They only make money off of their OS and office suite. If they offered a low-cost office suite, no one would need the expensive operating system or expensive office suite. Who really wants to pay $750 for Longhorn, and then pay another few hundred for an Office suite? Then, 5 years down the road, have to upgrade again because MS stops offering bug fixes. Multiply that by 500 workstations and you have a large budget that you're basically giving MS. That probably funds upgrades to calc.exe and clock.exe.
If it's a microsoft marketing trick, you think they would at least fund a microsoft server to do it. The blog also claims to have a virus, but it's hosted on a linux machine.
dude, your computer is already 3 years old and Doom3 still isn't even out yet. Why did you buy a computer specifically for a game that had not been released yet?
I'm sure your computer will run fine, as long as you run it at the lowest resolution and disable any fancy stuff.
because if your T1 goes down, you call up the phone company and they fix it, and most of them come with an SLA. Cable modems don't get such priority service. If your cable goes out, good luck.
T1 also uploads much faster, which will be a factor if you have a few gamers or a few people that VPN all the time, or both.
T1 also usually comes with static ip addresses which would be handy if you have users that want to run dedicated servers, like a website for the apartment building. Sure you can host on cable modems, but with 256kb upload, it's going to suck.
It might not be a bad idea to have a cable modem as a backup solution, but I wouldn't buy service from you if all you were doing is reselling cable modem service.
first off, if someone were to gain root access to your machine, and you had a whole room full of servers, they could get the passwords to that one machine, and then probably have access to all of your machines, assuming you used some of the same passwords across all of your boxes. Second, they could probably read your ~/.bash_history and find out where you were sshing from there, try those passwords, and probably gain more access to remote servers. Third, they could guess your e-mail address, and they probably have your e-mail password too and go through and read your e-mail.
..would be, would you rather that vulnerability be fixed or exploited on a global scale?
If there are open holes, and someone finds it, if they keep it to themselves, they have nearly unlimited computing/networking potential. If that hole happens to be on the domainant operating system, that's just more machines available. Sell that access to a terrorist, and all of the sudden, all of the computers and networks connected to the internet are suddenly disabled.
I would think fixing security holes are a good thing. Sure, having lots of windows computers with open holes is a problem, but if you provide no way to fix those holes, there will not be a way to solve the impending problem. Imagine if Microsoft decided to not patch the hole the original winnuke exploited. You would still be able to send a packet to a windows machine and crash it.
"It *is* a shame that Linux needs more memory and CPU power than XP, yet still feels slower"
umm...linux doesn't require much of any memory, cpu, or disk space. The applications are the ones that require the increased resources. You're mixing up terminology. Linux is not a graphics program, it is a Kernel. If you are trying to say, "I installed Fedora 2 and everything is slow because I choose to install all 47000 programs and they are all trying to run in the background causing my mp3s to skip." that would make much more sense.
Linux has nothing to do with mp3 playing either.
Don't get me wrong, there's no reason for your mp3s to skip, but most of your problem is the install you choose. I use debian and I configured my whole setup from scratch so I know what is and should be running at all times. There's no reason for me to be running most of the default installed programs.
I bet most of the people on slashdot are aware of the constant problems with IE/Windows. Maybe if Microsloth got smart, they would include a popup with minesweeper and Solitaire that would check their systems for vulnerabilities while they were playing the game. If it automatically patched their systems, GREAT.
I think something like that would knock out most of the vulnerable sales people, secretaries, and executatives in the business world.
...on my workstation at least. I had windows, and it was going fine till one day about a month ago, it bluescreened. When it started to come backup, it got an NTFS error and couldn't access the boot device. I didn't have any viruses or anything. I tried to reinstall win2k, and after the first 2 or 3 reboots, I got the same error. I installed debian, and all is well. I have only had to reboot once, and that was because my video card decided it didn't want to work anymore, and I had to replace it. I don't know what problem windows had with my hardware, but it didn't want to work anymore. I'm much more productive in linux anyways.
Just keep telling yourself you can handle it. There are lots of trials in life, and having kids is a big one, even more so than getting married (you can always get divorced, but your kids are forever). I have a kid and i've been on call for probably 5 years straight now. The good thing about being on call is if you get called out to do something in the middle of the night, you can usually make up that time by sleeping the next day. just don't sleep as much and you get lots of time with your kids.
