And that sound you hear is all Microsoft's OEMs coming to the stark realization that Microsoft has already entered the hardware market, and their days of selling Microsoft Windows preloaded on PCs may be numbered. I remember when Microsoft was first getting into game consoles, and they had to reassure their OEM partners that they were, in fact, not going into the hardware market.
Microsoft may have a hard choice. Seize control of the machine along with the OS, and devastate the OEM market, or accept that their competitors are going to make their consoles more general purpose, and that they can not follow. If they alienate their OEMs, then they will be giving Linux a boost that it would not have had otherwise. If they don't add those PC like features to their consoles, they might never win top spot in the console market.
Or they could classify you as an 'enemy combatant', strip you of your citizenship, and hold you indefinitely. Of course, that would never happen to anyone who isn't really a terrorist, right?
TCP bulk transfers? Maybe 8.1 bits per byte. You're talking about about 20 bytes per packet of 1500 bytes (an overhead of just over 1%). Even with an MTU of 576 (dial-up default), your overhead is still a little over 3%, or less than 8.3 bits per byte. If you want to factor in ACKs at maybe 60 bytes per packet, the overhead would be around 5% and 13%, or 8.4 and 9.0 bits per byte.
Now, if this person had set a tiny MTU (68 bytes is minimum, IIRC), then it would be possible to get a really high overhead. Most likely he 'tweaked' his TCP configuration and tuned it for peak modem performance, which limited him to modem performance when he connected to a higher speed connection.
I think you have apple's OS design completely backwards. Old Macs were completely monolithic (not unlike their hardware), and virtually everything ran in the same address space. Mac OS X changes things by running the microkernel Mach with the monolithic BSD-derrived Darwin kernel under that. The real reason Apple switched over was the simple fact there were too many design limitations in the original MacOS, and it was too difficult to tack on the features people expect these days, like separated (protected) address spaces, fully preemptive multitasking, and multi-user capabilities. All those features could've been grafted into the original MacOS kernel, but the engineers must've decided that it would be easier to graft MacOS onto a modern kernel rather than the other way around.
Problem is that Novell eDirectory/DS has very specific system requirements. Last time I tried to install the Linux version, I found out that the distribution 'requirements' were not merely suggestions like they are with most products. NDS wants to install a kernel module (for reasons only known to Novell) for a very specific set of Red Hat (and now SuSE, I'll bet) kernels. If you did not run Red Hat, or if you ran a different (e.g. vanilla or updated) or patched kernel, you were pretty much out of luck.
In his case, all 300 servers would have to match the system requirements laid out by Novell. That may not be an easy task. And maybe it would be nessesary to use both NDS and something like OpenLDAP+Kerberos.
What I was basically getting at was the fact LDAP and/or Kerberos were the technologies that would overcome his problems, regardless of who the vendor of said technologies are. Hell, you could use Microsoft Active Directory to solve his problems (although I don't think it'd be worth deploying dozens of Windows servers to just act as authentication servers to the UNIX machines, which would have to proxy the authentication to any client machines).
The logo animation is a funny thing. It actually does serve a purpose. It tells you the program is not hung. It's the same thing as those silly spinners in text mode programs (-\|/). If you have a program that's just sitting there with nothing but static text, how long are you going to wait before deciding something might be wrong?
What about the windows port of Nessus, NeWT? NeWT Pro is a little on the pricy side ($6000), but is only needed by those that will need to scan multiple subnets.
Actually, it's not my country, but that's beside the point. I still have to live in this same world, after all. I guess I didn't make this clear, but don't think I disagree with you. I was simply taken back by your hostility and anger towards the AC.
Now, my only point was the sheer level of hostility in your post, combined with some use of the retoric (the T-word and implying the anon poster was anti-american) of the pro-Bush, 'My Country Right or Wrong', camp was inspiring. IMO, it illustrates how meaningless those words have become. That people's opinions are discounted by simply calling them 'Unpatriotic' because they dare question the government.
