With more companies adopting security practices such as web proxies, blocking broad Internet access, removing administrator privileges to user desktops & laptops, browser security receives less of an emphasis that feature functionality. In general, corporate IT staff are not tasked by their management to make sure a user's browser works well with Yahoo! or MSN Groups or even Slashdot. They are tasked to ensure the user's browser works with the myriad of applications that the managers expect the users to use throughout his/her work day.
When faced with internal corporate applications, there are still some that do not work well with Firefox. Through no fault of the browser, the corporate web application could be designed specifically with IE in mind and, hence, doesn't work as well with Firefox. In order for Firefox to obtain a larger marketplace within corporate infrastructures, there needs to be significant uptake by the companies designing internal corporate web applications.
I work in a company that uses Excel to track many aspects of the business. We face a similar problem trying to generate reports from multiple Excel documents. Recently, I've started moving each business owner to an RDBMS solution. Front ending to a web site, users can login to a simple interface to interact with the data. Using web servers, users can use Excel (remember, Excel can use XML streams as a data source) to manipulate data for any custom reports.
There are many choices for a "free database". In addition to the traditional, free, Linux based databases, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM have made free versions of their commercial database. In our case, I choose DB2 Express-C edition. Allowing 2 CPU's, 4GB of RAM, and unlimited data files and data file sizes, it was the best option for our company. I just had to convince the others to abandon Microsoft SQL Server Express.;)
So if you are a noob and don't patch your systems, you get by longer on Linux than Windows. No surprise there. My guess is that there are more Windows oriented viruses/worms circulating the Internet. The take home message is "patch your system". We Slashdotters know better, but does the regular home user?
"R2, which is due later this year, would bring features such as Services for Unix, the WS-Management standard, along with the next generation of the management console, MMC 3.0. "Closing the loop between developers and operational systems still has a long way to go, but delivering MMC 3.0 is the first deliverable in that regard," Muglia said.
"With R2, we'll also deliver the first version of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to make it easier for developers to build federated Web applications. In the Windows Vista timeframe, we will deliver WinFX and the 'InfoCard' user experience," he said.
Next month: Microsoft announces security vulnerability in MMC 3.0.
Not all development teams are created equal. I led a small development team that developed a C#/.NET application to automate Technical Support and QA internal operations. The project was largely successful. We had 1 contact with Microsoft ( due to my team's lack of experience in automating remote Hostname changes). In just 3 days, Microsoft provided us with the code answers we were missing. Our first release was bugfree and, in the first year, the departments experienced an 800% ROI.
That being said,.NET is a framework. I'm sure there are products and implementations that.NET is not suited for. Part of being a professional in this industry is understanding which tools to use for the job at hand.
I know this audience is largely anti-Microsoft. However, all of my service tickets with Microsoft (regarding server support) were resolved quickly. The Product Support Engineers kept me apprised with daily updates. One time, one of the Product Support Engineers took 2 days to get back to me.
In my career, I've experienced poorer support with other software vendors.
Then again, the company I work for is a Microsoft Partner. That could make a difference.
The US is a large country. The "lifestyle of the US" does differ from region to region. To travel to "most places in the US" and get a good appreciation of each would take years. I'm sure Canada is similar.
I moved from 1 state to another and life is very different for me. Turns out I like where I live now, I don't ever want to move back. And if I travel to different parts of my state, life is quite different.
When I look at my street sign, I will see the same thing my neighbor sees. If we look at the same sign and I see Pennsylvania Avenue and my neighbor sees Wilson Drive, that would be a problem. Thus, I do not think your analogy really holds. When 2 people look at a street sign, they shouldn't see completely different street names. In terms of digital data and the Internet, this possibility is greater.
[And btw, in your example of naming roads, there are some local governments that have named 2 roads with the same name. Simply asking someone "what road do you live on?" becomes insufficient. "What road do you live on? Is it north of the tracks or south?" Two roads with the same name and over 3 miles travelled to go from one to the other.]
In terms of root level DNS, I can be relatively sure that my query for "update.microsoft.com" is being directed from my DNS, to the root level DNS, to Microsoft's DNS. If my "root level DNS" was handled by any Joe Admin or Joe Company, I would be less confident that "update.microsoft.com" is being routed to Microsoft's DNS.
In today's world of "autoupdate services" for OS, Anti-Virus, etc, we (as users of these technologies) place a certain level of trust that these services will update from the right service provider.
As companies consolidate, they consolidate data centers and IT staff. I continually find more teams supporting both Windows and UNIX/Linux environments. Unless one can completely dominate the other, we'll continue to see different operating systems used by various corporations.
