Yep - The guys a cheap bastard
The first time you are trying to support a VP on an issue from the house, and its taking forever, make sure you tell him "This would be a lot quicker if I had broadband, but the CIO took it away from all the support staff"
See how quick you get it back.
but there will be only one restaurant.:
"Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell." Lenina Huxley - Demolition Man
These deals happen when Cisco says Hey - give us 5 million
for network gear all across your district and we'll put a CISCO
ACADEMY in on of your high schools.
It looks good on the proposal to the school board, but they are so
tech-retarded they never see that:
a) you really don't need switched 100 to every desktop with a
wireless umbrella everywhere
b) ripping out two year old Cisco gear to replace it with new gear
really doesn't make sense, even if the new one supports that cool
sounding protocol you don't understand and have no use for
c) the cost of that free Cisco Academy is buried in your bid, you
just aren't smart enough to find it.
(You may comfortably use edit/replace to substitute
Nortel/3Com/whoever)
The erate program has been an abomination - there are network
company sales reps making millions off this travesty, literally
having schools rip out the widely overpowered and underutilized gear
they bought with last years erate funds to replace it with more new
stuff.
I have seen a Cisco proposal to a small rural school district that
had its own fiber between every campus. The proposed a 80K router in
every school that would change the Gig-E used as the campus backbone
into 155M ATM while it went between campuses over the fiber (less
than a mile) and then back to Gig-E inside the school. When asked why
this needed to happen, the rep told the school ethernet won't
go across fiber and ATM is faster anyway All the district knew
was that erate paid 90% of the cost, so they didn't care. The Cisco
rep didn't explain to the school that he'd make an extra gazillion
dollars in commission for screwing over the taxpayers.
In addition, eRate won't pay for maintenance or support, only
hardware and initial deployment. Many eRate installations are unused
because these small districts can't afford the upkeep on these
systems, or the high dollar admins it takes to run something so
bleeding edge.
Forget zones - there are discrete spots in my area (Houston) where I drop EVERY time. Southbound on the Beltway 8 access road just south of Richmond Drive - its so predictable I could do a countdown as I drive and talk. 3-2-1 Goodbye. Comes back in 30 seconds.
There's a half dozen spots like that I drive through regularly.
His recommendation that vendors lower prices is taking htings much too simply. As a person whose job it is to sell Linux to non-Linux shops, I can tell you there are two conversations here:
1)Linux on the server - here it is already price advantaged as most Linux deployments in server rooms are replacements for mainframe/solaris/sco enviroments and WAY cheaper than those solutions
2)Linux on the desktop - here the price issue of the distry is a secondary concern. Customers worry first about retraining, security, disruption of business due to change, application compatibility, vendor support, price of the productivity suite (Office/Openoffice) then the price of the OS.
The cross platform Groupwise client is in Open Beta right now.
http://beta.novell.com/public.jsp (free reg required)
"I don't exactly see a Groupwise client for Linux (or a free one on the Windows side)."
In some cases the shopping channels have purchased a failing small channel in your local market and then sued the cable company to carry its programming for free under the "must-carry" provisions of the last round of cable legislation. I know they've done that here in Houston.
He's paid off SCO, so no threat of a suit (and the accompanying legal bills) but now gets to trash SCO publicly to his hearts content with no repercussions.
If he's smart he'd come out and say he paid off SCO so he could slam then later. This could be the best thing for the anti-SCO folks that could have happened.
I am not sure that surrounding your charge with a bunch of other socially immature geeks-in-training is going to help him cope in the real world. Not to knock the role playing community (am a member myself) but they are not generally known for their ability to move in various sophisticated social circles.
This may seem an odd suggestion, but encourage him/her to get a job as a waiter somewhere.(assuming he/she is old enough) Theres a direct relationship between social skills and tips, and nothing encourages development like the immediate incentive and feedback of cold hard cash.
Slashdot Mirror
with Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, and Porn? A true AOL optimized PC needs all of those, based on the ones I've helped friends and neighbors with.
SCOX has a market cap of 65 million dollars. Why can't IBM (or Novell with their newfound 500 million) just buy these clowns?
I'll need three just to back up my porn collection.
