Personally, I prefer PDF. It's widely compatible across multiple platforms, it has some protection options that do every well, and there are solutions that you can pay for or download for free. We use Acrobat Writer on probably 50% of our users machines now, and they all love it for sending files out to clients. Before we were using PDFs we occasionally had to convert a document to another format to send it to another company.
I don't think I've had more than two or three requests in the last year and a half since we're made the move. For one of those requests I talked to the other companies IS team (which as sometimes happens, is 1 well meaning guy that's going to Tech School or something and doesn't know it all yet) and told him about programs he could use to read the PDFs if he was interested, he was quite pleased.
You do if you don't want to shell out $$$ for a converter and/or adapter. You'll also probably want to make sure you're using a non-Apple Monitor that can be supported by Apple's Display Configuration Utility.
I have been making System Images for deployment of Windows 2000 and Windows XP for the last 2 years at my place of employment. Using Ghost Version 7.5 which fully supports NTFS I have never seen a single problem when imaging a Hard Disk.
For these System Images we use Sysprep to prepare the Image for use on a very broad range of Hardware. At this point I have 2 Windows 2000 Images - one for Laptops, one for Desktops, and 1 Windows XP image that works on both Laptops and Desktops.
You can also use Sysprep to move an Existing Windows installation to a completely different piece of hardware, provided you take steps to ensure the drivers for the IDE Controller are known to Sysprep. This generally involves adding a section to the SYSPREP.INF similar to this:
[SysprepMassStorage]
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7111="%windir%\inf\mshdc.inf"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7199="%windir%\inf\mshdc.inf"...so that when Sysprep first boots the image it doesn't panic when it doesn't know what to do with the IDE controller.
All in all Ghost+Sysprep seems to be a very good solution when creating images of Windows systems, and one that has served me very well for the last few years.
...But you CAN control which updates from Microsoft's site get Approved to be sent to clients. Any Critical Patch that goes to Windows Update gets sent to SUS Servers within a few days. From that point you can choose to approve the update, or opt to NOT distribute it. Once an update is approved clients will start downloading it within 17-22 hours, then installing at your pre-defined scheduled time, or when an Administrator logs on they can be prompted to Manually install the patches.
If you're talking about uploading your own patches (or whatever) you need to use another system, probably SMS.
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I hear a lot of baseless whining about MS
This is slashdot. You were expecting something else?
I can't read the article because it's slashdotted, but from the submission it sounds to me like he's trying to bring his personal Apple to his office and expect it to work with the company network.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
This isn't college where you can bring your own hardware and software and expect to get along with it. In an office environment Desktops and Laptops are provided with COMPANY software, usually from a COMPANY image, set up to connect to the COMPANY network. If you're expecting to bring your own random piece of PERSONAL hardware and get the IS people to make special accomidations for one user you've got a screw loose.
You're completely full of shit if you think Best Buy isn't making a profit on Music and Movies. Per Item they have pretty good margin. Most CDs that they sell for $12.99 cost them about $7.50.
It doesn't take more than 5 minutes to get rid of all the wizards and get XP to a Windows 2000-like interface. If you can't deal with that and work past the wizards, maybe you should just USE the wizards.
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Hmm, I've been using a USB Floppy for booting on test systems at work lately. Almost all of our systems, even older (98-99) IBM Laptops will boot off of that. I should pick one up and try it as it could be an excellent Network Boot Disk.
Example? I wanted to play Planetside, but I'm not going to because of the price. So instead I bought BF1942, which has a large number of possible players per server (64, and this number will only rise in future FPS as tech gets better), tons of servers to choose from with different options of gameplay, and an INCREDIBLE mod community that are putting out mods that have so many servers they rival the original game now.
You're really missing out.
Does BF1942 have a Persistent World? Characters you can level up?
Get a 7-Day key from someone who bought the game and you'll understand why Planetside is worth the monthly fee over playing BF1942 any day.
...to do everything in our power to piss these assholes off and maybe someday put them out of business. Actions like this taken by the RIAA are what make people like me recommend KaZaA/Grokster/Insert-your-favorite-P2P to their friends and relatives. Good thing my Mom just got a new CD-Burner, because she's about to get a crash course on not paying for (Big Corporate) music ever again. Go Fuck Yourselves RIAA.
Those $1 coins were the worst idea ever. I'd MUCH rather have a wad of 50 1$ bills than a heavy pocketful of jingly coins, especially if I'm going to the titty bar.
