I think the important thing about 2008 is that it gives you the option to use a character-based environment, and it gives you a very good one at that (PowerShell). If you feel more comfortable with the GUI tools, they're all still there.
How sad indeed that Powershell will not run on Server Core. Neither (as far as I've seen) will IIS or SQL. I would love to see a DB Server as close to bare hardware as possible for performance reasons! But really, no PowerShell on their brand new Server SKU? That is just stupid.
Isn't this the idea behind ESPN 360. Watching games on your Internet connection. You can't subscribe as a user, your ISP has to. I always thought the idea behind it was to "cache" the data at the ISP, lowering the actual internet costs. Or so ESPN can multicast to a few ISP's, and they in turn can push it out to users.
Actually, no, they probably won't have to comply with HIPPA. Google for it (yeah, I know).. You are authorizing the transfer of your records to a 3rd party. You have to give permission. If you give your records to a neighbour, they are not bound by HIPPA. Yes it would be stupid of them to allow anyone to see your health history, and will probably break some state laws, but HIPPA, no..
Actually, I can almost believe this. I live in a small town, out in the middle of no-where. You know, Rural. If I want anything other than a Wal-Mart or Homedepot, I have to drive 70 miles over a mountain range. If the pass is nasty (and in the winter it is) I have to drive 120 miles north. Of course, groceries and other necessary items are in my town, but other things aren't. Internet shopping has saved me many trips. Not many small towns have places that specialize in "big and tall" I'm 6'5, with size 15 foot. Clothes and shoe shopping used to be pain, involving day long trips, to hit the other towns. Definitely not 100 hours a month, but a few thousand miles a year.
Because the water that is a few hundred hards away is damn cold, and useful for cooling. Also, the highway (I-84) that they are along side of carries lots of fiber optics, and Oregon has most of the landings for fibers going to asia.
and in many ways, we're worse off. How can you say this? The terrorists hate us because of our freedoms. We have systematically been eliminating their reasons for hating us! In just a few short years, I am sure they will love us again!
Sorry to reply to my own post, forgot the second point....
By not having large corporations move to vista, one of the major incentives for moving to Windows server 2008 is evaporated, meaning a huge financial hit for MS. One of the biggest selling features of 2008, is how well all the new features are supposed to work with vista. Yes, that and server core, and Hyper V.
Because the preloading on non-apple x86 customers is only a small piece of the pie. What they really want is large corporations to start rolling it out by the truckload. Major companies don't want to do that, largely because of the perception (whether true or not) that it is a crappy product. Many large companies are flat out telling Dell and HP and their ilk that they will not mass order machines without XP on them, or that they better ensure that they can revert to XP, and still have working drivers and support. Then Dell, HP, and their ilk get mad, because they have to train employees how to troubleshoot problems on model X in two os's, driving their costs up.
Did you even read the linked article? The satellite has lost all contact. It has rocket fuel, yes, but there is no way to communicate with it and tell it to fire the thrusters. As for the Navy picking it up, that is logistically a pain in the ass. Even when you can control the splashdown, you can get it to within a few hundred square miles. (lots of variance in air temperature, density, and wind) By the time a boat or helicopter could get to the actual crash site, it would be several thousand feet below the surface of the water. (which i'm sure the govt prefers...) Rocket boosters they pick up, but only because they are specifically designed to float.
Right, and the poster had said that this became a big problem for him, as the XBOX Live account systems have been down multiple times, meaning he couldn't do #2 on your list. He couldn't access the content he had paid for. I'd be a little ticked if I couldn't do stuff because my internet provider or microsoft were having problems..
SPF has some issues with Relaying. If your an org that sends out emails from a 3rd party from time to time, (IE, surveys, or other crap), then you will have issues with SPF. If I have site B send out email for me, claiming to be from my site, (site A) then it will fail SPF. (unless I add them to my DNS as a legitimate sender, which is a pain, and takes ahwile to propagate). If I use DKIM, I just need to pass them the key to use to sign the email. The emails will be signed, and will validate against my public keys. I've also heard about relaying problems in large companies, with decentralized email, ie, each divison or site has its own mail server.. this solves that.
Long term storage. Our state mandates that student records be archived for 99 years. We can lock tapes in a Safety deposit box. They have a much longer shelf life (and are cheaper) than hard drives. I pay about $40 for a 600GB SDLT tape. Easier rotations. No raid setup, no off site connectivity costs (we don't have an "off site" yet). Smaller footprint too.. I can go back to any point in the last 8 years and grab a file. Can you do that with you hard drives? Do you still have servers with IDE drives?
