Do not even TRY to use OSX's server offerings, they don't work (as in are not 100% reliable).
Avoid Active Directory like the plague, for such it tis. If you have to use it, minimize its involvement
All server tech where possible should be linux, and preferably 64 bit debian
If you have to use Windows servers, virtualize them rather than wasting valuable hardware - Xen or KVM are ok free choices (just please don't use LVM mounts, pleeease), or apparently ESX is no longer as slow as a smacked out snail if you want to use VMWare. VMWare has some really nice features too that the others are lacking a bit at the moment.
If the company uses Outlook, you are going to have to install Exchange, but virtualize it. Its a piece of shit but its better than it used to be. Just dont waste a whole machine on it, a vm is suffiicient.
As a desktop linux my personal choice would be Xubuntu. Once upon a time it would have been Kubuntu but KDE4 pisses me off so much I've jumped ships. GNOME is a joke (no, it is).
Fedora is one of the worst linuxen I have ever used, but I haven't used the last 2 or 3 releases (what are we up to, 13 now? can it find usb devices and play all the codecs that every other distro can yet? and how is the font management going these days?)
For users that have to use Outlook under Linux, you can *try* with Wine but a simpler solution is to use Virtualbox - this is an unbelievably fast VM system, much faster than VM, and its free in most distros repositories now. Wouldnt use Virtualbox for a server VM but as a desktopper its a beauty.
For winblows you are going to have to use SMB/CIFS for disk mounts and printer finding but thats fine, samba works very well. If possible, mount drives from the OSX boxes via SMB rather than via AFP. Its slightly tricky to set up but its worth it because AFP is not re-entrant, which means server crashes take out user drives non-transparently.
Single-sign-on (SSO if you must) can be set up for all 3 from linux boxes. You can even do AD sign ons, its a little tricky but once its setup it stays up.
Now, you can argue if you like - but you are arguing against about 20 years of experience and a LOT of pissed off users who rejoiced under the stability of the final configuration, so I am blithely assuming that whatever you go through, you will come back to the same conclusions.
I'm from Canada.. and I've never been in the situation, but as I understand it even if someone breaks into your living room, WHILE YOU ARE THERE, you can still get in trouble for using "excessive force" if you seriously injure the person. If you have a gun (for say, hunting).. even pointing it at the person will land _you_ in trouble. The laws are even murky is he has a gun (did you really think he was going to use it?). It's quite insane!
The criminal.. well he's just a missunderstood victim of society, we can rehabilitate him with your tax dollars!
Personally I think once someone decides to break into your home, you have every right to bludgeon him to death with a crow bar. Maybe if that was a potential outcome of breaking into someones house, people wouldn't do it so often....I'm not bitter or anything..
The magic words are "I feared for my life", thats your get out of jail free card. Why was the burglar's body completely unrecognizeable from the 200 blows? "I have no memory.....all I know is I feared for my life and that of my family.....and when I came to......I was standing over his body holding the crowbar!"
Lets face it, Java is dead (it is, really), and Postgres is not only faster than MySQL but safer with very large datasets.
Also, this is not a gearing up for further war. On the contrary, this will damage Oracle. They will spend a huge amount of money, and the other players will have very little trouble stringing them along forever in the courts, BHP/Microsoft style. It will also exhaust key players inside the company that will get jack of the giant amount of stress this is doubtless causing internally. And as an aside: it will piss off lots of developers.
All HP has to do is bide its time, build its resources, and then strike a weakened Oracle like Michael Ironside dispatching Louis Del Grande in Scanners.
I read this a while back and went hmmm.
So it seems its done the rounds enough to appear on/.
Whilst its a great party story (one of the best!), I'm calling BULLSHIT on this one.
The close door buttons on all the lifts I use around the city most certainly work (eg. you can override the open-door button mid-move with the close-door button).
Ditto the traffic light triggers. .
Sorry but....
