I'm glad someone mentioned this. We have 1 Mac where I'm at. Just one. It's "used" by the VP of Engineering. Honestly, it seems like it's more of a toy than anything else. It can't run any of the programs we use except office (we run SolidWorks, MS Great Plains for accounting and sales, and Goldmine for contact management). That's the least of my problems though. We run Exchange, so we just installed Entourage for his email. That works great except no email archiving. So his mailbox just grows and grows and grows. I ask him to archive, which at the time I didn't know there was no way to do it (like in Outlook anyway) and nothing happens. I realize later that there is no archive feature. We end up having to copy a chunk of mail into a new folder, copy that to the server (I backup the mailboxes and the archives), and then delete those emails from Entourage. Of course, the problem with that is that the emails lose their time and date (unless you open them to look at it) and instead take the time and date that they were copied. That's helpful. I haven't shown him how to do it because I don't think he's going to do it anyway. To top it all off, I had to install AdmitMac so he could log in to the main file server (which is also a DC). Before that, he was just having his employees email him everything (which just clogs up his inbox more).
Suffice it to say, that one computer has caused me more trouble than any of the others. We have about 40 PCs running Windows. The hardest thing about admining them was when I started introducing group policies and people were asking why their desktops were changing. Sales was the worst with this since they all seem to like XP running a different way. I just disabled what I had been doing company wide and all machines get a default set of registry entries when I set them up. If the user decides to change them afterward, that's up to them.
I think what I really miss is being able to use the space bar to hit the default button. I use the mouse and keyboard heavily and when something comes up with only one button highlighted, I really hate having to move the mouse over to it when I can just as easily hit the space bar, which doesn't seem to work on a Mac.
Rewiring a home for service depends on the market. Telcos usually only provide service to the box outside, everything inside is up to you or you can pay installation or pay some $100/year extortion for inside wiring protection. When I used to have BellSouth, they would never come inside unless you had the $100/year extortion fee or paid $200 for inside installation. In the case of my mother, she wanted 2 lines, they wired the box for 2 lines, the installer only tested one jack and put a splitter on it. I came in and split the 2 pairs and replaced the single jack plate with a double and brought the outside pair to the inside pair for the second line and wired the other jacks for service.
Congratulations. You provided a skill that people are willing to pay for, for free. Of course, it was your mother, so it's almost to be expected. Now, would you be willing to do it for 100 other people who might want the same thing? My guess is probably not. You did it for free for your mother because that's what sons do. However, the telephone company technicians are not there to provide a service for free. You likely also wouldn't do the same service for free for 100 other people that you don't know. Why not? Because your time is valuable. You'd probably rather be doing something else than wiring 100 homes for 2 lines. That is unless those people were willing to pay you.
In addition, the phone company charges such fees because it's far easier to charge a flat rate for their technicians than it is to have different fees for each and every little service their techs can provide. Have you ever done any consulting/contract work for someone? Do you charge a different rate depending on the problem? I know I certainly don't. I have a single flat rate for my service no matter what the problem is. Setup a computer, server, wireless network, etc? It's all the same thing to me and I charge the same rate. Do I charge friends and family? Of course not. Do I charge Joe User at work that's having trouble with his home computer? Absolutely. Why do I do this? Because my time is valuable. I honestly don't want to work on any computers other than the ones in my house (that includes my parents and siblings computers). I'll fix my parents and siblings computers for free, because that's what a son/brother does. Anyone other than a close friend has to pay the going rate though, which is lower than the losers at GeekSquad charge but not so low that I short change myself.
The point is that the telcos charge the "extortion" fee because not everyone can do the work themselves or knows someone that can do it for them. They're not in business to help people for free. They're in business to make money.
Of course I'm totally ignoring backups. I'm talking about home use in the order of 1TB or more. Where do you backup such amounts of data cheaply, anyway?
If you've got 1 TB or more at home, you can build (or buy) cheap external drives with USB, FireWire, or eSATA enclosures. In fact, you can even buy external enclosures than can take multiple drives in a RAID configuration. Of course, it makes backups a little more cumbersome (can't just back everything up to a single drive), but at least it gives you a backup.
