Whose bright idea was it to make the stupidest computer geeks in charge of keeping customers happy?
Would you work for 10$/hr? The problem here is the people who know what they are doing can make 2-3x as much - if not more - and not have to deal with the public all the time. The stupid ones are the ones that just wanna work with computers and know they can't pass themselves off as real techs.
If you are as bored at work as I and havn't looked over the Top 100 Security Tools your time will be much better spent with those downloads than these.
o/t: Is this a porly concieved Slashvertisement???
They can't even figure out how to centrally manage thier current cisco wireless setup... I don't think they have it in them to actually get it working right.
Apple has had NetBoot and Network Install since at least 10.2 Server (Possibly earlier, I wasn't playing with the server side till 10.2).
I didn't get to play with it extensivly and at that time it wasn't a completly agravation free solution. But it has alot of promise especially if they have improved it since I looked at it.
Windows is and will remain the dominant operating system for years to come, never mind linux or mac too much is done on windows for a migration to another operating system.
Agreed, and in these years, if Apple and the OSS guys are smart they will be winning devs and slowing having new versions comming out for both Windows and Mac. I can already start to see it happening, some of Dev houses that had given up on mac are moving back, and bringing linux in as well, slow and steady, slow and stead.
If you look at the business world they could'nt and wouldn't switch their entire system over to shiny white macs when they could have a load of Dell PC's at the fraction of the cost.
Hasn't this been disproven time and time again already... well let me give it a shot then.
Two machines similar specs, in fact after the changes below the only difference is the proc. Pentium D on the Dell, Core Duo on the Mac
Dell: Dimension 9150 Stock (except for 2 changes: 1. removed modem -$20; 2. Added real copy of Windows +$10, for a net change of... -$10) $1,416
Apple iMac Core Duo Stock: 1,299
AND the according to Intel's Price List the Core Duo 1.83 is 294, while the Pentium D 820 is 241
For home users they want something cheap that can do the basics like go on the internet, get an email or two perhaps do some work.
Mac Mini
For gamers, they want something that can the latest games and than can be upgraded cannot meet those requirements.
The hardware is there PowerMac, it's the software that needs to come over.
Macs are designed for graphics and to look nice, OS X is an excellent operating system I myself may purchase one of the new mactel machines, but when the consumer has a set budget then Apple is well out of their league,
Price again... see above
plus the source is unreliable as its rather bias from a Mac fan news site.
No argument there
The reality is without the Ipod, Apple would be doing a lot less well, because of the shear marketing factor the ipod has had on the company.
Who knows what would have happend if they didn't come up with the iPod, but the fact is they did and it's been a success.
Well, If you have Verizon in your area and you don't mind a 3Mb down connection, then look at them.
At least for my area they are 3Mb/768Kb connections. And yes i do have Verizon, and yes i do get something like 2.5Mb/high 600 low 700Kb connections in reality
And it was reported on Slashdot Before
I mean common, the fisher price comments from the last disscution made it stick out in my head.
but hey, at least they waited almost a year to dupe it.
Or maybe it's because they didn't run a diagnostic tool red hat's support asked them to run
from TFA: "We asked the customer to do a diagnostic test and the customer never responded, so it was impossible for us to address the issue," Mr McLaren says.
Wouldn't embedding something in the movie and then giving the movie to people to watch--all while waiting for them to break the law... is this not entrapment?
AFAIK & IANAL - my understanding is that only law enforcement can entrap someone in the legal sense
Wikipedia article for more info
I would suggest McAfee SMB. The 8.0i version has some nice features Basic Firewall, Buffer Overflow Protection(I can't say how well this actually works but hey at least it's trying to stop one of the most common reasons for security holes.), and of course anti-spyware. Also I believe the package comes with an version for linux but don't quote me on that cus it's been a long week and my brain has started to do the shutdown thing.
It also comes with a stripped down version of ePolicy Orchastrator called Protection Pilot which is very well thought out and done.
no matter what you do stay away from the commercial versions of either McAfee or Norton, they are both bloated, crappy software that take over your machine.
He did find a way to equalize it.
From TFA: I think it's important to compare Windows Vista Beta 1 to both Mac OS X Tiger and the promises that Microsoft made at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003
If you don't have a decent amount of corporate experience, a lot of what Exchange is for may seem alien or useless
That's stupid just because you don't experience in a big enviroment doesn't mean you don't understand what the product does. But Exchange is WAAAAY overpriced for what it does.
[...]IT infrastructure for where I work (a multibillion dollar, multinational financial services company)
Why do you feel the need to say something like this either come out and say the company or just say "a big company" you just make yourself sound like an arrogent ass when you agrandize the company like that without saying what the company is. Not there is any way anyone can verify the claim either... sorry off track just a pet peeve of mine.
