I was working for a company in DC at the time, and we had an "EOC" phone. Engineer on call got passed the phone and had to keep it for a week. We were a 24-7 shop so no matter what shift you worked, you'd get your turn in hell. It was the worst for the monday-friday guys that worked the 4-12 shift because they'd invariably forget they couldn't get loaded on friday and expect to do anything useful early saturday morning. Of course that's when the call would come. 6 or 7am saturday morning. So I had it worse than any of these guys because as their manager, I had to be at work every single day for about 14 hours because I had inherited a HUGE mess from the previous tech manager (two months of redhat and he was a UNIX expert). Against the wishes of just about everyone, someone had put new code into production on a friday. Of course it bombed and completely hosed the backup system, as well as push the load on a very important machine to the point that it was completely unresponsive. So I'm doing my usual drive to work at 6am heading around the beltway. I get a phonecall and I can see it's the EOC phone. I flip the startac open and it's our pissed off, still half drunk EOC telling me that he needs me to put the fear of God into a support guy that refuses to try to use a serial cable to console into the sick machine. So we do a conference call. My EOC is completely pissed and just keeps getting worse. The support guy is complaining that he doesn't understand, and that he can't get ahold of his boss for permission. I explain that it's critical. The EOC is saying that he's driving in and about 30 minutes away and it would be great if he only had to deal with fixing the backups and how important it was to have this customer visible machine back up and running as soon as possible. I'm echoing what the EOC is saying and thinking to myself, yanno, I'm only about 30 minutes away. The EOC keeps getting more and more pissed. About this time a car speeds by me in the outside lane and that's when I hear the crackle on the line and pieces of nokia rain down all over my car. I probably would have been a huge dick about it if I hadn't been listening to the call.
Up until a little while ago, you could grab the winex source from cvs. They do appear to be discouraging this now. I know they flipped out on the Gentoo guys for having an easy ebuild to install it from cvs. I know the cvs server is practically unusable. It took me 4 days with a slick cron job to get the source from cvs a few months back. For the time being I have a "Windendo" partition also. I think it's going to take a few years before companys start following the ID example in larger numbers. You think more game companys would realize the dedicated fan base they get from doing multiple OS releases. It's like instant geek points. Makes them look more technologically advanced. I wish Sierra released Linux games. I'd kill for some NOLF style fun under Linux.
uffering some sort of beri-beri brain-eating disease
Which is kinda like a Furi Kuri, or FLCL but instead of robots coming out of his head, it's bullshit. Oh, and he got hit by a countersuit from IBM, not a ripcord bass guitar.
But debian is the only distribution that has been able to iron out the depency problems by many years of large-scale upgrading (and downgrading) between exotic combitatons of versions of packages.
elgaard> Gentoo? Gentoo? elgaard>/me puts fingers in ears elgaard> LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! elgaard> Don't even SAY FreeBSD! elgaard> I've I've NEVER HEARD OF THEM! > --User Disconnected--
I have FreeBSD on an ancient 486 monocolor laptop. I think I was 2.1.7? when I installed. I can't rightly remember anymore. It's 4.8 now. No need to reinstall. I put Gentoo on my main workstation when I had issues with some hardware not liking FreeBSD. That was version 1.2 I think. Now I have 1.4 release. Didn't have to reinstall. I have emerge sync in cron. Updating my system goes something like this:
emerge -uD world
That's about it. Occasionally I'll have to update config files with etc-update, but not very often. I have nothing against Debian. It's a really decent distribution. The versions of things just aren't new enough. I upgrade a lot and use a lot of bleeding edge hardware on my main workstation though. In the past if I couldn't get FreeBSD to like something, I'd use RedHat just because it's practically the business standard GNU/Linux. This happens a lot with laptops. Now I have this mentality:
If I can get FreeBSD to work, I'll use it. The benefits so far outweigh the downside that it's not worth wasting the time to elaborate.
