I'm no Microsoft apologist but your intentional self blinding is part of what is holding *nix back from mass desktop deployment in corporate environments.
We already know that *nix can give the admin great control over the users operating system, but that's only part of the picture.
Another part of the picture is application control.
For instance in a mixed Office 2003 / 2007 environment how would you force Office 2007 to save in the old formats? What if I wanted to force OO Writer to only save in RTF? What if I only wanted to enforce this for sales users?
What if I want to deploy a standard set of favorites to Internet Explorer? How about FF or Konq? What if one internal department needs a seperate set from another internal department?
What if I want Internet Explorer to only visit a limited number of websites without using a proxy or a C.F. appliance? What if I want to do this with FF or Konq?
What if I want to keep Word from seeing, let alone saving to, a network file repository but I want Excel to go there exclusively? What if I want to do the same thing with Open Office?
*nix does well at addressing the need to control the operating system. It's horrible at addressing the need to control applications that are running on that operating system.
It may be possible but it sure as hell isn't easy or convenient.
They "accidentally" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) turn on their satellite relay system while in port. I wonder how many people wandering around the port "accidentally" connect to that system and inadvertently put a few dollars in the pocket of the cruise line? This guy caught it because the amount was so high, but how many people wouldn't notice a small charge for a short phone call?
So, you spent "many days bitching at my IT guys at work" and in the end the problem was with your Internet Service at home?! You posted this on Slashdot?
Ummm, yeah, we're going to need your address. I've already handed out the torches and pitchforks.
Most machines have enough oomph that you could take a picture of the view that you want, link the location to accuweather, and have the GPU calculate the required effects. Day, night, rain, snow, wind...whatever.
Holy crud, did you really just accuse the guy of a slashvertisement trying to sell WISP service to Albany County Wyoming?
My sides are splitting I'm laughing so hard!
The population of Albany County, Wyoming, is a MASSIVE 32,014 people. Brett could be the only person IN his county who reads Slashdot!
The idea that he's using/. for marketing is ludicrous.
I'm in Natrona County, Wyoming. We have 3 WISPS here. Wyo.com, Alluretech, and another one I've forgotten. They're useful. I have customers within city limits of Casper, which is the second largest city in the state, who can't get DSL or Cable. (Thanks Qwest and Bresnan).
Here in Wyoming raising the awareness of the existence of WISP is a good thing. It can very easily be the only alternative to dialup.
FWIW I do not know Brett. My defense of his article is based solely on the preposterous nature of your slashvertisement claim and my personal experience living in the sticks.
"I think the only reason it's really coming to the fore now is that it's only in the last couple of years that games have moved from standalone or local networks to the Internet."
Huh? How did you get modded insightful? Internet gameplay is way more than 2 years old.
I was playing Quake II on the Internet back in '97.
I was logging 40 hours a week in online clan play for Star Trek Voyager from 1999 to 2002.
This new fangled Internet thingie has had games being played on it for more than a decade now.
I work in the SMB space and am familiar with every product you named.
SEP is a pile. Even the latest version has mondo performance issues. It's centralized management is terrible and has ridiculous problems. For instance; try and delete the "Default Group" created at install time.
Ghost is horribly outdated and lacking features that it had 10 years ago. It has been solidly thrashed by Clonezilla. If you haven't tried Clonezilla lately then you have no idea what you're missing and how crappy Ghost is in comparison.
Veritas is an outdated back up application with a stupid and counter-intuitive GUI and terribly over priced add on modules.
Every product that Symantec has that I work with suffers from poor product support. Their VAR channel would be hard pressed to suck any worse, as would their license purchase and renewal process.
Symantec is a screwed up mess of a company. It lacks direction, focus, and commitment.
I can't speak for anyone but myself but my answer has two parts:
1) Frustration: I'm no slouch at FPS style games. 10 years ago I was in my middle 20s and was a member of several clans for several different games. I was never the best of anyone in my clan but I was usually in the top 10%. However I could *never* figure out how to make the jump into the top brackets.
It's even worse today in my mid 30s. When I hop on for a quick game of GenericShooter on either the PC or the 360 it's like I'm massively outclassed by at least 30% of the players. I'm still capable of fragging at least half the room but the players above me are so FAR above it's difficult to control shouts of "teh hax!" or "cheater!". What makes it even worse is that I KNOW some percentage of the players ARE cheating...even on the consoles.
In short I'm frustrated by my seeming inability to be competitive at the level I would like to be.
2) Embarrassment: Who wants to compete and consistently lose, especially when it's coworkers or online associates that you compete against?
Put those two together with the constant stream of ABUSE you take, even if you're a good player, when you play online and I think it's obvious why so many people stay away.
After being called a "n00b" about 2,000,000 times and a "fag" about 42,000,000,000,000 times during online play the better question is why does ANYONE put up with it!?
I'm in Central Wyoming and I'm interested in something like this but I'm also tinkering around with various 'get off the grid' projects and I'm curious how much power generation I'd have to install in order to run one of these.