Are you kidding me? They can make artificially intelligent and accidentally sentient machines that are capable of self evolution, and have working warp drives, force fields and instantaneous long distance comms. Yet...... nobody is uploaded, everyone has a 20th century lifespan, victims die of cancer, and religion is a disease threaded through their whole society.
There is NO science in BSG, but I still love it:) It's pure space opera, and technologically its even sillier than Star Wars. But as space opera goes both are excellent (if you only count the 2 Star Wars films of course, ahem, pity they never made a 3rd or any more, ahem) and very watchable. Excellent characters and good acting!
And would people PLEASE stop mentioning utter pieces of crap like Stargate, they are just RUBBISH. BSG stood out because it was a cut above. And yes I watched Terminator TSCC because I was trainwreck fascinated by it like everybody else:) It was TERRIBLE, but some of the threads were interesting enough to keep me watching. But it wasn't a patch on BSG.
Caprica was a mistake we must all strive to forget.
Waiting for next Breaking Bad desperately, and less desperately but urgently for Dexter. For good space opera I wonder if they will come up with another BSG quality show? And dare I ask for a good hard-SF series from america? Last thing I saw was by the brits, but as far as action drama goes the yanks are miles ahead!
At the risk of trolling, KDE is already in enough trouble and they really shouldnt be worrying about this kind of thing. They should be fixing bugs, removing Dolphin and dumping that stupid pulse audio support. KDE3 is forking and Trinity exists for a reason. Don't be GNOME people, Don't be GNOME. Bugger the features, bugger futureproofing where you don't know whats going to happen, bugger contaminating other libraries, JUST FIX THE BUGS AND MAKE IT PERFECT. Otherwise you are going to wake up and find XFCE has won the war (and it IS winning it).
That reason would be that it was appallingly bad. Eric Stoltz was trying his best to hold up the series with both arms but eventually it collapsed even on him! His Baltar-like character was the single only likeable character in the entire pantheon. Everyone else just could have died brutally and it would have been cheering! And WHATS WITH ALL THE RELIGION??????? The religious aspects were one of the most tedious parts of BSG and most of us spent our brain CPU just filtering it out (or hoping it would turn out that god was a Super-AI that was driving the Cylons). For it to be emphasised in the new series was just painful. Pity, it had a good cast and some really nice eye candy, but yet again, series executives forgot to hire a writer.
Well DNA is now obviously too much of a threat to personal security to be allowed to continue on in this way.
As all forensic ID is made from Junk DNA, and it has already been demonstrated that Junk DNA can be edited, I forsee that people will be popping pills soon to re-write themselves. Then some government will try and lean on that and the human rights issues will float to the fore and it will be on for young and old.
I can see parents changing their child's DNA when they pass puberty, as a service to them.
The original sum was $200,000. Now that the corruption of the system has been shown, the new absolutely ridiculous figure is just irrelevant. This is probably the last thing that the RIAA will ever do, for - even though for some reason people refuse to champion Jammie Thomas, I dont know why I guess people are just dickheads - the backlash from this will be the end of those financing them. I don't buy CD's anymore. I doubt anyone here does. I doubt I ever will again. What's that? You're a poor starving artist who relies on me? Yeah, but you're SHIT. You write crap music. That's why I give paypal/ccbill donations to THAT guy over there, and only for the songs of his that I like, the rest of his material is very mediocre. Yeah you're an artist. That doesn't mean you NECESSARILY work or deserve an income. And can somebody please fly a remote drone through the RIAA's head office just to drive the point home, PLEASE.
I agree - I forced myself to read the rest of that utter rubbish article. Its pretty much an MS product placement ad, mentions Zune and Vista near the end, like - who in the universe cares about either of them????? Oh thats right, MS press people. Cos they're paid to.
Can you please put these ridiculous trolls somewhere else. This article is bad journalism enough without starting ill-informed jihadic threads about it.
