And (at the risk of being called a sheep) you would achieve.... what exactly?
How would your employer react to you mysteriously not turning up to work one day? And learning - maybe several days later - that it was because you were being held pending some charge or other? It may be completely trumped up but unless you live in an area with very strong employment laws, you may well find yourself out of work in fairly short order.
How would your mortgage company react to your heroism? When the result is "ah yes.... about those repayments..."
This is why fools will try and talk their way out of it, and wise men will take legal advice (which may well be "Sit down. Shut up.").
Complete morons and those with nothing to lose will literally scream blue murder. Everyone else will try to keep their heads down in the hope that they can get out and get on with their lives.
Actually, the higher price is probably also due to I18N translation costs, though that is certainly not the only reason.
Bollocks is it.
The only change they make for the UK is the date format and default currency symbol. Hell, even when you tell Windows that you're in the UK it still defaults to a US timezone and keyboard.
As you get higher, the air becomes thinner and in order to keep enough air moving over the wings and maintain lift, you need to maintain a certain speed.
Problem is, you can only go so fast before the aircraft starts to break up. So you need to keep between the minimum speed (below which you'll stall) and the maximum speed (above which bits start falling off the plane). It's not uncommon for the difference between these speeds to be so small that it's impractical for a human to maintain it.
In the big scheme of things, how many people go out and buy the full retail version of ANY Microsoft operating system? OEM versions are much cheaper and easy enough to get hold of from most retailers and if I wanted a copy at home I wouldn't think twice about buying one.
Businesses buy the volume licensing version and upgrade whatever their PCs ship with; most individuals don't voluntarily install an operating system of any description, much less perform an upgrade.
I'm not sure if that argument has ever made sense. There have been so many changes to consumer operating systems over the years that "being able to deal with change" is more-or-less a prerequisite for anyone using computers for any length of time.
Buying with a credit card allows you to charge back and recover the cost of the battery. What about the subsequent damage to the camera? I know of few retailers who would be prepared to pay for that without a huge fight.
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Part of me wonders if healthcare software falls into the same trap as educational software - which generally is lousy because it was either developed by people who know all about teaching (but damn all about IT - so installation instructions generally start with "Insert the CD ROM into every CD ROM drive in every workstation in your 200 workstation network..." and go downhill from there) or it was developed by people who know all about IT but damn all about teaching (so it doesn't actually get any ideas across).
or all manufacturing leaving the US and UK for good
I think it already has left the UK, but I would point out that imperial units aren't really used much in the UK these days - with the exception of road signs and buying beer in pubs.
I recall some years ago that you were generally recommended to never use rechargeable batteries in a camera flash. Something to do with internal resistance of the batteries and the high drain that a camera flash imposes on them.
I always suspected this was a load of cobblers but seeing as this was before the internet made it a lot easier to confirm these things, I didn't have the money to risk destroying a flash and my local camera store was quite adamant that rechargeables were a bad idea, I didn't test it.
Duracell are a large, easy to trace company that are generally quite good.
What about the thousands of cheap chinese batteries which are flooding the market under all sorts of names today and are available from a whole variety of places ranging from dodgy ebay sellers right the way up to relatively reputable bricks & mortar retailers?
Prepay is an option for every phone in existence. Though it may be quite expensive.
Instructions:
1. Buy phone and sign up to contract. DO NOT LEAVE THE STORE. 2. Terminate the contract right there and then. You'll have to buy out the whole 18-24 months line rental on the spot but you keep the phone. 3. If necessary, get the phone unlocked. 4. Buy a prepaid sim card.
As an user, I care about hearing sound first of all. Sound quality (no pops or crackles) comes second, latency comes third.
Which is fine if all you're doing is playing back MP3s. Those people trying to compose music, however, can't do anything useful if they have to put up with poor quality or latency and probably rate all of those things as equally important.
I'm going to get modded down for this, but what the hell.
How long did you say you'd been trying to do everything in Linux for? 4/5 years?
In about 2001 I swore never to run Windows on my own computers ever again.
Which was great while I was at university and could spare the time to mess around with Linux. It wasn't too bad when I'd just graduated. But today were I to use Linux I find I would still - eight years later - have to mess around with the same crap I did back then to get desktop stuff (printers, audio, graphics tablets etc) to work. With the added bonus that Linux has become sufficiently popular in the interim that punching your error message into Google is just as likely to bring up a forum post which is obviously written by the blind leading the blind as it is to bring up an answer.
