I have worked with Red Hat, Debian, SLS (forgot about that one didn't ya), Slackware, Caldera, kha0s, and several other distros. I think, and this is personal opinion, that the Debian way of using apt-get with the.deb files is the best way to maintain machines. I have an crontab entry that runs every night to update the list of packages out there and I can upgrade my system or install a new package very quickly and easily.
Debian is the Linux for the Community by the Community. Whereas Caldera & Red Hat have money and developers that can be put on any project (application/utility) that their boss tells them to. I can understand why Red Hat has a nicer looking installer, but functionality wise there is no way they can beat Debian. If someone could just write the front end the life would be good for Debian.
Thanks for listening to my ramblings, Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
People are trying to make money of the "encrypted DVDs" which can be busted (as we all can see) but it is hard to sell to the public if the local twelve year old can copy the damn thing if he wanted to. The problem is not with people reverse engineering the encryption but with people trying to keep encryption safe by using lawyers. More power to ther people who spend the time to reverse engineer the software. Now that they did that the local twelve year old can copy the darn DVDs (or CDs or whatever) and better yet, he can run the movies (or programs) under a real operating system. We all do not fall down and bow to the slave driver called Gates. Some of us can use a computer and can think therefore we use a real operating system.
Maybe we should get rid of the lawyers?
Maybe not, since I will need one now since I voiced an opinion that was not with the majority.
Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
Why on earth would the release the crypto to be freely available? Why? They would not be able to read our emails, our files, or whatever anymore. The problem is that finacial transactions (either credit card purchases, on-line banking, etc) needs to be secure but it is hard to be secure when you can't have real crypto. I really hopes that it happens, but I will doubt it til I see it.
Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I feel sorry for your loss. I have had relatives and friends in the same postion and it is not a good one. The only saving grace is that you had insurance. Not that it will get your stuff back (and all the memories they had) but you will not be homeless.
Good Luck, Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I would not get upset yet. I would send a nice/polite email to the legal department stating what you feel in wrong with the beta license agreement and how it violates the GPL. That will get more positive reponse from Corel than all out bashing them.
Then again I could be wrong.... Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
Many, and way too many office have a proxied/firewall to ban their users from going to certain types of sites. Some let you go but track which ones you go to and then you get nailed at end of the month when your boss drops twenty pounds of print out of the sex fest web sites you have been to in the last month. The other method is to block it from the get go. Both suck but that is corporate america.
Wake up and smell the coffee unless it is www.adultcoffee.com or www.nakedcoffee.com...
Scott Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
Why do people always have to put down other people? Is it human nature or what? I have met several of the guys from ISS and they all seem fairly intelligent especially in their field of work.
Maybe I am biased since I know a few of them... Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
>Not to mention online porn, crackers, and viruses... > >Do we really need more connectivity while we're driving?
Well I am not sure about the porn while driving but the downloading of email/music while driving would be great. But on the otherhand, the idea that viruses could crash my truck while driving down the loop does scare me a bit.
I am willing to risk it IF we can run a real os and not M$.
just my opinion, Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
Does this mean that a site that does not charge for access can host a shoutcast server with ripped music without any legal snafo's? I know a University that would put a shoutcast server in about 15 minutes (about how long it would take to do a restore on a NT box) and put up a server if they did not any licensing fee problems.
Thanks Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
Using PGP or GPG is better than nothing. But then again the only way to encrypt it so that the US Feds can not decrypt it is to encrypt it multiple times with differemt PADs then destory all copies of the pads, the original document, and the encrypted document then shoot yourself. They can *eventually* decrypt any document. The time period it takes is getting less and less as computers are getting more and more powerful. Personally I would like to use 1024bit or larger for all encryption unless it is banking (finacial) then it should be 2048+bit. This will not stop the hard core hackers or the feds but it will stop the majority of the deviants out there.
