However if your OUs aren't crap, and you use RSoP to figure out what overlaps where, who overrides whom, you can get some things done correctly.
The real answer is "GPOs break crappy legacy apps" and we're too lazy/broke to fix them. Once you identify what the real problems are, its easy to put the Legacy App users into their own OU, and exempt them from whatever 1 piece of your Security Policy breaks their app.
I know business needs trump security policy, but it needs to be in very specific cases, not binary we can't have security anywhere because one group somewhere has one not very well defined need.
If you're smart, even if you have to do it the hard way, you'll only do it ONCE.
Everything after that should be automateable.
In a pre-AD world of 1997 I was stuck in a USDA office in Texas for 2 and a half weeks putting Nics into machines, loading netscape, installing networked printers. I touched over 200 boxes in that time by hand.
So if you have to touch 600 machines, prep your Ghost image, management client, whatever, but the time you spend touching these machines by hand once is far less time than you'd spend touching each machine every time a new patch comes out for the rest of your life.
And if you can get an intern or temp to help you, life will be that much easier.
In 2003 I was an admin for a small market research company with a medium sized data processing group. I left them to go do some government contract work. When I first got there in 1998 it was a mixed up mess of machines, and over time I got a tape changer, patch management, reliable servers not whiteboxes, Terminal Services and VPN, gigabit backbones for the data processing group and things were moving pretty slickly.
When I left they never bothered to hire my replacement as the manager who stayed behind could change tapes and handle dealing with the users. He got some rent a techs on retainer for heavy lifting and at the end of the following year he called me to see what he should do with a few hundred hours of support he had left. He ended up migrating the mail server to newer hardware I believe.
So a few weeks ago I was talking with a friend of mine that still works there in data processing, the shop now runs itself, the manager is gone, and the rent a geeks are still on call for the heavy lifting.
I don't know. There might be corner cases where the person is blind or on a breathing machine, even the guy who was in a coma for 23 years but heard everything.
I don't know if you've ever read any of the Flow or finding Flow books, but there is a premise that people work at their best when they have;
A simple well defined problem
Theorhetically then a good Programmer or Dev Lead is one that can narrow his/his team's focus and get working at their best on one issue at a time. Simultaneously they need to have their eye on the big picture and ensure that none of the simple, even elegant solutions still works with all the other parts it needs to. Maybe he does this with good design or good requirements.
Since Lines of Code, or time spent in the office can be gamed and are meaningless as metrics, then how about trying to measure Quality, fitness for purpose, do the customers like it? Can we measure problems/bugs each programmer generates? Can we measure the level of support calls, and customer goodwill lost due to rotten code?
Productivity isn't just getting crappy alpha to crappy beta to crappy shipped on time, or even the mediocre 'we fixed the worst stuff' (that we knew about) before it shipped.
I didn't read the article, but what kinds of speeds are they getting?
Reading Words per minute is supposed to go up when you stop subvocalizing the words as you read them. For the same reasons is thinking about writing going to be faster than typing?
Are your fingers the bottleneck? or is the speed you're thinking about the words the theorhetical top speed?
Certainly there are applications for people with disabilities, but once you acknowledge that, the next question is, is it better than the old way for non-disabled folks.
Yeah, but where is that guy who's sig says the ultimate hardware hack is to tune a health body, now he can get at the firmware too.
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It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
And Electrodes in the brain.
Right...
It is by will and electrodes in my brain I set my mind in motion.
Funny, assuming you're right about the disrupted businesses*. Microsoft gives away free proprietary software to disrupt other people's businesses and ACTUALLY so does Google, they have lots of proprietary free stuff, but very little OSS that would compete with anything but other small OSS projects.
Google's free proprietary apps *YouTube, Viacom claims they lose revenue due to YouTube, but YouTube isn't open source. *Google Maps to put Mapquest? out of business, oh wait that isn't open source either. *Gmail that's the evil project to get rid of free email, you can't get free email anymore thanks to Google, right? oh and not open source. *Picassa that's probably put Adobe out of the Photo Editing business by now right? oh and not open source.
So now I'm looking over at Google Code, all 30 pages of open source market ravaging projects they have; *Chromium free browser to take sales revenue away from all the proprietary paid browsers? *Android free phone OS to put Palm, Apple, RIM and Microsoft out of the Phone business?
If you actually look at Google's OSS offerings except for the two above they are all tiny apps, widgets, templates and APIs for their other products.