I don't believe the IT industry is ready for a fully F/OSS solution on the desktop. Which is a pity because until it is, we'll be stuck with exactly the same kind of rubbish.
It may well be too late with your current employer - mainly because as far as they're concerned, you are and always will be the person on the helpdesk.
But in my own experience, people coming up from the helpdesk don't just walk into work one day and find themselves magically off the helpdesk team. You've got to show an active interest in the other parts of the department - well, the parts that interest you, at any rate. Get to know some of the people there, ask them about how a particular thing works. Everyone likes it when people take an interest in them.
It doesn't even need to be work-related. If you ever go out as a department for team building/social events, spend some time talking to the line manager of the team you want to be in.
Nobody ever got off the helpdesk by working long hours and showing a great deal of enthusiasm for the helpdesk. Plenty, however, have got off the helpdesk by showing a great deal of enthusiasm for some other aspect of the IT department.
I have trouble believing Microsoft are pulling the strings here - I'd have thought they'd have realised by now that this was a complete waste of time.
Unless, of course, their aim isn't to destabilise Linux completely but just give their salesmen a bargaining chip in large negotiations - in which case there may be a return on investment.
Assuming Microsoft aren't pulling the strings, what on Earth would possess any company to even consider this? Even the tiniest bit of due diligence - so tiny that you don't even read the IT press to get the IT world's view on it - would show that SCO have been doing this for five years without so much as an iota of success and quite a lot of defeat.
I'm sure I recall something about US phone companies being given vast quantities of money - officially to lay on broadband, but there were no sanctions written in to say "failure to lay on broadband will result in the money being repayable" or similar.
Quite what happened with the money I don't know but it wasn't spent on broadband.
OK, first let me explain my assumptions, based largely on what you've said in the summary:
1. Only 20 or so PCs, no full-time admin.
It's probably a small company, so there's a strong chance that individual staff don't have roles sufficiently specialised that you can simply disable removeable media and block internet access to 90% of staff. Even if you did that, one of the other 10% would probably let something in and as soon as they do everyone else is vulnerable because there's no AV.
2. Need centralised management.
I can relate to that. Unfortunately, as I'm sure you've discovered, an awful lot of people seem to think "centralised management" means "can push it out remotely, though that may mean visiting each machine logically rather than physically".
Free Clue: The OP can have centralised management like that by enabling remote desktop on every PC. At the very least, s/he needs an interface that presents a list of machines found on the network and offers the option to select which machines on that list need to have the software installed.
3. Having trouble justifying the money for Symantec Enterprise.
Ah.
Hate to break it to you, but I think you're asking for the moon. Most of the free products I can think of do offer the features you require - but only in a souped-up commercial version of their product.
You could (if you haven't already) set up an LDAP server, have Samba act as a domain controller and then push everything out that way. However, you'll only get the equivalent of an NT4 domain, which is very primitive compared to AD in terms of remote management of groups of computers. You'd almost certainly spend any money you saved on the time it would take to lash something together yourself - which will still not be anything like as sophisticated as AD.
On the other hand, I have no great objection to requiring the states to standardize the physical driver's license card so that law enforcement doesn't need to know about the designs of fifty plus different licenses.
Then they should pass a law saying "All states will issue driving licenses in accordance with the following design..... Existing licenses will remain valid until their expiry".
Quick, easy, relatively non-controversial and the entire damn law can be written in about 2 sentences.
Which is all well and good, except AFAIK Facebook (and I imagine most such social networking sites) automatically resizes images as part of the upload process.
I'm not sure it's even possible to download the full-resolution image.
Of course, it's entirely possible she put the photo on a photo sharing site like flickr. They tend to store the image in its original resolution.
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And (at the risk of being called a sheep) you would achieve.... what exactly?
How would your employer react to you mysteriously not turning up to work one day? And learning - maybe several days later - that it was because you were being held pending some charge or other? It may be completely trumped up but unless you live in an area with very strong employment laws, you may well find yourself out of work in fairly short order.
How would your mortgage company react to your heroism? When the result is "ah yes.... about those repayments..."
This is why fools will try and talk their way out of it, and wise men will take legal advice (which may well be "Sit down. Shut up.").
