Verizon has finally sent out the Android 2.1 update to the Motorola Droid phones. It does have several neat features:
1. Live Wallpapers, we'll see how long before this becomes annoying and/or a battery suck
2. Speech to Text, not sure how well this is going to work in an office environment.
3. 3D Gallery, or Microsoft Surface on your phone.
4. Multi touch, which it has been able to do all along, but it wasn't turned on in the software.
No extra home screens, no 3D app launcher...
If you have a Motorola Droid AND do not want to wait, Androidcentral has the procedure. It's fairly straight forward
I have to delve into more and see if they updated the ActiveSync side of things, we rejected the Droid, and all android phones as a corporate phone because the bad state of activesync. We use BES (who doesn't?) as well as Notifylink's product for connecting to iPhones. One more platform wouldn't hurt, but you never know.
Mar 31, 2010
Mar 30, 2010
The "Old" Argument
Should we get rid of "Novell"?
I've heard this argument several times during my career with various outcomes. With a well reasoned argument it's a good discussion. it's the non-rational ones that tick me off
"It's OLD!"
That doesn't make it bad, just means you haven't studied enough to find out that 4.11 was several major revisions ago. Currently Novell is at the forefront of Identity Management along with the old core business of File and Print. The current OES2 has much more than MS offers and Novell has a lower price.
"It doesn't work with ANYTHING!"
Define that, usually it means that MS doesn't work with Novell. Which isn't "anything", and if you look a bit deeper, Novell works with MS products better than anything else, including MS's own products.
"It's not OUTLOOK!"
One word answer - Good! More words answer, by not being Outlook, it means that you don't need to worry about targeted attacks or users making royal blunders. Teamed with good spam and virus filtering, good ol Groupwise keeps the mail flowing without the necessity of constant vigilance. And IF you insist on using MS Outlook, there are connectors for it for the Groupwise 7 backend.
"It's it's it's not what I know!"
It's not Novell's fault you have never studied anything else but MS. Novell has far more experience doing Directory Services and user authentication than MS does. eDirectory runs circles around Active Directory. The only system that may have been able to give eDir a run was Banyan Vines and MS bought them and took the code into AD, and didn't know what they had.
"It won't connect to X, Y, or Z"
Neither will MS. Well in actuality, MS will connect to MS. So will Novell, Novell will also connect to IBM, Sun/Oracle and about 90 other things. (see Identity Manager).
"It's too hard!"
It's not that nothing worthwhile is easy, more so that it's different and damn near impossible to understand unless you get off the MS branded sippy cup. Not everything requires a wizard.
"It's broke all the time!"
Is it broke? or because you have no understanding of it, you hired people who had no understanding of it, or worse, hacked around in it to make it sort of work. Build a Novell system from the ground up with competent people at the helm and it will be a paragon of virtue and reliability. Muck with it? and you deserve what you got.
"I don't like "Novell""
Define Novell, no really, define it, and I'll bet the part you don't like is something that has been ignored, abused or abandoned for a long time. You need to keep current, and keep up maintenance. Do you not change oil in your car and then complain when it strands you on the road? Yes there are stories about old 3.11 Netware servers sitting in walls that run forever, these were also servers that did not require 10 fans to run, and only had 10-30 users on them. You need to keep up with things, otherwise you become the people in Star Trek who forgot how to fix their tools and lived in fear of them.
"Homogeneous environments are easier to support."
This is true, right up to the moment that a zero day virus gets in your network and eats all the MS based things and you find yourself looking out at a vast homogeneous wasteland that is effectively dead.
I've heard this argument several times during my career with various outcomes. With a well reasoned argument it's a good discussion. it's the non-rational ones that tick me off
"It's OLD!"
That doesn't make it bad, just means you haven't studied enough to find out that 4.11 was several major revisions ago. Currently Novell is at the forefront of Identity Management along with the old core business of File and Print. The current OES2 has much more than MS offers and Novell has a lower price.
"It doesn't work with ANYTHING!"
Define that, usually it means that MS doesn't work with Novell. Which isn't "anything", and if you look a bit deeper, Novell works with MS products better than anything else, including MS's own products.
"It's not OUTLOOK!"
One word answer - Good! More words answer, by not being Outlook, it means that you don't need to worry about targeted attacks or users making royal blunders. Teamed with good spam and virus filtering, good ol Groupwise keeps the mail flowing without the necessity of constant vigilance. And IF you insist on using MS Outlook, there are connectors for it for the Groupwise 7 backend.
"It's it's it's not what I know!"
It's not Novell's fault you have never studied anything else but MS. Novell has far more experience doing Directory Services and user authentication than MS does. eDirectory runs circles around Active Directory. The only system that may have been able to give eDir a run was Banyan Vines and MS bought them and took the code into AD, and didn't know what they had.
"It won't connect to X, Y, or Z"
Neither will MS. Well in actuality, MS will connect to MS. So will Novell, Novell will also connect to IBM, Sun/Oracle and about 90 other things. (see Identity Manager).
"It's too hard!"
It's not that nothing worthwhile is easy, more so that it's different and damn near impossible to understand unless you get off the MS branded sippy cup. Not everything requires a wizard.
"It's broke all the time!"
Is it broke? or because you have no understanding of it, you hired people who had no understanding of it, or worse, hacked around in it to make it sort of work. Build a Novell system from the ground up with competent people at the helm and it will be a paragon of virtue and reliability. Muck with it? and you deserve what you got.
"I don't like "Novell""
Define Novell, no really, define it, and I'll bet the part you don't like is something that has been ignored, abused or abandoned for a long time. You need to keep current, and keep up maintenance. Do you not change oil in your car and then complain when it strands you on the road? Yes there are stories about old 3.11 Netware servers sitting in walls that run forever, these were also servers that did not require 10 fans to run, and only had 10-30 users on them. You need to keep up with things, otherwise you become the people in Star Trek who forgot how to fix their tools and lived in fear of them.
"Homogeneous environments are easier to support."
This is true, right up to the moment that a zero day virus gets in your network and eats all the MS based things and you find yourself looking out at a vast homogeneous wasteland that is effectively dead.
Complete ReBoot
Sometimes you just need to power off the box and give it another go. My old blog "..and a sense of humor" died due to lack of interest on my part. This blog is about tech, specifically Information Technology used in healthcare. Novell, Windows and Linux are my focus, others may appear as warranted.
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