If it's a personal machine and I can't get FreeBSD to work, I'll use Gentoo now. The reasons I can't get FreeBSD to work are almost always going to be very easy to fix with Gentoo because of the source derived nature, and use of nearly bleeding edge code. There is a better chance I'll have support. Plus the source derived nature is a given and not an afterthought.
If it's a customers machine and I can't talk them into FreeBSD:) I'll install RedHat. Why not Gentoo? The arguments for FreeBSD and Gentoo are pretty much identical. The arguments they give are almost always just biased towards RedHat because so-and-so that works here or someone's boss said that RedHat IS Linux and everything else is poop. It makes my life easier to drop into manager speak mode and talk about things like support and licensing and whatnot associated with RedHat. They see that they'll have to spend some money, and it makes sense to them.
The last thing I'm trying to do is piss on Debian. It's really great. I just have no need for it. If I want seemless bleeding edge stability, I have Gentoo when I can't get FreeBSD to play ball. I'm used to, and more comfortable doing things from source. I've been using source since Slackware. So in my case I'm going from one extreme to another. I don't really need something in the middle.
With most things typically dominated by men you can group the women that participate into two categories:
#1 Diehard fans. They love whatever game, field of study, etc. with an abundance of passion. They are no different and should be treated no differently than anybody else in the field, game, etc. They are easy to spot because they are the polar opposite of....
#2 Attention seekers. They enjoy the fact that they get extra attention and feed off it. They get to pretend they are prom queen. They get an ego boost and rush from being the most beautiful girl in the room because they are the only girl in the room. If you were to bring in 50 women off the street to stand around her you'd realize she's really plain after all.
We had a TON of #2 in the military. The fear of sexual harassment was so ingrained in the men that they pretty much got away with murder.
In the tech sector, It's mostly been #1's. You can't play with your hair and flirt when shit needs fixed. THE best sysadmin I've ever had the pleasure of learning things from was a woman. Strangly enough, the best officer I ever met in the military was a woman also.
I'm very satisfied what I have to work with. I have a very clean window manager with no crap I don't use. Everything is one right click away in a menu I create by hand with a utility I wrote to edit it. It's pretty. It uses 8 megs of ram when running. It is completely personalized for me and my tastes. I have shortcut keys all over the damn place so I hardly ever have to touch my mouse to interact with my desktop. Very very fast. Very simple. And I did my own them with aquas and blues and greens and gradients and it's soothing to look at and damn sharp. I have Office 2000 working with wine one click away. I have a ton of first person shooters. I have 6000 of my favorite songs, cd burning software, everything I need. And I haven't had to mess with it or reboot it in ages. KDE and Gnome are playing catchup with microsoft. Not all of us though microsoft had a particularly great interface to begin with. Some of us have been way way ahead of Microsoft on the desktop for a very long time.
No, it's Firebird the database that is so insignificant it's been broken in ports forever and nobody noticed. Not Firebird the most kickass and bestest browser ever and stuff.
Traditionally this has been handled by the serial number mechanism. Sure, go nuts. Install the sucker all over the place. Just don't try to get online and play multiplayer with more than one of them at the same time. In fact, don't try to invite a friend over and let them play against your windows machine from your mac. The serial number will be the same and it will bite you. If you do this online, you might even get your number invalidated.
Now I totally understand where you are coming from. And that is a beautiful thing. Truly. You need "Essential System Administration" from O'Reilly by Aeleen Frisch. It will teach you the "UNIX Way" of thinking. Big surprise, it's mostly the BSD way of thinking. Hook your nephew up also. The logic applies to all modern UNIX implementations. Even from Mac OS 8 on, a very similar mentality was there already. Worldview is irrelevant. The "UNIX Way" is what matters as long as it is adhered too. Apple has done an awesome job of making sure that this is so with OSX. I think aegis? was the name of the third party X server you used. I vaguely remember it. Hope this helps.