But did you ever play Tetris in your head when laying in bed at night to get yourself to fall asleep? I did, and it worked pretty well, but when I started to try and think of ways that I could make myself randomize the new pieces better to make the game more challenging I decided it was time to quit.
Also, while it's true they are two completely different applications, they are both software that you run on your computer. That's too close for comfort. What does "Are you using Firebird?" mean exactly (could be database, or it could mean the browser).
This is the part of the argument that I just cannot understand. Why do we need to concern ourselves as to how confusing such an odd question as that might be?
If someone feels the need to ask me "Are you using Firebird" in a the context of a conversation that doesn't already tell me if they're talking about a WEB BROWSER or a SQL SERVER, then there are bigger problems afoot than Brand Confusion.
Sadly, the broadcasting companies think it'll hurt their ad revenue
You know, I hate to agree with them on this type of thing, but how can you argue it? If everyone has a TiVo and isn't watching the ads, logically they MUST be losing ad revenue.
If TiVo gets popular enough and it gets to a point where a very signifigant portion of the public isn't watching Ads EVER, they'll just go to Interstitals (sp?) on TV like the damn Flash ones we get on the web now.
That's the thing, I would LIKE to use my real e-mail address. I would like for the person that reads my Usenet post questioning something from 5 years ago to reply with an answer to me today. But because of these motherfuckers I can't. I have to go back and check, and that sucks.
IBM Laptops, specifically the T-Series, have a removeable side bay that holds any standard laptop Hard Drive. I use that with 2 spare drives in my bag to boot between my 3 OSes - Win2k System Image for work, WinXP System for Fun on the Road, and Linux for whatever.
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Second, it can perform a denial-of-service against www.sco.com
Great. This will give SCO some good PR ammo. Thanks guys.
I don't think I've watched anything in RealMedia in almost 3 years now. I haven't seen anything yet that wasn't mirrored in a superior format anyways.
DivX, XviD, or at least good old MPG are FAR better formats for porno as it is.
Personally, I prefer PDF. It's widely compatible across multiple platforms, it has some protection options that do every well, and there are solutions that you can pay for or download for free. We use Acrobat Writer on probably 50% of our users machines now, and they all love it for sending files out to clients. Before we were using PDFs we occasionally had to convert a document to another format to send it to another company.
I don't think I've had more than two or three requests in the last year and a half since we're made the move. For one of those requests I talked to the other companies IS team (which as sometimes happens, is 1 well meaning guy that's going to Tech School or something and doesn't know it all yet) and told him about programs he could use to read the PDFs if he was interested, he was quite pleased.
You do if you don't want to shell out $$$ for a converter and/or adapter. You'll also probably want to make sure you're using a non-Apple Monitor that can be supported by Apple's Display Configuration Utility.
Go away, uneducated stupid comment maker guy.
For SCO, I think the Benny Hill Theme would be more appropriate.
I have been making System Images for deployment of Windows 2000 and Windows XP for the last 2 years at my place of employment. Using Ghost Version 7.5 which fully supports NTFS I have never seen a single problem when imaging a Hard Disk.
...so that when Sysprep first boots the image it doesn't panic when it doesn't know what to do with the IDE controller.
For these System Images we use Sysprep to prepare the Image for use on a very broad range of Hardware. At this point I have 2 Windows 2000 Images - one for Laptops, one for Desktops, and 1 Windows XP image that works on both Laptops and Desktops.
You can also use Sysprep to move an Existing Windows installation to a completely different piece of hardware, provided you take steps to ensure the drivers for the IDE Controller are known to Sysprep. This generally involves adding a section to the SYSPREP.INF similar to this:
[SysprepMassStorage]
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7111="%windir%\inf\mshdc.inf"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_7199="%windir%\inf\mshdc.inf"
All in all Ghost+Sysprep seems to be a very good solution when creating images of Windows systems, and one that has served me very well for the last few years.
I'd have to have a copy of Exploder on my desk
Exploder.
EXPLODER.
Jesus. How's your Mom's basement treating you?
...But you CAN control which updates from Microsoft's site get Approved to be sent to clients. Any Critical Patch that goes to Windows Update gets sent to SUS Servers within a few days. From that point you can choose to approve the update, or opt to NOT distribute it. Once an update is approved clients will start downloading it within 17-22 hours, then installing at your pre-defined scheduled time, or when an Administrator logs on they can be prompted to Manually install the patches.
