Wait.. did you just argue that Linux is just a kernel, and that windows is an "enriched OS" that is modular, and you can add applications? really?
The Windows Kernel is also just a Kernel. It comes with a very locked down distribution of applications. You sound like someone that hasn't tried linux in 5 years, and it was 'too hard'.. Please, give it a try again. Please notice how when you tell your favorite distribution to update, notice that all "5 window managers, 20 media players, and so on" are now up to date. Last count for me on a default Install of Windows 7 SP1 W office 2010 was 7 reboots, > 40 patches, and thank god I had a WSUS server, so I did't have to pull them all down from the internet.
Lastly, try to not install a GUI.. say for a server, where you're never going to have a monitor or mouse plugged in. Sure, there is Server core, but they don't even have Powershell running on that version, which seems like the only chance they had to make it a decent option.
Did he reveal privileged information? They use satellites to transmit data? Perhaps some people think Navy Destroyers tow a really, really long fiber optic cable, or use a very, very big speaker to transmit through the ocean?
Why stick with a MS product as the core? look at Zentyal, which among other things, acts as a PDC in an easy to setup and configure way. There is no group policy (yet, samba 4 is due in zentyal 3.0) but you can push login scripts.
Funny thing is, 90% of the people that claim they need those apps don't.. they need "word processing software" not "Word".. heck, the newer versions of Exchange actually play fairly nice with other devices besides outlook now.
for all the people that claim to NEED Photoshop, i have only met one that had a licensed copy of it.. (I have met others that where Mac users)..
Only real stumbling block I can think of is Access and Excel. I worked at an accounting firm with an amazing amount of applications and add-ins for excel. Hundreds across the enterprise.. you should have seen the screaming when we were testing Office 2007.. (which had a big security model change from 2003!)
Here's what happens when you try to start imposing some sort of "You're an American Company; pay American taxes" argument: Apple re-incorporates off-shore; its US operations are shunted to a US subsidiary, who works under contract with the main off-shore company. In the end, it pays a lot less tax, but is now a Cayman Islands company.
Of course, finding people to work there would be a challenge.. Wouldn't all their 'official' business like exectutives and board meeting have to be there? And they would lose out on a TON of protections provided by the US government.. for example, filing for Patents in the US.. sure, their contractor could, and then lease them to the cayman company, but that gets to be an ugly legal dodge when your trying to ram your patents down someone elses throat all around the world.
And if only people would drive 55, and leave a 3 second gap between them and the car in front of them, most traffic accidents would be prevented..
But seriously, I just had to setup some Windows XP and Windows 7 systems. (been in the linux world for a while).. with Centos, to update i type #yum update then I type Y. maybe a reboot if there is a new kernel
For the windows 7, I had to run windows update 5 or 6 frickin times.. each installing a few more updates.. then, I installed some applications that were needed from some file shares we had (java, adobe reader, flash installer for firefox, etc) each of them had their own updates needed.. Holy crap, you need to really focus and think to stay up to date on that thing!
Ever been on tour of Downtown Seattle, which had a huge fire that burned down all of downtown once? You cannot build a wood building in Seattle's downtown anymore..:)
and if they would have put the generators on the roof, and/or moved the spent fuel out of the reactor to another building with its own seperate cooling system, there would have been no release.. Just a helicopter dropping a bladder full of diesel on the roof every day or so until they could hook back up to the grid..
You have obviously never had to build site to site VPN's to other customers/departments.. It completely loses any argument about 'private addresses that can't be reached' and in fact, makes it much, much worse.
Source and destination NATing on an IPSEC vpn is a royal pain in the ass, but is necessary, because people seem to think NAT is a security feature, so they run their company on the same 10.10.x.x or 192.168.1.x subnet as everyone else.
btw, how on earth do you use NAT without relying on a statefull firewall for your security? Isn't that a requirement to do NAT? do you scan and deny all outgoing traffic by default?