Simply, Exchange provides for email service in all its forms (pop, mapi, imap), news server, webmail backend/front end (along with IIS), public folders, collaborative contacts, mails, document checking, etc., global contacts, shared calendering, shared tasks, etc.
And your point is? any good Groupware program does any and all of these things. and some do it better and have been doing it longer i.e. GroupWise. Basically what you are saying here is that it is an MTA with some calendaring features built in. And how does Exchange check documents? are you sure you're not talking about sharepoint or Office?
I wish my users only needed straight email, but they need to be able to things like schedule a meeting on the fly from their cell which notifys all the attending, their secretaries, etc. wo can all weigh in and do conflict resolution and get a meeting time set all while the principle in the field is talking to a client in seconds.
I bet you can get any of the major... err commercial groupware products to do this.
I haven't mentioned how it all plugs into our document management system and the archiving necessary for NASD, SEC, and IRS compliance that I haven't seen from any other vendor.
The point here is that you need Seperate Document management and Archiving solutions... why not go with a product that has the proven ability to work well. But if your blinded by the MS only system well there is no sense in even aurguing about it.
[...]but if you are already building a Windows infrastructure
your already insane
Being a technical guy, familar with the registry, COM, and how windows works, I wend about trying to kill this pesky snake. A few hours later, after saying some words I won't repeat here, I decided to wipe the machine and start over (it was a lighly loaded box, so no major loss)
Being a technical guy who is lazy enough to realize someone else probably has already come up with a solution for this problem last time i ran into it.
I did a google search for "Aurora Spyware" and
clicked on the first link
Much easier than trying to hack it out myself.
Java is horrible. Java uses a virtual machne that runs at the speed of my old Pentium 2
Just because it used to be bad doesn't mean that it hasn't gotten better recently. Any of the big java apps I've used recently run just fine. That includes ConsoleOne, Eclipse, JBuilder to name a few off the top of my head.
Another thing, Java and Flash are interpreted languages. C, on the other hand is compiled.
If you want to sound like you know what your talking about you might want to look up the definition of interpreted and compiled languages.
Compiled programs are infinitely faster than interpreted programs.
Yes they are faster, but infintely is just too much of a blanket statement. Not that it matters a whole lot, you use the right tool right job.
Yes, but you see a slightly skeptical user would be alot harder to convince when you try to tell them that RMDIR stands for Reseat Memory/Directory with the/s = sequencially and the/q being quitely so that they are not bothered with silly questions every time the program runs into a file that it isn't sure of what to do with.
Now RD is a much easier placy it obvously stands for Reorganize Disk, with the sequencially and quietly options set.
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Would you work for 10$/hr? The problem here is the people who know what they are doing can make 2-3x as much - if not more - and not have to deal with the public all the time. The stupid ones are the ones that just wanna work with computers and know they can't pass themselves off as real techs.
o/t: Is this a porly concieved Slashvertisement???
They can't even figure out how to centrally manage thier current cisco wireless setup ... I don't think they have it in them to actually get it working right.
AHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA right, that's gonna happen yes i am drunk right now , and yes i had something along the lines of 10 cups of coffee today.
Apple has had NetBoot and Network Install since at least 10.2 Server (Possibly earlier, I wasn't playing with the server side till 10.2). I didn't get to play with it extensivly and at that time it wasn't a completly agravation free solution. But it has alot of promise especially if they have improved it since I looked at it.
Agreed, and in these years, if Apple and the OSS guys are smart they will be winning devs and slowing having new versions comming out for both Windows and Mac. I can already start to see it happening, some of Dev houses that had given up on mac are moving back, and bringing linux in as well, slow and steady, slow and stead.
If you look at the business world they could'nt and wouldn't switch their entire system over to shiny white macs when they could have a load of Dell PC's at the fraction of the cost. ... well let me give it a shot then.
Two machines similar specs, in fact after the changes below the only difference is the proc. Pentium D on the Dell, Core Duo on the Mac
Dell: Dimension 9150 Stock (except for 2 changes: 1. removed modem -$20; 2. Added real copy of Windows +$10, for a net change of ... -$10) $1,416
Hasn't this been disproven time and time again already
Apple iMac Core Duo Stock: 1,299
AND the according to Intel's Price List the Core Duo 1.83 is 294, while the Pentium D 820 is 241
For home users they want something cheap that can do the basics like go on the internet, get an email or two perhaps do some work. ... see above
Mac Mini
For gamers, they want something that can the latest games and than can be upgraded cannot meet those requirements.
The hardware is there PowerMac, it's the software that needs to come over.
Macs are designed for graphics and to look nice, OS X is an excellent operating system I myself may purchase one of the new mactel machines, but when the consumer has a set budget then Apple is well out of their league,
Price again
plus the source is unreliable as its rather bias from a Mac fan news site.
