Simple, don't use random online hosting for anything critical. If it is critical, get an SLA, and make sure you are happy with the precautions the provider is taking.
However, they already have to distinguish between different versions of Windows... ME vs 98 vs NT vs XP home vs XP Pro vs Vista basic/home basic/home premium/business/ultimate...
While they're all windows, that doesn't mean they are all at all the same thing. And if they haven't learned it yet, Vista ought to teach it to them as they realize that the different names *make a difference*. But, just like with Linuxes, there is a common thread also. You can pretty much install an RPM on RedHat, SuSe, and friends, deb on Debian, Ubuntu etc... I think you can even translate RPMs to other installers.
I hear this a lot, but having recently at work delved into Linux for many OSS products that do things we can't afford to buy propriatery versions of, I don't think it's as hard as is claimed.
Baiscally, if it's an RPM, you do rpm -ivh bla vs msexec/options blah not that much different really. Heck, with yum install or apt-get install it's even easier.
Even the install from source I did recently wasn't difficult, I unzip and untar the files to a directory, and run the install.sh - not that much different than unzipping and running setup.exe...
Also, I think while camera phones have some advantages, they mostly aren't going to be in image quality. They will be in always being there.
I can see camera phones also replacing many of the disposable cameras.
But even at the consumer level, there's lots of reasons to have a "real camera", like the inexpensive Canon A7xx series. For many, it's because they work a lot like a 35mm, except you get more options with the LCD, and you don't have to screw with film. That is, you have a power button, and a shutter switch.
Camera phones suffer from the problem inherent from mixing 2 orthoganal devices into one from a UI perspective. Also, they add bulk to the phone. If you are someone who uses a phone all the time, but rarely takes pictures, most of the time, the camera in your phone is getting in the way, and adding weight. How many times have we seen requests for just a cell phone on slashdot? There clearly is a market that wants a phone, not a do everything device.
So, for some subset of users, camera phones will replace their cameras as they want it with them all the time, and they don't care too much about picture quality, and are willing to buy expensive phone/camera hybrids.
Apparently you missed the first half of that episode, where they had various people using swords swing them as hard/fast and they could, and took measurements with high speed camera etc to get the force/speed available. Then they used that to set up the machine.
Well, not exactly. Coporate users, sure. But most home users were comparing XP to 98SE or if unlucky, ME. XP was a huge step forward. Vista vs XP.... isn't. And with neither home users nor coporate users to pull the other along, I'm expecting Vista uptake to remain slow.
The only place I see high Vista update is colleges, because everyone buys a new laptop to go to college, and unless they buy a MacBook (which more and more are!), they're getting Vista.
Your general home user is only getting Vista if their PC dies, and that won't be huge surges. Plus there are more and more options now then ever, including no OS, Linux from various small vendors, XP still from Dell + Lenovo, and of course the continued surge in Apple.
Your general Coporation is for all I can see, quite wary of any new MS release, and Vista especially due to the major hardware requirements. I expect most are putting Vista at best 2 years out for hardware upgrades, and migration planning. I wouldn't be suprised to see the average being 4.5 years out, and many are being exposed to alternatives also, with Novell and IBM pushing Linux hard, as is Oracle to some extent - oh and Sun. These are as Name Brand as Microsoft, and I would be quite suprised to learn of many coporations who hadn't heard of some of them, and may even use some of their products already.
Finally, after being bitten by WGA to some extent, Vista's ramped up WGA is actually a negative feature. This is even more worrysome to business than DRM (as most work won't touch media drm issues). XP Coporate didn't have activation, but Vista Coporate does, and I'm not sure how happy businesses are with dealing with that.
I think there's something screwed up in my taste buds. Regular Coke Classic tasts much more syurpy and sweet to me than Diet Coke, and the one time I tried Coke Zero it was so horrible I just poured out the bottle after a couple sips. What's even weirder is I don't really like pepsi as it's so sweet. Maybe Diet Coke is in the middle of sweetness? IDK, personal taste anyway.
Where I work, we use Thunderbird only via IMAP, and have Oracle Calendar for calendaering. This is necessary as we have as many Linux users as Windows users.
Get an account at MediaMax.com (free) and see if you can tell me why the left file navigation pane works in FF, but not in Opera and really slowly in IE.