That is my personal opinion and noone elses, Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
When I first read the headlines, my reaction was "Oh Crap! there goes another great site down the drain...." Then I read the article in full and realized that it is a good thing. If slashdot is still going to be the geek site for news the way it has been for years now, then I am all for it. Since Rob and Hemos get to keep all the creative control and do not have to over work their minds/souls to keep the box up 24/7 then I am all for it (not like I have much say-so in it). As long as they keep to keep the site in its grassroots I think that the site will flurish even more than it has.
Then again I have been wrong in the past, Scott
PS> Good luck to the two of you!
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I beleive that RMS has done (is doing) a wonderful job as an advocate for free software. When people refer him to being a communist (or other ists) it irretates me. People are trying to categorize him without knowing him.
RMS, I bow to you for all the hard work that you have done over the years. May you get the proper credit you deserve.
I like free software just like everyone else. I prefer software that is totally free and not just a commerical app that was release for free. Sometimes there is not a free app out there to be had so going to a commerical app is your only choice. But when people release products as free code/app then you need to take a gander at it to see if it will do what you want. I have found that more and more that the totally free apps have fewer bugs in them than the commerical ones.
Well that is enough rambling by me, Thank you RMS for all you hard work, Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I really liked it. It was nowhere near academy award type movie but it was entertaining. I was scared on how much of it was true. Jobs back then was a freak that would push push push and then blow up at any roadblock. Gates has always been that maniplative. Gates (this is what I have heard over and over again) did not win as much as he lost at pocker. He really like it but was not that good. The stories about how gates sold DOS to IBM without owning it was soo true. I think that gates and jobs need to partner up. They both freak out at work at anything. From people that I have talked to that used to work for the big M$, that gates walks into the meeting screaming and leaves screaming with nothing but screaming thoughtout the meeting. I think both of them have issues that they need to work through.. Jobs supposely is much calmer now than back in the 70/80s. I think the person that kept his head the best back then in the middle of all of this chaos was Woz.
Synopsis: It was entertaining.
Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I have a lot of experience with the E10ks. I manage 4 of them (fully loaded). As far as the SSPs being a security risk. That is true *IF* you do not secure them. But then again if you login as root you can do just about anything on that machine. MS is trying to point out that the SSP is a different machine than the E10k. Physically it is, but logically it is not. I have secured my SSPs and I have not had any troubles. Period. MS talks about how you can not dynamicaly pull out the system board that the kernel resides on. Well, when was the last time you saw a NT box that you could pull a system board out of? Never comes to mind. For pure processing power, like a huge Oracle dbase that is a backend for a website, the E10k is very hard to beat. Sure it has it's flaws but doesn't all hardware platforms? Pointing out the flaws to diverte the attention from your flaws is just plain bogus.
Can we all just get along?
Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I used to work for a software company that had (at the time) a large network where it connected it's private network to other companies' private networks, sorta like the internet but nowhere the size, nor flexibility. We used CISCO and BAY routers/switchs although we were a IBM Business Partner (at the level where we got 36-45% off everything). At that time (it has been a couple years), the IBM routers were realitivy useless. I had to connect our site to 3 different IBM sites and the routers that IBM gave me to use were bay routers. I asked if they were using IBM routers and their answer was "only in our labs to test/paly with, never in a production enviroment". I know this has changed since then but... The whole point I was trying to get to (but never do) is that IBM hardware is no real competion to anyone. The RS/6000 series competes with Sun/HP and does a poor job at it. High end NT or Novell competes with the AS/400 and can do equally decent job at a better price. Bay and Cisco rule the switching/router field. Even the SP2 nodes have competition with the Sun E10Ks.
What is funny in my book is that OS/2 was developed by MS and IBM together until their little spat over what hardware was the minimum requirement for OS/2. IBM said 386 and MS said 286 (286 was the mainstream and 386 was the cutting edge back then). So MS broke off and developled Windows whereas IBM continued with OS/2. OS/2 is a rock solid os and I would run it except for the apps for it are limited.
IBM has never been good at seriously competing in the PC market since the 386 timeframe. They have always have been there and will always be there. The only area of the PC market they really rock in is the Laptops (the thinkpads are rock solid).
