So, it seems that everyone else has forgotten to link Spreading Santorum in the article, so I'll do it here.
It's not that Santorum has a Google problem, it's that Santorum has a bigotry problem, and lots of us are participating in the solution - which is to make it VERY public that he's a homophobic slime.
It's kind of like the "vote for the crook, it's important" publicity in the '91 Louisiana gubernatorial election. At least Duke was a former grand wizard of the KKK, Santorum is CURRENTLY doing everything he can do to harm a minority part of the population - and this frothy mix is running for President!
So I fully support the fact that the word "santorum" now means "the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex." Sure, it's distasteful. But it's important.
Somehow, putting my personal confidential documents on somebody else's server seems like a very, very bad idea. I'm not at all sure why you'd suggest it.
Scan as you go makes sense for new documents, but I think THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER's question really was a request for our opinions on bulk scanning solutions for already existing paper documents, not an ill-advised "cloud" storage solution for new ones.
Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer either, scanners generally prove to be quite the annoyance.
You're forgetting the next part of that sentence: "promote the general Welfare." The basis for all welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, and anything else that helps the population of the country is covered in the constitution, right there.
And while providing for a defensive capability is mentioned, there's NOTHING constitutional about a purely offensive weapon like this one. Not only is it an extreme waste of tax dollars that could be better spent promoting the general welfare, but it's being bought by an unconstitutional branch of the military. The constitution sets up three military services, the Army, the Navy, and the state militias. There is NO constitutional basis for the Air Force to exist at all. And the constitution specifically restricts the Army's existence to two years, another constitutional provision which has been completely ignored. There is NO constitutional basis for a purely offensive capability, which means that about 95% of the current military budget is completely unconstitutional. Oh, and it's MUCH more than a tiny fraction of the federal budget at 20% - which is still FAR too high.
So the only erroneous part of the GP's statement is that the suggested name was incomplete, it should be called the Unconstitutional Department of Wasting Tax Dollars.
The courts have given the border piggies the OK to stop and briefly hassle you, you're under NO obligation to let them search anything without probably cause unless you're actually coming into the country.
By letting them search, you almost certainly lost more time than you would have by refusing.
Because despite all of their blathering about it being required, the US WILL let you back in without one, they'll just hassle you a bit more. It's a violation of pretty well established international law to refuse to admit your own citizens, with or without a passport. And it's not, from what I've been able to gather, a crime to reenter the US without a passport, so no penalty for doing so.
So the only way the US can actually "require" you to have a passport is if the government has convinced Canada to refuse admittance without one.
Really? Because Santorum is about as right-wing nutjob as it gets, and Obamacare might just as well be called Romneycare, since it's very similar to the Massachusetts plan.
And yeah, Ron Paul is a different kind of RWNJ, the big difference is that he understands the futility of the drug war and is against foreign entanglements.
Fortunately for the country, we're not going to have to deal with any of it beyond the campaign, since Obama is going to be reelected.
Well, it's not like the high speed train is incapable of stopping.
You just set your "must undock" point far enough back that if for some reason the undock can't happen, the high speed train has enough room to come to a stop with the streetcar still docked. Throws a bit of delay into the trip, but nobody dies.
It's easy how they could forfeit the "advantages" since they aren't really there.
I've seen programmers who could do 120 wpm using five fingers, three on the right hand and two on the left hand.
I used to be able to do about 90 wpm, then somebody got the damn fool idea that I should take a typing class in high school. It took over five years before my speed was close to what it was as a good hunt-and-peckist, and that was a real problem when I was in college at the same time. I'd have gone back to my old technique, but once I'd started with touch typing it didn't work any more, I couldn't get it back. I've finally gotten the speed back many years later, but it was completely unnecessary that I had to go through those years of slow typing.
We need to get over this outdated notion that there's a "right" way to use a keyboard. There isn't.
Yes, they're good for a few things, but NOTHING beats a good GUI for file management. And by good GUI, I mean the Macintosh Finder. It's been just about perfect since the late '80s. Today, you've got to make a few changes to the defaults so that double-clicking a folder opens a new window, but it's still the best file manager ever written.
And you can even drag and drop files to the command line if you really want to type stuff.
Well, desecration of the dead IS a war crime, so I can't see it being unnecessary. I'd say the hopefully accompanying court-martial would be more necessary.
The job of the police is to attempt to enforce the law. When they break the law in a misguided attempt to "do their job", they're not doing their job at all, they've become criminals. And they're not just ordinary criminals, they're extremely dangerous criminals who are virtually immune to any threat of prosecution for their crimes. So, in the real world, we have a lot more crime, because the police decided to take an expedient instead of actually doing their jobs. There's a reason we now call them the biggest street gang in America. And THAT is what people should bear in mind when taping cops.
