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Google "dsquery" and "dsmod", and you'll find your answer for that. You can do all the same things from the command line.
The fact that you don't know how, doesn't mean it isn't available.
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Oddly enough, Active Directory works fine for our needs, and it's upwards of 17k users worldwide.
Exchange works too, but it's a beast to manage and I don't manage it... but my email works and our mail admins seem fine, so I can't say much on that regard. Outlook is still the best mail client, I've used the rest and can't stand Notes which is the only other real groupware competitor.
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And thus, Linux will make its way to the desktop, finally?
I've been hearing that same song for years, and since nothing has changed drastically on that front, I'll presume you're being facetious.
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I'm a PM that implements systems based on business requirements, and I don't care whether it's a *nix backend or Windows backend, if I can get the job done reliably, quickly, and with the least amount of overhead.
In past years I've built more *nix systems than Windows, but that tide is changing because of how cheap/fast we can develop Windows apps.
But feel free to believe your accusations, if it helps you to defend your love for *nix.
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The problem is that most critics are dismissed summarily as people who don't understand *nix properly. This is where the "snob" syndrome comes into play.
I took a RHEL class a while back, and the teacher (who was FROM Red Hat) spent ample amounts of time talking about BSOD and other stupid things, most of which I looked at him and just wondered, why didn't he check XYZ, because that would have solved his issue. No, instead, he went off on a rant about how useless Windows was.
It's no wonder that Linux fans can't take criticism, when a lot of their nature is built up to bash other OSes. Mac gets a pass because it has a bash terminal, but in reality no real security (see: Pwn2Own), and Windows is the giant on the hill that gets bashed regularly. Occasionally I'll see a Slashdotter here mention that IIS is a pretty decent product or something slightly complimentary, only to be modded down as flamebait.
And Linux has critics? Please. The critics TFA is talking about is more about code, it's about 'the whole package'. And while *nix on the server side is something I'd readily deploy for database backends, for web farms, for much more -- there's no way in hell I'd deploy it on an enterprise desktop because it's simply not ready to be used or administered.
But I'll expect my bad mod rating shortly, arguing that *nix fans have lots of critics, and that I'm simply one more of the "uneducated" ones.
We don't have a lot public facing right now so for my position, I suppose I don't have a lot to worry about:)
I can see the logic, but for a company like Google where there's a LOT of public facing stuff, and for a person like me, it's really not an emergency, nor worth the effort.
I am in no rush to make this argument to my higher ups, as if I don't have enough work lately. NAT works fine for us and we support over 17,000 desktops.
Whether you use WebSphere from IBM or Sharepoint from Microsoft, you have the ability to leverage an API and develop a custom solution around something that has a few things.
1. A community. 2. Documentation 3. Support
Now I am all for open source in an environment that deems it important, but having an SLA for a solution that is now going to become your intra/extranet is important -- and Drupal doesn't provide that. Sharepoint does, and so does Websphere.
That said, I am actually a big fan of Sharepoint because it's retardedly simple to operate, administer, deploy, and regulate. In an 'enterprise' you are likely running Windows on the desktop with MS Office, and Sharepoint is a simple and inexpensive fit for an enterprise like that.
If you're an 'enterprise' that doesn't use Windows on the desktop I'd be surprised, and have to wonder if your enterprise is a Linux company, Apple, or whether you're just blowing smoke up our ass and think that 50 people is an 'enterprise'.
All the rich criminals who fire thousands of employees causing them to get desperate to the point of prostitution, robbery, suicide and more because their stock price went up a few bucks for that week and they cashed in millions.
The big draw of the game for me (and lots of others) was that PvP would take individual skill and take a lot of factors of your person into account. Some intelligence, some coordination, and mostly the ability to skillfully defeat an opponent.
The game has NONE of that -- it's "click click click" your left mouse button in the hopes that the server syncing will let you land a shot on the other guy. The depth of the game is zero, and "skill" is almost entirely based in the coordination of groups. If you're a solo player, you can't play the game.
Since Darkfall is an utter and complete disappointment from the beta videos I've seen and from friends that are IN beta... Mortal Online is the next best thing.
The developers are posting the methodology of their ideas and having people comment on it. It's nice to see them having a back and forth about ideas in the game that players are helping to shape. The 10,000 foot overview is still the developer's but the nitty gritty details players are helping to iron out, or so it seems. Release will tell us more on that, but at least I *feel* part of the process.
