It's also missing iexplore.exe, but if I recall the folder for it is still there in Program Files, so things that rely on "a version of IE greater than 5" won't install. I thought about copying explorer/iexplore over from the GUI install but then I found something constructive to do instead. There were a few other issues when I tried to install DB2, a few other things missing, but I don't recall what they were.
But if he'd had the explosives in his pants instead of his shoes (like any *normal* person would do) he could've accomplished the same thing. Should we all take our pants off now? There are so many ways to work the system, and sometimes you don't even have to try (guy in Denver recently returning to the checkpoint to tell them he had a gun and they missed it). Why focus so much on little things like shoes when you're missing people going through with guns, purposefully or not.
I'm a little late getting back to this, dunno if it will be read or not. But if I remember back to the days when my dad traveled and we would go out to the airport sometimes to meet him or see him off (this was in the days when anyone could wander in/out of security for any reason at all), never once did anyone's shoes set off the metal detector. I'm well aware that they do now, but for a while after 9/11 they'd look at your shoes and say, "Send 'em through" or "your okay" and sure enough, they knew what they were talking about. No one's Nikes or flip flops set off the metal detector. So I have to wonder two things, what suddenly made shoes set these things off (or did they always, and I just never knew?) and why did it seem like lines moved faster when the security guy would advise a few people to take off their shoes and not force everyone too?
I've been playing with this at work, and for a "trimmed down CLI" version of the OS I find it telling that it uses just 60 mb of memory after booting than the GUI version and it still requires some 3.5 gb of hard drive space (this isn't precise, I'm not at work right now). And the weirdest thing about it is that it's not just command line. It actually loads, to a point, the windows GUI. There's no explorer, but the command line box it gives you is a window. You can move it with the mouse. You can open notepad, and it opens in a window. Regedit is still there. Just to see if I could, I installed Firefox. They leave out a few handy odds and ends like Explorer.exe so you don't get your usual file manager, but if they're serious about going with a real command line, this ain't it.
Maybe it does have it's place. If you just want to run basic DNS or some of the 10 or so other things it's intended to do, then at least it's going to do that for you with slightly less memory/space requirements and without quite so much other stuff running that leaves it so open to other vulnerabilities. But I still find it kind of silly, a good Sys. Admin can lock down the regular GUI version just fine and resource savings are so minimal as to be nonexistent.
Removing my shoes is one of the most useless "security measures" I've ever seen. One guy thought he'd be clever and set his shoes on fire on the plane, better swing into knee-jerk reaction mode and force everyone to take off their shoes. What if he's got [explosive] in his pocket and just sets his pants on fire?
There you go, huge speed up, zero cost.
Also, you overzealous Denver TSA agents, making me remove my sweatshirt isn't helping things either. It's not baggy and if I was going to hide something under it, why wouldn't I hide it under my undershirt too?
I'm no expert on these things, so I won't argue against your basic premis, but I do have a couple issues with your post (but I'm days late commenting, probably too late to be noticed, but I'll try...)
Even though there is a PoE (Power over Ethernet) standard, most choose not to implement it by default. The fact that people choose not to use a technology doesn't explain why we can't/shouldn't/don't. Using the same logic on a different argument (because I'm hungry), I could say, "Even though most people have a kitchen in their house, they choose not to use it and eat fast food instead." Obviously, that's not a good argument for fast food.
USB uses four wires, ethernet twice as many. Not necessarily - The most common implementation at 10 or 100 megabit uses only 4 wires (pins 1,2,3,6). This leaves the other 4 for phone or PoE or whatever. Gigabit over copper, however, does require all 8 wires, but you can still run PoE over it (more info here).
Wow, this was completely Cosmo Kramer's idea which he pitched to Calvin Klein. They stole the idea and created Ocean cologne. Then when confronted by Kramer, they made him an underwear model.
When Seinfeld finds out about this a lawsuit is sure to follow...
We actually hated heat, with a fair amount of passion. I don't know that the program was the issue, but the people who were trained to administer it did a horrible job. It looked like crap, and continued complaints from users were ignored. Also, and I didn't deal with this directly, I was told that the database behind heat was very poorly designed. Whether that was the fault of someone here or the actual Heat system I can't say. But, since we were getting this new fancy-pants CRM program for MS, and Heat is so poorly thought of, we migrated away from Heat. Now the entire company uses MS's CRM for everything. And honestly, it does a better job of call ticket management than the backasswards way our Heat system worked.
