Looking at this historically KDE 3.5 is probably the best out there and may take to 4.5 to be usable. 4.2 is about to be released and maybe it'll be ok. I meant to say 4.5 would be equivalent to KDE 3.5 in terms of usability, customizations and apps rewritten to work in V4+ as it was in 3.5
My initial reaction to KDE 4.0 was it was very alpha/beta stage and it had potential but I had high expectations over 3.5. This is probably true with most people who have been using 3.5 and felt this way too. I couldn't do much with it other than look at some of the nice GUIs and stuff. So I ended up going to Gnome until KDE 4+ is polished enough and more apps re-written to work correctly under V4 I'd be happy to give it another look even though I am a regular Gnome user as of late.
Microsoft's Marketing Department is at fault for this fiasco.
They thought maybe they'd come up with the multi-tiered operating system by having basic, home, ultimate, business and enterprise with no clear cut as to what the differences and hardware requirements are. It's all marketing's idea of making money for those who have little clue as to what they are buying. Customers figured the $499 PC will run Vista Ultimate in it's full potential if they upgrade to that version later since Vista does have the ability to upgrade whatever versions you paid for. Only to find out the $200 software upgrade to Ultimate to enable Areo would severely degrade their windows experience and need to spend ANOTHER $200+ on hardware upgrades if it can be upgraded at all. So ya customers are pissed off because they were mislead by this marketing tactic.
Microsoft should have stuck to the basics like Basic, Ultimate and Business. That's IT!
No versions like home-lite, home-basic, home-brew, home-fuzzy or any of that nonsense because it just confuses people with little clue about the hardware they currently own or in the process of buying.
Ah well, sucks to be Microsoft right now. Hopefully they won't pull the same crap with Windows 7 with this multi-tiered bullshit.
People who upgraded or installed KDE 4.0 been warned that it's just a first major release and is not really ready for production. It's just give people an idea what direction KDE devs are going.
What bothers me though the numbering system. KDE 4.0 is a major update. 4.1 is a semi-fix update and etc.
Can't they just go to 4.1.1+ until they fixed the underlining issues with 4.0 before they can declare 4.2 is ready?
Because before long we're going to see 4.2, 4.3, 4.4.....4.9 and be like..aww crap.. 5.0 already?
They couldn't because a decision was made to make KDE 4 more compatible with the future is to redesign it now and go from there.
KDE 4 is a major change and devs are trying to adapt to that change. So it's natural there are going to be some bumps along the way. Maybe V4.5 will be the version to use.
Some people don't like change at all and probably still running Windows 95.
I don't think people would truly understand what it really means to save energy. Simply because you have customers out there who really could care less or think it's too much of a hassle. These are the same people who buy SUVs!!
They don't either realize or care these little things do add up over time.
Until we get to the point the electric company will start to impose electric rations as the norm which we in California almost had it happen due to shortages! PG&E been trying to encourage people to sign up for this energy saver program and few actually joined in. Don't let the high number of Prius drivers fool you. PG&E even gave away CF bulbs not too long ago at Costco via deep discounts.
The issue it's closer than most people think and they continue to bury their heads in the sand.
The CAL has NOTHING to do with active directory at all. If you don't use active directory you need to buy a cal license anyway to access the server's resources.
If you do want to use active directory, then now you don't need to buy a cal license to access the server's resources, because the server would be running Samba 4 under Linux.
Thanks for the link to the tutorial and glad to see the school is able to benefit from it.
I think what made Samba daunting in the first place is lack of GUI-like tools for those been in the window shop for a long time. Now there are tools like Webmin which makes it a breeze to maintain a linux server. A seasoned linux user would modify the scripts directly but for those who have little experience with linux's inner workings the GUI helps. They should, however, learn how to modify the scripts so they have a better understanding how it really works under the hood.
One thing I find it interesting in the article is that Microsoft been working with Samba developers to provide them the inner workings of AD. Hell, even Samba developers discovered a bug about random passwords in AD and told Microsoft about it.
AD in it's present form is still closed source project so I find it interesting Microsoft team is willing to provide them some of the secrets knowing that eventually it'll take away some of their profits like they'll miss it anyway.
So what exactly the direction is Microsoft taking?
I think Microsoft totally lost it in the desktop market.
As more and more people have discovered the power of Ubuntu either be in Gnome or KDE they actually like it. Sure it's a little different but at least Ubuntu gave us a usable platform where Microsoft be happy to shove down our throats because it's what they want to do.