Forget that it is less than 50 teams, with 53 roster slots each and so landing a job in the NFL is like winning the lottery. Now take $770,000 dollars per year median salary in the NLF times the three and a half seasons your career is actually going to last according to the NFL Players Association.
$2,695,000 before taxes. That may seem like a lot, but unless you save or invest it, it isn't going to last, and generally these guys don't have many other skills to fall back on.
Now sprinkle on knee/ankle injuries, head injuries and back injuries you are guaranteed to get. Add in any possible career ending injuries on the field, and tell me that IT doesn't win hands down.
There is a reason the NFL is looking into all the head injuries, and that so many former players are broke and the Players Association is taking up collections to help them get surgeries when their body breaks down 10 to 20 years later.
They also have to try to keep guys active when they leave the league because a lot of them get huge from eating the way they were trained to when they played, then when they aren't exercising hours a day they can't metabolize all that food.
Well you can get a basic sear very quickly, but at 2 minutes over high heat the meat has shrunk enough away from the grill that it won't stick when you try to turn the meat.
Once both sides are done, you're saying its safe to eat from a bacteria standpoint.
It's still not 'done' and everything else I said still stands, people should continue to cook the meat until it reaches just under their desired doneness, then let carryover heat do the rest.
This same method works for Pork Chops and Chicken Breasts. Haven't tried it on burgers.
You need the meat to get to a high enough temperature to kill off anything bad living in the meat, however high temperatures denature the proteins and make them tough and chewy.
The best recipe I've found so far cooks the steak over 450 degree flames for 2 minutes on each side, and then moves it off the heat, or to low heat to finish cooking at whatever internal temp you fancy.
Also note that carryover heat will continue to cook the meat for several minutes after you remove if from the grill, so taking it off the heat a few degrees before your given level of doneness is advisable, and even safe with an instant read thermometer.
Audie Murphy was a particularly brave kind of guy, he got up, ran over no man's land through machine gun fire and then threw the grenade into the emplacement. I think your earlier statement about grenades ending the thing, forgets that a machinegun bullet can travel hundreds of yards, and grenades only a few.
The guys back in the trenches were not paralyzed, but just couldn't bring themselves to charge the machinegun. Now in a pen and paper game there is no "cone of do anything but attack the caster" that functions perfectly like this, but in game PCs would be the ones their commanding officer asked to take out the MG nest.
And as others have said, I would like a game that rewards the nighttime stealth into the emplacement and slitting the throats of the occupants, rather than the direct approach.
Don't discount the fact thsat the SRBs were Man Rated, you need a lot of sucessful launches to man-rate an engine or a rocket stack. By reusing the SRBs from the shuttle they were supposed to be able to rely on the safety record of the SRBs and get a new vehicle put into production far faster than a built from scratch new vehicle.
Now include the fact that all Constellation design, testing and building has to go on simultaneously with an operational shuttle program. There was hope to have some overlap, or at least a very small window of time when we didn't have a shuttle or a rocket that could reach the ISS.
Unfortunately over time that window grew larger and larger. People start talking about extending the life of the shuttle program, but that delays the rocket program further.
A lot of times on slashdot we see folks say why can't you do both, pay for science AND education, or any set of programs you wish. In this case two large programs one operational and one development are too much to hope for with the resources they've been given.
This is why I am hopeful for an outsider, an increase in funding can work, because there isn't any resource contention for people or their focus.
"NASA is ready to cooperate with China in space exploration, the head of the US agency said on Tuesday, as Beijing aims to send a manned mission to the moon by around 2020."
Well SpaceX already has NASA contracts worth up to $1 Billion so your 'doubt' doesn't really matter. They also have contracts with the Air force for more governmnet money.
If Obama were shifting Constellation's focus from Area I to Ares V I don't think there weould be quite so much fighting in Congress, but again any HLV is a win.
As far as commercial companies taking over ISS resupply, that's old news from SpaceX wiki page; "On Friday 18 August 2006, NASA announced that the company was one of two selected to provide crew and cargo resupply demonstration contracts to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program."
How that specifically equates to space tourism, well the Dragon module (from SpaceX) when complete and man-rated will carry 7 people to the ISS.
"According to knowledgeable sources, the White House is convinced that scarce NASA funds would be better spent on a simpler heavy-lift vehicle that could be ready to fly as early as 2018."
Nothing in the article says what that HLV would be, or who would build it. The article also talks about the fight in Congress over Constellation districts losing aerospace jobs.
The only thing I am aware of is Elon Musk saying NASA has an option for SpaceX to develop an HLV, and I'm not talking about Falcon 9 or Falcon 9 Heavy. Anything else would be the usual suspects dusting off old blueprints and submitting proposals, or something I'm not aware of, which would be fine too.
