Easily done. Families with 31337 kidz. You dual boot because your kid destroys whatever OS they are sitting with, even with a limited account.
personally I am a VMWare user, there is a free version on their website that rocks and then I dont have to dual boot, I also get the advantage of freezing states and testing any software I want with no repurcussions.
Physical abuse, mental abuse, I would say that mental punches happen all the time in the workplace, along with bullying and professional burial. Sure we dont get bruises from it but people lose their jobs, lose their reputations, or get demoted because some "office bully" decided to step on you because they had a bad day or were threatened by you.
I was punched several times in high school, middle school, and grade school. Had I known how strong I was at the time I probably could have kicked their asses but as it turned out my religious upbringing taught me to deal with it. Just as I have to deal with it now when co-workers are threatened by me. Or fellow workers have to deal with managers trying to force them out of the workplace. You deal with it. If you cannot correlate mental punches with physical punches you have issues. If you have never been under the foot of someone, consider yourself lucky.
"If you don't like the way something is, then change it!"
Of course you can say that, you can also wish upon a star and sing with Mr Cricket. But it isnt going to do you much good. If you are looking to change something especially as an underling int he business world you are just going to bury yourself professionally. That is life.
I love your response but the problem is relativity. I discovered this in my life by watching 3rd world countries achieve greater happiness with less. Everyone wants to be the top of the food chain, do better than their parents, or gain more power. Want examples? Check out any great book or movie, most of them involve a nobody becoming something great.
But this is all relative to your surroundings. People arent just happy being submissive, they think becoming "greater than thou" will get them there. Until there is a major paradigm shift in humanity we will not see the simple lifestyle you speak of.
I can think of one man and one God who tried to teach us this Muhammed and Christ, but we chose to use them instead to gain power, money, and beat others into submission to the point we laugh at the institutions that tried to fix the human condition.
I would like to state that this is your lowest bid tax dollars at work again. State and Federal agencies arent worried about Professionalism or getting things done right. They are worried about having the right paperwork and that you dont step on anyone's toes. Just once I would like to see a professional well functioning department in a Gov't agency. BTW I work for a gov't agency.
Ya but you know as well as I do, there is some lonely slashdotter out there reading though your post testing your theory on their scanner. There will be a Blog about it posted shortly on slashdot. Didnt you read the article on the guy who figured out how to scan LPs and read them?
Excellent point, but that would require the user caring what the file is. whether it has a.exe,.com,.bat, or.jpg on the end doesnt matter. Someone sent it to them and it MUST be ok dammit!;)
Actually after you work in tech support for a while you preface pretty much anything where you are asking a user to type in a non-case sensitive string with "in all lower case" Because if you dont, most of the time before you can say mail.server.net they ask, "Upper or lower case?". Better to just pre-empt the process. Or at least this has been the case at most jobs I have worked.
Dont know how you got insightful there but I had to refute what you said.
1. There is rarely a need to see the extension on a file, if the OS doesnt recognize it then feel free to poke around.
2. Yes there are arrogant IT, I may be one of them, but this problem in particular looks to me like some arrogant user saw something that didnt look normal, rather than investigating, they bring out the 10lb sledge and make the peg fit. In turn causing (IT in most cases) hours, and the company hundreds and thousands of dollars because mr. tinker thought he knew better and didnt need the user manual.
ahhh format wars, you must be too young to remember beta or developing alzheimers.
Sony would lead you to believe that you are buying the disc not the movie. the movie just happens to be a perk as long as you are spinning the disc in your drive. I am not sure if we will see too much from HD-DVD and Blue-Ray other than storage media, but that is a different conversation for a different./ article.
Sorry I didnt reply earlier. I am not aware of how they set up the RAID in the article. But I am not a big fan of striping, too much data loss unless you can afford the mirror. In the case of the mirror then you had better be preparing for some serious disk IO from a SQL cluster or heavily used Exchange box because you are putting a pretty penny into storage...Thanks for the article though, good review for me.
Because 35mm, AAA, and D cell are standards. However I think you would be hard pressed to get Dell's specs on their batteries, a lawsuit would probably follow rather quickly if IBM started using them, could be wrong though.
