That is fine for you, but try teaching this to a PHB...
I was able to teach this to my PHB. His office has a 42-inch LCD TV as one monitor, a 20-inch wide screen Dell monitor, and the laptop screen. He has no problem now switching between the three, and he even has a nice printed set of instructions to look at in case he runs into problems.
8.75%? That's heaven compared to the parts of Illinois I grew up in. Chicago and many of it's suburbs have sales tax of at least 10%. Now, its over 10% on restaurants and hotels and I think it is close to 12% on other sales.
Why does the juggernaut Seagate have to go after this particular manufacturer?
Seagate probably looked at the market and just randomly picked one to go after. Or they looked for the one they thought was the weakest and would cave into demands for a licensing agreement.
The Seagate lawyers probably didn't do their due diligence when researching which company to go after first.
The long-winded and wordy way, combined with being released on the Internet, will go a long way towards keeping Monster from doing this again. The next company they threaten to sue will likely turn up this letter in a simple Google search, providing that company's legal counsel with a bucket full of ammo.
I would say Monster's days of running around suing competitors will be drawing to a close soon.
Yeah...but can Grandma understand how to install all that crapware that Grandma likes when you try to explain Synaptic to her? Or will she understand that her old greeting card software and favorite card game will not work?
You can love your job but not love the company you work for. After all, there is a difference between going home and spending the night reading a Cisco/Microsoft/Linux book and spending the light on your laptop logged into your company VPN.
I agree that spending every Saturday and Sunday in an airport or on a plane is unacceptable. But what I pointed out is just as valid too...you can't always move. In your post, you mention that people who do the whole M-F on client site thing don't have a family they actually care about.
That's the same reason why some people can't..or won't...relocate. Family can extend beyond the immediate family, and there are people who won't move to a strange city without family for support or while the kids are in school.
Don't get me wrong....I'm not complaining about the number of jobs in my area. I'm just stating that relocating isn't always an option for someone with a family either.
That depends on where you live as well. Some areas have more IT jobs than others, or at least more good IT jobs than others, and you can't always pull up roots and relocate.
It wouldn't avoid telecom competition, and it could increase it because the local telecom won't be able to squeeze competitor's bandwidth to reduce their quality of service.
They may not need to license versions of each operating system. Microsoft owns an application virtualization software called SoftGrid. If they include this by default in the operation system and the base system libraries that are needed to run XP, 2000 or 9x apps, they can actually provide a compatibility layer that works as advertised.
Network Access (ie landline phone and internet) should be a public commodity. Or at least the network should be municipal owned with phone and ISP leasing space on the system. It would avoid a lot of the problems we have now with telecom competition.
Microsoft's primary customer is the corporation, not the home user. And they have given corporations what they want - an integrated environment.
Businesses don't want Vista. That is why they are already talking about the next version of Linux.
As for DRM, that isn't entirely Microsoft's call. If they want to enable their systems to be compatible with the new HD media, they have to implement it as part of the licensing agreement.
unfortunately that's a problem too - Microsoft still leads in the server space too (though not by nearly as much as the desktop).
True, but Microsoft has used their lead in the desktop space to gain a lead in the server OS space. Its also one of the few spaces where they seem to listen to their customers and actually try to mimic Linux and Unix in an effort to improve their product. Just look at what was included by default in Server 2008 - an actual command shell, the option to install without a GUI, and a much more modular IIS that supports scripting more easily.
Ever seen the cost of crappy old Biztalk server? even crappier Sharepoint? (especially as you also need Office Pro to get Infopath that makes it halfway worthwhile). Application Server? Exchange! It'd make your wallet cry to just look at the numbers that businesses regularly pay!.
Well, when you're a business, that cost isn't always an issue. Yeah, it looks daunting from the standpoint of a consumer, but if you work for a company that has a couple million or billion in revenue and shareholders who expect capital investment, its easy to justify.
Some of Microsoft's server products don't seem to have much of a point. I'm still not sure exactly what Biztalk does. But not all of them are bad. Sharepoint is alright, and I don't exactly think its a crappy product (I've only used Sharepoint services, and it does the job) and the Active Directory/Exchange combo is one of the few things they've done fairly well.
Microsoft doesn't need respect and marketshare. In the desktop space, they still lead. Supporting Linux would only help diminish that lead in Microsoft's key markets.
Microsoft's competition against Linux is mainly in the server space. Linux as a server OS is especially attractive for web-applications, middle-ware, and databases. Corporations like Linux because a single good Linux admin and no licensing fees is a cost savings over a couple of Windows Admins(especially for business critical apps). It is also where the threat of patent litigation will cause legal departments to block new implementations of Linux.