In most organizations, it takes only a small group of whiners to transition the whole of an IT focus to something else. Trust me, I've been through this battle.
Make changes where it *makes sense*. Microsoft Office currently is best of breed, no offense meant to OpenOffice but seriously... it's not even in the same realm. Windows on the desktop obviously goes side by side with this.
Where you can make arguments are on the backend where users don't really have a say. Say you want to launch some web servers -- go *Nix and Apache instead of MS and IIS. Want a database cluster? Go *nix and MySQL. These are changes that *can* happen.
I have seen far too often that 'techies' get involved and just because the technology is more superior (in some way) they totally discount the business benefit from having it set up that way. What is your roadmap for the future of IT? What paths are you looking to cross? Say the CIO wants to invest some money into Sharepoint, or wants to use WIM (standard image format) for deployments, or wants to lock down users better (AD Policies). These things are *windows specific*. You can make the argument, but if you can't look at it from a business perspective, then you are already on the path to failing at your argument.
Usually the cost of changing everything, retraining users, and getting them to be AS PRODUCTIVE as they were before is far more expensive than to keep technology the same and use branches into other things to accomplish business tasks.
And don't say you're an educational facility... you're a business first, and any good business is in the *business* of making money or showing results. That's what you call an organizational unit:)
Good luck to you, but make sure you have your ducks in a row before you go making arguments of vast change, because if you don't know what the future holds or what the goals are, you will just look like an idiot.
I'm sorry, I'm not the developer of Windows 7 so I don't have the details, but from what I've read (and I do read from places other than Slashdot), that Windows 7 stops allowing *some* applications to be written entirely like shit.
That's not to say of course, that there won't be shitty applications out there, but the ones that *require admin rights* and other things won't function well. They are breaking compatibility for those poorly coded apps.
Other things like Direct X, memory management, caching... I guess those are plusses too. On the enterprise end there are *lots* of enhancements and benefits, but since this is Slashdot, nobody's really going to care because they all work for Red Hat and don't use Windows in the enterprise (what a laugh).
Problem is that it relies on OLD technology to 'work well'.
In that case, why upgrade the Linux kernel, ever? It works well. Why upgrade your car? It gets you from point A to point B. Why upgrade anything, ever?
If you're in that mindset, you would suffice with having a butter churn and live by candlelight. They are servicable too.
But for the rest of us who want "next gen" technology, I think Windows 7 does have some benefits (as did Vista, in a much crappier package) over XP. And if you don't see that, then stick with XP. I don't see the big deal.
Last I checked, if you don't want Windows 7 or Vista, you don't have to buy them.
I don't get why people get their panties in a bunch when a company releases a new product and you personally don't like it. Don't buy it. Big deal.
But if you run XP now normally, I guarantee you'll upgrade to 7 just with everybody else, because it's the nature of a techy person to upgrade.
And if you don't, then I guess it really doesn't matter, does it?
FYI, I manage 17000+ users in the US alone, and we are skipping Vista and planning on going with 7 for the increased benefits in policy, deployment packaging (read up about WIM), Bitlocker and more.
Not everybody that's "your friend" will follow the path you're proclaiming.
If you haven't patched, there's no fault of anybody but your own.
If your car has a recall for a safety belt problem, and you don't get it fixed and get into an accident, is it suddenly the car manufacturer's fault? No.
And likewise it's not MS's fault if you can't install patches on your OS.
Make it a 30 second screen lock, and if you find you lost it, do a remote wipe.
I don't see how that is so damned complicated. Even if he loses it people keep track of everything "Mr. President, you have your socks, shoes, tie, OMG NO BLACKBERRY CALL THE IT DUDES!!!111!!!"
In a few moments the BB will be wiped, and with tracing software can be located. Solder the SIM in and it's easy to find too.
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Google "dsquery" and "dsmod", and you'll find your answer for that. You can do all the same things from the command line.
The fact that you don't know how, doesn't mean it isn't available.
Oddly enough, Active Directory works fine for our needs, and it's upwards of 17k users worldwide.
Exchange works too, but it's a beast to manage and I don't manage it... but my email works and our mail admins seem fine, so I can't say much on that regard. Outlook is still the best mail client, I've used the rest and can't stand Notes which is the only other real groupware competitor.
