...In fact, the famous Geek Squad usually fixes all Windows problems by re-imaging your box...To really fix windows problems requires a fairly significant amount of skill / knowledge...
Yes, and those that have that knowledge usually charge a price. What would YOU rather do... pay someone knowledgeable for 6-8 hours to remedy the situation or pay them for 2 hours to re-image and update the machine? Even plumbers charge $90 per hour. It's a simple matter of economics.
Once a Linux box is properly setup and running (which I admit may be a bit of a challenge if you have certain bits of "Windows Only" hardware) it is LESS likely to have problems than a Windows box in the first place.
I agree, which is why that's often an option for end users. It can actually be a much less expensive option in the long run.
Yes, and Novell should know better - they've been dicked over my Microsoft before.
On the other hand, there are the Good Things that Novell has done, and does, for GNU/Linux and F/OSS.
Novell, to some extent - yes. SuSE - absolutely - but don't confuse the two.
On the third hand, there is me, and others like me, that I'm sure wonder about the MPD that Novell exhibits. To whit: I understand and agree that Open-solution based entities should be willing and able to work with proprietary companies. But it seems that in this instance Novell is going about that the completely wrong way, with the completely wrong company.
I'm right there with you, but 'Open-solution based entities' need open standards and API's to remain open. Microsoft doesn't give a shit about that... they _only_ care about their bottom line - make no mistake.
It's like there is Novell Darkside, and Novell Lightside, and ne'er the twain shall meet.
It would seem to me to be the difference between Novell and SuSE.
Maybe these are just the actions of a corporation that is so large that the different divisions inside of it are unaware of what others are doing, a la Sony.
Honestly, I see that an merely an excuse. And just as in Sony's case, excuses are bogus.
...how would you suggest I upload over a terabyte of raw image data in a timely fashion to said render farm? And then download it again once completed (not as big of a problem, but still an issue)?...
Oh, it wouldn't be to difficult, as long as you weren't listening to music...
...skipping music is in any way acceptable compared to slight network performance penalties?...
Actually, this is 2007, with stupidly fast processing, memory levels, and network throughput. There's no reason whatsoever that either effect should be showing up when both activities are happening at the same time. And it's not "slight network performance penalties". It's ridiculously harsh network performance penalties.
SyncBack is indeed superb, and the price is excellent. One of it's nicest features, at least as far as I've seen, is that if it does encounter any problems, you'll find your browser window open telling you exactly what didn't happen properly, right down to the file and path.
Yeah, I was curious how that figure came up with myself, then I noticed that he might be right and most of them have a myspace page so flashing and ugly it'll make you want to punch babies. "their content is not available to everyone"? Who the fuck would want it?
...and I'll take Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters up against any song the Who ever did, period.
As seen in the intartubes somewhere: If the Who's "Live at Leeds" album doesn't make you want to go downtown and throw bricks through windows, it's time to join AARP and move to Florida.
Ate his money? The has-been charges $250-300 USD for a seat that's almost a half mile from the stage in a 60,000 seat stadium (ref: Carrier Dome). The saddest part is that people still pay it when they could spend $3 to walk into a club show and see a starving artist, like Elton once was, pouring every ounce of their sweat and their souls into what they play. Once upon a time Elton John was considered, and might actually have been, a brilliant musician. Now he's just a whore.
When I was 7, one of my teachers was being a complete bitch and I _did_ tell him to fuck off. My grandmother, another (English) teacher in the building, got to meet me at the principal's office with my teacher. She asked about the situation, and stated, in no uncertain terms, that I'd used the (sic) appropriate language for the situation and she'd have told my teacher the same thing. Though she said that she'd prefer that language wasn't used in school, it at least had not been for pure folly. The principal agreed. Gotta love us some English teachers:o)
...What, specifically, is the "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security" that he speaks of?...
Exactly. I'm reminded of a post that was made a while back when the USA PATRIOT Act was passed. It went something along the lines of:
Whenever a controversial law is proposed, and its supporters, when confronted with an egregious abuse it would permit, use a phrase along the lines of 'Perhaps in theory, but the law would never be applied in that way' - they're LYING. They intend to use the law that way as early and as often as possible.
That statement's been nothing but true with this godawful "administration".
Should we double-guess what Microsoft tells us in their tech notes, and manually check every single patch?
Absolutely... just as you would with any other vendor patch to a production system.
Tuesday, we get about 8 patches on average, how can any end user co. be expected to test out all these on their production networks?
That's not an end user's job. That's the IT staff's job. End users shouldn't be applying patches. Period. End of story. That's what the IT staff is there for.
...and the sysads can't be bothered to verify what Microsoft ought to know.
Those sysads should be retrained or fired.
...we have a WSUS server which handles all the updates, and that server is set to automatic...
If you allow things like that to happen automatically, you're going to have to deal with the consequences.
...The other problem here in India is that there is no direct support from Microsoft even for Corporates who are willing to pay
Find another vendor then. No one forces Microsoft's products on you.
Really simple 6 step method: 1) on master machine, 'dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt' 2) do a base install on new machine 3) move packages.txt over to new machine 4) 'dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt' on new machine 6) on new machine, 'dselect install' 7) follow prompts
...Seriously though, hockey is a great exhilerating sport to watch live...
I agree. When people have asked, I've always described hockey equivalently to something like pizza - even if it's not the greatest in the world, it's still better than no pizza!
I'd imagine NBC's _godawful_ audio has something to do with that too. One of the biggest media companies on the planet, and their audio guys can't even stop the pumping and breathing from the compressor/limiters. It's pathetic. Boys, that threshold setting is there for a reason! And besides the shitty audio, if a game doesn't finish within regulation, NBC's bound to cut to a rerun of Friends or some shit.
