I'm not "afraid" of the terrorists myself (then again, I live what most people would consider to be a nondescript life in one of the "flyover" states), but it royally pisses me off that a small group of people thinks that their "God" commands them to wipe out the rest of the planet. THAT is their goal, and why we do have to stop them. The more success they have, the more people with Islamist (using the word "Islamist" to mean the radical fundamentalist wack-jobs, not the mainstream Islam people) leanings are going to think "Hmmm... these guys do seem to have Allah on their side - I'll sign up for my martyrdom too."
How do we stop it? IMHO, democracy and economic prosperity would at least be good starting points.
I have one of these FM transmitters. It works just like it's supposed to. The problem is going on the road. Every small town seems to have its own FM station that was in the "gap" you found previously (and, indeed, that's the way the FCC wants it to be). So I end up fiddling with it WAY too often. It's not that I can't use and MP3 player. It's that it's not as convenient as I think it should be.
...except I'd recommend against using paper towels.
Agreed. For those of us without eyeglasses, I've found that a soft non-aloe/lotion/whatever toilet paper works well too. Much less lint than paper towels and not as abrasive either.
...and odds are you've already got a hefty supply.
"The only recourse is to buy some overpriced Norton Utilities or whatnot (that will probably slow down the system to crawl) and cross fingers."
I had to do this recently and found a not-overpriced utility: PC Inspector File Recovery. It's free (beer) and seemed to do a pretty good job. (Yes, it did slow down the system to a crawl.)
So, can they not take their ballot from the election official and take it straight to the drop box without marking anything on it?
I like the idea of mandatory voting, but with a big sign that says something to the effect of "You have to turn in a ballot. That doesn't mean you have to vote for everything or anything."
I, myself, have realized in the past that I wasn't well-informed enough to make a rational vote (particularly on some local candidates), so I just left those blank.
Note The Automatic Updates feature is not affected by the WGA validation check. Therefore, you can use the Automatic Updates feature to make sure that you receive critical Windows updates.
Note that this does mean you can't go to the Windows Update site, but must use the automatic updates. There are a couple of 3rd party tools which can get these critical updates as well.
Don't get me wrong, I still think WGA is a PITA and a bad idea.
Linguist Jürgen Eichhoff, writing in the academic journal Monatshefte, confirms there was no flub on Kennedy's part. "'Ich bin ein Berliner' is not only correct," he says, "but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say."
It's true that the word "Berliner" in German means a particular kind of jelly-filled pastry as well as a citizen of Berlin. But look at it this way: If I were to tell a group of Americans that my editor is a New Yorker, would any of them really think I've confused him with a well-known weekly magazine?
We looked at Dell servers, but we're using HP these days. The biggest reason is that HP will give us a 29% discount, Dell would only give us 15%.
I'll give you a 50% discount on my new "Smyle's Servers" product. That brings the total entry-level price down to a mere $10,000. My point is that percent off is a REALLY bad metric.
d = Dell price
h = HP price
(1-.15)d=(1-.29)h
h/d=.85/.71~=1.2
So if the "regular" price of the HP is more than 1.2 times the "regular" price of the Dell, the Dell is still less expensive.
The hardware design seems a little saner as well, which is a nice bonus.
Now THAT's a reason to prefer one brand over another.
HP did not scramble to introduce a line of USB-based printers within a month just because the iMac came out. Those products were ready and waiting for Windows 98.
Yeah, and they sold tons to the Windows market, right? No, they sold a few to the Windows market (which was very happy with its serial- and parallel- interfaces, thankyouverymuch). The iMacs with its surprising (to most of us, anyway) popularity had an audience that could only buy USB peripherals.
Mac users tend to project their own situation onto others.
Bzzzt. I never owned a Mac (though I admit, I'm thinking about one for my next laptop). I did work at a student union that sold both Mac and PC equipment and software. The sheer volume of bondi-blue peripherals was stomach-churning. Go look up the first USB printer, the Epson Stylus Color 740i, and tell me it was intended for a Win98 market.
USB was great for Macs because the ADB/LocalTalk perhiphrials was ridiclously expensive and rare. From the PC side, however, USB provided only minor improvements over the existing interfaces and there was really no need for immediate adoption.
