...and would the original have been funnier if the Japanese translators had done their job right on the original 'Zero Wing' ?
By deliberately misquoting it, I'm not gonna be named in any of the major lawsuits from Sega for misappropriation of their game content. Anybody think this is maybe a publicity stunt from Sega in order to claw back some major revenue from cancelling the Dreamcast ?.
Fine, that's your opinion, and I will respect it as such.
Simply null-route your network from the relay testers that ORBS uses; then they will note your netblock as being a possible spam carrier.
Just don't complain if I refuse to accept mail from your servers because your netblock is registered as a possible spam relay.
I trust ORBS, just as I trust MAPS, to reduce the amount of shit I and my users receive... don't insult a free anti-spam service simply because it uses a minimal amount of bandwidth in order to prevent misuse of *YOUR* network.
In every case, ORBS will mail the postmaster at each server it finds as open; therefore telling you if you have an open relay... and giving you a chance to fix it. I think everybody who posts to Slashdot will agree that open relays are *BAD* things!
I'd rather have a single anti-spam mechanism darkening my SMTP service every once in a while instead of 100 piss-ant spammers hitting my boxes with 10,000 messages an hour.
This has a full AY-3-8910 emulator (Windows only, I'm afraid) with a pretty good archive of Spectrum SoundTracker songs to play with it. Also check out Project AY, again mainly Speccy-oriented, but lots of tunez from popular games/demos (many of them classics in their own right).
I thought that part of what the U.S. DoJ wanted was that Microsoft was to make available any version of Windows that was not older than five years. This will of course rule out Windows '95 but Windows '98 should be good for at least another 2/3 years; Millennium Edition even more.
I would think that this would probably apply to volume licensing as well....
Would anybody in the States who has been keeping an eye on the Microsoft vs. DoJ case care to advise ?
The idea of placing another MTA in front of the existing mailserver is that by itself it doesn't act as an open relay; so acts as a first line of defence against spammers - the filtering is just an added extra that would help matters.
For example, if mail is for a domain that the organization is reponsible for and it isn't coming from a suspect source, by all means, accept it and relay it straight through to the old box. If of course, the destination is to an off-network machine and/or the source is blacklisted, then block it, send a 550 back to the client, etc, etc.
Of course, somebody may just say that that after all this work, why don't you just trash the old mailserver and use the new machine that has been set up.... problem is, the people I do this for people with elderly copies of Exchange that are just broken and full of exploits - and it is cheaper and easier to have a machine that allows much more flexibility in filtering out nasty/unwanted e-mails instead of forking out $$$ to Microsoft for lots of unwanted features and even more exploits yet to be discovered!.
All you do is recycle an old 386/486 or something like that; install a Linux distro on it and simply filter using RBL, MAPS DUL, and ORBS - anything that passes those tests can be safely relayed through the legacy mail server.
Update the primary MX records for any domains it hosts to go to the newly installed Linux box and then firewall the old machine's SMTP port when DNS has fully propogated around the Internet (usually 48/72 hours).
On the Linux box; configure it to relay mail for those domains directly to the IP address of the legacy mail server - as it is behind the firewall, it can connect to the SMTP port of the legacy mail server with no problems.... voila, no more spam - and no more open relaying!
The only problems with this is if you can't get hold of an old box (unlikely; hardware is so cheap nowadays you could probably pick up a low-end Pentium for next to nothing) - or if you don't have some way of filtering packets, in which case, you're screwed anyway:-)
Organizations may complain about the cost of getting someone versed in UNIX to install such a system; but I would like to remind them that having an open relay on a network often breaks the ToS and AUP of the upstream ISP/bandwidth provider.
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I don't really like commenting on the whole 'racist' issue; for fear of being branded as such.
Having lived in a community which has a fairly large percentage of Asian/Black/non-white among its populace; there were lots of times where self-appointed leaders of those ethnic communities decided to play the race card in order to get a better deal for themselves.
For example, several religious leaders of the Islamic faith wanted to build a place of worship nearby for the benefit of the Islamic community.... this is something neither I nor the majority of our town had a problem with; however, they wanted to build it with taxpayer's money.
Now, as most people saw it, no other faiths in the community (note: Christians/Hindus/Jews all pay tax as well!) had received any Government funding with regards the building or maintenance of their relevant churches/temples/synagogues... all having to rely on financial support from their worshippers/parishoners and not from the government.
