of course they don't actually accept responsiblity. No software vendor ever does, at least that I've ever seen. But that isn't the point. They don't have to. No one expects them to. But it is still an out for the manager in question. He can just say "stupid microsoft.... blah, blah, blah."
cool. that's actually good to know. I wasn't certain about the one user thing. I just knew it was limited. Also, I'll be pedantic on myself and say it is actually called "remote administration mode":)
they are "free" (included in Windows Server 2000) if you run in "administrative mode" (only one user can connect to admin the machine) as opposed to the "application server mode" you are talking about.
I agree wholeheartedly. Oracle's docs suck. Their developer site sucks.... this may not be a popular comparison, but Micrsoft's docs are way better. I can't tell you the number of sample java classes I've gotten from Oracle's site/docs which don't COMPILE due to a syntax error, let alone actually WORK.
I didn't know the option existed. So I went and looked and it was on. I just tried to turn it off and really didn't notice the difference, other than it was a little "jumpier" and didn't look as good. I switched back and forth several times. It certainly wasn't any slower or anything, it just didn't look as good. Maybe it's CPU? I have a pretty beefy machine....
I saw it. It's pretty good, but I thought they should have had SOME explanation of why the world was ending. I guess the mysterious thing was ok, but I just wondered if it was something supernatural or something? It seemed like it would have an impact.
It's been awhile, but I got the feeling it was like rapture coming or something....
I know this has been hashed over and over again here, but I've found in my 8 years in this field, zero correlation between programming ability and any piece of paper earned, be it certification, some degree, a CS degree, etc.
I've worked with some horrible programmers who have CS degrees. (I can think of 2 REALLY bad ones). The best 3 programmers I ever worked with had respectively, no degree, and English degree and (GASP!) an "MIS" degree. The hardest working programmers I ever worked with had no degree and a CS degree.
Hell, my degree is in journalism and I spent 5 years as a wire editor, which was great training as a programmer (not that I haven't been programming since I was 13), because absorbing, consolidating, prioritizing, and summarizing vast quantities of data (try 1000s of wire stories a day) is good training.
The most useful thing that has furthered my programming career (and gave me an advantage over some other programmers I know), are my communication skills. The two most useful single classes I took for the career I have today were in High School: Speech and Debate (for logical thinking and communication skills) and Typing I and II (for coding faster).
Don't tell me that.. I just got my son Age of Mythology (by Microsoft). Won't launch as a non-admin.Many of these games I can turn on auditing and figure out what it needs, but this game contains a check and if the user running ain't part of the administrators group, it ain't running. Just for fun I made an account, gave it every permission the administrators group had, but it wasn't actually IN the admin group. No go. Still got the prompt and exit.
Well, I've been doing a project in Toplink with for an Oracle/Java project (recently aquired by oracle). Granted, this is the only tool like this I've used. But I like it pretty well....
wow. I'd tell them to go fsck themselves and go get a warrant. so many people are just willing to bend over it never ceases to amaze me.
I think your attitude will change when you know someone who has been wrongfully targetted, harassed, questioned and then detained by the police for a robbery, even though he had a solid alibi for the time that they never even bothered to follow up on...
I think you're making an incorrect assumption I see lots of people make about software.. it is a commercial product. Most software development is in-house. In my opinion, commercial software (or even widely used freeware/open source software) is usually head and shoulders above what users have to use everyday which was developed in house.
ditto. Personally, my son is hard on disks (recently freaking Microsoft wanted $23.95! to replace his ages of empires 2 cd.. what a stupid policy. All cd's, from a $2000 sql server entrprise cd to this lowly game, have the same replacement media cost. The phone support guy cheerfully admitted this was stupid, and I could probably find the game for less if I looked).
if you, like my wife and I, have abandoned cell phones after the 2 year contract ran out (just can't justify expense), you may be interested that you can STILL call 911 for free. It's the law.
We just charge them up periodically and keep them in the glove box. Don't pay for emergency service. Also, If I try to make a call I get a prompt to "welcome to cingular roaming." I'm assuming I could enter my credit card in a true emergency. I haven't tried it and I have no idea what the rates are...
the downside? Since everyone has cell phones now, pay phones are harder to find. In my local mall, they have banks of five phones in serveral places, but four of the five are disconnected in all of them (I guess to save money?).
Anyway, I don't really miss the phone.
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just fyi, I didn't know 'til recently, google has a specialized Microsoft search engine www.google.com/microsoft. works pretty well. beats searching the kb from MSDN and it indexes non microsoft sites as well.
for messaging, I see lots more people using trillian, if only to consolidate their applications and (mainly) for it's ability to get thru firewalls easily.
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of course they don't actually accept responsiblity. No software vendor ever does, at least that I've ever seen. But that isn't the point. They don't have to. No one expects them to. But it is still an out for the manager in question. He can just say "stupid microsoft.... blah, blah, blah."
Out of curiosity, exactly what criminal law does this violate?
impersonation of an anal orifice.
cool. that's actually good to know. I wasn't certain about the one user thing. I just knew it was limited. Also, I'll be pedantic on myself and say it is actually called "remote administration mode" :)
they are "free" (included in Windows Server 2000) if you run in "administrative mode" (only one user can connect to admin the machine) as opposed to the "application server mode" you are talking about.
