Does secure print work with your Linux drivers? I doubt it (I couldn't get it working with our printer anyway).
Also, Microsoft supplies Security Essentials now with Windows 7, which includes a virus scanner (a good one too). That coupled with the fact that you can enforce the firewall settings on all PC's in your network if you're an admin, I'd say they do indeed have the virus situation under control (as best as is reasonably possible anyway).
I guess we are just going to have to agree to disagree, but in my opinion, only a small amount of IT investment is in software - most of it is in man hours and hardware. A piece of software that costs money but saves man hours and increases productivity provides 100 times more value that free software that adds man hours and decreases productivity (as seems to be the case with Linux on the desktop for the Germans anyway, and something I have also experienced in the real world).
Why should a large organization have to discount the majority of new printers on the market today because their system can't support them. That's ridiculous. We have a huge Xerox printer/copier/fax/scanner here in the office, and I can tell you that there is no way that any linux driver is going to support this thing fully with all the features it has. It's just not worth the hassle running up against such problems all the time when you consider that the total cost of running such a system certainly isn't going to be much cheaper (and in my mind, almost certainly more expensive).
And Windows 7 has viruses pretty under control if you have a competent admin running your network. In any case, if you really follow the Microsoft philosophy, even a virus that managed to make it onto your computer wouldn't cause you problems, because your mail would be stored on Exchange and your documents in Sharepoint. So you'd simply reimage your system and start working again.
As much as many Linux nerds here don't want to admit it (or realise it's actually the case), Microsoft has an incredibly slick suite of software for businesses, and Linux simply doesn't come close to it.
Hiring people to write drives for the printers you have? Are you for real?
You people are so blinded by Linux, that you don't see the reality of the situation.
Listen, you have an organization that has 10,000 people, with thousands of mobile phones/printers/webcams/peripherals etc. What do you think you pay Microsoft a year to license Windows 7, Exchange and Office? I can tell you one thing, you're not paying retail price. In fact, from my experience, they'd be paying less than 10 euros per employee.
So let's take 10 euros a head for 10,000 people - you're looking at 100 grand a year. How many people do you think 100 grand can hire that are able to program printer drivers for Linux. I would guess one. Then you need a load more people that support this entire system.
Going the Microsoft route, you just get some low paid guy that has a Microsoft Certification to admin the whole system. These things are made to work out of the box with each other, and generally it works like that. Then everyone has the software they are used to, they all have their mail/contacts/calendar synced to their phones just as they like it, you can purchase any devices because they are all going to be compatible with Windows and you get support and professional software from Microsoft (yes, professional, please don't try to compare Open Office with MS Office, or even Linux on the Desktop with Windows 7).
It makes sense to run Linux on servers where you have to have professionals running them anyway. But for an office environment, you're never, ever going to achieve the cost and productivity under Linux that you do under Windows all things considered.
The trouble is, it's a slippery slope.
As soon as a few ISP's put on the caps, the leechers all jump ship to the ones without it. Suddenly, a handful of ISP's have all the customers who are unprofitable for them.
So then they introduce caps too. Suddenly there is no one left offering unlimited.
This is the reason why no Australian ISP can go back to unlimited. As soon as they do, they get all the bad apples.
This is one reason you want to fear the introduction of caps. Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do about it.
I hope this guy hasn't pirated the images of pirates (taken from Pirates of the Caribbean) that he has on his site and has paid Walt Disney for the rights to use them..
Why are people investing in this technology in this way?
Surely the most sensible approach would be to come up with a standard for creating batteries for these cars.
Then petrol stations could provide fully charged batteries, and take your old ones out for charging, similar to the gas bottle scheme that runs in many places around the world. After the swap, you'd be good for another few hundred kilometers until the next petrol station, just like now.
Then there are no problems with distance or people who live in the city without their own garage/power supply.
Ahh.. the directive it doesn't pay attention to is the directive. Slashdots system does however seem to pay attention to it and removes it from your post!
Not only are they spamming the whole web, their code is buggy. For example, it does not pay attention to the directive.
We use a load of rewrites on our website, and relative naming to js and css files. We started getting loads and loads of traffic to our site a few months ago.
Looking at the logs, you could see requests like this:
and so on. Because of our rewrite rules, our site was just ignoring everything after the "certain_rewritten_url", and serving up a real page. On this page was our js includes again, so the loop would continue. We thought it was some trojan bot, but we fixed it by using absolute URLs for js and css files and all is fine.
I couldn't believe it when this AVG virus story hit the press that it was actually those bastards causing it!
What they have done is simply unbelievable. If they want to do such a feature, they should setup their own spider and their own database of malicious websites. Then users can query their database if they want this feature. It's like Google saying "We're not going to spider the internet for everyone anymore, we'll give you our software and you call all spider your own copy and query that instead of us."
