Is this because E stability has improved, or KDE stability has regressed? I haven't used E, but KDE seems to have gone backwards between 3.5 and 4.x in my experience.
OK so it supports openGL. I haven't used E in a long time, so I wasn't aware of that. But that wasn't the point the story was making - the story was playing up its software rendering support. Which these days, is of limited use when GL hardware is so prevalent...
Symantec is shit. Users should not have admin on business machines. They should also not be going out via unfiltered internet connection to whatever dodgy website they like and mail should be screened for questionable content. If you think that this sort of thing wouldn't be happening on Linux (or anything else) if it had so many clueless users in business settings using the product - you're deluded.
Use the tools provided (firewall, AV, security zones, certificates for any secure sites you build for your intranet, etc), don't do dodgy shit on your box, and you won't get rooted.
In the past, I've had Windows boxes rooted, I've also had linux boxes rooted (via sendmail, DNS, etc). Since maintaining/securing them (even half-arsed), I haven't had a problem in the past 10 years.
Hint: "dodgy shit" includes installing "free" shit from untrusted sources.
Then copy one. If you have a valid product key, you have a valid license. The media is not what you are paying for, and copying the media is totally legal, so long as you're using it with a valid license.
Encryption/obscuring traffic helps hide it, but if the volume is in any way significant, a competent admin will spot it and note as suspicious regardless of whether or not he can see what the traffic actually contains.
I have no problem with patches bluescreening rooted boxes. If your box is rooted, the only way to e sure to fix it is a reinstall - having patches try to work around rootkit installs is retarded. If you don't know you're rooted, then too bad. Learn to maintain your pc/network.
Given that even portable devices like the iphone and N95 onwards support openGL these days, I suspect that the "bet paying off" will be for an extremely limited time only.
And $1.22 for gas here only gets you the shit stuff. If you want anything half decent (98RON here, 93 octane to the US peeps who don't measure in RON) - you're paying upwards of $1.30/L. FWIW, i've found i get better economy on 98 so it sort of evens out...
When under time constraints, as I mentioned, it won't be documented. I used "temporary" in inverted commas, because as we all know, once the shit code works, marketing/whoever will want to ship it, and it will be forgotten about and end up "permanent".
Nah, asustralia is a nation of people who just don't give a shit. This is both good (we're easygoing and get along with pretty much anyone) and bad... They can't be arsed sending the hate mail. Which is unfortunately how we end up with whack jobs like this (donkey voting), and also how they stick around (no one can be arsed doing anything about it). I consider myself to be australian (not nationalized, UK citizen, but I've been here since I was 4).
The "threatening note" was probably some educated adult complaining in a letter they knew would actually get *to him* about the way he is treating the majority of gamers like children.
To be fair, the last time bikies got truly pissed over this way that I can remember, there were shootings and the burning down of a pub. But, i guess notes are scary too.
Not necessarily. If its a quick and dirty hack to get something done in a short period of time on a "temporary" basis, then its quite possible the programmer intentionally wrote "shitty code" - and KNEW it was shitty code.
Since we fixed our power situation and run Exchange on an ESX cluster, its solid. It only ever reboots when we tell it to.
More relevant with regards to Exchange vs Gmail - how do you manage your data retention policy, backups, disaster recovery, etc with gmail? Hope and pray that Google maintain their free service to a standard your business expects?
A windows admin with a clue can maintain just as many Windows machines as a unix admin can with unix machines these days.
The tools are there... I currently have about 40 Windows 2003/2008 servers under my control and they need very little maintenance. I've previously had a similar number of linux boxes to maintain, and really, its much of a muchness.
Most of our non-development work is simply adding/removing users, etc - which would be just as tedious with a unix only environment.
IT admin costs vs the other 1200 staff who have an existing skillset with applications they know is a drop in the ocean. You use the available tools to achieve business objectives - they don't really have much to do with what IT wants.
Choose what works. If you have a shitload of custom apps written on Windows, then migrating them for the sake of a few license fees and keeping IT happy is going to be a pain in the arse in terms of business process changes, testing, and actually doing the roll out/conversion. Conversely, if you're an ISP or have fairly platform neutral applications, go for it.
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actually no, he hired a codemonkey from bigworld to make that decision for him.
You don't have locally born asian people who are good at math(s - with the S on the end as used by civilised nations) and computer science?
Hint: if people are going to make you 'disappear' they can get your fingerprints off the fingers they have of yours after the kidnapping.