IBM has always had a problem of lack of or poor advertising. MS on the other hand advertises everywhere. IBM Global Services has taken MS' lead and started advertising everywhere and they are gaining market share.
Well that was my 25 cents worht, Scott
PS> Next time I will try to stay on topic. Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
Journaling filesystems keep a "redo-log" of all activity (changes) to the filesystem. If the system dumps (crashs) the redo-log is re-run at the "fsck" time so the filesytem will be complete again and the fsck take relatively no time. I have a very large Sun machine at work that has a terabyte of a Oracle table space that would take almost an hour to boot (due to the basic fsck of the oracle tablespace filesystems) unless it crashed then it was almost 2hours or more. I move the oracle tablespace filesystems to a journaling filesystem and now it takes about 12-15 minutes to boot maybe 20 minutes if I crash the box. Before the journalling filesytems, whenever it crashed (or I should say almost always when it crashed) I had to manually fix filesystems in maintenace mode. Once I moved the filesystems to a journaling fs, I have not had to do that again. If the journalling filesystem is stable and works like it is suppose to, I would move *all* my machines (including laptops, desktops, and servers) to it. Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I personally think that the site rocks. There is a great base to build from. Most sites I see nowadays do not have a good foundation to build from (inlcuding my website). I think that they did an most excellant job of the grpahics and design of the layout. Hopefully within a few weeks that site will be full of information. I also like how the site targets the newbies and the kernel hackers and the people in the middle (like myself).
Well that is my 2 cents worth (after being up for 20+ hours), Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
The web address is http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html and has the fully functional client and a semi-working server. Scott Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
Linux does support NIS+ with an addon (I do not beleive their is an RPM for it). I saw it on Freshmeat a few weeks (maybe days) back. They have not implemented everything yet but they have done alot of it. It supposely is solid. I am going to implement NIS+ on my Linux boxes in my data center. It will be a few weeks before I can begin so I can not give you feedback anytime (realitivily) soon.
Thanks Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I think that Microsoft is doing this for three purposes. First off it looks good to the DOJ for the Antitrust trial. Giving money to R&D new technology on the Univerisity level is always good PR. Second they get their feet in the door on I2. Thirdly they can *try* and force people (or convice them they need to) use the M$ programs vs the software from other people including OSS/GNU software.
I think this is just a ploy to get people thinking M$ is not that bad and to consider using their products. Some of their products are pretty good and some just plainly suck. I like word and have like word since Word for DOS 5.0 (or was it 4.0?) but things like NT for servers make my skin crawl.
M$'s salesman (including technical sales) tend to lie to customers. Not stretch the truth but baldface lie. A few years ago I had a team of M$ droids try and convice me and my boss (and the other network people) that *only* NT could do DHCP services (be a DHCP server). I *knew* this was a lie since we had a Sun Sparc run Solaris running a BOOTP/DHCP server for the whole campus. They wanted a NT server for DHCP for each subnet. We had one box for all subnets. It just knew which subnet you can from and then gave you an IP based on that subnet. The M$ droids were in total disbelief until we showed them not only the w95 boxes doing DHCP but the server serving the requests. Memories like that make my skin crawl about M$ and their practices. Do not get me wrong they have done things right on some products but as their product list is growing their "done it right" column is not growing.
That is just the rablings of a Techno Weenie that does not care for M$.
Any comments, send to scott@sboss.net, all flames go to/dev/null
Thanks Scott Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
I do agree that ShutUp Software should exist not to block individuals but to block subjects. I **sometimes** block subjects that I do not want to see/read about. But then again I do not block people no matter how ignorant, annoying, wrong, etc.. Because maybe one day they will say something that is intelligent, correct, worth reading. I use the mental blocking software. While reading the list of replies or the author's name, I can mentally say "Hey this guy (or gal) is a bozo and I will not read him (or her) now.." but I make that choice everytime.
Overall I do agree with you. ShutUp Software will be the destruction of free speach. Block subjects and not people....
