Well, in my environment, despite half a dozen people working on integrating and testing the many crappy Windows apps every enterprise has to use (including add-ins for Office), Windows doesn't 'Just Work'. There is always random weirdness that requires rebooting or killing all related apps and restarting them. Third-party (non-MS) apps just aren't written by developers that know all the MS technology (COM, CDO, ADO, Win32, etc. etc.) ins and outs the way MS does, and the stability of the system suffers. Add to that the web of interdependencies and spaghetti code that is Windows and nobody can figure out what is causing a problem sometimes. 'Upgrade to the latest version and try that.' is what you'll hear a lot.
Take even a very stable MS app like Exchange and you'll find that they introduce tighter security settings on things like the Service Control Manager and now your non-Admin second-level support personnel can't change smtp addresses on their users' accounts. MS- "Try this sc.exe command. If that doesn't work, try this one." NO SOLUTION AVAILABLE. Contrast this with UNIX modularity and the options of both community and professional support options and you can see the difference immediately. Need that permissions thing reverted? Fine, fix it yourself, find a patch on the net or pay a developer. Done.
Funny that no one has mentioned that Apple themselves, when pressed to the wall about directory authentication no longer working on Mac OS X, will tell you "Mac OS X is a consumer OS. We don't support single sign-on and other enterprise features. Sorry."
There are plenty of university lab administrators out there who got burned when Apple broke some things trying to bring up the login screen faster. Oops, better un-install 10.2.x update. Oh crud, I can't un-install it!
It would be nice if someday, Apple were ready to jump in, but in the mean time, Windows and open source OSes do everything you need now, even if Windows leaves a few things to be desired.../djs/
I created a custom Gentoo install that used a custom GDM 'faces' theme to display icons for each Citrix 'app' (these were really one user account per application with the.xinitrc and.icaclient ini files setting the app/login when the user clicks the icon--no password necessary since they get prompted by Windows to login). This is actually a great way to do it when your unix skills are where mine are (not a guru!) because when the Citrix app closes, bam, the user's back at the GDM login screen. I'm sure one could whip something up in python or tcl/tk, but I don't have time to learn that.
Anyway, Citrix is the way to go because the Linux ICA Client lets you make the local floppy and optical drive or even local USB devices available to the user's session on the server. (For this you'll need to learn a bit about udev to make sure the usb devices are always mounted at a specific mount point that you can configure in the Citrix client.) It really worked like a charm and the user could plug in a flash drive or insert a CD/DVD and voila, it's right there on the Citrix server for them. You can even get the audio to work.
I created a boot CD (two CDs) that would let me install the setup to any PC with a CD drive. Thankfully we are standardized on NVidia video cards, so I didn't even have to worry about autodetection for that.
Before you go to all this work though, make sure they've already deployed some kind of thin client in a pilot that can do everything I've described. If it's missing any of that, the users are gonna hate it./djs/
The permafrost apparently contains a HUGE amount of trapped methane that is being released as it melts. This new finding will have to be studied and added to the global warming models.
Keep in mind that methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2 -- 25 times worse!
Why not just edit the debate into a 'virtual' debate adding the other candidates? Then put the thing up in divx or something on all the p2p networks? What would that take, some talented final-cut types? (There are lots of em out there...right?) So lets see it!
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Well, in my environment, despite half a dozen people working on integrating and testing the many crappy Windows apps every enterprise has to use (including add-ins for Office), Windows doesn't 'Just Work'. There is always random weirdness that requires rebooting or killing all related apps and restarting them. Third-party (non-MS) apps just aren't written by developers that know all the MS technology (COM, CDO, ADO, Win32, etc. etc.) ins and outs the way MS does, and the stability of the system suffers. Add to that the web of interdependencies and spaghetti code that is Windows and nobody can figure out what is causing a problem sometimes. 'Upgrade to the latest version and try that.' is what you'll hear a lot.
/djs/
Take even a very stable MS app like Exchange and you'll find that they introduce tighter security settings on things like the Service Control Manager and now your non-Admin second-level support personnel can't change smtp addresses on their users' accounts. MS- "Try this sc.exe command. If that doesn't work, try this one." NO SOLUTION AVAILABLE. Contrast this with UNIX modularity and the options of both community and professional support options and you can see the difference immediately. Need that permissions thing reverted? Fine, fix it yourself, find a patch on the net or pay a developer. Done.
Funny that no one has mentioned that Apple themselves, when pressed to the wall about directory authentication no longer working on Mac OS X, will tell you "Mac OS X is a consumer OS. We don't support single sign-on and other enterprise features. Sorry."
There are plenty of university lab administrators out there who got burned when Apple broke some things trying to bring up the login screen faster. Oops, better un-install 10.2.x update. Oh crud, I can't un-install it!
It would be nice if someday, Apple were ready to jump in, but in the mean time, Windows and open source OSes do everything you need now, even if Windows leaves a few things to be desired...
I created a custom Gentoo install that used a custom GDM 'faces' theme to display icons for each Citrix 'app' (these were really one user account per application with the .xinitrc and .icaclient ini files setting the app/login when the user clicks the icon--no password necessary since they get prompted by Windows to login). This is actually a great way to do it when your unix skills are where mine are (not a guru!) because when the Citrix app closes, bam, the user's back at the GDM login screen. I'm sure one could whip something up in python or tcl/tk, but I don't have time to learn that.
/djs/
Anyway, Citrix is the way to go because the Linux ICA Client lets you make the local floppy and optical drive or even local USB devices available to the user's session on the server. (For this you'll need to learn a bit about udev to make sure the usb devices are always mounted at a specific mount point that you can configure in the Citrix client.) It really worked like a charm and the user could plug in a flash drive or insert a CD/DVD and voila, it's right there on the Citrix server for them. You can even get the audio to work.
I created a boot CD (two CDs) that would let me install the setup to any PC with a CD drive. Thankfully we are standardized on NVidia video cards, so I didn't even have to worry about autodetection for that.
Before you go to all this work though, make sure they've already deployed some kind of thin client in a pilot that can do everything I've described. If it's missing any of that, the users are gonna hate it.
The permafrost apparently contains a HUGE amount of trapped methane that is being released as it melts. This new finding will have to be studied and added to the global warming models.
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Keep in mind that methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2 -- 25 times worse!
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Why not just edit the debate into a 'virtual' debate adding the other candidates? Then put the thing up in divx or something on all the p2p networks? What would that take, some talented final-cut types? (There are lots of em out there...right?) So lets see it!