Freedom of choice is here for 2009.
I do hope for 2010 it's going to be the year of Linux!!!
Also, what is going to piss me off once I let it reach to a certain number of errors I'd have to find a spare drive from my collection to replace it in my RAID and convince SeaGate to replace TWO bad drives. In my previous post I replaced drive #3 a few months ago, I didn't bother sending it in for replacement as the RAID controller didn't show as failed drive, just buncha bad sectors.
Probably what I'll do is format it and use it on a normal PC to see if I can get it to fail so they can replace it.
That is some coincidence as we both have the same model drive and started to have problems at the same time.
Odd.
So far the RAID controller only reports one bad sector on the drive so I will keep an eye on it for awhile. Usually when it starts more errors will occur over time, rate of the occurrence will vary.
Good luck on getting your files back. Maybe I've been lucky I didn't lose any data since it is a RAID5 setup so it got redundancy from the other drives.
Give Turnkey Linux a try. They have several live or install CD packages for a particular need.
They have stuff like ready to go out of the box of Joomla, MySQL, LAMP and so on. Pretty slick stuff. It taught me some of the neatest tools to use and I later built a server from a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10 and installed the tools manually. Best thing there is for people who wanted to build a server and not sure where to go about doing it.
Which means in order to avoid a PR nightmare they continue to advertise that all pre-N devices will be upgradable once standard-N has been finalized.
And not announce as to WHEN standard-N will be completed? I guess it'll never happen now.
They have been talking about this for the past 5 years saying it'll be final soon. So far it's far from final as manufactures can't agree on anything. Meanwhile they figured long as they continue to advertise that "promise" people will keep buying them.
Makes me wonder why is Seagate giving people a hard time of giving them firmware updates.
I mean you have to either chat or call them up to get the firmware.
I can get firmware updates for ALL of my equipment including DVD-ROM drives, motherboards, video equipment and etc.
Seagate should write a utility just like the other guys do that fetches the correct firmware and updates the drive. It's not friggin hard Seagate!! Get with the program.
Granted under normal circumstances nobody should have to update the hard drive's firmware if it's working as designed.
This morning I received an e-mail from my fileserver's RAID controller with this:
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:12:53 Pacific Standard Time: [rr232x]: An error occured on the disk at 'ST3320620AS-xxxxxxxx' at Controller1-Channel1.
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:12:55 Pacific Standard Time: [rr232x]: Successfully repaired bad sector on disk 'ST3320620AS-xxxxxxxx' at Controller1-Channel1: LBA 0x21f53300 sectors 0x37 .
It's a RAID5 5 disk 320GB drive array with Seagate drives. Right up to now all drives showed zero disks errors. I had to replace drive #3 a few months ago as it was showing up excessive bad sectors even though the controller didn't fail the drive. The drive would generate maybe 25 bad sectors a month and didn't replace it until it reached close to 90 and it took few months to get that high.
I know bad sectors happen on drives and that's life but when you start seeing that number climb eventually it'll fail.
I am not too worried at the moment as I do make constant backups and it is a RAID5. I just pray I don't lose two drives at once then I'd be like..great..time to rebuild the array from backups.
I haven't lost faith in Seagate as the drive in question is an older drive that I've had for about 3 years without problems.
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I deleted my account so to me that is the safest thing to do.
Your data will still be in their databases though.
Hopefully it will be either be purged within 90 days or data moved elsewhere that isn't accessible by outside connections.
I rather they just delete my data entirely so no risk of them leaking my information with another screw up.
Yep, I just cancelled it. They screwed up once but the second time?
Hence the expression-
"Fool me once, shame on you..fool me twice shame on me!"
For the past couple of days or so I was getting extreme latency on the network and I was like WTF is going on?
So I took at the firewall's RRD graphs which tracks the traffic latency and it shows average 400ms. Spiked to 2002ms. I was like..WTF is this crap?
I was gonna call them up and complain but figured some kids running bit-torrent and they will deal with em soon enough.
Now this news got out I guess I still need to call and complain.