'Big Brother' term - Misappropriated? It has had nothing of the kind happen to it. It is completely appropriate to all the described situations.
The ability to surveil is a high, high privilege, not a right, and it is certainly one that governments have to earn by crawling over broken glass, not give themselves in great helpings on a whimsy.
Who compiled this garbage?? What are they trying to do, spook the market??
All these companies will power through 2009 and 2010 like nothing happened.
After that however.....
VMWare - vm systems are giving way to container based systems, unless they can get hardware companies fully on board.
All spyware firms - as MS Crashware is removed gradually from the market and everyone's laptops run embedded linux or are Apple OSX based, we wont need this crap.
The rest of them.... who knows. Sun always survive somehow, somebody somewhere always needs big servers.
I'd be somewhat concerned about Apple though - their server software is a disaster (it is, don't bother arguing for the sake of it). Their laptops are great, but they'd better keep going down that pricing curve or the little embedded jobbies are going to leave them for dead. They brought out a phone about 3-5 years too late for it to matter and are about to get/are getting stomped in that market. Nobody cares about mp3 players anymore, they are cheap commodity items and anyone who pays over $250 for one is an idiot. So, whats that leave them with?
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Yes they can be made to play nice.
There are some caveats:
Do not even TRY to use OSX's server offerings, they don't work (as in are not 100% reliable).
Avoid Active Directory like the plague, for such it tis. If you have to use it, minimize its involvement
All server tech where possible should be linux, and preferably 64 bit debian
If you have to use Windows servers, virtualize them rather than wasting valuable hardware - Xen or KVM are ok free choices (just please don't use LVM mounts, pleeease), or apparently ESX is no longer as slow as a smacked out snail if you want to use VMWare. VMWare has some really nice features too that the others are lacking a bit at the moment.
If the company uses Outlook, you are going to have to install Exchange, but virtualize it. Its a piece of shit but its better than it used to be. Just dont waste a whole machine on it, a vm is suffiicient.
As a desktop linux my personal choice would be Xubuntu. Once upon a time it would have been Kubuntu but KDE4 pisses me off so much I've jumped ships. GNOME is a joke (no, it is).
Fedora is one of the worst linuxen I have ever used, but I haven't used the last 2 or 3 releases (what are we up to, 13 now? can it find usb devices and play all the codecs that every other distro can yet? and how is the font management going these days?)
For users that have to use Outlook under Linux, you can *try* with Wine but a simpler solution is to use Virtualbox - this is an unbelievably fast VM system, much faster than VM, and its free in most distros repositories now. Wouldnt use Virtualbox for a server VM but as a desktopper its a beauty.
For winblows you are going to have to use SMB/CIFS for disk mounts and printer finding but thats fine, samba works very well. If possible, mount drives from the OSX boxes via SMB rather than via AFP. Its slightly tricky to set up but its worth it because AFP is not re-entrant, which means server crashes take out user drives non-transparently.
Single-sign-on (SSO if you must) can be set up for all 3 from linux boxes. You can even do AD sign ons, its a little tricky but once its setup it stays up.
Now, you can argue if you like - but you are arguing against about 20 years of experience and a LOT of pissed off users who rejoiced under the stability of the final configuration, so I am blithely assuming that whatever you go through, you will come back to the same conclusions.
Oh ffs, WHO CARES!!!!!!!! Its JAVA.
Let Oracle waste their time on a failed proof-of-concept language that is being steadily *removed* from everything and everywhere.
Python won, deal with it Javheads.
Yet another language. Just what we need.
And who's fool decision was it to base it on top of the JVM.
It really does!
I'm from Canada.. and I've never been in the situation, but as I understand it even if someone breaks into your living room, WHILE YOU ARE THERE, you can still get in trouble for using "excessive force" if you seriously injure the person. If you have a gun (for say, hunting).. even pointing it at the person will land _you_ in trouble. The laws are even murky is he has a gun (did you really think he was going to use it?). It's quite insane!