I went to see one of the three Star Wars prequel movies in Digital.
It struck me then that R2D2 was pixellated and had aliasing/dithering issues because his bright white robotic exterior was so much brighter than the surrounding background on the screen. Also you could see the lines around individual pixels on the white surfaces, looked like he was wearing graph paper.
I was also thinking at the time that the Sony projector I had just bought for the office would look better, not that we projected our quarterly reports on screens THAT big.
One: As we talked about in the new Stealth UAV story Afghans have Stingers we gave them when they were fighting the Russians.
Two: Does anyone know if video from the new Stealth UAV is Encrypted/Unencrypted?
Three: Announcing a -flaw- in the Predator, not just theorhetical, but its use in the wild shortly after the announcement of the Stealth UAV is either bait for the adversary to rely on exploiting the Predator more, or a ploy to sell more Stealth UAVs.
Can't discover new lands if you never lose sight of the shore and all that...
But there are people that don't leave, don't take chances, have kids, plant their crops and tend their herds. That is probably a good thing, because without them you can't have a society. We can't all be pioneers and explorers.
Its the same way we need to have police to have a society, but not everybody has the mindset to put their life in danger for the common good.
Thankfully for those people we can build robots, I mean that in both ways, robot explorers so our good human explorers don't travel light years to a planet with no chance of sustaining them, and robotic farmers to tend crops/livestock while our explorers are finding water and mineral deposits, or at least verifying the findings of the previous robot explorers survey.
At some point in the future when spacetravel is far more routine the homebodies will travel to the colonies on vacation to see mile high waterfalls, and other exotic attractions.
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It IS too easy to break things with GPOs.
However if your OUs aren't crap, and you use RSoP to figure out what overlaps where, who overrides whom, you can get some things done correctly.
The real answer is "GPOs break crappy legacy apps" and we're too lazy/broke to fix them. Once you identify what the real problems are, its easy to put the Legacy App users into their own OU, and exempt them from whatever 1 piece of your Security Policy breaks their app.
I know business needs trump security policy, but it needs to be in very specific cases, not binary we can't have security anywhere because one group somewhere has one not very well defined need.
If you're smart, even if you have to do it the hard way, you'll only do it ONCE.
Everything after that should be automateable.
In a pre-AD world of 1997 I was stuck in a USDA office in Texas for 2 and a half weeks putting Nics into machines, loading netscape, installing networked printers. I touched over 200 boxes in that time by hand.
So if you have to touch 600 machines, prep your Ghost image, management client, whatever, but the time you spend touching these machines by hand once is far less time than you'd spend touching each machine every time a new patch comes out for the rest of your life.
And if you can get an intern or temp to help you, life will be that much easier.
In 2003 I was an admin for a small market research company with a medium sized data processing group. I left them to go do some government contract work. When I first got there in 1998 it was a mixed up mess of machines, and over time I got a tape changer, patch management, reliable servers not whiteboxes, Terminal Services and VPN, gigabit backbones for the data processing group and things were moving pretty slickly.
When I left they never bothered to hire my replacement as the manager who stayed behind could change tapes and handle dealing with the users. He got some rent a techs on retainer for heavy lifting and at the end of the following year he called me to see what he should do with a few hundred hours of support he had left. He ended up migrating the mail server to newer hardware I believe.
So a few weeks ago I was talking with a friend of mine that still works there in data processing, the shop now runs itself, the manager is gone, and the rent a geeks are still on call for the heavy lifting.
So Admin rights for everyone then?
Forget change management too, that's obviously too hard.
Managers probably never put things in email either, unless its to cover their behind.
Verbal direction ought to be good enough.
I don't know. There might be corner cases where the person is blind or on a breathing machine, even the guy who was in a coma for 23 years but heard everything.
I don't know if you've ever read any of the Flow or finding Flow books, but there is a premise that people work at their best when they have;
A simple well defined problem
Theorhetically then a good Programmer or Dev Lead is one that can narrow his/his team's focus and get working at their best on one issue at a time. Simultaneously they need to have their eye on the big picture and ensure that none of the simple, even elegant solutions still works with all the other parts it needs to. Maybe he does this with good design or good requirements.
Since Lines of Code, or time spent in the office can be gamed and are meaningless as metrics, then how about trying to measure Quality, fitness for purpose, do the customers like it? Can we measure problems/bugs each programmer generates? Can we measure the level of support calls, and customer goodwill lost due to rotten code?