No one said that the original spec cannot be modified as project time goes on. The ability to identify change and modify the detailed spec, meeting the original goals, makes a good project planner.
Running Virtual PC on Windows 2003? Try the server edition on your server platform. I've been running over ~400 Virtual Servers since March without a problem.
Windows 2003 for the host OS Virtualized OS's include: win98, winnt4, win2000, win2003, xp, linux.
I did have problems getting Solaris 10 to work on both VMWare and MVS. My Solaris installer choked on the hardware detection phase.
I did some contracting work for Big Blue a few months ago, and their deployment teams LOVE VMWare. They used it for all kinds of crazy stuff, and it worked amazingly well. I hadn't used VMWare since a very early beta back in the 90's, and was impressed at how well it has come along since then.
They also use Microsoft Virtual Server. It's nice when you can pass entire test environments to your partners. No more trying to secure VPN lines or moving the environment to a DMZ. I got all the environments I need from a partner, literally overnight. For Development/QA/Support shops, virtualization is a blessing.
Microsoft will do quite well once they start supporting Linux (next year, I think).
I know it's not supported, but Linux does run on Microsoft's Virtual Server platform. I like the features VMWare offers, but Microsoft VS did the job and came in at a lower price.
The "next best PC" will always be in demand. There are plenty of home users who play games. As each gaming company releases "the next generation of video games", the PC requirements increase. I don't see that going away any time soon. As long as gaming companies keep releasing games for the PC, you'll see advances in technology to "make the games better".
In the corporate setting, we went from dumb terminals to "everthing on the PC". Now we're seeing a trend for moderation. Run your enterprise apps via browser, but still have a PC for local applications. By centralizing your corporate applications, you can help reduce the IT overhead drastically. I've seen companies have to update 10,000 desktops and laptops. I've also seen companies do that MANUALLY (the pain!!!).
Instead of asking if AJAX will threaten the need for PC's, ask how AJAX can help balance the requirements of centrally managed apps and locally managed apps.
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With more companies adopting security practices such as web proxies, blocking broad Internet access, removing administrator privileges to user desktops & laptops, browser security receives less of an emphasis that feature functionality. In general, corporate IT staff are not tasked by their management to make sure a user's browser works well with Yahoo! or MSN Groups or even Slashdot. They are tasked to ensure the user's browser works with the myriad of applications that the managers expect the users to use throughout his/her work day.
When faced with internal corporate applications, there are still some that do not work well with Firefox. Through no fault of the browser, the corporate web application could be designed specifically with IE in mind and, hence, doesn't work as well with Firefox. In order for Firefox to obtain a larger marketplace within corporate infrastructures, there needs to be significant uptake by the companies designing internal corporate web applications.
I work in a company that uses Excel to track many aspects of the business. We face a similar problem trying to generate reports from multiple Excel documents. Recently, I've started moving each business owner to an RDBMS solution. Front ending to a web site, users can login to a simple interface to interact with the data. Using web servers, users can use Excel (remember, Excel can use XML streams as a data source) to manipulate data for any custom reports.
;)
There are many choices for a "free database". In addition to the traditional, free, Linux based databases, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM have made free versions of their commercial database. In our case, I choose DB2 Express-C edition. Allowing 2 CPU's, 4GB of RAM, and unlimited data files and data file sizes, it was the best option for our company. I just had to convince the others to abandon Microsoft SQL Server Express.
'In other words, their pictures were being determined not by where there was volume, but where there was silence.'
If only I could sell this theory to my wife.
Use Firefox. The redesign is very readable using Firefox (Font: Arial, 15).
lol. Wish I could mod that post as funny. :p
So if you are a noob and don't patch your systems, you get by longer on Linux than Windows. No surprise there. My guess is that there are more Windows oriented viruses/worms circulating the Internet. The take home message is "patch your system". We Slashdotters know better, but does the regular home user?
"R2, which is due later this year, would bring features such as Services for Unix, the WS-Management standard, along with the next generation of the management console, MMC 3.0. "Closing the loop between developers and operational systems still has a long way to go, but delivering MMC 3.0 is the first deliverable in that regard," Muglia said.
"With R2, we'll also deliver the first version of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to make it easier for developers to build federated Web applications. In the Windows Vista timeframe, we will deliver WinFX and the 'InfoCard' user experience," he said.
Next month: Microsoft announces security vulnerability in MMC 3.0.
Not all development teams are created equal. I led a small development team that developed a C#/.NET application to automate Technical Support and QA internal operations. The project was largely successful. We had 1 contact with Microsoft ( due to my team's lack of experience in automating remote Hostname changes). In just 3 days, Microsoft provided us with the code answers we were missing. Our first release was bugfree and, in the first year, the departments experienced an 800% ROI.
