They could put list price out there but almost no one pays list for their products. Govt, Education, Non-profits...plus there are all kinds of support levels that will change the per seat price dramatically. Can you go to Redhats or Sun's site and see a list of prices for their directory services? A freaking directory isn't something you just bop over to newegg.com and buy. If this is the main reason you discount the most scaleable and powerful directory system in the world then you REALLY just need to stick with AD as you are a nub...
Re:I don't know if I fully agree with that
on
Fire Your IT Boss
·
· Score: 1
I've been working in IT now for about 15 years. In those 15 years some of the best managers I've ever had were the least technical people in the organization. Personally, all I want from a manager is someone to deal with HR related issues and to clear political obstacles for me that I don't have the time or inclination to deal with. Now...some of the absolutely worst micro-managers I have ever had the displeasure of working for were generally the ones with the most technical backgrounds. They have a really hard time letting go of the technical aspects of projects and such and won't buy into anything new unless it is either their idea or I make them believe that it was their idea. Right now I work for someone who is a very good manager, but he is fairly technical. He has been out of the technical aspect of the business now for about 10 years so although he understands most of the concepts I work with his actual technical ability is pretty rusty and he just trusts me with the technical details. And he would most certainly fail the test in the article. It is really a very ideal situation to work in. As long as I deliver and make him look good he gives me free rein to make the technical decisions as I see fit. So personally I find Mr. Robert X. Crig-whatevers opinion on this topic to be completely wrong in my experience.
I am a systems administrator in a 4000+ user environment and I was recently insourced from a fortune 500 outsourcing company who lost the contract into a state/local government account. I chose to stay with the account for a number of reasons that are irrelevant here. But I can speak directly to converting from an outsourcer/contractor culture into a union culture. I am 9 months into this union environment and I now really believe that unions were created for the sole purpose of destroying industry. In less than a year this place has gone from a cutting edge can-do/competitive attitude to they stereotypical lazy union worker environment. We have a bunch of rules lawyers running around telling people what they can and cannot do. The threat of job termination is completely off the table at this point since we are now past the 6 month "probation" period so whereas previously about 10% of the staff surfed in 90% of the staff's wake it is now more like 60% of the staff working and 40% just looking around for stuff to take credit for. I am fortunate that my two peers in this group have maintained the same level of intensity that we had prior to being insourced but I look around at other groups that have integrated with other government unionized employees and they are self-destructing. They are becoming the exact thing that caused this local government agency to outsource it's IT 10 years ago and we aren't even a year into this.
I've heard a rumor that sometime in the next couple months they are going to have some kind of vote and try to make this place a "Union Shop" which means those of us who bargain for themselves and stand on their own accomplishments will be forced to pay union dues if we want to remain employed here. At that point I might have to re-evaluate my decision to stay here.
What if you need real uptime with a load of 80 on a 32 cpu system? Can Linux handle the load and have years of uptime?
Over 85% of the top 500 super computers in the world run Linux. http://www.top500.org/ as best I can tell almost none run Solaris as most of the Unix is AIX. So all you "Linux's uptime, stability and processing power sucks compared to Unix" old ass fanboys go back to your clubhouse and cry.
Ask any *real* Unix admin who uses both and more than likely they will say Linux is great for small jobs but Solaris is king for anything else.
Wow...if you are a *real* Unix admin it is no wonder Linux came along and is so successful.
They have to speak and read english in order to understand all the stolen designs/schematics they use to design their technology. Not well mind you, but passable. If you have any doubt of that just read their motherboard documentation or even the instructions for putting together a toy r us bike.;-)
Between their patent problems and GPL incompatibility Sun can keep them. In fact we can write that on Sun's tombstone. Here lies a really cool OS that had ZFS and dtrace.
OpenSUSE 11 is very similar to Fedora 9 in that respect. If you want free I would recommend Debian or Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. If you've got $50 laying around I would strongly recommend SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 as it is the most stable and feature rich desktop distro IMHO, especially if you are running it along side Windows workstations or servers.