Looking at this historically KDE 3.5 is probably the best out there and may take to 4.5 to be usable. 4.2 is about to be released and maybe it'll be ok. I meant to say 4.5 would be equivalent to KDE 3.5 in terms of usability, customizations and apps rewritten to work in V4+ as it was in 3.5
My initial reaction to KDE 4.0 was it was very alpha/beta stage and it had potential but I had high expectations over 3.5. This is probably true with most people who have been using 3.5 and felt this way too. I couldn't do much with it other than look at some of the nice GUIs and stuff. So I ended up going to Gnome until KDE 4+ is polished enough and more apps re-written to work correctly under V4 I'd be happy to give it another look even though I am a regular Gnome user as of late.
Microsoft's Marketing Department is at fault for this fiasco.
They thought maybe they'd come up with the multi-tiered operating system by having basic, home, ultimate, business and enterprise with no clear cut as to what the differences and hardware requirements are. It's all marketing's idea of making money for those who have little clue as to what they are buying. Customers figured the $499 PC will run Vista Ultimate in it's full potential if they upgrade to that version later since Vista does have the ability to upgrade whatever versions you paid for. Only to find out the $200 software upgrade to Ultimate to enable Areo would severely degrade their windows experience and need to spend ANOTHER $200+ on hardware upgrades if it can be upgraded at all. So ya customers are pissed off because they were mislead by this marketing tactic.
Microsoft should have stuck to the basics like Basic, Ultimate and Business. That's IT!
No versions like home-lite, home-basic, home-brew, home-fuzzy or any of that nonsense because it just confuses people with little clue about the hardware they currently own or in the process of buying.
Ah well, sucks to be Microsoft right now. Hopefully they won't pull the same crap with Windows 7 with this multi-tiered bullshit.
Just hope the business you work for isn't 100% dependent on windows otherwise you'd be out of the job.
People who upgraded or installed KDE 4.0 been warned that it's just a first major release and is not really ready for production. It's just give people an idea what direction KDE devs are going.
What bothers me though the numbering system. KDE 4.0 is a major update. 4.1 is a semi-fix update and etc.
Can't they just go to 4.1.1+ until they fixed the underlining issues with 4.0 before they can declare 4.2 is ready?
Because before long we're going to see 4.2, 4.3, 4.4.....4.9 and be like..aww crap.. 5.0 already?
They couldn't because a decision was made to make KDE 4 more compatible with the future is to redesign it now and go from there.
KDE 4 is a major change and devs are trying to adapt to that change. So it's natural there are going to be some bumps along the way. Maybe V4.5 will be the version to use.
Some people don't like change at all and probably still running Windows 95.
There is actually one tool I use alot is Ubuntu Tweak which fixes some of the gripes that we Gnome users complain about.
Features of Ubuntu Tweak
* View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)
* GNOME Session Control
* Auto Start Program Control
* Show/Hide and Change Splash screen
* Show/Hide desktop icons or Mounted Volumes
* Show/Hide/Rename Computer, Home, Trash icon or Network icon
* Tweak Metacity Window Managerâ(TM)s Style and Behavior
* Compiz Fusion settings, Screen Edge Settings, Window Effects Settings, Menu Effect Settins
* GNOME Panel Settings
* Nautilus Settings
* Advanced Power Management Settings
* System Security Settings
http://ubuntu-tweak.com/
It's gotta be a record to have over 1340 comments for a single topic!!
I was like..holy shit!!
BTW.. The President's speech is simply awesome and can't wait for things to get better again.
I don't think people would truly understand what it really means to save energy. Simply because you have customers out there who really could care less or think it's too much of a hassle. These are the same people who buy SUVs!!
They don't either realize or care these little things do add up over time.
Until we get to the point the electric company will start to impose electric rations as the norm which we in California almost had it happen due to shortages! PG&E been trying to encourage people to sign up for this energy saver program and few actually joined in. Don't let the high number of Prius drivers fool you. PG&E even gave away CF bulbs not too long ago at Costco via deep discounts.
The issue it's closer than most people think and they continue to bury their heads in the sand.
The CAL has NOTHING to do with active directory at all. If you don't use active directory you need to buy a cal license anyway to access the server's resources.
If you do want to use active directory, then now you don't need to buy a cal license to access the server's resources, because the server would be running Samba 4 under Linux.
There, fixed it for you.
Classic!
Thanks for the link to the tutorial and glad to see the school is able to benefit from it.
I think what made Samba daunting in the first place is lack of GUI-like tools for those been in the window shop for a long time. Now there are tools like Webmin which makes it a breeze to maintain a linux server. A seasoned linux user would modify the scripts directly but for those who have little experience with linux's inner workings the GUI helps. They should, however, learn how to modify the scripts so they have a better understanding how it really works under the hood.
