maybe a halon fire suppression system.
Halon hasn't been advocated for years, what with the nasty side effect of depleting oxygen and killing people and stuff. Water + insurance + good backups is the current best practice.
Linux license cost is free and there are lots of resources (people mainly) are available
sorry to be pedantic, but this is a common and incorrect assumption regarding Linux TCO. If you're running a production server, you get a production license/support agreement. You can't, and shouldn't expect there to be zero cost in a production environment.
You can't forget that proper management of exceptions can lead to forming new standards. For example, if IE is the standard (heavans no) and FireFox has grown to 80% marketshare internally (tracked through exceptions) it could be a valid case to change the standard.
IT does book profit but the problem is that if we make accounting more efficient with our hard work all the accountants get nice bonuses and we get to go fuck ourselves.
You mean like how the Sales guys get the bonuses, while the accountants get screwed? Or how the execs get to not go to jail when internal audit discovers and issue before the next external audit?
Your logic is highly flawed.
That's incorrect, IBM has allowed employees to choose whatever OS they want - including official support for Linux and Windows, as well as skunkworks support for Mac.
If you're paying them by the milestone - great. If you're paying them by the hour, start cracking down.
So tell me, who do I hurt if I pay once for a CD or DVD, then rip or pirate it and play the unlocked files on any/every device I own? Who do I hurt when I lend my copy to a friend (who, if he finds he likes it, may even purchase his own copy)?
Your assumption is that your friend will buy a copy. Hollywood is afraid they might actually have to make movies that people want to buy.
I'm running F12 x64 and I downloaded the Chrome beta. Why hasn't anyone pointed out that the lack of an x64 Gears plugin is rather silly?
ehm, back in my day we called it the Big Kernel Lock. You kids!
now get off my lawn!
That is not true at all. My company (IBM) has both technical and managerial paths. Look up IBM Distinguished Engineer and IBM Fellow in wikipedia when you get some time. Technology companies usually maintain two paths.
or it was thrown out of a passing aeroplane.
Thrown out of a passing aeroplane? Really? Have you tried opening the windows on an aeroplane recently? I suppose someone could have flown over in a bi-plane... but really?
That is just nonsense.
If the customer had used a proper PKI with key recovery/escrow this could have been avoided. The solution is NOT to make weak passwords so that you can crack them when you lose your passphrase. How on earth is this modded informative?!
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin