I thought upon initially reading it, that is was Bush and the CIA. If you can't make them boycott, then get them to boycott on their own.
But then I put my tinfoil hat on and realized that Bush doesn't give a rat's ass about Tibet. Tibet is too small to pull this off and too passive. So whose behind this?
Yes, in the dark it will keep more than a year. But as soon as it is placed back in the light it will disappear very rapidly.
Schrodinger and a cat told me this.
Another point of lock-in is coming, Active Directory, A number of SMB are going to be forced into Active Directory Servers, when XP is dropped and Vista is the only thing that is allowed.
This can go both ways though. There are a number of SMB's which still rely on NT4 and can't or won't move off because it is cost prohibitive. So if there is an alternative to AD that would allow them to still login NT4 and Vista they might go that route.
Otherwise they may succumb to using AD and work there business around the AD server. So once they start using SBS they may be locked in unless they have problems with it.
I doubt that they are going to change it again. Because, basically Balmer would have to admit Vista is a failure.
This has more to do with making up to Dell (compensating them, giving them an opportunity) the loses they suffered, when they shoved Vista down their customers throats earlier this year.
Yeah, using this logic it really throws a kink in how they arrived at 62%.
I worked in a research environment with a lot of PhD's. I wish 62% of them were taking drugs that would enhance their intelligence.
But, if they are, I can tell you that at least 80% of the time there is no benefit.
If taxpayer money is being used for treatment, then why is it that emergency rooms are shoving patients out on the street when they don't have health insurance.
I mean if they are getting money from the taxpayers, then why not just keep them there until they are positive there is no risk of medical liability.
So basically what your saying, is that they don't have a drug problem, but they have a problem with the police.
This is what I kept telling my parole officer.
I would be interested in this also and have asked an administrator at a server farm about this. He said that out of about 10000+ computers they have about 15 failures per week. They are continuously replacing about 60 per week (upgrades).
They hardly look at them. They just yank them out and put in another one. The people that would actually know are the companies that sell them computers, because they may be the ones investigating the failures.
Most of their time was spent on efficiency of replacing downed systems and software and OS updates. Those were the things that usually gave them the most headaches.
I found out he was an administrator for a server farm, when he started telling me a story about how one of the guys there pushed out the wrong updates to 1500 computers and they all crashed.
I just ordered 4 whiteboxes and saw the quote had creative sound cards. Told them to pull the cards and find something else.
"But, these are the ones you always get."
"Not anymore".
We don't even use Vista. I read the messages yesterday just in time. The hell with them. Arrogant pricks, who do they think they are, MS.
A lot of corporations have these. They are called librarians. No shit, they have a degree and everything in searching for documents.
I didn't always find them that helpful though. A lot of times they weren't able to pick out or find what I wanted, unless I told them exactly what journal and exactly what,let's say chemical reaction, I was looking for.
Turn your freakin laptop off go home and quit worrying about the stuff at work. Ask them what to do about the problem, let them solve it. If it gets stolen the heck with it. It was their laptop, right.
I've seen plenty of laptops chained to desks, I don't see why this wouldn't work for you.
Yes in large and medium sized companies laptops being stolen happens quite a bit. I've been in security environments where a key code and badge were required to enter and laptops still disappeared. Once they required laptops to be locked down thefts pretty much stopped. If security saw a laptop that wasn't locked down they would take it and you would have to go through hoops to get it back, file forms with your boss and all kinds of shit.
While we sit and bitch and moan about such and such CEO making to much money. The facts are they get paid what the market allows.
Basically a lot of these higher ups have contacts and know people and have other important people that like them. Some of the extreme higher ups are very likable guys, that's why they are there, they get along with people and work out ways to get things done. Some of them are real dickheads, but well respected dickheads (They usually are right).
So whenever your skill level picks up to the point where you can smooze with the government officials both locally and internationally and work out deals that work in the favor of ! investors !, motivate thousands of employees, Then you too can get paid a million dollars a month.
But if your talents lie in keeping a couple of thousand computers running or putting together a web app, then your probably not going to get paid that much.