.NET is a framework. I'm sure there are products and implementations that .NET is not suited for. Part of being a professional in this industry is understanding which tools to use for the job at hand.
That being said,
I know this audience is largely anti-Microsoft. However, all of my service tickets with Microsoft (regarding server support) were resolved quickly. The Product Support Engineers kept me apprised with daily updates. One time, one of the Product Support Engineers took 2 days to get back to me.
In my career, I've experienced poorer support with other software vendors.
Then again, the company I work for is a Microsoft Partner. That could make a difference.
The US is a large country. The "lifestyle of the US" does differ from region to region. To travel to "most places in the US" and get a good appreciation of each would take years. I'm sure Canada is similar.
I moved from 1 state to another and life is very different for me. Turns out I like where I live now, I don't ever want to move back. And if I travel to different parts of my state, life is quite different.
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/tera-itx/
Review of GeForce 6800 GS and ATI Radeon X1600 XT
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODgy
Symlinks can also be referred to as softlinks. They can be created across filesystems.
2 12.html
http://www.computing.net/solaris/wwwboard/forum/4
When I look at my street sign, I will see the same thing my neighbor sees. If we look at the same sign and I see Pennsylvania Avenue and my neighbor sees Wilson Drive, that would be a problem. Thus, I do not think your analogy really holds. When 2 people look at a street sign, they shouldn't see completely different street names. In terms of digital data and the Internet, this possibility is greater.
[And btw, in your example of naming roads, there are some local governments that have named 2 roads with the same name. Simply asking someone "what road do you live on?" becomes insufficient. "What road do you live on? Is it north of the tracks or south?" Two roads with the same name and over 3 miles travelled to go from one to the other.]
In terms of root level DNS, I can be relatively sure that my query for "update.microsoft.com" is being directed from my DNS, to the root level DNS, to Microsoft's DNS. If my "root level DNS" was handled by any Joe Admin or Joe Company, I would be less confident that "update.microsoft.com" is being routed to Microsoft's DNS.
In today's world of "autoupdate services" for OS, Anti-Virus, etc, we (as users of these technologies) place a certain level of trust that these services will update from the right service provider.
And, yes, you can accuse me of paranoia.
A decentralized DNS root. Fear!
It's easier to trust 1 authority than to trust hundreds or thousands of authorities.
As companies consolidate, they consolidate data centers and IT staff. I continually find more teams supporting both Windows and UNIX/Linux environments. Unless one can completely dominate the other, we'll continue to see different operating systems used by various corporations.
No one said that the original spec cannot be modified as project time goes on. The ability to identify change and modify the detailed spec, meeting the original goals, makes a good project planner.
That's quite okay. I'd rather FEMA spend resources getting their arses to help the people instead of designing a better web portal.
A material can be harder than diamond, but how brittle is it? What scale did they use?
...
Glass is a hard material (5.5 on the Mohs Scale of Hardness), but if you hit it just right
The Cylons were created by man ...
I got the same problem with Firefox. If I reconfigure Firefox to bypass my proxy server, it works.
Running Virtual PC on Windows 2003? Try the server edition on your server platform. I've been running over ~400 Virtual Servers since March without a problem.
Windows 2003 for the host OS
Virtualized OS's include: win98, winnt4, win2000, win2003, xp, linux.
I did have problems getting Solaris 10 to work on both VMWare and MVS. My Solaris installer choked on the hardware detection phase.
They also use Microsoft Virtual Server. It's nice when you can pass entire test environments to your partners. No more trying to secure VPN lines or moving the environment to a DMZ. I got all the environments I need from a partner, literally overnight. For Development/QA/Support shops, virtualization is a blessing.
I know it's not supported, but Linux does run on Microsoft's Virtual Server platform. I like the features VMWare offers, but Microsoft VS did the job and came in at a lower price.
The "next best PC" will always be in demand. There are plenty of home users who play games. As each gaming company releases "the next generation of video games", the PC requirements increase. I don't see that going away any time soon. As long as gaming companies keep releasing games for the PC, you'll see advances in technology to "make the games better".
In the corporate setting, we went from dumb terminals to "everthing on the PC". Now we're seeing a trend for moderation. Run your enterprise apps via browser, but still have a PC for local applications. By centralizing your corporate applications, you can help reduce the IT overhead drastically. I've seen companies have to update 10,000 desktops and laptops. I've also seen companies do that MANUALLY (the pain!!!).
Instead of asking if AJAX will threaten the need for PC's, ask how AJAX can help balance the requirements of centrally managed apps and locally managed apps.