I bet Americans are wondering where the hell on earth Australia is.
Seriously though, Americans are definitely not wondering why you want to leave Australia. I don't know why you think they would be.
It sounds like you're an American. In Europe, almost every 3G phone comes with a camera on the front and on the back. Front used for video conferrencing, and the back used for taking pictures. So we do already have something "by now". People don't have video phones at home because who wants to stare into someone's kitchen when you're talking to them. But on a mobile phone it can be handy because you can be at some interesting place when you call someone. Obviously it will never replace voice calls, but it's a nice feataure to have. Also, 3G phones over here do not have a bad battery life, so I don't buy this excuse from Steve Jobs. They didn't put it in the phone for other reasons, battery life was just an excuse.
ahh.. actually, it was a joke.. I have no interest in this Microsoft shit either, but if you noticed a while back they renamed almost everything they had to "$product_name.Net", and now they seem to have dropped that, and everything is "$product_name Live!".. it makes me laugh..
Firstly, it has become quite obvious since Bush came to power that he is not really concerned with the people.. he is concerned with helping out big business and to brainwash the people using expensive and clever marketing that he is doing it all in their interests..
The problem is our open southern border which guys like Osama and the like can exploit fully three yeras after 9/11 and with an elected president "fighting the war on terror".
They don't care. The more terror, the more money they get. Think how much money the corporations that Bush is closely involved with finanically have made since September 11. They have all had bumper years, year after year..
The problem is out-sourcing which is eroding our industrial base to the extent that already, about one-third of our defense machinery is foreign made.
Again, why should they care? They are getting cheaper labor. Its not good for big business to have to use expensive American workers.
This latest "Star Wars" project is just another excuse to imbezel billions of tax payers dollars into the pockets of the rich guys.. same with the Iraq war - it is quite clear there was no need for it, but it was pushed by these guys that were in there to make a killing (pardon the pun).
While in places like the UK and Australia unemployment is low and economies are doing good, in America there is one of the weakest dollar's ever and unemployment is high with workers getting screwed every day. It is so abundantly clear that this guy is screwing over the US, yet people just voted him in again!
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Does secure print work with your Linux drivers? I doubt it (I couldn't get it working with our printer anyway). Also, Microsoft supplies Security Essentials now with Windows 7, which includes a virus scanner (a good one too). That coupled with the fact that you can enforce the firewall settings on all PC's in your network if you're an admin, I'd say they do indeed have the virus situation under control (as best as is reasonably possible anyway). I guess we are just going to have to agree to disagree, but in my opinion, only a small amount of IT investment is in software - most of it is in man hours and hardware. A piece of software that costs money but saves man hours and increases productivity provides 100 times more value that free software that adds man hours and decreases productivity (as seems to be the case with Linux on the desktop for the Germans anyway, and something I have also experienced in the real world).
Why should a large organization have to discount the majority of new printers on the market today because their system can't support them. That's ridiculous. We have a huge Xerox printer/copier/fax/scanner here in the office, and I can tell you that there is no way that any linux driver is going to support this thing fully with all the features it has. It's just not worth the hassle running up against such problems all the time when you consider that the total cost of running such a system certainly isn't going to be much cheaper (and in my mind, almost certainly more expensive). And Windows 7 has viruses pretty under control if you have a competent admin running your network. In any case, if you really follow the Microsoft philosophy, even a virus that managed to make it onto your computer wouldn't cause you problems, because your mail would be stored on Exchange and your documents in Sharepoint. So you'd simply reimage your system and start working again. As much as many Linux nerds here don't want to admit it (or realise it's actually the case), Microsoft has an incredibly slick suite of software for businesses, and Linux simply doesn't come close to it.
Hiring people to write drives for the printers you have? Are you for real? You people are so blinded by Linux, that you don't see the reality of the situation. Listen, you have an organization that has 10,000 people, with thousands of mobile phones/printers/webcams/peripherals etc. What do you think you pay Microsoft a year to license Windows 7, Exchange and Office? I can tell you one thing, you're not paying retail price. In fact, from my experience, they'd be paying less than 10 euros per employee. So let's take 10 euros a head for 10,000 people - you're looking at 100 grand a year. How many people do you think 100 grand can hire that are able to program printer drivers for Linux. I would guess one. Then you need a load more people that support this entire system. Going the Microsoft route, you just get some low paid guy that has a Microsoft Certification to admin the whole system. These things are made to work out of the box with each other, and generally it works like that. Then everyone has the software they are used to, they all have their mail/contacts/calendar synced to their phones just as they like it, you can purchase any devices because they are all going to be compatible with Windows and you get support and professional software from Microsoft (yes, professional, please don't try to compare Open Office with MS Office, or even Linux on the Desktop with Windows 7). It makes sense to run Linux on servers where you have to have professionals running them anyway. But for an office environment, you're never, ever going to achieve the cost and productivity under Linux that you do under Windows all things considered.
