Switzerland has pretty lax gun laws compared to the rest of Europe (basically, getting a gun requires you to fill out two forms, send them in, get a third form with which you can purchase a single gun).
It's still pretty save here. I know that a single murder usually is on the front pages until it's resolved.
Well, we didn't get this customers business. Then again, our sales would've handled this differently, but he was enjoying his holidays:)
I was an admin for a large networking company and one of the managers wanted me to setup something that would send email when one of their direct reports logged in.
Ah, this is quite the classic stuff. I see this every more often with Internet monitoring. Most of the customers are pretty reasonable:
Monitoring which employees access Facebook is illegal (without additional contracts with each employee), but that's usually what they ask me to do.
I usually give them the advice to just simply block Facebook, which legal, easy to do and will usually make the Facebook users come screaming that "their internet is broken" (at which point one can have a nice little talk with them).
It's not always that easy, of course, but i'm not willing to risk ruining my and my companies reputation by doing something which is illegal.
Employees of a service provider are loyal to their employeer (usually), not to the customer.
Not what someone in Marketing would tell you, but that's how it is.
Personally, there are customers which i personally do care about - those that actually listen to my advice, don't annoy me with asking the same question for 500th time and understand that i can only solve one problem at a time.
But there are also penny-pinching customers that refuse to replace a 7 year old system, even against all advice. And when that finally crashes, i'm mostly annoyed because disaster recovery isn't exactly the fun part of my job.
Well, i have to say that i've also seen quite a few shady customers, from an IT service provider perspective.
I remember i had a few conversations that went roughly like this:
Customer: "Why do you have 25 Windows Server CALs on this offer?" Me: "They're required for all users accessing the server" C: "Yeah, but a friend told me that it works without them" M: "That's indeed the case, they're just a license, not enforced by technology, but you still need them to be properly licensed" C: "In that case we don't need these" M: "They're not optional"
Seems fair. Personally, i don't see why a company should refuse to do all service on-site.
We usually earn a lot more for service done on-site, because:
* You can bill more time - especially the drive time can rack up cost quite easily, while it's almost no effort on my part * You'll take longer - fixing something on-site usually requires more time, because you'll stay around till everyone sure that everything fixed - no "call me again if it doesn't work" * You might generate additional business "oh, if you're already here could you look at this please"
We have one or two customers which insist on everything done on site. 3 hours driving billed at 185 CHF an hour, 1 hour of work billed at 185 CHF on hour. Well, it works out for me.
Expect a source fix with no regression testing in a week or less. Wait months for the big distribution makers (RedHat, Novell) to release it to the masses.
Expect people manually rebuilding their kernel in panic, having machines rendered unbootable because they decided the 250$ bucks for the iLO Advanced license wasn't worth it since Linux never crashes, etc. pp.
Yeah, but the i7-920 requires a mainboard with triple channel memory and a quick path interface. They're more expensive than the AMD board, making the price comparison a bit more difficult.
That said, i bought an i7-920, i think it's the better choice - so far, i haven't been disappointed. We have a few new servers with 5540 Xeons, and they're absurdly fast.
I'm running Firmware 1.30 on my OCZ Vertex, which is the newest. I've been running Windows 7 RC, and updates to Windows 7 RTM yesterday, using a full format.
I'm running Bitlocker on the laptop, which should not impact performance more than with the HDD when the SSD supports TRIM (which the Vertex with 1.30 should).
Maybe "okay" was an understatement - it's certainly faster than with the previous 200GB 7.2kRPM HDD, but it wasn't the experience i got when upgrading to an X25-M on my desktop.
WindowsNT6.0 (marketed as Windows Vista) WindowsNT6.0 R6002 (marketed as Windows Vista Service Pack 2) WindowsNT6.1 (marketed as Windows Server 2008) WindowsNT6.1.7600 (marketed as Windows Server 2008 service Pack 2 and also as Windows 7)
You're completely wrong here.
Windows 6.0.6000 = Windows Vista RTM Windows 6.0.6001= Windows Vista SP1 / Windows Server 2008 SP1 RTM (WS08 RTMed directly as SP1) Windows 6.0.6002 = Windows Vista SP2 / Windows Server 2008 SP2 Windows 6.1.7600 = Windows 7 RTM / Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
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Mac addresses are a bad idea - one system board replacement for any issue, and the name changes.
Without a company property number, just use an incrementing one.
No, it clearly shows that shops using C# and Java employ lazy bastards that don't work on weekends ;)
Developers maintaining a LAN? This can't end well :)
Switzerland has pretty lax gun laws compared to the rest of Europe (basically, getting a gun requires you to fill out two forms, send them in, get a third form with which you can purchase a single gun).
It's still pretty save here. I know that a single murder usually is on the front pages until it's resolved.
Well, we didn't get this customers business. Then again, our sales would've handled this differently, but he was enjoying his holidays :)
Ah, this is quite the classic stuff. I see this every more often with Internet monitoring. Most of the customers are pretty reasonable:
Monitoring which employees access Facebook is illegal (without additional contracts with each employee), but that's usually what they ask me to do.
