Lots of city streets are narrow, and often devoid of wind meaning that the stench of smoking remains there for quite some time as other people walk by.
If you want nicotine, there are many of other ways you could acquire it which wouldn't harm those around you, such methods are also going to be far more efficient because most of it won't be floating away from you.
Yet it's perfectly fine for you to operate an exhaust-belching motor vehicle in the same confined street areas, poisoning those around you with your harmful fumes.
I suppose you could have walked or bought a Segway, but I'm going to insinuate that you're too inconsiderate to do that, and ignore the fact that maybe, since it's not against the law and it could be your preference, that you'd rather drive.
Grr... Slashdot ate my comment the first time I posted it. It follows here:
I do know it's likely a little different when you compare it to XP licensing but, coming from VLK's, since a VLK requires that the machine have some type of Microsoft COA on the box for an OEM edition for a VLK to apply, you couldn't use a VLK on a VM.
On top of that, once you get the VM licensed properly, you have to buy what at the time was called a VECD (Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop) license for each machine as well (at $99 per). On top of that, you need[ed] to be on Software Assurance, which meant there were annual fees associated with the MS licensing on top of whatever Citrix wants....
It's a nightmare, I assure you, and I read somewhere on Brian Madden's website when I researched all of this for my company at the time that for the first two or three years, VDI is actually cheaper when you're using Citrix from a licensing standpoint. After that, the annual fees raise the TCO of licensing the thing much higher than Terminal Server farms, but of course, perhaps the cost difference is worth the sanity that VDI will induce on your administrative burden.
Just saying, there's waaay too much to it. Microsoft enjoys per-seat licensing. As such, it's really the most straight forward option for most businesses.
I do know it's likely a little different when you compare it to XP licensing but, coming from VLK's, since a VLK requires that the machine have some type of Microsoft COA on the box for an OEM edition for a VLK to apply, you couldn't use a VLK on a VM.
On top of that, once you get the VM licensed properly, you have to buy what at the time was called a VECD (Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop) license for each machine as well (at $99 per). On top of that, you need[ed] to be on Software Assurance, which meant there were annual fees associated with the MS licensing on top of whatever Citrix wants....
It's a nightmare, I assure you, and I read somewhere on Brian Madden's website when I researched all of this for my company at the time that for the first two or three years, VDI is actually cheaper when you're using Citrix from a licensing standpoint. After that, the annual fees raise the TCO of licensing the thing much higher than Terminal Server farms, but of course, perhaps the cost difference is worth the sanity that VDI will induce on your administrative burden.
Just saying, there's waaay too much to it. Microsoft enjoys per-seat licensing. As such, it's really the most straight forward option for most businesses.
The biggest issue I have with terminal servers stem from their concurrency.
If a reboot will fix someone's problem or make your software installation easier.... Not to mention, while Microsoft's Terminal Services capabilities are markedly better than they were with Server 2003, Citrix is still king of the hill, and quite frankly, I dislike their software paradigm, but I realize that's my opinion.
Unless you mean VDI, which, in that case, Citrix isn't so bad, but licensing it properly is a pain in the ass.
You might think so, but alas, since the signal is lower, the phone has to use more power to keep itself going. I keep it docked in a charger when I'm at my desk (including right now:P).
With Verizon, if your phone doesn't ring because it's off or out of service and someone doesn't leave you a voicemail, that person may as well have never called you. Niether the phone, the network, nor the voicemail system has anything or indicate otherwise.
I've been using Callwave for well over a year now, because it lets me take/screen/callback missed calls on my computer, sends me emails (with transcriptions) with voicemails attached, and so on.
I've been eyeballing Google Voice for quite a long time now, as I dislike paying for Callwave (who doesn't have a yearly option, most unfortunately), but I wonder, when it finally becomes something I can use, if the "free" price tag will be enough to move me to the Google service.
Microsoft did not want to finish the work, apparently, and provide a way to convert automatically from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Um... You can transfer your profile, and programs can be reinstalled using the same MSI's.