Productivity isn't just getting crappy alpha to crappy beta to crappy shipped on time, or even the mediocre 'we fixed the worst stuff' (that we knew about) before it shipped.
I liked your stuff about the intangibles too.
I didn't read the article, but what kinds of speeds are they getting?
Reading Words per minute is supposed to go up when you stop subvocalizing the words as you read them. For the same reasons is thinking about writing going to be faster than typing?
Are your fingers the bottleneck? or is the speed you're thinking about the words the theorhetical top speed?
Certainly there are applications for people with disabilities, but once you acknowledge that, the next question is, is it better than the old way for non-disabled folks.
Yeah, but where is that guy who's sig says the ultimate hardware hack is to tune a health body, now he can get at the firmware too.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
And Electrodes in the brain.
Right...
It is by will and electrodes in my brain I set my mind in motion.
Take a look at what is actually available at Google Code the place where their OSS projects live.
There is very little there except Chromium and Android that might compete with anyone's businesses.
Funny, assuming you're right about the disrupted businesses*. Microsoft gives away free proprietary software to disrupt other people's businesses and ACTUALLY so does Google, they have lots of proprietary free stuff, but very little OSS that would compete with anything but other small OSS projects.
Google's free proprietary apps
*YouTube, Viacom claims they lose revenue due to YouTube, but YouTube isn't open source.
*Google Maps to put Mapquest? out of business, oh wait that isn't open source either.
*Gmail that's the evil project to get rid of free email, you can't get free email anymore thanks to Google, right? oh and not open source.
*Picassa that's probably put Adobe out of the Photo Editing business by now right? oh and not open source.
So now I'm looking over at Google Code, all 30 pages of open source market ravaging projects they have;
*Chromium free browser to take sales revenue away from all the proprietary paid browsers?
*Android free phone OS to put Palm, Apple, RIM and Microsoft out of the Phone business?
If you actually look at Google's OSS offerings except for the two above they are all tiny apps, widgets, templates and APIs for their other products.
Forget that it is less than 50 teams, with 53 roster slots each and so landing a job in the NFL is like winning the lottery. Now take $770,000 dollars per year median salary in the NLF times the three and a half seasons your career is actually going to last according to the NFL Players Association.
$2,695,000 before taxes. That may seem like a lot, but unless you save or invest it, it isn't going to last, and generally these guys don't have many other skills to fall back on.
Now sprinkle on knee/ankle injuries, head injuries and back injuries you are guaranteed to get. Add in any possible career ending injuries on the field, and tell me that IT doesn't win hands down.
There is a reason the NFL is looking into all the head injuries, and that so many former players are broke and the Players Association is taking up collections to help them get surgeries when their body breaks down 10 to 20 years later.
They also have to try to keep guys active when they leave the league because a lot of them get huge from eating the way they were trained to when they played, then when they aren't exercising hours a day they can't metabolize all that food.
Well you can get a basic sear very quickly, but at 2 minutes over high heat the meat has shrunk enough away from the grill that it won't stick when you try to turn the meat.
Once both sides are done, you're saying its safe to eat from a bacteria standpoint.
It's still not 'done' and everything else I said still stands, people should continue to cook the meat until it reaches just under their desired doneness, then let carryover heat do the rest.
This same method works for Pork Chops and Chicken Breasts. Haven't tried it on burgers.
But thanks for being both pithy AND informative.
Oddly enough Grandparent is close to right.
You need the meat to get to a high enough temperature to kill off anything bad living in the meat, however high temperatures denature the proteins and make them tough and chewy.
The best recipe I've found so far cooks the steak over 450 degree flames for 2 minutes on each side, and then moves it off the heat, or to low heat to finish cooking at whatever internal temp you fancy.
Also note that carryover heat will continue to cook the meat for several minutes after you remove if from the grill, so taking it off the heat a few degrees before your given level of doneness is advisable, and even safe with an instant read thermometer.
I beg to differ.
Audie Murphy was a particularly brave kind of guy, he got up, ran over no man's land through machine gun fire and then threw the grenade into the emplacement. I think your earlier statement about grenades ending the thing, forgets that a machinegun bullet can travel hundreds of yards, and grenades only a few.
The guys back in the trenches were not paralyzed, but just couldn't bring themselves to charge the machinegun. Now in a pen and paper game there is no "cone of do anything but attack the caster" that functions perfectly like this, but in game PCs would be the ones their commanding officer asked to take out the MG nest.
And as others have said, I would like a game that rewards the nighttime stealth into the emplacement and slitting the throats of the occupants, rather than the direct approach.