I'm not surprised. But I don't run windows. I've put a bunch of HP and Compaq hardware in place running Linux and FreeBSD for my customers/clients. I personally manager 300+ machines by myself remotely, and it might cut into my weekly schedule 3 hours usually, and significantly more if I have to do some sort of global security update. I inherited the redhat machines from a contract, and set up the FreeBSD machines myself. I also have 15 Gentoo machines out there that I haven't had a single problem with. I'd be thrilled to play with some XServe's with OSX because I've been impressed with them. I wasn't SAYING anything about the TCO. I was being critical of the fact that Cringley used the word "probably" a bunch of times and offered up nothing. You don't make blanket statements like that without showing some numbers. He is in a position to influence the opinions of people. He should take responsibility for his words and back them up with something in his article. The TCO issue doesn't matter to me either way. I just resent the way he produced the information. His use of the word "probably" does nothing but a disservice to the people that do use apple products. Next thing I know I've got Apple fans jumping down my throat. Hey, I'M AN APPLE FAN. I love OSX. God bless BSD in all it's incarnations. But when someone makes a bunch of statements without producing anything of worth to back them up, that's just being fanboy. Fanatics suck no matter which side they are on.
In my experience doing this kind of stuff since the dawn of time, the path of least resistance is just saying the hell with it and staying with RedHat. Start out by only upgrading the servers that absolutely need it. If you absolutely cannot or will not afford RedHat, and these are SERVERS and not WORKSTATIONS you are talking about, you might as well go with FreeBSD. It is free. The free support you can get for it is better than any Linux distro, and it's the stability king. The 50 sites with the longest uptime and Most reliable and fastest hosting companys seem to agree. It's going to be very hard to migrate from RedHat with official support to something with no official support, so you may as well pick the creme of the crop. Keep in mind you are going to have to hire someone competent to do the migration, and oversee the boxes and mentor junior admins. That's going to cost you about 350k over the next 3-4 years anyway. If you can justify keeping RedHat, that is your path of least resistance. You may also want to look into OSX, but I somehow doubt it's cheaper than RedHat. It very well may be though.
Whatever the conventional wisdom or the Microsoft marketing message, Macs aren't dramatically more expensive to buy and on a Total Cost of Ownership basis they are probably cheaper.
Cool! Where are the numbers to support that? Probably isn't going to cut it.
Then a little later....
I am not claiming that every organization should throw out its PCs and replace them with Macs, but the numbers are pretty clear
You mean, those numbers that you didn't include? How are they clear? Once again, Probably isn't cutting it here.
Macs reduce IT head count while Linux probably increases IT head count, simple as that.
AS PROBABLY SIMPLE AS THAT!!
There's that probably word again! Ok, so it's obvious he's a Mac user. I'd probably take him a lot more seriously if there were a lot less probablies and a lot more proof and information. I'm PROBABLY going to stick with Linux for my IT needs for now.
A few of the german microsoft sites used to run Linux. Oh, and their "Switch to Windows" campaign server used to run Linux as well until everyone started picking on them. You don't have to get all huffy because Microsoft had to rely on the awesome power of Linux to save their bacon. They went with Akamai to load balance a site, and Akamai uses industrial strength Linux. So yes, inadvertently WindowsUpdate.com IS running on Linux. The scan from Netcraft was correct. So Sorry. Thank You For Playing. No rumors here. It's the honest to God's truth.
That Linux was there to save Microsoft. It's truly great that Microsoft could benefit from the incredible POWER of Linux to balance the load to one of their sites. Wow. I'm definitely going to give this Linux thing a try now since even Microsoft ended up having to use it. It must be incredible!
Perfect time to find something with 75x power to view it with. I'm in freaking Vegas. There's more than just a LITTLE light pollution here. Damn reliable Vegas power grid!
I like a good single player game. That's why I play RTCW or the original HL. But when I want to play online, I play Q3 or UT2K3. I'll play some CS sometimes until the first obvious cheater shows up. It's a shame that nobody seems to be doing anything to stop people from cheating in CS anymore. As long as Doom3 has the best multiplayer experience around, and I'm sure ID will pull it off yet again, I could care what the story is. That and you can be sure that HL2 won't have a Linux port, but there will definitely be one for Doom3. That matters to me.