Complete morons and those with nothing to lose will literally scream blue murder. Everyone else will try to keep their heads down in the hope that they can get out and get on with their lives.
Well, obviously it's far too difficult for /. to support the pound symbol properly. Or the euro symbol.
Or indeed any symbol not widely used in the US.
A UK mac keyboard doesn't have a layout like a standard UK PC keyboard. The @ symbol's in the wrong place, as is ".
Photography stuff is even worse. It's not unknown to find a DSLR will be priced at:
$799 = £899 = â950
Actually, the higher price is probably also due to I18N translation costs, though that is certainly not the only reason.
Bollocks is it.
The only change they make for the UK is the date format and default currency symbol. Hell, even when you tell Windows that you're in the UK it still defaults to a US timezone and keyboard.
Actually, that's not far from what would happen.
As you get higher, the air becomes thinner and in order to keep enough air moving over the wings and maintain lift, you need to maintain a certain speed.
Problem is, you can only go so fast before the aircraft starts to break up. So you need to keep between the minimum speed (below which you'll stall) and the maximum speed (above which bits start falling off the plane). It's not uncommon for the difference between these speeds to be so small that it's impractical for a human to maintain it.
In the big scheme of things, how many people go out and buy the full retail version of ANY Microsoft operating system? OEM versions are much cheaper and easy enough to get hold of from most retailers and if I wanted a copy at home I wouldn't think twice about buying one.
Businesses buy the volume licensing version and upgrade whatever their PCs ship with; most individuals don't voluntarily install an operating system of any description, much less perform an upgrade.
I'm not sure if that argument has ever made sense. There have been so many changes to consumer operating systems over the years that "being able to deal with change" is more-or-less a prerequisite for anyone using computers for any length of time.
Buying with a credit card allows you to charge back and recover the cost of the battery. What about the subsequent damage to the camera? I know of few retailers who would be prepared to pay for that without a huge fight.
Part of me wonders if healthcare software falls into the same trap as educational software - which generally is lousy because it was either developed by people who know all about teaching (but damn all about IT - so installation instructions generally start with "Insert the CD ROM into every CD ROM drive in every workstation in your 200 workstation network..." and go downhill from there) or it was developed by people who know all about IT but damn all about teaching (so it doesn't actually get any ideas across).
or all manufacturing leaving the US and UK for good
I think it already has left the UK, but I would point out that imperial units aren't really used much in the UK these days - with the exception of road signs and buying beer in pubs.
I recall some years ago that you were generally recommended to never use rechargeable batteries in a camera flash. Something to do with internal resistance of the batteries and the high drain that a camera flash imposes on them.
I always suspected this was a load of cobblers but seeing as this was before the internet made it a lot easier to confirm these things, I didn't have the money to risk destroying a flash and my local camera store was quite adamant that rechargeables were a bad idea, I didn't test it.
Duracell are a large, easy to trace company that are generally quite good.
What about the thousands of cheap chinese batteries which are flooding the market under all sorts of names today and are available from a whole variety of places ranging from dodgy ebay sellers right the way up to relatively reputable bricks & mortar retailers?
Prepay is an option for every phone in existence. Though it may be quite expensive.
Instructions:
1. Buy phone and sign up to contract. DO NOT LEAVE THE STORE.
2. Terminate the contract right there and then. You'll have to buy out the whole 18-24 months line rental on the spot but you keep the phone.
3. If necessary, get the phone unlocked.
4. Buy a prepaid sim card.
As an user, I care about hearing sound first of all. Sound quality (no pops or crackles) comes second, latency comes third.
Which is fine if all you're doing is playing back MP3s. Those people trying to compose music, however, can't do anything useful if they have to put up with poor quality or latency and probably rate all of those things as equally important.
I'm going to get modded down for this, but what the hell.
How long did you say you'd been trying to do everything in Linux for? 4/5 years?
In about 2001 I swore never to run Windows on my own computers ever again.
Which was great while I was at university and could spare the time to mess around with Linux. It wasn't too bad when I'd just graduated. But today were I to use Linux I find I would still - eight years later - have to mess around with the same crap I did back then to get desktop stuff (printers, audio, graphics tablets etc) to work. With the added bonus that Linux has become sufficiently popular in the interim that punching your error message into Google is just as likely to bring up a forum post which is obviously written by the blind leading the blind as it is to bring up an answer.