The only thing I would change is that I value my sanity period.
I have work to do and I have been less restricted than my Windows counterparts. I left a company 8 years ago that worked strictly with MS and started using Linux. While at that company I tried time after time to get them to start using/trying linux. Roughly 2 years after I left they called and asked me if I was using Linux and I told them yes, why do you ask? Well they had been stuck in patch and fix mode for almost a month and were getting nowhere. In that 8 person company that cost them roughly $24000, if you just include half the personell salaries for that month.(Not including benefits). Heaped on this were the licensing cost that they were paying for each system they had been using for development.
It was a horrendous waste of money.
I have loaded my eeePC device with a Web Server and 2 databases and use if for development work on the road and keeping up with emails. I just don't see that a keyboard and screen that plug into a PDA are going to compete with that. This has way more functionality than my PDA and is a great cross between a laptop and PDA. Sorry Matthew it's no contest.
Plus are you going to sit on a train juggling a display, a keyboard, a mouse, and a PDA.
You may not be able to get to the site because it has been slashdotted. But the actual site does not release the code, it just releases the information and a program that will run. It's not exactly like the site shows code you can put on a firewire then attach to a system and take it over. Basically it just re-iterates that it can be done.
Like the site says. Nothing new here move along.
Applying acoms razor to this pretty quickly refutes Humphreys. It's hard to argue with anyone who is willing to start with the assumption that 6000 years ago a higher power just zapped everything into existence.
I strongly believe that one of the sibblings of a higher power was playing with what they thought was play-do, but was actually something which was more equivalent to C12 dipped in a sump tank and it went off. Thus the big bang. In their realm of time this has just happened and would be equivalent to 1e-7 sec in their time (notice the use of scientific notation). While in our time this has been going on for 1e+100 sec. If you were to apply an exponential gradient from their time to our time at the boundary of the explosion, you would find your time dialation. The lack of application of this time dialation forces to the electrical and gravitational equations is one of the reasons we have have been unable to find a unified calculation of the 2 types of forces.
Yes, but can you get the Dell with Linux installed and wireless working. I bet it would take me no less than four hours and or/plus $70 to get wireless 802.11 g working on a Dell laptop. This is the first linux laptop I've seen for under $500.
If I could get LAMP installed and OpenOffice on this system it would be a real sweet machine, for those times when I don't need all that horsepower and would like something small that could be used to check mail, run some of my personal programs, login to a remote server and do some work on it. In fact I would probably use it as more of a terminal than a regular system if I had internet access. (PS to my brethren programers, this is why putting every variable and every calculation in javascript is a bad thing. It places a serious burden on the client).
Yeah, I really would like to know how to easily setup wireless on my linux laptop, but with all the distributions and nefarious kinks in what this one does and how this one does it, it is still a pain in the ass. I have gotten used to working with linux effectively and that's what I want to spend my time doing, not working on setting up linux.
You missed yahoo developer. developer.yahoo.com. I have found some good information there and think it would be a shame if that went away. YUI development also.
I have run into a couple of coders that new nothing about coding except for what was on the MS developer sites. Really sucks when you have to point out to them that all of that functionality they just coded doesn't port to Firefox, Opera or Safari. The usual answer is that everybody uses IE. Except for 3/4 of our company. This is one of the best sites that I can send them to and tell them to start learning how to program functionality for other browsers.
We have done the same thing within our organization and it has had it's benefits. The only downside is that wikis get information plastered all over them in the strangest places. I have been looking for something that would allow for the simplicity of a wiki, but that can be structured.
I find that sometimes wiki's are like the early fault tree analysis software, if one person did it, then everyone could follow it because they usually learned the organization worked. If everybody did it then nobody could follow it.
The ISO 9001:2000 standards were meant for just this. So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel you may want to look into these standards and practices. If you break it down and look at it, it is just common sense management and addresses a lot of the question or questions you may have.
Give certain people responsibilities for certain areas
Create documentation for those areas. Business rules and process documents.
Make sure that your Business processes and business processes are aligned with the company goals.