My company has been "beta testing" this fancy new CRM business for nearly a year. We've moved our customer info out of the old AS/400 and we've moved our help desk from Heat to CRM to track call tickets, projects, etc. I can't say it's been a smooth transition, but that may be due to the fact that the consultant working with us isn't the best. (I won't get into that much but we spent hours in "training" while he attempted to figure out what he was trying to train us.) On the bright side, because we got in so early, I'm told we've had a lot of input into what goes into the program.
There are two sides to this CRM program that I can see. The first is how well it actually manages customer relationships. The second is more technical. As far as the first thing goes, it manages information pretty well (I'm no sales person, but it's pretty straight forward and easy to use). The technical aspect, though, is troubling.
Due to our size, we don't use a hosted solution, we run our own server in house. There's a plugin for Outlook that gives access to the system, or you can use your favorite MS browser to access the system if you don't have Outlook, or if you want it to work faster and not drag your system down. The whole thing is just web based forms. There are two separate clients for Outlook. The "laptop version" and the "desktop version."
The desktop version will do three things - 1. Allow you to access the CRM system. 2. Make starting and closing Outlook an excruciatingly long process. 3. Prevent your computer from shutting down unless you manually close Outlook, with no helpful error/warning messages. It just sits with outlook open, and you can tell it to shutdown over and over.
The laptop version has all the "features" of the desktop version, but it installs a personal version of SQL Server so you can access customer info when you're offline. This has the added benefit of being an incredible memory hog. When I first tried it I only had 512 megabytes of memory, and it was more than happy to use 100-200 for the Outlook/CRM Combo even when I wasn't offline. It was so bad I requested extra memory, but they told me to quit using the laptop version (I don't need all that customer info at my fingertips anyway).
Just recently we discovered that you can aim IE (but not Firefox...go figure) at the server and access the entire system that way without bringing Outlook to it's knees. This has the added benefit of loading the pages more quickly, however there is always lag from when you click on an item to when it creates the new window, to when it puts all the controls on the new window. Sometimes it's long enough to be frustrating, but other times it's just long enough to remind you it's a browser app. If they could make it snappy so it ran more like a local app, that would be a big improvement, but I haven't seen it yet.
Wow, this got long... So in conclusion, with my personal experience the system works, and probably looks great on paper, but suffers from bugs and technical issues more than design flaws. That's not to say it's designed perfectly, but I would go so far as to say it's designed reasonably well. But I'm in the technical department, so I have limited contact with it. Our sales people might have differing opinions.
It's an uncommon profession, absolutely, but my cousin is a blacksmith on a thoroughbred farm and he makes a pretty good living making horseshoes and whatever other odds and ends are required for keeping racehorses going. And, of course, there's all those folks who run the Renaissance Fair circuit who make swords and armor.
Huh...We got a Mac Mini about a year ago and I don't remember there being a Classic CD, but maybe it was there and I ignored it. At the very least it's not preinstalled, I know that.
Our code, which has it's origins in OS/2 and Windows 3.11 and has just been built on since, would be incredibly painfully difficult to update (we did make the 16-to-32-bit jump long ago, but the code base was much smaller then). But I was just using my company as an example, other companies may have different practices.
...good developers know how...
The key word there is "good"....I'll just leave it at that.
(I'm not in the development department, but I get to work with the stuff every day.)
The difference that I see, and that no one mentioned in reply yet, is that Apple provides a relatively brief transition time. OSX came out, with Classic support, but as major software companies released apps for OSX Apple put less emphasis on Classic. And correct me if I'm wrong, I've only bought one Mac lately, over a year ago, but they don't even offer Classic on the new machines anymore.
So apple makes the transition easy with the knowledge that you'll eventually have to scrap your old software. Windows, on the other hand, tries to make the transition easier by support everything that was written for the past 10+ years at the cost of long term compatibility issues code bloat.
So, pick the option that suits you. I prefer Apple's approach personally, but our company's development department would collectively curl up in the fetal position and cry (as would the support personel) if the software had to be reworked for a different operating system.
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Musical instruments don't come cheap, it's no wonder the cartridges cost so much.
Funny how quick people are to point out that funds are still increasing while ignoring the fact that the smaller-than-planned increases will still force cutbacks in education programs.
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That's silly, everyone knows aliens don't exist.