I don't believe the IT industry is ready for a fully F/OSS solution on the desktop. Which is a pity because until it is, we'll be stuck with exactly the same kind of rubbish.
I'm using a Mac today. Smartest move I ever made.
I'm betting some bean counters figured that they could make some money off of SCO's existing customers.
What, both of them?
you are looking at some pretty expensive data recovery plans to get data off of it.
When you find a data recovery company that can recover data from shattered glass platters, let me know.
It may well be too late with your current employer - mainly because as far as they're concerned, you are and always will be the person on the helpdesk.
But in my own experience, people coming up from the helpdesk don't just walk into work one day and find themselves magically off the helpdesk team. You've got to show an active interest in the other parts of the department - well, the parts that interest you, at any rate. Get to know some of the people there, ask them about how a particular thing works. Everyone likes it when people take an interest in them.
It doesn't even need to be work-related. If you ever go out as a department for team building/social events, spend some time talking to the line manager of the team you want to be in.
Nobody ever got off the helpdesk by working long hours and showing a great deal of enthusiasm for the helpdesk. Plenty, however, have got off the helpdesk by showing a great deal of enthusiasm for some other aspect of the IT department.
I have trouble believing Microsoft are pulling the strings here - I'd have thought they'd have realised by now that this was a complete waste of time.
Unless, of course, their aim isn't to destabilise Linux completely but just give their salesmen a bargaining chip in large negotiations - in which case there may be a return on investment.
Assuming Microsoft aren't pulling the strings, what on Earth would possess any company to even consider this? Even the tiniest bit of due diligence - so tiny that you don't even read the IT press to get the IT world's view on it - would show that SCO have been doing this for five years without so much as an iota of success and quite a lot of defeat.
Just noticed this bit:
The plans form part of the Government's Digital Britain report, which also see the UK guarantee connections of 2Mbits/sec for every citizen by 2012."
Does this mean that if they fail to meet this guarantee by 31 December 2012 we can all claim a refund on the tax we paid?
I'm sure I recall something about US phone companies being given vast quantities of money - officially to lay on broadband, but there were no sanctions written in to say "failure to lay on broadband will result in the money being repayable" or similar.
Quite what happened with the money I don't know but it wasn't spent on broadband.
OK, first let me explain my assumptions, based largely on what you've said in the summary:
1. Only 20 or so PCs, no full-time admin.
It's probably a small company, so there's a strong chance that individual staff don't have roles sufficiently specialised that you can simply disable removeable media and block internet access to 90% of staff. Even if you did that, one of the other 10% would probably let something in and as soon as they do everyone else is vulnerable because there's no AV.
2. Need centralised management.
I can relate to that. Unfortunately, as I'm sure you've discovered, an awful lot of people seem to think "centralised management" means "can push it out remotely, though that may mean visiting each machine logically rather than physically".
Free Clue: The OP can have centralised management like that by enabling remote desktop on every PC. At the very least, s/he needs an interface that presents a list of machines found on the network and offers the option to select which machines on that list need to have the software installed.
3. Having trouble justifying the money for Symantec Enterprise.
Ah.
Hate to break it to you, but I think you're asking for the moon. Most of the free products I can think of do offer the features you require - but only in a souped-up commercial version of their product.
You could (if you haven't already) set up an LDAP server, have Samba act as a domain controller and then push everything out that way. However, you'll only get the equivalent of an NT4 domain, which is very primitive compared to AD in terms of remote management of groups of computers. You'd almost certainly spend any money you saved on the time it would take to lash something together yourself - which will still not be anything like as sophisticated as AD.
On the other hand, I have no great objection to requiring the states to standardize the physical driver's license card so that law enforcement doesn't need to know about the designs of fifty plus different licenses.
Then they should pass a law saying "All states will issue driving licenses in accordance with the following design..... Existing licenses will remain valid until their expiry".
Quick, easy, relatively non-controversial and the entire damn law can be written in about 2 sentences.
Which is all well and good, except AFAIK Facebook (and I imagine most such social networking sites) automatically resizes images as part of the upload process.
I'm not sure it's even possible to download the full-resolution image.
Of course, it's entirely possible she put the photo on a photo sharing site like flickr. They tend to store the image in its original resolution.