But I think you are correct, the xbox analogy works better. But you can take iTunes music and put it on a CD and convert it to MP3 all with iTunes, you wouldnt even have to buy a convertor. Of course you would still look like an ass because you could have saved.20USD by going to wallmart.com or any other store.
Is apple hurting anyone with this store? No, the players will still work with different formats. Do they have a monopoly in online music? No, check musicmatch.com, wallmart.com or for you pirates there are many P2P networks. Let iTunes put itself out of business or whatever it wants to do. It isnt hurting anyone and I dont support buying from them. However they still make a kick ass player.
And while we are at it we need to make sure that all data is universal to every device, I am pissed that my 35mm camera film is not accepted by my iPod and that AAA batteries are not easily converted to work in my D cell devices. My dell laptop batteries wont work in my Thinkpad, and rant on....
Seriously if people dont like iTunes format then dont buy them...there are plenty of options.
call it crap but the system has been working for me and 3 other businesses I have worked for since I started doing it 10 years ago. To answer your questions though
1. look for personal data? bah copy the drive to a folder called backup, let the user sort out their mess.
2. Hardware? Ever heard of everest?
3. passwords? Not my problem.
4. Outdated software? Should have the disks. I only install what I see a license for. I also give the user the option of saving money and installing the software themselves.
Yes sometimes this takes more than the alloted time I spoke of earlier but the client is still billed for it. Yes I could make more money spending 5 hours finding each and every file infected and how screwed up the registry is, and giving the customer a full report of what was infected. Sometimes I have to do things this way when the customer asks, nuke and rebuild is a recommendation but I also tell them I will more than happily take their money, time is time to me. The difference? I give the customer the option and just as with my own PC I recomemend a rebuild if it is a severe enough virus.
Maybe I am wrong, but I can tell you this, I have so much business in my private consulting that I have to turn people down. I do business by referral only by they way.
As funny as I found your comment, I gotta admit, even with apple's miniscule market share, I see a suprisingly small number of Macs in my office. There were a few for a while there because of upgrades to OS X. But all in all, macs are bad for business:)
Next time you need an image just ship it to any slashdotter, heck most of us will udercut them for $250 and give you a "free" copy of Norton Ghost to boot.:)
I have worked in private and public tech support over the years. The Problem with Geek squad is they have gone from the good ol idea of "Lets fix your computer and make some money while we are at it" to "Lets milk these poor ignorant SOBs for all they are worth"
When it comes down to it, a good tech can evaluate in 5-10 mins whether or not you should just rebuild a PC. Don't know about you slashdotters out there, but personally, I see a computer with viruses on it I tell the customer to nuke and rebuild, we can back up any data necessary. Done, out the door in 2 hours looking brand new, and a bonus of not having to deal with all the OEM "enhanced software" I often tell customers that their computer will most likely run better than when they purchased it. In fact I bet if I ran the numbers on these customers I would have about a 95% non-return rate. THis is because when a PC has been rebuilt by my outfit or any knowlegable geek, we have the standard AVG, antispyware, and our fav Mozilla flavored browser on it renamed "Internet".
Many of these Geek Squad outfits have techs who run an AV and malware check once through while working on 5 other PCs. When the AV turns up negative they shut the PC down and send her back "clean" not noticing the damage that was done or that their browser wont fire up let alone that word will work. Oh and they charged a nice standard fee for that scan they could have done at home.
I guess it breaks down to a lack of pride in workmanship.
Because 2 10K Raptors in Raid 0 isnt worth the speed increase. Last time I checked you may get a 20% increase, and reduced data integrity. I did some research into this a while ago, check out this article, very informative
At my home I use tiered storage of a type. I have a 10K sata drive for my main OS and for all video files being worked on. (And of course my battlefield and Oblivion home folders). I also have a couple standard 7200RPM sata drives and 1 IDE drive for mass storage. I also have a shared folder for PCs that connect to my network on a separate server.
Given I am an IT professional who can manage all this. I think that we will definately see the average home user get into tiered storage. Think about digital pictures that need backed up and games that dont. Eventually digital movies that need a decent amount of throughput and a music server and a secure drive for personal documents.