Slashdot Mirror
I have worked with Red Hat, Debian, SLS (forgot about that one didn't ya), Slackware, Caldera, kha0s, and several other distros. I think, and this is personal opinion, that the Debian way of using apt-get with the .deb files is the best way to maintain machines. I have an crontab entry that runs every night to update the list of packages out there and I can upgrade my system or install a new package very quickly and easily.
Debian is the Linux for the Community by the Community. Whereas Caldera & Red Hat have money and developers that can be put on any project (application/utility) that their boss tells them to. I can understand why Red Hat has a nicer looking installer, but functionality wise there is no way they can beat Debian. If someone could just write the front end the life would be good for Debian.
Thanks for listening to my ramblings,
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
People are trying to make money of the "encrypted DVDs" which can be busted (as we all can see) but it is hard to sell to the public if the local twelve year old can copy the damn thing if he wanted to. The problem is not with people reverse engineering the encryption but with people trying to keep encryption safe by using lawyers. More power to ther people who spend the time to reverse engineer the software. Now that they did that the local twelve year old can copy the darn DVDs (or CDs or whatever) and better yet, he can run the movies (or programs) under a real operating system. We all do not fall down and bow to the slave driver called Gates. Some of us can use a computer and can think therefore we use a real operating system.
Maybe we should get rid of the lawyers?
Maybe not, since I will need one now since I voiced an opinion that was not with the majority.
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I remember hearing that QT was going to go something like LGPL. Then again I could be mixing up my data again.
I wish my RMA for my memory (in my head)...
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Why on earth would the release the crypto to be freely available? Why? They would not be able to read our emails, our files, or whatever anymore. The problem is that finacial transactions (either credit card purchases, on-line banking, etc) needs to be secure but it is hard to be secure when you can't have real crypto. I really hopes that it happens, but I will doubt it til I see it.
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Leaders of the Geek News....
I feel sorry for your loss. I have had relatives and friends in the same postion and it is not a good one. The only saving grace is that you had insurance. Not that it will get your stuff back (and all the memories they had) but you will not be homeless.
Good Luck,
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I would not get upset yet. I would send a nice/polite email to the legal department stating what you feel in wrong with the beta license agreement and how it violates the GPL. That will get more positive reponse from Corel than all out bashing them.
Then again I could be wrong....
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Wake up and smell the coffee unless it is www.adultcoffee.com or www.nakedcoffee.com...
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Why do people always have to put down other people? Is it human nature or what? I have met several of the guys from ISS and they all seem fairly intelligent especially in their field of work.
Maybe I am biased since I know a few of them...
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
>Not to mention online porn, crackers, and viruses ...
>
>Do we really need more connectivity while we're driving?
Well I am not sure about the porn while driving but the downloading of email/music while driving would be great. But on the otherhand, the idea that viruses could crash my truck while driving down the loop does scare me a bit.
I am willing to risk it IF we can run a real os and not M$.
just my opinion,
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Does this mean that a site that does not charge for access can host a shoutcast server with ripped music without any legal snafo's? I know a University that would put a shoutcast server in about 15 minutes (about how long it would take to do a restore on a NT box) and put up a server if they did not any licensing fee problems.
Thanks
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Using PGP or GPG is better than nothing. But then again the only way to encrypt it so that the US Feds can not decrypt it is to encrypt it multiple times with differemt PADs then destory all copies of the pads, the original document, and the encrypted document then shoot yourself. They can *eventually* decrypt any document. The time period it takes is getting less and less as computers are getting more and more powerful. Personally I would like to use 1024bit or larger for all encryption unless it is banking (finacial) then it should be 2048+bit. This will not stop the hard core hackers or the feds but it will stop the majority of the deviants out there.
That is my personal opinion and noone elses,
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
When I first read the headlines, my reaction was "Oh Crap! there goes another great site down the drain...." Then I read the article in full and realized that it is a good thing. If slashdot is still going to be the geek site for news the way it has been for years now, then I am all for it. Since Rob and Hemos get to keep all the creative control and do not have to over work their minds/souls to keep the box up 24/7 then I am all for it (not like I have much say-so in it). As long as they keep to keep the site in its grassroots I think that the site will flurish even more than it has.
