He represents Microsoft, so you should deal with him as if it were Microsoft. Whether that is friendly or unfriendly is another thing, but he IS Microsoft.
He is payed by and has to report to Microsoft. This is different from the OSS community, where we are all individuals (I am not) who have no responsibility or obligation to the community as such.
About the size of what house? And no, a quarter is not recognised everywhere. An example: http://www.ericstrains.com/n-scale/images/n-scale_size.jpg I have no idea what that coin is, so I do not know what the size of that train is (or it could be an enournously large coin, and the train is normal scale)
You lose your right to privacy in that instance when you commit a crime, such as crank calling 911/999.
No, you don't. I am not saying that they should go unpunished and should not be hunted down. I say that I still respect their privacy regardless of anything. The moment you are willing to give up somebody elses privacy, somebody else is willing to give up yours. That will cause BOTH to loose their privacy.
I see no reason why these calls should be placed on line. I would expect them to respect my privacy, but instead they post in online without my consent. So will we now hear a message like 'this call can be recorded for training purposes, oh and we might also post it on the Intertubes'.
No matter if this is legal or not, it is something that should just be 'not done'. I for sure know then when I see somebody in an emergency, I will think twice before I call and most likely decide my privacy is more worth then the life of some kid.
So obviously they have not thought this through. Please think of the children!
I will go one step further. Do not just ask them, get them involved. Often people do not want any change. The moment you get some people involved, it will become their project, not yours.
They will be the key users who will not only tell you how they like it. They will also be the key people 'selling' it to their cow orkers. That is a value you can not measure. No matter how much the CEO pushes, if people are not involved, it won't be OK and people will complain.
They might complain about the UI, while the real reason is that they were forced to use it. So give some people responsability in the project and let them amaze you. I have done this and after a while these people came to me with ideas on how to improve it.
I have also seen the other side where management just told me to do it in way X and people hate the tool. Not because it is bad, but because it is the tool they MUST use because management tells them to, not a tool they developed themseleves.
Ownership of the UI should be with the users, so get them involved on a serious level, not just with a questionaire.
You could almost say that in Europe people purchase new technology for the sake of technology, while in the US people view technology as mere work tools.
So you are saying that the newn things you implement are useless? One could also say that Europe sees the advantage earlier while Americans stick with what they have for better or for worse.
The CEO and the CFO kind of people who tell you to shove it and fire you when you want to impose restrictions to them, their internet access or their dog.
Ah yes, the defence of every IT department on security is to add more complex passwords.
The result is that at this moment I have for my work 7 different personal logins on about 20 different systems. So with those 20 places (and 7 logins that I can't change) do you think that having a random password, that I must change at different times, on each of these 20 systems is safer?
Well, I know it is not. I will start either writing them down, or I will start using less secure systems, or I will call you each day to say that I have forgotten my password and that you must reset it.
Security is a social problem, don't solve it with a technical solution.
Please can I go? After hours are illegal where I live and will either result in the company paying me twice or me getting days off. If I can do that 4 days, I can stay home on friday, so yes please.
Ideally this would just be a help. In reality people will take the word of the machine each and every time, because people are lazy. Evener heard the expression "Well, I looked it up and the computer tells me it is like that"? That is how most people relate to computers.
So this will not only mean "search person X, because the computer tells us he is a thief". It will mean they keep searching till they find something. Can you think of places they might want to look?
It also means that people will not pay attention anymore and as long as the thing doesn't beep, you can walk out of the store with that huge 100" screen.
It will not only cause false positives, which are extremely annoying and bad for businness. It will also cause false negatives, earning people will still steal. Remember that these are not the people from CSI that are on the screens (Or even Las Vegas), these are real life, day to day people. These are the rent-a-cop that are unfit for walking around.
Give a good example and publish all the health info of your managemenet and see what they think should happen. And also of their editors and journalists. The reason is that we then can decide if we think an article is objective or subjective.
Well as others have pointed out, sudo can be your friend for access to certain commands. However I think here I would have just changed the password and change it back once all was ready. Also I would look at the logfiles and see that all logfiles are untouched and lokk in.bashrc what they had done as well as anything else.
Still the easiest bet would have been to change the password for the timebeing and change it back once all is done. You can do that for both root and for plesk.
When I have a leak in my house, the landlord can enter the house. Also when they think that the water coming out of your house is due to a leak. They enter the house and will do everything that is needed.
It is nice that my landlord leaves a note that they had enterd the house, even though nothing was wrong in the end.
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He represents Microsoft, so you should deal with him as if it were Microsoft. Whether that is friendly or unfriendly is another thing, but he IS Microsoft.
He is payed by and has to report to Microsoft. This is different from the OSS community, where we are all individuals (I am not) who have no responsibility or obligation to the community as such.
About the size of what house? And no, a quarter is not recognised everywhere. An example:
http://www.ericstrains.com/n-scale/images/n-scale_size.jpg
I have no idea what that coin is, so I do not know what the size of that train is (or it could be an enournously large coin, and the train is normal scale)
With http://www.jfklancer.com/hunt/rfk_pt1_files/image004.jpg everybody knows what the size is.
and a pony. I want a pony as well.