Windows is the limiting factor. Microsoft supports FAT in all it's incarnations and NTFS and that is it. That would tend to make it the limiting factor. Windows does not support the Mac OSX filesystems, or the Linux EXT2, EXT3, Reiser, XFS, JFS, etc. filesystems. So yes, Windows is indeed the limiting factor and there is NO DOUBT about it. Period. With that out of the way, Dynamic Volume support is something you run FAT or NTFS on top of, so you have no idea what you are talking about. So sorry. Thank you for playing. It's ok to defend Microsoft, but please know what you are talking about. VFAT is what I use to play nice between different OS's.
I didn't say there were no problems. Just less. And claiming otherwise shows your bias. Google all you want for any obscure references you want. I lived it. Your diehard defense, likely of your livelyhood is commendable, but still not rooted in reality. Your next reply is undoubtedly going to be filled with your list of OS's you are an expert on, and why you aren't possibly a biased windows zealot. You are truly that transparent. Nothing I haven't seen before.:) Do us both a favor and just don't bother. The points I made that you didn't bother to comment on do more to show your true colors than the ones you did poorly attempt to refute.:)
You must be young. "Virii" are almost exclusively a Microsoft phenomenon and have been since Microsoft had very small market share due to the poor security and "always root" nature of the OS. You are trying to use windowspeak to describe other things. The only significant UNIX worm was the sendmail worm. Other than that, there hasn't really been much. There was the DNS/Bind worm a little while back, but it didn't propogate nearly as fast due to the increased diligence your average UNIX admins has compared to the typical "set it and forget it" attitude that's popular with the windows family of server OS's. Growing up during the time, problems with "trojans" and worms and whatnot were never really that big of an issue with UNIX because the barrier for entry was enormous. You had to understand a great deal about C, socket code, and other not easily obtainable bits of knowlege to even begin. Most "hackers" weren't malicious when UNIX ruled 90 percent of the roost. Only with the coming of Microsoft did the true rise of the "script kiddy" occur. When it became easy for any moron to download precompiled crap and run it on their windows box to attack other windows machines is when there was truly "TONS" of this kinds of stuff. Very sad, but very true. Windows is a target because it's a very easy target. These people are lazy. Windows is shooting fish in a barrel compared with having to deal with obtaining root permissions, or the ridiculously rapid rate with which UNIX systems are patched, and get patches. With most UNIX systems, a patch is out in HOURS as apposed to weeks or months with microsoft sometimes. There is a fundemental difference is how things are done in both camps. Microsoft could learn a great deal from UNIX if they'd bother. They only have about 50 billion dollars to spend on making their systems better yanno. I'd think that would be pretty obvious to even the most biased sympathizer.
Leaving RPC open by default. As much as I like where you are trying to come from, this is indeed a Microsoft problem that they created themselves. When you have 50 FUCKING BILLION dollars in the bank, a major majority of the market, and this type of crap keeps happening, you should probably think about spending a few billion on making products that don't cost your customers insane amounts of money and lost productivity due to down time because of pathetic security and coding practices. It's just a thought.
I can imagine the day when the unknown security hole of the future comes careening through that expansive windows network and microsoft hasn't made a patch yet. I wonder how long before someone dies. Nothing personal, but I'd never consider Windows 2000 secure enough to bet my life, or anyone else's life on it. No FUD intended here. I'm being as serious as a heart attack. I'd go so far as to say that putting mission critical hospital systems on the Windows 2000 platform is criminal. I'd never trust my life, or a loved ones life considering their track record. And yes it IS that big of a deal. And it IS that serious. What you are describing is a serious tragedy waiting to happen. It's only a matter of time.