Then again I have been wrong in the past,
Scott
PS> Good luck to the two of you!
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I beleive that RMS has done (is doing) a wonderful job as an advocate for free software. When people refer him to being a communist (or other ists) it irretates me. People are trying to categorize him without knowing him.
RMS, I bow to you for all the hard work that you have done over the years. May you get the proper credit you deserve.
I like free software just like everyone else. I prefer software that is totally free and not just a commerical app that was release for free. Sometimes there is not a free app out there to be had so going to a commerical app is your only choice. But when people release products as free code/app then you need to take a gander at it to see if it will do what you want. I have found that more and more that the totally free apps have fewer bugs in them than the commerical ones.
Well that is enough rambling by me,
Thank you RMS for all you hard work,
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I really liked it. It was nowhere near academy award type movie but it was entertaining. I was scared on how much of it was true. Jobs back then was a freak that would push push push and then blow up at any roadblock. Gates has always been that maniplative. Gates (this is what I have heard over and over again) did not win as much as he lost at pocker. He really like it but was not that good. The stories about how gates sold DOS to IBM without owning it was soo true. I think that gates and jobs need to partner up. They both freak out at work at anything. From people that I have talked to that used to work for the big M$, that gates walks into the meeting screaming and leaves screaming with nothing but screaming thoughtout the meeting. I think both of them have issues that they need to work through.. Jobs supposely is much calmer now than back in the 70/80s. I think the person that kept his head the best back then in the middle of all of this chaos was Woz.
Synopsis: It was entertaining.
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I have a lot of experience with the E10ks. I manage 4 of them (fully loaded). As far as the SSPs being a security risk. That is true *IF* you do not secure them. But then again if you login as root you can do just about anything on that machine. MS is trying to point out that the SSP is a different machine than the E10k. Physically it is, but logically it is not. I have secured my SSPs and I have not had any troubles. Period. MS talks about how you can not dynamicaly pull out the system board that the kernel resides on. Well, when was the last time you saw a NT box that you could pull a system board out of? Never comes to mind. For pure processing power, like a huge Oracle dbase that is a backend for a website, the E10k is very hard to beat. Sure it has it's flaws but doesn't all hardware platforms? Pointing out the flaws to diverte the attention from your flaws is just plain bogus.
Can we all just get along?
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
WARNING THIS IS OFF TOPIC, but:
I used to work for a software company that had (at the time) a large network where it connected it's private network to other companies' private networks, sorta like the internet but nowhere the size, nor flexibility. We used CISCO and BAY routers/switchs although we were a IBM Business Partner (at the level where we got 36-45% off everything). At that time (it has been a couple years), the IBM routers were realitivy useless. I had to connect our site to 3 different IBM sites and the routers that IBM gave me to use were bay routers. I asked if they were using IBM routers and their answer was "only in our labs to test/paly with, never in a production enviroment". I know this has changed since then but... The whole point I was trying to get to (but never do) is that IBM hardware is no real competion to anyone. The RS/6000 series competes with Sun/HP and does a poor job at it. High end NT or Novell competes with the AS/400 and can do equally decent job at a better price. Bay and Cisco rule the switching/router field. Even the SP2 nodes have competition with the Sun E10Ks.
What is funny in my book is that OS/2 was developed by MS and IBM together until their little spat over what hardware was the minimum requirement for OS/2. IBM said 386 and MS said 286 (286 was the mainstream and 386 was the cutting edge back then). So MS broke off and developled Windows whereas IBM continued with OS/2. OS/2 is a rock solid os and I would run it except for the apps for it are limited.
IBM has never been good at seriously competing in the PC market since the 386 timeframe. They have always have been there and will always be there. The only area of the PC market they really rock in is the Laptops (the thinkpads are rock solid).