I usually give them the advice to just simply block Facebook, which legal, easy to do and will usually make the Facebook users come screaming that "their internet is broken" (at which point one can have a nice little talk with them).
It's not always that easy, of course, but i'm not willing to risk ruining my and my companies reputation by doing something which is illegal.
I'm pretty sure you can buy that pre-made in some chinese USB gadget store.
Employees of a service provider are loyal to their employeer (usually), not to the customer.
Not what someone in Marketing would tell you, but that's how it is.
Personally, there are customers which i personally do care about - those that actually listen to my advice, don't annoy me with asking the same question for 500th time and understand that i can only solve one problem at a time.
But there are also penny-pinching customers that refuse to replace a 7 year old system, even against all advice. And when that finally crashes, i'm mostly annoyed because disaster recovery isn't exactly the fun part of my job.
Well, i have to say that i've also seen quite a few shady customers, from an IT service provider perspective.
I remember i had a few conversations that went roughly like this:
Customer: "Why do you have 25 Windows Server CALs on this offer?"
Me: "They're required for all users accessing the server"
C: "Yeah, but a friend told me that it works without them"
M: "That's indeed the case, they're just a license, not enforced by technology, but you still need them to be properly licensed"
C: "In that case we don't need these"
M: "They're not optional"
[ .. ]
What? On-Site work pays a lot better than remote work. Unless you don't bill for travel time, which would be immensely stupid.
Seems fair. Personally, i don't see why a company should refuse to do all service on-site.
We usually earn a lot more for service done on-site, because:
* You can bill more time - especially the drive time can rack up cost quite easily, while it's almost no effort on my part
* You'll take longer - fixing something on-site usually requires more time, because you'll stay around till everyone sure that everything fixed - no "call me again if it doesn't work"
* You might generate additional business "oh, if you're already here could you look at this please"
We have one or two customers which insist on everything done on site. 3 hours driving billed at 185 CHF an hour, 1 hour of work billed at 185 CHF on hour. Well, it works out for me.
What's your point?
Expect a source fix with no regression testing in a week or less. Wait months for the big distribution makers (RedHat, Novell) to release it to the masses.
Expect people manually rebuilding their kernel in panic, having machines rendered unbootable because they decided the 250$ bucks for the iLO Advanced license wasn't worth it since Linux never crashes, etc. pp.
Face it: IT sucks. The OS matters little.
MCM = Multi Chip Module
Beckton, the 8 core / 16 threads Nehalem CPU will be out in Q1 2010.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1050976/intel-bunch-fun-cpus-moves-2010
Intel already has the 6 core Dunnington CPUs out since over a year now. The new nehalem based 6 cores are due Q4.
Yeah, but the i7-920 requires a mainboard with triple channel memory and a quick path interface. They're more expensive than the AMD board, making the price comparison a bit more difficult.
That said, i bought an i7-920, i think it's the better choice - so far, i haven't been disappointed. We have a few new servers with 5540 Xeons, and they're absurdly fast.
Not exactly. IE6 is part of Windows XP. If XP is supported, so is IE6. That's basically what TFA says.
And yeah, i really wish XP will have dignified death, not like NT4 - which is still around :(
Easy solution: Make it a policy that people found writing their passwords down get fired.
I'm running Firmware 1.30 on my OCZ Vertex, which is the newest. I've been running Windows 7 RC, and updates to Windows 7 RTM yesterday, using a full format.
I'm running Bitlocker on the laptop, which should not impact performance more than with the HDD when the SSD supports TRIM (which the Vertex with 1.30 should).
Maybe "okay" was an understatement - it's certainly faster than with the previous 200GB 7.2kRPM HDD, but it wasn't the experience i got when upgrading to an X25-M on my desktop.
FYI:
Laptop: ThinkPad W500, 4GB, 2.53 Ghz C2D
Desktop: Self-Built, 6GB, 2.66 Ghz i7
There are Visa/MasterCard preload cards available here that anyone of any age can get. I'm quite sure a similar offer must exist in the US.
I have an OCZ Vertex 120GB in my Laptop. Performance is okay, though not phenomenal.
The new X25-M 34nm 160GB i bought for my Desktop on the other hand is awesome. Everything is near instantenous - it's like a new PC.
Err, no. He probably made it impossible to run executables from non-trusted locations.
Seems very, very reasonable to me.
I have a ThinkPad W500, which has onboard Intel graphics or a Ati Radeon 3650. They too can be switched automatically or at will.
The reason you can't do it on XP is because Apple hasn't bothered to release drivers for it.
Move on. 2GB is standard for a cheap office PC. Consumer PCs ship with 2-4GB of memory. 300MB for the browser is perfectly acceptable.
You're completely wrong here.
Windows 6.0.6000 = Windows Vista RTM
Windows 6.0.6001= Windows Vista SP1 / Windows Server 2008 SP1 RTM (WS08 RTMed directly as SP1)
Windows 6.0.6002 = Windows Vista SP2 / Windows Server 2008 SP2
Windows 6.1.7600 = Windows 7 RTM / Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM