I guess I'm biased. There's almost nothing I like about WinXP. From the time they changed the beta from NT 5 to XP, I was turned off. In fact, it was XP that enhanced my desire to upgrade to Linux.
Keep in mind, I'm not a gamer (unless you count the.z5 game emulators) and use the OS for programming and business productivity apps.
Interesting - don't know if any of my systems have encountered this.
Wait - I did yesterday on my openSUSE laptop running Firefox 3b2 (along with KNode, KMail, Amarok, and VMWare with XP running O2k3, AutoCAD 2005, and Visio).
I've been a Vista user for over a year now, and am somewhat satisfied with the OS. Compared to XP it is worlds above in both stability and usability. It almost even comes close to KDE for a decent UI.
What are the reasons people want to stay with XP?? As it is, I manage 1200 users, and we are happily switching all to Vista (as well as SLED) as we roll out new machines. (This is approximately 400/year.)
Well, that's my point. I actively search out milk not containing rBST and notice the disclaimer. I wrote asking why the disclaimer existed and was told a lawsuit forced them to put one on.
In any case, I pretty much go for organic milk when I can these days.
I often wondered why it is that a milk manufacturer who doesn't use BST (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin) in their product has to put a label that states something to the effect of "there's no scientific difference between cows treated with BST and those who aren't").
The fact that a company can force a manufacturer to put a disclaimer on their product for NOT using the drug is really scary.
Well, if you ever pay attention to my ranting, I don't particularly care for the CLI. However, I use it pretty much every day in both Wintendo (Vista and XP) and Linux.
Trust me - I had hoped I'd left the CLI behind with my Apple II.
However, in linux I have the CHOICE to start in the cli or the gui. That's the difference.
You know full well what they meant, as did anyone else who knows what Linux is so why the attempt at criticism. I criticized the article, because the article incorrectly compared grapes to oranges. (I don't want Steve J's lawyers coming down on me.) In terms of Linux, the distribution bundles various players and browsers for users to enjoy. In Windows, the browser and media player are integrated with the UI/kernel.
Can I start Windows NT/XP/Vista in command line mode?
I run vista on two machines - and actually like it better than that crappy earlier version of NT (XP) and even 2K. I was curious about Singularity.
In any case, I love the quote from the article:
For Windows Vista, Microsoft had to change their design and development strategy in order to comply with the DoJ and EU regulations regarding the anti-trust issues present in previous versions of Windows; specifically, the integration of assistive applications such as Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player into the core operating system. Competitors complained that offering internet and media solutions with the operating system harmed competition in the marketplace (despite other operating systems such as Mac OS X and Linux apparently being immune from such criticism). Funny - I didn't know linux came bundled with ANY media player or browser. I know distributions do, but not Linux.
ODF is not going to be the canonical archive format in perpetuity. It is rooted in the world of paper documents for a start. Valid point - I manage several document archive systems (Los Angeles County) and we hold documents in microfilm, PDF, PDF-A and TIFF. No one standard seems to fit all purposes. In fact - come to think of it - I have some patent applications from the late 1800's in leather. That's the storage - leather.
Reminds me of when I was the email admin at Hershey Business Systems - a Los Angeles based integrator - in the '90s. Because the domain - hbsi.com - was taken, the owners took hershey.com back in 1994.
My favorites:
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 8:12 AM To: kai@hershey.com Subject: From: Kim!! Hi! grandma I am so thankful that you came all the way from Florida to see me and by the way..... thanx for the choc cookie!! and next time you come over could you bring the extra pleasure condoms. I need them for me and Ryan. love you Grandma!! Kim
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:09 PM To: Kim From: Kai Subject: From: Kim!!
Kim:
We are not your grandmother.
Kai Ponte Hershey Business Systems
Then there was this one from an AOL member (figures):
From: TrtleGrl69@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 2:19 PM Subject: no response to our email dealing with
dead bugs in my payday I am extremely disappointed at the fact you have not responded to this incident. I'm upset that I purchased a payday and began eating it and ended up seeing a worm like bug with bug carcasses and holes in and on the candy bar. I... will continue to write you until I get a response. Talk about extremely bad customer service. Chad Weaver
I liked my response:
From: Ponte, Kai <kai@hershey.com> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 7:20 AM To: TrtleGrl69@aol.com Subject: RE: no response to our email
dealing with dead bugs in my payday
The worm like creature you found - was it alive?
Did it taste good?
Kai Ponte Information Technology Specialist Hershey Business Systems
And we can choose to point out how limited their products are as a result. So? Well, that was actually my point. The article kind of spelled out the obvious. It wasn't as if there were any Earth-shattering news in the article. Maybe my sarcasm was lost in translation...
