I've been published!

Off-topic
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In advance of releasing a new software product, our company asked for articles from those who had used it.

I submitted an article which was selected. They asked me for a profile and a picture of myself to include with the article.

Half as a joke I submitted my unicyclist.com avatar. To my surprise they actually used it!

Check it out at:

http://www.altiris.com/juice/contributors/33.asp?id=5

<shameless plug>
Altiris SVS Rocks! If you are a windows power user you’ll find it incredibly useful and one of the most innovative software products ever. What’s better is that Altiris is making it available FREE for personal use.
</shameless plug>

-mg

p.s. See y’all in Moab!

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no offense
but why would you want to be a windows power user

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To earn money of course. Seriously though, why WOULDN’T you want to be one? In the “real” world Microsoft pretty much owns the OS. So, it would seem to me a good idea to understand the OS that you’ll most likely end up being required to use (at least in some circumstances). Of course no one is “requiring” you to use ANY OS unless it’s for school or work (or some other related task.)

Even if my computer operating system was not tied to my livelihood I’d almost certainly use (and be a power user) on various operating systems. But I must be honest, linux is still my preference.

As it stands now most of my “physical” machines (about 20) are running some form of linux. The windows machines that I require are usually hosted as “virtual” machines on the linux box.

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you gotta go where the market is, no matter how bad it may be.

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Holy crap - I work for Altiris in the Newton office in Mass!!!

Oh - and SVS is going to totally kick so much butt and really change the way dev and product testing is done… It’s a very exciting product.

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you’re lucky! I was unable to understand what is this about!
kudos for a web site unable to explain to a layman what’s the purpose of the software :astonished: !!!
(please note that I am an I.T. professional -though not familiar with every buzz and certainly not familiar with Win%*§!!-

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Just think of SVS as managing many “layers” on your computer. Obviously the base will have the OS and anything else you want on it.

But, let’s say, you want an “Application Layer” - just install all your software onto that later. Now the two layers are separated.

Let’s say you’re in QA and need to test a product against 3 different versions of the same software title. Most titles will only let you have one version of itself installed - you can install each into different layers and turn one on when needed. Then turn it off and turn the next layer on, etc.

On top of that, once you have a number of layers, as an admin, you can deploy those layers to machines (that are running SVS).

It isn’t an immediately intuitive product, but I know I’m impressed :slight_smile:

Hope that may give an insight into what it does.

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FYI

Perhaps this helps you understand? Of course, presently if you don’t use Windows then it will be of little interest to you.

-mg

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Michael,

Long time, no talk. Good to hear from you again.

Congrats on the publication. Neat to see you got your unicycling avatar in there.

Bruce