1. Assume they are savvy users and let them be. 2. At the failure of #1, force them to have up2date virus protection. If they don't want to pay for it, direct them to http://clamwin.com/. 3. Force them to run MS Spyware Blocker if 2000 and above, Adaware and Spybot S&D for lower. 4. Disconnect them until they comply.
It's like Win95(4.00.950) to Win95a(4.00.950 A) to Win95b(4.00.950 B) to Win95c(4.00.950 C) to Win98(4.10.1998) to Win98SE(4.10.2222A) to WinME(4.90.3000).
Or
WinNT(3.51.1057) to WinNT(4.00.1381) to Win2000(5.00.2195) to WinXP(5.1.2600) - (Mind you that there are many editions of this one, Home, Pro, MC each costing seperateley) to WinForever(Longhorn)
I didn't say your time is worthless. That's why I put a price on time.
There are creative types (who gravitate toward Mac anyway) who create all the time. If they're not getting paid to create something, they do it for their own library which will get reworked into something else later.
I fall into both camps. I build my own systems and bought a Mac a while ago. I love both but the Mac was ready to go out of the box. Already familiar with OSX, I just had to install updates, Eclipse, MySQL and I was ready to go to produce work for clients.
I will most likely build a 64-bit system next because I'd like to and will also buy a PowerBook in the near future. It only makes sense to do whatever makes your time worthwhile to you.
If purchasing a system ready to go in 1 hour is profitiable, then so be it. If spending a weekend building a system is profitable (in the experience account), then so be it. I like building systems but I have more demands on my time now and it becomes a management descision.
If I can make more money cranking out code, I'm going to do it the fastest way I can. I'm just really gratefull for the Eclipse project so I can be platform agnostic.
And if you freelance for $80/hr or are self employed for $120/hr, that time you spend building a computer or buying one is worth how much?
It's far easier to go to the store, buy a mac, open it, download updates, install productivity apps then your running in under 5 hours.
Piecing out parts, assembling, installing the OS, configuring takes well over 5 hours and can take most of 2 days becuase if you build it, you're most likely to tinker with it to see what your computer does.
Say a satellite is 10 feet wide, you could fit over 11,000,000 in a straight line from the earth to orbit and still probably wouldn't be able to see the line.
You can only fit under 8,000 1/64 inch pieces of lint in a straight line on a 10 foot bed sheet
Well I know that what Exchange 5.0 was supposed to have was actually delivered in Exchange 2003 (7)
And what doesn't get noticed will get re-hyped as a new feature
And speaking of software assurance, isn't it time for a new version of Office? I mean the last version of Office 2003 and that's 2 years ago and if there is a new version of office coming out, shouldn't it be called Office 2006?
EP V : The best story out of the lot but boring. Cool ground battle and a saber duel.
EP VI : Why do most people hate the Ewoks? Even if you didn't care for them, you'll get over that when you have kids. This movie also had everything as far as action. Ground battle, speeder bikes, space battle, saber duels, the emperor. What was missing was hacking. All we got was Vader's hand loped off.
EP I : Boring except for the pod racing and the saber duel. Pod rading being the best sequence in the series.
EP II : Boring and annoying. There is no character in the movie that we want to be with except maybe Obi Wan but he's not enough to carry a movie. What could have made this movie better is a love triangle that is pretty much a staple in all operas and tragic stories.
Have Padme being courted by some political type and Anakin is jealous because of his infatuation. Anakin is forced to be a bodyguard but kills the 'competition' during a battle. Or something along that line.
I didn't buy the 'love' story. I don't understand the gound battle and couldn't follow what was happening becuase it was just droids vs clones, sissy Jedi falling and getting killed, and no goal in sight. At least EP V you knew that the AT-AT's were heading for the power generator.
The PDF standard IS open and published. Adobe commissioned the standard so it could get it's foothold in the fonts. It actually likes what is happening with PDF
Actually NetMeeting for NT/98/ME/2K work pretty damn well for 1 on 1 as long as you had your own private ILS server which was pretty easy to setup on NT and 2K. Gnomemeeting works well with ILS server too.
What was missing was the 1 to many or many to many video conferencing. I found iVisit to be a pretty good mostly free service that handled many to many conversations.
Another good thing about Netmeeting was the RDC connector as long as you used it under VPN. I"ve fixed many remote PCs with Netmeeting.
Maybe I'm missing something but Windows 95/98/ME/2K all have search. XP's version sucks bigtime and I don't know why they broke it and bloated the interface by forcing a wizard every single time you want to search for a file or text within a file.