Microsoft won't change their patent policy, regardless of who is at the helm of their open source division. That policy is set at the top and won't change until Ballmer and Gates are gone for good.
OK, you can login to 10000 PCs and use your GUI and do each it turn. A Linux admin would write a script, then use a distribution command to push it out. No extra third party tools are not required like script logic. While you get to PC 50, the xNIX guy is done.
You don't need scriptlogic to write Windows Scripts, although it is helpful. You can write one on your own using Notepad (or your favorite text editor) and the WMI documentation on the MSDN site.
Reliable and uniform -- not the words I would have have used in context of windows administration. The problem with windows administration (and I mostly mean 3rd party server software, but also Microsoft stuff) is that often the GUI is the only sane way to do things -- the cli interface, if it exists, is an afterthought. So automating anything is impossible or hard and debugging problems becomes a game of guesswork.
I wouldn't say that at all. Windows includes several other options besides the default GUI to administer computers in a reliable and uniform way.
Off of the top of my head, I can think of a couple - Windows Management Interface and Group Policy. Both provide methods for applying settings remotely and in a uniform manner. Group Policy goes so far as to allow an administrator to apply different settings to different users or computers depending on which OU or security group they are in.
You can automate quite a bit in Windows, and Microsoft makes all the documentation on how to do it available on the MSDN website.
As a Windows Admin....I call BS. You're right that the GUI is powerful, and you can do a lot with it. But its not the be-all-end-all of system administration like you make it out to be.
Using the ADUC snap-in is a good way to get some things done in AD, but its not always the fastest or most efficient way of doing it, especially if you have to perform an action on a lot of accounts. ADSI Edit or a windows script can do that just as effectively and save you time in the long run.
Same goes for netsh commands and half a dozen other administration tasks. You can do the same thing with a login script that calls WMI functions. The point is...if you're only admin-ing one or two windows boxes, the GUI is probably going to be all you know. You won't need scripting because it will take you longer to write, test, debug and use the script as it would take to go to the machines and make the change in the GUI. You still need to know what is going on behind the scenes when you run the script so you don't end up with an unexpected problem.
But to say that I, as a windows admin, do not have to go into INI files, edit the registry, or write a script means you have never had to do the finer points of Windows Administration.
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I was able to teach this to my PHB. His office has a 42-inch LCD TV as one monitor, a 20-inch wide screen Dell monitor, and the laptop screen. He has no problem now switching between the three, and he even has a nice printed set of instructions to look at in case he runs into problems.
If the company wants you to work from home, they should be giving you a laptop, not forcing you to buy a compatible machine on your own dime.
Frak that! If that is what you believe, then you get the government you deserve.
8.75%? That's heaven compared to the parts of Illinois I grew up in. Chicago and many of it's suburbs have sales tax of at least 10%. Now, its over 10% on restaurants and hotels and I think it is close to 12% on other sales.
Seagate probably looked at the market and just randomly picked one to go after. Or they looked for the one they thought was the weakest and would cave into demands for a licensing agreement.
The Seagate lawyers probably didn't do their due diligence when researching which company to go after first.
If you think about it from a business point of view, he's basically saving his company a lot of legal bills and hassle by not dragging it to trial.
That was a good line, but I liked the insinuation that the licensing agreement was just a tax shelter to avoid paying US Income Tax.
The long-winded and wordy way, combined with being released on the Internet, will go a long way towards keeping Monster from doing this again. The next company they threaten to sue will likely turn up this letter in a simple Google search, providing that company's legal counsel with a bucket full of ammo.
I would say Monster's days of running around suing competitors will be drawing to a close soon.
I think this deserves an "OH SNAP!"
Yeah...but can Grandma understand how to install all that crapware that Grandma likes when you try to explain Synaptic to her? Or will she understand that her old greeting card software and favorite card game will not work?
You can love your job but not love the company you work for. After all, there is a difference between going home and spending the night reading a Cisco/Microsoft/Linux book and spending the light on your laptop logged into your company VPN.
I agree that spending every Saturday and Sunday in an airport or on a plane is unacceptable. But what I pointed out is just as valid too...you can't always move. In your post, you mention that people who do the whole M-F on client site thing don't have a family they actually care about.
That's the same reason why some people can't..or won't...relocate. Family can extend beyond the immediate family, and there are people who won't move to a strange city without family for support or while the kids are in school.
Don't get me wrong....I'm not complaining about the number of jobs in my area. I'm just stating that relocating isn't always an option for someone with a family either.
That depends on where you live as well. Some areas have more IT jobs than others, or at least more good IT jobs than others, and you can't always pull up roots and relocate.