So, the Islamic group who made the application for funds were turned down on the grounds that it was not in the interests of the taxpayer to support such a venture.
They promptly shouted down the local politicians and claimed that the decision was 'racist' - and demanded the resignation of council members responsible for making the decision. The fact that just over 30% of the committee was made up of various ethnic minorities made no difference to these people.
In the end, they managed to organize fund-raising events and some local businessmen made substantial contributions to support the building of a mosque. So everybody *was* happy in the end:-)
I know that Microsoft are a lot of things; and I'm sure that plenty of Slashdot readers will be quick to throw some pretty nasty insults in the direction of Redmond thick and fast. However, the amount of compensation these people are asking for is incredible; people who are seriously maimed for life by shitheads like drunk drivers get far less than that and I can't imagine Microsoft would do something that would alienate themselves from those large foreign corporates who would be offended to deal with such a company.
In closing, the 'race' card should only be played when it will truly mean something and it can be proven that racial discrimination is at work; otherwise it will lose its meaning to both judge and jury when deciding whether someone has been genuinely discriminated against or is just out to make a fast buck from their skin colour.
First, check the path where your traceroute executable resides; normally/usr/bin or/usr/sbin (sometimes, although rare, it can be found in/sbin).
If you can't find it, try locate traceroute.
If traceroute still refuses to work, check that/etc/resolv.conf is world-readable (as root, chmod a+r/etc/resolv.conf) - as it may be having difficulties resolving hostnames to IP addresses!
"Hmmmm.... They have the Internet on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
FYI, I use Windows 2000 on my personal desktop as yes, I agree that Linux still hasn't reached mainstream acceptance as a desktop OS.
However, UNIX continues to thrive in the server market; one only has to look at the Netcraft Web Server Survey to see the sheer majority of ISPs prefer UNIX over a Microsoft solution.
A user-friendly interface does NOT always make sense when a user should never have to play around with a server.... a real server is one that just sits in the corner and does its job, not one that requires the admin to keep rebooting it every 48 hours (before you flame me, I have to do this frequently to an NT machine which has the latest SP installed, all security patches, and yes, it's firewalled, so don't blame skr1pt-k1dd1e5 either:-} ).
As for Windows fading, perhaps you are right, but I don't see it getting any brighter either... for instance:
Windows 3.1 - Perhaps the last version of Windows to actually contain some innovative stuff (TrueType springs to mind). Windows 95 - Mixture of 16-bit code and 32-bit code that played with the processor akin to balancing multiple plates on sticks and not quite getting the balance right.
Windows 98 - Windows 95 + Internet Explorer 4.
Windows ME - Windows 95 - MS-DOS + Internet Explorer 5 + Media Player 7.
NT would have been a good idea except for Microsoft putting the GDI into the kernel... geez, who cares about the speed of the fancy pointy-clicky graphics when it was designed as a server operating system in the first place!
Windows has user-friendliness but very little stability and Microsoft doesn't seem to be doing anything to address this issue.... Linux has the stability but admittedly not the user-friendliness, but as you already have said, GNOME and KDE are steps in the right direction which does indicate the free software community are making inroads towards making Linux/xxxxBSD more usable to people familiar with GUIs...
Perhaps we'll just have to see who achieves both these goals first... I don't need to say which one my money is on:-p
"Hmmm.... the Internet is on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
This man helped to give the world an operating system that has survived the test of time and will most likely outlive anything Bill Gates or his gang will ever create... what greater legacy could this man have left to his profession or his peers ?
99% of the world would like to think of Mr. Gates as the father of the operating system revolution - but the remaining 1% of the world who use and appreciate the elegance of Ken Thompson's work are enough to make him a character sorely missed from the field of computing...
... and let's not even forget his contribution in the form of the C programming language!
I think I speak for everyone here when I say "THANKS FOR EVERYTHING KEN!!"
"Hmmm.... they have the Internet on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
Hehehe, the company I work for manages over 650 firewalls (all Checkpoint on NT *bleurgh*) for a large multi-national company with offices all over the world... this is why it was so important that I had to do the course and pass the exam.
However, getting back to the original topic in hand (MacOS/X guys thinking they can admin *nix and its ilk); nothing can prepare you for maintaining a Checkpoint firewall, not even a CCSE (Checkpoint Certified Security Engineer).
It has frequent problems maintaining a persistent IKE tunnel to another Checkpoint firewall - those 650 firewalls all connect to a central head office and I have to reset at least eight of those tunnels a day; not much fun...