If you're in a managed network (and business users should be), you throw a Windows 7 machine into an Active Directory OU, and all of your policies, including Software Installation ones, apply to the machine and it behaves just like the XP ones in the same Unit.
Business users don't "Upgrade" operating systems in the classical sense anyway. When it's time for an OS upgrade, the disk gets nuked and re-imaged. There's nothing at all about Windows 7 that changes the validity of that procedure.
I've got it running on a 1 GB machine with an atom chip, and it runs like a dream--I'm a big Vista lover (didn't touch it until SP1) for a lot of reasons, but Vista's performance on less than 2 GB of ram wasn't one of them--and I have to say, I'm impressed.
At least, if Windows 7 takes off the way I hope it does, all that time I've spent testing and implementing the admin side of Vista/2008 will be useful to my wallet:-P
I wonder if webserver admins link the "ww." to their website's default directory as well...
There was an advertisement on the radio some months back... some guy telling you to go to "applebees.com\realvideos" A few months later, it changed to "applebees.com/realvideos"
From what I understand, HDMI doesn't include any error correcting algorithms. As a result, you may experience some signal loss on a cable that's too long or made with low quality parts... but if its made to spec, it shouldn't have that problem. That said, I love my $9 HDMI cable.
When reinstalling windows, or upgrading windows to win7 you should be doing a clean install.
You may need to catch up to the times, sir.
Reinstalling Windows doesn't require a format anymore... In fact, I wouldn't even recommend formatting the drive. The Windows, Users, and (both) Program Files folders are all moved to Windows.old by Windows PE during the installation phase, and the MBR is overwritten and the Windows Boot Manager gets reinstalled. If you want your old data, you just dig it out of the Windows.old folder.
Strictly speaking, however, if you *do* want to reformat the drive, that's what Windows Easy Transfer, the File and Settings Transfer Wizard, and USMT are for. All of these tools and procedures really catapulted OS upgrade choices and reinstallation out of the 90's, but the problem is that if you learned how to do such things in the 90's (e.g. Multiple partitions), then you're more likely to keep doing things that way.
Whenever I need to find parts for a client, I use PC Connection now. The sales rep I work with is extremely knowledgeable, and if he doesn't know an answer, he researches it and calls me back.
Before that, I'd use Newegg, but having someone to verify that a proposed solution is going to work before I purchase it is worth the few extra dollars/item.
I actually completely agree with you. Particularly with some shirts, it's impossible to get the sleeve to stay at that spot. And to top it all off, my forearms have slightly different circumferences, meaning that the sleeves like to rest at different spots too...
And women think it's so easy for us to look good... =D
. What is "intuitive" about looking at a screen and picking something off a "ribbon" at the top of a bar over a bunch of text and images? There's nothing in human instinctual behavior that would guide that. We know to do something like that because we have learned how to do it.
Caveat: I like the ribbon UI.
I have to respectfully disagree here. A menu based UI is like a set of drawers. Kind of like a tool chest, but with dozens of little drawers inside of 4 or 5 large ones. Now, if you own a tool chest, and you put everything in it, naturally, you're going to know where every single tool is. You're going to know what series of drawers to open to get a hammer, or what series will yield a screwdriver. It makes sense to you, because you use that tool chest every day.
The ribbon is more like a large workbench with all those tools neatly laid on the surface. If you want that hammer, you reach to the left. The screwdriver, reach to the right. Everything is visible, but yes, it does take up more space. Luckily, you happen to have a very large workbench.
If I were over at your place, and I needed to borrow a hammer, you'd tell me it's in the tool chest. I'd either have to ask which drawer it's in, or rummage through each one until I find what I'm looking for. Whereas at my place, everything is neatly laid on the workbench. You passively see precisely where everything is even while you're working on something. You even know where tools you haven't used yet are, simply because they're in view all the time.