As for your marine murdering a man with a white flag, I can't imagine how you could possibly justify that as being acceptable. The journalist is the hero in that case, because by broadcasting the cold-blooded murder of a man lying on the floor with a white flag, he's likely to save the lives of many people. With any luck, the footage will be used at the marine's trial, and the murderer will hopefully get to spend a good chunk of the rest of his life in prison. Well, unless his commanding officer ordered the murder - then we should trade a lighter sentence for the murdering marine for his testimony convicting the officer for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
They did remove a few daemons - there's no more Samba in Mac OS X. They've replaced it with some proprietary blob, it no longer handles windoze domains. Not good. QuickTime Streaming Server is gone. That's worse. They also took out the print service, which I could see being critical for some people, even though I never used it. And they took out MySQL, which doesn't bother me, since it's easy to put back. Tomcat's gone too, I never used it and I don't know how hard it is to put back.
As for the GUI tools, I've been running some Linux servers for years. I use GUI admin tools for quite a few things - unlike quite a few people here, I don't consider the command line an improvement on a good GUI, I consider it to be a step backward. It's something that I use when I have to, when there isn't a GUI that does it better. And most of the time, for most functions, there's a GUI that does it better.
The Mac OS X Server 10.6 GUI was, contrary to popular belief, quite good. It wasn't perfect, and I had to occasionally touch a command line, but for the most part it did what it needed to do, was fairly intuitive, and gave quite a bit of control. Where that GUI still works in 10.7, it's still fine. But for quite a few services, it's gone. The replacement is half-assed, and clearly aimed at people who want a server appliance. I can't imagine it'll even work well for them. The old tools have to be downloaded separately - which means that not everyone is even going to see them, they're not likely to be considered a high priority by Apple, and they may even be slated to go away at some point.
Now on Linux, I can install Webmin. That handles GUI operation for almost everything I do, and works well. It's not great for DNS, but I'm used to command line for that anyway. For just about everything else, it's great. It's a unified GUI server management tool. I can of course install Webmin on the Mac too. It sort of works - it's more broken than working, though.
So I'm looking at good and supported admin tools on Linux, and broken and partially functional admin tools on the Mac.
The problem Linux solves, then? A supported path forward for some of the services I need, with good GUI admin tools.
Going forward, I'm still seeing Linux for some services, but since the Mac does better with CalDAV, CardDAV, and AFP file sharing, I'm probably going with a mix in the future.
For Linux, I'm a big fan of Webmin, I've been using it for many years now as a Linux server admin tool, I even use it for a few things on Mac OS X Server.
For some things, the command line is ok, but I really prefer a well-designed GUI. The 10.6 admin tools weren't amazing, but nearly good enough - the 10.7 tools are significantly less powerful, and for some things the interface is just absolutely painful.
You mention the IT department - in my case, I am the IT department - for multiple small/medium size companies. Most of them are either all-Mac or mostly-Mac shops, including travel, law offices, medical practices, ad agencies, even retail. I'm not sure what size an all-Mac shop would need to be to actually need a full time IT person - maybe a thousand users?
It's not really ready for production server use yet:
Milestone: Linux Port
No date set
Milestone with the goal of a functional (to approximately whatever the current level of functionality is) server on some version of Linux.
This is intentionally vague; the point is to get a server running on something other than Mac OS, which should make future portability work a bit simpler by identifying and reducing the Mac OS dependancies.
Apple seems to imply that it will work. But there's no way I'd even consider trying it without cloning the drive and thoroughly testing it on the clone first.
And for the foreseeable future, it looks like 10.6 Server is a much better product. I'd keep an eye out for used copies of that, maybe you can find it cheap.
Not this time. This isn't about bugs, it's about intentionally removed functionality.
I do sincerely hope Apple gets a clue from these articles and realizes that they screwed up. But I'm not holding my breath, and I'm not recommending any more Mac servers for my customers unless they have a specific need. I've always been a big Mac proponent, but I'm getting tired of apologizing. This time, I'm not going to, I'll be installing more Linux servers as it's time to replace the 10.6 servers I've installed, unless Apple fixes this mess.
Windoze is not an option, let alone my choice for an upgrade path.
I'm not replacing any currently running OS X servers just for the fun of it, but I'm not going to be putting 10.7 on them, and I'm probably going to be installing quite a few more Linux servers in the coming years.
The article is not bunk, and the author mentions the admin tools. He also points out that a good chunk of the functionality of those tools have been ripped out, you're limited to the Server app or command line for quite a few things.
