I just heard on the news that Iran is letting the negotiators in to their Nuclear facilities and are opening up to negotiation... can another middle east conflict maybe be avoided?
Please tell me that you did not pay for XP antivirus and that you where merely relating an end user complaint.
Because if you where the one installing XP Antivirus then you should not be allowed near a help desk....re reading your comment makes me suspect the former, that it was not you but some hapless end user...
A lot of people who continue to bash Vista are just sheep that have no real clue why exactly Vista was bad or why Windows 7 is better (hint: Vista paved the road for 7).
Let me address those for you.
Why was Vista Bad.
Right, about $200 or more for an OS. That's it. That is not a technical fault of the OS mind you. It suffers from a lack of performance. To get anything like sane workable performance out of it you need a machine with at least a dualcore plus 2gb or RAM and a proper Graphics card. When Vista was released that was in the upper spectrum of Laptop specs. Heck laptops with dedicated graphics are STILL in the upper spectrum. It suffers from Chronic slowdown. How many laptops have I come across that have this problem? They run fine one year, just good enough with a newish processor and one gig ram. A year later you have to add another gig of ram in order to get some of the original performance back, which is still worse than that of XP. UAC. It is a horrible implementation of a good idea. Basically what microsoft gave us was: A pretty new operating system that performs worse than the one it was supposed to replace. There is a good reason that people still cling to XP in preference to Vista.
Now on to "...or why Windows 7 is better"
Who said Win7 is better? Sure you might have tried it, and it might seem spunky and quick, but ask yourself this - how much of what you hated or disliked about Vista has actually changed? One thing that worries me is that one of the greatest flaws with Vista was how the driver stack was built. Now when WIn7 comes along the news is "don't worry, Win7 is compatible with Vista drivers!!!!111!!1!" I am running Win7 Ultimate (the proper release not the RC) and let me tell you now - it is at best an incrimental, slight improvement over Vista.
The fact that it is an improvement over VISTA does not prove anything, is it an improvement over the other options that the market offers? Is the "new" interface, that only differs as far as the new taskbar goes (which borrowed elements from the Mac dock and the KDE panel), really better than MacOS, or KDE or Gnome? Or is it just different? Will it prove to be as long lived as XP? Looking back over the last three years - when everyone cried "Yay we now have an alternative to XP" - Windows XP is pretty darn good enough for most people. Will Win7 be toXP what XP was to 98?
The real question is whether Win7 will woo people away from MacOs or Linux. For Microsoft to get people away from Vista to Win7 only proves that the previous version of the OS was worse than the current one, not that the new OS offers something new to the market that is lacking in the other offers out there.
Well the "get the data to the pigeon" is probably a moot point since you can release the pigeon from right next to the laptop where you will be sending the data from. Also you can start the send the moment you start uploading the data to a memory drive. 4gb should not take that long to load onto a newish flash disk...
And then the pigeon will probably land next to the laptop receiving the data.
And, come to think of it, who says the data via pigeon needs to be computer to computer? If a sysadmin receives it, it is received no?
True story - I was working late one night and was busy shutting down everything in my office before going home. One by one I closed terminals on my laptop until typing 'shutdown now' in the last one.
I was still packing stuff and reached over to put my laptop in my bag and blinked at the terminal message 'connection to servername lost.'
With horror I realised that I had shut down our main mailserver! I had forgotten that I was still in an SSH session after reading through exim logfiles trying to find a missing e-mail that a client had insisted was stuck in our server.
This machine is an hour's drive from the office, and the support techs at the IDC took almost 30minutes to get up from their desks and walk down the corridor to push the power button. Talk about service. It is literally a five minute job!
When I phoned my colleague who was responsible for the server I said "Guess what I just did!?"
He laughed and joked "Probably shut down the mailserver?"
When I confirmed he responded "*groan* I forgot to alias that command! Sure I aliased poweroff, but not shutdown!"
When are people going to begin to realise that as far as consumers go there is no free market. Sure you can get a better deal at carrier B than carrier C but you will never get the BEST DEAL POSSIBLE because they don't want to give it to you. Profit is paramount, but these guys are really taking it too far.
(Dang character limits! Last word is supposed to be "substandard")
I just got a mail from my boss that I should use MS Project for managing my project.
The current project I am leading includes two teams, one team uses exclusively Linux, and the other team uses exclusively Windows except for me who is on Linux. So I decided to use Planner as my Project Management tool and export the progress reports to HTML for everyone to use easily. I am the only one in the group needing to use a management tool in any case.
Now I need to re-do my planning in MS Project. The easy part will be getting MS Project to run.
I don't even know if MS Project can export to HTML so that the others in the teams DON'T need to install it. At least they can run Planner since it can import MS Project XML files.