Yep - The guys a cheap bastard The first time you are trying to support a VP on an issue from the house, and its taking forever, make sure you tell him "This would be a lot quicker if I had broadband, but the CIO took it away from all the support staff" See how quick you get it back.
but there will be only one restaurant.: "Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell." Lenina Huxley - Demolition Man
These deals happen when Cisco says Hey - give us 5 million for network gear all across your district and we'll put a CISCO ACADEMY in on of your high schools.
It looks good on the proposal to the school board, but they are so tech-retarded they never see that:
a) you really don't need switched 100 to every desktop with a wireless umbrella everywhere
b) ripping out two year old Cisco gear to replace it with new gear really doesn't make sense, even if the new one supports that cool sounding protocol you don't understand and have no use for
c) the cost of that free Cisco Academy is buried in your bid, you just aren't smart enough to find it.
(You may comfortably use edit/replace to substitute Nortel/3Com/whoever)
The erate program has been an abomination - there are network company sales reps making millions off this travesty, literally having schools rip out the widely overpowered and underutilized gear they bought with last years erate funds to replace it with more new stuff.
I have seen a Cisco proposal to a small rural school district that had its own fiber between every campus. The proposed a 80K router in every school that would change the Gig-E used as the campus backbone into 155M ATM while it went between campuses over the fiber (less than a mile) and then back to Gig-E inside the school. When asked why this needed to happen, the rep told the school ethernet won't go across fiber and ATM is faster anyway All the district knew was that erate paid 90% of the cost, so they didn't care. The Cisco rep didn't explain to the school that he'd make an extra gazillion dollars in commission for screwing over the taxpayers.
In addition, eRate won't pay for maintenance or support, only hardware and initial deployment. Many eRate installations are unused because these small districts can't afford the upkeep on these systems, or the high dollar admins it takes to run something so bleeding edge.
Its a crime from top to bottom.
Thats what I want to know.
Needed. "I'll post a mirror as PDFs if needed."
I don't want to meet people who need the web to meet people.
Embrace the power of the darknet.
from a pretty decent short story. Pictures as passwords? Johnny Mnemonic anyone?
I, for one, advocate a boycot of Pizza Hut untill they release the source code for the Buffalo Chicken Pizza and all its derivative works.
Just another day in paradise - I mean Slashdot.
Forget zones - there are discrete spots in my area (Houston) where I drop EVERY time. Southbound on the Beltway 8 access road just south of Richmond Drive - its so predictable I could do a countdown as I drive and talk. 3-2-1 Goodbye. Comes back in 30 seconds. There's a half dozen spots like that I drive through regularly.
Well - homestar is definitely worth seeing...
After that haven't added much to Firefox.
His recommendation that vendors lower prices is taking htings much too simply. As a person whose job it is to sell Linux to non-Linux shops, I can tell you there are two conversations here: 1)Linux on the server - here it is already price advantaged as most Linux deployments in server rooms are replacements for mainframe/solaris/sco enviroments and WAY cheaper than those solutions 2)Linux on the desktop - here the price issue of the distry is a secondary concern. Customers worry first about retraining, security, disruption of business due to change, application compatibility, vendor support, price of the productivity suite (Office/Openoffice) then the price of the OS.
The cross platform Groupwise client is in Open Beta right now. http://beta.novell.com/public.jsp (free reg required) "I don't exactly see a Groupwise client for Linux (or a free one on the Windows side)."
He'd probably get a lot more bids if he sold it as an Unreal suit.
First he writes "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and now this!!
Nice sig - "The Rabbit of Seville" RULES!!!
"Place hard core lesbian porn at top of search" really should be an option.
In some cases the shopping channels have purchased a failing small channel in your local market and then sued the cable company to carry its programming for free under the "must-carry" provisions of the last round of cable legislation. I know they've done that here in Houston.
He's paid off SCO, so no threat of a suit (and the accompanying legal bills) but now gets to trash SCO publicly to his hearts content with no repercussions. If he's smart he'd come out and say he paid off SCO so he could slam then later. This could be the best thing for the anti-SCO folks that could have happened.
I am not sure that surrounding your charge with a bunch of other socially immature geeks-in-training is going to help him cope in the real world. Not to knock the role playing community (am a member myself) but they are not generally known for their ability to move in various sophisticated social circles. This may seem an odd suggestion, but encourage him/her to get a job as a waiter somewhere.(assuming he/she is old enough) Theres a direct relationship between social skills and tips, and nothing encourages development like the immediate incentive and feedback of cold hard cash.