Posted on 11/13/2006 1:51:43 PM PST by bigdcaldavis
"I once had a friend who couldn't get the integrated wireless in his laptop to work. Knowing how these things go from experience, I started from the bottom and asked him to confirm that his laptop actually had integrated wireless. It didn't."
Now that's kinda funny. I installed the card myself...
:)
Under two bucks for a brand new wireless HP notebook? What a deal! GE would like to order 5,000 of them for his organization to replace their old Dells.
LOL! That would certainly make things difficult.
Outside of desktop publishing, where is Apple gaining ground? Is anyone running thier corporate infrastructure on Apple? By the way, many businesses that were running their prod site on Linux servers are now pulling out and going back to Windows, myself included. It is just too much trouble trying to find qualified people to support that infrastructure that aren't total PITA's to work with.
If there was a way to copy that and photoshop a picture of an Iggle on it.....
:)
hmmmmmmmmm.....
I don't believe Apple is gaining any ground in desktop publishing, especially since the big Adobe products aren't intel-native for the new Macs.
Their general marketshare went up far more than any other PC manufacturer in the last year. OS X gave Apple a solid BSD server and all the server software that comes with it. Apple just made it brain-dead easy to set up and administer at a very low cost (check out OS X Server unlimited client price vs. Windows 2003 Server 25 client). As far as clients, using their relatively cheap server software to manage thousands of clients (including remote assistance, monitoring and updates) is also brain-dead easy.
Is anyone running thier corporate infrastructure on Apple?
Yes. We have a FReeper who supports business installs on Mac and Windows, and admittedly doesn't make as much money for Mac service calls. Aside from that, Apple's servers are popular in supercomputing clusters due to their hardware, UNIX base and the supercomputing tools that Apple ships, which make setting up a cluster, again, brain-dead.
Can't, we don't know what he looks like.
Wait a minute...
LOL
Not what I was thinking, but damn that fits :)
LOL
Fits like a glove...
"As far as your specific printer issues, have you ever been able to get the domain admin folks to assist?"
Not yet. I've pretty much given up because I can access the web and have a laser printer attached. Since I only have to roll my chair 5 feet to get to the other computer, it's not really a problem.
I'm using Linux as a test station to for fun. What I have learned it 3+ years:
1. Even though people say Linux will run on anything newer than a 386, it doesn't. Not if you want a GUI. A cheap Athlon or Celeron will, however, work nicely.
2. Open Office will work as a substitute for Word and Excel in basic ways but doesn't handle some of the advanced stuff very well and has no Access type database component.
3. If you can't operate from a command prompt you won't be able to run Linux successfully. Fortunately for me, I perfer a dot prompt to a GUI interface in many cases. CP/M, DOS, DEC-10, Dbase and a few older operating systems are a great plus if you want to run Linux.
4. There's a lot of available documentation, but it is way too high level for beginners. If you don't know what IP means, you are in rough shape using your machine on a network.
5. Most Linux geeks are incapable of explaining even the simplest of Linux tasks to an non-Geek. They speak in jargon and abbreviations, assuming users are familiar with a wide array of utility programs and how to use them. Saying the word Samba to a Linux beginner might as well be Mandarin Chinese.
6. Too many flavors. This week's version of Linux won't be next week's fad. Ubuntu seems to be in right now and Fedora is out. This is not good for beginners. They don't understand or even recognize the difference between versions and often don't recognize the names of distributions of Linux. Most people think Ubuntu sounds a little obscene and don't want to ask what it is.
8. Doom doesn't run well on Linux. Gnome mahjong is fun. Firefox on Linux has trouble formatting some pages correctly.
9. New hardware often doesn't run on Linux for a long time.
For the time being at the desktop level, I'm pretty sure that Linux will remain an operating system for geeks.
Mark
It is simply an HP Laserjet 2000 connected to an XP workstation and shared by XP. I think it's a parallel interface, in fact. It has a cool infrared port that I used to use with my Toshiba laptop.
It doesn't have its own IP address. It works fine with all of my XP computers on the domain. I'm pretty sure it's not a printing problem at all. I have exhausted every fix for that possibility.
It is a knowledge/ignorance problem. Anybody who has had this problem before could solve it in 10 seconds. I just haven't met that person. I suspect that person will have to be a domain administrator at my college. My crappy little Linux box on an unauthorized hub is the least of their worries.
I'm going to junk the $199 WalMart special and replace it with a 2.8 Gig Intel box in a few weeks. I may bother the network people after that change.
OK guys... Which distribution should I install on the Intel box?
All of them! Disk space is cheap! :-)
Actually, If you have VMWare, I'd suggest you try out Knoppix, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and Fedora Core6.
See which one you like best and go with it.
Of course not, I simply corrected you when you attempted to assert that if they claim to be Christian, they couldn't possiblhy be communist. Which is, of course, bogus, being a small group of misguideds are already well known as "Christian Communists". Guys who have named themselves after Ivan the Terrible Russian and Flaming Death are hardly believable retorts on either subject, either.
This is the point where I think the free market is screwed up. Capitalism is about competition, not annihilation. Olympic athletes compete to determine who is best. They aren't allowed to sneak around before the race trying to kill one another, winning the race simply because nobody is left to run.
Similarly, the benefits of capitalism arise from the forces of competition, and are decreased or eliminated as competition is decreased or eliminated. Competing companies must continually produce better products at a lower cost, or lose customers as a result. When they turn to strategies other than honest competition to stay in business, it throws a wrench in the works.
More and more, businesses don't seem to be interested in competing, but in eliminating competition by various means, destructive and cooperative.
The strategy of simply spending the competition into the ground because you have piles of cash is one that I find particularly unethical. It severely tilts the playing field, yielding victory not to the best product, nor to the most efficient producer, but to the one who can muster enough cash to cover all his inadequacies!
That's harmful to the market and to the consumer. It's anti-capitalist and should be illegal, IMO.
As opposed to something that swoops down and eats mice? BTW, which subspecies are you, the Russian Berkut?
BTW, Ivan's early reign was mostly quite positive.
Ah, Tanya Harding.
More and more, businesses don't seem to be interested in competing, but in eliminating competition by various means
One of the biggest old-time examples I can remember is the trucking industry, where the big trucking firms would undercut the independent truckers for hauls, even if they had to do it for free, in order to put the independents out of business.
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