We're a start up with a mix of Windows and Linux so rather than pay for half a dozen Visio licences that would produce diagrams the Linux devs couldn't use we use Dia as it works on both operating systems. As we've never started down the Visio route, Dia is a competent diagram generator for our needs.
Lather rinse and repeat until you've set up groups which deal with the people lowest in the corporate hierarchy (who you wouldn't trust with an etch-a-sketch, let alone a PC) right the way up to the top.
In my experience, it's often the people at the top that I wouldn't trust with an etch-a-sketch.
If they ran an internal DNS for their network and it was for the same domain as the external record then it would have over-ridden the stolen DNS records. This is a very common practice for dealing with inside-out NAT resolution of public facing servers that also need to be accessible from inside the firewall under the same name.
So if the web server was an internal server: www.example.com -> 192.168.1.123 (returned by internal DNS server) www.example.com -> 123.87.32.245 (returned by external public DNS server)
Even if www.example.com wasn't an internal address server, the example.com domain may be handled by the internal server.
So if www.example.com was an external server: www.example.com -> 123.87.32.245 (returned by uncompromised internal DNS server) www.example.com -> 245.76.237.25 (returned by compromised external DNS server) dc1.example.com -> 192.168.0.100 (internal host on example.com domain - no public DNS record)
Dell have sent out press releases saying the sales of pre-installed Linux systems have met their initial expectations. Combine this with the addition of an extra laptop model and making them easier to find on the website since launching the "Open Source" line suggests that it is selling well enough to be viable.
(Written on a Dell that was bought with Linux pre-installed.)
A johnny-come-lately with a higher public profile than RH and Novell put together. I've had several of my non-techie friends asking me about Ubuntu as they've heard of it and might know it's Linux but I've never had anyone in the pub ask me: "So what's this 'Red Hat' I keep hearing about? Is it any good?"
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with Shuttleworth here but that's what Ubuntu brings to the party.
Your belief is correct. We bought a Dell workstation at work with FreeDOS that is now running Linux. This was through the business channel though, I don't know if you can get that as an individual customer.
The Abbey is in England but most of their production is drunk in Scotland - over 10% in Lanarkshire alone. It's the favoured drink of neds and schemies - including those that hang around on the road outside my flat, judging by the number of broken empties in the gutters.
...but the better tool [is] still... something like Inkscape in the OSS world. There are a set of very good video tutorials on how to create comics in Inkscape.
Command line woes nonwithstanding, the grandparent was pointing out that most things the great-grandparent pointed out were a case of things not being the way he's used to, rather than being a flaw of the OS itself.
Congratulations. Of all the replies to my post, you currently seem to be the only one who understood the point I was making.
"Why can't I just download a piece of software and double-click on it to install?!?!" "What is the difference between KDE and Gnome and why should it matter?!?!" "Why do I have to go to the command line interface to do even basic stuff?"
As a Linux user I have the opposite frustrations when I come to use Windows. "Why do I have to search the web to find a piece of software to download? Why can't I just go to 'Add/Remove Programs', type in the name (or a keyword) and click install?", "Why can't I chose a different desktop environment when I log in?", "Why can't I use the command line to do even basic stuff?"
I've been on both sides too, when looking after a network of ~200 users then locking things down did reduce the support overhead but now as a developer in a small start-up I have an agreement with our support guy that I run Linux and, unless the hardware breaks, it's entirely my responsibility to look after it. However, that's the benefit of a small company - it's harder to have exceptions in a larger organisation.
I work looking after a website running on Linux boxes and running Linux on my desktop makes my life much easier. Not only can I run scripts on my workstation for testing but connectivity via SSH is leagues ahead of using FTP on a Windows box. The real kicker is that the one Windows server I deal with is easier to manage from a Linux box: Remote desktops work just as well, thanks to Samba I can mount drives straight into my file system so I can use tools like awk, grep and tail and deploying cross platform from Linux to Windows is significantly less problematic than versa-vice.
It's beneficial to be able to push out updates at a time where it's a little more quiet [like] lunchtime...
Lunchtime is generally the the busiest time for web browsing so probably the worst time to be pushing updates to the browser. (Sure, it's not work related browsing but if people are allowed to use the web for personal use at lunchtime then it's a PR disaster for the IT department - been there.)
I bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed and haven't had the issue you describe. Sound, modem, graphics all worked out of the box - no backports required.
Too late for Global Frequency - allegedly, after the pilot became incredibly popular on bittorrent the studio said that they wouldn't run the series because of piracy fears.
I'll second that recommendation. I have Sunbird on my home and work PCs and GPE calendar/Erminig on my N800 when I'm on the move. As most of my friends use Gmail and thus Gcal it works quite well as an informal groupware.
MS Exchange is fine for up to about 50 users, beyond that, it runs into terrible scaling problems. An Exchange server database slows down once it reaches 30GB and becomes impossible once it reaches 100GB. I'm not sure where you're geting your info, but this is incorrect.