I agree and disagree with you all at once. I became a Netflix subscriber after Blockbuster On-line jacked my rates twice in one year and limited me to 5 in-store envelope return rentals a month. The trade-off for me was the Watch it Now for the in-store rental returns. Well now Blockbuster On-line has lost a boatload of customers because of their crazy price structure they have again lowered their monthly rates and gone back to the online/in-store hybrid and started offering good incentives. IF I used this profile feature that Netflix was about to eliminate I would seriously consider canceling Netflix and resubscribing to Blockbuster. Sending in disgruntled letters and such is all well and good as long as it works but leveraging the market with your dollars is better. Let Netflix see 10,000 customers cancel within 30 days or so of ending the profile thing and then let them weigh the money lost versus the costs of maintaining that feature. In the end someone might get fired and they will rewrite something comparable to the profiles feature or just bring the old one back. Business is a gamble. The goal is to offer the best quality product/service you can afford to make for the price the most people are willing to pay. Companies like Netflix and Blockbuster are run by people who make mistakes. From a consumer perspective it is our job to make sure they realize when they've made that mistake. Don't feel like just because you have been a Netflix customer for X years you will just have to live with whatever they do.
It's so weird how the BSA has, (or not) become some kind of religious group. Back in the mid-80's in central California I was a member of Cub Scouts for 4 years and a Boy Scout little over 2 years and have zero recollection of anything religion-like being part of the experience. We didn't even pray before meals. We played Dungeons and Dragons on camp outs and listened to Pink Floyd and learned wilderness survival, hunting and fishing and read Popular Mechanics magazine and built stuff. The experience was completely secular. There was a Mormon troop in town and they met at their temple and we camped next to them on many a jamboree and camp out and never once do I remember ever seeing a bible or even hear anyone utter anything about religion. Is this religious thing regional? Or maybe part of the religious rights resurgence from the mid-90's?
But, if there is only one linux, and this linux is commercial product, then it becomes much easier for msft to kill off, or at least contain the problem.
Sorry the very idea of this is absurd. I don't think anyone at MS is deluded enough to believe that this is a viable strategy...Maybe in the year 2100 under one world government someone could actually believe this line of reasoning but otherwise you are just making shit up.
ask Hamas and Hezbollah how close they are to beating the IDF
Uhh...yeah last I checked they are about as close as the IDF is from beating them. But your comparison of these two scenarios demonstrates your ignorance of the history of revolution. It is like comparing (insert your favorite example of two completely different things).
The difference is...only in the USA do we have two distinct paths of recourse...The First Amendment AND the Second. Protect each with the other and we wont have to flee to another country.
That tree of liberty is looking a little droopy...maybe it is getting time to refresh it.
Novell invests heavily in the development of Gnome AND KDE. Not to mention that they own a couple huge user space projects like AppArmor, Evolution , mono, Compiz, Tomboy, F-Spot and dump tons of code at big projects like OpenOffice and Xen. To excuse Canonical for not contributing much to the kernel is giving them a free pass IMHO.
Reading about Alexey Pajitnov calling RMS's ideas on free software "the past" is like reading an article where A Flock of Seagulls calls rap music a passing fad.
Isn't Microsoft already going after Google with MS Live? Setting up an index and searching tool for their internal stuff is a "no-duh" move. Novell has had Quickfinder for a zillion years I am actually surprised Microsoft has gone this long without one of their own.
My guess is that they had to add in the new shiny features while simultaneously retaining backwards compatibility with every buggy program and half-broken API they've ever released all the way back to Windows 3.1. That sort of requirement can really complicate things, and you end up having to code everything as conservatively as possible and never take any shortcuts for fear of breaking something.
That arguement is flawed on both counts...number one, if by "shiny new features" you are referring to Aero, pop on over to youtube.com and watch some compiz-fusion videos. I have a POS 2.5 year old laptop with an Intel shared memory video card and 1 gig of system ram running OpenSUSE 10.3 and it's interface makes Aero's look antiquated.
Number two, the biggest complaint I hear from my clients about Vista is the fact that it IS NOT backward compatible with all of their 2000 & XP shit, let alone 3.1, 95, 98, & ME. So try again on the excuse roledex.