Now, what I find ridiculous about this situation is the two sides of the war. Anti-Bush people who can seem to be unable to criticize anything about Bush except for his intelligence (or lack thereof), and the pro-Bush people who criticize anyone who doesn't agree with Bush as unpatriotic. They've become caricatures all to themselves. How can anyone take either side seriously, I wonder.
Since I'm a Canadian citizen, I can laugh off most silly charges of me being Anti-American. Frankly it's neither an insult or a complement to me. I have even been told that I have no right to speak on these topics. Even throughout the Maher Arar deportation by US authorities (perhaps with the Canadian government's blessings) to Syria to be tortured, some people maintained that no one had the right to say anything about this except for the US government. Can't break this glass house they live in, or the entire world they live in might come crumbling down.
I have my doubts about the justice that Maher will get with the inquiry about his case that's going on. After all, what can you really expect when the RCMP raid a reporter's house after she dug up some secret documents on the case.
True. "Site Licenses" in the traditional sense do not exist for Microsoft products. I meant Volume licenses, and made the assumption that was what the parent meant, too. However, despite that inaccuracy, the rest of what I said still stands. See Microsoft's Windows XP Volume Licensing site for information.
I did check, though, and I'm wrong about XP Home being ineligible for upgrade. I'm surprised that a number of UNIXs are on the upgrade list along with things dating back to Windows 3.x. But each machine that will take a MS Volume License OS MUST have an operating system that's on MS's list (and Linux and DOS don't count).
On one hand, I'm somewhat offended by the tone you took. On the other hand, I'm surprised you made effective use of the Bushian 'everyone who doesn't agree with me is a terrorist'. And on the third hand, it truely illustrates how ridiculous the situation has become. I'm in awe.
What about Hydroelectric. The only environmentally damaging part of hydroelectric generation is the construction phase where when the dam goes up, areas of land are flooded, and mercury can seep into the river from the soil. Some greenhouse gases may be released by decaying vegitation in the flooded areas as well. When running, the only emission the dam would give off would be an electromagnetic field.
Then again, I'm biased. You nice Americans are subsidizing my (already cheap) energy bills by purchasing excess hydroelectric power from Manitoba Hydro.:-)
I had to restrain myself from saying hydro bills instead of energy bills, though.
Why? Because it's easier to pass BSA software audits by doing it this way. Microsoft says you can't deploy a centralised image to workstations without a VL agreement (although it's hard to say if it's enforceable or not), and installing individually and entering in a different key for each workstation, and then trying to get a direct internet connection in order to 'activate' the computer makes it expensive to do. Unfortunately because of all the hoops using an OEM version requires for any reasonably sized business, it's just plain cheaper to pay twice for the OS than it is to deal with the OEM version nonsense.
The other issue is that if they want to keep all their workstations with the same OS company wide, they've little choice but to buy a volume license along with the Software Assurance. It's the only way they can be sure that they will be allowed to downgrade new machines or upgrade old machines to the standardized OS.
Like it or not, most Microsoft customers are stuck going in whatever direction Microsoft decides to drag them today.
Site licenses are only 'upgrades' according to Microsoft. You cannot purchase a volume license and put it on a machine without a valid license for Windows to begin with. That also means that if you buy a PC for business use, you cannot buy XP Home on that machine, and then 'upgrade' it with your volume license, either. You have to get 2000 or XP Pro instead.
Unfortunately for apple fans, the number still stand on that site. Dell's own testing shows much better performance with the benchmark than Apple's does, and even makes the Dell machine win the benchmark. On the other hand, if they used GCC to compile the benchmark for the Dell machines, that might explain why they got such cruddy results. It's a widely accepted fact that GCC's code generation on CPUs with limited numbers of registers is pretty poor in terms of performance.