There's plenty of enclosures on NewEgg that, with the right size of drives in a RAID 5 config, will give you 1+ TB of backup storage. Most of them only run on USB 2.0, but once you've done a full backup, you can just do incrementals of the data each day.
I run RAID 1 at home but I also back everything up to a hard drive in a USB enclosure. I can't imagine both drives failing at the same time, but I'm not going to take my chances.
A few days later you realize you've paid $500, a clear mistake, and you take the bag and receipt back to Walmart and ask for your money back.
If walmart were to say, "its a completed sale, its got a $500 sticker on it, its wasn't advertised as less anywhere else in the store the day you bought it, so no refunds; you were clearly appraised of the price at checkout, and you even signed your credit card slip" you'd probably throw a SCREAMING FIT.
Yeah, I would throw a screaming fit after smacking myself in the head. I'd throw a screaming fit because they have a 90 DAY return policy with receipt, so I'd be able to return it whether it was the right price or not. I'd smack myself in the head for being stupid enough to not notice that they charged me 10x more for the item than it was marked for.
A better analogy would be that you pay $5 for a $50 sleeping bag and then a month later you get a call from Wal-Mart that they're now going to charge you the remaining $45 because they made a mistake before. In either case, Amazon or Wal-Mart, they've made a mistake. The difference is, with Wal-Mart, if I'm honest I can correct the mistake at checkout. With Amazon, it doesn't matter if I'm honest or not, I can't really correct the mistake at checkout (beyond sending someone an email and hoping they get it to the right people to fix it).
The point is that no retailer can charge you after the fact when they make a mistake. Why should Amazon be any different?
When did Slashdot go from a calm, see things from another perspective to a "EVERYBODY PANIC!!!" site? Everyone here seems to have forgotten a few things.
First, we're not "due" for a pandemic anymore than certain places are "due" for a big earthquake (they've been telling Californian's about "the big one" for years and it still hasn't hit).
Second, H5N1 isn't likely to mutate into a human to human virus (or whatever the hell the term is).
Third, the one country that was thought to be the worst prepared, Vietnam, beat H5N1.
Fourth, the flu kills far more people every year than H5N1 or even SARS has ever killed.
Fifth, no one in the US has died from SARS or avian flu.
Geez people. Get your collective heads out of your asses and stop and think for just a moment.
Families used to drive station wagons. Problem is, hardly anyone sells station wagons anymore. So it's not that families didn't leave home until SUVs came out, it's that SUVs didn't really exist on a large scale until station wagons disappeared.
Bring back station wagons and people might drive those instead. I personally doubt that since station wagons were generally longer than current SUVs and had much worse gas mileage. Most of todays SUVs get a lot better gas mileage than the huge vans I use to see around town (we owned a huge family van that got about 6 mpg). The only SUV that gets that bad of gas mileage, that I know of, is the Hummer, and most people don't drive those.
The "average Windows user" (lets think Dell here) doesn't spend any time doing any of the things you mentioned. Antivirus, antispyware, and a personal firewall come with the machine on a trial period (Norton Internet Security 2005). Sure, it's not the best thing in the world, but it does a good enough job. They get notified to purchase a full copy, they do by entering their information, and it's done. There's no downloading of anything required. Hell, they even have the option to purchase it when they order the computer. Then it either comes preinstalled or they can install it with little to no hastle. Patches are installed by automatic update (Windows defaults to on).
The "average" Windows user isn't the ones downloading their apps. Those are mostly the power users that build their machines and just download a new copy of spybot anytime they need it. Those are probably also the same people who run Kazaa, Limewire, and every other p2p spyware infested program on the planet.
Except that most places aren't going to hire two less brilliant minds because the two less brilliant minds will probably want the same pay as the single brilliant mind. So instead, they'll hire one less brilliant mind and end up with a shoddy setup and someone that 1) takes forever to answer support calls and 2) when they are answered, instead of looking for a way to make the problem not happen again, just fixes the immediate issue and leaves.