There are some ISO standards which deal specifically with IT. You might want to look at some of the CISSP books which deal with failure analysis. But the ISO standards and information is pretty much a management tool that will deal with the whole organization.
I have personally used the ISO 9000 Quality System Handbook and found it satisfactory.
But as many people pointed out, if top management doesn't want it to happen, or isn't for it, then your beating a dead horse. It just doesn't work. I've been there, seen it done it. I've also seen where people have shot the horse by following with strict adherence to the Quality Management System ignoring the part 'Top management shall ensure that the quality policy/system is appropriate to the purpose of the organization'.All you can do is make sure that your area or what you control fits within those standards to the best of you ability . Because your organization may not value time spent on documentation, you may just be hurting yourself. In which case you should just document for yourself.
I agree with you. But my users don't. They consider it embarrassing that they would have to ask or tell someone to use another standard using free software. My gosh the ramifications. So much of their psychology is built on:
I need more expensive complex tools to do my work
The problems we are having is because we didn't pay for all of the expensive extensions to do my work
And once we buy the expensive tools for them to do their work we (IT) end up spending all our time explaining how to do our work, basically doing their work for them.
I distinctly remember having a user who didn't want to give up lotus 123, because he new how to make it do everything he wanted it to do. Nobody could show him an advantage of using excel. But eventually we couldn't support it. So he had to use his brain power learning excel. Providing no advantage to the company, in fact costing us license cost and his time to learn it. His time was definitely worth $150+/hour. One of the few people I ever met who I I actually felt deserved that much. But, we've made so much progress since then, hours of powerpoint meetings, 10% discussing the style of the presentation.
It's funny how we evolve. Because of this, I find it totally amazing that we went to the moon and am completely against nuclear reactors being handled in the private sector.
I wish the ISP's and service providers would keep me from downloading U2's music. They haven't made a decent album since "Joshua Tree". Everytime I hear a new U2 song all's I can think of is "I still haven't found what I'm looking for".
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Geez, I thought I left you upstream in Cambodia.
Apparently not far enough.
You're thinking of LSD. That's already in the dessert, see "Burning Man" wikipedia.com .
I thought upon initially reading it, that is was Bush and the CIA. If you can't make them boycott, then get them to boycott on their own.
But then I put my tinfoil hat on and realized that Bush doesn't give a rat's ass about Tibet. Tibet is too small to pull this off and too passive.
So whose behind this?
Which Clinton are you talking about?
Yes, in the dark it will keep more than a year. But as soon as it is placed back in the light it will disappear very rapidly.
Schrodinger and a cat told me this.
Another point of lock-in is coming, Active Directory, A number of SMB are going to be forced into Active Directory Servers, when XP is dropped and Vista is the only thing that is allowed.
This can go both ways though. There are a number of SMB's which still rely on NT4 and can't or won't move off because it is cost prohibitive. So if there is an alternative to AD that would allow them to still login NT4 and Vista they might go that route.
Otherwise they may succumb to using AD and work there business around the AD server.
So once they start using SBS they may be locked in unless they have problems with it.
I doubt that they are going to change it again. Because, basically Balmer would have to admit Vista is a failure.
This has more to do with making up to Dell (compensating them, giving them an opportunity) the loses they suffered, when they shoved Vista down their customers throats earlier this year.
Yeah, using this logic it really throws a kink in how they arrived at 62%.
I worked in a research environment with a lot of PhD's. I wish 62% of them were taking drugs that would enhance their intelligence.
But, if they are, I can tell you that at least 80% of the time there is no benefit.
If taxpayer money is being used for treatment, then why is it that emergency rooms are shoving patients out on the street when they don't have health insurance.
I mean if they are getting money from the taxpayers, then why not just keep them there until they are positive there is no risk of medical liability.
So basically what your saying, is that they don't have a drug problem, but they have a problem with the police.
This is what I kept telling my parole officer.
I would be interested in this also and have asked an administrator at a server farm about this. He said that out of about 10000+ computers they have about 15 failures per week. They are continuously replacing about 60 per week (upgrades).