If you're talking about uploading your own patches (or whatever) you need to use another system, probably SMS.
I hear a lot of baseless whining about MS
This is slashdot. You were expecting something else?
I can't read the article because it's slashdotted, but from the submission it sounds to me like he's trying to bring his personal Apple to his office and expect it to work with the company network.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
This isn't college where you can bring your own hardware and software and expect to get along with it. In an office environment Desktops and Laptops are provided with COMPANY software, usually from a COMPANY image, set up to connect to the COMPANY network. If you're expecting to bring your own random piece of PERSONAL hardware and get the IS people to make special accomidations for one user you've got a screw loose.
You're completely full of shit if you think Best Buy isn't making a profit on Music and Movies. Per Item they have pretty good margin. Most CDs that they sell for $12.99 cost them about $7.50.
Not everyone is constantly a self-serving attention whore.
It doesn't take more than 5 minutes to get rid of all the wizards and get XP to a Windows 2000-like interface. If you can't deal with that and work past the wizards, maybe you should just USE the wizards.
Hmm, I've been using a USB Floppy for booting on test systems at work lately. Almost all of our systems, even older (98-99) IBM Laptops will boot off of that. I should pick one up and try it as it could be an excellent Network Boot Disk.
Example? I wanted to play Planetside, but I'm not going to because of the price. So instead I bought BF1942, which has a large number of possible players per server (64, and this number will only rise in future FPS as tech gets better), tons of servers to choose from with different options of gameplay, and an INCREDIBLE mod community that are putting out mods that have so many servers they rival the original game now.
You're really missing out.
Does BF1942 have a Persistent World? Characters you can level up?
Get a 7-Day key from someone who bought the game and you'll understand why Planetside is worth the monthly fee over playing BF1942 any day.
...to do everything in our power to piss these assholes off and maybe someday put them out of business. Actions like this taken by the RIAA are what make people like me recommend KaZaA/Grokster/Insert-your-favorite-P2P to their friends and relatives. Good thing my Mom just got a new CD-Burner, because she's about to get a crash course on not paying for (Big Corporate) music ever again. Go Fuck Yourselves RIAA.
Those $1 coins were the worst idea ever. I'd MUCH rather have a wad of 50 1$ bills than a heavy pocketful of jingly coins, especially if I'm going to the titty bar.
Shut up shut up shut up!
They DO read websites like this you know!
But did you ever play Tetris in your head when laying in bed at night to get yourself to fall asleep? I did, and it worked pretty well, but when I started to try and think of ways that I could make myself randomize the new pieces better to make the game more challenging I decided it was time to quit.
I do believe that if my mother sent me a greeting card, and I REFUSED, RETURN TO SENDER'd it, I would get my ass kicked.
What a lame ass thing to take a stand on.
Also, while it's true they are two completely different applications, they are both software that you run on your computer. That's too close for comfort. What does "Are you using Firebird?" mean exactly (could be database, or it could mean the browser).
This is the part of the argument that I just cannot understand. Why do we need to concern ourselves as to how confusing such an odd question as that might be?
If someone feels the need to ask me "Are you using Firebird" in a the context of a conversation that doesn't already tell me if they're talking about a WEB BROWSER or a SQL SERVER, then there are bigger problems afoot than Brand Confusion.
Sadly, the broadcasting companies think it'll hurt their ad revenue
You know, I hate to agree with them on this type of thing, but how can you argue it? If everyone has a TiVo and isn't watching the ads, logically they MUST be losing ad revenue.
If TiVo gets popular enough and it gets to a point where a very signifigant portion of the public isn't watching Ads EVER, they'll just go to Interstitals (sp?) on TV like the damn Flash ones we get on the web now.
I'd rather get my nuts caught in a vise then deal with the results of an upgrade done that way, yuck.
That's the thing, I would LIKE to use my real e-mail address. I would like for the person that reads my Usenet post questioning something from 5 years ago to reply with an answer to me today. But because of these motherfuckers I can't. I have to go back and check, and that sucks.
IBM Laptops, specifically the T-Series, have a removeable side bay that holds any standard laptop Hard Drive. I use that with 2 spare drives in my bag to boot between my 3 OSes - Win2k System Image for work, WinXP System for Fun on the Road, and Linux for whatever.