The question SHOULD be phrased as: "How do I secure a supply of spare parts for my mission-critical systems?"
The key word is secure, which is a nonsensical term when it comes to any logistics tail that assumes perfect transportation.
In the Army, we always assumed that a variety of agents would do their level best to disrupt our logistics (other armies, saboteurs, politicians, etc), so it was a standard rule to carry around with us a spare set of the most critical parts and components needed to complete the mission.
In the civilian world, as in the military world, assuming perfect transportation in the support of mission-critical systems is an exercise in idiocy. Trucks and planes break down, warehouse managers screw up, delivery boys drop boxes, and so forth. No-one is deliberately trying to screw you, but there are still far too many opportunities for Murphy to come sneaking in. As a direct result of this realization, I brought a page with me from the Army, and have spare cables, spare switches, spare servers, etc, sitting on the shelf and ready to be grabbed in time of need.
This way of doing things may seem like expensive paranoia, but it's saved our butts more than once; the last time being when the SCSI backplane on a primary database server fried itself. HP Service guaranteed a four-hour response; they didn't show up for 26 hours. Fortunately, I had a spare DL-380 sitting here....
O.K.; look at it this way: SCO eventually loses it's case, and the court tosses the firm to the lions, aka Novell, Red Hat, and IBM, who promptly reduce SCO to a smoking hole in the ground.
Said licensees come shuffling up to previously described smoking hole and whine "I want my money back."
What did you guys think? The US government, taking damn near 1/3rd of everyone's paycheck PLUS fiat taxing everyone on the planet through printing off dollars PLUS taxing corps up the wazoo isn't going to be doing a lot of secret stuff? How expensive do you really think road paving, policing, and military expenditure really is?
Damned expensive, especially when run by incredibly inefficient government bureaucracies.
....they trying to tell us that they working on showing meaningfull error messages not the dreaded blue screen that i still get due to bad third party drivers on my laptop
....And the reason you get the "dreaded blue screen" is because on NT4 and later they moved those "bad third party drivers" up to Ring 0, where any hiccup will bring down the whole machine, all so they could show that NT4 was just a wee bit faster than 3.51. Of course a big chunk of stability went flying out the window, but hey; lusers are dumb, right, Microsoft?
"How many average PC users would be able to maintain a Linux box?"
"Maintain?" Maintain what? We're not talking about a reinstall-every-four-months Windows box here. I gave my 75-year-old dad Linux on a PC and he's happy as can be. I gave my wife Linux on a laptop and she's happy as can be. What's this maintenance you speak of?
And, speaking of Windows, shouldn't the question be "How many average PC users are able to maintain a Windows box?"
Blasted few, in my experience. :P
Folks are always asking me to remove their malware
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That's why I always carry around a copy of SuSE Linux 10.0.
Unlikely; spilled LH would boil away and dissipate into the atmosphere very quickly. Petrol is quite a bit more dangerous, as it's more stable at room temperature and it's vapors are heavier than air.
Could it be that many of them are obnoxious, popping up right in front of what I'm trying to read? Or have a bunch of whirling, blinking, flashing crap that's distracting as hell? Or perhaps it's the loud music? Or maybe the total lack of context? Or maybe just general bad taste. Gee; I just can't make up my mind. . . .
Politics *is* a bunch of kids arguing. Take a step back and look at it all; corporate, local, national, international, and you quickly realize there really isn't all-that many adults out there....
....You would now be doing 15 years for 'subversive language,' assuming you wouldn't simply be beaten to death in some back alley.
It's amusing really; how many people screech 'totalitarianism' when they wouldn't know a totalitarian state if it bit them on the ass.
Sixty years ago, my mother's family came stumbling out of the smoking ruins of Nazi Germany. I myself spent sixteen years paying witness to the acts of the Soviet State while the rest of the world looked the other way. I know what totalitarianism is. You, my friend, haven't a clue.
Should I assume you don't know much about M$'s standard MO on 'partnering?'
1) Identify a potential revenue stream or cost-savings. 2) 'Partner' with a firm already doing it well. 3) Study 'partner's' methods until they can be replicated in-house. 4) Market extended, proprietary version, using market clout to crush 'partner' into oblivion.
Frankly, the fact that business executives still are willing to cozy up to the M$ T-Rex confirms to me that there is indeed one born every minute.
Slashdot Mirror
. . . the Internet reroutes around the damage.
];)
The question SHOULD be phrased as: "How do I secure a supply of spare parts for my mission-critical systems?"
The key word is secure, which is a nonsensical term when it comes to any logistics tail that assumes perfect transportation.
In the Army, we always assumed that a variety of agents would do their level best to disrupt our logistics (other armies, saboteurs, politicians, etc), so it was a standard rule to carry around with us a spare set of the most critical parts and components needed to complete the mission.
In the civilian world, as in the military world, assuming perfect transportation in the support of mission-critical systems is an exercise in idiocy. Trucks and planes break down, warehouse managers screw up, delivery boys drop boxes, and so forth. No-one is deliberately trying to screw you, but there are still far too many opportunities for Murphy to come sneaking in. As a direct result of this realization, I brought a page with me from the Army, and have spare cables, spare switches, spare servers, etc, sitting on the shelf and ready to be grabbed in time of need.