And thus, Linux will make its way to the desktop, finally?
I've been hearing that same song for years, and since nothing has changed drastically on that front, I'll presume you're being facetious.
I'm a PM that implements systems based on business requirements, and I don't care whether it's a *nix backend or Windows backend, if I can get the job done reliably, quickly, and with the least amount of overhead.
In past years I've built more *nix systems than Windows, but that tide is changing because of how cheap/fast we can develop Windows apps.
But feel free to believe your accusations, if it helps you to defend your love for *nix.
The problem is that most critics are dismissed summarily as people who don't understand *nix properly. This is where the "snob" syndrome comes into play.
I took a RHEL class a while back, and the teacher (who was FROM Red Hat) spent ample amounts of time talking about BSOD and other stupid things, most of which I looked at him and just wondered, why didn't he check XYZ, because that would have solved his issue. No, instead, he went off on a rant about how useless Windows was.
It's no wonder that Linux fans can't take criticism, when a lot of their nature is built up to bash other OSes. Mac gets a pass because it has a bash terminal, but in reality no real security (see: Pwn2Own), and Windows is the giant on the hill that gets bashed regularly. Occasionally I'll see a Slashdotter here mention that IIS is a pretty decent product or something slightly complimentary, only to be modded down as flamebait.
And Linux has critics? Please. The critics TFA is talking about is more about code, it's about 'the whole package'. And while *nix on the server side is something I'd readily deploy for database backends, for web farms, for much more -- there's no way in hell I'd deploy it on an enterprise desktop because it's simply not ready to be used or administered.
But I'll expect my bad mod rating shortly, arguing that *nix fans have lots of critics, and that I'm simply one more of the "uneducated" ones.
I didn't have that problem until some people with not enough work were forced out of the company due to the economy.
Dammit I was hoping nobody would notice :)
Go back to Dvorak.
Sorry, the nerd in me speaks :p
We don't have a lot public facing right now so for my position, I suppose I don't have a lot to worry about :)
I can see the logic, but for a company like Google where there's a LOT of public facing stuff, and for a person like me, it's really not an emergency, nor worth the effort.
Seriously?
I am in no rush to make this argument to my higher ups, as if I don't have enough work lately. NAT works fine for us and we support over 17,000 desktops.
Whether you use WebSphere from IBM or Sharepoint from Microsoft, you have the ability to leverage an API and develop a custom solution around something that has a few things.
1. A community.
2. Documentation
3. Support
Now I am all for open source in an environment that deems it important, but having an SLA for a solution that is now going to become your intra/extranet is important -- and Drupal doesn't provide that. Sharepoint does, and so does Websphere.
That said, I am actually a big fan of Sharepoint because it's retardedly simple to operate, administer, deploy, and regulate. In an 'enterprise' you are likely running Windows on the desktop with MS Office, and Sharepoint is a simple and inexpensive fit for an enterprise like that.
If you're an 'enterprise' that doesn't use Windows on the desktop I'd be surprised, and have to wonder if your enterprise is a Linux company, Apple, or whether you're just blowing smoke up our ass and think that 50 people is an 'enterprise'.
Retail sales in general are down because nobody wants to spend money on luxury items.
I am surprised that people even bothered to do research on this. I could have told you this without looking at any metrics.
All the rich criminals who fire thousands of employees causing them to get desperate to the point of prostitution, robbery, suicide and more because their stock price went up a few bucks for that week and they cashed in millions.
Just a thought...
People said the same thing about GM.
Never say never.
Is here: http://www.gameolosophy.com/Games/Online/Darkfall-Online-Beta.541609
Enjoy folks, that is the best post on the game I have found yet.
The game is pretty useless.
The big draw of the game for me (and lots of others) was that PvP would take individual skill and take a lot of factors of your person into account. Some intelligence, some coordination, and mostly the ability to skillfully defeat an opponent.
The game has NONE of that -- it's "click click click" your left mouse button in the hopes that the server syncing will let you land a shot on the other guy. The depth of the game is zero, and "skill" is almost entirely based in the coordination of groups. If you're a solo player, you can't play the game.
Since Darkfall is an utter and complete disappointment from the beta videos I've seen and from friends that are IN beta... Mortal Online is the next best thing.
