Although i am not an admin here at work (doing development work) I can confirm, that SP3 cannot be rolled out in our company because of such issues. However, this is not the only problem we have encountered with SP3 and all 4500 desktops will stay at SP2 with carefully selected hotfixes.
This was exactly my first thought -- Expert-sexchange is pretty annoying! I don't think it would invade my privacy if I have a way to tell google what I don't like to see... after all am I using Google because they deliver more or less relevant results.
I have an argument with a coworker frequently about architectural orthogonality vs performance. I fall on the "architecture should be clean and easy to understand and maintain" side of the argument and he falls on the "speed, memory, and response time at all cost" side.
I prefer: use "architecture should be clean and easy to understand and maintain" until it starts to fly, then rewrite crucial parts as in "speed, memory, and response time at all cost"
It's not rocket sience really.
all those frameworks help you get something done rather quickly, when it gets popular you are supposed to make some money and can affrod a rewrite of the crutial parts. If not, something went wrong
All i can tell you is that kde sucks big hairy mokey balls ina networked (read Xwindow) envorinment. this is why i prefer gtk apps (read gnome).
my experience doesn't include kde 4. but as far as i can tell kde makes a nice personal computer desktop but remote x really sucks with all the animations turned on by default (even for remote sessions... argh).
when i discovered gnome 2 and discovered that remote X doen't have to suck on remote sessions (windows) i dropped kde.
ok KDE fanbois, time to mod me down. If you want a windows replacement KDe might be fine, if you want to use Xwindow powers.. good luck.
Well, I personally think the wealth in our country can be attributed to many things, one of them are banks which made some people super rich, this inflates the statistics. There are huge tax cuts for rich people, this is why some many foreigners officially live here, that's another reason statistics are inflated.
IMHO the wealth mainly comes from my parent's generation. the after WWII generation(s) has been working hard, this has changed.
I hear the argument "if we give up banking secret we will loose many jobs" for a long time. this is the main argument of the supporters. Problem is; although the banking industry is large (compared to other conuntries) it is still very small compared to other industries. Because they are multinational companies, only a (small?) part of their employees works in switzerland. There are companies which actually produce something, these companies employ the majority of people.
However, you are right. Abandoning the banking secret will have an impact, banks would move on and some people will loose their job or would move with the company.
The problem is, on the other hand, we get constantly in trouble about the banking secret, paying punishment tax which are not necessary. Instead of paying these tax to foreign countries, we could pay the unemployed instead.
After all, I believe it when I see it. Banking secret will not be given up so quickly (it is beeing debated in the media every 5 years or so since i am alive). It has been a "problem" for decades, banks make a lot of money, have a strong lobby. I highly doubt this will happen now.
"The only difference here is that Switzerland seems to have a banker/client confidentiality, which seems a bit strange to the rest of us to throw it in with doctors and lawyers. Even that may I believe is cracked open for criminal cases, just not for tax evasion in a foreign country (which I believe isn't illegal in Switzerland)."
I am swiss. Tax evasion is illegal in switzerland by law but the banking secret usually makes it impossible to track it down. Most swiss people have not much of a benefit about this banking secret. It's the foreigners with shitloads of money which profit (we won't see tax for their illegally stored money neither) but we get into loads of troubles in foreign affairs (politics).
It's still not understandable to me why a country has to protect a private industry by law to make breaking the law possible. the only ones which benefit from this are the banks. The ones which loose because of it are the people.
I do speak 4 languages, english ist not my mother tongue. I find it often annoying that (especially) those nations with very few incencitive to learn a foreign language are rude towards foreign sounding people.
However, I have to disagree with you about the difficulties about learning english, you might never have tried to learn german or french... let alone asian and arabic languages (for obious reasons to us westerners).
Cheers, -S
PS: It's really the editors job to rectify the most obvious errors, why are they needed otherwise ?
"Maybe I'm naive, but I routinely choose not to search a site with google (if there is an option)."
I do it the other way 'round. whenever i want to search a site by keywords I go to google and enter:
site:. [[[keyword] keyword]...]
As long as searching for keywords, most sites' searches suck big hairy monkeballs[TM]! why not use what works well ?
If you have privacy concerns you are free to create as many firefox profiles as you wish. I use one for gmail (better yet imaps), one for googlepages and one for my daily browsing (with all google cookies blocked). I am blocking google cookies because they started to customize my results in a way that i got different results on every computer i am using (that's annoying).
