Comparatively speaking, your average PC and your average Mac aren't that different. Of the features you described, many aren't included on the Macbook, or I can't find any reference to them on the Macbook.
Some of the features you listed are:
Easy removal of Power connector - Not available on the Thinkpad T-series or Dell Latitude E-series as described by Apple marketing materials
Accelerometers to shut the hard drive off - This feature comes standard on the T-Series, and it has been a feature of almost all Thinkpad lines. I had it on my A30 back in 2001. Could not find any mention in marketing materials for either Macbook series
Backlit Keyboards - Available on some models of the Dell Latitude E-series as well, only available on Macbook Pro.
Automatic Screen Dimming at Low Light Levels - Available on the Dell Latitude E-Series
Single-Piece Aluminum Frame construction - everyone advertises some special construction using a lightweight metal
Custom battery arrangement - A wash. Macbook batteries are built into the case and are not user replaceable. I'll take a slightly larger 9-cell for longer battery life if it means dealing with a battery hump because I can replace it without sending it in.
I would have to wager that your working assumption is wrong. If you have interests outside of technology, you would be surprised at the type of people that "get" you. Of my friends, I can only think of two others that work in IT, and one only does it as part of his job. We occasionally talk shop, but its usually other things like sports, barbecue recipes, and whats going on in our lives.
Good listening skills, and asking good questions, play a role in this. I really don't care for sports, but that is what my friends talk about. So I listen and ask questions. And I learn something. My friends don't care about photography and writing, but they listen when I talk about the things that interest me as long as I don't get too long winded about it.
Fossils of adapids are known from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Adapids are one of two groups of Eocene primates with a geographic distribution spanning holarctic continents, the other being the omomyids (Omomyidae)
Fossils of adapids are known from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Adapids are one of two groups of Eocene primates with a geographic distribution spanning holarctic continents, the other being the omomyids (Omomyidae)
I don't get what the big deal is with Hungarian Notation. Why do people consider it a bad thing?
Modern IDEs might reduce the need for it, but not everyone uses an IDE to read or write code.
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It depends on how you use the sites and what you put on your profile. I have a lot of detail on my Facebook profile, but the only people who can see that information are the people on my friends list. My LinkedIn profile, which is geared for a more professional atmosphere, contains parts of my resume and my previous work history because I use it as a professional networking tool.
Facebook has really fine-grained privacy controls that allows you to restrict who in your networks can see your profile, what they can see, and when they can see it. You can even go as far as adding "friends" to limited profile lists that restricts what they can see or blocking them outright.
Really? Policies don't work because you were able to log into the system as yourself and add a folder to your user desktop, which under normal circumstances, is part of your user profile and writeable to the local user.
There is only one group policy object that restricts using the desktop, and that completely breaks the desktop and leaves you with just the taskbar. Outside of that, closest you can come to doing that would be to change the NTFS permissions on the Desktop folder of the user profile.
I've seen, or directly used, laptops used for all three with no noticeable performance decrease from the standard desktop.
I think we're reaching the point where laptops are achieving performance parity with the standard (business) desktop. They aren't quite there when it comes to workstations or gaming rigs, though.
Why can't Microsoft just package the most popular drivers with their OSes anymore?
They do. Its just that Microsoft's release cycles are so long that the disk won't always include drivers for the latest and greatest hardware. For instance, my XP SP2 cd will require me to go out to the Web to get drivers for a Dell Optiplex GX260. A Server 2003 SP1 cd has more drivers, but not all of them. But if I throw in a Server 2008 cd, it has all the drivers I need to use it.
No...the real question is how does Microsoft keep up with all the changes while trying to make sure the drivers don't create problems for the operating system and the user?
I believe you are wrong when you say that Microsoft is doing it out of arrogance. They do try to do it, but technology products change so quickly, especially at the consumer level. And when your core operating system disc is a year old and doesn't contain the latest service pack, it may not have a working driver for your new printer or the upgraded video card you installed.
As for driver signing, you can't have it both ways. I remember a time when people complained about DLL-hell and how drivers would crash the operating system. Microsoft makes a change that requires drivers to be certified before they can be installed, and some of the community complain because they can't easily write drivers. Give them some credit for at least taking some steps and doing some testing.
It's a no-brainer and it doesn't cost the company any money. I can't understand why managers would pride themselves on firing someone in a way that makes it impossible to get unemployment.
But it does cost the company money. They have to pay unemployment insurance, and every time there is a successful claim, the premiums increase. It comes down to their bottom lines - they don't want the increased overhead to effect their bonus checks.
While that may be the case, the former admin might not see it that way. How would you react if you were unfairly fired? Would you give away your time and knowledge for free when you don't have any responsibility to them?
At the same time, virtualization will enable him to learn multiple skills at the same time. Not only will he learn the virtualization platform, but he can run multiple OSes serving multiple apps. He could have Server 2003/Server 2008 Active Directory and Sharepoint running on one machine, Exchange on another, Centos with LedgerSMB on a third, a FreeBSD machine running App X on a fourth, etc with a safety net to roll back to a snapshot if he makes a mistake.