One site I really find amazing though, Mediamax.com decided they should write the site to work in FireFox. How they did this so that it works decent in FireFox, sort of slogs through in IE, and just doesn't work in anything else is anyone's guess. For several weeks they didn't have it working in IE either.
I saw a post a long time ago (I don't recall the source, so can't cite it) that said something that might be a good thought experiment (but not necessarily practical): However large a group you can get a unanimous vote for is the level it's decided on.
That is, If your whole street agrees on something, it's a homeowners association rule. If your district agrees, it's a local ordinance. City - city law etc...
Now, unanimity probably wouldn't work out because there will always be some people who are so far off from the norm that they'll say Murder ought be legal, but maybe a large majority of some sort - at least 2/3s agreement.
Of course, you have all sorts of practical issues like voting over every individual bill which even with internet voting wouldn't be practical.
The reason pressing for more local governence is because you generally have a stronger relationship (if only by being a larger percentage of the total votes) with a local politician than a national one. The local politician has to come back every day and drive by his constituiants houses. He has to see them when he goes out to dinner, or to the local school play. And it's a hell of a lot harder to effectively lobby 10 million local politicians that talk to their constitiants at the local bar on fridays than it is ~600 who live far away and go back every few years to see 5% or less of their constituiants.
I'd say that is a twofold problem. Bugs are always being worked on (at least in Opera and FireFox). And Opera has taken a page from Firefox, and started expanding their developer tools. But the other part of the problem is of course expecting pixel perfect rendering on ANY browser. If you want page perfect exact rendering, HTML + CSS isn't the medium for that. Try PS or PDF (which is mostly specialized PS).
I guess that most people's applications have a lot less demand for computing power than is needed just to run Vista, and that in many cases their applications will perform worse under Vista than they would under XP. And I didn't even say 'compatibility issues' yet.
That's the issue on the head. I didn't fully understand why I'm so ambivilent about Vista till now.
When I was on 98SE and looking at XP, and hearing the same sorts of things, and saying some of them, I was still dealing with a bluescreen 1-4 times a day. That's what drove me to XP. But with XP, I might bluescreen when there is a hardware problem. How often does that happen?
The other problem is as far as I remember, Vista is the first upgrade that MS specifically recommends doing a clean install of. Some upgrade. I think the majority of people I've talked to want XPSP3, not Vista.
But specifically, my apps won't generally run better under Vista, most I hear run worse if they do run (Opera being a big daily app for me). My apps don't need more horsepower - Thunderbird, Opera, Word Pro 9.8 or OpenOffice or Word 2k3 all run fine on current hardware - hardware that won't run Vista well. The programs that do need more horsepower... need more horsepower, not to have more horsepower eaten by the OS.
I can't speak to your userbase, but am I the only one who thinks that right now, 2GB ram + video card is absolutely crazy for many many users? I mean, I run VMWare to build base XP images for deployment, and I only have 1GB ram and onboard video. Many Many machines are working OK with 256 MB and many many more meet all requirements for hardware + software @ 512MB with XP.
I'm talking about being able to use $300 refurb/off lease machines for the majority of users doing Thunderbird + Firefox, Office 2k3, and some using Exceed for XWindows. It would double our "new" hardware costs for no gain I can see to use Vista.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me what benefit I get with Vista. At home it doesn't give me more security - I have any number of 3rd party security products that together are less heavy than Vista when added to XP, at work everything works with XP, and MS's vista presentation could be summed up as "Here's all the things you are already doing, but now you can do them using MS software, with only a low low yearly fee". Color me unimpressed. I'll use Vista when some software vendors stop supporting XP, but I'm not so sure this will happen quickly.
I suppose it depends on many factors, but many many cellphones support Opera Mobile or Mini, which as far as I know, supports a large subset of what Opera 8/9 supports.
I don't think I've ever read the terms of use of any website that didn't require an account for login.
First: I often can't find the things, or I'm not terribly interested in trying to hunt them down anyway.
Second: I have to view the site to read the TOS. I don't buy that I agree to the damn TOS in just trying to READ it. And I don't buy I agree to anything when I send a request to a server, and it responds with html...
Third: if it sends me html I request, and images I request, but fails to send me the ads specifically because I *DONT* request them, I don't feel I'm breaking any sort of TOS or ethical standard.
Finally, HTML and the web has always been expected for the content to be formatted for the various and different possible clients. My client, thanks to proxomitron, formats it without junk.