Furthermore, it has severe weaknesses running on Linux (i.e. it brings up the network interfaces before enabling its security policy which means for a brief period of time that your network is vulnerable) - it was nice of Checkpoint to port it to Linux, but with such a gaping security hole like this, is anybody going to take the Linux port seriously ?
....and don't even get me started about Checkpoint Provider-1:-)
I suppose what I am trying to say is that when you take the course provided by the manufacturer/developers of the product; you see all the rosy features that they want you to... but they never tell you about the features you really need to know about... after all, how many MCSEs know about the undocumented '/MBR' switch for FDISK ?
"Hmmm... they have the Internet on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
My employer recently paid for my CCSA (Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator) which was a requirement for them to resell Checkpoint products... however, they also had the same reservations; they did the following:
1:) They paid for the course and subsequent exam.
2:) I agreed to stay with the company for at least 12 months afterwards.
The interesting bit was what would actually happen if and when I left the company; for example, if I left three months after the training, I would pay back 75% of the fees, if I left six months after the training, I would pay back 50% of the fees, etc, etc.
Of course, after the twelve months contract expires, I am free to do whatever I wish - in my employer's words, "We have had our moneys' worth after that anyway!".
"Hmmm... they have the Internet on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
Personally, I do not think piracy is the real issue where M$ is concerned... as we all know, there are literally hundreds of thousands (millions ?) of warez sites offering M$ products for download every day.
Plus, even though all the comments regarding msoft@buddy.ebay.com have been changed to 'Neutral' - there are still only 153 comments in total (at time of writing this comment)... and 153 people is a pretty small number of people to piss off when you have an impending date with a sledgehammer (can you say "Fifty million pieces", Judge Jackson ?)
Has anyone ever stopped to think about how much of this software that was blocked from sale was not currently available from Microsoft; usually because it was an older version that has now been superseded by a new and improved version ?
It is surprising how many places still run 16-bit versions of Word/Excel/Access - and not many people know how difficult it is to get copies/licenses for these versions from Microsoft - they would rather you upgrade to the latest, greatest (buggiest ?) version of Winblows and their new version of Office with the paperclip that deserves to have a fatwa placed on it.... It is people with these old versions of software that Microsoft truly has to fear, because how many people here *really* use AutoCorrect or any of the new features introduced into Word since 6.0 ?
Or does anyone here know what any version of Access greater than 2.0 actually does better than 2.0 apart from break backwards compatibility ?
The truth is that 95% of most Office users would be happier with an older version which uses less memory and costs much less than the current M$ Office 2000...
Microsoft clamped down on these people because it would have started a trend (retrocomputing ?); but this time, people wouldn't have been buying new versions of Office to supplement their old version... most people only need one word processor, etc, etc.
But yes, it doesn't really matter what the public wants, Microsoft has got its way yet again... it doesn't want to see people selling copies of Office 4.3 for $50 (money they don't see) when they can sell that person a copy of Office 2000 (lots more money, which lines Bill's pocket).
Tez 'What goes up, must come down' - just ask any NT sysadmin!
As those customers grow, we grow with them. Intel estimates that only 5% of the servers needed to run the Internet by the year 2003 are deployed today.
Just 5% ?
But I thought the world was running out of IPv4 address space really fast; and as IPv6 is still a long way from roll-out, surely this statement is either false or IANA is gonna have to get their skates on to get more sites ready for the move to IPv6!
I've been using XFree86 over a wide variety of different display boards and monitors for nearly four years now; and have found the most useful configuration tool for/etc/X11/XF86Config to be plain old xf86config.
Sure, it's old and clunky, but it gives you a pretty solid start so you can tweak it to your exact VGA/monitor combination. It may take you a good hour or so before you can say you've got all your modelines set up in an optimal fashion....
BUT REMEMBER!! - once you've done it, dump that XF86Config file on a floppy and forget about it! - should you decide to ever re-install that spanking new version of Red Hat on your system; you can just retrieve that config file and put it where it should be.... just copy and go!
Same with conf.modules/modules.conf; why bother remembering the arcane module parameters you used to get that elderly sound card working when you can just back it up and keep it for next time ?
My point ?
XFree86 is *not* Windows; it doesn't even pretend to be - the fact that it uses a graphics display and a mouse are purely irrelevant; and before you Microsoft zealots go on about Windows and its fabulous ability to automatically setup a display adapter and the connected monitor - NT can't even be set up with the proper monitor settings; it gets all its info from the graphics card driver.... so it's still possible to misconfigure your graphics system to a point where you can't even use it!