As for quitting, that wouldn't be advisable yet. It would be a red flag to any HR person who is hiring him in the near future, and that may hurt him more than help him. I had trouble getting my resume in to places and I was at my current job for a year and a half.
Um...sharepoint isn't the only Intranet site that has been tweaked for IE. If you're a large enterprise, you've probably got some ERP system that was tweaked extensively to work with IE6.
That's what I did when I was walked out two weeks into my three week notice. I walked down to the office of the guy that was going to be handling my work until a replacement was found, disabled my VPN access and account in front of him and the Security manager, and then left the room as the administrator password was changed.
Even with those measures, I was still the first person blamed when one of the plant networks went down two weeks after I left (and on the first day of my new job of all times) due to a hardware failure (fiber-to-ethernet converter...and had I been allowed to have that last week, I would have been able to a few peopel to fill in for me...turning a two day outage into a five to ten minute outage).
I can't think of any M$ product from inception in '70s that was anything but below sub-par, frought with bugs, hard to use and way overpriced.
No love for Microsoft Flight Simulator?
MicroCrud will disappear from the world o' desktop because they've pissed everybody off on this planet. The sooner they're gone the better.
You think so, don't you? Keep dreaming. Most big corporations aren't ready to drop MS on the desktop yet - although it doesn't look promising based on Vista adoption rates.
Jury selection cuts both ways - while Kamala can drop every juror that has some technical knowledge, the defense can drop anyone who can't program their VCR or turn on a computer.
Do they even know what those "usernames" and "passwords" are for? Did they check any documentation or did they just assume that the list was a list of individual users and passwords that Childs could use to wreck havoc?
After reading the article, it seems like the list consists of Cisco VPN group names and pre-shared keys, not usernames and passwords. To someone who isn't familiar with the technology, it would look like a username and password, and I'm sure they are counting on the technological ignorance of the Judge and the general public to keep up this charade.
It will be interesting when this thing finally goes to trial. The city is probably going to end up eating its words.
These aren't standard passwords for users. They are Cisco VPN Groupnames and Pre-Shared Keys that are used in Stage 1 of VPN authentication. The network admin or engineer should have those documented.
There could have been different groups for different departments or divisions. Its safe to assume that some departments had their own domains or child domains with different VPN or password policies, and with Cisco, you need to have to have a different group for each domain or child domain to Auth against.
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Comparatively speaking, your average PC and your average Mac aren't that different. Of the features you described, many aren't included on the Macbook, or I can't find any reference to them on the Macbook.
Some of the features you listed are:
Easy removal of Power connector - Not available on the Thinkpad T-series or Dell Latitude E-series as described by Apple marketing materials
Accelerometers to shut the hard drive off - This feature comes standard on the T-Series, and it has been a feature of almost all Thinkpad lines. I had it on my A30 back in 2001. Could not find any mention in marketing materials for either Macbook series
Backlit Keyboards - Available on some models of the Dell Latitude E-series as well, only available on Macbook Pro.
Automatic Screen Dimming at Low Light Levels - Available on the Dell Latitude E-Series
Single-Piece Aluminum Frame construction - everyone advertises some special construction using a lightweight metal
Custom battery arrangement - A wash. Macbook batteries are built into the case and are not user replaceable. I'll take a slightly larger 9-cell for longer battery life if it means dealing with a battery hump because I can replace it without sending it in.
I would have to wager that your working assumption is wrong. If you have interests outside of technology, you would be surprised at the type of people that "get" you. Of my friends, I can only think of two others that work in IT, and one only does it as part of his job. We occasionally talk shop, but its usually other things like sports, barbecue recipes, and whats going on in our lives.
Good listening skills, and asking good questions, play a role in this. I really don't care for sports, but that is what my friends talk about. So I listen and ask questions. And I learn something. My friends don't care about photography and writing, but they listen when I talk about the things that interest me as long as I don't get too long winded about it.
What interests you besides technology?
This may seem like a joke, but it is exactly what happened when I left my last job.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapid:
Fossils of adapids are known from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Adapids are one of two groups of Eocene primates with a geographic distribution spanning holarctic continents, the other being the omomyids (Omomyidae)
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapid:
Fossils of adapids are known from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Adapids are one of two groups of Eocene primates with a geographic distribution spanning holarctic continents, the other being the omomyids (Omomyidae)
I don't get what the big deal is with Hungarian Notation. Why do people consider it a bad thing?
Modern IDEs might reduce the need for it, but not everyone uses an IDE to read or write code.
It depends on how you use the sites and what you put on your profile. I have a lot of detail on my Facebook profile, but the only people who can see that information are the people on my friends list. My LinkedIn profile, which is geared for a more professional atmosphere, contains parts of my resume and my previous work history because I use it as a professional networking tool.
Facebook has really fine-grained privacy controls that allows you to restrict who in your networks can see your profile, what they can see, and when they can see it. You can even go as far as adding "friends" to limited profile lists that restricts what they can see or blocking them outright.
Which bug is that? I don't recall hearing about that bug, or the version of Word that supposedly has it.