Is the freaking worst. We finally switched when their AV client, sitting idle on a PC that was just booted, was using 50MB of RAM. (Some of our systems only had 256 at the time). Over 4 years, our renewal costs (we're a school), went from $5/machine to $18/machine. We still use ghost, and have not seem one damn improvement in the last 4 years, even though it has gone through all sorts of different versions. (now using Ghost solution suite 2.0) I don't see any difference in the software. dear god, you would think they would use WinPE by now, and stop breaking up Ghost images into 2GB chunks. I guess 2 years ago they fixed some multicast issues. Thats it. We just moved from Backup Exec 9.1 to Backup Exec 11d (We had starting using when it was Veritas), mainly for tape encryption capabilities. Of course, it is working fairly well, unless I do something crazy Like try to encrypt our backups to tape. I sat on hold for 45 minutes yesterday, and gave up.. They just bought Altiris, which is who we were looking at to switch to from Ghost. GRRR.. They just buy companies, and then raise prices..
Last year, I moved to Ubuntu as my primary OS. I would still boot into Windows XP to play BF2 online. I bought a legit copy, and had registerd the serial, all that goodness. I bought and downloaded several expansion packs online. My DVD Drive died in my desktop. I couldn't play anymore. Didn't replace the drive, because I use USB pen drives for everything now. So now, EA won't get anymore money from me, because I can't play that game. (and I haven't booted into Windows XP More than 3 times since September.) Now, If more companies would allow you to download ISO's or whatever, and then install, I would be very happy. Been playing the ET:QW demo for Linux. I really like it, but don't want to have to go buy a Drive, plus the game. Since the game is pretty much online only, why don't they just check the keys when you come online like Steam does?
If its solved, why did I just have to spend several thousand dollars of taxpayer money to purchase an appliance to combat spam. Were blocking a few dozen thousand messages a day. We don't give students email addresses, just for the 80 or so full time staff. Being a school, we could have used that several thousand dollars to do something that would enhance the learning of our students, like purchase Photo shop for our labs, Or upgrade some computers, or even gotten a few more Mb/s on our internet pipe. But we had to waste it on a spam appliance (But, I do like barracuda's stuff, it works great). No, the spam is not solved, providers have expended great resources and time to ensure that you don't have to deal with it. Hell, maybe if Gmail didn't have to focus on fighting spam, they could actually implement new features, or just take gmail out of beta already!
It would also work extremely well for a universal remote
Try looking at AMX or other similar controllers They are just dumb touch screens for the most part, and require a "controller" in the cabinet with all your equipment, but they give you IR emmitters and serial ports to control most devices, along with Video switchers, scalers, etc. Many models also have an ethernet port, so you can access them remotely, or chain them together. They program with a language that I think is "objective C" which is about the level of a first term C programming class, if you can get your hands on the software.
I'm not sure of the legal stuff around it, but I think it boils down to the fact that they Present a federal judge evidence that piracy is going on, and ask for "evidence gathering" on premise, and ask the Federal Judge for the assistance of US Marshals (who work for the federal Judiciary). Then they show up. Google around they do about 50 raids a year.
There is no personal IP range, which is a darn good thing. Can you imagine the load that would put on routers, having a few billion routes changing constantly? However, with the "autoconfiguration" if I'm not mistaken, the last 64 bits of your IP would pretty much always stay the same, its the first bits that would change.
Besides, in a way your IP address will always be the same, and much shorter..::1 is much shorter than 127.0.0.1 to type!
I liked his Idea of tools using 6V battery packs. I got several tools out in the shop, a few 18V, a few 12V, one or two 7.2v, etc. Even the 3 18V tools have different battery packs, with different chargers. A huge portion of the back of my workbench (near the wall) is nothing but chargers. I would love to have a standardized version of the battery packs.
Half the time, I don't even need the power of the 18V drill, I just need a bit of Juice to turn a bunch of screws. Wouldn't it be slick to pop in 3 6v Batteries, and be able to toggle a switch to choose between connecting them in serial or parallel? IE, more power, or longer lasting battery?
Yes, but when big lawyers send a nasty letter, demanding a response, or your offices will be raided with the help of armed US Marshals, and the executives can be arrested/booked in jail, You'd be surprised how quickly an executive will demand action.