So, if you feel like sharing, what exactly is your kWh usage?
There was no solid evidence prior to a vigilante breaking into Palin's inbox that any law was broken. There may have been an investigation in progress, I can't remember right now, but that is NOT the same thing as substantial evidence or a conviction.
With that single insight your entire argument about the relative moral and legal difference is destroyed.
Since you saw fit to throw in a politically based insult I will now do the same. Please sir, get your head out of Barak's colon and get some fresh air. Your critical thinking skills are oxygen starved.
Are you a little boy with a mommy or a grown adult man with a wife?
Yes, I'm married. I've been married for 14 years now, to the same woman.
If your wife is that strictly controlling what you do for entertainment and leisure then I submit that you are what is known as "henpecked" or "whupped".
There's the "heat of a thousand suns" I referenced in my previous post!
I personally think that the Religious Right is far too active in U.S. politics. I won't argue that point.
Whatever our personal feelings it seems there are enough of the Religious Righties that they hold some sway in this representative Democracy that we have here in the United States.
Are you advocating silencing, or disenfranchising, a significant percentage of the citizens of this country to further what you personally believe? How does this make your behavior superior to theirs? Merely because you attack different targets or use different arguments?
I'm a lay Christian and I'd be happy to debate with you. Of course you'd then have to give up the "Every time" hyperbole at the start of that sentence. My email is available in the header of every post, feel free to contact me.
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Sorry, I know this is off topic but I can't let it pass without comment.
So you REALLY think that it was Prop 13 that sank California?
Why is it always the income side of Government that is deficient? How about examining the expense structure of the state and how it changed.
Somehow more tax money NEVER solves the revenue problem faced by Government. NEVER. NOT ONE TIME.
Huh?
In Windows everything I mentioned is doable through Group Policy.
It's easy (clicky clicky)!
It's cheap, comes as part of the Server OS.
It's convenient, as it's right there in Group Policy Manager.
Show me anything in *nix that even comes close?
I'm no Microsoft apologist but your intentional self blinding is part of what is holding *nix back from mass desktop deployment in corporate environments.
We already know that *nix can give the admin great control over the users operating system, but that's only part of the picture.
Another part of the picture is application control.
For instance in a mixed Office 2003 / 2007 environment how would you force Office 2007 to save in the old formats? What if I wanted to force OO Writer to only save in RTF? What if I only wanted to enforce this for sales users?
What if I want to deploy a standard set of favorites to Internet Explorer? How about FF or Konq? What if one internal department needs a seperate set from another internal department?
What if I want Internet Explorer to only visit a limited number of websites without using a proxy or a C.F. appliance? What if I want to do this with FF or Konq?
What if I want to keep Word from seeing, let alone saving to, a network file repository but I want Excel to go there exclusively? What if I want to do the same thing with Open Office?
*nix does well at addressing the need to control the operating system. It's horrible at addressing the need to control applications that are running on that operating system.
It may be possible but it sure as hell isn't easy or convenient.
Macs are high profile, why are there no real world viruses for them?
LAMP easily accounts for 50% of websites, where's the huge attacks against it?
You're modded insightful, and I know why, but that doesn't make you RIGHT.
They "accidentally" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) turn on their satellite relay system while in port. I wonder how many people wandering around the port "accidentally" connect to that system and inadvertently put a few dollars in the pocket of the cruise line? This guy caught it because the amount was so high, but how many people wouldn't notice a small charge for a short phone call?
For those of us who are out of date, what is XenServer USED for?
I understand VMs, I've tinkered with them a bit but I don't understand XenServers practical application.
Can someone give a usage scenario?
So, you spent "many days bitching at my IT guys at work" and in the end the problem was with your Internet Service at home?! You posted this on Slashdot?
Ummm, yeah, we're going to need your address. I've already handed out the torches and pitchforks.
Nice try but R&D isn't the drug companies biggest expense. ADVERTISING is.
What does that tell you about their priorities?
If they tax it then they legitimize it.
Military spending is already less than Social Program spending.
I'd say if we can't fix the Social problems with greater than 50% of our budget then we need to look at what we're getting for our money.
I keep seeing that information but so far in four years of asking NO ONE has been able to tell me what goes into the calculations!
Do you know or are you flinging about numbers that you don't understand and can't explain when asked?
Why be satisfied with static images?
Most machines have enough oomph that you could take a picture of the view that you want, link the location to accuweather, and have the GPU calculate the required effects. Day, night, rain, snow, wind...whatever.
I have no independent recollection of those events.
Holy crud, did you really just accuse the guy of a slashvertisement trying to sell WISP service to Albany County Wyoming?
My sides are splitting I'm laughing so hard!
The population of Albany County, Wyoming, is a MASSIVE 32,014 people. Brett could be the only person IN his county who reads Slashdot!
The idea that he's using /. for marketing is ludicrous.