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I was working for a company in DC at the time, and we had an "EOC" phone. Engineer on call got passed the phone and had to keep it for a week. We were a 24-7 shop so no matter what shift you worked, you'd get your turn in hell. It was the worst for the monday-friday guys that worked the 4-12 shift because they'd invariably forget they couldn't get loaded on friday and expect to do anything useful early saturday morning. Of course that's when the call would come. 6 or 7am saturday morning. So I had it worse than any of these guys because as their manager, I had to be at work every single day for about 14 hours because I had inherited a HUGE mess from the previous tech manager (two months of redhat and he was a UNIX expert). Against the wishes of just about everyone, someone had put new code into production on a friday. Of course it bombed and completely hosed the backup system, as well as push the load on a very important machine to the point that it was completely unresponsive. So I'm doing my usual drive to work at 6am heading around the beltway. I get a phonecall and I can see it's the EOC phone. I flip the startac open and it's our pissed off, still half drunk EOC telling me that he needs me to put the fear of God into a support guy that refuses to try to use a serial cable to console into the sick machine. So we do a conference call. My EOC is completely pissed and just keeps getting worse. The support guy is complaining that he doesn't understand, and that he can't get ahold of his boss for permission. I explain that it's critical. The EOC is saying that he's driving in and about 30 minutes away and it would be great if he only had to deal with fixing the backups and how important it was to have this customer visible machine back up and running as soon as possible. I'm echoing what the EOC is saying and thinking to myself, yanno, I'm only about 30 minutes away. The EOC keeps getting more and more pissed. About this time a car speeds by me in the outside lane and that's when I hear the crackle on the line and pieces of nokia rain down all over my car. I probably would have been a huge dick about it if I hadn't been listening to the call.
Up until a little while ago, you could grab the winex source from cvs. They do appear to be discouraging this now. I know they flipped out on the Gentoo guys for having an easy ebuild to install it from cvs. I know the cvs server is practically unusable. It took me 4 days with a slick cron job to get the source from cvs a few months back. For the time being I have a "Windendo" partition also. I think it's going to take a few years before companys start following the ID example in larger numbers. You think more game companys would realize the dedicated fan base they get from doing multiple OS releases. It's like instant geek points. Makes them look more technologically advanced. I wish Sierra released Linux games. I'd kill for some NOLF style fun under Linux.
uffering some sort of beri-beri brain-eating disease
Which is kinda like a Furi Kuri, or FLCL but instead of robots coming out of his head, it's bullshit. Oh, and he got hit by a countersuit from IBM, not a ripcord bass guitar.
But debian is the only distribution that has been able to iron out the depency problems by many years of large-scale upgrading (and downgrading) between exotic combitatons of versions of packages.
/me puts fingers in ears
:) I'll install RedHat. Why not Gentoo? The arguments for FreeBSD and Gentoo are pretty much identical. The arguments they give are almost always just biased towards RedHat because so-and-so that works here or someone's boss said that RedHat IS Linux and everything else is poop. It makes my life easier to drop into manager speak mode and talk about things like support and licensing and whatnot associated with RedHat. They see that they'll have to spend some money, and it makes sense to them.
elgaard> Gentoo? Gentoo?
elgaard>
elgaard> LA! LA! LA! LA! LA!
elgaard> Don't even SAY FreeBSD!
elgaard> I've I've NEVER HEARD OF THEM!
> --User Disconnected--
I have FreeBSD on an ancient 486 monocolor laptop. I think I was 2.1.7? when I installed. I can't rightly remember anymore. It's 4.8 now. No need to reinstall. I put Gentoo on my main workstation when I had issues with some hardware not liking FreeBSD. That was version 1.2 I think. Now I have 1.4 release. Didn't have to reinstall. I have emerge sync in cron. Updating my system goes something like this:
emerge -uD world
That's about it. Occasionally I'll have to update config files with etc-update, but not very often. I have nothing against Debian. It's a really decent distribution. The versions of things just aren't new enough. I upgrade a lot and use a lot of bleeding edge hardware on my main workstation though. In the past if I couldn't get FreeBSD to like something, I'd use RedHat just because it's practically the business standard GNU/Linux. This happens a lot with laptops. Now I have this mentality:
If I can get FreeBSD to work, I'll use it. The benefits so far outweigh the downside that it's not worth wasting the time to elaborate.