Exactly. You need CALs for stuff like:
AD
Exchange
Terminal Server
etc.
It adds up pretty quickly.
It's really a nightmare for IT Depts as they have to keep track of the CALs and ensure they have enough licenses to cover the number of users.
One thing I find it interesting in the article is that Microsoft been working with Samba developers to provide them the inner workings of AD. Hell, even Samba developers discovered a bug about random passwords in AD and told Microsoft about it.
AD in it's present form is still closed source project so I find it interesting Microsoft team is willing to provide them some of the secrets knowing that eventually it'll take away some of their profits like they'll miss it anyway.
So what exactly the direction is Microsoft taking?
Finally an alternative to Microsoft's insane licensing model.
It brings one step closer for those who want to move to linux or least convert some windows to linux.
I think Microsoft totally lost it in the desktop market.
As more and more people have discovered the power of Ubuntu either be in Gnome or KDE they actually like it. Sure it's a little different but at least Ubuntu gave us a usable platform where Microsoft be happy to shove down our throats because it's what they want to do.
Freedom of choice is here for 2009.
I do hope for 2010 it's going to be the year of Linux!!!
Also, what is going to piss me off once I let it reach to a certain number of errors I'd have to find a spare drive from my collection to replace it in my RAID and convince SeaGate to replace TWO bad drives. In my previous post I replaced drive #3 a few months ago, I didn't bother sending it in for replacement as the RAID controller didn't show as failed drive, just buncha bad sectors.
Probably what I'll do is format it and use it on a normal PC to see if I can get it to fail so they can replace it.
That is some coincidence as we both have the same model drive and started to have problems at the same time.
Odd.
So far the RAID controller only reports one bad sector on the drive so I will keep an eye on it for awhile. Usually when it starts more errors will occur over time, rate of the occurrence will vary.
Good luck on getting your files back. Maybe I've been lucky I didn't lose any data since it is a RAID5 setup so it got redundancy from the other drives.
Give Turnkey Linux a try. They have several live or install CD packages for a particular need.
They have stuff like ready to go out of the box of Joomla, MySQL, LAMP and so on. Pretty slick stuff. It taught me some of the neatest tools to use and I later built a server from a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10 and installed the tools manually. Best thing there is for people who wanted to build a server and not sure where to go about doing it.
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
Which means in order to avoid a PR nightmare they continue to advertise that all pre-N devices will be upgradable once standard-N has been finalized.
And not announce as to WHEN standard-N will be completed? I guess it'll never happen now.
They have been talking about this for the past 5 years saying it'll be final soon. So far it's far from final as manufactures can't agree on anything. Meanwhile they figured long as they continue to advertise that "promise" people will keep buying them.
The next hurricane season will take care of your utility problems and then you will feel true isolation.
Makes me wonder why is Seagate giving people a hard time of giving them firmware updates.
I mean you have to either chat or call them up to get the firmware.
I can get firmware updates for ALL of my equipment including DVD-ROM drives, motherboards, video equipment and etc.
Seagate should write a utility just like the other guys do that fetches the correct firmware and updates the drive. It's not friggin hard Seagate!! Get with the program.
Granted under normal circumstances nobody should have to update the hard drive's firmware if it's working as designed.
This morning I received an e-mail from my fileserver's RAID controller with this:
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:12:53 Pacific Standard Time:
[rr232x]: An error occured on the disk at 'ST3320620AS-xxxxxxxx' at Controller1-Channel1.
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:12:55 Pacific Standard Time:
[rr232x]: Successfully repaired bad sector on disk 'ST3320620AS-xxxxxxxx' at Controller1-Channel1: LBA 0x21f53300 sectors 0x37 .
It's a RAID5 5 disk 320GB drive array with Seagate drives. Right up to now all drives showed zero disks errors. I had to replace drive #3 a few months ago as it was showing up excessive bad sectors even though the controller didn't fail the drive. The drive would generate maybe 25 bad sectors a month and didn't replace it until it reached close to 90 and it took few months to get that high.
I know bad sectors happen on drives and that's life but when you start seeing that number climb eventually it'll fail.
I am not too worried at the moment as I do make constant backups and it is a RAID5. I just pray I don't lose two drives at once then I'd be like..great..time to rebuild the array from backups.
I haven't lost faith in Seagate as the drive in question is an older drive that I've had for about 3 years without problems.