Now, understandably, if I were to take all of your tools, remove them from your tool chest, and lay them out on your workbench, you'd probably get pissed (and subsequently put everything back into the tool chest). But if someone who has never used either sees them next to eachother, I'd be willing to bet they'd hunt on the well organized workbench for the tool they're looking for instead of rummaging around in the giant tool chest.
tl;dr, change drives everyone (except voters) nuts, but sometimes it's worthwhile to trust the research and dive in.
I was referring to the functionality you see in RDP, where any client edition of the OS can connect to any box running Terminal Services (XP Pro and all Server Eds.) without licensing more crap.
I may have misstated the licensing terms, but I firmly believe they're bullshit enough that such doesn't matter.
When I looked into it, the screen-sharing wasn't something I was aware of. I remember it being profiled in the marketing video for Leopard though.
Personally speaking, I don't admin Apple hardware... which is ironic I suppose because I own one. Now that I think about it, I was confused when I looked into it because you have to license the client, not the server, but their terminology is backwards compared to the remoting software seen in the Linux/Windows world.
Nonetheless, you're right in your points, but to not have an administration-based remoting tool like RDP/Terminal Services or VNC built directly into the product for out-of-box use is rather ignorant, in my opinion. And ironically, it kind of bolsters the underlying question of why the OP even has to "Ask Slashdot" for this type of thing... It seems like large-scale OS X deployments, while possible, aren't precisely facilitated by the product as is.
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Lots of city streets are narrow, and often devoid of wind meaning that the stench of smoking remains there for quite some time as other people walk by.
If you want nicotine, there are many of other ways you could acquire it which wouldn't harm those around you, such methods are also going to be far more efficient because most of it won't be floating away from you.
Yet it's perfectly fine for you to operate an exhaust-belching motor vehicle in the same confined street areas, poisoning those around you with your harmful fumes.
I suppose you could have walked or bought a Segway, but I'm going to insinuate that you're too inconsiderate to do that, and ignore the fact that maybe, since it's not against the law and it could be your preference, that you'd rather drive.
Grr... Slashdot ate my comment the first time I posted it. It follows here:
I do know it's likely a little different when you compare it to XP licensing but, coming from VLK's, since a VLK requires that the machine have some type of Microsoft COA on the box for an OEM edition for a VLK to apply, you couldn't use a VLK on a VM.
On top of that, once you get the VM licensed properly, you have to buy what at the time was called a VECD (Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop) license for each machine as well (at $99 per). On top of that, you need[ed] to be on Software Assurance, which meant there were annual fees associated with the MS licensing on top of whatever Citrix wants....
It's a nightmare, I assure you, and I read somewhere on Brian Madden's website when I researched all of this for my company at the time that for the first two or three years, VDI is actually cheaper when you're using Citrix from a licensing standpoint. After that, the annual fees raise the TCO of licensing the thing much higher than Terminal Server farms, but of course, perhaps the cost difference is worth the sanity that VDI will induce on your administrative burden.
Just saying, there's waaay too much to it. Microsoft enjoys per-seat licensing. As such, it's really the most straight forward option for most businesses.
I do know it's likely a little different when you compare it to XP licensing but, coming from VLK's, since a VLK requires that the machine have some type of Microsoft COA on the box for an OEM edition for a VLK to apply, you couldn't use a VLK on a VM.
On top of that, once you get the VM licensed properly, you have to buy what at the time was called a VECD (Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop) license for each machine as well (at $99 per). On top of that, you need[ed] to be on Software Assurance, which meant there were annual fees associated with the MS licensing on top of whatever Citrix wants....
It's a nightmare, I assure you, and I read somewhere on Brian Madden's website when I researched all of this for my company at the time that for the first two or three years, VDI is actually cheaper when you're using Citrix from a licensing standpoint. After that, the annual fees raise the TCO of licensing the thing much higher than Terminal Server farms, but of course, perhaps the cost difference is worth the sanity that VDI will induce on your administrative burden.
Just saying, there's waaay too much to it. Microsoft enjoys per-seat licensing. As such, it's really the most straight forward option for most businesses.