Geez, I am so sick of this "THESE NAMEZ SUX0R!!!!!!!!!!!!" bullshit. Want the obligatory "So those are intuitive" reply? here you go: - Winamp wtf is a winamp? What so I win? - Photoshop You go there to buy photos? - AIM Wasn't that toothpaste?? - Outlook Express er... I have no idea what that means - Internet Explorer The people you're referring to _do not_ call it that. It's referred to as that blue "The Internet" thing, because that's how it's been labeled for umpteen years.
Please, enough with the "naming" concept bullshit, because that's what the argument is... straw-man bullshit.
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Yes, and those that have that knowledge usually charge a price. What would YOU rather do... pay someone knowledgeable for 6-8 hours to remedy the situation or pay them for 2 hours to re-image and update the machine? Even plumbers charge $90 per hour.
It's a simple matter of economics.
I agree, which is why that's often an option for end users. It can actually be a much less expensive option in the long run.
Yes, and Novell should know better - they've been dicked over my Microsoft before.
Novell, to some extent - yes. SuSE - absolutely - but don't confuse the two.
I'm right there with you, but 'Open-solution based entities' need open standards and API's to remain open. Microsoft doesn't give a shit about that... they _only_ care about their bottom line - make no mistake.
It would seem to me to be the difference between Novell and SuSE.
Honestly, I see that an merely an excuse. And just as in Sony's case, excuses are bogus.
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Oh, it wouldn't be to difficult, as long as you weren't listening to music...
Apparently not, if you use Microsoft products.
Actually, this is 2007, with stupidly fast processing, memory levels, and network throughput. There's no reason whatsoever that either effect should be showing up when both activities are happening at the same time.
And it's not "slight network performance penalties". It's ridiculously harsh network performance penalties.
No, in other words, Microsoft/**AA tried controlling something they weren't in control of before.
Where do you want to go today, indeed.
SyncBack is indeed superb, and the price is excellent. One of it's nicest features, at least as far as I've seen, is that if it does encounter any problems, you'll find your browser window open telling you exactly what didn't happen properly, right down to the file and path.
Yeah, I was curious how that figure came up with myself, then I noticed that he might be right and most of them have a myspace page so flashing and ugly it'll make you want to punch babies.
"their content is not available to everyone"?
Who the fuck would want it?
Hell, if she'd dressed as a BSD Girl, she'd have gotten real names and numbers!
Even more people using a program that saves to proprietary formats that can't be used by other programs.
Sigh.
As seen in the intartubes somewhere:
If the Who's "Live at Leeds" album doesn't make you want to go downtown and throw bricks through windows, it's time to join AARP and move to Florida.
Ate his money? The has-been charges $250-300 USD for a seat that's almost a half mile from the stage in a 60,000 seat stadium (ref: Carrier Dome). The saddest part is that people still pay it when they could spend $3 to walk into a club show and see a starving artist, like Elton once was, pouring every ounce of their sweat and their souls into what they play.
Once upon a time Elton John was considered, and might actually have been, a brilliant musician. Now he's just a whore.
When I was 7, one of my teachers was being a complete bitch and I _did_ tell him to fuck off. :o)
My grandmother, another (English) teacher in the building, got to meet me at the principal's office with my teacher. She asked about the situation, and stated, in no uncertain terms, that I'd used the (sic) appropriate language for the situation and she'd have told my teacher the same thing. Though she said that she'd prefer that language wasn't used in school, it at least had not been for pure folly. The principal agreed.
Gotta love us some English teachers
Exactly.
I'm reminded of a post that was made a while back when the USA PATRIOT Act was passed. It went something along the lines of:
Whenever a controversial law is proposed, and its supporters, when confronted with an egregious abuse it would permit, use a phrase along the lines of 'Perhaps in theory, but the law would never be applied in that way' - they're LYING. They intend to use the law that way as early and as often as possible.
That statement's been nothing but true with this godawful "administration".
Hopefully things like this.
Absolutely... just as you would with any other vendor patch to a production system.
That's not an end user's job. That's the IT staff's job. End users shouldn't be applying patches. Period. End of story. That's what the IT staff is there for.
Those sysads should be retrained or fired.
If you allow things like that to happen automatically, you're going to have to deal with the consequences.
Find another vendor then. No one forces Microsoft's products on you.
One upside to the death of it is that there'll be one less thing to have to remove when de-crapifying a new OEM pc.
Yes.
Really simple 6 step method:
1) on master machine, 'dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt'
2) do a base install on new machine
3) move packages.txt over to new machine
4) 'dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt' on new machine
6) on new machine, 'dselect install'
7) follow prompts
HTH
I agree. When people have asked, I've always described hockey equivalently to something like pizza - even if it's not the greatest in the world, it's still better than no pizza!
I'd imagine NBC's _godawful_ audio has something to do with that too. One of the biggest media companies on the planet, and their audio guys can't even stop the pumping and breathing from the compressor/limiters. It's pathetic. Boys, that threshold setting is there for a reason!
And besides the shitty audio, if a game doesn't finish within regulation, NBC's bound to cut to a rerun of Friends or some shit.
Yeah, and for a $GRAND, it should pretty much do your laundry for you too.
Geez, I am so sick of this "THESE NAMEZ SUX0R!!!!!!!!!!!!" bullshit. Want the obligatory "So those are intuitive" reply? here you go:
- Winamp
wtf is a winamp? What so I win?
- Photoshop
You go there to buy photos?
- AIM
Wasn't that toothpaste??
- Outlook Express
er... I have no idea what that means
- Internet Explorer
The people you're referring to _do not_ call it that. It's referred to as that blue "The Internet" thing, because that's how it's been labeled for umpteen years.
Please, enough with the "naming" concept bullshit, because that's what the argument is... straw-man bullshit.