Most of the companies I've worked with and seen would much rather have someone brilliant on staff then someone that's just decent. I myself have seen "decent" work done and while it is decent, it's usually far from the best way to do things. Experience goes a long way in IT and it becomes immediately visible when the guy with 10-20 years experience can look at something and say "Yeah, I probably would've done the same thing 10-20 years ago". So if someone's been doing it for 10 years already (ie, since they were a kid), I'd much rather have them then the guy fresh out of college with no practical experience. Of course, trade schools are a bit different and some of those people come out pretty well too.
Dude, what are you on about? Even Office XP lets you have two Excel spreadsheets open side by side. Just click "Arrange" under the Window menu and select vertical and be done with it. That automatically arranges every open spreadsheet right next to the other.
250 MB (I'm going to assume you meant megs since you said later you asked for a 1 gig limit) is usually WAY more than enough for 90% of just about any company. I think there are maybe 5 people where I work (out of about 50) that use more than 3 gig of file storage and most of that is their email archive. Even those people have agreed to delete their 2005 email (a 2 gig archive) once we reach the end of this year (2007).
Those people are the exception though, not the rule. Most everyone else keeps their mailboxes way under 100 meg and never even needs to archive. They also rarely store any documents on their network drive. Most of what they do store is on their desktops, but even that data comes out of the company database app, so it's still being backed up everynight.
150 PC's can be fairly easily locked down with Active Directory these days. Set some policies on the Domain and every single PC that's a member will suddenly be much more secure. These aren't the days of NT anymore.
I think the parent slipped up a bit. When he said "actual" work, I believe he meant "intellectual" work. It's far harder to rebuild a car engine or a server than it is to dig a trench. A few guys can dig a trench in a few hours and it takes nearly no mental power. They just need to know how long and how deep. In contrast, working on a car or a server takes a lot of mental power. There's usually a lot of troubleshooting involved in the latter as well.
So while digging a trench is very hard work, it's far easier than working on a car. There's also A LOT more people that can dig a trench than there are people that can successfully work on a car. This is why auto mechanics make more money than ditch diggers.
Only if you allow people to carry loaded firearms. If you require that they keep the cartridges in their carry-on luggage, then you get the benefit of having an armed and polite manifest without any of the messy firing at random.
That's kind of a lame thing to do. Instead of having people "armed and dangerous" on a plane where they can easily take out any terrorist, you suddenly have a bunch of people that will have to rummage through their carry-on before they can take action. You might as well keep the guns off the plane in that case, since the terrorist are not likely to stow their ammo in their carry-on and will just shoot people as they try to get their ammo.
You missed his point. You don't have to have Active Directory in order to install software as a non-admin. Sure, not all programs can install as non-admin, but there are plenty that do. No, I don't have any examples because I'm not going to start uninstalling programs on my machine and reduce my privilege level in order to find out which ones install as non-admin.
Also, it takes all of 3 seconds to make someone an admin, whether you're in a domain or not. Simply adding the user (domain or local account) to the administrators group will do it. It's really not that much different from OS X. You still have to get into the user management area, the only difference is the checkbox vs the group.
The other posters are probably right. You have a lot of experience "managing" a Mac, but little to none managing a Windows box, whether at home or on a corporate network.
I find Macs as difficult to use as Mac admins find Windows to use. I tried installing an HP laserjet on a Mac. Pray tell, why in the hell do I have to install the driver before I plug the printer in? I received no indication that the Mac was doing anything, I installed the driver (after plugging in the printer), and nothing happened. Finally, I tried unplugging the printer and plugging it back in (yes, it was USB). It finally sees it and installs it for me. But not until after 20 mins of me trying to figure out what the hell was wrong. XP installed the same printer in under 5 (detected it, prompted me for a driver, and installed).
See, I have very little experience on Macs, but I've got plenty on Windows.