If you actually want me to see an ad, do what salon does - make me watch the ad to see the content. Personally, one video ad a day, or even every couple hours, wouldn't bother me. But junk flashing around the content constantly? I just have prox remove it.
All I can say is I worked at best buy for a while, and lots of those people "not affected by DRM" weren't so happy when their hard drive died, or their PC needed to be reformated to fix the spyware issues (only cause they didn't do backups and didn't want to shop around for cheaper backup, or pay our exorbident fees). I've heard mixed results about getting second downloads from iTunes.
Please, Please point me at a howto on this! I tried what they have on their blog, and all I get is heartbeat errors... Can't get it to monitor anything.
That said, does it do everything that informant opens up but via WMI so I don't need an additional install on windows?
How bad/good are the clients? I really don't want another client running... I've already got SAV, O&O Defrag, OCSNG, and sometimes Spysweeper... Oh, and Proxy or VNC. So I don't really want to gob on another client. But I'm trying Zenoss, and so far not having a lot of luck unless I install Informant on Windows, so unless the WMI is quick to get working, it looks like it's basically a client anyway. But how do the others handle switches and routers? I see ZABBIX supposedly does network maps also...
How automated is all this? Zenoss is just the other side of how easy I'd like it to be - that is it will require some work, but not too much. I do not want something where I'm writing code by hand to make it work - like how nagios sounds.
Well, given that we treat a far more horrible (IMHO) crime - murder - different when committed by a 7 year old, I think we damn sure ought to have slightly different treatment for downloading music!
But on Windows, you have numerous scroll devices - that is, my mouse has a scroll wheel, on Thinkpads there's that middle click + trackpoint to scroll, on HPs and others there's the scroll bar on the right side of the trackpad. So I basically never use the scroll bar.
Well, I suppose it all would depend on how important buget concerns were. If money isn't an issue, then you'll of course only rate on other metrics. But rarely in the real world is money so far down the metric list that cost doesn't have a large effect, if only at the high end - is the additional 10% higher rating in class worth 300% the cost? I can't believe it's often that that is the case.
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Simple, don't use random online hosting for anything critical. If it is critical, get an SLA, and make sure you are happy with the precautions the provider is taking.
It has, I've installed SUSE RPMs on SL4, a derivative of RHEL4.
However, they already have to distinguish between different versions of Windows... ME vs 98 vs NT vs XP home vs XP Pro vs Vista basic/home basic/home premium/business/ultimate...
While they're all windows, that doesn't mean they are all at all the same thing. And if they haven't learned it yet, Vista ought to teach it to them as they realize that the different names *make a difference*. But, just like with Linuxes, there is a common thread also. You can pretty much install an RPM on RedHat, SuSe, and friends, deb on Debian, Ubuntu etc... I think you can even translate RPMs to other installers.
I hear this a lot, but having recently at work delved into Linux for many OSS products that do things we can't afford to buy propriatery versions of, I don't think it's as hard as is claimed.
/options blah not that much different really. Heck, with yum install or apt-get install it's even easier.
...
Baiscally, if it's an RPM, you do rpm -ivh bla vs msexec
Even the install from source I did recently wasn't difficult, I unzip and untar the files to a directory, and run the install.sh - not that much different than unzipping and running setup.exe
Also, I think while camera phones have some advantages, they mostly aren't going to be in image quality. They will be in always being there.
I can see camera phones also replacing many of the disposable cameras.
But even at the consumer level, there's lots of reasons to have a "real camera", like the inexpensive Canon A7xx series. For many, it's because they work a lot like a 35mm, except you get more options with the LCD, and you don't have to screw with film. That is, you have a power button, and a shutter switch.
Camera phones suffer from the problem inherent from mixing 2 orthoganal devices into one from a UI perspective. Also, they add bulk to the phone. If you are someone who uses a phone all the time, but rarely takes pictures, most of the time, the camera in your phone is getting in the way, and adding weight. How many times have we seen requests for just a cell phone on slashdot? There clearly is a market that wants a phone, not a do everything device.
So, for some subset of users, camera phones will replace their cameras as they want it with them all the time, and they don't care too much about picture quality, and are willing to buy expensive phone/camera hybrids.
Apparently you missed the first half of that episode, where they had various people using swords swing them as hard/fast and they could, and took measurements with high speed camera etc to get the force/speed available. Then they used that to set up the machine.