I dont see how identity theft is any different than any other kind of theft. My car is out the parking lot right now and if someone steals it I call the police they investigate and sometimes eventually catch whoever did it. Or I claim it on insurance and get a new one. A while back someone used my Visa card number to order something from a pharmacy in Brazil. My bank called me and told me they suspected fraud, I confirmed it and they issued me a card with a new number on it. Big deal...Giving the government all of our information/DNA/fingerprints/life history isn't really going to make any of this stop. Bad people will do bad things and we will do our best to catch them when they do. But turning our lives over to some giant government database is not the answer. Insurance, consumer protection laws, and heavy penalties for those caught are, just like any other crime. The government and people who make their living in security related fields want you to believe that opening your life up to them will somehow protect you better. I think this is completely bogus. THERE IS NO FRAUD/CRIME PROOF SYSTEM. So to answer the OP we should all be choosing privacy and anonymity IMHO.
I guess I was feeling a bit surly last night when I posted that one. But minus the sarcasm I get irritated when people blame end users for getting infected by doing "something" they aren't supposed to be doing. You don't have to be trying to install the latest porn codecs or executing email attachments from strangers to become infected anymore, that concept is so 2006.;-)
The vast majority of people who have 0wned machines are in that state because they did something they shouldn't have.
Like when they are reading about their favorite baseball team or maybe doing some online banking. I mean how dare my parents (a retired men's clothing store manager and a dental hygienist) try and use the Internet without the experience to know the difference between a webpage generated pop-up window and an actual windows or application system message on their computer. The freaking nerve...
You are right though, they were doing something that they shouldn't have been doing, running Windows...fixing that though.
I would hesitate to look at Gene Simmons for any kind of intelligent statement on anything.
Yeah I mean we are basically talking about an attitude with a tongue who managed to enthrall large numbers of drug addled white suburban kids in the 1970's. And now his biggest claim to fame is that he allows cameras into his home so that the world can do that car crash stare at him and his retarded brood. Be kind America, don't rewind these wash out has beens into reality TV shows and book deals please.
It's really only grim in the first stage. But after it becomes more advanced it is only painful for those around you. To you though it can be like a time machine, or a really great trip. You get to travel back in time and see your kids when they were young. Heck my brother's Grandmother-in-law thought she was a secret agent for for the allies during WWII in Spain during the last year of her life. Which was actually pretty interesting because we know her husband was involved in intelligence in that time period and she was a Spanish national, so who knows. But she lived with my brother and her granddaughter and he played along with her the whole time. There were times when it was hard on everyone in the house but I think I would rather go like she did rather than some wasting cancer or something. My paternal Grandmother's mind was sharp as a tack until the day she went at 92. Which was sad because her body was falling to pieces, she went blind, deaf, and crippled over the course of about 5-6 years. She was trapped inside a body that couldn't serve her anymore after being extremely active and mobile her entire life. I think that was harder than the dementia case, for everyone involved...just my opinion though.
But once they can identify who is going to have dementia or Alzheimer's, they can start figuring out why and then find real treatments. So even though it would suck to know you were going to eventually drift off into the nether it is an important step.
Slashdot Mirror
They could put list price out there but almost no one pays list for their products. Govt, Education, Non-profits...plus there are all kinds of support levels that will change the per seat price dramatically. Can you go to Redhats or Sun's site and see a list of prices for their directory services? A freaking directory isn't something you just bop over to newegg.com and buy. If this is the main reason you discount the most scaleable and powerful directory system in the world then you REALLY just need to stick with AD as you are a nub...
I've been working in IT now for about 15 years. In those 15 years some of the best managers I've ever had were the least technical people in the organization. Personally, all I want from a manager is someone to deal with HR related issues and to clear political obstacles for me that I don't have the time or inclination to deal with. Now...some of the absolutely worst micro-managers I have ever had the displeasure of working for were generally the ones with the most technical backgrounds. They have a really hard time letting go of the technical aspects of projects and such and won't buy into anything new unless it is either their idea or I make them believe that it was their idea. Right now I work for someone who is a very good manager, but he is fairly technical. He has been out of the technical aspect of the business now for about 10 years so although he understands most of the concepts I work with his actual technical ability is pretty rusty and he just trusts me with the technical details. And he would most certainly fail the test in the article. It is really a very ideal situation to work in. As long as I deliver and make him look good he gives me free rein to make the technical decisions as I see fit. So personally I find Mr. Robert X. Crig-whatevers opinion on this topic to be completely wrong in my experience.