As a programmer, you'll probably have deadlines and stuff like that. just pace yourself and you should be able to finish your tasks. If you do not plan ahead, you will probably have lots of problems. Plan on the unexpected. Plan on taking at least one day a month off for no reason, other than spending time with your family. If you have to work from home on a saturday, it's worth it.
some people probably don't know how to run their own mail server. good thing. just think how hard it would be to do spam filtering if everyone in the world ran their own mail server.
also, if you lose data all the time, you have issues other than e-mail problems. If you had read the article, the lady was using hotmail for her business, which is a bad idea all together.
I think you tried too hard to be nerdy. not everyone cares that you know how to burn a cd and the lady in the article obviously doesn't. she's using hotmail and complaining about it. her excuse is she's ignorant.
Sun doesn't make any money off of hardware, their cash crop is selling software services.
Those guys need to stand up and smell the roses. hardware will NOT be free because it will take resources to produce it. If you expend resources, you are going to want to recoup those costs by charging the end user for spending time to develop and produce the hardware product.
Software is the part that is easily reproduced, and can easily be made free.
Sun and Microsoft are software vendors (Yeah, Sun makes hardware, but they shouldn't if you ask me). They both make money in the software, so it is in their best interest to spin their technology the way that makes them the most money, even if that is pulling the wool over the eyes of their customers.
There aren't too many other devices that it would be possible to limit the copying. What if it cost almost nothing to make a car, but the car companies decided they didn't want you to do that. The car companies decided they want to own the rights to all of the cars in the world. What would happen then? If something is easily reproduced, why does it then immediately need to have someone restricting it? Companies that stay in business keeping their monopoly on competing technologies is excatly what the governments are supposed to protect against. Well, that and stuff like invaders from other lands (which they fail horribly).
on a side note, wouldn't it always be possible to make nearly loss-less analog copies of digital media and then re-encode them to a digital format of your choice?
last time i signed up for one of those cards, i put down entirely false information and i told the guy so. It didn't stop him from giving me the card.
like i said in the original reply, if you pay with a credit card or debit card, they have much more information about you than can be gleemed from a form you filled out. The only safe way is to pay with cash, wear a hat with a large bill, and wear gloves. you could replace that large hat with a tinfoil one and just complete the paranoia.
what kind of privacy is lost by using a discount card? Do you really care if the grocery store knows who bought a loaf of bread at 3am? If you pay by credit card, they know all about you anyways.
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i'm not sure of your exact problems, but the same thing happens in the win2k environment. sometimes, the application will give the error that the file is open already, buy the user that is trying to open it. The application does not even try to open it read-only. I've had to log into the file server and boot the open file. In that case, the program was MS Excel from office 2k. At least with a linux file server, you should be able to open the file read only. Most of the time, the application can just open it with no locking.
lets say i buy comcast cable. Let me vote for the channels that I DON'T want. There's no reason Comcast wouldn't want my input. If one channel gets consistent negative votes, drop them. If 80% of people don't care for a station, there's no use in forcing it upon them.
It may not change pricing at all, but it will make the programming much better by accepting input from the customers.
there's also no reason to have a spanish speaking package, and then have 10-20 channels in spanish anyways. Why not just broadcast different languages on the separate packages.
another idea would be to have programmable cable boxes. Let me be able to skip a channel all the time, and move the channels around on the cable box. If i could group channels together the way i wanted, and ultimately skip channels i don't care about, it would be much easier to watch tv. My Tv let me do this, but, of course, i don't even get to use the tuner in my tv, except for channel 3.
Of course, comcast is bunk anyways because their digital cable box has like a 2 second delay anytime you use the cable box. I hope the 2nd generation cable boxes are better, but i fear it'll be much the same.
I started my kid at 18 months. I setup my file server to start up gcompris automatically. I highly recommend it. It has age-based programs from coloring programs, to advanced math skills.
I started off with him just adjusting the monitor and sitting on the keyboard. 4 months later, he's still doing some of that, but he's much more interested in the sounds, using the keyboard, and moving the mouse around. I have him using a cheap $20 trackball (the crappy one with the lights in it) and he still hasn't broken it.
I fully expect to have him doing basic tech support for his mom when he's 3. by the time he's in school, he'll probably be the only toddler with his own laptop.
full-sized church pipe organs are specially tuned. Each pipe plays exactly one note, and the pipe's length determines the wave length. The high ceilings in a church also help.
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They only make money off of their OS and office suite. If they offered a low-cost office suite, no one would need the expensive operating system or expensive office suite. Who really wants to pay $750 for Longhorn, and then pay another few hundred for an Office suite? Then, 5 years down the road, have to upgrade again because MS stops offering bug fixes. Multiply that by 500 workstations and you have a large budget that you're basically giving MS. That probably funds upgrades to calc.exe and clock.exe.
