I agree with you that it's not in your best interest to pay for likewise, since, as you said, you get the same thing from RedHat.
Those of us who use CentOS, Ubuntu, MacOS, etc etc, find the additions useful. I'm trying to drum up support for buying likewise enterprise for my company.
If I 'd have seen your instructions a week ago, I might not have submitted this article, since I probably wouldn't have needed the software, but honestly, if I had a choice between making those system changes and installing the open version of the software, the software is literally painless and instant. I'm really glad I found it
I'm sure it sounded like that, but as someone who has fiddled with trying to get Linux to integrate nicely with Windows (which I know _nothing_ about), I was blown away by how this software worked, and I thought that other people might be able to use it like I did.
I guess it still qualifies as a slashvertisement, but it wasn't paid for, that's for sure. It just helped me do what I needed, and was painless. I wanted to share it with other people who might be able to use it.
While I don't know if they've hired a PR company, I can assure you that my blog entry isn't astroturf. I'm just a guy who finally found a completely painless way to get this done, and I've been trying for a long time. No astroturf here, I promise, In fact I'd never even heard of the software till I saw a submission on reddit the other day. It just worked so damned flawlessly and immediately that I thought I should tell other people about it.
I'm late to the party, but from the documentation I've read (~300 pages so far), all of these policies, printers, etc are able to be added to linux machines using Likewise Enterprise. It' essentially extends the management environment to Unix machines
Looking at the economics of enjoyment, if you get the same amount of enjoyment, relative, from your coffee as you do from an application that doesn't do a damned thing, you need to improve the quality of your coffee.
$12 million dollars to design an infrastructure to replace a multi-billion (maybe trillion?) dollar network from the ground up?
I know that they're not implementing the new network right now, but I don't see how this isn't just throwing money away. $12m dollars is the governmental equivalent of chicken scratch
I can't imagine a need for an employee to have any bit of our client's data on their PDA. There's really no excuse for that at all.
As for laptops, sure, we issue our employees laptops, with which they are able to work from home via VPN. There are occasions where the employee will have to save and modify excel spreadsheets, or CSV files, as you mentioned.
Ideally, whole drive encryption would be utilized, but it's not (yet) in our case. I've been behind the times implementing that.
This isn't a smart-assed comment, but what does this version do?
I've got an enclosure of 10 PowerEdge 1955s that I have ~ 6months to play with until I need to make them production servers. I'm sorely tempted to use this, but I'm unfamiliar with the ESX product line. What does this ESXi do for me?
Do you suppose there's a future in taking epicly bad movies like The Love Guru, downloading the DVD quality, and then doing your own MST3K audio track over top, then reuploading it?
It sounds like something I'd have fun doing, if I had more time
The problem with assigning labels like "good", "bad" are that they're relative, and arbitrary anyway.
The problem with "better" or "worse" is that the targets can be arbitrarily changed. Is shredded glass bad? Depends on whether you want cookies or fiberglass.
This is only a more extreme example of the argument
"if company A makes cookies which are FREAKING AWESOME, but can't market itself out of a box, but company B makes cookies which are alright, but everyone buys,"
Which is the more successful cookie, when success for a cookie is defined as something like, bringing the most flavor to people, or if you're a cynic, bringing in the most money to the parent company?
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I agree with you that it's not in your best interest to pay for likewise, since, as you said, you get the same thing from RedHat.
Those of us who use CentOS, Ubuntu, MacOS, etc etc, find the additions useful. I'm trying to drum up support for buying likewise enterprise for my company.
If I 'd have seen your instructions a week ago, I might not have submitted this article, since I probably wouldn't have needed the software, but honestly, if I had a choice between making those system changes and installing the open version of the software, the software is literally painless and instant. I'm really glad I found it
I'm sure it sounded like that, but as someone who has fiddled with trying to get Linux to integrate nicely with Windows (which I know _nothing_ about), I was blown away by how this software worked, and I thought that other people might be able to use it like I did.
I guess it still qualifies as a slashvertisement, but it wasn't paid for, that's for sure. It just helped me do what I needed, and was painless. I wanted to share it with other people who might be able to use it.
While I don't know if they've hired a PR company, I can assure you that my blog entry isn't astroturf. I'm just a guy who finally found a completely painless way to get this done, and I've been trying for a long time. No astroturf here, I promise, In fact I'd never even heard of the software till I saw a submission on reddit the other day. It just worked so damned flawlessly and immediately that I thought I should tell other people about it.
I'm late to the party, but from the documentation I've read (~300 pages so far), all of these policies, printers, etc are able to be added to linux machines using Likewise Enterprise. It' essentially extends the management environment to Unix machines
I believe there's an option for the iphone, much like itunes and amazon, which turns on "one click" buying. It's not like that by default.
Looking at the economics of enjoyment, if you get the same amount of enjoyment, relative, from your coffee as you do from an application that doesn't do a damned thing, you need to improve the quality of your coffee.
I'd at least put a warning screen on it, so you can't accidentally touch it in a menu and buy a thousand dollar application that does nothing
I LOL'd
trampoline?
This is what happens when you get your physics advice from XKCD
You can't argue that he was a part of helping humans reach into space, whether through inspiration or tagging along posthumously
$12 million dollars to design an infrastructure to replace a multi-billion (maybe trillion?) dollar network from the ground up?
I know that they're not implementing the new network right now, but I don't see how this isn't just throwing money away. $12m dollars is the governmental equivalent of chicken scratch
I would settle for a $100 ebook reader that I could see in daylight
Sadly, I really do know people like this...
I can't imagine a need for an employee to have any bit of our client's data on their PDA. There's really no excuse for that at all.
As for laptops, sure, we issue our employees laptops, with which they are able to work from home via VPN. There are occasions where the employee will have to save and modify excel spreadsheets, or CSV files, as you mentioned.
Ideally, whole drive encryption would be utilized, but it's not (yet) in our case. I've been behind the times implementing that.
I checked out the datasheet here(PDF), and ESXi is just the small-footprint operating system on-top of which you can run multiple virtual machines.
So instead of having a fullblown Windows/Linux installation, you install this, and the smaller footprint leaves more resources for the guest OSes.
Am I right? And what is the software that you need to manage ESXi?
This isn't a smart-assed comment, but what does this version do?
I've got an enclosure of 10 PowerEdge 1955s that I have ~ 6months to play with until I need to make them production servers. I'm sorely tempted to use this, but I'm unfamiliar with the ESX product line. What does this ESXi do for me?
Exactly. It's an arbitrary question. Each answer is equally (in)valid.
If I was as bad at my job as they were at theirs, we'd be rubbing elbows in the food line at the homeless shelter
Do you suppose there's a future in taking epicly bad movies like The Love Guru, downloading the DVD quality, and then doing your own MST3K audio track over top, then reuploading it?
It sounds like something I'd have fun doing, if I had more time
Who was a power ranger in that movie?
"...guaranteed not to turn pink in the can*"
* - I don't care what snopes has to say about it, it's a damned good line
The problem with assigning labels like "good", "bad" are that they're relative, and arbitrary anyway.
The problem with "better" or "worse" is that the targets can be arbitrarily changed. Is shredded glass bad? Depends on whether you want cookies or fiberglass.
There's no single metric to aim for.
This is only a more extreme example of the argument
"if company A makes cookies which are FREAKING AWESOME, but can't market itself out of a box, but company B makes cookies which are alright, but everyone buys,"
Which is the more successful cookie, when success for a cookie is defined as something like, bringing the most flavor to people, or if you're a cynic, bringing in the most money to the parent company?