I must say I am frustrated that Planner cannot export to MS Project format - maybe there is someone around who knows of an add on or build that does exactly that?
Sigh.
Okay I'll end my hissyfit now and enjoy my short two-day holiday before installing MS-Project on Monday. What a downer.
That basically settles it for me - I won't buy a sony product until things like this stops.
I had a sony-erricson phone a few years back, and now I am stuck with a Nokia 9300 (which I am [was] very happy with) and now I am going Android and no more sony, nokia and siemens...
Ooh another Gentoo server geek! At our company all our large servers and client servers (save our Windows Webserver [you gotta have at least one meh]) are gentoo boxen.
A 1U server just showed up - ready for install. Not my job to do the install though, but I will be going with a guy on Friday night to install it in the cabinet at the DC.
Is a dying art - and I am not referring to malicious hacking. That is a term spawned by the over-hyped media.
Being able to hack a system to get it to work is sadly something that less and less techs are able to do. Format-reinstall is the mantra of techsupport lately.
And these tools that the summary mentions might not refer to that kind of hack, but they still have some real-world positive applications that seem to be eschewed by the new generation of IT staffers, and when something does go bork in the night they stare wide-eyed at the screen and look for the re-install disks without thinking of running a diagnostic such as NMAP or metasploit (yes it can and should be used as a diagnostic tool) to find out where the problem actually lies.
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I just heard on the news that Iran is letting the negotiators in to their Nuclear facilities and are opening up to negotiation... can another middle east conflict maybe be avoided?
Please tell me that you did not pay for XP antivirus and that you where merely relating an end user complaint.
Because if you where the one installing XP Antivirus then you should not be allowed near a help desk. ...re reading your comment makes me suspect the former, that it was not you but some hapless end user...
*AHEM*
Pardon Me.
A lot of people who continue to bash Vista are just sheep that have no real clue why exactly Vista was bad or why Windows 7 is better (hint: Vista paved the road for 7).
Let me address those for you.
Why was Vista Bad.
Right, about $200 or more for an OS. That's it. That is not a technical fault of the OS mind you.
It suffers from a lack of performance. To get anything like sane workable performance out of it you need a machine with at least a dualcore plus 2gb or RAM and a proper Graphics card. When Vista was released that was in the upper spectrum of Laptop specs. Heck laptops with dedicated graphics are STILL in the upper spectrum.
It suffers from Chronic slowdown. How many laptops have I come across that have this problem? They run fine one year, just good enough with a newish processor and one gig ram. A year later you have to add another gig of ram in order to get some of the original performance back, which is still worse than that of XP.
UAC. It is a horrible implementation of a good idea.
Basically what microsoft gave us was: A pretty new operating system that performs worse than the one it was supposed to replace.
There is a good reason that people still cling to XP in preference to Vista.
Now on to "...or why Windows 7 is better"
Who said Win7 is better? Sure you might have tried it, and it might seem spunky and quick, but ask yourself this - how much of what you hated or disliked about Vista has actually changed?
One thing that worries me is that one of the greatest flaws with Vista was how the driver stack was built. Now when WIn7 comes along the news is "don't worry, Win7 is compatible with Vista drivers!!!!111!!1!"
I am running Win7 Ultimate (the proper release not the RC) and let me tell you now - it is at best an incrimental, slight improvement over Vista.
The fact that it is an improvement over VISTA does not prove anything, is it an improvement over the other options that the market offers? Is the "new" interface, that only differs as far as the new taskbar goes (which borrowed elements from the Mac dock and the KDE panel), really better than MacOS, or KDE or Gnome? Or is it just different?
Will it prove to be as long lived as XP? Looking back over the last three years - when everyone cried "Yay we now have an alternative to XP" - Windows XP is pretty darn good enough for most people. Will Win7 be toXP what XP was to 98?
The real question is whether Win7 will woo people away from MacOs or Linux. For Microsoft to get people away from Vista to Win7 only proves that the previous version of the OS was worse than the current one, not that the new OS offers something new to the market that is lacking in the other offers out there.
Well I can second this. I ran the RC and the full version, full version took me two days to install Office because of a "known issue" with my dvdrom.
Did you read See No Evil? Good book that.
I did not agree or disagree with either side, note my abundant use of "apparently" etc.
How did you get from my post that I think intelligence work is like what I see in Mission Impossible?
I have not even SEEN mission impossible.
I did read "See No Evil" written by Robert Baer though. Good read.
Good point, but flawed.
Building a nuke from say... wikipedia entries is kinda like writing the Linux kernal from scratch by reading man pages
How reliable is US intelligence today? I mean, they were wrong (or lied) about Iraq, and now they are seemingly wrong about Iran.