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If it's a microsoft marketing trick, you think they would at least fund a microsoft server to do it. The blog also claims to have a virus, but it's hosted on a linux machine.
dude, your computer is already 3 years old and Doom3 still isn't even out yet. Why did you buy a computer specifically for a game that had not been released yet?
I'm sure your computer will run fine, as long as you run it at the lowest resolution and disable any fancy stuff.
because if your T1 goes down, you call up the phone company and they fix it, and most of them come with an SLA. Cable modems don't get such priority service. If your cable goes out, good luck.
T1 also uploads much faster, which will be a factor if you have a few gamers or a few people that VPN all the time, or both.
T1 also usually comes with static ip addresses which would be handy if you have users that want to run dedicated servers, like a website for the apartment building. Sure you can host on cable modems, but with 256kb upload, it's going to suck.
It might not be a bad idea to have a cable modem as a backup solution, but I wouldn't buy service from you if all you were doing is reselling cable modem service.
i'm not sure what you mean ok. Ethically sound? probably not. Does it serve a purpose? Yep.
first off, if someone were to gain root access to your machine, and you had a whole room full of servers, they could get the passwords to that one machine, and then probably have access to all of your machines, assuming you used some of the same passwords across all of your boxes. Second, they could probably read your ~/.bash_history and find out where you were sshing from there, try those passwords, and probably gain more access to remote servers. Third, they could guess your e-mail address, and they probably have your e-mail password too and go through and read your e-mail.
..would be, would you rather that vulnerability be fixed or exploited on a global scale?
If there are open holes, and someone finds it, if they keep it to themselves, they have nearly unlimited computing/networking potential. If that hole happens to be on the domainant operating system, that's just more machines available. Sell that access to a terrorist, and all of the sudden, all of the computers and networks connected to the internet are suddenly disabled.
I would think fixing security holes are a good thing. Sure, having lots of windows computers with open holes is a problem, but if you provide no way to fix those holes, there will not be a way to solve the impending problem. Imagine if Microsoft decided to not patch the hole the original winnuke exploited. You would still be able to send a packet to a windows machine and crash it.
"It *is* a shame that Linux needs more memory and CPU power than XP, yet still feels slower"
umm...linux doesn't require much of any memory, cpu, or disk space. The applications are the ones that require the increased resources. You're mixing up terminology. Linux is not a graphics program, it is a Kernel. If you are trying to say, "I installed Fedora 2 and everything is slow because I choose to install all 47000 programs and they are all trying to run in the background causing my mp3s to skip." that would make much more sense.
Linux has nothing to do with mp3 playing either.
Don't get me wrong, there's no reason for your mp3s to skip, but most of your problem is the install you choose. I use debian and I configured my whole setup from scratch so I know what is and should be running at all times. There's no reason for me to be running most of the default installed programs.
I bet most of the people on slashdot are aware of the constant problems with IE/Windows. Maybe if Microsloth got smart, they would include a popup with minesweeper and Solitaire that would check their systems for vulnerabilities while they were playing the game. If it automatically patched their systems, GREAT.
I think something like that would knock out most of the vulnerable sales people, secretaries, and executatives in the business world.
I would say Mac is a plastic box, and linux is a wood box.
plastic for mac, because you can mold it anyway you want and it looks neat.
wood for linux because with the correct tools, you can make anything out of it, and if it breaks, you can just glue it back together.
I would think a metal box would be something like openbsd, a little too hard to work with for most people, unless you have a hot flame and a grinder.
I agree with the windows = cardboard box, but Win98 was probably a brown paper bag.
...on my workstation at least. I had windows, and it was going fine till one day about a month ago, it bluescreened. When it started to come backup, it got an NTFS error and couldn't access the boot device. I didn't have any viruses or anything. I tried to reinstall win2k, and after the first 2 or 3 reboots, I got the same error. I installed debian, and all is well. I have only had to reboot once, and that was because my video card decided it didn't want to work anymore, and I had to replace it. I don't know what problem windows had with my hardware, but it didn't want to work anymore. I'm much more productive in linux anyways.
Just keep telling yourself you can handle it. There are lots of trials in life, and having kids is a big one, even more so than getting married (you can always get divorced, but your kids are forever). I have a kid and i've been on call for probably 5 years straight now. The good thing about being on call is if you get called out to do something in the middle of the night, you can usually make up that time by sleeping the next day. just don't sleep as much and you get lots of time with your kids.