They hardly look at them. They just yank them out and put in another one. The people that would actually know are the companies that sell them computers, because they may be the ones investigating the failures.
Most of their time was spent on efficiency of replacing downed systems and software and OS updates. Those were the things that usually gave them the most headaches.
I found out he was an administrator for a server farm, when he started telling me a story about how one of the guys there pushed out the wrong updates to 1500 computers and they all crashed.
I just ordered 4 whiteboxes and saw the quote had creative sound cards. Told them to pull the cards and find something else.
"But, these are the ones you always get."
"Not anymore".
We don't even use Vista. I read the messages yesterday just in time. The hell with them. Arrogant pricks, who do they think they are, MS.
A lot of corporations have these. They are called librarians. No shit, they have a degree and everything in searching for documents. ,let's say chemical reaction, I was looking for.
I didn't always find them that helpful though. A lot of times they weren't able to pick out or find what I wanted, unless I told them exactly what journal and exactly what
Turn your freakin laptop off go home and quit worrying about the stuff at work. Ask them what to do about the problem, let them solve it. If it gets stolen the heck with it. It was their laptop, right.
I've seen plenty of laptops chained to desks, I don't see why this wouldn't work for you.
Yes in large and medium sized companies laptops being stolen happens quite a bit. I've been in security environments where a key code and badge were required to enter and laptops still disappeared. Once they required laptops to be locked down thefts pretty much stopped. If security saw a laptop that wasn't locked down they would take it and you would have to go through hoops to get it back, file forms with your boss and all kinds of shit.
While we sit and bitch and moan about such and such CEO making to much money. The facts are they get paid what the market allows.
Basically a lot of these higher ups have contacts and know people and have other important people that like them. Some of the extreme higher ups are very likable guys, that's why they are there, they get along with people and work out ways to get things done. Some of them are real dickheads, but well respected dickheads (They usually are right).
So whenever your skill level picks up to the point where you can smooze with the government officials both locally and internationally and work out deals that work in the favor of ! investors !, motivate thousands of employees, Then you too can get paid a million dollars a month.
But if your talents lie in keeping a couple of thousand computers running or putting together a web app, then your probably not going to get paid that much.
The only thing I would change is that I value my sanity period.
I have work to do and I have been less restricted than my Windows counterparts. I left a company 8 years ago that worked strictly with MS and started using Linux. While at that company I tried time after time to get them to start using/trying linux. Roughly 2 years after I left they called and asked me if I was using Linux and I told them yes, why do you ask? Well they had been stuck in patch and fix mode for almost a month and were getting nowhere. In that 8 person company that cost them roughly $24000, if you just include half the personell salaries for that month.(Not including benefits). Heaped on this were the licensing cost that they were paying for each system they had been using for development.
It was a horrendous waste of money.
I have loaded my eeePC device with a Web Server and 2 databases and use if for development work on the road and keeping up with emails. I just don't see that a keyboard and screen that plug into a PDA are going to compete with that. This has way more functionality than my PDA and is a great cross between a laptop and PDA. Sorry Matthew it's no contest.
Plus are you going to sit on a train juggling a display, a keyboard, a mouse, and a PDA.
You may not be able to get to the site because it has been slashdotted. But the actual site does not release the code, it just releases the information and a program that will run. It's not exactly like the site shows code you can put on a firewire then attach to a system and take it over. Basically it just re-iterates that it can be done.
Like the site says. Nothing new here move along.
Applying acoms razor to this pretty quickly refutes Humphreys. It's hard to argue with anyone who is willing to start with the assumption that 6000 years ago a higher power just zapped everything into existence.
I strongly believe that one of the sibblings of a higher power was playing with what they thought was play-do, but was actually something which was more equivalent to C12 dipped in a sump tank and it went off. Thus the big bang. In their realm of time this has just happened and would be equivalent to 1e-7 sec in their time (notice the use of scientific notation). While in our time this has been going on for 1e+100 sec. If you were to apply an exponential gradient from their time to our time at the boundary of the explosion, you would find your time dialation. The lack of application of this time dialation forces to the electrical and gravitational equations is one of the reasons we have have been unable to find a unified calculation of the 2 types of forces.
