitch". I laughed outloud when I heard that, I really thought he was goofing on it when he delivered that line in such an over the top manner. Yuck.
Preach on brother, preach on. I drop calls when I am a mile from my home, I get no connection to the network for 1/4 mile, then it magically comes back. Fix that and keep the games.
I have yet to come accross anyone who isn't keenly aware that money they pay in to taxes was "theirs in the first place".
Bush economic plan, why have a fiscally sound government when the world will end in a few years anyway? Next trick, the IRS embraces micro-payments.
that a big spotlight with the outline of an obnoxious frat boy just started to shine on the Seattle skyline? "Steve, Steve, wake up, the FratSignal is shining, someone is trying to break our stranglehold on the desktop market. Get your briefcase and get down there ASAP!!"
I said effort, not this specific technology. Bunch of damn literalist.
my current PHB who can't wait for anything to open or appear on the screen and just clicks/types/mouses incessantly, no matter how large the program or file. I just have a visual of all his email and Words files plastered in his signature.
really enjoy driving anymore as it is, and with most major metros (and smaller metros as well) experiencing some level of gridlock, I drive as little as possible in areas where this would be of any real use. I know we are talking about a car company, but I would rather see this kind of effort go in to public transportation/mass transit.
but how would we move forward. I think our best bet would be if we all chipped in and bought our own lobbyist, and maybe a senator or two? Someone go dig up those articles on micro-payments and figure out how long it would take us to buy a democrat (no way we can afford our own republican). And no one bring up any third parties, they can't even get on to T.V. for debates, let alone push consumer rights. And we should probably circumvent PayPal for this idea since we know eBay and any compnay they are connected with give up user information at the drop of fax, and once we bring forth this kind of heretical talk Bill and Steve-O will be on the warpath. Think of it now, in addition to the Halloween papers we could have the Labor Day papers...this is gonna' be great!!!
Okay, here's a primer for all of you with Mod points... he's being sarcastic yet still making a point. I mean really, does Slashdot only give mod points to the people who rode the short bus? Just because you don't find a paticular piece of sarcasm funny doesn't automatically means it is a troll post. And if you live in denial that the RIAA and DHS won't be trying to scan this network, then I guess you would believe this is a troll post.
Ooops, Mac or Linux, damn fingers.
My client with the network browse issue won't listen to my advice about setting up a testbed for each model machine he has (which he can easliy afford, and he does have spare machines) or at least testing on one machine before rolling it out. He has Windows Update on a nightly schedule and won't turn it off, even after this happened. Just yesterday he told me he was pushing some "suggested" update this weekend, without testing or justification of need. And his last sentence was "I have never been bitten by being completely up to date with Windows Update", as I turned away to continue working on his browse issues at a decent hourly rate. It's okay with me, job security, but his life could be easier and his wallet fatter if he would do exaclty what you say (and I have suggested). Now multiply that by the size of the student body.
No flaw here, I totally don't trust MS, but as a support person I have no choice but to deal with them, as do most of us. Too bad the school can't mandate load out on each laptop, sell 'em pre-loaded at a discount.
Judging by your post you have never had to support end users, or you would know on some level you do have to make end users happy all the time. And your supposed solution only deals with the current threat, how many scans/cleans should we run at log in each day? I can see it now, you enter a classroom, fire up your laptop, and by time the entire class has been subjected to scrpts for every MS vulnerability the session is over.
Right, because there are no P2P or I.M clients for Linux?
You'll need something more reliable than Windows if your plan is to mandate that sort of thing.
Windows? I am seriously considering moving my smaller clients to Mac of Linux pretty soon, I'm drawing up the proposals today.
I always enjoy it when rhetoric that sprung from MS public relations machine becomes a fact. MS product vulnerabilities are discovered in higher numbers because they exist in legion. MS operating systems are inherently insecure, period. XP was supposed to bring real security, but I spend much of my clients time and money applying MS security patches, updating A/V software and tightening firewalls. Between the draconian licensing policies, the vicous upgrade cycle and the total lack of security, I pray homeland security gets off of MS ASAP.