I'm in Natrona County, Wyoming. We have 3 WISPS here. Wyo.com, Alluretech, and another one I've forgotten. They're useful. I have customers within city limits of Casper, which is the second largest city in the state, who can't get DSL or Cable. (Thanks Qwest and Bresnan).
Here in Wyoming raising the awareness of the existence of WISP is a good thing. It can very easily be the only alternative to dialup.
FWIW I do not know Brett. My defense of his article is based solely on the preposterous nature of your slashvertisement claim and my personal experience living in the sticks.
"I think the only reason it's really coming to the fore now is that it's only in the last couple of years that games have moved from standalone or local networks to the Internet."
Huh? How did you get modded insightful? Internet gameplay is way more than 2 years old.
I was playing Quake II on the Internet back in '97.
I was logging 40 hours a week in online clan play for Star Trek Voyager from 1999 to 2002.
This new fangled Internet thingie has had games being played on it for more than a decade now.
What's your point? :grin:
http://www.symantec.com/norton/macintosh/antivirus
I work in the SMB space and am familiar with every product you named.
SEP is a pile. Even the latest version has mondo performance issues. It's centralized management is terrible and has ridiculous problems. For instance; try and delete the "Default Group" created at install time.
Ghost is horribly outdated and lacking features that it had 10 years ago. It has been solidly thrashed by Clonezilla. If you haven't tried Clonezilla lately then you have no idea what you're missing and how crappy Ghost is in comparison.
Veritas is an outdated back up application with a stupid and counter-intuitive GUI and terribly over priced add on modules.
Every product that Symantec has that I work with suffers from poor product support. Their VAR channel would be hard pressed to suck any worse, as would their license purchase and renewal process.
Symantec is a screwed up mess of a company. It lacks direction, focus, and commitment.
I can't speak for anyone but myself but my answer has two parts:
1) Frustration: I'm no slouch at FPS style games. 10 years ago I was in my middle 20s and was a member of several clans for several different games. I was never the best of anyone in my clan but I was usually in the top 10%. However I could *never* figure out how to make the jump into the top brackets.
It's even worse today in my mid 30s. When I hop on for a quick game of GenericShooter on either the PC or the 360 it's like I'm massively outclassed by at least 30% of the players. I'm still capable of fragging at least half the room but the players above me are so FAR above it's difficult to control shouts of "teh hax!" or "cheater!". What makes it even worse is that I KNOW some percentage of the players ARE cheating...even on the consoles.
In short I'm frustrated by my seeming inability to be competitive at the level I would like to be.
2) Embarrassment: Who wants to compete and consistently lose, especially when it's coworkers or online associates that you compete against?
Put those two together with the constant stream of ABUSE you take, even if you're a good player, when you play online and I think it's obvious why so many people stay away.
After being called a "n00b" about 2,000,000 times and a "fag" about 42,000,000,000,000 times during online play the better question is why does ANYONE put up with it!?
I'm in Central Wyoming and I'm interested in something like this but I'm also tinkering around with various 'get off the grid' projects and I'm curious how much power generation I'd have to install in order to run one of these.
So, if you feel like sharing, what exactly is your kWh usage?
"A company inherently operates in a particular sector."
No. Just no.
Here is one example to disprove that quote. There are others.
http://www.ge.com/
Go to the webpage and review everything they are involved in.
Otherwise I don't think you're far off the mark.
That's chump change. The Dem's were sacrificing Bush (holy LOL!) for the collapse of the Tech Bubble and that started BEFORE Bush was elected!
There was no solid evidence prior to a vigilante breaking into Palin's inbox that any law was broken. There may have been an investigation in progress, I can't remember right now, but that is NOT the same thing as substantial evidence or a conviction.
With that single insight your entire argument about the relative moral and legal difference is destroyed.
Since you saw fit to throw in a politically based insult I will now do the same. Please sir, get your head out of Barak's colon and get some fresh air. Your critical thinking skills are oxygen starved.
That was funny but I hope it's not true.
Are you a little boy with a mommy or a grown adult man with a wife?
Yes, I'm married. I've been married for 14 years now, to the same woman.
If your wife is that strictly controlling what you do for entertainment and leisure then I submit that you are what is known as "henpecked" or "whupped".
Yes, and I want my chicks for free!
There's the "heat of a thousand suns" I referenced in my previous post!
I personally think that the Religious Right is far too active in U.S. politics. I won't argue that point.
Whatever our personal feelings it seems there are enough of the Religious Righties that they hold some sway in this representative Democracy that we have here in the United States.
Are you advocating silencing, or disenfranchising, a significant percentage of the citizens of this country to further what you personally believe? How does this make your behavior superior to theirs? Merely because you attack different targets or use different arguments?
I'm a lay Christian and I'd be happy to debate with you. Of course you'd then have to give up the "Every time" hyperbole at the start of that sentence. My email is available in the header of every post, feel free to contact me.