If it's a personal machine and I can't get FreeBSD to work, I'll use Gentoo now. The reasons I can't get FreeBSD to work are almost always going to be very easy to fix with Gentoo because of the source derived nature, and use of nearly bleeding edge code. There is a better chance I'll have support. Plus the source derived nature is a given and not an afterthought.
If it's a customers machine and I can't talk them into FreeBSD
The last thing I'm trying to do is piss on Debian. It's really great. I just have no need for it. If I want seemless bleeding edge stability, I have Gentoo when I can't get FreeBSD to play ball. I'm used to, and more comfortable doing things from source. I've been using source since Slackware. So in my case I'm going from one extreme to another. I don't really need something in the middle.
With most things typically dominated by men you can group the women that participate into two categories:
#1 Diehard fans. They love whatever game, field of study, etc. with an abundance of passion. They are no different and should be treated no differently than anybody else in the field, game, etc. They are easy to spot because they are the polar opposite of....
#2 Attention seekers. They enjoy the fact that they get extra attention and feed off it. They get to pretend they are prom queen. They get an ego boost and rush from being the most beautiful girl in the room because they are the only girl in the room. If you were to bring in 50 women off the street to stand around her you'd realize she's really plain after all.
We had a TON of #2 in the military. The fear of sexual harassment was so ingrained in the men that they pretty much got away with murder.
In the tech sector, It's mostly been #1's. You can't play with your hair and flirt when shit needs fixed. THE best sysadmin I've ever had the pleasure of learning things from was a woman. Strangly enough, the best officer I ever met in the military was a woman also.
I'm very satisfied what I have to work with. I have a very clean window manager with no crap I don't use. Everything is one right click away in a menu I create by hand with a utility I wrote to edit it. It's pretty. It uses 8 megs of ram when running. It is completely personalized for me and my tastes. I have shortcut keys all over the damn place so I hardly ever have to touch my mouse to interact with my desktop. Very very fast. Very simple. And I did my own them with aquas and blues and greens and gradients and it's soothing to look at and damn sharp. I have Office 2000 working with wine one click away. I have a ton of first person shooters. I have 6000 of my favorite songs, cd burning software, everything I need. And I haven't had to mess with it or reboot it in ages. KDE and Gnome are playing catchup with microsoft. Not all of us though microsoft had a particularly great interface to begin with. Some of us have been way way ahead of Microsoft on the desktop for a very long time.
No, it's Firebird the database that is so insignificant it's been broken in ports forever and nobody noticed. Not Firebird the most kickass and bestest browser ever and stuff.
Traditionally this has been handled by the serial number mechanism. Sure, go nuts. Install the sucker all over the place. Just don't try to get online and play multiplayer with more than one of them at the same time. In fact, don't try to invite a friend over and let them play against your windows machine from your mac. The serial number will be the same and it will bite you. If you do this online, you might even get your number invalidated.
Now I totally understand where you are coming from. And that is a beautiful thing. Truly. You need "Essential System Administration" from O'Reilly by Aeleen Frisch. It will teach you the "UNIX Way" of thinking. Big surprise, it's mostly the BSD way of thinking. Hook your nephew up also. The logic applies to all modern UNIX implementations. Even from Mac OS 8 on, a very similar mentality was there already. Worldview is irrelevant. The "UNIX Way" is what matters as long as it is adhered too. Apple has done an awesome job of making sure that this is so with OSX. I think aegis? was the name of the third party X server you used. I vaguely remember it. Hope this helps.