They have Cuban cigars around here too (LA and San Diego area). It is the importation of Cuban cigars that is illegal, but the seeds can be imported all we want. So the stores import the seeds and grow the tobacco here. Problem solved.
A semi-automatic handgun with the magazine loaded, and separate from the gun, is defined, at least in California, as being loaded. Also, a gun with the slide locked back is still considered unlocked because there's no trigger lock or cable running through the slide. What you've just mentioned is exactly what most responsible gun owners probably do (unless they live in high crime areas). I know it's what I do (aside from locking the slide back).
I'm not sure about this, but I think the gun is still considered unlocked unless there's a trigger or cable lock in it and it's in a locked gun case. Yeah, California's a bit weird about being overly safe with guns at the expense of not educating people about them.
the reply to that is "Well, I guess I'll have to find someone that can".
Seriously. As much as you may not want to do it, there's plenty of IT people out there that don't want to do it, but will do it. If the boss doesn't care about you rummaging through his email, he/she either doesn't care what you read or trusts you enough that you'll keep any secrets you find. Either way, it's probably not a bad thing.
In a high security area, I doubt you'll find people asking you to find a certain email that they "lost". More likely, you'll have procedures for recovering the entire mailbox. When it comes to recovering passwords, you'll simply have procedures for resetting passwords to some random value that even you won't know. And then the password will be required to be changed the moment they login.
Or if you think that the FBI knows better than to listen to some petty complaint (worked for McCarthy) a terrorist gets your name, SSN and credit card numbers off IRC.
Yeah, because those of us that actually read Slashdot are always giving out our names, SSN, and credit card numbers on IRC. The people that might actually do that don't even know what IRC is, so they're pretty unlikely to do it either.
And I seriously doubt that an ex-wife/girlfriend/whatever is going to call the FBI and name anyone here as an enemy combatant. Yeah, it could happen. Then again, the sun could go nova tomorrow morning and kill us all. It's pretty unlikely though.
Bzzz, WRONG! Why is it that when people discuss the Bill of Rights, "the people" is interpreted correctly in all of them except the 2nd amendment? Did the meaning of "the people" somehow change between 1 and 2 and then back again for all the rest? No, it didn't. So stop reinterpreting it to fit your dream. "The right of the people, to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" The people means the citizens, not the states. This is true for every single amendment, with no exceptions.
I'll give ya one thing. The FF's never intended people to be able to own nukes, but they sure never intended the kind of draconian gun laws some places have either. Criminals break laws, that's why they're called criminals and not law abiding citizens.
I found it actually impossible to buy a new mobile *without* internet access.
Then you didn't try very hard. My wife and I just got two new Motorola Razor's from T-Mobile with NO internet access. Sure, they're capable, but we had them completely disable it. No Internet, no text messages, no nothing like that. We can still receive text messages from them, but those are free of charge.
The next time you don't want Internet, tell them. Otherwise they'll just leave it on and you'll get charged extra.
That will only ensure that the teacher will get shot first by said asshole.
To echo the other poster "You went to a school with only one teacher?"
And I'll add this. It'll also keep the Principals and Assistant Principals from having to run to their cars to retrieve their guns in order to stop the asshole.
Sure there will. The cost to produce the gas in California will go up, so the producers will move out of state where it's cheaper. Then, it'll cost more to get it here, so the price at the pump will go up. In the end, the price will go up because of this tax. They won't be passing the cost of the tax onto the consumer, they'll be passing the cost of getting the gas to the consumer onto the consumer. That cost could be more than the tax, but that doesn't matter, since they'll still be making more money.
But what will California end up with? Fewer jobs (they need people to run the production facilities) and higher gas prices. Awesome! Thanks so much for forcing the gas companies to pay for R&D in alternative fuels!
With gas prices on the way back down, this is the worst time to institute a gas tax.
