I've had Sprint BB Direct in Tucson since Oct., and it has been quite fast (comparable to lightly loaded Cox@Home segments).
We've got the business version though, its TOS isn't quite as nasty (no servers, can explicitly run NAT on each IP you want though:-)
Dune is about Government, Environmentalism, Religion, and Sociology, and how those interact when ruling extremely large populations.
Its also about human evolution and potential (looks at the Duncan Idaho in the last 2 books, who also IMHO is the main character of the entire series, he's the only one in all the books, re-reading the series with that perspective changes things hugely).
Also, Leto II made his decision to forestall a Berserker (a la Fred Saberhagen) type ending to humanity, at the largest scales the series is about Species Survival, period (the potential for this happening the first time was short-circuited by the Butlerian Jihad, the second by Leto's Peace and the subsequent Scattering).
Remember, mechanical FTL space travel WAS available pre-Butlerian Jihad, and again in the No-Ships of the last 2 books, the Guild and Spice were just how it was done in the middle periods.
The Empire was the Empire of a Million Worlds before the Scattering, and this was considered by Leto's visions to be too few baskets for humanities eggs to be in! at least when faced with the threat of Machine Intelligence Beserkers inimical to biological life.
Well, enough rambling, I could go on all day about this stuff (read all 6 books at least 5 times each over the last 12 years, and they are vastly different each time, like Gurdjieff [sp?] Herbert sometimes reworked sentences to cram in up to seven differnt levels of meaning...I guarantee that whatever you think of Dune, more is lurking under the surface!:-)
Here here...dll hell (due to lack of needed granularity in its versioning) is the major cause of Windows Hell, not just on NT...2 different versions of a dll can report the same version in api calls, which is why clever windows apps check modify dates and file sizes on crucial dlls, but not enough of them use their own private copies, most just stomp on the copy in the windows\system directory blindly, killing other stuff.
While I agree with the posters pointing out that unstable NT boxes are due to lack of skill admining, the level of skill and effort required for good uptime is ridiculous(I have many NT servers with uptimes over 6 months, which is paltry for Unix/midrange/mainframe systems, but is considered awesome for NT, and its a pain compared to getting better out of 'real' server OSes).
Anyway, I'd rather focus my energy on enhancing what my server's do, than on making sure the OS doesn't die because I installed some lame utility to try and bring NT up to the level of function of Linux/Unix, whether its running Notes, or anything else.
Here's a list of some things Notes does that make is neat: -Out of the box workflow/multi-step approval of forms (for example, your supervisor must approve a puchase order before it does to Procurement) -Access Control and Encryption down to the field level on documents...if you don't have read permission on a field of a document, you don't even know its there, let alone see its contents (on the hypothetical purchase order above, you would fill in normal 'i need this' type fields, you supervisor would have more fields when they went to approve or deny it, like vendor or cost, and purchasing would see even more stuff, all on the same form) -multikey (N of M) encryption, such as, it takes 5 out of 7 Dept. managers private keys to decrypt the otherwise one-way encrypted mail-in password backup database (this is very cool, makes a virtual 'safe' for storing sensitive data...the same database could also be opened up by, say, 2 out of 3 board of directors keys, too) Those are the most obvious things I can think of that it does that are "hard". Admittedly, the UI out of the box sucks (either web or notes client), its presumed that you'll heavily tweak the templates for out of the box forms you use. Think of Domino/Notes as a platform, which is what it really is; databases can be replicated seamlessly between the various OSes Domino runs on, making it a truly cross-platform platform. So, Domino on Linux gains heavily over NT for all the reasons any other app. is nicer on Linux/Unix than NT, better performance, less hardware needed per unit of load, etc.
Yes, and look at Han (dominant chinese ethnic group) culture through the millenia...stability is primally important to them, and whilst that nastiness in Tiananmen Square was aweful by ANY yardstick, it would tend to be viewed as an acceptable price for stability by your typical Han, at just about any point in the last few thousand years. Go read some Chinese history, and you'll see my point. If there's civil unrest, the Ancestors do NOT get honored, there's the rub.