Well, not exactly. Coporate users, sure. But most home users were comparing XP to 98SE or if unlucky, ME. XP was a huge step forward. Vista vs XP.... isn't. And with neither home users nor coporate users to pull the other along, I'm expecting Vista uptake to remain slow.
The only place I see high Vista update is colleges, because everyone buys a new laptop to go to college, and unless they buy a MacBook (which more and more are!), they're getting Vista.
Your general home user is only getting Vista if their PC dies, and that won't be huge surges. Plus there are more and more options now then ever, including no OS, Linux from various small vendors, XP still from Dell + Lenovo, and of course the continued surge in Apple.
Your general Coporation is for all I can see, quite wary of any new MS release, and Vista especially due to the major hardware requirements. I expect most are putting Vista at best 2 years out for hardware upgrades, and migration planning. I wouldn't be suprised to see the average being 4.5 years out, and many are being exposed to alternatives also, with Novell and IBM pushing Linux hard, as is Oracle to some extent - oh and Sun. These are as Name Brand as Microsoft, and I would be quite suprised to learn of many coporations who hadn't heard of some of them, and may even use some of their products already.
Finally, after being bitten by WGA to some extent, Vista's ramped up WGA is actually a negative feature. This is even more worrysome to business than DRM (as most work won't touch media drm issues). XP Coporate didn't have activation, but Vista Coporate does, and I'm not sure how happy businesses are with dealing with that.
I think there's something screwed up in my taste buds. Regular Coke Classic tasts much more syurpy and sweet to me than Diet Coke, and the one time I tried Coke Zero it was so horrible I just poured out the bottle after a couple sips. What's even weirder is I don't really like pepsi as it's so sweet. Maybe Diet Coke is in the middle of sweetness? IDK, personal taste anyway.
Where I work, we use Thunderbird only via IMAP, and have Oracle Calendar for calendaering. This is necessary as we have as many Linux users as Windows users.
Get an account at MediaMax.com (free) and see if you can tell me why the left file navigation pane works in FF, but not in Opera and really slowly in IE.
One site I really find amazing though, Mediamax.com decided they should write the site to work in FireFox. How they did this so that it works decent in FireFox, sort of slogs through in IE, and just doesn't work in anything else is anyone's guess. For several weeks they didn't have it working in IE either.
I can't see why you would do that at all.
I saw a post a long time ago (I don't recall the source, so can't cite it) that said something that might be a good thought experiment (but not necessarily practical):
However large a group you can get a unanimous vote for is the level it's decided on.
That is, If your whole street agrees on something, it's a homeowners association rule.
If your district agrees, it's a local ordinance.
City - city law
etc...
Now, unanimity probably wouldn't work out because there will always be some people who are so far off from the norm that they'll say Murder ought be legal, but maybe a large majority of some sort - at least 2/3s agreement.
Of course, you have all sorts of practical issues like voting over every individual bill which even with internet voting wouldn't be practical.
The reason pressing for more local governence is because you generally have a stronger relationship (if only by being a larger percentage of the total votes) with a local politician than a national one. The local politician has to come back every day and drive by his constituiants houses. He has to see them when he goes out to dinner, or to the local school play. And it's a hell of a lot harder to effectively lobby 10 million local politicians that talk to their constitiants at the local bar on fridays than it is ~600 who live far away and go back every few years to see 5% or less of their constituiants.
I'd say that is a twofold problem. Bugs are always being worked on (at least in Opera and FireFox). And Opera has taken a page from Firefox, and started expanding their developer tools. But the other part of the problem is of course expecting pixel perfect rendering on ANY browser. If you want page perfect exact rendering, HTML + CSS isn't the medium for that. Try PS or PDF (which is mostly specialized PS).
I guess that most people's applications have a lot less demand for computing power than is needed just to run Vista, and that in many cases their applications will perform worse under Vista than they would under XP. And I didn't even say 'compatibility issues' yet.
... need more horsepower, not to have more horsepower eaten by the OS.
That's the issue on the head. I didn't fully understand why I'm so ambivilent about Vista till now.
When I was on 98SE and looking at XP, and hearing the same sorts of things, and saying some of them, I was still dealing with a bluescreen 1-4 times a day. That's what drove me to XP. But with XP, I might bluescreen when there is a hardware problem. How often does that happen?