The criminal.. well he's just a missunderstood victim of society, we can rehabilitate him with your tax dollars!
Personally I think once someone decides to break into your home, you have every right to bludgeon him to death with a crow bar. Maybe if that was a potential outcome of breaking into someones house, people wouldn't do it so often.. ..I'm not bitter or anything..
The magic words are "I feared for my life", thats your get out of jail free card. Why was the burglar's body completely unrecognizeable from the 200 blows? "I have no memory.....all I know is I feared for my life and that of my family.....and when I came to......I was standing over his body holding the crowbar!"
It works.
Lets face it, Java is dead (it is, really), and Postgres is not only faster than MySQL but safer with very large datasets.
Also, this is not a gearing up for further war. On the contrary, this will damage Oracle. They will spend a huge amount of money, and the other players will have very little trouble stringing them along forever in the courts, BHP/Microsoft style. It will also exhaust key players inside the company that will get jack of the giant amount of stress this is doubtless causing internally. And as an aside: it will piss off lots of developers.
All HP has to do is bide its time, build its resources, and then strike a weakened Oracle like Michael Ironside dispatching Louis Del Grande in Scanners.
Kaboom (Splat).
I read this a while back and went hmmm. /.
So it seems its done the rounds enough to appear on
Whilst its a great party story (one of the best!), I'm calling BULLSHIT on this one.
The close door buttons on all the lifts I use around the city most certainly work (eg. you can override the open-door button mid-move with the close-door button).
Ditto the traffic light triggers.
.
Sorry but....
Bnerrrrrk.
Rewind.
Try again.
o not unfasten your seatbelts until we have docked at the Insanity terminal.
The RIAA has to be permanently taken out. This has gone too far, for too long.
Are you kidding me? They can make artificially intelligent and accidentally sentient machines that are capable of self evolution, and have working warp drives, force fields and instantaneous long distance comms. Yet...... nobody is uploaded, everyone has a 20th century lifespan, victims die of cancer, and religion is a disease threaded through their whole society.
:) It's pure space opera, and technologically its even sillier than Star Wars. But as space opera goes both are excellent (if you only count the 2 Star Wars films of course, ahem, pity they never made a 3rd or any more, ahem) and very watchable. Excellent characters and good acting!
:) It was TERRIBLE, but some of the threads were interesting enough to keep me watching. But it wasn't a patch on BSG.
Caprica was a mistake we must all strive to forget.
Waiting for next Breaking Bad desperately, and less desperately but urgently for Dexter. For good space opera I wonder if they will come up with another BSG quality show? And dare I ask for a good hard-SF series from america? Last thing I saw was by the brits, but as far as action drama goes the yanks are miles ahead!
There is NO science in BSG, but I still love it
And would people PLEASE stop mentioning utter pieces of crap like Stargate, they are just RUBBISH. BSG stood out because it was a cut above. And yes I watched Terminator TSCC because I was trainwreck fascinated by it like everybody else
At the risk of trolling, KDE is already in enough trouble and they really shouldnt be worrying about this kind of thing. They should be fixing bugs, removing Dolphin and dumping that stupid pulse audio support. KDE3 is forking and Trinity exists for a reason. Don't be GNOME people, Don't be GNOME. Bugger the features, bugger futureproofing where you don't know whats going to happen, bugger contaminating other libraries, JUST FIX THE BUGS AND MAKE IT PERFECT. Otherwise you are going to wake up and find XFCE has won the war (and it IS winning it).
@mods, could somebody please add a 'goodluckwiththat' tag to this :)
That reason would be that it was appallingly bad. Eric Stoltz was trying his best to hold up the series with both arms but eventually it collapsed even on him! His Baltar-like character was the single only likeable character in the entire pantheon. Everyone else just could have died brutally and it would have been cheering! And WHATS WITH ALL THE RELIGION??????? The religious aspects were one of the most tedious parts of BSG and most of us spent our brain CPU just filtering it out (or hoping it would turn out that god was a Super-AI that was driving the Cylons). For it to be emphasised in the new series was just painful. Pity, it had a good cast and some really nice eye candy, but yet again, series executives forgot to hire a writer.