Yes! Bradly Manning is the ONLY government whistle-blower in jail. Nothing to see here comrade, please shuffle along.. and encourage your political representative to vote down these silly, useless laws.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower#Legal_protection
Vaccinations aren't so much to protect your child, but all children (or people).. Infants can't get the vaccination until they reach a certain age.. it is VERY important that people around the infant NOT have whooping cough. There are some kids that can't get it for other reasons (maybe a weakened immune system or something).. your vaccinating your child, helps prevent the spread of these diseases to kids who can't get the vaccine.. if it was just 1% of the population that wasn't vaccinated, (well, less) they would die out, because there would not enough people coming into contact with each other to spread.. but more people go without, then the chances of that contact happening do go up.
Downloading 30Gb with it (since you only pay outgoing bandwith) adds about $4 to the bill for the month. You do pay for bandwidth, but it isn't very much.
I tinkered and messed, and futzed with my furnace for a few hours, but with it being winter in Wisconsin, and two small kids in the house, I gave up and figured I really needed to have working heat..
Guy came right out, tested a few things.. worked.. I caught myself right before I said "well it wasn't working a minute ago".. I just can't be that customer..:) Turns out a sensor was going bad, and had to get replaced, it would only work after it had sat idle for a while (with the power off to the furnace) Made me feel much better, that there actually was a problem...
I've always thought of it as being more like a firefighter.. without the glamour.. or the girls...
Spend all day working on preparedness, public education, prevention, etc.. then Run Like Mad when the fan gets hit by brown stuff.. then, have to figure out why it happened, and how to add it to the list of prevention matters.
And if your really doing you're job right, people will wonder why they even keep you around at all, nothing ever goes wrong..:)
You're electric bill would be directly proportional to the number of quiet afternoons I had to listen to you music in my house:) Damn kids! you call that music?!!? Get off my lawn!
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Wait.. did you just argue that Linux is just a kernel, and that windows is an "enriched OS" that is modular, and you can add applications? really?
The Windows Kernel is also just a Kernel. It comes with a very locked down distribution of applications. You sound like someone that hasn't tried linux in 5 years, and it was 'too hard'.. Please, give it a try again. Please notice how when you tell your favorite distribution to update, notice that all "5 window managers, 20 media players, and so on" are now up to date. Last count for me on a default Install of Windows 7 SP1 W office 2010 was 7 reboots, > 40 patches, and thank god I had a WSUS server, so I did't have to pull them all down from the internet.
Lastly, try to not install a GUI.. say for a server, where you're never going to have a monitor or mouse plugged in. Sure, there is Server core, but they don't even have Powershell running on that version, which seems like the only chance they had to make it a decent option.
If a college has too many students default on their loans, the school is in danger of loosing pell grants. That is a HUGE motivator for many schools
Did he reveal privileged information? They use satellites to transmit data? Perhaps some people think Navy Destroyers tow a really, really long fiber optic cable, or use a very, very big speaker to transmit through the ocean?
Why stick with a MS product as the core? look at Zentyal, which among other things, acts as a PDC in an easy to setup and configure way. There is no group policy (yet, samba 4 is due in zentyal 3.0) but you can push login scripts.
Have you ever called MS support? and paid your $250 support fee? its scary how little help you get..
Funny thing is, 90% of the people that claim they need those apps don't.. they need "word processing software" not "Word"..
heck, the newer versions of Exchange actually play fairly nice with other devices besides outlook now.
for all the people that claim to NEED Photoshop, i have only met one that had a licensed copy of it.. (I have met others that where Mac users)..
Only real stumbling block I can think of is Access and Excel. I worked at an accounting firm with an amazing amount of applications and add-ins for excel. Hundreds across the enterprise.. you should have seen the screaming when we were testing Office 2007.. (which had a big security model change from 2003!)
Here's what happens when you try to start imposing some sort of "You're an American Company; pay American taxes" argument: Apple re-incorporates off-shore; its US operations are shunted to a US subsidiary, who works under contract with the main off-shore company. In the end, it pays a lot less tax, but is now a Cayman Islands company.
Of course, finding people to work there would be a challenge.. Wouldn't all their 'official' business like exectutives and board meeting have to be there? And they would lose out on a TON of protections provided by the US government.. for example, filing for Patents in the US.. sure, their contractor could, and then lease them to the cayman company, but that gets to be an ugly legal dodge when your trying to ram your patents down someone elses throat all around the world.