The developers are posting the methodology of their ideas and having people comment on it. It's nice to see them having a back and forth about ideas in the game that players are helping to shape. The 10,000 foot overview is still the developer's but the nitty gritty details players are helping to iron out, or so it seems. Release will tell us more on that, but at least I *feel* part of the process.
In most organizations, it takes only a small group of whiners to transition the whole of an IT focus to something else. Trust me, I've been through this battle.
Make changes where it *makes sense*. Microsoft Office currently is best of breed, no offense meant to OpenOffice but seriously... it's not even in the same realm. Windows on the desktop obviously goes side by side with this.
Where you can make arguments are on the backend where users don't really have a say. Say you want to launch some web servers -- go *Nix and Apache instead of MS and IIS. Want a database cluster? Go *nix and MySQL. These are changes that *can* happen.
I have seen far too often that 'techies' get involved and just because the technology is more superior (in some way) they totally discount the business benefit from having it set up that way. What is your roadmap for the future of IT? What paths are you looking to cross? Say the CIO wants to invest some money into Sharepoint, or wants to use WIM (standard image format) for deployments, or wants to lock down users better (AD Policies). These things are *windows specific*. You can make the argument, but if you can't look at it from a business perspective, then you are already on the path to failing at your argument.
Usually the cost of changing everything, retraining users, and getting them to be AS PRODUCTIVE as they were before is far more expensive than to keep technology the same and use branches into other things to accomplish business tasks.
And don't say you're an educational facility... you're a business first, and any good business is in the *business* of making money or showing results. That's what you call an organizational unit :)
Good luck to you, but make sure you have your ducks in a row before you go making arguments of vast change, because if you don't know what the future holds or what the goals are, you will just look like an idiot.
I'm sorry, I'm not the developer of Windows 7 so I don't have the details, but from what I've read (and I do read from places other than Slashdot), that Windows 7 stops allowing *some* applications to be written entirely like shit.
That's not to say of course, that there won't be shitty applications out there, but the ones that *require admin rights* and other things won't function well. They are breaking compatibility for those poorly coded apps.
Other things like Direct X, memory management, caching... I guess those are plusses too. On the enterprise end there are *lots* of enhancements and benefits, but since this is Slashdot, nobody's really going to care because they all work for Red Hat and don't use Windows in the enterprise (what a laugh).
I think we'll see the benefits when it comes out.
And since it costs them cash to do that, I don't see the big deal either.
Activation I'm no fan of, but updates? No, I don't think that those last forever either.
Problem is that it relies on OLD technology to 'work well'.
In that case, why upgrade the Linux kernel, ever? It works well. Why upgrade your car? It gets you from point A to point B. Why upgrade anything, ever?
If you're in that mindset, you would suffice with having a butter churn and live by candlelight. They are servicable too.
But for the rest of us who want "next gen" technology, I think Windows 7 does have some benefits (as did Vista, in a much crappier package) over XP. And if you don't see that, then stick with XP. I don't see the big deal.
Last I checked, if you don't want Windows 7 or Vista, you don't have to buy them.
I don't get why people get their panties in a bunch when a company releases a new product and you personally don't like it. Don't buy it. Big deal.
But if you run XP now normally, I guarantee you'll upgrade to 7 just with everybody else, because it's the nature of a techy person to upgrade.
And if you don't, then I guess it really doesn't matter, does it?
FYI, I manage 17000+ users in the US alone, and we are skipping Vista and planning on going with 7 for the increased benefits in policy, deployment packaging (read up about WIM), Bitlocker and more.
Not everybody that's "your friend" will follow the path you're proclaiming.
Newer version of Direct X.
If you play games, you upgrade. If you surf the web and write docs, you can use any OS you want it's rather irrelevant.
Stop being a whiner.
The update was issued in October.
If you haven't patched, there's no fault of anybody but your own.
If your car has a recall for a safety belt problem, and you don't get it fixed and get into an accident, is it suddenly the car manufacturer's fault? No.
And likewise it's not MS's fault if you can't install patches on your OS.
Make it a 30 second screen lock, and if you find you lost it, do a remote wipe.
I don't see how that is so damned complicated. Even if he loses it people keep track of everything "Mr. President, you have your socks, shoes, tie, OMG NO BLACKBERRY CALL THE IT DUDES!!!111!!!"
In a few moments the BB will be wiped, and with tracing software can be located. Solder the SIM in and it's easy to find too.
Jeez.