Unfortunately, this is true. Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
Evil will never truly triumph over Good because if it does it will have nothing left to eat next season.
No, Least Evil becomes next season's Good, and then the spiral continues.
Let me fix that for you: Doing support, I have recently caught myself occasionally reaching out to touch the user's tits, forgetting that women typically like geeks touching their tits..
Interesting typo, there.
that doesn't change who's at fault
Never said it did. Still don't see why we're letting Rogers off the hook so easily though. Rogers (and Bell, and every other useless fucking telco out there) owns the relationship with the subscriber, and THEY should be the ones reaching out. They KNEW what was going on, there was no reason they couldn't have been proactive about letting their customers know. Instead they let them find out through the news media.
It's funny when Microsoft complains about other software demanding too many resources.
Actually though, my point was that even that level of ActiveSync "integration" only works with Exchange. You want some Groupwise lovin', you need a BES.
iPhones and Android phones have both been able to integrate into corporate networks for quite a while.
iPhones and Android phones have both been able to *UNSECURELY* integrate into corporate networks for quite a while.
Hey, I'll play.
iPhones and Android phones have both been able to integrate into corporate networks *RUNNING EXCHANGE* for quite a while.
Though I've noticed places often require a printout if you're getting a discount through Groupon. I think this is stupid and hopefully they'll get over that soon.
I'm curious. How do you propose that would work? If I'm running a small (mom & pop sized) business, how else do I identify customers who purchased a coupon?
... it always makes me a bit sad when I'm sitting there having it scan a ream of 200 pages
Would you make you feel better to know that a (modern) standard ream of paper is actually 500 pages?
...there is ONE program that I have to use that ONLY runs on Windows, so I run it on an XP virtual machine
Umm, what? XP isn't MS software?
Sure. I have a couple of examples.
Identity Manager - for auto account provisioning and directory sync. One cool thing we do with this is sync a very limited set of students and attributes into an LDAP directory that our offsite Resnet provider then uses for network authentication.
Access Manager - web single sign on with federated authentication
Netstorage - clientless webdav, basically.
iFolder - think locally hosted Dropbox with admin controls and auto provisioning
iPrint - install printers by selecting them from a webpage
There's a lot of other ones where the "best tool" is a function of the specific job. For example, the SUSE enterprise server is better than RHEL for me, because it is the platform for OES2, and it's more efficient to have to maintain only one (server) flavour of Linux. Groupwise has issues with 3rd party support, but can support 4 times as many users on the same hardware as Exchange. NTFS permissions are more fine grained, but Netware trustees give you automatic filesystem traversal rights. And so on...
eDirectory vs Active Directory is like emacs vs. vi though. Let's stay away from that one.
Do you work for the government? That is the only place I see Novell anymore. Governments and school districts.
Higher ed in my case. I've worked in 3 Novell shops, and the first 2 I converted to Microsoft shops before I left. In the hands of a competent administrator, both environments can deliver the same results.
They cannot get off of the platform because it would cost too much. Lots of luck going to the voters for a few billion dollars to rip and replace Novell.
It's not financially prudent to rip and replace functional infrastructure. Any other time everyone screams about governments wasting money, so what's the problem with this?
I really don't get all the Novell hate in this thread. Seriously, what's wrong with having a back end Netware (well, OES) and Groupwise infrastructure, or eDirectory instead of AD? It's not like they're not still being actively developed.
Oh, your meaning was clear, it was just your that grammar sucked. I fail to see how a company can be a bloated piece of crap, or how anyone could be forced to use a company. Perhaps you meant to say Novell makes bloated pieces of crap, or that Novell's software is bloated crap. Both of those would be grammatically correct, but, I digress.
The only reason it's still in use is because there is a certain class of 'admin' out there that refuses to learn something new and update their skill set.
That's just plain ignorant. There are a lot of use cases where Novell's products are the best tools for the job, and I have 4 Novell admins here who regularly learn new things and update their skill sets.
Novell has some winners and some losers in their portfolio, just like most other large software companies. I'm sorry that you have to work with what you feel are unsuitable tools, but that is no reason to insult those of us who disagree with you.
Novell, however, is a bloated piece of crap that no user should be forced to use.
You do realize that Novell is a company, not a product, right?
... just create a certificate authority and use self-signed certificates, and send an email to the users covering the installation of private certs in MSIE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Don't waste your money on a versign cert because all it does is eliminate the warning for a price, whereas your users can eliminate it for free.
Seriously? Let's assume an organization with only 100 employees. If just 10% of them require help setting this up, at say 15 minutes user time lost buggering around, plus 15 minutes support from the helpdesk, then you've lost 4.5 hours of total productivity. That covers the cost of a wildcard cert for your internal domains for a year. (Maybe not from Verisign, but certainly from someplace sane.)
Of course, in the real world, at least half of the users won't bother installing the cert, leaving them vulnerable anyway. So the real question is, how does one force the installation of the organizational CA into the trusted store, assuming that we are talking about the installed base and not the new rollouts?
To the poster who suggested AD and group policies, that would work great in a homogeneous Windows environment. Those a very few and far between nowadays - let me know when that GPO works on the ipad.
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