No one will take them seriously without frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads.
Oh man, don't even get me started on kittens...
(they are, however, great at making poptarts)
Sorry, but I don't know enough about these things to try them without sucking up too much time. I'll leave that as an "exercise for the reader." :)
It's also missing iexplore.exe, but if I recall the folder for it is still there in Program Files, so things that rely on "a version of IE greater than 5" won't install. I thought about copying explorer/iexplore over from the GUI install but then I found something constructive to do instead. There were a few other issues when I tried to install DB2, a few other things missing, but I don't recall what they were.
But if he'd had the explosives in his pants instead of his shoes (like any *normal* person would do) he could've accomplished the same thing. Should we all take our pants off now? There are so many ways to work the system, and sometimes you don't even have to try (guy in Denver recently returning to the checkpoint to tell them he had a gun and they missed it). Why focus so much on little things like shoes when you're missing people going through with guns, purposefully or not.
I'm a little late getting back to this, dunno if it will be read or not. But if I remember back to the days when my dad traveled and we would go out to the airport sometimes to meet him or see him off (this was in the days when anyone could wander in/out of security for any reason at all), never once did anyone's shoes set off the metal detector. I'm well aware that they do now, but for a while after 9/11 they'd look at your shoes and say, "Send 'em through" or "your okay" and sure enough, they knew what they were talking about. No one's Nikes or flip flops set off the metal detector. So I have to wonder two things, what suddenly made shoes set these things off (or did they always, and I just never knew?) and why did it seem like lines moved faster when the security guy would advise a few people to take off their shoes and not force everyone too?
I've been playing with this at work, and for a "trimmed down CLI" version of the OS I find it telling that it uses just 60 mb of memory after booting than the GUI version and it still requires some 3.5 gb of hard drive space (this isn't precise, I'm not at work right now). And the weirdest thing about it is that it's not just command line. It actually loads, to a point, the windows GUI. There's no explorer, but the command line box it gives you is a window. You can move it with the mouse. You can open notepad, and it opens in a window. Regedit is still there. Just to see if I could, I installed Firefox. They leave out a few handy odds and ends like Explorer.exe so you don't get your usual file manager, but if they're serious about going with a real command line, this ain't it.
Maybe it does have it's place. If you just want to run basic DNS or some of the 10 or so other things it's intended to do, then at least it's going to do that for you with slightly less memory/space requirements and without quite so much other stuff running that leaves it so open to other vulnerabilities. But I still find it kind of silly, a good Sys. Admin can lock down the regular GUI version just fine and resource savings are so minimal as to be nonexistent.
But that's just my couple of cents...
Removing my shoes is one of the most useless "security measures" I've ever seen. One guy thought he'd be clever and set his shoes on fire on the plane, better swing into knee-jerk reaction mode and force everyone to take off their shoes. What if he's got [explosive] in his pocket and just sets his pants on fire?
There you go, huge speed up, zero cost.
Also, you overzealous Denver TSA agents, making me remove my sweatshirt isn't helping things either. It's not baggy and if I was going to hide something under it, why wouldn't I hide it under my undershirt too?
Wow, this was completely Cosmo Kramer's idea which he pitched to Calvin Klein. They stole the idea and created Ocean cologne. Then when confronted by Kramer, they made him an underwear model.
When Seinfeld finds out about this a lawsuit is sure to follow...
"Hi Mom!"
She always loves that.
Too late now, we've been assimilated. As a personal defense, I'm too low on the ladder to have any control over any of it. I just work here.
We actually hated heat, with a fair amount of passion. I don't know that the program was the issue, but the people who were trained to administer it did a horrible job. It looked like crap, and continued complaints from users were ignored. Also, and I didn't deal with this directly, I was told that the database behind heat was very poorly designed. Whether that was the fault of someone here or the actual Heat system I can't say. But, since we were getting this new fancy-pants CRM program for MS, and Heat is so poorly thought of, we migrated away from Heat. Now the entire company uses MS's CRM for everything. And honestly, it does a better job of call ticket management than the backasswards way our Heat system worked.
My company has been "beta testing" this fancy new CRM business for nearly a year. We've moved our customer info out of the old AS/400 and we've moved our help desk from Heat to CRM to track call tickets, projects, etc. I can't say it's been a smooth transition, but that may be due to the fact that the consultant working with us isn't the best. (I won't get into that much but we spent hours in "training" while he attempted to figure out what he was trying to train us.) On the bright side, because we got in so early, I'm told we've had a lot of input into what goes into the program.