Exactly... which is why peripheral makers jumped on the USB bandwagon after the iMac. They had a small percentage of users that were locked in to a particular interface, so they could generate enough sales to offset their R&D costs, and THEN they could sell to the less-interested PC crowd at a reasonable price. The market for PC-only USB peripherals was so weak, it would have been at least a couple more years (IMHO) before the vendors would have seen any significant shift toward USB.
That is only partially correct. USB didn't really work correctly until Windows 98 shipped... about 2 months after the iMac came out. So your line of argument gives Apple enormous credit for what was only a brief advantage. All of those USB products you remember were being readied for the big Windows release -- nobody even knew Apple was going to USB.
While technically true that Windows got semi-decent support for USB shortly after the iMac, there really wasn't any industry push for peripherals in the Wintel world. The USB ports had been included on many PC's for quite awhile, but peripheral makers were definitely taking a "wait and see" approach. The GP was entirely correct in saying that the iMacs were definitely the impetus that started moving peripherals to USB.
I'm surprised that anyone running Netware on stable hardware would have a claim to say that QA has gone downhill. Our Novell servers typically run for months without a reboot while the application vendors on our NT servers recomend that we reboot them at least weekly and two of them recomend daily. Now that's reliabilty?
Reliability != QA.
Try this: Get your NetWare 6.5 CD's and sit down in front of a new server. Click next all the way through, only giving info when it's required (server name, IP address, etc.). Guess what you end up with? A non-functioning server.
OK, now go through it again, and this time (as an experienced NetWare administrator) fix it, but don't tweak any text configuration files. Let's see how long you can run it before your SYS: volume fills up with user data.
Yes, NW is reliable, but their QA still sucks!
The last I checked Novell was still used by more Fortune 500 companies as the core of their network than Microsoft and has had some major migrations themselves over the years.
This makes sense. eDirectory is far superior to AD, especially in terms of scaling it to this size. If you can put in the time to configure and test NetWare, it makes a lot more sense for the 1000+ person organization, but tell me where it's any benefit at all to the 5-25 seat business down the street. In the NT4 days, absolutely, but now?
SuSe based OES is just getting started all of the legendary Novell services are being ported over to run over Linux Edirectory, NSS, etc. All access rights in NSS will now be available over a linux kernal.
Emphasis mine. (...and yes, NSS rocks.)
I would think that every Linux Admin would want to take a look at what a robust set of management tools OES is bringing to a respected Linux distribution like SuSe. On top of that with the Novell Client you get transparent authentication via a Linux distribution into the OES server.
...and that's another thing. The Novell Client is constantly breaking applications. Why would I want to load it if I didn't have to. Yes, it's unfair MS has theirs built-in and tested. Deal with it.
I think you old school Novell people are missing something if you haven't downloaded the free OES server demo and checked it out. Not only are you starting to get all of what made Novell great you are getting everything that makes Linux such a phenominal platform as well.
One word of warning to those that haven't tried out OES, if you use Red Carpet on OES, don't try to run YaST afterwards. They don't play together well.
OES is OK. Is it worth $184 + $46/year per user?
Novell is even Open Sourcing some of it's technologies most notably their mail server Netmail has been released as Hula and is a very robust Open Source email and calendaring system.
Open sourcing technologies that aren't making any money for them? That's awfully white of them. Netmail may be nice (I haven't used it), but I think it also doesn't have the eDirectory integration you would expect from a Novell product.
Compared to 3 management tools, how many management tools do you need to administer all aspects of Active Directory?
One: MMC. There are several plugins and interfaces to it, but it's all one "tool". And furthermore, it's pretty light-weight, as opposed to the 2 minutes to load Java plugins for ConsoleOne. iManager is better on that front, but only has a fraction of the capability.
That's what ConsoleOne was supposed to be: a place to put all your plugins to manage everything. But then before they got everything ported from nwadmin, they changed course again and have iManager doing most of what ConsoleOne was doing.
With Exchange 2003 I am not able to audit that exactly who accessed who's mailbox, which folders, which emails. If someone shares his or her calendar with other users, logging only registers the fact that a different user accessed somebody's mailbox (calendar, actually).
And GroupWise will? (I'm not as intimate with GroupWise as with NetWare, but I've never seen it do this.)