"Because businesses, especially large ones where all the people are, are really cautious to adopt new technologies."
may i rephraze this for you: "Because businesses, especially large ones where all the people are, were really stupid to adopt new properitary IE6 technologies."
I, also, do work for a large company. And we are still on IE6 because rewriting all internal intranet applications will take another 2-3 years (let alone costs).
well, you could run php as isapi module on iis. I have tried it, i haven't done some performance testing. The problem with isapi is, that you have one configuration (php configuration) per server, no mixing of php4/5 per virtual host.
This makes it a no brainer for anyting but playing with it. After finding this out we tested with fastcgi, it's nice but iis is still extremely complicated to handle and and the os is soo hungry (1gb ram for an intranet server and w2k3 is barely usable on the shell).
finally i convinced them to switch to linux/apache. it was a little work (mostly paths).
What I am trying to say is, it doesn't matter if php is as fast on iis/windows server as on *nix/apache. the os alone is eating up so many resources while doing nothing.
ME to XP was a different story (IMHO) compared to what's going on now. ME was 95 based and XP was based on Windows NT (built on a solid multitasking kernel). NT evolved into W2K which was - from my experience - the most solid platform microsoft has delivered, ever.
W2K delivered an advanced windows 95 look and feel, greatly enhanced stability (compared to all other windows versions) and it made multimedia available on the NT platform (game, video, audio devices working pretty well). However, it (somewhat) combined 2 worlds of windows, the w95 line and the nt line. Somehow, developers were not to eager to jump on the platform or had a lot of work (=needed time) to port their software. W2K was fine but was also adopted slowly.
Then XP came along. XP (NT 5.1) wasn't really news, but a polished W2K (NT 5). W2K drivers were compatible with XP, there was quiet some hardware out there already which supported the 1.5-2 years old W2K. OEM's and consumers had a lot of choice. ME users had no choice but upgrading to XP. ME was seen by many users as worst windows release ever. With my limited experience with ME I would agree.
XP adoption was high and quick, because there was no alternative for the W9X line users. And sooner or later, W2K users were forced to switch because of new hard and software not supported on W2K anymore (like me on my game computer).
Now back to the current and the future windows 7. Vista was a radical move. A new kernel, a new driver model and a lot of bling bling (3d card recommended just to be able to see your file browser). This radical move left vista's adoption rate down in the basement. It doesn't matter, those which have paid attention were expecting this. It is going to take another release (and some artificial incompatibilities of xp with new hardware) to make the world switch. Despite the skepticism here, I believe Windows 7 will be the next big money cow of microsoft.
The university hospital I work for, is mainly a windows/novell shop. With some *NIX for mission critical systems I am working with (like TRU64 for the oracle server cluster for example). Despite the fact the management is swallowing quiet a lot of MS cool-aid, they have seen no need to go Vista but waiting for Vista to stabilize and being replaced by a minor revision. FWIW this seems to be pretty standard behavior in European companies (i am not talking about the 1 man shows here).
Microsoft would be stupid to integrate radically new features (like WinFS) in W7, the next gen. windows seems to be expected to quiet stable (or it won't fly). I guess W7 will actually be W6.1 - but that's just speculation.
Therefore, I would conclude, that the change from Vista to W7 is more like W2K to XP that ME to XP.
Cheers, -S
PS: to all grammar nazis: my swissgerman, french and german are probably better than your english!
this is really great. I am no big fan of microsoft, but credit where credit is due. A game that lets me explore a world which otherwise only very few people can experience in real life, that's awsome.
kudos. -S
PS: on an afterthought this might suck as much as Flight Simulator X... oh never mind.
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Although i am not an admin here at work (doing development work) I can confirm, that SP3 cannot be rolled out in our company because of such issues. However, this is not the only problem we have encountered with SP3 and all 4500 desktops will stay at SP2 with carefully selected hotfixes.
This was exactly my first thought -- Expert-sexchange is pretty annoying! I don't think it would invade my privacy if I have a way to tell google what I don't like to see ... after all am I using Google because they deliver more or less relevant results.
I am swiss, no Austria is not a neutral country.
But yes, Arnie is from Austria.
My Brother flies an A320 for BA.
They have constant contact via cell phone to their dispatchers. Even tho they require flight passengers to shut down theirs.