Of course, if you don't trust that website, how about ZDNet or even compare the numbers yourself. There's Veritest's Apple numbers, versus the offical published numbers from SPEC. There's also this site which goes into detail about the benchmark. They used -ffast-math on PPC, but not on x86, for instance. They explicitly turned off hyperthreading, which obviously hurt the Dell machine during the MP tests.
Then again, as the old saying goes, there's three types of lies. Lies, damn lies and benchmarks.
UNIX filesystems still get fragmented. Ext2/3 can get really bad if you keep them fairly full all the time, for example. And because of the fact there's no API to get the disk bitmap and move blocks from one part of the disk to the other, you have no way to do an online defragment, anyway. (And after losing a partition to the offline defragment program, it scares me a little too much).
Now, I do have some complaints about NTFS. First, it's SLOW. You usually end up taking a 10-20% performance hit compared to the simple FAT/FAT32 filesystems. Second, the journalling seem broken. If you crash a machine, on next boot it has to do a chkdsk, and despite the fact the journal should prevent metadata damage, chkdsk will frequently find errors on the filesystem. Third, the file locking is poorly designed. Files that are in-use can not be deleted or modified, which means replacing files for programs that run amok because of wrong DLL versions, etc, can often mean you have to reboot just to get access to those files again. It also means those Internet Explorer updates, that should only require a log out, or a restart of IE, require a reboot instead. Forthly, the interaction between file locking and online defragmentation is annoying. Files that are in-use can not be defragmented with an online defragmenter. That means your pagefile, and a good deal of the operating system itself can never change position on the drive because it's just plain impossible for it to do so. Defragmenters have no option to reorder files on the disk to optimize boot times because of this.
How about because it's a piss poor excuse for doing anything. The "Don't blame me, I'm only doing my job" thing doesn't cut it. At some point you have to take responsibility for your own actions, and passing the buck, especially with such a lame excuse for passing the buck, doesn't help anyone.
Casuality? Were some of those Weapons of Mass Distruction involved? Is that why no one can find them?
Seriously, though. Do you think you guys could just vote for no president this time? I think the rest of the world could use some time off. I mean, I'm Canadian, and I thought the Clinton scandal was bad enough. I don't know if the head of government in Canada has sex with anyone, and I really don't want to know. I was told during the last US election that a Bush victory would be more advantagous to me as a Canadian because Gore was quite xenophobic. Today, we know that Bush might not be xenophobic, but he sure is myopic. If the rest of the would could have three or four years off, I think that'd be nice.
And this would be different from natural gas heating in what way? And not everyone agrees on the dangers of using propane/butane in cooling systems. Some (those who have a stake in selling propane/butance retrofit kits) claim that the danger is extremely minor because there's not a lot of propane used in the systems, and that it's no more dangerous than typical CFCs. The other side (usually those who make and sell conventional refrigerants) say the opposite, that propane is so extremely explosive that it should not ever be used. I don't know which is the truth, but I imagine it lies somewhere between these two extremes.
Nonsense. They've discovered that fucking their customers is more profitable. Just think, though. Perhaps this "War on Copyright Infringment" will be as successful as the "War on Drugs".
In other words, politics. Power politics has probably killed more good organizations and done more harm than we'll ever fully realize. Are these types of politics just plain unavoidable when an organization gets to a certain size?
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Microsoft may have a hard choice. Seize control of the machine along with the OS, and devastate the OEM market, or accept that their competitors are going to make their consoles more general purpose, and that they can not follow. If they alienate their OEMs, then they will be giving Linux a boost that it would not have had otherwise. If they don't add those PC like features to their consoles, they might never win top spot in the console market.
Quite frankly, bullshit. Space only shows it every weekday at 11AM and 8PM EST.
Two ways, good will (positive PR) and cost reduction. Both can benefit the bottom line.
Or they could classify you as an 'enemy combatant', strip you of your citizenship, and hold you indefinitely. Of course, that would never happen to anyone who isn't really a terrorist, right?