I am a systems administrator in a 4000+ user environment and I was recently insourced from a fortune 500 outsourcing company who lost the contract into a state/local government account. I chose to stay with the account for a number of reasons that are irrelevant here. But I can speak directly to converting from an outsourcer/contractor culture into a union culture. I am 9 months into this union environment and I now really believe that unions were created for the sole purpose of destroying industry. In less than a year this place has gone from a cutting edge can-do/competitive attitude to they stereotypical lazy union worker environment. We have a bunch of rules lawyers running around telling people what they can and cannot do. The threat of job termination is completely off the table at this point since we are now past the 6 month "probation" period so whereas previously about 10% of the staff surfed in 90% of the staff's wake it is now more like 60% of the staff working and 40% just looking around for stuff to take credit for. I am fortunate that my two peers in this group have maintained the same level of intensity that we had prior to being insourced but I look around at other groups that have integrated with other government unionized employees and they are self-destructing. They are becoming the exact thing that caused this local government agency to outsource it's IT 10 years ago and we aren't even a year into this.
I've heard a rumor that sometime in the next couple months they are going to have some kind of vote and try to make this place a "Union Shop" which means those of us who bargain for themselves and stand on their own accomplishments will be forced to pay union dues if we want to remain employed here. At that point I might have to re-evaluate my decision to stay here.
What if you need real uptime with a load of 80 on a 32 cpu system? Can Linux handle the load and have years of uptime?
Over 85% of the top 500 super computers in the world run Linux. http://www.top500.org/ as best I can tell almost none run Solaris as most of the Unix is AIX. So all you "Linux's uptime, stability and processing power sucks compared to Unix" old ass fanboys go back to your clubhouse and cry.
Ask any *real* Unix admin who uses both and more than likely they will say Linux is great for small jobs but Solaris is king for anything else.
Wow...if you are a *real* Unix admin it is no wonder Linux came along and is so successful.
Or how about No More Heroes? A wonderfully violent AND playable Wii game.
They have to speak and read english in order to understand all the stolen designs/schematics they use to design their technology. Not well mind you, but passable. If you have any doubt of that just read their motherboard documentation or even the instructions for putting together a toy r us bike. ;-)
Between their patent problems and GPL incompatibility Sun can keep them. In fact we can write that on Sun's tombstone. Here lies a really cool OS that had ZFS and dtrace.
OpenSUSE 11 is very similar to Fedora 9 in that respect. If you want free I would recommend Debian or Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. If you've got $50 laying around I would strongly recommend SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 as it is the most stable and feature rich desktop distro IMHO, especially if you are running it along side Windows workstations or servers.
I agree and disagree with you all at once. I became a Netflix subscriber after Blockbuster On-line jacked my rates twice in one year and limited me to 5 in-store envelope return rentals a month. The trade-off for me was the Watch it Now for the in-store rental returns. Well now Blockbuster On-line has lost a boatload of customers because of their crazy price structure they have again lowered their monthly rates and gone back to the online/in-store hybrid and started offering good incentives. IF I used this profile feature that Netflix was about to eliminate I would seriously consider canceling Netflix and resubscribing to Blockbuster. Sending in disgruntled letters and such is all well and good as long as it works but leveraging the market with your dollars is better. Let Netflix see 10,000 customers cancel within 30 days or so of ending the profile thing and then let them weigh the money lost versus the costs of maintaining that feature. In the end someone might get fired and they will rewrite something comparable to the profiles feature or just bring the old one back. Business is a gamble. The goal is to offer the best quality product/service you can afford to make for the price the most people are willing to pay. Companies like Netflix and Blockbuster are run by people who make mistakes. From a consumer perspective it is our job to make sure they realize when they've made that mistake. Don't feel like just because you have been a Netflix customer for X years you will just have to live with whatever they do.
It's so weird how the BSA has, (or not) become some kind of religious group. Back in the mid-80's in central California I was a member of Cub Scouts for 4 years and a Boy Scout little over 2 years and have zero recollection of anything religion-like being part of the experience. We didn't even pray before meals. We played Dungeons and Dragons on camp outs and listened to Pink Floyd and learned wilderness survival, hunting and fishing and read Popular Mechanics magazine and built stuff. The experience was completely secular. There was a Mormon troop in town and they met at their temple and we camped next to them on many a jamboree and camp out and never once do I remember ever seeing a bible or even hear anyone utter anything about religion. Is this religious thing regional? Or maybe part of the religious rights resurgence from the mid-90's?