I'm a consultant, and I help manage around a dozen or so NetWare networks, so I know whereof I speak. Tell me, how can I setup these web services without tweaking any text configuration files (which, I might add, will get overwritten with the next service pack, so make sure you make a backup copy) in a sane way? No, putting user data on the SYS: volume isn't sane, so it doesn't count.
NDPS (for which iPrint is really just a pretty interface) is so flaky with anything besides HP's LaserJet line as to make it unusable. Ever try to get one of those fancy ($$$) Xerox copiers running through NDPS? Don't. We've moved most of our clients off iPrint and onto Windows queues because it's more stable.
Average install time for a Windows server: about 6 hours.
Average install time for a NetWare server: about 20 hours.
Until recently, I never thought MS would approach Novell on a technical front, but I was wrong. Windows Server 2003 in my experience has been rock-solid, which has honestly surprised me (I'll grant, we've only got a couple of Exchange installs).
She will have no say in what I can do or not do there.
<Voice style="experience">
You realize this is just a temporary situation anyway? My "office" in the basement now contains filing cabinets, dishes in "storage", and canned goods.
...and the rest of the house still belongs to her.
(In the off-chance she runs across this someday: I love you, honey!)
</Voice>
While the cost of housing in small towns is certainly less than that of large cities you are not likely to find any family dwellings for anywhere close to 30K barring re-hab / foreclosures. I would venture to say that even in the lowest cost areas a modestly sized 3br/2ba will set you back 70K minimum.
I'm sure it varies a lot. My house is 3br/2ba, but is 3500 sq. ft. and sits on a quarter of a city block, and is currently only valued at $100k (according to my re-fi about a year ago). There is a small house less than two blocks from me that sold for $20k just a couple of years ago at a well-publicized estate auction.
In my small town, those prices didn't sound unreasonable at all.
No, this was much worse than that. I can handle truck stop coffee (don't particularly LIKE it, but I can handle it). This was old, burnt, and served at about 211 degrees....on top of being substandard to begin with.
Novell's marketing seems to be the only weakness, the products are great.
As a consultant dealing with several NetWare LANs, I've gotta ask what you're smoking, and why aren't you sharing?
Do me a favor, tell me the checkboxes I can click to install NW6.5 to get a fully running, usable server installed without twiddling any text files. File sharing is easy enough, but I want iPrint, iFolder, NetStorage, and Virtual Office (and no, installing on SYS: doesn't make it usable). I'd even settle for a nice GUI to change them after unreasonable defaults.
As much as I hate to say it (and as a long-time fan of Novell, I really do!), but Windows servers have been much more stable than Novell for the past couple of years.
DVR is about removing the old problem of "Oh, I'd like to watch that, but it's not on now."
Spot on, but I've one thing to add that DVR solves: My mom/grandma/whoever just called, and even though I'd really like to watch this show, I have more important things to do right now.
Did you even read the link? The ONLY place they mean anything is in large installations. And yes, they use a "theoretical MTBF" until they have enough data (what would be called "beta testing" in software-land) to show otherwise.
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Methinks your math is a bit off. Desert Storm was 1991. The WTC bombing was on Feb. 16, 1993.
Bill Clinton took office on January 20, 1993.
Sorry, but this is really leading me to believe you're completely talking out of your rear, and how you got modded up is beyond me.
I'm not "afraid" of the terrorists myself (then again, I live what most people would consider to be a nondescript life in one of the "flyover" states), but it royally pisses me off that a small group of people thinks that their "God" commands them to wipe out the rest of the planet. THAT is their goal, and why we do have to stop them. The more success they have, the more people with Islamist (using the word "Islamist" to mean the radical fundamentalist wack-jobs, not the mainstream Islam people) leanings are going to think "Hmmm... these guys do seem to have Allah on their side - I'll sign up for my martyrdom too."
How do we stop it? IMHO, democracy and economic prosperity would at least be good starting points.
I have one of these FM transmitters. It works just like it's supposed to. The problem is going on the road. Every small town seems to have its own FM station that was in the "gap" you found previously (and, indeed, that's the way the FCC wants it to be). So I end up fiddling with it WAY too often. It's not that I can't use and MP3 player. It's that it's not as convenient as I think it should be.
Agreed. For those of us without eyeglasses, I've found that a soft non-aloe/lotion/whatever toilet paper works well too. Much less lint than paper towels and not as abrasive either.