I'm not surprised. But I don't run windows. I've put a bunch of HP and Compaq hardware in place running Linux and FreeBSD for my customers/clients. I personally manager 300+ machines by myself remotely, and it might cut into my weekly schedule 3 hours usually, and significantly more if I have to do some sort of global security update. I inherited the redhat machines from a contract, and set up the FreeBSD machines myself. I also have 15 Gentoo machines out there that I haven't had a single problem with. I'd be thrilled to play with some XServe's with OSX because I've been impressed with them. I wasn't SAYING anything about the TCO. I was being critical of the fact that Cringley used the word "probably" a bunch of times and offered up nothing. You don't make blanket statements like that without showing some numbers. He is in a position to influence the opinions of people. He should take responsibility for his words and back them up with something in his article. The TCO issue doesn't matter to me either way. I just resent the way he produced the information. His use of the word "probably" does nothing but a disservice to the people that do use apple products. Next thing I know I've got Apple fans jumping down my throat. Hey, I'M AN APPLE FAN. I love OSX. God bless BSD in all it's incarnations. But when someone makes a bunch of statements without producing anything of worth to back them up, that's just being fanboy. Fanatics suck no matter which side they are on.
In my experience doing this kind of stuff since the dawn of time, the path of least resistance is just saying the hell with it and staying with RedHat. Start out by only upgrading the servers that absolutely need it. If you absolutely cannot or will not afford RedHat, and these are SERVERS and not WORKSTATIONS you are talking about, you might as well go with FreeBSD. It is free. The free support you can get for it is better than any Linux distro, and it's the stability king. The 50 sites with the longest uptime and Most reliable and fastest hosting companys seem to agree. It's going to be very hard to migrate from RedHat with official support to something with no official support, so you may as well pick the creme of the crop. Keep in mind you are going to have to hire someone competent to do the migration, and oversee the boxes and mentor junior admins. That's going to cost you about 350k over the next 3-4 years anyway. If you can justify keeping RedHat, that is your path of least resistance. You may also want to look into OSX, but I somehow doubt it's cheaper than RedHat. It very well may be though.
Whatever the conventional wisdom or the Microsoft marketing message, Macs aren't dramatically more expensive to buy and on a Total Cost of Ownership basis they are probably cheaper.
Cool! Where are the numbers to support that? Probably isn't going to cut it.
Then a little later....
I am not claiming that every organization should throw out its PCs and replace them with Macs, but the numbers are pretty clear
You mean, those numbers that you didn't include? How are they clear? Once again, Probably isn't cutting it here.
Macs reduce IT head count while Linux probably increases IT head count, simple as that.
AS PROBABLY SIMPLE AS THAT!!
There's that probably word again! Ok, so it's obvious he's a Mac user. I'd probably take him a lot more seriously if there were a lot less probablies and a lot more proof and information. I'm PROBABLY going to stick with Linux for my IT needs for now.
:)
A few of the german microsoft sites used to run Linux. Oh, and their "Switch to Windows" campaign server used to run Linux as well until everyone started picking on them. You don't have to get all huffy because Microsoft had to rely on the awesome power of Linux to save their bacon. They went with Akamai to load balance a site, and Akamai uses industrial strength Linux. So yes, inadvertently WindowsUpdate.com IS running on Linux. The scan from Netcraft was correct. So Sorry. Thank You For Playing. No rumors here. It's the honest to God's truth.
That Linux was there to save Microsoft. It's truly great that Microsoft could benefit from the incredible POWER of Linux to balance the load to one of their sites. Wow. I'm definitely going to give this Linux thing a try now since even Microsoft ended up having to use it. It must be incredible!
Basically echoing what the AC said, but it's more like 150 miles. :)
Is if you could play one of the monsters as a character in multiplayer. :)
Perfect time to find something with 75x power to view it with. I'm in freaking Vegas. There's more than just a LITTLE light pollution here. Damn reliable Vegas power grid!
How important is story to online multiplayer?
I like a good single player game. That's why I play RTCW or the original HL. But when I want to play online, I play Q3 or UT2K3. I'll play some CS sometimes until the first obvious cheater shows up. It's a shame that nobody seems to be doing anything to stop people from cheating in CS anymore. As long as Doom3 has the best multiplayer experience around, and I'm sure ID will pull it off yet again, I could care what the story is. That and you can be sure that HL2 won't have a Linux port, but there will definitely be one for Doom3. That matters to me.