I've played with it for a few days now, and I absolutely agree. I'm not planning on upgrading any of my customers at this point, and I'm considering my options for replacements in environments where I can't maintain Snow Leopard Server indefinitely. I think it's likely to be relegated to calendar server duty, and I'm going to move mail, web, and FTP to some variety of Linux.
I'm really not happy with Apple about Lion - it just doesn't feel like an upgrade to me, and server is even worse. I don't like seeing the best operating system there is backsliding like this.
And he's doing a better job as President than most people who have ever held that office, and he's certainly doing better than any who have held it in my lifetime.
The fact is, there is no experience which can qualify someone for President of the US. There is no other job like it, anywhere in the world.
I'd there are a few jobs that disqualify someone from being a good President, though. Anyone who has been in a position of power in a major corporation, anyone who has been in the military, anyone who has been in the financial industry, anyone who has spent too much time in Congress, anyone who has been in the oil industry, almost anyone who is from Texas, or anyone from the MAFIAA. The main concept being that government is not a business and shouldn't be run like one, and professional killers don't make good Presidents either.
As for Palin, governor of Alaska is not even in the same class as being mayor of a big city. The state is a bunch of nothing, and makes money on oil. And she's proven to be really good at quitting halfway through. As far as qualifications go, I don't think she's really even up to saying "would you like fries with that?"
And yes, that's really heavy on the hyperbole, but we don't need to be in these stupid wars.
And yes, I do want to see the troops home home safely, but we shouldn't have been there in the first place, and we need to spend no more money than is required to fly everybody out. Now.
Those morons signed up for their own stupidity, let them burn in the heat.
Seriously, nobody who is in the military now hasn't either signed up during a war, or had the opportunity to get out by now. They're stupid fools, and they deserve to get themselves blown up or to die of heatstroke in a middle-eastern shithole.
Fuck them. I think we should stop the war right now, and not even bother to bring those morons home. Leave them there to die, it'll be cheaper.
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So, it seems that everyone else has forgotten to link Spreading Santorum in the article, so I'll do it here.
It's not that Santorum has a Google problem, it's that Santorum has a bigotry problem, and lots of us are participating in the solution - which is to make it VERY public that he's a homophobic slime.
It's kind of like the "vote for the crook, it's important" publicity in the '91 Louisiana gubernatorial election. At least Duke was a former grand wizard of the KKK, Santorum is CURRENTLY doing everything he can do to harm a minority part of the population - and this frothy mix is running for President!
So I fully support the fact that the word "santorum" now means "the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex." Sure, it's distasteful. But it's important.
Somehow, putting my personal confidential documents on somebody else's server seems like a very, very bad idea. I'm not at all sure why you'd suggest it.
Scan as you go makes sense for new documents, but I think THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER's question really was a request for our opinions on bulk scanning solutions for already existing paper documents, not an ill-advised "cloud" storage solution for new ones.
Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer either, scanners generally prove to be quite the annoyance.
You're forgetting the next part of that sentence: "promote the general Welfare." The basis for all welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, and anything else that helps the population of the country is covered in the constitution, right there.
And while providing for a defensive capability is mentioned, there's NOTHING constitutional about a purely offensive weapon like this one. Not only is it an extreme waste of tax dollars that could be better spent promoting the general welfare, but it's being bought by an unconstitutional branch of the military. The constitution sets up three military services, the Army, the Navy, and the state militias. There is NO constitutional basis for the Air Force to exist at all. And the constitution specifically restricts the Army's existence to two years, another constitutional provision which has been completely ignored. There is NO constitutional basis for a purely offensive capability, which means that about 95% of the current military budget is completely unconstitutional. Oh, and it's MUCH more than a tiny fraction of the federal budget at 20% - which is still FAR too high.
So the only erroneous part of the GP's statement is that the suggested name was incomplete, it should be called the Unconstitutional Department of Wasting Tax Dollars.
Why did you cooperate?
The courts have given the border piggies the OK to stop and briefly hassle you, you're under NO obligation to let them search anything without probably cause unless you're actually coming into the country.
By letting them search, you almost certainly lost more time than you would have by refusing.
Why bother with Truecrypt?
Just thoroughly wipe a drive, put it in your laptop, and install an OS. VPN all the data you need once you reach your destination.
Before coming back, thoroughly wipe the drive again.
That's MUCH safer than carrying anything that might possibly be incriminating across a border by hand.
So, will Canada let you in without a passport?