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I'm glad someone mentioned this. We have 1 Mac where I'm at. Just one. It's "used" by the VP of Engineering. Honestly, it seems like it's more of a toy than anything else. It can't run any of the programs we use except office (we run SolidWorks, MS Great Plains for accounting and sales, and Goldmine for contact management). That's the least of my problems though. We run Exchange, so we just installed Entourage for his email. That works great except no email archiving. So his mailbox just grows and grows and grows. I ask him to archive, which at the time I didn't know there was no way to do it (like in Outlook anyway) and nothing happens. I realize later that there is no archive feature. We end up having to copy a chunk of mail into a new folder, copy that to the server (I backup the mailboxes and the archives), and then delete those emails from Entourage. Of course, the problem with that is that the emails lose their time and date (unless you open them to look at it) and instead take the time and date that they were copied. That's helpful. I haven't shown him how to do it because I don't think he's going to do it anyway. To top it all off, I had to install AdmitMac so he could log in to the main file server (which is also a DC). Before that, he was just having his employees email him everything (which just clogs up his inbox more).
Suffice it to say, that one computer has caused me more trouble than any of the others. We have about 40 PCs running Windows. The hardest thing about admining them was when I started introducing group policies and people were asking why their desktops were changing. Sales was the worst with this since they all seem to like XP running a different way. I just disabled what I had been doing company wide and all machines get a default set of registry entries when I set them up. If the user decides to change them afterward, that's up to them.
I think what I really miss is being able to use the space bar to hit the default button. I use the mouse and keyboard heavily and when something comes up with only one button highlighted, I really hate having to move the mouse over to it when I can just as easily hit the space bar, which doesn't seem to work on a Mac.
Rewiring a home for service depends on the market. Telcos usually only provide service to the box outside, everything inside is up to you or you can pay installation or pay some $100/year extortion for inside wiring protection.
When I used to have BellSouth, they would never come inside unless you had the $100/year extortion fee or paid $200 for inside installation.
In the case of my mother, she wanted 2 lines, they wired the box for 2 lines, the installer only tested one jack and put a splitter on it.
I came in and split the 2 pairs and replaced the single jack plate with a double and brought the outside pair to the inside pair for the second line and wired the other jacks for service.
Congratulations. You provided a skill that people are willing to pay for, for free. Of course, it was your mother, so it's almost to be expected. Now, would you be willing to do it for 100 other people who might want the same thing? My guess is probably not. You did it for free for your mother because that's what sons do. However, the telephone company technicians are not there to provide a service for free. You likely also wouldn't do the same service for free for 100 other people that you don't know. Why not? Because your time is valuable. You'd probably rather be doing something else than wiring 100 homes for 2 lines. That is unless those people were willing to pay you.
In addition, the phone company charges such fees because it's far easier to charge a flat rate for their technicians than it is to have different fees for each and every little service their techs can provide. Have you ever done any consulting/contract work for someone? Do you charge a different rate depending on the problem? I know I certainly don't. I have a single flat rate for my service no matter what the problem is. Setup a computer, server, wireless network, etc? It's all the same thing to me and I charge the same rate. Do I charge friends and family? Of course not. Do I charge Joe User at work that's having trouble with his home computer? Absolutely. Why do I do this? Because my time is valuable. I honestly don't want to work on any computers other than the ones in my house (that includes my parents and siblings computers). I'll fix my parents and siblings computers for free, because that's what a son/brother does. Anyone other than a close friend has to pay the going rate though, which is lower than the losers at GeekSquad charge but not so low that I short change myself.
The point is that the telcos charge the "extortion" fee because not everyone can do the work themselves or knows someone that can do it for them. They're not in business to help people for free. They're in business to make money.
Of course I'm totally ignoring backups. I'm talking about home use in the order of 1TB or more. Where do you backup such amounts of data cheaply, anyway?
If you've got 1 TB or more at home, you can build (or buy) cheap external drives with USB, FireWire, or eSATA enclosures. In fact, you can even buy external enclosures than can take multiple drives in a RAID configuration. Of course, it makes backups a little more cumbersome (can't just back everything up to a single drive), but at least it gives you a backup.