The biggest issue I have with terminal servers stem from their concurrency.
If a reboot will fix someone's problem or make your software installation easier.... Not to mention, while Microsoft's Terminal Services capabilities are markedly better than they were with Server 2003, Citrix is still king of the hill, and quite frankly, I dislike their software paradigm, but I realize that's my opinion.
Unless you mean VDI, which, in that case, Citrix isn't so bad, but licensing it properly is a pain in the ass.
That metaphor you have there is almost as inappropriately overextended and overreaching as modern DNS technologies.
hahaha.
:P).
You might think so, but alas, since the signal is lower, the phone has to use more power to keep itself going. I keep it docked in a charger when I'm at my desk (including right now
Alas, here in the basement, the phone not ringing is a rather frequent occurrence. :-P
With Verizon, if your phone doesn't ring because it's off or out of service and someone doesn't leave you a voicemail, that person may as well have never called you. Niether the phone, the network, nor the voicemail system has anything or indicate otherwise.
I've been using Callwave for well over a year now, because it lets me take/screen/callback missed calls on my computer, sends me emails (with transcriptions) with voicemails attached, and so on.
I've been eyeballing Google Voice for quite a long time now, as I dislike paying for Callwave (who doesn't have a yearly option, most unfortunately), but I wonder, when it finally becomes something I can use, if the "free" price tag will be enough to move me to the Google service.
A little late reply, but my Viliv S5 runs 7 with Aero Glass enabled. I wouldn't run it on there otherwise :)
Sadly I have discovered they do not accept monopoly money :{
What do you mean? They've been accepting money from various monopolies for decades!
Microsoft did not want to finish the work, apparently, and provide a way to convert automatically from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Um... You can transfer your profile, and programs can be reinstalled using the same MSI's.
If you're in a managed network (and business users should be), you throw a Windows 7 machine into an Active Directory OU, and all of your policies, including Software Installation ones, apply to the machine and it behaves just like the XP ones in the same Unit.
Business users don't "Upgrade" operating systems in the classical sense anyway. When it's time for an OS upgrade, the disk gets nuked and re-imaged. There's nothing at all about Windows 7 that changes the validity of that procedure.
I've got it running on a 1 GB machine with an atom chip, and it runs like a dream--I'm a big Vista lover (didn't touch it until SP1) for a lot of reasons, but Vista's performance on less than 2 GB of ram wasn't one of them--and I have to say, I'm impressed.
:-P
At least, if Windows 7 takes off the way I hope it does, all that time I've spent testing and implementing the admin side of Vista/2008 will be useful to my wallet
"H-T-T-P colon backslash backslash"
That's right up there with "W-W-dot"
I wonder if webserver admins link the "ww." to their website's default directory as well...
There was an advertisement on the radio some months back... some guy telling you to go to "applebees.com\realvideos" A few months later, it changed to "applebees.com/realvideos"
I admit, I chuckled.
Or together with shoes they can be used by people meeting up to plan or commit a crime.
Nike has been abusing this knowledge for years to sell shoe/sock combinations that allow criminals to flee crime scenes at unprecedented speeds!
I look at the Woolworth's logo and see an apple. I do not see an Apple apple.
It may be time-of-the-year related, but personally, I see a green pumpkin.
From what I understand, HDMI doesn't include any error correcting algorithms. As a result, you may experience some signal loss on a cable that's too long or made with low quality parts... but if its made to spec, it shouldn't have that problem. That said, I love my $9 HDMI cable.
When reinstalling windows, or upgrading windows to win7 you should be doing a clean install.
You may need to catch up to the times, sir.
Reinstalling Windows doesn't require a format anymore... In fact, I wouldn't even recommend formatting the drive. The Windows, Users, and (both) Program Files folders are all moved to Windows.old by Windows PE during the installation phase, and the MBR is overwritten and the Windows Boot Manager gets reinstalled. If you want your old data, you just dig it out of the Windows.old folder.