Life is changing to the digital a bit more evey day. And just as we have cardboard boxes in our attic holding the things we dont use, file cabinets in our office alphabetized, firesafes for important documents, and Safe Deposit boxes for wills. The average home user will need to know and use the digital equivalents.
Id like to see what the chances of glasses and contacts causing catestrophic problems are vs laser surgery. Cant count how many times my contacts scratched my eyes, or had a lense shatter. Also I could be considered one of the "failures" as I have to go in for an "enhancement". My enhancements are guaranteed free if they are necessary. But right now I have 20/15 vision and the reason I am going for an enhancement is due to the astigmatism at night.
This alleged 10% failure rate I am guessing is sensationalists, based largely on a population of bargain hunters who dont research the person pointing a laser at their eye. Also "failure" has a very broad meaning, could be something less than 20/20, or astigmatism left over, or a variety of other outcomes much better than being totally dependent on glasses. While doing research into the catestrophic outcomes I found them to be very very rare, and were extrordinary circumstances, but the media loves to blow those out of proportion. Makes for good news and therefore good money.
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personally I am a VMWare user, there is a free version on their website that rocks and then I dont have to dual boot, I also get the advantage of freezing states and testing any software I want with no repurcussions.
America was found to have the highest number of zombies and bots per capita....
I was punched several times in high school, middle school, and grade school. Had I known how strong I was at the time I probably could have kicked their asses but as it turned out my religious upbringing taught me to deal with it. Just as I have to deal with it now when co-workers are threatened by me. Or fellow workers have to deal with managers trying to force them out of the workplace. You deal with it. If you cannot correlate mental punches with physical punches you have issues. If you have never been under the foot of someone, consider yourself lucky.
Of course you can say that, you can also wish upon a star and sing with Mr Cricket. But it isnt going to do you much good. If you are looking to change something especially as an underling int he business world you are just going to bury yourself professionally. That is life.
Havent read much Nietzsche, but what is this overman idea?
But this is all relative to your surroundings. People arent just happy being submissive, they think becoming "greater than thou" will get them there. Until there is a major paradigm shift in humanity we will not see the simple lifestyle you speak of.
I can think of one man and one God who tried to teach us this Muhammed and Christ, but we chose to use them instead to gain power, money, and beat others into submission to the point we laugh at the institutions that tried to fix the human condition.
I would like to state that this is your lowest bid tax dollars at work again. State and Federal agencies arent worried about Professionalism or getting things done right. They are worried about having the right paperwork and that you dont step on anyone's toes. Just once I would like to see a professional well functioning department in a Gov't agency. BTW I work for a gov't agency.
Ya but you know as well as I do, there is some lonely slashdotter out there reading though your post testing your theory on their scanner. There will be a Blog about it posted shortly on slashdot. Didnt you read the article on the guy who figured out how to scan LPs and read them?
Excellent point, but that would require the user caring what the file is. whether it has a .exe, .com, .bat, or .jpg on the end doesnt matter. Someone sent it to them and it MUST be ok dammit! ;)
Actually after you work in tech support for a while you preface pretty much anything where you are asking a user to type in a non-case sensitive string with "in all lower case" Because if you dont, most of the time before you can say mail.server.net they ask, "Upper or lower case?". Better to just pre-empt the process. Or at least this has been the case at most jobs I have worked.
1. There is rarely a need to see the extension on a file, if the OS doesnt recognize it then feel free to poke around.
2. Yes there are arrogant IT, I may be one of them, but this problem in particular looks to me like some arrogant user saw something that didnt look normal, rather than investigating, they bring out the 10lb sledge and make the peg fit. In turn causing (IT in most cases) hours, and the company hundreds and thousands of dollars because mr. tinker thought he knew better and didnt need the user manual.
Sony would lead you to believe that you are buying the disc not the movie. the movie just happens to be a perk as long as you are spinning the disc in your drive. I am not sure if we will see too much from HD-DVD and Blue-Ray other than storage media, but that is a different conversation for a different ./ article.
Sorry I didnt reply earlier. I am not aware of how they set up the RAID in the article. But I am not a big fan of striping, too much data loss unless you can afford the mirror. In the case of the mirror then you had better be preparing for some serious disk IO from a SQL cluster or heavily used Exchange box because you are putting a pretty penny into storage...Thanks for the article though, good review for me.