At least I can drop to a text mode shell under UNIX, I can't under NT:-))
For what it's worth; I have found Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 to have extensive support for monitors under XFree86; it comes with definitions for tons of monitors - and it even lists mine by name where Windoze '98 doesn't (Philips Brilliance 1720). Personally, I don't use Caldera; but find it an ideal distro to recommend to the typical Linux newbie - primarily for this reason!
Just my two cents! LiteForce tez@saynotospam.spilsby.net
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By deliberately misquoting it, I'm not gonna be named in any of the major lawsuits from Sega for misappropriation of their game content. Anybody think this is maybe a publicity stunt from Sega in order to claw back some major revenue from cancelling the Dreamcast ?.
Zero Wing II anyone ??
Simply null-route your network from the relay testers that ORBS uses; then they will note your netblock as being a possible spam carrier.
Just don't complain if I refuse to accept mail from your servers because your netblock is registered as a possible spam relay.
I trust ORBS, just as I trust MAPS, to reduce the amount of shit I and my users receive... don't insult a free anti-spam service simply because it uses a minimal amount of bandwidth in order to prevent misuse of *YOUR* network.
In every case, ORBS will mail the postmaster at each server it finds as open; therefore telling you if you have an open relay... and giving you a chance to fix it. I think everybody who posts to Slashdot will agree that open relays are *BAD* things!
I'd rather have a single anti-spam mechanism darkening my SMTP service every once in a while instead of 100 piss-ant spammers hitting my boxes with 10,000 messages an hour.
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
I am pretty sure Hans Reiser named his filesystem after himself (spelt 'Reiser') and not after a slightly-typo'ed variation of it (Resier).
Loadsa bucks spent by Andover, even more spent by VA, and we still have typo fever all over Slashdot!!
KEEP IT UP! :-)
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
ZX SPECTRUM Computer Sound Chip Emulator Home Page
This has a full AY-3-8910 emulator (Windows only, I'm afraid) with a pretty good archive of Spectrum SoundTracker songs to play with it. Also check out Project AY, again mainly Speccy-oriented, but lots of tunez from popular games/demos (many of them classics in their own right).
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
I would think that this would probably apply to volume licensing as well....
Would anybody in the States who has been keeping an eye on the Microsoft vs. DoJ case care to advise ?
Oh yeah, FiRsT PoSt!!! :-)
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
The idea of placing another MTA in front of the existing mailserver is that by itself it doesn't act as an open relay; so acts as a first line of defence against spammers - the filtering is just an added extra that would help matters.
For example, if mail is for a domain that the organization is reponsible for and it isn't coming from a suspect source, by all means, accept it and relay it straight through to the old box. If of course, the destination is to an off-network machine and/or the source is blacklisted, then block it, send a 550 back to the client, etc, etc.
Of course, somebody may just say that that after all this work, why don't you just trash the old mailserver and use the new machine that has been set up.... problem is, the people I do this for people with elderly copies of Exchange that are just broken and full of exploits - and it is cheaper and easier to have a machine that allows much more flexibility in filtering out nasty/unwanted e-mails instead of forking out $$$ to Microsoft for lots of unwanted features and even more exploits yet to be discovered!.
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
Update the primary MX records for any domains it hosts to go to the newly installed Linux box and then firewall the old machine's SMTP port when DNS has fully propogated around the Internet (usually 48/72 hours).
On the Linux box; configure it to relay mail for those domains directly to the IP address of the legacy mail server - as it is behind the firewall, it can connect to the SMTP port of the legacy mail server with no problems.... voila, no more spam - and no more open relaying!
The only problems with this is if you can't get hold of an old box (unlikely; hardware is so cheap nowadays you could probably pick up a low-end Pentium for next to nothing) - or if you don't have some way of filtering packets, in which case, you're screwed anyway :-)
Organizations may complain about the cost of getting someone versed in UNIX to install such a system; but I would like to remind them that having an open relay on a network often breaks the ToS and AUP of the upstream ISP/bandwidth provider.
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
Having lived in a community which has a fairly large percentage of Asian/Black/non-white among its populace; there were lots of times where self-appointed leaders of those ethnic communities decided to play the race card in order to get a better deal for themselves.