Because despite all of their blathering about it being required, the US WILL let you back in without one, they'll just hassle you a bit more. It's a violation of pretty well established international law to refuse to admit your own citizens, with or without a passport. And it's not, from what I've been able to gather, a crime to reenter the US without a passport, so no penalty for doing so.
So the only way the US can actually "require" you to have a passport is if the government has convinced Canada to refuse admittance without one.
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Really? Because Santorum is about as right-wing nutjob as it gets, and Obamacare might just as well be called Romneycare, since it's very similar to the Massachusetts plan.
And yeah, Ron Paul is a different kind of RWNJ, the big difference is that he understands the futility of the drug war and is against foreign entanglements.
Fortunately for the country, we're not going to have to deal with any of it beyond the campaign, since Obama is going to be reelected.
Well, it's not like the high speed train is incapable of stopping.
You just set your "must undock" point far enough back that if for some reason the undock can't happen, the high speed train has enough room to come to a stop with the streetcar still docked. Throws a bit of delay into the trip, but nobody dies.
It's easy how they could forfeit the "advantages" since they aren't really there.
I've seen programmers who could do 120 wpm using five fingers, three on the right hand and two on the left hand.
I used to be able to do about 90 wpm, then somebody got the damn fool idea that I should take a typing class in high school. It took over five years before my speed was close to what it was as a good hunt-and-peckist, and that was a real problem when I was in college at the same time. I'd have gone back to my old technique, but once I'd started with touch typing it didn't work any more, I couldn't get it back. I've finally gotten the speed back many years later, but it was completely unnecessary that I had to go through those years of slow typing.
We need to get over this outdated notion that there's a "right" way to use a keyboard. There isn't.
I've been using command lines since 1978.
They suck as much today as they did then.
Yes, they're good for a few things, but NOTHING beats a good GUI for file management. And by good GUI, I mean the Macintosh Finder. It's been just about perfect since the late '80s. Today, you've got to make a few changes to the defaults so that double-clicking a folder opens a new window, but it's still the best file manager ever written.
And you can even drag and drop files to the command line if you really want to type stuff.
Well, desecration of the dead IS a war crime, so I can't see it being unnecessary. I'd say the hopefully accompanying court-martial would be more necessary.
The job of the police is to attempt to enforce the law. When they break the law in a misguided attempt to "do their job", they're not doing their job at all, they've become criminals. And they're not just ordinary criminals, they're extremely dangerous criminals who are virtually immune to any threat of prosecution for their crimes. So, in the real world, we have a lot more crime, because the police decided to take an expedient instead of actually doing their jobs. There's a reason we now call them the biggest street gang in America. And THAT is what people should bear in mind when taping cops.
As for your marine murdering a man with a white flag, I can't imagine how you could possibly justify that as being acceptable. The journalist is the hero in that case, because by broadcasting the cold-blooded murder of a man lying on the floor with a white flag, he's likely to save the lives of many people. With any luck, the footage will be used at the marine's trial, and the murderer will hopefully get to spend a good chunk of the rest of his life in prison. Well, unless his commanding officer ordered the murder - then we should trade a lighter sentence for the murdering marine for his testimony convicting the officer for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
They did remove a few daemons - there's no more Samba in Mac OS X. They've replaced it with some proprietary blob, it no longer handles windoze domains. Not good. QuickTime Streaming Server is gone. That's worse. They also took out the print service, which I could see being critical for some people, even though I never used it. And they took out MySQL, which doesn't bother me, since it's easy to put back. Tomcat's gone too, I never used it and I don't know how hard it is to put back.
As for the GUI tools, I've been running some Linux servers for years. I use GUI admin tools for quite a few things - unlike quite a few people here, I don't consider the command line an improvement on a good GUI, I consider it to be a step backward. It's something that I use when I have to, when there isn't a GUI that does it better. And most of the time, for most functions, there's a GUI that does it better.
The Mac OS X Server 10.6 GUI was, contrary to popular belief, quite good. It wasn't perfect, and I had to occasionally touch a command line, but for the most part it did what it needed to do, was fairly intuitive, and gave quite a bit of control. Where that GUI still works in 10.7, it's still fine. But for quite a few services, it's gone. The replacement is half-assed, and clearly aimed at people who want a server appliance. I can't imagine it'll even work well for them. The old tools have to be downloaded separately - which means that not everyone is even going to see them, they're not likely to be considered a high priority by Apple, and they may even be slated to go away at some point.
Now on Linux, I can install Webmin. That handles GUI operation for almost everything I do, and works well. It's not great for DNS, but I'm used to command line for that anyway. For just about everything else, it's great. It's a unified GUI server management tool. I can of course install Webmin on the Mac too. It sort of works - it's more broken than working, though.