Those numbers kind of make sense for running a repair on a hosed exchange data store. Admittedly, that's not what GP was talking about...
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We're a start up with a mix of Windows and Linux so rather than pay for half a dozen Visio licences that would produce diagrams the Linux devs couldn't use we use Dia as it works on both operating systems. As we've never started down the Visio route, Dia is a competent diagram generator for our needs.
In my experience, it's often the people at the top that I wouldn't trust with an etch-a-sketch.
If they ran an internal DNS for their network and it was for the same domain as the external record then it would have over-ridden the stolen DNS records. This is a very common practice for dealing with inside-out NAT resolution of public facing servers that also need to be accessible from inside the firewall under the same name.
So if the web server was an internal server:
www.example.com -> 192.168.1.123 (returned by internal DNS server)
www.example.com -> 123.87.32.245 (returned by external public DNS server)
Even if www.example.com wasn't an internal address server, the example.com domain may be handled by the internal server.
So if www.example.com was an external server:
www.example.com -> 123.87.32.245 (returned by uncompromised internal DNS server)
www.example.com -> 245.76.237.25 (returned by compromised external DNS server)
dc1.example.com -> 192.168.0.100 (internal host on example.com domain - no public DNS record)
Dell have sent out press releases saying the sales of pre-installed Linux systems have met their initial expectations. Combine this with the addition of an extra laptop model and making them easier to find on the website since launching the "Open Source" line suggests that it is selling well enough to be viable.
(Written on a Dell that was bought with Linux pre-installed.)
A johnny-come-lately with a higher public profile than RH and Novell put together. I've had several of my non-techie friends asking me about Ubuntu as they've heard of it and might know it's Linux but I've never had anyone in the pub ask me: "So what's this 'Red Hat' I keep hearing about? Is it any good?"
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with Shuttleworth here but that's what Ubuntu brings to the party.
Your belief is correct. We bought a Dell workstation at work with FreeDOS that is now running Linux. This was through the business channel though, I don't know if you can get that as an individual customer.
The Abbey is in England but most of their production is drunk in Scotland - over 10% in Lanarkshire alone. It's the favoured drink of neds and schemies - including those that hang around on the road outside my flat, judging by the number of broken empties in the gutters.
...but the better tool [is] stillCommand line woes nonwithstanding, the grandparent was pointing out that most things the great-grandparent pointed out were a case of things not being the way he's used to, rather than being a flaw of the OS itself.
Congratulations. Of all the replies to my post, you currently seem to be the only one who understood the point I was making.
As a Linux user I have the opposite frustrations when I come to use Windows. "Why do I have to search the web to find a piece of software to download? Why can't I just go to 'Add/Remove Programs', type in the name (or a keyword) and click install?", "Why can't I chose a different desktop environment when I log in?", "Why can't I use the command line to do even basic stuff?"
Different strokes for different folks.
I've been on both sides too, when looking after a network of ~200 users then locking things down did reduce the support overhead but now as a developer in a small start-up I have an agreement with our support guy that I run Linux and, unless the hardware breaks, it's entirely my responsibility to look after it. However, that's the benefit of a small company - it's harder to have exceptions in a larger organisation.
I work looking after a website running on Linux boxes and running Linux on my desktop makes my life much easier. Not only can I run scripts on my workstation for testing but connectivity via SSH is leagues ahead of using FTP on a Windows box. The real kicker is that the one Windows server I deal with is easier to manage from a Linux box: Remote desktops work just as well, thanks to Samba I can mount drives straight into my file system so I can use tools like awk, grep and tail and deploying cross platform from Linux to Windows is significantly less problematic than versa-vice.
For us licence paying Linux users in the UK this is a big deal, you insensitive clod.
You must be new here: telnet to port 80.
If it doesn't get bumped back to me in UAT then it's getting the job done.
Lunchtime is generally the the busiest time for web browsing so probably the worst time to be pushing updates to the browser. (Sure, it's not work related browsing but if people are allowed to use the web for personal use at lunchtime then it's a PR disaster for the IT department - been there.)
And when someone does go and create something genuinely new like GIMP, it gets blasted for not being enough like a Windows app.
I bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed and haven't had the issue you describe. Sound, modem, graphics all worked out of the box - no backports required.
Too late for Global Frequency - allegedly, after the pilot became incredibly popular on bittorrent the studio said that they wouldn't run the series because of piracy fears.
Yes.
The clue to the second clause lies in the first.
Try a pirated version - the ones "my friends" have don't come with any of that.
I'll second that recommendation. I have Sunbird on my home and work PCs and GPE calendar/Erminig on my N800 when I'm on the move. As most of my friends use Gmail and thus Gcal it works quite well as an informal groupware.
Those numbers kind of make sense for running a repair on a hosed exchange data store. Admittedly, that's not what GP was talking about...