Now, if this person had set a tiny MTU (68 bytes is minimum, IIRC), then it would be possible to get a really high overhead. Most likely he 'tweaked' his TCP configuration and tuned it for peak modem performance, which limited him to modem performance when he connected to a higher speed connection.
I think you have apple's OS design completely backwards. Old Macs were completely monolithic (not unlike their hardware), and virtually everything ran in the same address space. Mac OS X changes things by running the microkernel Mach with the monolithic BSD-derrived Darwin kernel under that. The real reason Apple switched over was the simple fact there were too many design limitations in the original MacOS, and it was too difficult to tack on the features people expect these days, like separated (protected) address spaces, fully preemptive multitasking, and multi-user capabilities. All those features could've been grafted into the original MacOS kernel, but the engineers must've decided that it would be easier to graft MacOS onto a modern kernel rather than the other way around.
[user@machine:~]$ fakeroot /etc/shadow
[root@machine:~]$ whoami
root
[root@machine:~]$ rm
rm: remove write-protected regular file `/etc/shadow'? y
rm: cannot remove `/etc/shadow': Permission denied
Problem solved, right?
In his case, all 300 servers would have to match the system requirements laid out by Novell. That may not be an easy task. And maybe it would be nessesary to use both NDS and something like OpenLDAP+Kerberos.
What I was basically getting at was the fact LDAP and/or Kerberos were the technologies that would overcome his problems, regardless of who the vendor of said technologies are. Hell, you could use Microsoft Active Directory to solve his problems (although I don't think it'd be worth deploying dozens of Windows servers to just act as authentication servers to the UNIX machines, which would have to proxy the authentication to any client machines).
Simpler word.. LDAP and/or Kerberos.
The logo animation is a funny thing. It actually does serve a purpose. It tells you the program is not hung. It's the same thing as those silly spinners in text mode programs (-\|/). If you have a program that's just sitting there with nothing but static text, how long are you going to wait before deciding something might be wrong?
What about the windows port of Nessus, NeWT? NeWT Pro is a little on the pricy side ($6000), but is only needed by those that will need to scan multiple subnets.
Now, my only point was the sheer level of hostility in your post, combined with some use of the retoric (the T-word and implying the anon poster was anti-american) of the pro-Bush, 'My Country Right or Wrong', camp was inspiring. IMO, it illustrates how meaningless those words have become. That people's opinions are discounted by simply calling them 'Unpatriotic' because they dare question the government.
Now, what I find ridiculous about this situation is the two sides of the war. Anti-Bush people who can seem to be unable to criticize anything about Bush except for his intelligence (or lack thereof), and the pro-Bush people who criticize anyone who doesn't agree with Bush as unpatriotic. They've become caricatures all to themselves. How can anyone take either side seriously, I wonder.
Since I'm a Canadian citizen, I can laugh off most silly charges of me being Anti-American. Frankly it's neither an insult or a complement to me. I have even been told that I have no right to speak on these topics. Even throughout the Maher Arar deportation by US authorities (perhaps with the Canadian government's blessings) to Syria to be tortured, some people maintained that no one had the right to say anything about this except for the US government. Can't break this glass house they live in, or the entire world they live in might come crumbling down.
I have my doubts about the justice that Maher will get with the inquiry about his case that's going on. After all, what can you really expect when the RCMP raid a reporter's house after she dug up some secret documents on the case.
I did check, though, and I'm wrong about XP Home being ineligible for upgrade. I'm surprised that a number of UNIXs are on the upgrade list along with things dating back to Windows 3.x. But each machine that will take a MS Volume License OS MUST have an operating system that's on MS's list (and Linux and DOS don't count).
But don't take my word for it, read it yourself.
On one hand, I'm somewhat offended by the tone you took. On the other hand, I'm surprised you made effective use of the Bushian 'everyone who doesn't agree with me is a terrorist'. And on the third hand, it truely illustrates how ridiculous the situation has become. I'm in awe.