I had to do this recently and found a not-overpriced utility: PC Inspector File Recovery. It's free (beer) and seemed to do a pretty good job. (Yes, it did slow down the system to a crawl.)
No, I'm not affiliated, yadda, yadda.
I like the idea of mandatory voting, but with a big sign that says something to the effect of "You have to turn in a ballot. That doesn't mean you have to vote for everything or anything."
I, myself, have realized in the past that I wasn't well-informed enough to make a rational vote (particularly on some local candidates), so I just left those blank.
Excerpt:
Note that this does mean you can't go to the Windows Update site, but must use the automatic updates. There are a couple of 3rd party tools which can get these critical updates as well.
Don't get me wrong, I still think WGA is a PITA and a bad idea.
Another quote:
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
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From the link:
We looked at Dell servers, but we're using HP these days. The biggest reason is that HP will give us a 29% discount, Dell would only give us 15%.
I'll give you a 50% discount on my new "Smyle's Servers" product. That brings the total entry-level price down to a mere $10,000. My point is that percent off is a REALLY bad metric.
d = Dell price
h = HP price
(1-.15)d=(1-.29)h
h/d=.85/.71~=1.2
So if the "regular" price of the HP is more than 1.2 times the "regular" price of the Dell, the Dell is still less expensive.
The hardware design seems a little saner as well, which is a nice bonus.
Now THAT's a reason to prefer one brand over another.
Quick! I've got a hot stock tip for you.
Yeah, and they sold tons to the Windows market, right? No, they sold a few to the Windows market (which was very happy with its serial- and parallel- interfaces, thankyouverymuch). The iMacs with its surprising (to most of us, anyway) popularity had an audience that could only buy USB peripherals.
Mac users tend to project their own situation onto others.
Bzzzt. I never owned a Mac (though I admit, I'm thinking about one for my next laptop). I did work at a student union that sold both Mac and PC equipment and software. The sheer volume of bondi-blue peripherals was stomach-churning. Go look up the first USB printer, the Epson Stylus Color 740i, and tell me it was intended for a Win98 market.
USB was great for Macs because the ADB/LocalTalk perhiphrials was ridiclously expensive and rare. From the PC side, however, USB provided only minor improvements over the existing interfaces and there was really no need for immediate adoption.
Exactly ... which is why peripheral makers jumped on the USB bandwagon after the iMac. They had a small percentage of users that were locked in to a particular interface, so they could generate enough sales to offset their R&D costs, and THEN they could sell to the less-interested PC crowd at a reasonable price. The market for PC-only USB peripherals was so weak, it would have been at least a couple more years (IMHO) before the vendors would have seen any significant shift toward USB.
While technically true that Windows got semi-decent support for USB shortly after the iMac, there really wasn't any industry push for peripherals in the Wintel world. The USB ports had been included on many PC's for quite awhile, but peripheral makers were definitely taking a "wait and see" approach. The GP was entirely correct in saying that the iMacs were definitely the impetus that started moving peripherals to USB.
Reliability != QA.
Try this: Get your NetWare 6.5 CD's and sit down in front of a new server. Click next all the way through, only giving info when it's required (server name, IP address, etc.). Guess what you end up with? A non-functioning server.
OK, now go through it again, and this time (as an experienced NetWare administrator) fix it, but don't tweak any text configuration files. Let's see how long you can run it before your SYS: volume fills up with user data.
Yes, NW is reliable, but their QA still sucks!
The last I checked Novell was still used by more Fortune 500 companies as the core of their network than Microsoft and has had some major migrations themselves over the years.
This makes sense. eDirectory is far superior to AD, especially in terms of scaling it to this size. If you can put in the time to configure and test NetWare, it makes a lot more sense for the 1000+ person organization, but tell me where it's any benefit at all to the 5-25 seat business down the street. In the NT4 days, absolutely, but now?
SuSe based OES is just getting started all of the legendary Novell services are being ported over to run over Linux Edirectory, NSS, etc. All access rights in NSS will now be available over a linux kernal.
Emphasis mine. (...and yes, NSS rocks.)
I would think that every Linux Admin would want to take a look at what a robust set of management tools OES is bringing to a respected Linux distribution like SuSe. On top of that with the Novell Client you get transparent authentication via a Linux distribution into the OES server.
I think you old school Novell people are missing something if you haven't downloaded the free OES server demo and checked it out. Not only are you starting to get all of what made Novell great you are getting everything that makes Linux such a phenominal platform as well.