For example, several religious leaders of the Islamic faith wanted to build a place of worship nearby for the benefit of the Islamic community.... this is something neither I nor the majority of our town had a problem with; however, they wanted to build it with taxpayer's money.
Now, as most people saw it, no other faiths in the community (note: Christians/Hindus/Jews all pay tax as well!) had received any Government funding with regards the building or maintenance of their relevant churches/temples/synagogues... all having to rely on financial support from their worshippers/parishoners and not from the government.
So, the Islamic group who made the application for funds were turned down on the grounds that it was not in the interests of the taxpayer to support such a venture.
They promptly shouted down the local politicians and claimed that the decision was 'racist' - and demanded the resignation of council members responsible for making the decision. The fact that just over 30% of the committee was made up of various ethnic minorities made no difference to these people.
In the end, they managed to organize fund-raising events and some local businessmen made substantial contributions to support the building of a mosque. So everybody *was* happy in the end :-)
I know that Microsoft are a lot of things; and I'm sure that plenty of Slashdot readers will be quick to throw some pretty nasty insults in the direction of Redmond thick and fast. However, the amount of compensation these people are asking for is incredible; people who are seriously maimed for life by shitheads like drunk drivers get far less than that and I can't imagine Microsoft would do something that would alienate themselves from those large foreign corporates who would be offended to deal with such a company.
In closing, the 'race' card should only be played when it will truly mean something and it can be proven that racial discrimination is at work; otherwise it will lose its meaning to both judge and jury when deciding whether someone has been genuinely discriminated against or is just out to make a fast buck from their skin colour.
"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
First, check the path where your traceroute executable resides; normally /usr/bin or /usr/sbin (sometimes, although rare, it can be found in /sbin).
If you can't find it, try locate traceroute.
If traceroute still refuses to work, check that /etc/resolv.conf is world-readable (as root, chmod a+r /etc/resolv.conf) - as it may be having difficulties resolving hostnames to IP addresses!
"Hmmmm.... They have the Internet on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
However, UNIX continues to thrive in the server market; one only has to look at the Netcraft Web Server Survey to see the sheer majority of ISPs prefer UNIX over a Microsoft solution.
A user-friendly interface does NOT always make sense when a user should never have to play around with a server.... a real server is one that just sits in the corner and does its job, not one that requires the admin to keep rebooting it every 48 hours (before you flame me, I have to do this frequently to an NT machine which has the latest SP installed, all security patches, and yes, it's firewalled, so don't blame skr1pt-k1dd1e5 either :-} ).
As for Windows fading, perhaps you are right, but I don't see it getting any brighter either... for instance:
Windows 3.1 - Perhaps the last version of Windows to actually contain some innovative stuff (TrueType springs to mind).
Windows 95 - Mixture of 16-bit code and 32-bit code that played with the processor akin to balancing multiple plates on sticks and not quite getting the balance right.
Windows 98 - Windows 95 + Internet Explorer 4.
Windows ME - Windows 95 - MS-DOS + Internet Explorer 5 + Media Player 7.
NT would have been a good idea except for Microsoft putting the GDI into the kernel... geez, who cares about the speed of the fancy pointy-clicky graphics when it was designed as a server operating system in the first place!
Windows has user-friendliness but very little stability and Microsoft doesn't seem to be doing anything to address this issue.... Linux has the stability but admittedly not the user-friendliness, but as you already have said, GNOME and KDE are steps in the right direction which does indicate the free software community are making inroads towards making Linux/xxxxBSD more usable to people familiar with GUIs...
Perhaps we'll just have to see who achieves both these goals first... I don't need to say which one my money is on :-p
"Hmmm.... the Internet is on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
99% of the world would like to think of Mr. Gates as the father of the operating system revolution - but the remaining 1% of the world who use and appreciate the elegance of Ken Thompson's work are enough to make him a character sorely missed from the field of computing...
I think I speak for everyone here when I say "THANKS FOR EVERYTHING KEN!!"
"Hmmm.... they have the Internet on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
However, getting back to the original topic in hand (MacOS/X guys thinking they can admin *nix and its ilk); nothing can prepare you for maintaining a Checkpoint firewall, not even a CCSE (Checkpoint Certified Security Engineer).
It has frequent problems maintaining a persistent IKE tunnel to another Checkpoint firewall - those 650 firewalls all connect to a central head office and I have to reset at least eight of those tunnels a day; not much fun...