Having your vote tallied by someone in running a machine in front of you defeats the whole purpose of confidentiality. They know exactly what I voted for, since they are right there at the machine. I would be against having my neighbor run my vote through a machine. (And if you can't expect the people to vote correctly, you certainly can't expect them to run it through a machine correctly, you would need someone "trained" to do it)
In oregon, all votes are mailed back to each respective county clerk. The mailing envelope is opened, (it has your name and signature on it) and saved separately. Then the "secrecy envelope" is opened, with your ballot in it. Then you can know that your vote was counted, but they don't know what you voted for. Then, a team of people go over the ballots to count them (along with machines as well). Every vote that is handled has to have 3 people present while it is handled, to ensure fairness. (I believe that they can't all be of the same party). Paper ballots are never destroyed, so recounts are easy, and votes are verifiable. The whole process is really stinking easy, no driving to locations to vote on a day you have a bunch of meetings, school, etc. HUGE voter turnout. Basically, the whole state does voting the way that most states do "absentee" voting.
Not really, our "dot-com" product was pretty much Windows/Office based. (I really did try to convince them to move to Linux on the backend...) Funny thing was that MS was an angel investor in the company....
We got "anonymously tipped" a week after I took over the job of an incompetent admin, who was in charge of all the licensing, and kept telling everyone it was fine to install this and that, when it wasn't. The fun thing was that even if/when you pay the fine, you have to get back into compliance. I remember calling around to MS about some licensing issues for SQL server. Talked to 3 different people, got 3 totally different answers about how many licenses we would need. I read the info from a script, to make sure I was keeping it the same. If the company that SELLS the damn software can't understand their own licensing, how can they expect us to? We ended up having our lawyers and the BSA lawyers figure it out.
I think you mean the $3Billion for new drugs. $700Million or so to actually develop it, and the rest for marketing. You know, the "Ask your doctor if $Drug is right for you" without ever mentioning what the hell the drug does... If their drugs are so miraculous, why would they need to advertise them? Shouldn't the results speak loudly enough? Oh, and don't forget the "tweaking" the drug and filing a new patent. Zyban was a anti-depressant that had a side effect of people not wanting to smoke. Near the end of the patent, they tweaked it a little, and started a huge marketing effort about the new "quit smoking" pill. Can't imagine that cost them much.
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I think the important thing about 2008 is that it gives you the option to use a character-based environment, and it gives you a very good one at that (PowerShell). If you feel more comfortable with the GUI tools, they're all still there.
How sad indeed that Powershell will not run on Server Core. Neither (as far as I've seen) will IIS or SQL. I would love to see a DB Server as close to bare hardware as possible for performance reasons! But really, no PowerShell on their brand new Server SKU? That is just stupid.
Isn't this the idea behind ESPN 360. Watching games on your Internet connection. You can't subscribe as a user, your ISP has to. I always thought the idea behind it was to "cache" the data at the ISP, lowering the actual internet costs. Or so ESPN can multicast to a few ISP's, and they in turn can push it out to users.
Actually, no, they probably won't have to comply with HIPPA. Google for it (yeah, I know).. You are authorizing the transfer of your records to a 3rd party. You have to give permission. If you give your records to a neighbour, they are not bound by HIPPA. Yes it would be stupid of them to allow anyone to see your health history, and will probably break some state laws, but HIPPA, no..
Actually, I can almost believe this. I live in a small town, out in the middle of no-where. You know, Rural. If I want anything other than a Wal-Mart or Homedepot, I have to drive 70 miles over a mountain range. If the pass is nasty (and in the winter it is) I have to drive 120 miles north. Of course, groceries and other necessary items are in my town, but other things aren't. Internet shopping has saved me many trips. Not many small towns have places that specialize in "big and tall" I'm 6'5, with size 15 foot. Clothes and shoe shopping used to be pain, involving day long trips, to hit the other towns. Definitely not 100 hours a month, but a few thousand miles a year.
Yeah, but you forgot the 4th one, "Ammo"
I'm pretty sure this comment is going to get me on the No-Fly list.. but what the hell..
Because the water that is a few hundred hards away is damn cold, and useful for cooling. Also, the highway (I-84) that they are along side of carries lots of fiber optics, and Oregon has most of the landings for fibers going to asia.
and in many ways, we're worse off.
How can you say this? The terrorists hate us because of our freedoms. We have systematically been eliminating their reasons for hating us! In just a few short years, I am sure they will love us again!
By not having large corporations move to vista, one of the major incentives for moving to Windows server 2008 is evaporated, meaning a huge financial hit for MS. One of the biggest selling features of 2008, is how well all the new features are supposed to work with vista. Yes, that and server core, and Hyper V.