Sorry the very idea of this is absurd. I don't think anyone at MS is deluded enough to believe that this is a viable strategy...Maybe in the year 2100 under one world government someone could actually believe this line of reasoning but otherwise you are just making shit up.
yeah the whole thing.
Uhh...yeah last I checked they are about as close as the IDF is from beating them. But your comparison of these two scenarios demonstrates your ignorance of the history of revolution. It is like comparing (insert your favorite example of two completely different things).
The difference is...only in the USA do we have two distinct paths of recourse...The First Amendment AND the Second. Protect each with the other and we wont have to flee to another country.
That tree of liberty is looking a little droopy...maybe it is getting time to refresh it.
God knows they could use him...
Novell invests heavily in the development of Gnome AND KDE. Not to mention that they own a couple huge user space projects like AppArmor, Evolution , mono, Compiz, Tomboy, F-Spot and dump tons of code at big projects like OpenOffice and Xen. To excuse Canonical for not contributing much to the kernel is giving them a free pass IMHO.
Reading about Alexey Pajitnov calling RMS's ideas on free software "the past" is like reading an article where A Flock of Seagulls calls rap music a passing fad.
Isn't Microsoft already going after Google with MS Live? Setting up an index and searching tool for their internal stuff is a "no-duh" move. Novell has had Quickfinder for a zillion years I am actually surprised Microsoft has gone this long without one of their own.
That arguement is flawed on both counts...number one, if by "shiny new features" you are referring to Aero, pop on over to youtube.com and watch some compiz-fusion videos. I have a POS 2.5 year old laptop with an Intel shared memory video card and 1 gig of system ram running OpenSUSE 10.3 and it's interface makes Aero's look antiquated.
Number two, the biggest complaint I hear from my clients about Vista is the fact that it IS NOT backward compatible with all of their 2000 & XP shit, let alone 3.1, 95, 98, & ME. So try again on the excuse roledex.
I dont see how identity theft is any different than any other kind of theft. My car is out the parking lot right now and if someone steals it I call the police they investigate and sometimes eventually catch whoever did it. Or I claim it on insurance and get a new one. A while back someone used my Visa card number to order something from a pharmacy in Brazil. My bank called me and told me they suspected fraud, I confirmed it and they issued me a card with a new number on it. Big deal...Giving the government all of our information/DNA/fingerprints/life history isn't really going to make any of this stop. Bad people will do bad things and we will do our best to catch them when they do. But turning our lives over to some giant government database is not the answer. Insurance, consumer protection laws, and heavy penalties for those caught are, just like any other crime. The government and people who make their living in security related fields want you to believe that opening your life up to them will somehow protect you better. I think this is completely bogus. THERE IS NO FRAUD/CRIME PROOF SYSTEM. So to answer the OP we should all be choosing privacy and anonymity IMHO.
I guess I was feeling a bit surly last night when I posted that one. But minus the sarcasm I get irritated when people blame end users for getting infected by doing "something" they aren't supposed to be doing. You don't have to be trying to install the latest porn codecs or executing email attachments from strangers to become infected anymore, that concept is so 2006. ;-)
Like when they are reading about their favorite baseball team or maybe doing some online banking. I mean how dare my parents (a retired men's clothing store manager and a dental hygienist) try and use the Internet without the experience to know the difference between a webpage generated pop-up window and an actual windows or application system message on their computer. The freaking nerve...
You are right though, they were doing something that they shouldn't have been doing, running Windows...fixing that though.
Yeah I mean we are basically talking about an attitude with a tongue who managed to enthrall large numbers of drug addled white suburban kids in the 1970's. And now his biggest claim to fame is that he allows cameras into his home so that the world can do that car crash stare at him and his retarded brood. Be kind America, don't rewind these wash out has beens into reality TV shows and book deals please.
But once they can identify who is going to have dementia or Alzheimer's, they can start figuring out why and then find real treatments. So even though it would suck to know you were going to eventually drift off into the nether it is an important step.