Yes, but can you get the Dell with Linux installed and wireless working. I bet it would take me no less than four hours and or/plus $70 to get wireless 802.11 g working on a Dell laptop. This is the first linux laptop I've seen for under $500.
If I could get LAMP installed and OpenOffice on this system it would be a real sweet machine, for those times when I don't need all that horsepower and would like something small that could be used to check mail, run some of my personal programs, login to a remote server and do some work on it. In fact I would probably use it as more of a terminal than a regular system if I had internet access.
(PS to my brethren programers, this is why putting every variable and every calculation in javascript is a bad thing. It places a serious burden on the client). Yeah, I really would like to know how to easily setup wireless on my linux laptop, but with all the distributions and nefarious kinks in what this one does and how this one does it, it is still a pain in the ass. I have gotten used to working with linux effectively and that's what I want to spend my time doing, not working on setting up linux.
You missed yahoo developer. developer.yahoo.com. I have found some good information there and think it would be a shame if that went away. YUI development also.
I have run into a couple of coders that new nothing about coding except for what was on the MS developer sites. Really sucks when you have to point out to them that all of that functionality they just coded doesn't port to Firefox, Opera or Safari. The usual answer is that everybody uses IE. Except for 3/4 of our company. This is one of the best sites that I can send them to and tell them to start learning how to program functionality for other browsers.
We have done the same thing within our organization and it has had it's benefits. The only downside is that wikis get information plastered all over them in the strangest places. I have been looking for something that would allow for the simplicity of a wiki, but that can be structured.
I find that sometimes wiki's are like the early fault tree analysis software, if one person did it, then everyone could follow it because they usually learned the organization worked. If everybody did it then nobody could follow it.
The ISO 9001:2000 standards were meant for just this. So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel you may want to look into these standards and practices. If you break it down and look at it, it is just common sense management and addresses a lot of the question or questions you may have. .All you can do is make sure that your area or what you control fits within those standards to the best of you ability . Because your organization may not value time spent on documentation, you may just be hurting yourself. In which case you should just document for yourself.
Give certain people responsibilities for certain areas
Create documentation for those areas. Business rules and process documents.
Make sure that your Business processes and business processes are aligned with the company goals.
There are some ISO standards which deal specifically with IT. You might want to look at some of the CISSP books which deal with failure analysis. But the ISO standards and information is pretty much a management tool that will deal with the whole organization.
I have personally used the ISO 9000 Quality System Handbook and found it satisfactory.
But as many people pointed out, if top management doesn't want it to happen, or isn't for it, then your beating a dead horse. It just doesn't work. I've been there, seen it done it. I've also seen where people have shot the horse by following with strict adherence to the Quality Management System ignoring the part 'Top management shall ensure that the quality policy/system is appropriate to the purpose of the organization'
I agree with you. But my users don't. They consider it embarrassing that they would have to ask or tell someone to use another standard using free software. My gosh the ramifications. So much of their psychology is built on:
I need more expensive complex tools to do my work
The problems we are having is because we didn't pay for all of the expensive extensions to do my work
And once we buy the expensive tools for them to do their work we (IT) end up spending all our time explaining how to do our work, basically doing their work for them.
I distinctly remember having a user who didn't want to give up lotus 123, because he new how to make it do everything he wanted it to do. Nobody could show him an advantage of using excel. But eventually we couldn't support it. So he had to use his brain power learning excel. Providing no advantage to the company, in fact costing us license cost and his time to learn it. His time was definitely worth $150+/hour. One of the few people I ever met who I I actually felt deserved that much. But, we've made so much progress since then, hours of powerpoint meetings, 10% discussing the style of the presentation.
It's funny how we evolve. Because of this, I find it totally amazing that we went to the moon and am completely against nuclear reactors being handled in the private sector.
I wish the ISP's and service providers would keep me from downloading U2's music. They haven't made a decent album since "Joshua Tree". Everytime I hear a new U2 song all's I can think of is "I still haven't found what I'm looking for".