But I think you are correct, the xbox analogy works better. But you can take iTunes music and put it on a CD and convert it to MP3 all with iTunes, you wouldnt even have to buy a convertor. Of course you would still look like an ass because you could have saved .20USD by going to wallmart.com or any other store.
Is apple hurting anyone with this store? No, the players will still work with different formats. Do they have a monopoly in online music? No, check musicmatch.com, wallmart.com or for you pirates there are many P2P networks. Let iTunes put itself out of business or whatever it wants to do. It isnt hurting anyone and I dont support buying from them. However they still make a kick ass player.
Which is why I went on to say what I did about Dell's batteries.
Seriously if people dont like iTunes format then dont buy them...there are plenty of options.
Sorry, you misunderstood. As a computer tech, macs are bad for business. Network and business model wise, I have no issue!
1. look for personal data? bah copy the drive to a folder called backup, let the user sort out their mess.
2. Hardware? Ever heard of everest? 3. passwords? Not my problem.
4. Outdated software? Should have the disks. I only install what I see a license for. I also give the user the option of saving money and installing the software themselves.
Yes sometimes this takes more than the alloted time I spoke of earlier but the client is still billed for it. Yes I could make more money spending 5 hours finding each and every file infected and how screwed up the registry is, and giving the customer a full report of what was infected. Sometimes I have to do things this way when the customer asks, nuke and rebuild is a recommendation but I also tell them I will more than happily take their money, time is time to me. The difference? I give the customer the option and just as with my own PC I recomemend a rebuild if it is a severe enough virus. Maybe I am wrong, but I can tell you this, I have so much business in my private consulting that I have to turn people down. I do business by referral only by they way.
As funny as I found your comment, I gotta admit, even with apple's miniscule market share, I see a suprisingly small number of Macs in my office. There were a few for a while there because of upgrades to OS X. But all in all, macs are bad for business :)
Next time you need an image just ship it to any slashdotter, heck most of us will udercut them for $250 and give you a "free" copy of Norton Ghost to boot. :)
When it comes down to it, a good tech can evaluate in 5-10 mins whether or not you should just rebuild a PC. Don't know about you slashdotters out there, but personally, I see a computer with viruses on it I tell the customer to nuke and rebuild, we can back up any data necessary. Done, out the door in 2 hours looking brand new, and a bonus of not having to deal with all the OEM "enhanced software" I often tell customers that their computer will most likely run better than when they purchased it. In fact I bet if I ran the numbers on these customers I would have about a 95% non-return rate. THis is because when a PC has been rebuilt by my outfit or any knowlegable geek, we have the standard AVG, antispyware, and our fav Mozilla flavored browser on it renamed "Internet".
Many of these Geek Squad outfits have techs who run an AV and malware check once through while working on 5 other PCs. When the AV turns up negative they shut the PC down and send her back "clean" not noticing the damage that was done or that their browser wont fire up let alone that word will work. Oh and they charged a nice standard fee for that scan they could have done at home.
I guess it breaks down to a lack of pride in workmanship.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2101
Given I am an IT professional who can manage all this. I think that we will definately see the average home user get into tiered storage. Think about digital pictures that need backed up and games that dont. Eventually digital movies that need a decent amount of throughput and a music server and a secure drive for personal documents.
Life is changing to the digital a bit more evey day. And just as we have cardboard boxes in our attic holding the things we dont use, file cabinets in our office alphabetized, firesafes for important documents, and Safe Deposit boxes for wills. The average home user will need to know and use the digital equivalents.
This alleged 10% failure rate I am guessing is sensationalists, based largely on a population of bargain hunters who dont research the person pointing a laser at their eye. Also "failure" has a very broad meaning, could be something less than 20/20, or astigmatism left over, or a variety of other outcomes much better than being totally dependent on glasses. While doing research into the catestrophic outcomes I found them to be very very rare, and were extrordinary circumstances, but the media loves to blow those out of proportion. Makes for good news and therefore good money.
cant believe you got flamebait for that, i thought it was funny as hell :)