Maybe I mispoke. I think I meant making the cable infrastructure publicly owned, not the service itself.
It wouldn't avoid telecom competition, and it could increase it because the local telecom won't be able to squeeze competitor's bandwidth to reduce their quality of service.
They may not need to license versions of each operating system. Microsoft owns an application virtualization software called SoftGrid. If they include this by default in the operation system and the base system libraries that are needed to run XP, 2000 or 9x apps, they can actually provide a compatibility layer that works as advertised.
Network Access (ie landline phone and internet) should be a public commodity. Or at least the network should be municipal owned with phone and ISP leasing space on the system. It would avoid a lot of the problems we have now with telecom competition.
Microsoft's primary customer is the corporation, not the home user. And they have given corporations what they want - an integrated environment.
Businesses don't want Vista. That is why they are already talking about the next version of Linux.
As for DRM, that isn't entirely Microsoft's call. If they want to enable their systems to be compatible with the new HD media, they have to implement it as part of the licensing agreement.
True, but Microsoft has used their lead in the desktop space to gain a lead in the server OS space. Its also one of the few spaces where they seem to listen to their customers and actually try to mimic Linux and Unix in an effort to improve their product. Just look at what was included by default in Server 2008 - an actual command shell, the option to install without a GUI, and a much more modular IIS that supports scripting more easily.
Ever seen the cost of crappy old Biztalk server? even crappier Sharepoint? (especially as you also need Office Pro to get Infopath that makes it halfway worthwhile). Application Server? Exchange! It'd make your wallet cry to just look at the numbers that businesses regularly pay!.Well, when you're a business, that cost isn't always an issue. Yeah, it looks daunting from the standpoint of a consumer, but if you work for a company that has a couple million or billion in revenue and shareholders who expect capital investment, its easy to justify.
Some of Microsoft's server products don't seem to have much of a point. I'm still not sure exactly what Biztalk does. But not all of them are bad. Sharepoint is alright, and I don't exactly think its a crappy product (I've only used Sharepoint services, and it does the job) and the Active Directory/Exchange combo is one of the few things they've done fairly well.
Microsoft doesn't need respect and marketshare. In the desktop space, they still lead. Supporting Linux would only help diminish that lead in Microsoft's key markets.
Microsoft's competition against Linux is mainly in the server space. Linux as a server OS is especially attractive for web-applications, middle-ware, and databases. Corporations like Linux because a single good Linux admin and no licensing fees is a cost savings over a couple of Windows Admins(especially for business critical apps). It is also where the threat of patent litigation will cause legal departments to block new implementations of Linux.
Microsoft won't change their patent policy, regardless of who is at the helm of their open source division. That policy is set at the top and won't change until Ballmer and Gates are gone for good.
A firewall or router configured to block external ICMP could have the same effect.
You don't need scriptlogic to write Windows Scripts, although it is helpful. You can write one on your own using Notepad (or your favorite text editor) and the WMI documentation on the MSDN site.
Reliable and uniform -- not the words I would have have used in context of windows administration. The problem with windows administration (and I mostly mean 3rd party server software, but also Microsoft stuff) is that often the GUI is the only sane way to do things -- the cli interface, if it exists, is an afterthought. So automating anything is impossible or hard and debugging problems becomes a game of guesswork.
I wouldn't say that at all. Windows includes several other options besides the default GUI to administer computers in a reliable and uniform way.
Off of the top of my head, I can think of a couple - Windows Management Interface and Group Policy. Both provide methods for applying settings remotely and in a uniform manner. Group Policy goes so far as to allow an administrator to apply different settings to different users or computers depending on which OU or security group they are in.
You can automate quite a bit in Windows, and Microsoft makes all the documentation on how to do it available on the MSDN website.
As a Windows Admin....I call BS. You're right that the GUI is powerful, and you can do a lot with it. But its not the be-all-end-all of system administration like you make it out to be.
Using the ADUC snap-in is a good way to get some things done in AD, but its not always the fastest or most efficient way of doing it, especially if you have to perform an action on a lot of accounts. ADSI Edit or a windows script can do that just as effectively and save you time in the long run.
Same goes for netsh commands and half a dozen other administration tasks. You can do the same thing with a login script that calls WMI functions. The point is...if you're only admin-ing one or two windows boxes, the GUI is probably going to be all you know. You won't need scripting because it will take you longer to write, test, debug and use the script as it would take to go to the machines and make the change in the GUI. You still need to know what is going on behind the scenes when you run the script so you don't end up with an unexpected problem.
But to say that I, as a windows admin, do not have to go into INI files, edit the registry, or write a script means you have never had to do the finer points of Windows Administration.