The post doesn't really describe the features properly, read the full article. Other than that it actually seems like a really good idea and definitely has the enterprise environment in mind. Its not really useful to the average person and it seems like some of the features would still work fine, and solve some IT headaches when it comes to tablets even if the place doesn't have all the cisco equipment to take advantage of all the features. And somehow it doesn't have the normal cisco price tag.

I'm a student worker in the IT department and UIC and we have an 802.1x wireless network for students and faculty to use, as well as a WPA2-Enterprise network we are supposedly "phasing in" that you can use if you know how to get on it, and we only officially support Windows XP/Vista/7, OSX 10.3-10.6, iPhone/iTouch, Windows Moble (not sure about 7), and recently Android 2.1 or higher, but not Linux. We do have people at the Helpdesk that know how to do it, but if not then you're SOL. That's not to say you can't get on the network, you just need to know the info, CA cert, inner auth, etc. UIC LUG/ACM hosts a webpage with a basic guide (I should know since I wrote it), and most of the Linux users don't have any problems with going this route, but usually when there is a problem it's because of the network manager app they are using. The nm-applet in gnome/lxde/xfde works but I've seem it fail terribly in KDE and there are some others that are just overly complicated, because of this I can see why offering support is complicated, but the IT guys in the OP are fucking morons. We have a lot of RHEL servers on campus and a large amount of IT people use linux. Trying to pass it off as a joke probably means they are either incompetent or 100% MS jockeys that wouldn't know anything about inter-polarity if you shoved it up their ass.

Are you retarded? If linux doesn't support SATA they how is my computer running right now?

Ha, cause CS grad students automatically know Linux. At least I know you've never been a CS undergrad. Now on to the CLI hate, lets turn this little game around. Video breaks in Windows? Reinstall the driver and reboot. Fixed? No? Reinstall Windows. Fixed? No? Good luck with that. Sound breaks in Windows? Reinstall the driver and reboot. Fixed? No? Reinstall Windows. Fixed? No? Good luck with that. Wireless breaks in Windows? Reinstall the driver and reboot. Fixed? No? Reinstall Windows. Fixed? No? Good luck with that. And not needing a CLI on a modern OS is definitely why Windows has gotten rid of it, right? You want a Linux desktop for simple people try Ubuntu. You want to talk about GUIs being the best? Try out the REAL cluster fuck, Windows Server. I'll take fucking with iptables any day rather than try and do anything more advanced than making sure it gets an IP with the shitty GUIs in that mess. And just because YOU can't make script that can just be run in Linux and fix a problem doesn't mean .reg files are hot shit. Just because I can read and actually learn something about my computer doesn't make me wrong and your users right, it makes them lazy assholes.

Spoken like a true moron who doesn't actually work on computers, shit happens. If it breaks somehow, the intern is liable and people WILL be pissed. Stop being such a self-centered cunt.

Wow, read some of their comments, I don't think he/she even really knows what radiation is, let alone how it affects thing. "They have the potential to render parts of the globe uninhabitable by humans for times well in excess of the length of human civilisations." Aside from the spelling mistake, seriously doesn't IE have spell check now too, this makes no sense. The amount of damage they are taking about would kill the whole planet, and is well behind the capability of a single reactor. It pisses me off that people like this are the reason we are behind in or even have yet to implement new reactor technology. Same people who still call 3 Mile Island a "disaster" .

I didn't know viewers of Fox News were smart enough to post on slashdot, or use a computer for that matter.

Yeah, it seems like their whole site has ground to a halt. wget is currently stuck :(

Or rsync?

Well for one I like how you stated by saying in your previous posts about the government letting people eat what they want, then say that you agree with them limiting what I can and cannot eat. Now I expect you to say you want booze, cigarettes, and caffeine banned you you are just a hypocritical bias P.O.S.

So every time you do something that shows a lack of self control I should severely punish you, good to know. Also, hubris, really now. Are you trying to should like a douche?

Except there are people who do need it,because it is also a medicine, and a damn good one too. So maybe you should try and become knowledgeable on a subject before talking out your ass, or at the very least come up with a logical argument for your stupid position. Maybe you should stay of the internet and out of a voting booth until you get that part down.

It would seem a lot of people conveniently forget the whole "harassment of underage girls" and "death threats" thing when they try and defend anonymous. I hope the FBI takes some of them down so the other goons get it in their heads that there are consequences to crimes, because they are, in fact, criminals. You cannot just go around DDoS'ing ever site you don't agree with, and anyone who tries to equate this with a boycott is a moron. A boycott is a refusal to use the services of or buy goods from a company whose policies you disagree with. What they are doing is no different from throwing bricks through store front windows to cause damage and shut the business down. Just because the store happens to be online does not make it any less severe. People need to understand that and just because they can't get all of them doesn't mean that it is futile. If the police can only catch one pedophile out of a group of 20, does that mean they shouldn't? Law enforcement needs to prove that these people can be caught and that they are not as anonymous as they think.

That is only one side of the problem. Workstations can probably go one for a while with some basic hardware updates after a few year (like more RAM). Issues like that are the ones that a visible to the users and the higher ups mostly because more people will complain when their 4 year old PC is running slow. The real problem is with the infrastructure, as in the background stuff only the IT guys can really see, understand, and complain about. A lot of the comments on here hit the nail on the head. Why spend money of Enterprise level hardware when you can get consumer grade for cheaper? Why rewrite this old outdated program when you IT guys can figure something out to extend the life? Why do you IT guys want to get paid so much? What do you mean professional software developers are expensive? I can get some kid to write it for far less. It does all boil down to short term thought overtaking long term planing, and that problem isn't just an IT one.