Microsoft can choose to support whichever companies that they want. AFAIK, only Novell has signed the Munich Agreement with Microsoft, so it makes sense for Microsoft to exclude the others. At a recent Launch event for Windows Workstation 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008, I saw only Novell was present (with a large booth) showing off Linux products and virtualized Windows environments. (Though it was funny listening to Steve B. try and pronounce SUSE.)
Nah - you're not a pr0n spammer, so you'll never get it.
Seriously, I bet the peeps at Tesseract, ABBYY and Kofax are right now trying to figure out what the spammer losers are doing. Meanwhile, Kurzweil is probably coming up with some new genius scheme for us to learn...
If the true goal of a computer program for a school is to ready its students for the workplace, then is linux really the best method of doing so? Isn't the school in some way doing its students a dis-service my training them on a computing method that they will very likely never use again?
As much as i DESPISE some of microsoft's products (i admin a damn win2k3 server...do i really need to explain WHY i hate microsoft?) i understand that in order to function in a modern workplace, the ability to navigate microsoft windows is almost as essential as any other office skill
Actually this is a fallacious argument.
I just pointed out yesterday that kids can learn any OS. Keep in mind that I (along with all my peers) grew up in a world without windows and yet still managed to learn. In fact, I didn't even see windows until I was 19 and in college. That's when Win 2.0 came out and I thought it was - erm - mostly harmless.
My seven-year-old and five-year-old sons have no issues moving from my Vista laptop to my wife's Win2K desktop to my openSUSE laptop and desktop and to my mom's openSUSE desktop or to my father-in-law's Macintosh. Unless you're gonna teach kids how to administer Win2K3 workstations, then there's no issue.
I just spent the better part of my "day off" yesterday working on my $8M budget and all the personnel requests that accompany it. I spent most of the time in MS Word writing justifications, duty statements, allocation categories and whatnot.
I am an "IT Manager" over a division in a very large county. To answer the question of the OP, here's how I did it. I worked my a** off as an analyst and programmer at various companies until I got a good job running a team of programmers as a project manager. Being able to handle large scale ($1M+) projects and successfully implement them prepared me for taking on more responsibility. I then used my contacts from the '90s to land me a position in my current company as a supervisor where I was quickly promoted to DM based on my attitude, work ethic knowledges of the business and results.
My IT experiences come in a distant fourth in terms of requirements. It all comes down to being prepared.
I do get to delve into the "guts" of systems once in a while, but not as often as I like. However, the money isn't all that bad and having a 20' x 10' window office on the sixth floor with a secretary tends to compensate a bit. Oh, and I can still hack a few systems in my spare time. I'm currently implementing an inventory program written by me in PHP.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, good.
I like when the government gets involved in software development.
We get quality products like the California DMV upgrade and the latest IRS sofware upgrades...
LOL!
I'll be sure and watch those - never sure which are which, because my rugrats have the "best of" videos.
I'm kind of laughing that I got modded a troll on this. I was hoping for a "funny" - I guess you're right in that /. modders don't regularly watch TTE
over
and over
and over again.
(My five-year-old has recently graduated to more "grown-up" fare, such as Pokemon or The Batman, so I actually won't be seeing too much more TTE.)
Now how am I ever going to watch Thomas The Tank Engine without a tear in my eye??
My kids both love Tux of Math Command...
http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxmath.php
Here's my five year old son playing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D20yCEDye2Q
LOL!
:) I just meant that it was slightly less irritating that Win FP.
...back to Tux of Math Command now...
I didn't say it was ready for mass-support yet!
I figure by NT 7 they'll eventually have a better unix than SCO.
Eh, I find it faster.
.z5 game emulators) and use the OS for programming and business productivity apps.
I guess I'm biased. There's almost nothing I like about WinXP. From the time they changed the beta from NT 5 to XP, I was turned off. In fact, it was XP that enhanced my desire to upgrade to Linux.
Keep in mind, I'm not a gamer (unless you count the
Interesting - don't know if any of my systems have encountered this.
Wait - I did yesterday on my openSUSE laptop running Firefox 3b2 (along with KNode, KMail, Amarok, and VMWare with XP running O2k3, AutoCAD 2005, and Visio).
Oops - that's not vista.
I've been a Vista user for over a year now, and am somewhat satisfied with the OS. Compared to XP it is worlds above in both stability and usability. It almost even comes close to KDE for a decent UI.
What are the reasons people want to stay with XP?? As it is, I manage 1200 users, and we are happily switching all to Vista (as well as SLED) as we roll out new machines. (This is approximately 400/year.)
Well, that's my point. I actively search out milk not containing rBST and notice the disclaimer. I wrote asking why the disclaimer existed and was told a lawsuit forced them to put one on.
In any case, I pretty much go for organic milk when I can these days.
I often wondered why it is that a milk manufacturer who doesn't use BST (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin) in their product has to put a label that states something to the effect of "there's no scientific difference between cows treated with BST and those who aren't").