Windows is the limiting factor. Microsoft supports FAT in all it's incarnations and NTFS and that is it. That would tend to make it the limiting factor. Windows does not support the Mac OSX filesystems, or the Linux EXT2, EXT3, Reiser, XFS, JFS, etc. filesystems. So yes, Windows is indeed the limiting factor and there is NO DOUBT about it. Period. With that out of the way, Dynamic Volume support is something you run FAT or NTFS on top of, so you have no idea what you are talking about. So sorry. Thank you for playing. It's ok to defend Microsoft, but please know what you are talking about. VFAT is what I use to play nice between different OS's.
My bad. I read it as the exact opposite of what you wrote if you can dig that. :)
I didn't say there were no problems. Just less. And claiming otherwise shows your bias. Google all you want for any obscure references you want. I lived it. Your diehard defense, likely of your livelyhood is commendable, but still not rooted in reality. Your next reply is undoubtedly going to be filled with your list of OS's you are an expert on, and why you aren't possibly a biased windows zealot. You are truly that transparent. Nothing I haven't seen before. :) Do us both a favor and just don't bother. The points I made that you didn't bother to comment on do more to show your true colors than the ones you did poorly attempt to refute. :)
You must be young. "Virii" are almost exclusively a Microsoft phenomenon and have been since Microsoft had very small market share due to the poor security and "always root" nature of the OS. You are trying to use windowspeak to describe other things. The only significant UNIX worm was the sendmail worm. Other than that, there hasn't really been much. There was the DNS/Bind worm a little while back, but it didn't propogate nearly as fast due to the increased diligence your average UNIX admins has compared to the typical "set it and forget it" attitude that's popular with the windows family of server OS's. Growing up during the time, problems with "trojans" and worms and whatnot were never really that big of an issue with UNIX because the barrier for entry was enormous. You had to understand a great deal about C, socket code, and other not easily obtainable bits of knowlege to even begin. Most "hackers" weren't malicious when UNIX ruled 90 percent of the roost. Only with the coming of Microsoft did the true rise of the "script kiddy" occur. When it became easy for any moron to download precompiled crap and run it on their windows box to attack other windows machines is when there was truly "TONS" of this kinds of stuff. Very sad, but very true. Windows is a target because it's a very easy target. These people are lazy. Windows is shooting fish in a barrel compared with having to deal with obtaining root permissions, or the ridiculously rapid rate with which UNIX systems are patched, and get patches. With most UNIX systems, a patch is out in HOURS as apposed to weeks or months with microsoft sometimes. There is a fundemental difference is how things are done in both camps. Microsoft could learn a great deal from UNIX if they'd bother. They only have about 50 billion dollars to spend on making their systems better yanno. I'd think that would be pretty obvious to even the most biased sympathizer.
What was it that really made the worm possible?
Leaving RPC open by default. As much as I like where you are trying to come from, this is indeed a Microsoft problem that they created themselves. When you have 50 FUCKING BILLION dollars in the bank, a major majority of the market, and this type of crap keeps happening, you should probably think about spending a few billion on making products that don't cost your customers insane amounts of money and lost productivity due to down time because of pathetic security and coding practices. It's just a thought.
I can imagine the day when the unknown security hole of the future comes careening through that expansive windows network and microsoft hasn't made a patch yet. I wonder how long before someone dies. Nothing personal, but I'd never consider Windows 2000 secure enough to bet my life, or anyone else's life on it. No FUD intended here. I'm being as serious as a heart attack. I'd go so far as to say that putting mission critical hospital systems on the Windows 2000 platform is criminal. I'd never trust my life, or a loved ones life considering their track record. And yes it IS that big of a deal. And it IS that serious. What you are describing is a serious tragedy waiting to happen. It's only a matter of time.