I did a simple search for text within a file for "?PHP" and XP is the only OS that doesn't give me a result.
I agree but from a management point of view, If you have that many apps open that Expose doesn't give you good idea of what you're working on, you're not efficient and most probably wasting productive time.
As a user of Linux and Mac, I use both Virt Desktops and Expose (used to use VD on the Mac before 10.3). Not trying to be a flamer here but there is no way one person can be productive with 4x (or even 2x) what Expose handles.
Expose is good for less than 15 windows on a standard desktop. Those with the 30" Cinema displays mileage will vary.
What could you possibly use that occupies that many windows and still be 100% productive?
I'll have Photoshop open, email, browser, Dreamweaver, and Eclipse. Sometimes I'll have 2 browsers open and a terminal window. Expose handles that perfectly but that's at the limit for my screen.
I used to use virtual desktops on the mac the I realized that I wasn't being productive on 4 different desktops (really using just 3) and altered my workflow to adjust to Expose. I noticed that I switched mainly between 2 windows then cut off time wasters.
On Linux I just use no more than 2 VD's although sometimes compiling on a 3rd comes in handy.
I wish there exists a stable Expose counterpart for Linux.
Windows 2003 server line is pretty stable so far but you do have updates that require reboots every month.
Why wouldn't you run these virtual servers in a production environment? Licenses aren't cheap and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a license just to play with it.
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1. Assume they are savvy users and let them be.
2. At the failure of #1, force them to have up2date virus protection. If they don't want to pay for it, direct them to http://clamwin.com/.
3. Force them to run MS Spyware Blocker if 2000 and above, Adaware and Spybot S&D for lower.
4. Disconnect them until they comply.
We could also give them a collar of C4 wired to just explode their head like this.
They just did the study which is why this came about. I believe the average is 12% of sex offenders will repeat.
Whistler is XP, Yukon is supposed to be SQL 2003 which is now SQL 2005.
I think Blackcomb is slated to be after Longhorn.
Clicky Gentoo Penguin.
"...why you pay more for it"
Pay more for what?
CS is alot cheaper than the individual counterparts that make it.
The Professional CS is $1200 with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, GoLive.
It used to be $700,$700,$500,$150,$100
Half that for upgrades.
What does .NET do that ASP/Java/PHP/Perl can't?
.NET that you can reuse just like functions and classes in others. I still don't see the big deal.
It just seems to me that there are libraries in
OK
So they don't sell:
Mac mini
Power Mac
eMac
iMac
iBook
PowerBook
but they do sell iPods and iPod accessories.
Can't run a Tiger on that (I'm sure some geek can)
No, No, No.
It's like
Win95(4.00.950) to
Win95a(4.00.950 A) to
Win95b(4.00.950 B) to
Win95c(4.00.950 C) to
Win98(4.10.1998) to
Win98SE(4.10.2222A) to
WinME(4.90.3000).
Or
WinNT(3.51.1057) to
WinNT(4.00.1381) to
Win2000(5.00.2195) to
WinXP(5.1.2600) - (Mind you that there are many editions of this one, Home, Pro, MC each costing seperateley) to
WinForever(Longhorn)
They don't sell Apple products, at least nothing comes up in the search whe I type Mac.
They don't sell Macs so they can't capitalize on the name.
I didn't say your time is worthless. That's why I put a price on time.
There are creative types (who gravitate toward Mac anyway) who create all the time. If they're not getting paid to create something, they do it for their own library which will get reworked into something else later.
I fall into both camps. I build my own systems and bought a Mac a while ago. I love both but the Mac was ready to go out of the box. Already familiar with OSX, I just had to install updates, Eclipse, MySQL and I was ready to go to produce work for clients.
I will most likely build a 64-bit system next because I'd like to and will also buy a PowerBook in the near future. It only makes sense to do whatever makes your time worthwhile to you.
If purchasing a system ready to go in 1 hour is profitiable, then so be it. If spending a weekend building a system is profitable (in the experience account), then so be it. I like building systems but I have more demands on my time now and it becomes a management descision.
If I can make more money cranking out code, I'm going to do it the fastest way I can. I'm just really gratefull for the Eclipse project so I can be platform agnostic.
And if you freelance for $80/hr or are self employed for $120/hr, that time you spend building a computer or buying one is worth how much?
It's far easier to go to the store, buy a mac, open it, download updates, install productivity apps then your running in under 5 hours.