I agree wholeheartedly. Oracle's docs suck. Their developer site sucks. ... this may not be a popular comparison, but Micrsoft's docs are way better. I can't tell you the number of sample java classes I've gotten from Oracle's site/docs which don't COMPILE due to a syntax error, let alone actually WORK.
I didn't know the option existed. So I went and looked and it was on. I just tried to turn it off and really didn't notice the difference, other than it was a little "jumpier" and didn't look as good. I switched back and forth several times. It certainly wasn't any slower or anything, it just didn't look as good. Maybe it's CPU? I have a pretty beefy machine....
I saw it. It's pretty good, but I thought they should have had SOME explanation of why the world was ending. I guess the mysterious thing was ok, but I just wondered if it was something supernatural or something? It seemed like it would have an impact.
It's been awhile, but I got the feeling it was like rapture coming or something....
He just wanted to make sure they floated to the top of the alpha-sorted directory list, descending.
.. and just to show off my communication skills, I throw in a nice subject-verb agreement error. Been too long since the copy desk...
I know this has been hashed over and over again here, but I've found in my 8 years in this field, zero correlation between programming ability and any piece of paper earned, be it certification, some degree, a CS degree, etc.
I've worked with some horrible programmers who have CS degrees. (I can think of 2 REALLY bad ones). The best 3 programmers I ever worked with had respectively, no degree, and English degree and (GASP!) an "MIS" degree. The hardest working programmers I ever worked with had no degree and a CS degree.
Hell, my degree is in journalism and I spent 5 years as a wire editor, which was great training as a programmer (not that I haven't been programming since I was 13), because absorbing, consolidating, prioritizing, and summarizing vast quantities of data (try 1000s of wire stories a day) is good training.
The most useful thing that has furthered my programming career (and gave me an advantage over some other programmers I know), are my communication skills. The two most useful single classes I took for the career I have today were in High School: Speech and Debate (for logical thinking and communication skills) and Typing I and II (for coding faster).
Just my two cents.
Don't tell me that.. I just got my son Age of Mythology (by Microsoft). Won't launch as a non-admin.Many of these games I can turn on auditing and figure out what it needs, but this game contains a check and if the user running ain't part of the administrators group, it ain't running. Just for fun I made an account, gave it every permission the administrators group had, but it wasn't actually IN the admin group. No go. Still got the prompt and exit.
Well, I've been doing a project in Toplink with for an Oracle/Java project (recently aquired by oracle). Granted, this is the only tool like this I've used. But I like it pretty well....
ummm, compile time, like any other time, is not free. That's the whole POINT of a TCO study.
what? I'm sorry, I know lots of people proficient in computers. 2 of 21 I thought of offhand use linux.
wow. I'd tell them to go fsck themselves and go get a warrant. so many people are just willing to bend over it never ceases to amaze me.
I think your attitude will change when you know someone who has been wrongfully targetted, harassed, questioned and then detained by the police for a robbery, even though he had a solid alibi for the time that they never even bothered to follow up on...
I think you're making an incorrect assumption I see lots of people make about software.. it is a commercial product. Most software development is in-house. In my opinion, commercial software (or even widely used freeware/open source software) is usually head and shoulders above what users have to use everyday which was developed in house.
Notes... yes, it has all those things, .. and users who are used to outlook unviersally HATE it.
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ditto. Personally, my son is hard on disks (recently freaking Microsoft wanted $23.95! to replace his ages of empires 2 cd.. what a stupid policy. All cd's, from a $2000 sql server entrprise cd to this lowly game, have the same replacement media cost. The phone support guy cheerfully admitted this was stupid, and I could probably find the game for less if I looked).
or how about this...
90% of the code you change for a business rule change, will change back in six months because
a: the users hate it.
or b: the manager was wrong to begin with.
I never EVER delete code. I just comment it out. More than once I have been asked to change something back and I just uncommented the old code.
if you, like my wife and I, have abandoned cell phones after the 2 year contract ran out (just can't justify expense), you may be interested that you can STILL call 911 for free. It's the law.
We just charge them up periodically and keep them in the glove box. Don't pay for emergency service. Also, If I try to make a call I get a prompt to "welcome to cingular roaming." I'm assuming I could enter my credit card in a true emergency. I haven't tried it and I have no idea what the rates are...
the downside? Since everyone has cell phones now, pay phones are harder to find. In my local mall, they have banks of five phones in serveral places, but four of the five are disconnected in all of them (I guess to save money?).
Anyway, I don't really miss the phone.
just fyi, I didn't know 'til recently, google has a specialized Microsoft search engine www.google.com/microsoft. works pretty well. beats searching the kb from MSDN and it indexes non microsoft sites as well.
the best reason to use Outlook/exchange is to send an email to vote where to go to lunch (and view the voting results).
for messaging, I see lots more people using trillian, if only to consolidate their applications and (mainly) for it's ability to get thru firewalls easily.
no shiat. I've had cable for 3 years. I logged on at my sisters house the other day with a modem... I couldn't use it. It was painful.