I used to play a PC game called Magic Carpet. It had a mode where all the game graphics were rendered in a 'magic eye' type mode. Once you got your eyes tweaked just right, it was all 3D and no glasses were required. Of course, it also looked like a box of crayons exploded.....
That's too bad. Not for me...I have a great 50Mb connection...but for just about anyone living in a rural area or who wants to take their laptops camping and have an ad-hoc lan party in the middle of nowhere.
An April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project shows 63% of American homes have broadband Internet access. So those remaining 37% (tens of millions of people) are politely asked to not buy this game I guess. Digital divide FTW!
That problem is caused, not by the concept, but by an admin who does not know what they are doing. If one does it correctly using group policy and such, it works very well.
Microsoft really needs to add the ability to set user profiles on a different partition, as you can w/ UNIX.
Um, they're called 'roaming profiles' and have been around for some time. You can store users' profiles anywhere you want...different drive, or even a remote server.
Excellent points, all. The tricky part is finding an IT pro with that skillset. There's not exactly a massive demand for it (a Craigslist search for 'mac administrator' came up with 1 result all of Seattle...for an administrative assistant in a real estate office), and therefore a company will pay a premium for someone who has enterprise-level Mac admin skills. I think Mac are fundamentally better systems, but companies are not concerned with what's better but what's more profitable. There is a much higher demand for Windows admins (the same search for 'Windows administrator' returned 41 results), so more people have that skillset, so companies can pay a bit less. Personally, I think the best thing is be an expert in both with maybe a little Linux admin thrown in good measure....but if I had that kind of time I may as well just go get my CCIE and call it good;0)
Assuming you're employing people doing menial tasks who pull in $35K a year...
Companies with 100's of employees on that kind of career path generally don't issue them workstations that cost, at minimum, well over $1000 each (and that's an iMac...hardly a 'workstation'). Most companies I have worked for or been otherwise associated with go with $400 Dells or HPs. They might spring for high-end systems for a few key people, but that's rare.
Who said anything about extra sysadmins? One person can support 100's of Windows workstations just as easily (or more easily IMO) as Mac workstations. The difference is with Windows that ability is built-in. In Macs, it's not. What's more you will pay a premium to a Mac admin since a lot fewer IT folks have enterprise-level Mac admin skills.
"Perform over a dozen commands securely on remote Mac OS X systems, such as locking screens, sleep, wake, restart, and shutdown."
Wow! Over a dozen? You mean I can restart AND shutdown?? Amazing!
"Configure Task Server* to perform package installation...*Task Server requires additional Unlimited Managed Systems license."
Brilliant.
"Apple Remote Desktop 3 is licensed per administrator..."
So if your company grows and an hire a second admin you get to buy that license again?
Listen, if you're a Flash developer or a graphics girl, then Macs are the way to go. Even as a home computer they are far superior in many ways. But when one needs to, say, restart a service or rename 500 workstations, you just can't beat taking 3 minutes to write a two-line batch file and getting it done with OTB functionality.
Are you kidding? With VL, our cost for a seat of Windows 7 Enterprise is less than $25. Don't get me wrong; I am not a Mac hater. In fact I have one on my desk right now (all the admins in my company do). But buying some 3rd party app to do something as basic as remotely administer a workstation is just crazy. Kind of like buying a smartphone where the concept of 'copy/paste' is a new feature... (I kid...)
Good idea! So for, say, 500 Mac workstations Deep Freeze Enterprise licensing would only be a paltry $16,224.00 (and that's including the government discount). I'd be stupid not to buy it!
They only need a warrant if the data owner demands one before compliance. The thing is, the large telecoms are lapdogs to the federal government. They need the government's blessing to make a profit so are all to willing to turn over your records upon request.
Geez, relax junior! That decision was only covering the issue "ownership" as it relates to first sale rights and nothing else. The software purchaser still cannot legally do things like rent, lease, de-compile, etc (like they could do with property they fully owned).
Also, here is a big-boy link (seriously, you used a URL shortener?).
While I agree in principle, these "Microsoft's days are numbered!" decrees seem a bit tired. I have been hearing/reading them since I started my IT career in the early 1990's, and I am still waiting for the Great Satan that is M$ to fall.
COMDEX failed, not because they ran out of money per se, but because all the major players wanted to 'do their own thing' and just pulled out. However SUPERCOMM is failing because not enough people and/or corporations can afford to go.
I just tried to 'recommend my community' and apparently one needs to be part of some community organization to make the recommendation. I wonder if 'my house' can be considered a community organization?
"To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state."
Can a brother get some restrictive clauses and pronouns up in here?
I believe it should be "Re-Randomchanceing the immune system". Remember, something cannot be accidentally engineered. The summary writer is clearly in the pocket of Big I.D./sarcasm
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I used to play a PC game called Magic Carpet. It had a mode where all the game graphics were rendered in a 'magic eye' type mode. Once you got your eyes tweaked just right, it was all 3D and no glasses were required. Of course, it also looked like a box of crayons exploded.....