Once the shit hits the fan, I guess it would be the first they use to contact Ground for any vectors, weather infromation or whatsoever.
-S
Well, I'm not sure how efficient Coldfusion is for handling large web forums,
Piss poor
war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
I prefer: use "architecture should be clean and easy to understand and maintain" until it starts to fly, then rewrite crucial parts as in "speed, memory, and response time at all cost"
It's not rocket sience really.
all those frameworks help you get something done rather quickly, when it gets popular you are supposed to make some money and can affrod a rewrite of the crutial parts. If not, something went wrong
-Si've been using KDE it since 0.7.
... argh).
.. good luck.
All i can tell you is that kde sucks big hairy mokey balls ina networked (read Xwindow) envorinment. this is why i prefer gtk apps (read gnome).
my experience doesn't include kde 4. but as far as i can tell kde makes a nice personal computer desktop but remote x really sucks with all the animations turned on by default (even for remote sessions
when i discovered gnome 2 and discovered that remote X doen't have to suck on remote sessions (windows) i dropped kde.
ok KDE fanbois, time to mod me down. If you want a windows replacement KDe might be fine, if you want to use Xwindow powers
Cheers,
-S
WTF are trademarked domains ?
-S
http://www.dilbert.com/animation/
-S
mods, these days, are probably on crack. i see tons of funny and even deeply sarcastic posts modded interesting or even insightful.
I wonder how and why these people get mod points.
Cheers,
-S
my first language is german, my second english.
panzer == tank
-S
Well, I personally think the wealth in our country can be attributed to many things, one of them are banks which made some people super rich, this inflates the statistics. There are huge tax cuts for rich people, this is why some many foreigners officially live here, that's another reason statistics are inflated.
IMHO the wealth mainly comes from my parent's generation. the after WWII generation(s) has been working hard, this has changed.
I hear the argument "if we give up banking secret we will loose many jobs" for a long time. this is the main argument of the supporters. Problem is; although the banking industry is large (compared to other conuntries) it is still very small compared to other industries. Because they are multinational companies, only a (small?) part of their employees works in switzerland. There are companies which actually produce something, these companies employ the majority of people.
However, you are right. Abandoning the banking secret will have an impact, banks would move on and some people will loose their job or would move with the company.
The problem is, on the other hand, we get constantly in trouble about the banking secret, paying punishment tax which are not necessary. Instead of paying these tax to foreign countries, we could pay the unemployed instead.
After all, I believe it when I see it. Banking secret will not be given up so quickly (it is beeing debated in the media every 5 years or so since i am alive). It has been a "problem" for decades, banks make a lot of money, have a strong lobby. I highly doubt this will happen now.
Kind regards,
-S
"The only difference here is that Switzerland seems to have a banker/client confidentiality, which seems a bit strange to the rest of us to throw it in with doctors and lawyers. Even that may I believe is cracked open for criminal cases, just not for tax evasion in a foreign country (which I believe isn't illegal in Switzerland)."
I am swiss. Tax evasion is illegal in switzerland by law but the banking secret usually makes it impossible to track it down. Most swiss people have not much of a benefit about this banking secret. It's the foreigners with shitloads of money which profit (we won't see tax for their illegally stored money neither) but we get into loads of troubles in foreign affairs (politics).
It's still not understandable to me why a country has to protect a private industry by law to make breaking the law possible. the only ones which benefit from this are the banks. The ones which loose because of it are the people.
About damn time to get rid of this law.
kind regards,
-S
heh.
Mein Englisch ist besser als Dein Deutsch! Parlez vouz français, je ne comprende pas!
Ciao,
-S
no problem, this will be fixed with dependencies (remeber early iis versions required IE?WTF!).
Cheers,
-S
Thank you!
... let alone asian and arabic languages (for obious reasons to us westerners).
I do speak 4 languages, english ist not my mother tongue. I find it often annoying that (especially) those nations with very few incencitive to learn a foreign language are rude towards foreign sounding people.
However, I have to disagree with you about the difficulties about learning english, you might never have tried to learn german or french
Cheers,
-S
PS: It's really the editors job to rectify the most obvious errors, why are they needed otherwise ?
Dear AC,
Someone using the same pc might be tracked by ip.
I work at 3 different places, all large networks, all behind NAT gateways. My homeip is constantly changing. iblock cookies of advertisers and google.