Piecing out parts, assembling, installing the OS, configuring takes well over 5 hours and can take most of 2 days becuase if you build it, you're most likely to tinker with it to see what your computer does.
The point is that you have to INSTALL it.
It takes 3+ hours to configure XP out of the box into a workable OS.
It takes me about 1 hour for a Mac. Download MySQL, Eclipse, updates, configure apache and I'm running.
Say a satellite is 10 feet wide, you could fit over 11,000,000 in a straight line from the earth to orbit and still probably wouldn't be able to see the line.
You can only fit under 8,000 1/64 inch pieces of lint in a straight line on a 10 foot bed sheet
Well I know that what Exchange 5.0 was supposed to have was actually delivered in Exchange 2003 (7)
And what doesn't get noticed will get re-hyped as a new feature
And speaking of software assurance, isn't it time for a new version of Office?
I mean the last version of Office 2003 and that's 2 years ago and if there is a new version of office coming out, shouldn't it be called Office 2006?
EP IV : The best movie out of the lot.
EP V : The best story out of the lot but boring. Cool ground battle and a saber duel.
EP VI : Why do most people hate the Ewoks? Even if you didn't care for them, you'll get over that when you have kids. This movie also had everything as far as action. Ground battle, speeder bikes, space battle, saber duels, the emperor. What was missing was hacking. All we got was Vader's hand loped off.
EP I : Boring except for the pod racing and the saber duel. Pod rading being the best sequence in the series.
EP II : Boring and annoying. There is no character in the movie that we want to be with except maybe Obi Wan but he's not enough to carry a movie. What could have made this movie better is a love triangle that is pretty much a staple in all operas and tragic stories.
Have Padme being courted by some political type and Anakin is jealous because of his infatuation. Anakin is forced to be a bodyguard but kills the 'competition' during a battle. Or something along that line.
I didn't buy the 'love' story. I don't understand the gound battle and couldn't follow what was happening becuase it was just droids vs clones, sissy Jedi falling and getting killed, and no goal in sight. At least EP V you knew that the AT-AT's were heading for the power generator.
He just works.
The PDF standard IS open and published. Adobe commissioned the standard so it could get it's foothold in the fonts. It actually likes what is happening with PDF
PDF - It Just Works.
Actually NetMeeting for NT/98/ME/2K work pretty damn well for 1 on 1 as long as you had your own private ILS server which was pretty easy to setup on NT and 2K.
Gnomemeeting works well with ILS server too.
What was missing was the 1 to many or many to many video conferencing. I found iVisit to be a pretty good mostly free service that handled many to many conversations.
Another good thing about Netmeeting was the RDC connector as long as you used it under VPN. I"ve fixed many remote PCs with Netmeeting.
Maybe I'm missing something but Windows 95/98/ME/2K all have search. XP's version sucks bigtime and I don't know why they broke it and bloated the interface by forcing a wizard every single time you want to search for a file or text within a file.
I did a simple search for text within a file for "?PHP" and XP is the only OS that doesn't give me a result.
I agree but from a management point of view, If you have that many apps open that Expose doesn't give you good idea of what you're working on, you're not efficient and most probably wasting productive time.
As a user of Linux and Mac, I use both Virt Desktops and Expose (used to use VD on the Mac before 10.3). Not trying to be a flamer here but there is no way one person can be productive with 4x (or even 2x) what Expose handles.
Expose is good for less than 15 windows on a standard desktop. Those with the 30" Cinema displays mileage will vary.
What could you possibly use that occupies that many windows and still be 100% productive?
I'll have Photoshop open, email, browser, Dreamweaver, and Eclipse. Sometimes I'll have 2 browsers open and a terminal window. Expose handles that perfectly but that's at the limit for my screen.
I used to use virtual desktops on the mac the I realized that I wasn't being productive on 4 different desktops (really using just 3) and altered my workflow to adjust to Expose. I noticed that I switched mainly between 2 windows then cut off time wasters.
On Linux I just use no more than 2 VD's although sometimes compiling on a 3rd comes in handy.
I wish there exists a stable Expose counterpart for Linux.
Server uptime is irrelevant to me too.
Windows 2003 server line is pretty stable so far but you do have updates that require reboots every month.
Why wouldn't you run these virtual servers in a production environment? Licenses aren't cheap and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a license just to play with it.
What happens to your Linux servers when you have to reboot your Microsoft servers?
That's going to skew the uptime reliability for Linux servers.
How do you know they're not Japanese?