Seriously, is there anything they don't want to turn into a robot?
The trouble is, it's a slippery slope. As soon as a few ISP's put on the caps, the leechers all jump ship to the ones without it. Suddenly, a handful of ISP's have all the customers who are unprofitable for them. So then they introduce caps too. Suddenly there is no one left offering unlimited. This is the reason why no Australian ISP can go back to unlimited. As soon as they do, they get all the bad apples. This is one reason you want to fear the introduction of caps. Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do about it.
I hope this guy hasn't pirated the images of pirates (taken from Pirates of the Caribbean) that he has on his site and has paid Walt Disney for the rights to use them..
$20 for a 6 to 12 hour flight is an excellent deal. You pay $5 a damn minute to use the phone!
Lufthansa already did onboard wifi on flights to America, for only $20 a trip too. They stopped offering it because there was no demand!
Why are people investing in this technology in this way? Surely the most sensible approach would be to come up with a standard for creating batteries for these cars. Then petrol stations could provide fully charged batteries, and take your old ones out for charging, similar to the gas bottle scheme that runs in many places around the world. After the swap, you'd be good for another few hundred kilometers until the next petrol station, just like now. Then there are no problems with distance or people who live in the city without their own garage/power supply.
If your wife works 5 miles away, then she should take the damn bike!
Ahh.. the directive it doesn't pay attention to is the directive. Slashdots system does however seem to pay attention to it and removes it from your post!
Not only are they spamming the whole web, their code is buggy. For example, it does not pay attention to the directive. We use a load of rewrites on our website, and relative naming to js and css files. We started getting loads and loads of traffic to our site a few months ago. Looking at the logs, you could see requests like this:
http://www.domain.com/certain_rewritten_url/js/javascript.js
http://www.domain.com/certain_rewritten_url/js/js/javascript.js
http://www.domain.com/certain_rewritten_url/js/js/js/javascript.js
and so on. Because of our rewrite rules, our site was just ignoring everything after the "certain_rewritten_url", and serving up a real page. On this page was our js includes again, so the loop would continue. We thought it was some trojan bot, but we fixed it by using absolute URLs for js and css files and all is fine. I couldn't believe it when this AVG virus story hit the press that it was actually those bastards causing it! What they have done is simply unbelievable. If they want to do such a feature, they should setup their own spider and their own database of malicious websites. Then users can query their database if they want this feature. It's like Google saying "We're not going to spider the internet for everyone anymore, we'll give you our software and you call all spider your own copy and query that instead of us."
I bet Americans are wondering where the hell on earth Australia is. Seriously though, Americans are definitely not wondering why you want to leave Australia. I don't know why you think they would be.
It sounds like you're an American. In Europe, almost every 3G phone comes with a camera on the front and on the back. Front used for video conferrencing, and the back used for taking pictures. So we do already have something "by now". People don't have video phones at home because who wants to stare into someone's kitchen when you're talking to them. But on a mobile phone it can be handy because you can be at some interesting place when you call someone. Obviously it will never replace voice calls, but it's a nice feataure to have. Also, 3G phones over here do not have a bad battery life, so I don't buy this excuse from Steve Jobs. They didn't put it in the phone for other reasons, battery life was just an excuse.
I've got a tip for you - it's easier to type '%' then it is to type 'pc'. It also helps other people understand what you're talking about.
ahh.. actually, it was a joke.. I have no interest in this Microsoft shit either, but if you noticed a while back they renamed almost everything they had to "$product_name .Net", and now they seem to have dropped that, and everything is "$product_name Live!".. it makes me laugh..
technet is oldschool. It was called Technet
Firstly, it has become quite obvious since Bush came to power that he is not really concerned with the people.. he is concerned with helping out big business and to brainwash the people using expensive and clever marketing that he is doing it all in their interests..
The problem is our open southern border which guys like Osama and the like can exploit fully three yeras after 9/11 and with an elected president "fighting the war on terror".
They don't care. The more terror, the more money they get. Think how much money the corporations that Bush is closely involved with finanically have made since September 11. They have all had bumper years, year after year..
The problem is out-sourcing which is eroding our industrial base to the extent that already, about one-third of our defense machinery is foreign made.
Again, why should they care? They are getting cheaper labor. Its not good for big business to have to use expensive American workers.
This latest "Star Wars" project is just another excuse to imbezel billions of tax payers dollars into the pockets of the rich guys.. same with the Iraq war - it is quite clear there was no need for it, but it was pushed by these guys that were in there to make a killing (pardon the pun).
While in places like the UK and Australia unemployment is low and economies are doing good, in America there is one of the weakest dollar's ever and unemployment is high with workers getting screwed every day. It is so abundantly clear that this guy is screwing over the US, yet people just voted him in again!