Yes, prison abuses in the US are, IMHO, our current worst domestic rights category. Saw a friend of mine once get held down and raped by 4 inmates years ago, back when I used to do Bad Things(TM), and my best friend is now locked up for 4 years for taking pictures of his girlfriend (NOT for distribution), whom it was legal for him to have sex with. Take that back, our entire judicial system is a farce, with well over 85% of all criminal cases getting settled by Plea Bargin, its Gulity Until Proven Rich, not innocent until proven guilty.
Yes, I used to do the same thing, and then once DID forget the password file password. Tried to remember it for months, no (easy) way to Brute Force that 1024 bit PGP, unfortunately! That REALLY sucked.
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I've had Sprint BB Direct in Tucson since Oct., and it has been quite fast (comparable to lightly loaded Cox@Home segments). We've got the business version though, its TOS isn't quite as nasty (no servers, can explicitly run NAT on each IP you want though :-)
Dune is about Government, Environmentalism, Religion, and Sociology, and how those interact when ruling extremely large populations.
Its also about human evolution and potential (looks at the Duncan Idaho in the last 2 books, who also IMHO is the main character of the entire series, he's the only one in all the books, re-reading the series with that perspective changes things hugely).
Also, Leto II made his decision to forestall a Berserker (a la Fred Saberhagen) type ending to humanity, at the largest scales the series is about Species Survival, period (the potential for this happening the first time was short-circuited by the Butlerian Jihad, the second by Leto's Peace and the subsequent Scattering).
Remember, mechanical FTL space travel WAS available pre-Butlerian Jihad, and again in the No-Ships of the last 2 books, the Guild and Spice were just how it was done in the middle periods.
The Empire was the Empire of a Million Worlds before the Scattering, and this was considered by Leto's visions to be too few baskets for humanities eggs to be in! at least when faced with the threat of Machine Intelligence Beserkers inimical to biological life.
Well, enough rambling, I could go on all day about this stuff (read all 6 books at least 5 times each over the last 12 years, and they are vastly different each time, like Gurdjieff [sp?] Herbert sometimes reworked sentences to cram in up to seven differnt levels of meaning...I guarantee that whatever you think of Dune, more is lurking under the surface! :-)
Now, a linux notes client would make them very happy, as you wouldn't need Windoze boxen on the desktop anymore.
While I agree with the posters pointing out that unstable NT boxes are due to lack of skill admining, the level of skill and effort required for good uptime is ridiculous(I have many NT servers with uptimes over 6 months, which is paltry for Unix/midrange/mainframe systems, but is considered awesome for NT, and its a pain compared to getting better out of 'real' server OSes).
Anyway, I'd rather focus my energy on enhancing what my server's do, than on making sure the OS doesn't die because I installed some lame utility to try and bring NT up to the level of function of Linux/Unix, whether its running Notes, or anything else.
Yes, and look at Han (dominant chinese ethnic group) culture through the millenia...stability is primally important to them, and whilst that nastiness in Tiananmen Square was aweful by ANY yardstick, it would tend to be viewed as an acceptable price for stability by your typical Han, at just about any point in the last few thousand years. Go read some Chinese history, and you'll see my point. If there's civil unrest, the Ancestors do NOT get honored, there's the rub.
Yes, prison abuses in the US are, IMHO, our current worst domestic rights category. Saw a friend of mine once get held down and raped by 4 inmates years ago, back when I used to do Bad Things(TM), and my best friend is now locked up for 4 years for taking pictures of his girlfriend (NOT for distribution), whom it was legal for him to have sex with. Take that back, our entire judicial system is a farce, with well over 85% of all criminal cases getting settled by Plea Bargin, its Gulity Until Proven Rich, not innocent until proven guilty.
Yes, I used to do the same thing, and then once DID forget the password file password. Tried to remember it for months, no (easy) way to Brute Force that 1024 bit PGP, unfortunately! That REALLY sucked.