As a programmer, you'll probably have deadlines and stuff like that. just pace yourself and you should be able to finish your tasks. If you do not plan ahead, you will probably have lots of problems. Plan on the unexpected. Plan on taking at least one day a month off for no reason, other than spending time with your family. If you have to work from home on a saturday, it's worth it.
some people probably don't know how to run their own mail server. good thing. just think how hard it would be to do spam filtering if everyone in the world ran their own mail server.
also, if you lose data all the time, you have issues other than e-mail problems. If you had read the article, the lady was using hotmail for her business, which is a bad idea all together.
I think you tried too hard to be nerdy. not everyone cares that you know how to burn a cd and the lady in the article obviously doesn't. she's using hotmail and complaining about it. her excuse is she's ignorant.
Sun doesn't make any money off of hardware, their cash crop is selling software services.
Those guys need to stand up and smell the roses. hardware will NOT be free because it will take resources to produce it. If you expend resources, you are going to want to recoup those costs by charging the end user for spending time to develop and produce the hardware product.
Software is the part that is easily reproduced, and can easily be made free.
Sun and Microsoft are software vendors (Yeah, Sun makes hardware, but they shouldn't if you ask me). They both make money in the software, so it is in their best interest to spin their technology the way that makes them the most money, even if that is pulling the wool over the eyes of their customers.
There aren't too many other devices that it would be possible to limit the copying. What if it cost almost nothing to make a car, but the car companies decided they didn't want you to do that. The car companies decided they want to own the rights to all of the cars in the world. What would happen then? If something is easily reproduced, why does it then immediately need to have someone restricting it? Companies that stay in business keeping their monopoly on competing technologies is excatly what the governments are supposed to protect against. Well, that and stuff like invaders from other lands (which they fail horribly).
on a side note, wouldn't it always be possible to make nearly loss-less analog copies of digital media and then re-encode them to a digital format of your choice?
last time i signed up for one of those cards, i put down entirely false information and i told the guy so. It didn't stop him from giving me the card.
like i said in the original reply, if you pay with a credit card or debit card, they have much more information about you than can be gleemed from a form you filled out. The only safe way is to pay with cash, wear a hat with a large bill, and wear gloves. you could replace that large hat with a tinfoil one and just complete the paranoia.
what kind of privacy is lost by using a discount card? Do you really care if the grocery store knows who bought a loaf of bread at 3am? If you pay by credit card, they know all about you anyways.
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i'm not sure of your exact problems, but the same thing happens in the win2k environment. sometimes, the application will give the error that the file is open already, buy the user that is trying to open it. The application does not even try to open it read-only. I've had to log into the file server and boot the open file. In that case, the program was MS Excel from office 2k. At least with a linux file server, you should be able to open the file read only. Most of the time, the application can just open it with no locking.
lets say i buy comcast cable. Let me vote for the channels that I DON'T want. There's no reason Comcast wouldn't want my input. If one channel gets consistent negative votes, drop them. If 80% of people don't care for a station, there's no use in forcing it upon them.
It may not change pricing at all, but it will make the programming much better by accepting input from the customers.
there's also no reason to have a spanish speaking package, and then have 10-20 channels in spanish anyways. Why not just broadcast different languages on the separate packages.
another idea would be to have programmable cable boxes. Let me be able to skip a channel all the time, and move the channels around on the cable box. If i could group channels together the way i wanted, and ultimately skip channels i don't care about, it would be much easier to watch tv. My Tv let me do this, but, of course, i don't even get to use the tuner in my tv, except for channel 3.
Of course, comcast is bunk anyways because their digital cable box has like a 2 second delay anytime you use the cable box. I hope the 2nd generation cable boxes are better, but i fear it'll be much the same.
i see 2/10/2004 on the latest build on their ftp site.
I started my kid at 18 months. I setup my file server to start up gcompris automatically. I highly recommend it. It has age-based programs from coloring programs, to advanced math skills.
I started off with him just adjusting the monitor and sitting on the keyboard. 4 months later, he's still doing some of that, but he's much more interested in the sounds, using the keyboard, and moving the mouse around. I have him using a cheap $20 trackball (the crappy one with the lights in it) and he still hasn't broken it.
I fully expect to have him doing basic tech support for his mom when he's 3. by the time he's in school, he'll probably be the only toddler with his own laptop.
full-sized church pipe organs are specially tuned. Each pipe plays exactly one note, and the pipe's length determines the wave length. The high ceilings in a church also help.