IBM has always had a problem of lack of or poor advertising. MS on the other hand advertises everywhere. IBM Global Services has taken MS' lead and started advertising everywhere and they are gaining market share.
Well that was my 25 cents worht,
Scott
PS> Next time I will try to stay on topic.
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Journaling filesystems keep a "redo-log" of all activity (changes) to the filesystem. If the system dumps (crashs) the redo-log is re-run at the "fsck" time so the filesytem will be complete again and the fsck take relatively no time. I have a very large Sun machine at work that has a terabyte of a Oracle table space that would take almost an hour to boot (due to the basic fsck of the oracle tablespace filesystems) unless it crashed then it was almost 2hours or more. I move the oracle tablespace filesystems to a journaling filesystem and now it takes about 12-15 minutes to boot maybe 20 minutes if I crash the box. Before the journalling filesytems, whenever it crashed (or I should say almost always when it crashed) I had to manually fix filesystems in maintenace mode. Once I moved the filesystems to a journaling fs, I have not had to do that again. If the journalling filesystem is stable and works like it is suppose to, I would move *all* my machines (including laptops, desktops, and servers) to it.
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I personally think that the site rocks. There is a great base to build from. Most sites I see nowadays do not have a good foundation to build from (inlcuding my website). I think that they did an most excellant job of the grpahics and design of the layout. Hopefully within a few weeks that site will be full of information. I also like how the site targets the newbies and the kernel hackers and the people in the middle (like myself).
Well that is my 2 cents worth (after being up for 20+ hours),
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
They are using debian (look at the nice graphics on the top of each page). Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
The web address is http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html and has the fully functional client and a semi-working server. Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Linux does support NIS+ with an addon (I do not beleive their is an RPM for it). I saw it on Freshmeat a few weeks (maybe days) back. They have not implemented everything yet but they have done alot of it. It supposely is solid. I am going to implement NIS+ on my Linux boxes in my data center. It will be a few weeks before I can begin so I can not give you feedback anytime (realitivily) soon.
Thanks
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
This is only my personal opinion:
/dev/null
I think that Microsoft is doing this for three purposes. First off it looks good to the DOJ for the Antitrust trial. Giving money to R&D new technology on the Univerisity level is always good PR. Second they get their feet in the door on I2. Thirdly they can *try* and force people (or convice them they need to) use the M$ programs vs the software from other people including OSS/GNU software.
I think this is just a ploy to get people thinking M$ is not that bad and to consider using their products. Some of their products are pretty good and some just plainly suck. I like word and have like word since Word for DOS 5.0 (or was it 4.0?) but things like NT for servers make my skin crawl.
M$'s salesman (including technical sales) tend to lie to customers. Not stretch the truth but baldface lie. A few years ago I had a team of M$ droids try and convice me and my boss (and the other network people) that *only* NT could do DHCP services (be a DHCP server). I *knew* this was a lie since we had a Sun Sparc run Solaris running a BOOTP/DHCP server for the whole campus. They wanted a NT server for DHCP for each subnet. We had one box for all subnets. It just knew which subnet you can from and then gave you an IP based on that subnet. The M$ droids were in total disbelief until we showed them not only the w95 boxes doing DHCP but the server serving the requests. Memories like that make my skin crawl about M$ and their practices. Do not get me wrong they have done things right on some products but as their product list is growing their "done it right" column is not growing.
That is just the rablings of a Techno Weenie that does not care for M$.
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Scott
Scott
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John,
I do agree that ShutUp Software should exist not to block individuals but to block subjects. I **sometimes** block subjects that I do not want to see/read about. But then again I do not block people no matter how ignorant, annoying, wrong, etc.. Because maybe one day they will say something that is intelligent, correct, worth reading. I use the mental blocking software. While reading the list of replies or the author's name, I can mentally say "Hey this guy (or gal) is a bozo and I will not read him (or her) now.." but I make that choice everytime.
Overall I do agree with you. ShutUp Software will be the destruction of free speach. Block subjects and not people....
That is my humble opinion.
Scott