There's plenty of enclosures on NewEgg that, with the right size of drives in a RAID 5 config, will give you 1+ TB of backup storage. Most of them only run on USB 2.0, but once you've done a full backup, you can just do incrementals of the data each day.
I run RAID 1 at home but I also back everything up to a hard drive in a USB enclosure. I can't imagine both drives failing at the same time, but I'm not going to take my chances.
A few days later you realize you've paid $500, a clear mistake, and you take the bag and receipt back to Walmart and ask for your money back.
If walmart were to say, "its a completed sale, its got a $500 sticker on it, its wasn't advertised as less anywhere else in the store the day you bought it, so no refunds; you were clearly appraised of the price at checkout, and you even signed your credit card slip" you'd probably throw a SCREAMING FIT.
Yeah, I would throw a screaming fit after smacking myself in the head. I'd throw a screaming fit because they have a 90 DAY return policy with receipt, so I'd be able to return it whether it was the right price or not. I'd smack myself in the head for being stupid enough to not notice that they charged me 10x more for the item than it was marked for.
A better analogy would be that you pay $5 for a $50 sleeping bag and then a month later you get a call from Wal-Mart that they're now going to charge you the remaining $45 because they made a mistake before. In either case, Amazon or Wal-Mart, they've made a mistake. The difference is, with Wal-Mart, if I'm honest I can correct the mistake at checkout. With Amazon, it doesn't matter if I'm honest or not, I can't really correct the mistake at checkout (beyond sending someone an email and hoping they get it to the right people to fix it).
The point is that no retailer can charge you after the fact when they make a mistake. Why should Amazon be any different?
When did Slashdot go from a calm, see things from another perspective to a "EVERYBODY PANIC!!!" site? Everyone here seems to have forgotten a few things.
First, we're not "due" for a pandemic anymore than certain places are "due" for a big earthquake (they've been telling Californian's about "the big one" for years and it still hasn't hit).
Second, H5N1 isn't likely to mutate into a human to human virus (or whatever the hell the term is).
Third, the one country that was thought to be the worst prepared, Vietnam, beat H5N1.
Fourth, the flu kills far more people every year than H5N1 or even SARS has ever killed.
Fifth, no one in the US has died from SARS or avian flu.
Geez people. Get your collective heads out of your asses and stop and think for just a moment.
Families used to drive station wagons. Problem is, hardly anyone sells station wagons anymore. So it's not that families didn't leave home until SUVs came out, it's that SUVs didn't really exist on a large scale until station wagons disappeared.
Bring back station wagons and people might drive those instead. I personally doubt that since station wagons were generally longer than current SUVs and had much worse gas mileage. Most of todays SUVs get a lot better gas mileage than the huge vans I use to see around town (we owned a huge family van that got about 6 mpg). The only SUV that gets that bad of gas mileage, that I know of, is the Hummer, and most people don't drive those.
The "average Windows user" (lets think Dell here) doesn't spend any time doing any of the things you mentioned. Antivirus, antispyware, and a personal firewall come with the machine on a trial period (Norton Internet Security 2005). Sure, it's not the best thing in the world, but it does a good enough job. They get notified to purchase a full copy, they do by entering their information, and it's done. There's no downloading of anything required. Hell, they even have the option to purchase it when they order the computer. Then it either comes preinstalled or they can install it with little to no hastle. Patches are installed by automatic update (Windows defaults to on).
The "average" Windows user isn't the ones downloading their apps. Those are mostly the power users that build their machines and just download a new copy of spybot anytime they need it. Those are probably also the same people who run Kazaa, Limewire, and every other p2p spyware infested program on the planet.
Except that most places aren't going to hire two less brilliant minds because the two less brilliant minds will probably want the same pay as the single brilliant mind. So instead, they'll hire one less brilliant mind and end up with a shoddy setup and someone that 1) takes forever to answer support calls and 2) when they are answered, instead of looking for a way to make the problem not happen again, just fixes the immediate issue and leaves.