The fact that a company can force a manufacturer to put a disclaimer on their product for NOT using the drug is really scary.
Well, if you ever pay attention to my ranting, I don't particularly care for the CLI. However, I use it pretty much every day in both Wintendo (Vista and XP) and Linux.
Trust me - I had hoped I'd left the CLI behind with my Apple II.
However, in linux I have the CHOICE to start in the cli or the gui. That's the difference.
http://code.google.com/p/spacesharp/
I used to have a native x86 whitespace compiler, but I never could read my code.
Reminds me of when I was the email admin at Hershey Business Systems - a Los Angeles based integrator - in the '90s. Because the domain - hbsi.com - was taken, the owners took hershey.com back in 1994.
... will continue to write you until I get a response.
My favorites:
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 8:12 AM
To: kai@hershey.com
Subject: From: Kim!!
Hi! grandma I am so thankful that you came all the
way from Florida to see me and by the way..... thanx
for the choc cookie!! and next time you come over
could you bring the extra pleasure condoms. I need
them for me and Ryan.
love you Grandma!!
Kim
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:09 PM
To: Kim
From: Kai
Subject: From: Kim!!
Kim:
We are not your grandmother.
Kai Ponte
Hershey Business Systems
Then there was this one from an AOL member (figures):
From: TrtleGrl69@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 2:19 PM
Subject: no response to our email dealing with
dead bugs in my payday
I am extremely disappointed at the fact you have not
responded to this incident. I'm upset that I purchased a
payday and began eating it and ended up seeing a worm like
bug with bug carcasses and holes in and on the candy
bar.
I
Talk about extremely bad customer service.
Chad Weaver
I liked my response:
From: Ponte, Kai <kai@hershey.com>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 7:20 AM
To: TrtleGrl69@aol.com
Subject: RE: no response to our email
dealing with dead bugs in my payday
The worm like creature you found - was it alive?
Did it taste good?
Kai Ponte
Information Technology Specialist
Hershey Business Systems
Microsoft can choose to support whichever companies that they want. AFAIK, only Novell has signed the Munich Agreement with Microsoft, so it makes sense for Microsoft to exclude the others. At a recent Launch event for Windows Workstation 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008, I saw only Novell was present (with a large booth) showing off Linux products and virtualized Windows environments. (Though it was funny listening to Steve B. try and pronounce SUSE.)
Nah - you're not a pr0n spammer, so you'll never get it.
Seriously, I bet the peeps at Tesseract, ABBYY and Kofax are right now trying to figure out what the spammer losers are doing. Meanwhile, Kurzweil is probably coming up with some new genius scheme for us to learn...
I've always wanted to have a real-life shoe phone. I can just see the next staff meeting -
<ring>
"Kai, I think your phone is ringing."
<ring>
"Oh, sorry. I'll get it."
Actually this is a fallacious argument.
I just pointed out yesterday that kids can learn any OS. Keep in mind that I (along with all my peers) grew up in a world without windows and yet still managed to learn. In fact, I didn't even see windows until I was 19 and in college. That's when Win 2.0 came out and I thought it was - erm - mostly harmless.
My seven-year-old and five-year-old sons have no issues moving from my Vista laptop to my wife's Win2K desktop to my openSUSE laptop and desktop and to my mom's openSUSE desktop or to my father-in-law's Macintosh. Unless you're gonna teach kids how to administer Win2K3 workstations, then there's no issue.
Dungeon Master is a very rewarding job.
I get to deal with trolls, clerics and even the occasional wizard. Mostly, however, i deal with geeks like me.
ROTFL.
Someone mod that 5- funny, please!
I just spent the better part of my "day off" yesterday working on my $8M budget and all the personnel requests that accompany it. I spent most of the time in MS Word writing justifications, duty statements, allocation categories and whatnot.
I am an "IT Manager" over a division in a very large county. To answer the question of the OP, here's how I did it. I worked my a** off as an analyst and programmer at various companies until I got a good job running a team of programmers as a project manager. Being able to handle large scale ($1M+) projects and successfully implement them prepared me for taking on more responsibility. I then used my contacts from the '90s to land me a position in my current company as a supervisor where I was quickly promoted to DM based on my attitude, work ethic knowledges of the business and results.
My IT experiences come in a distant fourth in terms of requirements. It all comes down to being prepared.
I do get to delve into the "guts" of systems once in a while, but not as often as I like. However, the money isn't all that bad and having a 20' x 10' window office on the sixth floor with a secretary tends to compensate a bit. Oh, and I can still hack a few systems in my spare time. I'm currently implementing an inventory program written by me in PHP.
Why?
Because I can.
I have developed what - I think - is the ultimate real life programming skills evaluation question list:
How many replica lightsabers do you own?
Tattoine has how many suns?
What did Yoda cook for Luke?
A positive outcome on these questions has proven to show a high correlation with programming ability. My staff tends to agree.