Is this because E stability has improved, or KDE stability has regressed? I haven't used E, but KDE seems to have gone backwards between 3.5 and 4.x in my experience.
OK so it supports openGL. I haven't used E in a long time, so I wasn't aware of that. But that wasn't the point the story was making - the story was playing up its software rendering support. Which these days, is of limited use when GL hardware is so prevalent...
Symantec is shit. Users should not have admin on business machines. They should also not be going out via unfiltered internet connection to whatever dodgy website they like and mail should be screened for questionable content. If you think that this sort of thing wouldn't be happening on Linux (or anything else) if it had so many clueless users in business settings using the product - you're deluded.
Use the tools provided (firewall, AV, security zones, certificates for any secure sites you build for your intranet, etc), don't do dodgy shit on your box, and you won't get rooted.
In the past, I've had Windows boxes rooted, I've also had linux boxes rooted (via sendmail, DNS, etc). Since maintaining/securing them (even half-arsed), I haven't had a problem in the past 10 years.
Hint: "dodgy shit" includes installing "free" shit from untrusted sources.
fixed for you.
Then copy one. If you have a valid product key, you have a valid license. The media is not what you are paying for, and copying the media is totally legal, so long as you're using it with a valid license.
Encryption/obscuring traffic helps hide it, but if the volume is in any way significant, a competent admin will spot it and note as suspicious regardless of whether or not he can see what the traffic actually contains.
I have no problem with patches bluescreening rooted boxes. If your box is rooted, the only way to e sure to fix it is a reinstall - having patches try to work around rootkit installs is retarded. If you don't know you're rooted, then too bad. Learn to maintain your pc/network.
Maybe because if you're not patched, you'll often get re-infected before the update is completed?
Hardware will catch up in due course.
And $1.22 for gas here only gets you the shit stuff. If you want anything half decent (98RON here, 93 octane to the US peeps who don't measure in RON) - you're paying upwards of $1.30/L. FWIW, i've found i get better economy on 98 so it sort of evens out...
When under time constraints, as I mentioned, it won't be documented. I used "temporary" in inverted commas, because as we all know, once the shit code works, marketing/whoever will want to ship it, and it will be forgotten about and end up "permanent".
Yes, yes, i know he's talking about the leather wearing crime syndicate types... but...
Nah, asustralia is a nation of people who just don't give a shit. This is both good (we're easygoing and get along with pretty much anyone) and bad... They can't be arsed sending the hate mail. Which is unfortunately how we end up with whack jobs like this (donkey voting), and also how they stick around (no one can be arsed doing anything about it). I consider myself to be australian (not nationalized, UK citizen, but I've been here since I was 4).
The "threatening note" was probably some educated adult complaining in a letter they knew would actually get *to him* about the way he is treating the majority of gamers like children.
FYI, he's what you call a bogan, an aussie subculture. Not all aussies are like that.
To be fair, the last time bikies got truly pissed over this way that I can remember, there were shootings and the burning down of a pub. But, i guess notes are scary too.
Battery life: I get about 3 days on my 3G-S, 1-2 if i use it heaps. Given that I can easily charge it when i go to sleep, its no big deal.
Memory cards - the 16gb i have is big enough.I've got more music than I legally own on there and am using only about 7gb.
Flash? Good riddance. I have yet so see a useful application for it yet.
What do we have to do to get you to stop posting?
Not necessarily. If its a quick and dirty hack to get something done in a short period of time on a "temporary" basis, then its quite possible the programmer intentionally wrote "shitty code" - and KNEW it was shitty code.
Since we fixed our power situation and run Exchange on an ESX cluster, its solid. It only ever reboots when we tell it to.
More relevant with regards to Exchange vs Gmail - how do you manage your data retention policy, backups, disaster recovery, etc with gmail? Hope and pray that Google maintain their free service to a standard your business expects?
The tools are there... I currently have about 40 Windows 2003/2008 servers under my control and they need very little maintenance. I've previously had a similar number of linux boxes to maintain, and really, its much of a muchness.
Most of our non-development work is simply adding/removing users, etc - which would be just as tedious with a unix only environment.
IT admin costs vs the other 1200 staff who have an existing skillset with applications they know is a drop in the ocean. You use the available tools to achieve business objectives - they don't really have much to do with what IT wants.
Choose what works. If you have a shitload of custom apps written on Windows, then migrating them for the sake of a few license fees and keeping IT happy is going to be a pain in the arse in terms of business process changes, testing, and actually doing the roll out/conversion. Conversely, if you're an ISP or have fairly platform neutral applications, go for it.