I'd have to agree here. Although FreeBSD's ZFS support is getting quite good now. I'm using it on a production system and it hasn't let me down. It even saved my bacon a couple of times (yay, ZFS snapshots).
I guess it depends on what you want to do. Both have strong features. OpenSolaris has Crossbow, but FreeBSD will have vimage soon. Both have Dtrace and ZFS. Solaris has zones, FreeBSD has jails. But I think FreeBSD is easier to tinker around with (personal opinion).
In the Netherlands we have a similar service (we dial 112 instead of 911), which sometimes gets called accidentally. A human picks up the call, hears nobody on the other side, and hangs up. The caller gets an SMS that notifies him that he/she dialed 112 accidentally. Way better system.
I hear ya. I had to move heaven and earth (read: argue for an hour and a half with a clueless MS fanboy) at some mom and pop computer shop to just get 2 XP Pro licenses for my inlaws (since they were runing illegal copies and they were being hounded by the WGA crap MS pulls). Their computers are not the newest, so they won't run Vista and they refuse to buy new hardware. So it's either Linux or XP for them. Since they looked at me sheepishly when I mentioned Linux, I opted for XP (since they were already used to that). Microsoft is really shooting themselves in the foot with Vista. Remember the whole Windows 95 upgrade rigamarole(sp?) ? They can't pull that shit off again. 2 to 4GB for a workstation that only does simple office stuff and web browsing? Puhleeze.
Some posters already mentioned storing data on a fileserver that's backed up (synchronisation or otherwise). I do have to stress one point about that: Laptops are easy to lose and easily stolen, so whatever touches the disk of said laptop, ENCRYPT IT.
Exchange is great... For calendaring and such. But for mail? Yech... If people just must use outlook (we like to call it LookOut where I work), please let your outward facing MTA be a hardened *nix host running (e.g.) postfix with a lot of anti-asshat countermeasures (spam/nigerians/viruses/whatever) and let that secure box forward the defanged mails to the happy-dappy leaky-as-a-sieve exchange server. It will save you a lot of headaches.
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I see your C64, and I raise you an Amiga 1000
Even worse, that's where he divided by zero.
I'd have to agree here. Although FreeBSD's ZFS support is getting quite good now. I'm using it on a production system and it hasn't let me down. It even saved my bacon a couple of times (yay, ZFS snapshots). I guess it depends on what you want to do. Both have strong features. OpenSolaris has Crossbow, but FreeBSD will have vimage soon. Both have Dtrace and ZFS. Solaris has zones, FreeBSD has jails. But I think FreeBSD is easier to tinker around with (personal opinion).
And this proves that sed is somewhat of a mongrol (but I love it all the same): http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/tutorials/hanoi.htm
*ahem* :)
Idea stealer ;) But I have to agree, I was thinking of Douglas Adams as well.
WRT Dun ranges, if you have a legit server in that range, you can always try smarthosting your ISP smtp-server.
Amen. This asshole isn't paying for my bandwidth, so he should shut the hell up. Arrrr.
In the Netherlands we have a similar service (we dial 112 instead of 911), which sometimes gets called accidentally. A human picks up the call, hears nobody on the other side, and hangs up. The caller gets an SMS that notifies him that he/she dialed 112 accidentally. Way better system.
I'm having weird mental imagery now with the "worn ngage"...
Now I just have to find out how it works so I can print T-shirts that cannot be copied :)
Everyone is jumping ship on DRM. Boo-hoo. The consumer wins!
I hear ya. I had to move heaven and earth (read: argue for an hour and a half with a clueless MS fanboy) at some mom and pop computer shop to just get 2 XP Pro licenses for my inlaws (since they were runing illegal copies and they were being hounded by the WGA crap MS pulls). Their computers are not the newest, so they won't run Vista and they refuse to buy new hardware. So it's either Linux or XP for them. Since they looked at me sheepishly when I mentioned Linux, I opted for XP (since they were already used to that). Microsoft is really shooting themselves in the foot with Vista. Remember the whole Windows 95 upgrade rigamarole(sp?) ? They can't pull that shit off again. 2 to 4GB for a workstation that only does simple office stuff and web browsing? Puhleeze.
Yes, in the USA... I live in the Netherlands where 2GB flash is just getting cheap.
Be by guest... You do need that 2.9 GB file somewhere on your PDA first. That just *might* be an issue.
Some posters already mentioned storing data on a fileserver that's backed up (synchronisation or otherwise). I do have to stress one point about that: Laptops are easy to lose and easily stolen, so whatever touches the disk of said laptop, ENCRYPT IT.
Nah... *cracks open a beer and starts hacking*
Hey AST, what's up? How's the wife and kids?
Ooh, nice network stack. Wanna fsck? *ducks away for making such a lame joke*
Exchange is great... For calendaring and such. But for mail? Yech... If people just must use outlook (we like to call it LookOut where I work), please let your outward facing MTA be a hardened *nix host running (e.g.) postfix with a lot of anti-asshat countermeasures (spam/nigerians/viruses/whatever) and let that secure box forward the defanged mails to the happy-dappy leaky-as-a-sieve exchange server. It will save you a lot of headaches.
Sure it does...
- Xen
- VMware
- kvm
- bochs
- qemu
- WINE (well, not an emulator, but hey...)
(and probably some more)
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I did. Grmbl
Grrr, slash needs an edit-button