The other problem is as far as I remember, Vista is the first upgrade that MS specifically recommends doing a clean install of. Some upgrade. I think the majority of people I've talked to want XPSP3, not Vista.
But specifically, my apps won't generally run better under Vista, most I hear run worse if they do run (Opera being a big daily app for me). My apps don't need more horsepower - Thunderbird, Opera, Word Pro 9.8 or OpenOffice or Word 2k3 all run fine on current hardware - hardware that won't run Vista well. The programs that do need more horsepower
I can't speak to your userbase, but am I the only one who thinks that right now, 2GB ram + video card is absolutely crazy for many many users? I mean, I run VMWare to build base XP images for deployment, and I only have 1GB ram and onboard video. Many Many machines are working OK with 256 MB and many many more meet all requirements for hardware + software @ 512MB with XP.
I'm talking about being able to use $300 refurb/off lease machines for the majority of users doing Thunderbird + Firefox, Office 2k3, and some using Exceed for XWindows. It would double our "new" hardware costs for no gain I can see to use Vista.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me what benefit I get with Vista. At home it doesn't give me more security - I have any number of 3rd party security products that together are less heavy than Vista when added to XP, at work everything works with XP, and MS's vista presentation could be summed up as "Here's all the things you are already doing, but now you can do them using MS software, with only a low low yearly fee". Color me unimpressed. I'll use Vista when some software vendors stop supporting XP, but I'm not so sure this will happen quickly.
VPN or MTA port?
I suppose it depends on many factors, but many many cellphones support Opera Mobile or Mini, which as far as I know, supports a large subset of what Opera 8/9 supports.
I don't think I've ever read the terms of use of any website that didn't require an account for login.
First: I often can't find the things, or I'm not terribly interested in trying to hunt them down anyway.
Second: I have to view the site to read the TOS. I don't buy that I agree to the damn TOS in just trying to READ it. And I don't buy I agree to anything when I send a request to a server, and it responds with html...
Third: if it sends me html I request, and images I request, but fails to send me the ads specifically because I *DONT* request them, I don't feel I'm breaking any sort of TOS or ethical standard.
Finally, HTML and the web has always been expected for the content to be formatted for the various and different possible clients. My client, thanks to proxomitron, formats it without junk.
If you actually want me to see an ad, do what salon does - make me watch the ad to see the content. Personally, one video ad a day, or even every couple hours, wouldn't bother me. But junk flashing around the content constantly? I just have prox remove it.
All I can say is I worked at best buy for a while, and lots of those people "not affected by DRM" weren't so happy when their hard drive died, or their PC needed to be reformated to fix the spyware issues (only cause they didn't do backups and didn't want to shop around for cheaper backup, or pay our exorbident fees). I've heard mixed results about getting second downloads from iTunes.
Please, Please point me at a howto on this! I tried what they have on their blog, and all I get is heartbeat errors... Can't get it to monitor anything.
That said, does it do everything that informant opens up but via WMI so I don't need an additional install on windows?
How bad/good are the clients? I really don't want another client running... I've already got SAV, O&O Defrag, OCSNG, and sometimes Spysweeper... Oh, and Proxy or VNC. So I don't really want to gob on another client. But I'm trying Zenoss, and so far not having a lot of luck unless I install Informant on Windows, so unless the WMI is quick to get working, it looks like it's basically a client anyway. But how do the others handle switches and routers? I see ZABBIX supposedly does network maps also...
How automated is all this? Zenoss is just the other side of how easy I'd like it to be - that is it will require some work, but not too much. I do not want something where I'm writing code by hand to make it work - like how nagios sounds.
Well, given that we treat a far more horrible (IMHO) crime - murder - different when committed by a 7 year old, I think we damn sure ought to have slightly different treatment for downloading music!
But on Windows, you have numerous scroll devices - that is, my mouse has a scroll wheel, on Thinkpads there's that middle click + trackpoint to scroll, on HPs and others there's the scroll bar on the right side of the trackpad. So I basically never use the scroll bar.
I think it must vary by state. In NY, I've worked quite a few hourly jobs and I've always had my breaks paid.
Well, I suppose it all would depend on how important buget concerns were. If money isn't an issue, then you'll of course only rate on other metrics. But rarely in the real world is money so far down the metric list that cost doesn't have a large effect, if only at the high end - is the additional 10% higher rating in class worth 300% the cost? I can't believe it's often that that is the case.