Really? Policies don't work because you were able to log into the system as yourself and add a folder to your user desktop, which under normal circumstances, is part of your user profile and writeable to the local user.
There is only one group policy object that restricts using the desktop, and that completely breaks the desktop and leaves you with just the taskbar. Outside of that, closest you can come to doing that would be to change the NTFS permissions on the Desktop folder of the user profile.
How do you know we're not on the back of a giant robot?
I've seen, or directly used, laptops used for all three with no noticeable performance decrease from the standard desktop.
I think we're reaching the point where laptops are achieving performance parity with the standard (business) desktop. They aren't quite there when it comes to workstations or gaming rigs, though.
Why can't Microsoft just package the most popular drivers with their OSes anymore?
They do. Its just that Microsoft's release cycles are so long that the disk won't always include drivers for the latest and greatest hardware. For instance, my XP SP2 cd will require me to go out to the Web to get drivers for a Dell Optiplex GX260. A Server 2003 SP1 cd has more drivers, but not all of them. But if I throw in a Server 2008 cd, it has all the drivers I need to use it.
No...the real question is how does Microsoft keep up with all the changes while trying to make sure the drivers don't create problems for the operating system and the user?
I believe you are wrong when you say that Microsoft is doing it out of arrogance. They do try to do it, but technology products change so quickly, especially at the consumer level. And when your core operating system disc is a year old and doesn't contain the latest service pack, it may not have a working driver for your new printer or the upgraded video card you installed.
As for driver signing, you can't have it both ways. I remember a time when people complained about DLL-hell and how drivers would crash the operating system. Microsoft makes a change that requires drivers to be certified before they can be installed, and some of the community complain because they can't easily write drivers. Give them some credit for at least taking some steps and doing some testing.
It's a no-brainer and it doesn't cost the company any money. I can't understand why managers would pride themselves on firing someone in a way that makes it impossible to get unemployment.
But it does cost the company money. They have to pay unemployment insurance, and every time there is a successful claim, the premiums increase. It comes down to their bottom lines - they don't want the increased overhead to effect their bonus checks.
While that may be the case, the former admin might not see it that way. How would you react if you were unfairly fired? Would you give away your time and knowledge for free when you don't have any responsibility to them?
At the same time, virtualization will enable him to learn multiple skills at the same time. Not only will he learn the virtualization platform, but he can run multiple OSes serving multiple apps. He could have Server 2003/Server 2008 Active Directory and Sharepoint running on one machine, Exchange on another, Centos with LedgerSMB on a third, a FreeBSD machine running App X on a fourth, etc with a safety net to roll back to a snapshot if he makes a mistake.
As for quitting, that wouldn't be advisable yet. It would be a red flag to any HR person who is hiring him in the near future, and that may hurt him more than help him. I had trouble getting my resume in to places and I was at my current job for a year and a half.
Um...sharepoint isn't the only Intranet site that has been tweaked for IE. If you're a large enterprise, you've probably got some ERP system that was tweaked extensively to work with IE6.
That's what I did when I was walked out two weeks into my three week notice. I walked down to the office of the guy that was going to be handling my work until a replacement was found, disabled my VPN access and account in front of him and the Security manager, and then left the room as the administrator password was changed.
Even with those measures, I was still the first person blamed when one of the plant networks went down two weeks after I left (and on the first day of my new job of all times) due to a hardware failure (fiber-to-ethernet converter...and had I been allowed to have that last week, I would have been able to a few peopel to fill in for me...turning a two day outage into a five to ten minute outage).
I can't think of any M$ product from inception in '70s that was anything but below sub-par, frought with bugs, hard to use and way overpriced.
No love for Microsoft Flight Simulator?
MicroCrud will disappear from the world o' desktop because they've pissed everybody off on this planet. The sooner they're gone the better.
You think so, don't you? Keep dreaming. Most big corporations aren't ready to drop MS on the desktop yet - although it doesn't look promising based on Vista adoption rates.
Jury selection cuts both ways - while Kamala can drop every juror that has some technical knowledge, the defense can drop anyone who can't program their VCR or turn on a computer.
Do they even know what those "usernames" and "passwords" are for? Did they check any documentation or did they just assume that the list was a list of individual users and passwords that Childs could use to wreck havoc?
After reading the article, it seems like the list consists of Cisco VPN group names and pre-shared keys, not usernames and passwords. To someone who isn't familiar with the technology, it would look like a username and password, and I'm sure they are counting on the technological ignorance of the Judge and the general public to keep up this charade.
It will be interesting when this thing finally goes to trial. The city is probably going to end up eating its words.
These aren't standard passwords for users. They are Cisco VPN Groupnames and Pre-Shared Keys that are used in Stage 1 of VPN authentication. The network admin or engineer should have those documented.
There could have been different groups for different departments or divisions. Its safe to assume that some departments had their own domains or child domains with different VPN or password policies, and with Cisco, you need to have to have a different group for each domain or child domain to Auth against.
And how is that different than what your ISP does on a daily basis?
Dan Kaminski's website has a DNS checker on it.