Most of the companies I've worked with and seen would much rather have someone brilliant on staff then someone that's just decent. I myself have seen "decent" work done and while it is decent, it's usually far from the best way to do things. Experience goes a long way in IT and it becomes immediately visible when the guy with 10-20 years experience can look at something and say "Yeah, I probably would've done the same thing 10-20 years ago". So if someone's been doing it for 10 years already (ie, since they were a kid), I'd much rather have them then the guy fresh out of college with no practical experience. Of course, trade schools are a bit different and some of those people come out pretty well too.
Dude, what are you on about? Even Office XP lets you have two Excel spreadsheets open side by side. Just click "Arrange" under the Window menu and select vertical and be done with it. That automatically arranges every open spreadsheet right next to the other.
250 MB (I'm going to assume you meant megs since you said later you asked for a 1 gig limit) is usually WAY more than enough for 90% of just about any company. I think there are maybe 5 people where I work (out of about 50) that use more than 3 gig of file storage and most of that is their email archive. Even those people have agreed to delete their 2005 email (a 2 gig archive) once we reach the end of this year (2007).
Those people are the exception though, not the rule. Most everyone else keeps their mailboxes way under 100 meg and never even needs to archive. They also rarely store any documents on their network drive. Most of what they do store is on their desktops, but even that data comes out of the company database app, so it's still being backed up everynight.
150 PC's can be fairly easily locked down with Active Directory these days. Set some policies on the Domain and every single PC that's a member will suddenly be much more secure. These aren't the days of NT anymore.
I think the parent slipped up a bit. When he said "actual" work, I believe he meant "intellectual" work. It's far harder to rebuild a car engine or a server than it is to dig a trench. A few guys can dig a trench in a few hours and it takes nearly no mental power. They just need to know how long and how deep. In contrast, working on a car or a server takes a lot of mental power. There's usually a lot of troubleshooting involved in the latter as well.
So while digging a trench is very hard work, it's far easier than working on a car. There's also A LOT more people that can dig a trench than there are people that can successfully work on a car. This is why auto mechanics make more money than ditch diggers.
Only if you allow people to carry loaded firearms. If you require that they keep the cartridges in their carry-on luggage, then you get the benefit of having an armed and polite manifest without any of the messy firing at random.
That's kind of a lame thing to do. Instead of having people "armed and dangerous" on a plane where they can easily take out any terrorist, you suddenly have a bunch of people that will have to rummage through their carry-on before they can take action. You might as well keep the guns off the plane in that case, since the terrorist are not likely to stow their ammo in their carry-on and will just shoot people as they try to get their ammo.
The Mac approach - simplicity and usability with the option for power use - wins out every time.
Except it confuses the hell out of the power users coming from Windows, ya know, the ones (like me) that don't know it can even be turned on.
You missed his point. You don't have to have Active Directory in order to install software as a non-admin. Sure, not all programs can install as non-admin, but there are plenty that do. No, I don't have any examples because I'm not going to start uninstalling programs on my machine and reduce my privilege level in order to find out which ones install as non-admin.
Also, it takes all of 3 seconds to make someone an admin, whether you're in a domain or not. Simply adding the user (domain or local account) to the administrators group will do it. It's really not that much different from OS X. You still have to get into the user management area, the only difference is the checkbox vs the group.
The other posters are probably right. You have a lot of experience "managing" a Mac, but little to none managing a Windows box, whether at home or on a corporate network.
I find Macs as difficult to use as Mac admins find Windows to use. I tried installing an HP laserjet on a Mac. Pray tell, why in the hell do I have to install the driver before I plug the printer in? I received no indication that the Mac was doing anything, I installed the driver (after plugging in the printer), and nothing happened. Finally, I tried unplugging the printer and plugging it back in (yes, it was USB). It finally sees it and installs it for me. But not until after 20 mins of me trying to figure out what the hell was wrong. XP installed the same printer in under 5 (detected it, prompted me for a driver, and installed).
See, I have very little experience on Macs, but I've got plenty on Windows.