Well DNA is now obviously too much of a threat to personal security to be allowed to continue on in this way. As all forensic ID is made from Junk DNA, and it has already been demonstrated that Junk DNA can be edited, I forsee that people will be popping pills soon to re-write themselves. Then some government will try and lean on that and the human rights issues will float to the fore and it will be on for young and old. I can see parents changing their child's DNA when they pass puberty, as a service to them.
The original sum was $200,000. Now that the corruption of the system has been shown, the new absolutely ridiculous figure is just irrelevant. This is probably the last thing that the RIAA will ever do, for - even though for some reason people refuse to champion Jammie Thomas, I dont know why I guess people are just dickheads - the backlash from this will be the end of those financing them. I don't buy CD's anymore. I doubt anyone here does. I doubt I ever will again. What's that? You're a poor starving artist who relies on me? Yeah, but you're SHIT. You write crap music. That's why I give paypal/ccbill donations to THAT guy over there, and only for the songs of his that I like, the rest of his material is very mediocre. Yeah you're an artist. That doesn't mean you NECESSARILY work or deserve an income. And can somebody please fly a remote drone through the RIAA's head office just to drive the point home, PLEASE.
The ideas and the tech have been around for decades and now they are cheap enough. Let's take it back boys.
I agree - I forced myself to read the rest of that utter rubbish article. Its pretty much an MS product placement ad, mentions Zune and Vista near the end, like - who in the universe cares about either of them????? Oh thats right, MS press people. Cos they're paid to.
Can you please put these ridiculous trolls somewhere else. This article is bad journalism enough without starting ill-informed jihadic threads about it.
Thank you.
IT Journalists as a species should just be genocided I think.
This list is mainly wrong, and then turns into microsoft product placement near the end.
'Big Brother' term - Misappropriated? It has had nothing of the kind happen to it. It is completely appropriate to all the described situations. The ability to surveil is a high, high privilege, not a right, and it is certainly one that governments have to earn by crawling over broken glass, not give themselves in great helpings on a whimsy.
STOP VOTING FOR PURITAN MORONS Tell them to go stuff their babies up a goat's ass and fuck-off while they're doing it.
Who cares? Ruby should just die.
Who compiled this garbage?? What are they trying to do, spook the market??
All these companies will power through 2009 and 2010 like nothing happened.
After that however.....
VMWare - vm systems are giving way to container based systems, unless they can get hardware companies fully on board.
All spyware firms - as MS Crashware is removed gradually from the market and everyone's laptops run embedded linux or are Apple OSX based, we wont need this crap.
The rest of them.... who knows. Sun always survive somehow, somebody somewhere always needs big servers.
I'd be somewhat concerned about Apple though - their server software is a disaster (it is, don't bother arguing for the sake of it). Their laptops are great, but they'd better keep going down that pricing curve or the little embedded jobbies are going to leave them for dead. They brought out a phone about 3-5 years too late for it to matter and are about to get/are getting stomped in that market. Nobody cares about mp3 players anymore, they are cheap commodity items and anyone who pays over $250 for one is an idiot. So, whats that leave them with?
Is it bad that I nearly rose to this troll? Oops, I did.....
Err ... in what way is that 'sneaky'?
Its the actual, true and accurate defense.
Can the uni's not band together and sue Warners into the ground and wipe them out?
The uni's have a guaranteed eternal revenue stream - Warners et al are on borrowed time and haemmoraging slowly to death.
Just can't trust them unfortunately, now that the two major parties are just 2 lobes of the same entity.
Btw - there IS a slower moving series than Terminator TSCC, its called True Blood aka Buffy For Chicks 101.