Be nice and give him free kool-aid? Sounds to me you want to piss him off, because he comes for the free beer.
No, you don't. I am not saying that they should go unpunished and should not be hunted down. I say that I still respect their privacy regardless of anything. The moment you are willing to give up somebody elses privacy, somebody else is willing to give up yours. That will cause BOTH to loose their privacy.
No, I am not. Privacy must protect both the nice and the asshats alike. I do not see why an asshat would loose his privacy.
The one-click install does exacly the same as via YaST and uses the same tools.
I see no reason why these calls should be placed on line. I would expect them to respect my privacy, but instead they post in online without my consent. So will we now hear a message like 'this call can be recorded for training purposes, oh and we might also post it on the Intertubes'.
No matter if this is legal or not, it is something that should just be 'not done'. I for sure know then when I see somebody in an emergency, I will think twice before I call and most likely decide my privacy is more worth then the life of some kid.
So obviously they have not thought this through. Please think of the children!
I will go one step further. Do not just ask them, get them involved. Often people do not want any change. The moment you get some people involved, it will become their project, not yours.
They will be the key users who will not only tell you how they like it. They will also be the key people 'selling' it to their cow orkers. That is a value you can not measure. No matter how much the CEO pushes, if people are not involved, it won't be OK and people will complain.
They might complain about the UI, while the real reason is that they were forced to use it. So give some people responsability in the project and let them amaze you. I have done this and after a while these people came to me with ideas on how to improve it.
I have also seen the other side where management just told me to do it in way X and people hate the tool. Not because it is bad, but because it is the tool they MUST use because management tells them to, not a tool they developed themseleves.
Ownership of the UI should be with the users, so get them involved on a serious level, not just with a questionaire.
Do the CLI install instead. As for slow, don't run KDE or GNOME.
People with openSUSE 11.0 can just click here to run the one click installer or go to http://news.opensuse.org/2008/07/29/kde-41-released-with-opensuse-packages-and-live-cd/ (or KDE developers)
Yep, same with mine and every other I have seen. And then even empty does not mean empty all the time.
Being put on a mailing list so I can get a bit of freedom?
How much do they pay to put you on that list? Then you know how much your freedom is worth to you.
So you are saying that the newn things you implement are useless?
One could also say that Europe sees the advantage earlier while Americans stick with what they have for better or for worse.
The CEO and the CFO kind of people who tell you to shove it and fire you when you want to impose restrictions to them, their internet access or their dog.
Ah yes, the defence of every IT department on security is to add more complex passwords.
The result is that at this moment I have for my work 7 different personal logins on about 20 different systems. So with those 20 places (and 7 logins that I can't change) do you think that having a random password, that I must change at different times, on each of these 20 systems is safer?
Well, I know it is not. I will start either writing them down, or I will start using less secure systems, or I will call you each day to say that I have forgotten my password and that you must reset it.
Security is a social problem, don't solve it with a technical solution.
Please can I go? After hours are illegal where I live and will either result in the company paying me twice or me getting days off. If I can do that 4 days, I can stay home on friday, so yes please.
It Makes it apparently easier to write things like this: http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/images/garamondmd.png
Try doing that in a word processor. It is possible, but especially the formula will be not easy to do.
I could imagine a plugin for e.g. OOo that would handle these parts. e.g. a pop-up that will insert the LaTeX part.
Just thinking out loud here.
Ideally this would just be a help. In reality people will take the word of the machine each and every time, because people are lazy. Evener heard the expression "Well, I looked it up and the computer tells me it is like that"? That is how most people relate to computers.
So this will not only mean "search person X, because the computer tells us he is a thief". It will mean they keep searching till they find something. Can you think of places they might want to look?
It also means that people will not pay attention anymore and as long as the thing doesn't beep, you can walk out of the store with that huge 100" screen.
It will not only cause false positives, which are extremely annoying and bad for businness. It will also cause false negatives, earning people will still steal. Remember that these are not the people from CSI that are on the screens (Or even Las Vegas), these are real life, day to day people. These are the rent-a-cop that are unfit for walking around.
If I would not care enough, I would wait till somebody uploads the DVD.
I will start:
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Too much interest and they are adding capacity.
Nice one.
Give a good example and publish all the health info of your managemenet and see what they think should happen. And also of their editors and journalists. The reason is that we then can decide if we think an article is objective or subjective.
Well as others have pointed out, sudo can be your friend for access to certain commands. However I think here I would have just changed the password and change it back once all was ready. Also I would look at the logfiles and see that all logfiles are untouched and lokk in .bashrc what they had done as well as anything else.
Still the easiest bet would have been to change the password for the timebeing and change it back once all is done. You can do that for both root and for plesk.
When I have a leak in my house, the landlord can enter the house. Also when they think that the water coming out of your house is due to a leak. They enter the house and will do everything that is needed.
It is nice that my landlord leaves a note that they had enterd the house, even though nothing was wrong in the end.