That's too bad. Not for me...I have a great 50Mb connection...but for just about anyone living in a rural area or who wants to take their laptops camping and have an ad-hoc lan party in the middle of nowhere.
An April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project shows 63% of American homes have broadband Internet access. So those remaining 37% (tens of millions of people) are politely asked to not buy this game I guess. Digital divide FTW!
That problem is caused, not by the concept, but by an admin who does not know what they are doing. If one does it correctly using group policy and such, it works very well.
Will SC2 support true LAN play, or just that pseudo-LAN thing where one have to 'authenticate' first?
Will SC2 support multi-core systems? I got this fancy quad-core system and core 1 thru 3 get pissed when core 0 is being pegged.
Um, they're called 'roaming profiles' and have been around for some time. You can store users' profiles anywhere you want...different drive, or even a remote server.
Excellent points, all. The tricky part is finding an IT pro with that skillset. There's not exactly a massive demand for it (a Craigslist search for 'mac administrator' came up with 1 result all of Seattle...for an administrative assistant in a real estate office), and therefore a company will pay a premium for someone who has enterprise-level Mac admin skills. I think Mac are fundamentally better systems, but companies are not concerned with what's better but what's more profitable. There is a much higher demand for Windows admins (the same search for 'Windows administrator' returned 41 results), so more people have that skillset, so companies can pay a bit less. Personally, I think the best thing is be an expert in both with maybe a little Linux admin thrown in good measure....but if I had that kind of time I may as well just go get my CCIE and call it good ;0)
Companies with 100's of employees on that kind of career path generally don't issue them workstations that cost, at minimum, well over $1000 each (and that's an iMac...hardly a 'workstation'). Most companies I have worked for or been otherwise associated with go with $400 Dells or HPs. They might spring for high-end systems for a few key people, but that's rare.
Who said anything about extra sysadmins? One person can support 100's of Windows workstations just as easily (or more easily IMO) as Mac workstations. The difference is with Windows that ability is built-in. In Macs, it's not. What's more you will pay a premium to a Mac admin since a lot fewer IT folks have enterprise-level Mac admin skills.
From the site:
"Perform over a dozen commands securely on remote Mac OS X systems, such as locking screens, sleep, wake, restart, and shutdown."
Wow! Over a dozen? You mean I can restart AND shutdown?? Amazing!
"Configure Task Server* to perform package installation...*Task Server requires additional Unlimited Managed Systems license."
Brilliant.
"Apple Remote Desktop 3 is licensed per administrator..."
So if your company grows and an hire a second admin you get to buy that license again?
Listen, if you're a Flash developer or a graphics girl, then Macs are the way to go. Even as a home computer they are far superior in many ways. But when one needs to, say, restart a service or rename 500 workstations, you just can't beat taking 3 minutes to write a two-line batch file and getting it done with OTB functionality.
Are you kidding? With VL, our cost for a seat of Windows 7 Enterprise is less than $25. Don't get me wrong; I am not a Mac hater. In fact I have one on my desk right now (all the admins in my company do). But buying some 3rd party app to do something as basic as remotely administer a workstation is just crazy. Kind of like buying a smartphone where the concept of 'copy/paste' is a new feature... (I kid...)
Good idea! So for, say, 500 Mac workstations Deep Freeze Enterprise licensing would only be a paltry $16,224.00 (and that's including the government discount). I'd be stupid not to buy it!
The quarter million my company just paid to IBM for several racks of AIX servers beg to differ.
They only need a warrant if the data owner demands one before compliance. The thing is, the large telecoms are lapdogs to the federal government. They need the government's blessing to make a profit so are all to willing to turn over your records upon request.
Geez, relax junior! That decision was only covering the issue "ownership" as it relates to first sale rights and nothing else. The software purchaser still cannot legally do things like rent, lease, de-compile, etc (like they could do with property they fully owned).
Also, here is a big-boy link (seriously, you used a URL shortener?).
...skip update KB71033.
While I agree in principle, these "Microsoft's days are numbered!" decrees seem a bit tired. I have been hearing/reading them since I started my IT career in the early 1990's, and I am still waiting for the Great Satan that is M$ to fall.
They already did, like 25 years from now. I was amazed at how many ifths per oofth it will have.
COMDEX failed, not because they ran out of money per se, but because all the major players wanted to 'do their own thing' and just pulled out. However SUPERCOMM is failing because not enough people and/or corporations can afford to go.
Well that...or the largest economic decline in several generations. But let's go with websites.
'adds'? 'targetted'? Are you looking for ads for Parkinson's medication?
I tried www.yzzzyrd.com in IE and it seems to not exist. So is there some kind of point you are going for here?
I just tried to 'recommend my community' and apparently one needs to be part of some community organization to make the recommendation. I wonder if 'my house' can be considered a community organization?
"To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state."
Can a brother get some restrictive clauses and pronouns up in here?
I believe it should be "Re-Randomchanceing the immune system". Remember, something cannot be accidentally engineered. The summary writer is clearly in the pocket of Big I.D. /sarcasm