And if only people would drive 55, and leave a 3 second gap between them and the car in front of them, most traffic accidents would be prevented..
But seriously, I just had to setup some Windows XP and Windows 7 systems. (been in the linux world for a while).. with Centos, to update i type
#yum update
then I type Y. maybe a reboot if there is a new kernel
For the windows 7, I had to run windows update 5 or 6 frickin times.. each installing a few more updates.. then, I installed some applications that were needed from some file shares we had (java, adobe reader, flash installer for firefox, etc) each of them had their own updates needed.. Holy crap, you need to really focus and think to stay up to date on that thing!
Ever been on tour of Downtown Seattle, which had a huge fire that burned down all of downtown once? You cannot build a wood building in Seattle's downtown anymore.. :)
and if they would have put the generators on the roof, and/or moved the spent fuel out of the reactor to another building with its own seperate cooling system, there would have been no release.. Just a helicopter dropping a bladder full of diesel on the roof every day or so until they could hook back up to the grid..
ahh, but your not accounting for the cost of all the systems and equipment needed to monitor and track your quota usage! :)
You have obviously never had to build site to site VPN's to other customers/departments.. It completely loses any argument about 'private addresses that can't be reached' and in fact, makes it much, much worse.
Source and destination NATing on an IPSEC vpn is a royal pain in the ass, but is necessary, because people seem to think NAT is a security feature, so they run their company on the same 10.10.x.x or 192.168.1.x subnet as everyone else.
btw, how on earth do you use NAT without relying on a statefull firewall for your security? Isn't that a requirement to do NAT? do you scan and deny all outgoing traffic by default?
Yes! Bradly Manning is the ONLY government whistle-blower in jail. Nothing to see here comrade, please shuffle along.. and encourage your political representative to vote down these silly, useless laws.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower#Legal_protection
Vaccinations aren't so much to protect your child, but all children (or people)..
Infants can't get the vaccination until they reach a certain age.. it is VERY important that people around the infant NOT have whooping cough. There are some kids that can't get it for other reasons (maybe a weakened immune system or something).. your vaccinating your child, helps prevent the spread of these diseases to kids who can't get the vaccine.. if it was just 1% of the population that wasn't vaccinated, (well, less) they would die out, because there would not enough people coming into contact with each other to spread.. but more people go without, then the chances of that contact happening do go up.
He might have not been referring to the Japanese beer as the 'rice lager'.. Budwiser is 30% rice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_(Anheuser-Busch)
Does this do things like Port Forwarding? or is this not a replacement for SSH, but almost an extension of it?
I use SSH port forwarding (both directions) compression, and stuff all the time.
Does the sprint registry work for all the other carriers they run, like Virgin Mobile?
Downloading 30Gb with it (since you only pay outgoing bandwith) adds about $4 to the bill for the month. You do pay for bandwidth, but it isn't very much.
You can get a vm at rackspace for about $11 a month: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/
Or of course, there is always the ever popular Amazon..
I tinkered and messed, and futzed with my furnace for a few hours, but with it being winter in Wisconsin, and two small kids in the house, I gave up and figured I really needed to have working heat..
Guy came right out, tested a few things.. worked.. I caught myself right before I said "well it wasn't working a minute ago".. I just can't be that customer.. :) Turns out a sensor was going bad, and had to get replaced, it would only work after it had sat idle for a while (with the power off to the furnace) Made me feel much better, that there actually was a problem...
I've always thought of it as being more like a firefighter.. without the glamour.. or the girls...
Spend all day working on preparedness, public education, prevention, etc.. then Run Like Mad when the fan gets hit by brown stuff.. then, have to figure out why it happened, and how to add it to the list of prevention matters.
And if your really doing you're job right, people will wonder why they even keep you around at all, nothing ever goes wrong.. :)
You're electric bill would be directly proportional to the number of quiet afternoons I had to listen to you music in my house :) Damn kids! you call that music?!!? Get off my lawn!
http://www.modernwhig.org/
I'm starting to like these guys.. thinking about joining and becoming a 'proper' member..
Probably wanted way too much money.. I'm guessing the 17 year patent has probably expired now though.. :)
I have never ran it, but I have friends that have:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sipe/
Adds OCS to pidgin.. :)