Strictly speaking, however, if you *do* want to reformat the drive, that's what Windows Easy Transfer, the File and Settings Transfer Wizard, and USMT are for. All of these tools and procedures really catapulted OS upgrade choices and reinstallation out of the 90's, but the problem is that if you learned how to do such things in the 90's (e.g. Multiple partitions), then you're more likely to keep doing things that way.
Whenever I need to find parts for a client, I use PC Connection now. The sales rep I work with is extremely knowledgeable, and if he doesn't know an answer, he researches it and calls me back.
Before that, I'd use Newegg, but having someone to verify that a proposed solution is going to work before I purchase it is worth the few extra dollars/item.
I actually completely agree with you. Particularly with some shirts, it's impossible to get the sleeve to stay at that spot. And to top it all off, my forearms have slightly different circumferences, meaning that the sleeves like to rest at different spots too...
And women think it's so easy for us to look good... =D
It's jeans and a button up for us younger folks. You usually want to roll the sleeves about halfway up the forearm for added effect.
That made me wonder... I've been thinking about flashing coreboot onto one of the supported boards that I have as it kinda looks like fun.
Would you achieve a similar 1-3 second POST using Coreboot -> SeaBIOS (I think) to load Windows?
. What is "intuitive" about looking at a screen and picking something off a "ribbon" at the top of a bar over a bunch of text and images? There's nothing in human instinctual behavior that would guide that. We know to do something like that because we have learned how to do it.
Caveat: I like the ribbon UI.
I have to respectfully disagree here. A menu based UI is like a set of drawers. Kind of like a tool chest, but with dozens of little drawers inside of 4 or 5 large ones. Now, if you own a tool chest, and you put everything in it, naturally, you're going to know where every single tool is. You're going to know what series of drawers to open to get a hammer, or what series will yield a screwdriver. It makes sense to you, because you use that tool chest every day.
The ribbon is more like a large workbench with all those tools neatly laid on the surface. If you want that hammer, you reach to the left. The screwdriver, reach to the right. Everything is visible, but yes, it does take up more space. Luckily, you happen to have a very large workbench.
If I were over at your place, and I needed to borrow a hammer, you'd tell me it's in the tool chest. I'd either have to ask which drawer it's in, or rummage through each one until I find what I'm looking for. Whereas at my place, everything is neatly laid on the workbench. You passively see precisely where everything is even while you're working on something. You even know where tools you haven't used yet are, simply because they're in view all the time.
Now, understandably, if I were to take all of your tools, remove them from your tool chest, and lay them out on your workbench, you'd probably get pissed (and subsequently put everything back into the tool chest). But if someone who has never used either sees them next to eachother, I'd be willing to bet they'd hunt on the well organized workbench for the tool they're looking for instead of rummaging around in the giant tool chest.
tl;dr, change drives everyone (except voters) nuts, but sometimes it's worthwhile to trust the research and dive in.
Yes, yes, I know.
I was referring to the functionality you see in RDP, where any client edition of the OS can connect to any box running Terminal Services (XP Pro and all Server Eds.) without licensing more crap.
I may have misstated the licensing terms, but I firmly believe they're bullshit enough that such doesn't matter.
When I looked into it, the screen-sharing wasn't something I was aware of. I remember it being profiled in the marketing video for Leopard though.
Personally speaking, I don't admin Apple hardware... which is ironic I suppose because I own one. Now that I think about it, I was confused when I looked into it because you have to license the client, not the server, but their terminology is backwards compared to the remoting software seen in the Linux/Windows world.
Nonetheless, you're right in your points, but to not have an administration-based remoting tool like RDP/Terminal Services or VNC built directly into the product for out-of-box use is rather ignorant, in my opinion. And ironically, it kind of bolsters the underlying question of why the OP even has to "Ask Slashdot" for this type of thing... It seems like large-scale OS X deployments, while possible, aren't precisely facilitated by the product as is.
Wow, you make my time sound so cheap when you put it like that.
Aye. We should all add a "quotes" section to our price schedules.