Because the preloading on non-apple x86 customers is only a small piece of the pie. What they really want is large corporations to start rolling it out by the truckload. Major companies don't want to do that, largely because of the perception (whether true or not) that it is a crappy product. Many large companies are flat out telling Dell and HP and their ilk that they will not mass order machines without XP on them, or that they better ensure that they can revert to XP, and still have working drivers and support. Then Dell, HP, and their ilk get mad, because they have to train employees how to troubleshoot problems on model X in two os's, driving their costs up.
Did you even read the linked article? The satellite has lost all contact. It has rocket fuel, yes, but there is no way to communicate with it and tell it to fire the thrusters. As for the Navy picking it up, that is logistically a pain in the ass. Even when you can control the splashdown, you can get it to within a few hundred square miles. (lots of variance in air temperature, density, and wind) By the time a boat or helicopter could get to the actual crash site, it would be several thousand feet below the surface of the water. (which i'm sure the govt prefers...) Rocket boosters they pick up, but only because they are specifically designed to float.
Right, and the poster had said that this became a big problem for him, as the XBOX Live account systems have been down multiple times, meaning he couldn't do #2 on your list. He couldn't access the content he had paid for. I'd be a little ticked if I couldn't do stuff because my internet provider or microsoft were having problems..
SPF has some issues with Relaying. If your an org that sends out emails from a 3rd party from time to time, (IE, surveys, or other crap), then you will have issues with SPF. If I have site B send out email for me, claiming to be from my site, (site A) then it will fail SPF. (unless I add them to my DNS as a legitimate sender, which is a pain, and takes ahwile to propagate). If I use DKIM, I just need to pass them the key to use to sign the email. The emails will be signed, and will validate against my public keys. I've also heard about relaying problems in large companies, with decentralized email, ie, each divison or site has its own mail server.. this solves that.
Long term storage. Our state mandates that student records be archived for 99 years. We can lock tapes in a Safety deposit box. They have a much longer shelf life (and are cheaper) than hard drives. I pay about $40 for a 600GB SDLT tape. Easier rotations. No raid setup, no off site connectivity costs (we don't have an "off site" yet). Smaller footprint too.. I can go back to any point in the last 8 years and grab a file. Can you do that with you hard drives? Do you still have servers with IDE drives?
But mainly, its for long term storage..
Is the freaking worst. We finally switched when their AV client, sitting idle on a PC that was just booted, was using 50MB of RAM. (Some of our systems only had 256 at the time). Over 4 years, our renewal costs (we're a school), went from $5/machine to $18/machine. We still use ghost, and have not seem one damn improvement in the last 4 years, even though it has gone through all sorts of different versions. (now using Ghost solution suite 2.0) I don't see any difference in the software. dear god, you would think they would use WinPE by now, and stop breaking up Ghost images into 2GB chunks. I guess 2 years ago they fixed some multicast issues. Thats it. We just moved from Backup Exec 9.1 to Backup Exec 11d (We had starting using when it was Veritas), mainly for tape encryption capabilities. Of course, it is working fairly well, unless I do something crazy Like try to encrypt our backups to tape. I sat on hold for 45 minutes yesterday, and gave up.. They just bought Altiris, which is who we were looking at to switch to from Ghost. GRRR.. They just buy companies, and then raise prices..
Last year, I moved to Ubuntu as my primary OS. I would still boot into Windows XP to play BF2 online. I bought a legit copy, and had registerd the serial, all that goodness. I bought and downloaded several expansion packs online. My DVD Drive died in my desktop. I couldn't play anymore. Didn't replace the drive, because I use USB pen drives for everything now. So now, EA won't get anymore money from me, because I can't play that game. (and I haven't booted into Windows XP More than 3 times since September.) Now, If more companies would allow you to download ISO's or whatever, and then install, I would be very happy. Been playing the ET:QW demo for Linux. I really like it, but don't want to have to go buy a Drive, plus the game. Since the game is pretty much online only, why don't they just check the keys when you come online like Steam does?
If its solved, why did I just have to spend several thousand dollars of taxpayer money to purchase an appliance to combat spam. Were blocking a few dozen thousand messages a day. We don't give students email addresses, just for the 80 or so full time staff. Being a school, we could have used that several thousand dollars to do something that would enhance the learning of our students, like purchase Photo shop for our labs, Or upgrade some computers, or even gotten a few more Mb/s on our internet pipe. But we had to waste it on a spam appliance (But, I do like barracuda's stuff, it works great). No, the spam is not solved, providers have expended great resources and time to ensure that you don't have to deal with it. Hell, maybe if Gmail didn't have to focus on fighting spam, they could actually implement new features, or just take gmail out of beta already!