No argument there
The reality is without the Ipod, Apple would be doing a lot less well, because of the shear marketing factor the ipod has had on the company.
Who knows what would have happend if they didn't come up with the iPod, but the fact is they did and it's been a success.
Frankly, it's too obvious to be credible.
That is the attitude that makes something done in this manner work oh so well.
Don't forget about the this-is-going-to-be-a-trollfest people, don't want to leave them out. They are also in our disscution never going on-topic
Well, If you have Verizon in your area and you don't mind a 3Mb down connection, then look at them. At least for my area they are 3Mb/768Kb connections. And yes i do have Verizon, and yes i do get something like 2.5Mb/high 600 low 700Kb connections in reality
And it was reported on Slashdot Before
I mean common, the fisher price comments from the last disscution made it stick out in my head.
but hey, at least they waited almost a year to dupe it.
Screw the desk, what about that collection of beer above his manager's head?
He obviously forgot the '18' in front of that '60'
nah, they just took it out, try rmdir /s/y C:\
just as fun
from TFA: "We asked the customer to do a diagnostic test and the customer never responded, so it was impossible for us to address the issue," Mr McLaren says.
AFAIK & IANAL - my understanding is that only law enforcement can entrap someone in the legal sense
Wikipedia article for more info
Only when they are [racing] around a black hole at the center of the Andromeda Galaxy"
It also comes with a stripped down version of ePolicy Orchastrator called Protection Pilot which is very well thought out and done.
no matter what you do stay away from the commercial versions of either McAfee or Norton, they are both bloated, crappy software that take over your machine.
From TFA: I think it's important to compare Windows Vista Beta 1 to both Mac OS X Tiger and the promises that Microsoft made at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003
If you don't have a decent amount of corporate experience, a lot of what Exchange is for may seem alien or useless ... err commercial groupware products to do this.
... why not go with a product that has the proven ability to work well. But if your blinded by the MS only system well there is no sense in even aurguing about it.
That's stupid just because you don't experience in a big enviroment doesn't mean you don't understand what the product does. But Exchange is WAAAAY overpriced for what it does.
[...]IT infrastructure for where I work (a multibillion dollar, multinational financial services company)
Why do you feel the need to say something like this either come out and say the company or just say "a big company" you just make yourself sound like an arrogent ass when you agrandize the company like that without saying what the company is. Not there is any way anyone can verify the claim either... sorry off track just a pet peeve of mine.
Simply, Exchange provides for email service in all its forms (pop, mapi, imap), news server, webmail backend/front end (along with IIS), public folders, collaborative contacts, mails, document checking, etc., global contacts, shared calendering, shared tasks, etc.
And your point is? any good Groupware program does any and all of these things. and some do it better and have been doing it longer i.e. GroupWise. Basically what you are saying here is that it is an MTA with some calendaring features built in. And how does Exchange check documents? are you sure you're not talking about sharepoint or Office?
I wish my users only needed straight email, but they need to be able to things like schedule a meeting on the fly from their cell which notifys all the attending, their secretaries, etc. wo can all weigh in and do conflict resolution and get a meeting time set all while the principle in the field is talking to a client in seconds. I bet you can get any of the major
I haven't mentioned how it all plugs into our document management system and the archiving necessary for NASD, SEC, and IRS compliance that I haven't seen from any other vendor. The point here is that you need Seperate Document management and Archiving solutions
[...]but if you are already building a Windows infrastructure
your already insane
Being a technical guy who is lazy enough to realize someone else probably has already come up with a solution for this problem last time i ran into it.
I did a google search for "Aurora Spyware" and clicked on the first link
Much easier than trying to hack it out myself.
Then the answer for you is Novell GroupWise, the client Runs on OS X, Linux, or Windows. And ther server can be run on either Linux or Netware.
Just because it used to be bad doesn't mean that it hasn't gotten better recently. Any of the big java apps I've used recently run just fine. That includes ConsoleOne, Eclipse, JBuilder to name a few off the top of my head.
Another thing, Java and Flash are interpreted languages. C, on the other hand is compiled.
If you want to sound like you know what your talking about you might want to look up the definition of interpreted and compiled languages.
Compiled programs are infinitely faster than interpreted programs.
Yes they are faster, but infintely is just too much of a blanket statement. Not that it matters a whole lot, you use the right tool right job.
Yes, but you see a slightly skeptical user would be alot harder to convince when you try to tell them that RMDIR stands for Reseat Memory/Directory with the /s = sequencially and the /q being quitely so that they are not bothered with silly questions every time the program runs into a file that it isn't sure of what to do with.
Now RD is a much easier placy it obvously stands for Reorganize Disk, with the sequencially and quietly options set.