Cheers,
-S
correct. that's the reason I use google to search for keywords (as mentioned).
-S
"Maybe I'm naive, but I routinely choose not to search a site with google (if there is an option)."
...]
I do it the other way 'round. whenever i want to search a site by keywords I go to google and enter:
site:. [[[keyword] keyword]
As long as searching for keywords, most sites' searches suck big hairy monkeballs[TM]! why not use what works well ?
If you have privacy concerns you are free to create as many firefox profiles as you wish. I use one for gmail (better yet imaps), one for googlepages and one for my daily browsing (with all google cookies blocked). I am blocking google cookies because they started to customize my results in a way that i got different results on every computer i am using (that's annoying).
Cheers,
-S
"Because businesses, especially large ones where all the people are, are really cautious to adopt new technologies."
may i rephraze this for you:
"Because businesses, especially large ones where all the people are, were really stupid to adopt new properitary IE6 technologies."
I, also, do work for a large company. And we are still on IE6 because rewriting all internal intranet applications will take another 2-3 years (let alone costs).
Cheers,
-S
well, you could run php as isapi module on iis. I have tried it, i haven't done some performance testing. The problem with isapi is, that you have one configuration (php configuration) per server, no mixing of php4/5 per virtual host.
This makes it a no brainer for anyting but playing with it. After finding this out we tested with fastcgi, it's nice but iis is still extremely complicated to handle and and the os is soo hungry (1gb ram for an intranet server and w2k3 is barely usable on the shell).
finally i convinced them to switch to linux/apache. it was a little work (mostly paths).
What I am trying to say is, it doesn't matter if php is as fast on iis/windows server as on *nix/apache. the os alone is eating up so many resources while doing nothing.
Cheers,
-S
ME to XP was a different story (IMHO) compared to what's going on now. ME was 95 based and XP was based on Windows NT (built on a solid multitasking kernel). NT evolved into W2K which was - from my experience - the most solid platform microsoft has delivered, ever.
W2K delivered an advanced windows 95 look and feel, greatly enhanced stability (compared to all other windows versions) and it made multimedia available on the NT platform (game, video, audio devices working pretty well). However, it (somewhat) combined 2 worlds of windows, the w95 line and the nt line. Somehow, developers were not to eager to jump on the platform or had a lot of work (=needed time) to port their software. W2K was fine but was also adopted slowly.
Then XP came along. XP (NT 5.1) wasn't really news, but a polished W2K (NT 5). W2K drivers were compatible with XP, there was quiet some hardware out there already which supported the 1.5-2 years old W2K. OEM's and consumers had a lot of choice. ME users had no choice but upgrading to XP. ME was seen by many users as worst windows release ever. With my limited experience with ME I would agree.
XP adoption was high and quick, because there was no alternative for the W9X line users. And sooner or later, W2K users were forced to switch because of new hard and software not supported on W2K anymore (like me on my game computer).
Now back to the current and the future windows 7. Vista was a radical move. A new kernel, a new driver model and a lot of bling bling (3d card recommended just to be able to see your file browser). This radical move left vista's adoption rate down in the basement. It doesn't matter, those which have paid attention were expecting this. It is going to take another release (and some artificial incompatibilities of xp with new hardware) to make the world switch. Despite the skepticism here, I believe Windows 7 will be the next big money cow of microsoft.
The university hospital I work for, is mainly a windows/novell shop. With some *NIX for mission critical systems I am working with (like TRU64 for the oracle server cluster for example). Despite the fact the management is swallowing quiet a lot of MS cool-aid, they have seen no need to go Vista but waiting for Vista to stabilize and being replaced by a minor revision. FWIW this seems to be pretty standard behavior in European companies (i am not talking about the 1 man shows here).
Microsoft would be stupid to integrate radically new features (like WinFS) in W7, the next gen. windows seems to be expected to quiet stable (or it won't fly). I guess W7 will actually be W6.1 - but that's just speculation.
Therefore, I would conclude, that the change from Vista to W7 is more like W2K to XP that ME to XP.
Cheers,
-S
PS: to all grammar nazis: my swissgerman, french and german are probably better than your english!
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this is really great. I am no big fan of microsoft, but credit where credit is due. A game that lets me explore a world which otherwise only very few people can experience in real life, that's awsome.
... oh never mind.
kudos.
-S
PS: on an afterthought this might suck as much as Flight Simulator X