So I'm looking at good and supported admin tools on Linux, and broken and partially functional admin tools on the Mac.
The problem Linux solves, then? A supported path forward for some of the services I need, with good GUI admin tools.
Going forward, I'm still seeing Linux for some services, but since the Mac does better with CalDAV, CardDAV, and AFP file sharing, I'm probably going with a mix in the future.
For Linux, I'm a big fan of Webmin, I've been using it for many years now as a Linux server admin tool, I even use it for a few things on Mac OS X Server.
For some things, the command line is ok, but I really prefer a well-designed GUI. The 10.6 admin tools weren't amazing, but nearly good enough - the 10.7 tools are significantly less powerful, and for some things the interface is just absolutely painful.
You mention the IT department - in my case, I am the IT department - for multiple small/medium size companies. Most of them are either all-Mac or mostly-Mac shops, including travel, law offices, medical practices, ad agencies, even retail. I'm not sure what size an all-Mac shop would need to be to actually need a full time IT person - maybe a thousand users?
Yeah, I know about that.
It's not really ready for production server use yet:
Milestone: Linux Port
No date set
Milestone with the goal of a functional (to approximately whatever the current level of functionality is) server on some version of Linux.
This is intentionally vague; the point is to get a server running on something other than Mac OS, which should make future portability work a bit simpler by identifying and reducing the Mac OS dependancies.
Apple seems to imply that it will work. But there's no way I'd even consider trying it without cloning the drive and thoroughly testing it on the clone first.
And for the foreseeable future, it looks like 10.6 Server is a much better product. I'd keep an eye out for used copies of that, maybe you can find it cheap.
Not this time. This isn't about bugs, it's about intentionally removed functionality.
I do sincerely hope Apple gets a clue from these articles and realizes that they screwed up. But I'm not holding my breath, and I'm not recommending any more Mac servers for my customers unless they have a specific need. I've always been a big Mac proponent, but I'm getting tired of apologizing. This time, I'm not going to, I'll be installing more Linux servers as it's time to replace the 10.6 servers I've installed, unless Apple fixes this mess.
Windoze is not an option, let alone my choice for an upgrade path.
I'm not replacing any currently running OS X servers just for the fun of it, but I'm not going to be putting 10.7 on them, and I'm probably going to be installing quite a few more Linux servers in the coming years.
Know how I know you didn't RTFA?
The article is not bunk, and the author mentions the admin tools. He also points out that a good chunk of the functionality of those tools have been ripped out, you're limited to the Server app or command line for quite a few things.
I've played with it for a few days now, and I absolutely agree. I'm not planning on upgrading any of my customers at this point, and I'm considering my options for replacements in environments where I can't maintain Snow Leopard Server indefinitely. I think it's likely to be relegated to calendar server duty, and I'm going to move mail, web, and FTP to some variety of Linux.
I'm really not happy with Apple about Lion - it just doesn't feel like an upgrade to me, and server is even worse. I don't like seeing the best operating system there is backsliding like this.
And he's doing a better job as President than most people who have ever held that office, and he's certainly doing better than any who have held it in my lifetime.
The fact is, there is no experience which can qualify someone for President of the US. There is no other job like it, anywhere in the world.
I'd there are a few jobs that disqualify someone from being a good President, though. Anyone who has been in a position of power in a major corporation, anyone who has been in the military, anyone who has been in the financial industry, anyone who has spent too much time in Congress, anyone who has been in the oil industry, almost anyone who is from Texas, or anyone from the MAFIAA. The main concept being that government is not a business and shouldn't be run like one, and professional killers don't make good Presidents either.
As for Palin, governor of Alaska is not even in the same class as being mayor of a big city. The state is a bunch of nothing, and makes money on oil. And she's proven to be really good at quitting halfway through. As far as qualifications go, I don't think she's really even up to saying "would you like fries with that?"
That changes with 10.7.
And yes, that's really heavy on the hyperbole, but we don't need to be in these stupid wars.
And yes, I do want to see the troops home home safely, but we shouldn't have been there in the first place, and we need to spend no more money than is required to fly everybody out. Now.
Dude, FUCK the troops in AFGA-ANYWHERE!
Those morons signed up for their own stupidity, let them burn in the heat.
Seriously, nobody who is in the military now hasn't either signed up during a war, or had the opportunity to get out by now. They're stupid fools, and they deserve to get themselves blown up or to die of heatstroke in a middle-eastern shithole.
Fuck them. I think we should stop the war right now, and not even bother to bring those morons home. Leave them there to die, it'll be cheaper.