Ahem, this is useless without pics...
I can only imagine the Emperor is the Force Lightning Arthritis Hands, but Luke and Vader?
Don't discount the fact thsat the SRBs were Man Rated, you need a lot of sucessful launches to man-rate an engine or a rocket stack. By reusing the SRBs from the shuttle they were supposed to be able to rely on the safety record of the SRBs and get a new vehicle put into production far faster than a built from scratch new vehicle.
Now include the fact that all Constellation design, testing and building has to go on simultaneously with an operational shuttle program. There was hope to have some overlap, or at least a very small window of time when we didn't have a shuttle or a rocket that could reach the ISS.
Unfortunately over time that window grew larger and larger. People start talking about extending the life of the shuttle program, but that delays the rocket program further.
A lot of times on slashdot we see folks say why can't you do both, pay for science AND education, or any set of programs you wish. In this case two large programs one operational and one development are too much to hope for with the resources they've been given.
This is why I am hopeful for an outsider, an increase in funding can work, because there isn't any resource contention for people or their focus.
You read this http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hla2i5PLLHuXp5CanUH6ygR6M5zA right?
"NASA is ready to cooperate with China in space exploration, the head of the US agency said on Tuesday, as Beijing aims to send a manned mission to the moon by around 2020."
Well SpaceX already has NASA contracts worth up to $1 Billion so your 'doubt' doesn't really matter. They also have contracts with the Air force for more governmnet money.
If Obama were shifting Constellation's focus from Area I to Ares V I don't think there weould be quite so much fighting in Congress, but again any HLV is a win.
As far as commercial companies taking over ISS resupply, that's old news from SpaceX wiki page;
"On Friday 18 August 2006, NASA announced that the company was one of two selected to provide crew and cargo resupply demonstration contracts to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program."
How that specifically equates to space tourism, well the Dragon module (from SpaceX) when complete and man-rated will carry 7 people to the ISS.
However IF the Jobs program does actually create a new Heavy Lift Vehicle, launch costs should go down.
This stretches your Science dollars further on all future space efforts, manned, unmanned, commercial sattellites, etc.
"According to knowledgeable sources, the White House is convinced that scarce NASA funds would be better spent on a simpler heavy-lift vehicle that could be ready to fly as early as 2018."
Nothing in the article says what that HLV would be, or who would build it. The article also talks about the fight in Congress over Constellation districts losing aerospace jobs.
The only thing I am aware of is Elon Musk saying NASA has an option for SpaceX to develop an HLV, and I'm not talking about Falcon 9 or Falcon 9 Heavy. Anything else would be the usual suspects dusting off old blueprints and submitting proposals, or something I'm not aware of, which would be fine too.
I went to see one of the three Star Wars prequel movies in Digital.
It struck me then that R2D2 was pixellated and had aliasing/dithering issues because his bright white robotic exterior was so much brighter than the surrounding background on the screen. Also you could see the lines around individual pixels on the white surfaces, looked like he was wearing graph paper.
I was also thinking at the time that the Sony projector I had just bought for the office would look better, not that we projected our quarterly reports on screens THAT big.
One: As we talked about in the new Stealth UAV story Afghans have Stingers we gave them when they were fighting the Russians.
Two: Does anyone know if video from the new Stealth UAV is Encrypted/Unencrypted?
Three: Announcing a -flaw- in the Predator, not just theorhetical, but its use in the wild shortly after the announcement of the Stealth UAV is either bait for the adversary to rely on exploiting the Predator more, or a ploy to sell more Stealth UAVs.
I am in high hopes that we'll have quantuim entangled bits acting as telegraphs between the colonies by the time that becomes a problem.
Maybe we should send some to Mars on the next launch and see if the bits flip when Time Delay says they should have or not.
Can't discover new lands if you never lose sight of the shore and all that...
But there are people that don't leave, don't take chances, have kids, plant their crops and tend their herds. That is probably a good thing, because without them you can't have a society. We can't all be pioneers and explorers.
Its the same way we need to have police to have a society, but not everybody has the mindset to put their life in danger for the common good.
Thankfully for those people we can build robots, I mean that in both ways, robot explorers so our good human explorers don't travel light years to a planet with no chance of sustaining them, and robotic farmers to tend crops/livestock while our explorers are finding water and mineral deposits, or at least verifying the findings of the previous robot explorers survey.
At some point in the future when spacetravel is far more routine the homebodies will travel to the colonies on vacation to see mile high waterfalls, and other exotic attractions.