There are two sides to this CRM program that I can see. The first is how well it actually manages customer relationships. The second is more technical. As far as the first thing goes, it manages information pretty well (I'm no sales person, but it's pretty straight forward and easy to use). The technical aspect, though, is troubling.
Due to our size, we don't use a hosted solution, we run our own server in house. There's a plugin for Outlook that gives access to the system, or you can use your favorite MS browser to access the system if you don't have Outlook, or if you want it to work faster and not drag your system down. The whole thing is just web based forms. There are two separate clients for Outlook. The "laptop version" and the "desktop version."
The desktop version will do three things - 1. Allow you to access the CRM system. 2. Make starting and closing Outlook an excruciatingly long process. 3. Prevent your computer from shutting down unless you manually close Outlook, with no helpful error/warning messages. It just sits with outlook open, and you can tell it to shutdown over and over.
The laptop version has all the "features" of the desktop version, but it installs a personal version of SQL Server so you can access customer info when you're offline. This has the added benefit of being an incredible memory hog. When I first tried it I only had 512 megabytes of memory, and it was more than happy to use 100-200 for the Outlook/CRM Combo even when I wasn't offline. It was so bad I requested extra memory, but they told me to quit using the laptop version (I don't need all that customer info at my fingertips anyway).
Just recently we discovered that you can aim IE (but not Firefox...go figure) at the server and access the entire system that way without bringing Outlook to it's knees. This has the added benefit of loading the pages more quickly, however there is always lag from when you click on an item to when it creates the new window, to when it puts all the controls on the new window. Sometimes it's long enough to be frustrating, but other times it's just long enough to remind you it's a browser app. If they could make it snappy so it ran more like a local app, that would be a big improvement, but I haven't seen it yet.
Wow, this got long... So in conclusion, with my personal experience the system works, and probably looks great on paper, but suffers from bugs and technical issues more than design flaws. That's not to say it's designed perfectly, but I would go so far as to say it's designed reasonably well. But I'm in the technical department, so I have limited contact with it. Our sales people might have differing opinions.
It's an uncommon profession, absolutely, but my cousin is a blacksmith on a thoroughbred farm and he makes a pretty good living making horseshoes and whatever other odds and ends are required for keeping racehorses going. And, of course, there's all those folks who run the Renaissance Fair circuit who make swords and armor.
Why not link to the the real article instead of, or in addition to, the story about the article?
You'd think after 200 years they would've figured out how to do things without the continued debate but, apparently, you'd be wrong.
OMGFramerates!! FRAME RATES!!!!!11!1!12@3#
*ahem*
Sorry about that, Pavlovian reaction...
Cue the jokes about slashdotted server running on the reported on hardware...
(It was slow for me, anyway)
Huh...We got a Mac Mini about a year ago and I don't remember there being a Classic CD, but maybe it was there and I ignored it. At the very least it's not preinstalled, I know that.
Anywho, thanks for the correction.
Our code, which has it's origins in OS/2 and Windows 3.11 and has just been built on since, would be incredibly painfully difficult to update (we did make the 16-to-32-bit jump long ago, but the code base was much smaller then). But I was just using my company as an example, other companies may have different practices.
...good developers know how...
The key word there is "good"....I'll just leave it at that.
(I'm not in the development department, but I get to work with the stuff every day.)
The difference that I see, and that no one mentioned in reply yet, is that Apple provides a relatively brief transition time. OSX came out, with Classic support, but as major software companies released apps for OSX Apple put less emphasis on Classic. And correct me if I'm wrong, I've only bought one Mac lately, over a year ago, but they don't even offer Classic on the new machines anymore.
So apple makes the transition easy with the knowledge that you'll eventually have to scrap your old software. Windows, on the other hand, tries to make the transition easier by support everything that was written for the past 10+ years at the cost of long term compatibility issues code bloat.
So, pick the option that suits you. I prefer Apple's approach personally, but our company's development department would collectively curl up in the fetal position and cry (as would the support personel) if the software had to be reworked for a different operating system.
Musical instruments don't come cheap, it's no wonder the cartridges cost so much.
Funny how quick people are to point out that funds are still increasing while ignoring the fact that the smaller-than-planned increases will still force cutbacks in education programs.