Then again, I'm biased. You nice Americans are subsidizing my (already cheap) energy bills by purchasing excess hydroelectric power from Manitoba Hydro. :-)
I had to restrain myself from saying hydro bills instead of energy bills, though.
The other issue is that if they want to keep all their workstations with the same OS company wide, they've little choice but to buy a volume license along with the Software Assurance. It's the only way they can be sure that they will be allowed to downgrade new machines or upgrade old machines to the standardized OS.
Like it or not, most Microsoft customers are stuck going in whatever direction Microsoft decides to drag them today.
Site licenses are only 'upgrades' according to Microsoft. You cannot purchase a volume license and put it on a machine without a valid license for Windows to begin with. That also means that if you buy a PC for business use, you cannot buy XP Home on that machine, and then 'upgrade' it with your volume license, either. You have to get 2000 or XP Pro instead.
Of course, if you don't trust that website, how about ZDNet or even compare the numbers yourself. There's Veritest's Apple numbers, versus the offical published numbers from SPEC. There's also this site which goes into detail about the benchmark. They used -ffast-math on PPC, but not on x86, for instance. They explicitly turned off hyperthreading, which obviously hurt the Dell machine during the MP tests.
Then again, as the old saying goes, there's three types of lies. Lies, damn lies and benchmarks.
Now, I do have some complaints about NTFS. First, it's SLOW. You usually end up taking a 10-20% performance hit compared to the simple FAT/FAT32 filesystems. Second, the journalling seem broken. If you crash a machine, on next boot it has to do a chkdsk, and despite the fact the journal should prevent metadata damage, chkdsk will frequently find errors on the filesystem. Third, the file locking is poorly designed. Files that are in-use can not be deleted or modified, which means replacing files for programs that run amok because of wrong DLL versions, etc, can often mean you have to reboot just to get access to those files again. It also means those Internet Explorer updates, that should only require a log out, or a restart of IE, require a reboot instead. Forthly, the interaction between file locking and online defragmentation is annoying. Files that are in-use can not be defragmented with an online defragmenter. That means your pagefile, and a good deal of the operating system itself can never change position on the drive because it's just plain impossible for it to do so. Defragmenters have no option to reorder files on the disk to optimize boot times because of this.
How about because it's a piss poor excuse for doing anything. The "Don't blame me, I'm only doing my job" thing doesn't cut it. At some point you have to take responsibility for your own actions, and passing the buck, especially with such a lame excuse for passing the buck, doesn't help anyone.
xvid is patent encumbered any may not be legal to use in the US and other countries. This one may not be.
Seriously, though. Do you think you guys could just vote for no president this time? I think the rest of the world could use some time off. I mean, I'm Canadian, and I thought the Clinton scandal was bad enough. I don't know if the head of government in Canada has sex with anyone, and I really don't want to know. I was told during the last US election that a Bush victory would be more advantagous to me as a Canadian because Gore was quite xenophobic. Today, we know that Bush might not be xenophobic, but he sure is myopic. If the rest of the would could have three or four years off, I think that'd be nice.
And this would be different from natural gas heating in what way? And not everyone agrees on the dangers of using propane/butane in cooling systems. Some (those who have a stake in selling propane/butance retrofit kits) claim that the danger is extremely minor because there's not a lot of propane used in the systems, and that it's no more dangerous than typical CFCs. The other side (usually those who make and sell conventional refrigerants) say the opposite, that propane is so extremely explosive that it should not ever be used. I don't know which is the truth, but I imagine it lies somewhere between these two extremes.
Nonsense. They've discovered that fucking their customers is more profitable. Just think, though. Perhaps this "War on Copyright Infringment" will be as successful as the "War on Drugs".
In other words, politics. Power politics has probably killed more good organizations and done more harm than we'll ever fully realize. Are these types of politics just plain unavoidable when an organization gets to a certain size?