Furthermore, it has severe weaknesses running on Linux (i.e. it brings up the network interfaces before enabling its security policy which means for a brief period of time that your network is vulnerable) - it was nice of Checkpoint to port it to Linux, but with such a gaping security hole like this, is anybody going to take the Linux port seriously ?
I suppose what I am trying to say is that when you take the course provided by the manufacturer/developers of the product; you see all the rosy features that they want you to... but they never tell you about the features you really need to know about... after all, how many MCSEs know about the undocumented '/MBR' switch for FDISK ?
"Hmmm... they have the Internet on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
1:) They paid for the course and subsequent exam.
2:) I agreed to stay with the company for at least 12 months afterwards.
The interesting bit was what would actually happen if and when I left the company; for example, if I left three months after the training, I would pay back 75% of the fees, if I left six months after the training, I would pay back 50% of the fees, etc, etc.
Of course, after the twelve months contract expires, I am free to do whatever I wish - in my employer's words, "We have had our moneys' worth after that anyway!".
"Hmmm... they have the Internet on computers now ?" - Homer Simpson
Plus, even though all the comments regarding msoft@buddy.ebay.com have been changed to 'Neutral' - there are still only 153 comments in total (at time of writing this comment)... and 153 people is a pretty small number of people to piss off when you have an impending date with a sledgehammer (can you say "Fifty million pieces", Judge Jackson ?)
Has anyone ever stopped to think about how much of this software that was blocked from sale was not currently available from Microsoft; usually because it was an older version that has now been superseded by a new and improved version ?
It is surprising how many places still run 16-bit versions of Word/Excel/Access - and not many people know how difficult it is to get copies/licenses for these versions from Microsoft - they would rather you upgrade to the latest, greatest (buggiest ?) version of Winblows and their new version of Office with the paperclip that deserves to have a fatwa placed on it.... It is people with these old versions of software that Microsoft truly has to fear, because how many people here *really* use AutoCorrect or any of the new features introduced into Word since 6.0 ?
Or does anyone here know what any version of Access greater than 2.0 actually does better than 2.0 apart from break backwards compatibility ?
The truth is that 95% of most Office users would be happier with an older version which uses less memory and costs much less than the current M$ Office 2000...
Microsoft clamped down on these people because it would have started a trend (retrocomputing ?); but this time, people wouldn't have been buying new versions of Office to supplement their old version... most people only need one word processor, etc, etc.
But yes, it doesn't really matter what the public wants, Microsoft has got its way yet again... it doesn't want to see people selling copies of Office 4.3 for $50 (money they don't see) when they can sell that person a copy of Office 2000 (lots more money, which lines Bill's pocket).
Tez
'What goes up, must come down' - just ask any NT sysadmin!
152.78.65.48 is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) (JFS) mod_perl/1.21 PHP/3.0.12 on Linux
Just 5% ?
But I thought the world was running out of IPv4 address space really fast; and as IPv6 is still a long way from roll-out, surely this statement is either false or IANA is gonna have to get their skates on to get more sites ready for the move to IPv6!
Sure, it's old and clunky, but it gives you a pretty solid start so you can tweak it to your exact VGA/monitor combination. It may take you a good hour or so before you can say you've got all your modelines set up in an optimal fashion....
BUT REMEMBER!! - once you've done it, dump that XF86Config file on a floppy and forget about it! - should you decide to ever re-install that spanking new version of Red Hat on your system; you can just retrieve that config file and put it where it should be.... just copy and go!
Same with conf.modules/modules.conf; why bother remembering the arcane module parameters you used to get that elderly sound card working when you can just back it up and keep it for next time ?
My point ?
XFree86 is *not* Windows; it doesn't even pretend to be - the fact that it uses a graphics display and a mouse are purely irrelevant; and before you Microsoft zealots go on about Windows and its fabulous ability to automatically setup a display adapter and the connected monitor - NT can't even be set up with the proper monitor settings; it gets all its info from the graphics card driver.... so it's still possible to misconfigure your graphics system to a point where you can't even use it!
At least I can drop to a text mode shell under UNIX, I can't under NT :-))
For what it's worth; I have found Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 to have extensive support for monitors under XFree86; it comes with definitions for tons of monitors - and it even lists mine by name where Windoze '98 doesn't (Philips Brilliance 1720). Personally, I don't use Caldera; but find it an ideal distro to recommend to the typical Linux newbie - primarily for this reason!
Just my two cents!
LiteForce
tez@saynotospam.spilsby.net