It would also work extremely well for a universal remote
Try looking at AMX or other similar controllers They are just dumb touch screens for the most part, and require a "controller" in the cabinet with all your equipment, but they give you IR emmitters and serial ports to control most devices, along with Video switchers, scalers, etc. Many models also have an ethernet port, so you can access them remotely, or chain them together. They program with a language that I think is "objective C" which is about the level of a first term C programming class, if you can get your hands on the software.
I'm not sure of the legal stuff around it, but I think it boils down to the fact that they Present a federal judge evidence that piracy is going on, and ask for "evidence gathering" on premise, and ask the Federal Judge for the assistance of US Marshals (who work for the federal Judiciary). Then they show up. Google around they do about 50 raids a year.
There is no personal IP range, which is a darn good thing. Can you imagine the load that would put on routers, having a few billion routes changing constantly? However, with the "autoconfiguration" if I'm not mistaken, the last 64 bits of your IP would pretty much always stay the same, its the first bits that would change.
::1 is much shorter than 127.0.0.1 to type!
Besides, in a way your IP address will always be the same, and much shorter..
I liked his Idea of tools using 6V battery packs. I got several tools out in the shop, a few 18V, a few 12V, one or two 7.2v, etc. Even the 3 18V tools have different battery packs, with different chargers. A huge portion of the back of my workbench (near the wall) is nothing but chargers. I would love to have a standardized version of the battery packs.
Half the time, I don't even need the power of the 18V drill, I just need a bit of Juice to turn a bunch of screws. Wouldn't it be slick to pop in 3 6v Batteries, and be able to toggle a switch to choose between connecting them in serial or parallel? IE, more power, or longer lasting battery?
Yes, but when big lawyers send a nasty letter, demanding a response, or your offices will be raided with the help of armed US Marshals, and the executives can be arrested/booked in jail, You'd be surprised how quickly an executive will demand action.
Having your vote tallied by someone in running a machine in front of you defeats the whole purpose of confidentiality. They know exactly what I voted for, since they are right there at the machine. I would be against having my neighbor run my vote through a machine. (And if you can't expect the people to vote correctly, you certainly can't expect them to run it through a machine correctly, you would need someone "trained" to do it)
In oregon, all votes are mailed back to each respective county clerk. The mailing envelope is opened, (it has your name and signature on it) and saved separately. Then the "secrecy envelope" is opened, with your ballot in it. Then you can know that your vote was counted, but they don't know what you voted for. Then, a team of people go over the ballots to count them (along with machines as well). Every vote that is handled has to have 3 people present while it is handled, to ensure fairness. (I believe that they can't all be of the same party). Paper ballots are never destroyed, so recounts are easy, and votes are verifiable. The whole process is really stinking easy, no driving to locations to vote on a day you have a bunch of meetings, school, etc. HUGE voter turnout. Basically, the whole state does voting the way that most states do "absentee" voting.
Not really, our "dot-com" product was pretty much Windows/Office based. (I really did try to convince them to move to Linux on the backend...) Funny thing was that MS was an angel investor in the company....
We got "anonymously tipped" a week after I took over the job of an incompetent admin, who was in charge of all the licensing, and kept telling everyone it was fine to install this and that, when it wasn't. The fun thing was that even if/when you pay the fine, you have to get back into compliance. I remember calling around to MS about some licensing issues for SQL server. Talked to 3 different people, got 3 totally different answers about how many licenses we would need. I read the info from a script, to make sure I was keeping it the same. If the company that SELLS the damn software can't understand their own licensing, how can they expect us to? We ended up having our lawyers and the BSA lawyers figure it out.
I think you mean the $3Billion for new drugs. $700Million or so to actually develop it, and the rest for marketing. You know, the "Ask your doctor if $Drug is right for you" without ever mentioning what the hell the drug does... If their drugs are so miraculous, why would they need to advertise them? Shouldn't the results speak loudly enough? Oh, and don't forget the "tweaking" the drug and filing a new patent. Zyban was a anti-depressant that had a side effect of people not wanting to smoke. Near the end of the patent, they tweaked it a little, and started a huge marketing effort about the new "quit smoking" pill. Can't imagine that cost them much.