One word of warning to those that haven't tried out OES, if you use Red Carpet on OES, don't try to run YaST afterwards. They don't play together well.
OES is OK. Is it worth $184 + $46/year per user?
Novell is even Open Sourcing some of it's technologies most notably their mail server Netmail has been released as Hula and is a very robust Open Source email and calendaring system.
Open sourcing technologies that aren't making any money for them? That's awfully white of them. Netmail may be nice (I haven't used it), but I think it also doesn't have the eDirectory integration you would expect from a Novell product.
One: MMC. There are several plugins and interfaces to it, but it's all one "tool". And furthermore, it's pretty light-weight, as opposed to the 2 minutes to load Java plugins for ConsoleOne. iManager is better on that front, but only has a fraction of the capability.
That's what ConsoleOne was supposed to be: a place to put all your plugins to manage everything. But then before they got everything ported from nwadmin, they changed course again and have iManager doing most of what ConsoleOne was doing.
With Exchange 2003 I am not able to audit that exactly who accessed who's mailbox, which folders, which emails. If someone shares his or her calendar with other users, logging only registers the fact that a different user accessed somebody's mailbox (calendar, actually).
And GroupWise will? (I'm not as intimate with GroupWise as with NetWare, but I've never seen it do this.)
Hahahaha!
I'm a consultant, and I help manage around a dozen or so NetWare networks, so I know whereof I speak. Tell me, how can I setup these web services without tweaking any text configuration files (which, I might add, will get overwritten with the next service pack, so make sure you make a backup copy) in a sane way? No, putting user data on the SYS: volume isn't sane, so it doesn't count.
NDPS (for which iPrint is really just a pretty interface) is so flaky with anything besides HP's LaserJet line as to make it unusable. Ever try to get one of those fancy ($$$) Xerox copiers running through NDPS? Don't. We've moved most of our clients off iPrint and onto Windows queues because it's more stable.
Average install time for a Windows server: about 6 hours.
Average install time for a NetWare server: about 20 hours.
Until recently, I never thought MS would approach Novell on a technical front, but I was wrong. Windows Server 2003 in my experience has been rock-solid, which has honestly surprised me (I'll grant, we've only got a couple of Exchange installs).
<Voice style="experience">
You realize this is just a temporary situation anyway? My "office" in the basement now contains filing cabinets, dishes in "storage", and canned goods.
(In the off-chance she runs across this someday: I love you, honey!)
</Voice>
I'm sure it varies a lot. My house is 3br/2ba, but is 3500 sq. ft. and sits on a quarter of a city block, and is currently only valued at $100k (according to my re-fi about a year ago). There is a small house less than two blocks from me that sold for $20k just a couple of years ago at a well-publicized estate auction.
In my small town, those prices didn't sound unreasonable at all.
No, this was much worse than that. I can handle truck stop coffee (don't particularly LIKE it, but I can handle it). This was old, burnt, and served at about 211 degrees. ...on top of being substandard to begin with.
(Moving waaayyy offtopic here ....)
Ugh... the "Jesus joints". Worst coffee in my entire life came from one of those places.
Coffee! Made fresh weekly!
As a consultant dealing with several NetWare LANs, I've gotta ask what you're smoking, and why aren't you sharing?
Do me a favor, tell me the checkboxes I can click to install NW6.5 to get a fully running, usable server installed without twiddling any text files. File sharing is easy enough, but I want iPrint, iFolder, NetStorage, and Virtual Office (and no, installing on SYS: doesn't make it usable). I'd even settle for a nice GUI to change them after unreasonable defaults.
As much as I hate to say it (and as a long-time fan of Novell, I really do!), but Windows servers have been much more stable than Novell for the past couple of years.
At least they haven't managed to kill SuSE yet.
Spot on, but I've one thing to add that DVR solves: My mom/grandma/whoever just called, and even though I'd really like to watch this show, I have more important things to do right now.
Did you even read the link? The ONLY place they mean anything is in large installations. And yes, they use a "theoretical MTBF" until they have enough data (what would be called "beta testing" in software-land) to show otherwise.
Here ya go (just the first link I found).
Obviously, MTBF doesn't mean what you think it does.
Money can't buy everything. Poverty can't buy anything.