This way of doing things may seem like expensive paranoia, but it's saved our butts more than once; the last time being when the SCSI backplane on a primary database server fried itself. HP Service guaranteed a four-hour response; they didn't show up for 26 hours. Fortunately, I had a spare DL-380 sitting here....
];)
Why is it, do you think, that every totalitatian regime that comes along seems to somehow automatically spawn an army of apologists?
Oh, now that's just too funny.
....
....
You are kidding, right?
O.K.; look at it this way: SCO eventually loses it's case, and the court tosses the firm to the lions, aka Novell, Red Hat, and IBM, who promptly reduce SCO to a smoking hole in the ground.
Said licensees come shuffling up to previously described smoking hole and whine "I want my money back."
Think they'll get a response?
}XD
What did you guys think? The US government, taking damn near 1/3rd of everyone's paycheck PLUS fiat taxing everyone on the planet through printing off dollars PLUS taxing corps up the wazoo isn't going to be doing a lot of secret stuff? How expensive do you really think road paving, policing, and military expenditure really is?
Damned expensive, especially when run by incredibly inefficient government bureaucracies.
. . . . You're off your meds, aren't you?
....they trying to tell us that they working on showing meaningfull error messages not the dreaded blue screen that i still get due to bad third party drivers on my laptop
....And the reason you get the "dreaded blue screen" is because on NT4 and later they moved those "bad third party drivers" up to Ring 0, where any hiccup will bring down the whole machine, all so they could show that NT4 was just a wee bit faster than 3.51. Of course a big chunk of stability went flying out the window, but hey; lusers are dumb, right, Microsoft?
Just once, just ONCE, I want the girl to go into the dark basement carrying a xenon flood and an Uzi.
];)
Check out KXMLEditor. I use it to tweak and repair XML files, and it works just fine.
];)
http://kxmleditor.sourceforge.net/
. . . . You have noise pollution, traffic problems, and money that the populace argues would be better spent elsewhere. . . .
. . . . I take it from the above statement that you've never been to southern New Mexico?
"The universe is either a pretty unforgiving place, or it has a deep and mean sense of humor."
It's both, my friend. It's both.
"How many average PC users would be able to maintain a Linux box?"
"Maintain?" Maintain what? We're not talking about a reinstall-every-four-months Windows box here. I gave my 75-year-old dad Linux on a PC and he's happy as can be. I gave my wife Linux on a laptop and she's happy as can be. What's this maintenance you speak of?
And, speaking of Windows, shouldn't the question be "How many average PC users are able to maintain a Windows box?"
Blasted few, in my experience.
:P
That's why I always carry around a copy of SuSE Linux 10.0.
:)
. . . . No, really! I do!
Try it.
That would be great, except most of the precious darlings I have the pleasure of dealing with have 'Daddy' footing the bill.
:(
The vicious little spoiled brat that my best friend somehow managed to spawn.
:(
"Most people, I think, do not even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Most people don't know what a M14 APM is either, but somehow I don't think that'll keep it from ripping your legs off.
(http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/apm.htm)
Yup, and there were claims that the H-bomb would cause the entire planet's atmosphere to ignite, as well.
Just flunk the microcephalic cretins.
];)
Unlikely; spilled LH would boil away and dissipate into the atmosphere very quickly. Petrol is quite a bit more dangerous, as it's more stable at room temperature and it's vapors are heavier than air.
No, seriously; how many Harvard-boy types do you know that use a PC as anything more than a fancy typewriter?
Put a secure OS on the machine so the PHBs can't load it up with their usual menagerie of malware, and IBM could have a real winner here.
Keeper!
:D
Could it be that many of them are obnoxious, popping up right in front of what I'm trying to read? Or have a bunch of whirling, blinking, flashing crap that's distracting as hell? Or perhaps it's the loud music? Or maybe the total lack of context? Or maybe just general bad taste. Gee; I just can't make up my mind. . . .
Politics *is* a bunch of kids arguing. Take a step back and look at it all; corporate, local, national, international, and you quickly realize there really isn't all-that many adults out there....
....You would now be doing 15 years for 'subversive language,' assuming you wouldn't simply be beaten to death in some back alley.
It's amusing really; how many people screech 'totalitarianism' when they wouldn't know a totalitarian state if it bit them on the ass.
Sixty years ago, my mother's family came stumbling out of the smoking ruins of Nazi Germany. I myself spent sixteen years paying witness to the acts of the Soviet State while the rest of the world looked the other way. I know what totalitarianism is. You, my friend, haven't a clue.
Should I assume you don't know much about M$'s standard MO on 'partnering?'
:(
1) Identify a potential revenue stream or cost-savings.
2) 'Partner' with a firm already doing it well.
3) Study 'partner's' methods until they can be replicated in-house.
4) Market extended, proprietary version, using market clout to crush 'partner' into oblivion.
Frankly, the fact that business executives still are willing to cozy up to the M$ T-Rex confirms to me that there is indeed one born every minute.