I cannot make up my mind which is worse, them being wrong or them lieing...
Lies, thats worse...
But them being (apparently) wrong on this makes me wonder how often they are wrong with intel regarding the The War On Terror (TM)
I was thinking something along the same line.
Maybe stonehenge is part of a complex of structures? Maybe an ancient city? Or a temple complex...
I wonder if there is an "ISS v2" on the cards or if they will only keep expanding this one?
I thought as much, but couldn't remember for sure.
Well it could also be because a Rio olympics would be really awesome. I don't think Chicago could compete on atmosphere with Rio.
You are missing a parenthesis.
for (int cnt = 1; cnt do_stuffs());
Did I infringe on your code, improve it or just open myself open to a lawsuit in a thousand ways?
You know the rule; if it tastes like chicken it probably isn't.
Well the "get the data to the pigeon" is probably a moot point since you can release the pigeon from right next to the laptop where you will be sending the data from. Also you can start the send the moment you start uploading the data to a memory drive. 4gb should not take that long to load onto a newish flash disk...
And then the pigeon will probably land next to the laptop receiving the data.
And, come to think of it, who says the data via pigeon needs to be computer to computer? If a sysadmin receives it, it is received no?
Whatever, I root for the pigeon.
True story - I was working late one night and was busy shutting down everything in my office before going home. One by one I closed terminals on my laptop until typing 'shutdown now' in the last one.
I was still packing stuff and reached over to put my laptop in my bag and blinked at the terminal message 'connection to servername lost.'
With horror I realised that I had shut down our main mailserver! I had forgotten that I was still in an SSH session after reading through exim logfiles trying to find a missing e-mail that a client had insisted was stuck in our server.
This machine is an hour's drive from the office, and the support techs at the IDC took almost 30minutes to get up from their desks and walk down the corridor to push the power button. Talk about service. It is literally a five minute job!
When I phoned my colleague who was responsible for the server I said "Guess what I just did!?"
He laughed and joked "Probably shut down the mailserver?"
When I confirmed he responded "*groan* I forgot to alias that command! Sure I aliased poweroff, but not shutdown!"
Good Times.
erm... these don't stick?
When are people going to begin to realise that as far as consumers go there is no free market. Sure you can get a better deal at carrier B than carrier C but you will never get the BEST DEAL POSSIBLE because they don't want to give it to you. Profit is paramount, but these guys are really taking it too far.
Oh that is just great!
Our main method of communication is e-mail, and now I have to either PRINT it or send screenshots!
Thank you for the info.
(Dang character limits! Last word is supposed to be "substandard")
I just got a mail from my boss that I should use MS Project for managing my project.
The current project I am leading includes two teams, one team uses exclusively Linux, and the other team uses exclusively Windows except for me who is on Linux. So I decided to use Planner as my Project Management tool and export the progress reports to HTML for everyone to use easily. I am the only one in the group needing to use a management tool in any case.
Now I need to re-do my planning in MS Project. The easy part will be getting MS Project to run.
I don't even know if MS Project can export to HTML so that the others in the teams DON'T need to install it. At least they can run Planner since it can import MS Project XML files.
I must say I am frustrated that Planner cannot export to MS Project format - maybe there is someone around who knows of an add on or build that does exactly that?
Sigh.
Okay I'll end my hissyfit now and enjoy my short two-day holiday before installing MS-Project on Monday. What a downer.
That basically settles it for me - I won't buy a sony product until things like this stops.
I had a sony-erricson phone a few years back, and now I am stuck with a Nokia 9300 (which I am [was] very happy with) and now I am going Android and no more sony, nokia and siemens...
Was my Engrish THAT bad?
It is my second language, mind you.
Ooh another Gentoo server geek! At our company all our large servers and client servers (save our Windows Webserver [you gotta have at least one meh]) are gentoo boxen.
A 1U server just showed up - ready for install. Not my job to do the install though, but I will be going with a guy on Friday night to install it in the cabinet at the DC.
Woot!
Is a dying art - and I am not referring to malicious hacking. That is a term spawned by the over-hyped media.
Being able to hack a system to get it to work is sadly something that less and less techs are able to do. Format-reinstall is the mantra of techsupport lately.
And these tools that the summary mentions might not refer to that kind of hack, but they still have some real-world positive applications that seem to be eschewed by the new generation of IT staffers, and when something does go bork in the night they stare wide-eyed at the screen and look for the re-install disks without thinking of running a diagnostic such as NMAP or metasploit (yes it can and should be used as a diagnostic tool) to find out where the problem actually lies.
Wikipedia is communism.
And how is that bad, comrade?