At least they saved hundreds of dollars over a comparably equipped MacBook Pro. Who wants to pay all that extra money for a shinny case? That is where all those extra engineering dollars go, right?
You mentioned source code, so you have the skills to hire and manage technical people. Please leverage those talents and hire someone. Outsourced IT works best as a supplement for when your employee doesn't have a particular skill or the project is too big for one person.
You boot off the "special" USB device.
Then the OS on the USB device mounts the various disks/partitions/volumes on the system.
Then it searches what it has mounted.
A crude one of these, which would work in most cases, could be made fairly simply using Linux.
"I would still like to see more about LDAP, authentication and authorization, single sign-on, etc."
I've scoured the web for a GOOD reference for this and have been disappointed (however I haven't looked lately). If anyone know of a particularly good site for this please let us all know. Oh, and please realize that LDAP isn't really the problem. The problem is trying to archive "single sign-on" with LDAP.
I've been on all sides of this. Sometimes it's good. Most of the time it isn't adequate.
Many applications don't work well in a Terminal server environment. So we need (you guessed it) Windows on the client. Other applications' licenses don't allow use on a Terminal server. So we need (yet again) Windows on the client. Today remote users (for some reason) have latency that is too high to be productive on the Terminal server. So we'd better have Windows on the client. The secretary who only ever uses Word and Outlook is now required to watch a training video on her computer. So we need Windows on the client.
At the same time a P3 can usually (depending on your "security" software) run a terminal server client and those one or two other things that need to be local. However, then you have to manage all those clients. You would be amazed at how much less work it is to manage Windows when all you have on a computer is a terminal server client and a few other applications. Especially if you lock them down well. To ease the management of these thick clients (for literally this situation) my employer had me create Tiotha (http://tiotha.sourceforge.net/).
Warning: The 0.15st version of Tiotha on the website has a horrible memory leak. I hope to release the update very soon!
No! With this market share model Microsoft would have been the only one at the table just a few years back. Unless the threshold was very low in which case too many players would be at this table.
I agree! I find VB very sloppy. I love wxWidgets. I sometimes "use the source" to save me. The biggest bonus for me is that the wxWidgets documentation is superb.
If you use C++ and wxWidgets you shouldn't have any trouble fitting your application on a 1.44MB floppy disk. Anymore, I call that "small."
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The person who committed the act and the complacent party?
At least they saved hundreds of dollars over a comparably equipped MacBook Pro. Who wants to pay all that extra money for a shinny case? That is where all those extra engineering dollars go, right?
The next time someone quotes me an absurd uptime number I am going to compare it against this date.
You mentioned source code, so you have the skills to hire and manage technical people. Please leverage those talents and hire someone. Outsourced IT works best as a supplement for when your employee doesn't have a particular skill or the project is too big for one person.
"Why, after two years, when theoretically you have paid for the subsidized phone, doesn't your monthly bill go down."
Because that would be a disincentive for you to coming in and pick up and new phone and another two year slavery term.
You boot off the "special" USB device.
Then the OS on the USB device mounts the various disks/partitions/volumes on the system.
Then it searches what it has mounted.
A crude one of these, which would work in most cases, could be made fairly simply using Linux.
Did anyone else wonder why a SourceForge administrator had the keys to a city's network.
It has been long taught in theory classes that certain things can be solved in fewer steps using nondeterministic programming. The problem is that you have to follow multiple paths until you hit the right one. With sufficiently many cores the computer can follow all the possible paths at the same time, resulting in a quicker answer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-deterministic_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_Programming
Please let us know how that turns out.
"I would still like to see more about LDAP, authentication and authorization, single sign-on, etc."
I've scoured the web for a GOOD reference for this and have been disappointed (however I haven't looked lately). If anyone know of a particularly good site for this please let us all know. Oh, and please realize that LDAP isn't really the problem. The problem is trying to archive "single sign-on" with LDAP.
I've been on all sides of this. Sometimes it's good. Most of the time it isn't adequate.
Many applications don't work well in a Terminal server environment. So we need (you guessed it) Windows on the client.
Other applications' licenses don't allow use on a Terminal server. So we need (yet again) Windows on the client.
Today remote users (for some reason) have latency that is too high to be productive on the Terminal server. So we'd better have Windows on the client.
The secretary who only ever uses Word and Outlook is now required to watch a training video on her computer. So we need Windows on the client.
At the same time a P3 can usually (depending on your "security" software) run a terminal server client and those one or two other things that need to be local. However, then you have to manage all those clients. You would be amazed at how much less work it is to manage Windows when all you have on a computer is a terminal server client and a few other applications. Especially if you lock them down well. To ease the management of these thick clients (for literally this situation) my employer had me create Tiotha (http://tiotha.sourceforge.net/).
Warning: The 0.15st version of Tiotha on the website has a horrible memory leak. I hope to release the update very soon!
"that can so easily be bribed to steal them and hand them over to a competitor"
Here is an idea. Pay them enough that this isn't a real temptation. Risking it all on a fast score isn't worth it, if you will be risking much.
No! With this market share model Microsoft would have been the only one at the table just a few years back. Unless the threshold was very low in which case too many players would be at this table.
Amen brother. For the above application I would have used Debian for the ease of installing the components you need as you need them.
Could there be a better question? How about in a court of law?
I agree! I find VB very sloppy. I love wxWidgets. I sometimes "use the source" to save me. The biggest bonus for me is that the wxWidgets documentation is superb.
If you use C++ and wxWidgets you shouldn't have any trouble fitting your application on a 1.44MB floppy disk. Anymore, I call that "small."
It is very much a work in progress. It is designed to fight this very problem in an educational setting. http://tiotha.sourceforge.net/