no, its not a good deal. There are tons of xppro backup disks lying around. Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale has boxes of them- hundreds and they sell them for $20. Remember, XP loads on Dells without having to go through any kind of registration process. Just don't order a Dell with anything but linux on it. You can always duplicate the linux for free.
That is one scenario, although counterfeit is still counterfeit. For you to make a distinction between the two really is two faced and does a disservice to our country, cisco and any other manufacturer suffering heavy losses, except the counterfeiters. When anyone is lulled to sleep by such intellectually dishonest ideological remarks as yours: "oh it may be counterfeit but it probably came off the same assembly line with the same components" it is very destructive to hundreds of businesses. The more honest and more empirical explanation is that the counterfeit manufacturer, whatever the identity, buys cheaper, lesser quality components, or even used components that failed quality control tests instituted by a cisco and those went out the door. Having examined and compared, I suspect most of the latter, because about the only thing you can't tell the difference is the labels. And of course through measurements such as MTBF. Or perhaps you have more experience using counterfeit cisco hardware than I do.
There is always an interplay between form and content and the process to achieve an effective original ddesign. So your question is meaningless! I HAVE LEARNED, TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL ART, AND HAVING A DEGREE IN visual ARTS, that most kids and adults are wrapped up in the process, as evidenced by their preoccupation with "taking a politically correct picture at "ideal" f-stop" or messing around with the varied features of a complex Adobe or Macromedia program. They lack simple design concepts, lack the ability to create a coherent or interesting composition. In short, go for the basics first, before you muddle up with software. Then, teach them a simple Principle of the Universe -- evade NIH Fever! Finally, get them to understand that their ideas, concepts, desires WILL be subordinated to the needs and wishes of an organization, so they must learn to READ and FOLLOW SPECS. In high school, you try too much razzle dazzle as a substitute for REAL LEARNING. BACK TO BASICS. Put a pencil in their hand, give them a large sheet of newsprint and make them practice basic layout and composition. Software will never take the place of talent, and you can't turn a sows ear into a silk purse.
To what end would any company with a credible mind space make public announcements regarding their internal corporate decisions in any department, especially IT. Quite frankly, these are intelligence matters which should not have been revealed. If I had an employee who got sucked into making such an announcement for my company, I would fire him/her on the spot! One of the first lessons companies need to learn is discipline in their external communications. If you are a private company, keep it private! Release only positive information, keep the communications focused on product & service benefits, and ROI. Don't reveal whether or not your VP of sales picks his nose in public, or you use Linux and what flavor of the day.
ARGHH!! This is worse than the cliff hanger cowboy thrillers I saw every Saturday afternoon at the old State Theatre on the East Side of Waterloo, Iowa. I had to wait a week to find out how the hero survived going over the cliff. How long will I have to wait this time???
While you are on the subject, could you perhaps go into greater detail of ALL the things you would want to see in a small and medium business server or workstation? maybe off list to me at mdean@sourceview.com?? It would be appreciated.
We for one are working on an Open Source offering at server and workstation levels based on our ideas of Goal Driven Computing within the corporation. I for one would enthusiastically welcome a thorough listing of those things you believe should come in the box.
Well, I think the idea of skype is great, and their voice out rates are competitive. Is there anyway to combine the two, such that anyone in the world which calls my skype phone number "sourceview" is then shunted to the asterisk or even the vovida PBX system? By the way, I have an Avaya box for sale!
Make a contract with your self-employed company that you agree NOT to do any technoogy work off the books. Do any kind of analysis and the fact remains doing something for free for friends relatives and neighbors is not appreciated, and they will go somewhere else for any paying job. It also lowers you own ROI. Do what my friend the mechanic does-- he has a partner and they share revenue, so he can't do anything off the books. Neither should you. Charge at least $50 per hour, and keep track of hours.
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no, its not a good deal. There are tons of xppro backup disks lying around. Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale has boxes of them- hundreds and they sell them for $20. Remember, XP loads on Dells without having to go through any kind of registration process. Just don't order a Dell with anything but linux on it. You can always duplicate the linux for free.
That is one scenario, although counterfeit is still counterfeit. For you to make a distinction between the two really is two faced and does a disservice to our country, cisco and any other manufacturer suffering heavy losses, except the counterfeiters. When anyone is lulled to sleep by such intellectually dishonest ideological remarks as yours: "oh it may be counterfeit but it probably came off the same assembly line with the same components" it is very destructive to hundreds of businesses. The more honest and more empirical explanation is that the counterfeit manufacturer, whatever the identity, buys cheaper, lesser quality components, or even used components that failed quality control tests instituted by a cisco and those went out the door. Having examined and compared, I suspect most of the latter, because about the only thing you can't tell the difference is the labels. And of course through measurements such as MTBF. Or perhaps you have more experience using counterfeit cisco hardware than I do.
There is always an interplay between form and content and the process to achieve an effective original ddesign. So your question is meaningless! I HAVE LEARNED, TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL ART, AND HAVING A DEGREE IN visual ARTS, that most kids and adults are wrapped up in the process, as evidenced by their preoccupation with "taking a politically correct picture at "ideal" f-stop" or messing around with the varied features of a complex Adobe or Macromedia program. They lack simple design concepts, lack the ability to create a coherent or interesting composition. In short, go for the basics first, before you muddle up with software. Then, teach them a simple Principle of the Universe -- evade NIH Fever! Finally, get them to understand that their ideas, concepts, desires WILL be subordinated to the needs and wishes of an organization, so they must learn to READ and FOLLOW SPECS. In high school, you try too much razzle dazzle as a substitute for REAL LEARNING. BACK TO BASICS. Put a pencil in their hand, give them a large sheet of newsprint and make them practice basic layout and composition. Software will never take the place of talent, and you can't turn a sows ear into a silk purse.
To what end would any company with a credible mind space make public announcements regarding their internal corporate decisions in any department, especially IT. Quite frankly, these are intelligence matters which should not have been revealed. If I had an employee who got sucked into making such an announcement for my company, I would fire him/her on the spot! One of the first lessons companies need to learn is discipline in their external communications. If you are a private company, keep it private! Release only positive information, keep the communications focused on product & service benefits, and ROI. Don't reveal whether or not your VP of sales picks his nose in public, or you use Linux and what flavor of the day.
ARGHH!! This is worse than the cliff hanger cowboy thrillers I saw every Saturday afternoon at the old State Theatre on the East Side of Waterloo, Iowa. I had to wait a week to find out how the hero survived going over the cliff. How long will I have to wait this time???
While you are on the subject, could you perhaps go into greater detail of ALL the things you would want to see in a small and medium business server or workstation? maybe off list to me at mdean@sourceview.com?? It would be appreciated.
if it started out as BSD, isn't there some source code floating around?
We for one are working on an Open Source offering at server and workstation levels based on our ideas of Goal Driven Computing within the corporation. I for one would enthusiastically welcome a thorough listing of those things you believe should come in the box.
Well, I think the idea of skype is great, and their voice out rates are competitive. Is there anyway to combine the two, such that anyone in the world which calls my skype phone number "sourceview" is then shunted to the asterisk or even the vovida PBX system? By the way, I have an Avaya box for sale!
does Skype compare with the asterisk voip stuff.?? Inquiriung minds need to know!
Make a contract with your self-employed company that you agree NOT to do any technoogy work off the books. Do any kind of analysis and the fact remains doing something for free for friends relatives and neighbors is not appreciated, and they will go somewhere else for any paying job. It also lowers you own ROI. Do what my friend the mechanic does-- he has a partner and they share revenue, so he can't do anything off the books. Neither should you. Charge at least $50 per hour, and keep track of hours.