Which is why, as another poster said, those who know stick with W2K3 STD, not SBS.
They have Cuban cigars around here too (LA and San Diego area). It is the importation of Cuban cigars that is illegal, but the seeds can be imported all we want. So the stores import the seeds and grow the tobacco here. Problem solved.
So much for your example.
A semi-automatic handgun with the magazine loaded, and separate from the gun, is defined, at least in California, as being loaded. Also, a gun with the slide locked back is still considered unlocked because there's no trigger lock or cable running through the slide. What you've just mentioned is exactly what most responsible gun owners probably do (unless they live in high crime areas). I know it's what I do (aside from locking the slide back).
I'm not sure about this, but I think the gun is still considered unlocked unless there's a trigger or cable lock in it and it's in a locked gun case. Yeah, California's a bit weird about being overly safe with guns at the expense of not educating people about them.
You can slipstream all those updates into a new CD and have yourself a fully patched fresh install whenever you need it.
the reply to that is "Well, I guess I'll have to find someone that can".
Seriously. As much as you may not want to do it, there's plenty of IT people out there that don't want to do it, but will do it. If the boss doesn't care about you rummaging through his email, he/she either doesn't care what you read or trusts you enough that you'll keep any secrets you find. Either way, it's probably not a bad thing.
In a high security area, I doubt you'll find people asking you to find a certain email that they "lost". More likely, you'll have procedures for recovering the entire mailbox. When it comes to recovering passwords, you'll simply have procedures for resetting passwords to some random value that even you won't know. And then the password will be required to be changed the moment they login.
Or if you think that the FBI knows better than to listen to some petty complaint (worked for McCarthy) a terrorist gets your name, SSN and credit card numbers off IRC.
Yeah, because those of us that actually read Slashdot are always giving out our names, SSN, and credit card numbers on IRC. The people that might actually do that don't even know what IRC is, so they're pretty unlikely to do it either.
And I seriously doubt that an ex-wife/girlfriend/whatever is going to call the FBI and name anyone here as an enemy combatant. Yeah, it could happen. Then again, the sun could go nova tomorrow morning and kill us all. It's pretty unlikely though.
Bzzz, WRONG! Why is it that when people discuss the Bill of Rights, "the people" is interpreted correctly in all of them except the 2nd amendment? Did the meaning of "the people" somehow change between 1 and 2 and then back again for all the rest? No, it didn't. So stop reinterpreting it to fit your dream. "The right of the people, to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" The people means the citizens, not the states. This is true for every single amendment, with no exceptions.
I'll give ya one thing. The FF's never intended people to be able to own nukes, but they sure never intended the kind of draconian gun laws some places have either. Criminals break laws, that's why they're called criminals and not law abiding citizens.
I found it actually impossible to buy a new mobile *without* internet access.
Then you didn't try very hard. My wife and I just got two new Motorola Razor's from T-Mobile with NO internet access. Sure, they're capable, but we had them completely disable it. No Internet, no text messages, no nothing like that. We can still receive text messages from them, but those are free of charge.
The next time you don't want Internet, tell them. Otherwise they'll just leave it on and you'll get charged extra.
That will only ensure that the teacher will get shot first by said asshole.
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To echo the other poster "You went to a school with only one teacher?"
And I'll add this. It'll also keep the Principals and Assistant Principals from having to run to their cars to retrieve their guns in order to stop the asshole.
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Sure there will. The cost to produce the gas in California will go up, so the producers will move out of state where it's cheaper. Then, it'll cost more to get it here, so the price at the pump will go up. In the end, the price will go up because of this tax. They won't be passing the cost of the tax onto the consumer, they'll be passing the cost of getting the gas to the consumer onto the consumer. That cost could be more than the tax, but that doesn't matter, since they'll still be making more money.
But what will California end up with? Fewer jobs (they need people to run the production facilities) and higher gas prices. Awesome! Thanks so much for forcing the gas companies to pay for R&D in alternative fuels!
With gas prices on the way back down, this is the worst time to institute a gas tax.