It's not about speed, its about address space. Need a memory mapped file > 4GB on your Pentium? Sorry charlie, you're SOL. Why do you think people buy Sparc (besides the excellent support)?
Hello, my name is Bigshot Lawyer from Company X. We're making some changes to MySQL, and we're not going to return the code to anyone. Go ahead, sue us. What are you going to do, have Stallman wipe the food out of his beard, get a haircut, and write a nasty editorial? Call us back when you have some balls to back up your 'license'. Have a nice day.
1) A remote crash is not a security compromise, its a DoS. 2) If you have physical access to my wire, all is lost. 3) If you have physical access to my machine, all is lost.
Except that with File and Printer Sharing disabled, and a reasonably recent Mozilla, there's nothing to exploit on a 95 box. Just get people to shut their PCs down at night, and you'll avoid the MTBF monster, too. Next time try knowing something about what you post.
If you're not a qualified admin, why would you be recompiling anything? Why would you consider LFS? Buy RH8.0, buy a service contract, insert CDROM, install, profit!
The old saying - Linux is only free if your time has no value.
"Commercialization is evil"? Welcome to my Foe list. Who do you think paid for the Internet back in 95? The government, Universities (read more government), and stupid VCs. If you think that there is no difference between the power of the whip and the power of the dollar, I hope you inherit the world you advocate.
DirectX may be now, but it wasn't when it came out. The real benefit of DX is its a hardware API for sound, input, networking AND graphics. And yes, it finally does cook. Anyone else remember the DirectX 3 days? It was pretty lame. The problem that people have with MS and DX is that they've ALWAYS said that they were "the deal" - its the hubris, and the ignorance of Joe Sixpack, that makes the techies wince.
Actually, this is a logical fallacy known as ad hominem of the "vested interest" type. His financial gain is irrelevant to the truth or logic of his argument.
Hardly, I have onboard ATA33, onboard ATA66, a PCI SCSI card, and a PCI ATARAID card, and I can use them all at once. Don't need to (SCSI HD and CDRW, and system on ATARAID), but it all works.
directs all your outbound DNS to your cache. Let users, rogue admins, and anyone else try and resolve from particular nameservers, all they'll get is your own cache.
I rarely respond to AC Trolls, but I'm off work today, so I have nothing better to do.
You basically stated my point. Anyone who actually does work with computers understood it implicitly. If you're looking to do server consolidation, you DONT do it on x86. Certainly not with Wintel.
Of course MS will buy one of the implementors of this kind of technology. Look at Citrix. Of course, it will run well, 1 or 2 versions later. Of course, it will NOT run other OSes as well, or even at all. There will be undocumented hacks, which might make it work better.
The problem is that MS stuff doesn't run on anything but x86 these days. I want a real hardware platform, like IBM makes, where I can carve out a few LPARs on a 32-way box with 8GB of RAM. Then I'll run Windows200x on it, with my other OS in that. Real hardware redundancy, etc.
Using Linux as an example-- Its far better to run Linux and Win-in-VMWare (free + VMWare) than MS and Linux-in-its-VMWare-clone. Do you trust MS stuff to be the core OS?
Let's all run out and spend $$$$$ on a brand new TV, throw our old ones out, create a landfill the size of New Jersey, so that we can watch "Joe Millionaire" and be bombarded with Coca-Cola ads in super-duper 17.1-quadraphonic digital surround-sound bliss!
WAKE UP PEOPLE. Turn off the TV, and play a game with your kids. Go for a walk. Discuss politics. READ.
The more we act like drones, the more they'll try and cram down our throats. 10 years from now, there won't be any outcry over the next version of the DMCA.
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It's not about speed, its about address space. Need a memory mapped file > 4GB on your Pentium? Sorry charlie, you're SOL. Why do you think people buy Sparc (besides the excellent support)?
Too bad you can't mod an entire article.
Hello, my name is Bigshot Lawyer from Company X. We're making some changes to MySQL, and we're not going to return the code to anyone. Go ahead, sue us. What are you going to do, have Stallman wipe the food out of his beard, get a haircut, and write a nasty editorial?
Call us back when you have some balls to back up your 'license'.
Have a nice day.
Except that:
1) A remote crash is not a security compromise, its a DoS.
2) If you have physical access to my wire, all is lost.
3) If you have physical access to my machine, all is lost.
Nice try though.
Except that with File and Printer Sharing disabled, and a reasonably recent Mozilla, there's nothing to exploit on a 95 box. Just get people to shut their PCs down at night, and you'll avoid the MTBF monster, too.
Next time try knowing something about what you post.
If you're not a qualified admin, why would you be recompiling anything? Why would you consider LFS? Buy RH8.0, buy a service contract, insert CDROM, install, profit!
The old saying - Linux is only free if your time has no value.
"Commercialization is evil"? Welcome to my Foe list. Who do you think paid for the Internet back in 95? The government, Universities (read more government), and stupid VCs. If you think that there is no difference between the power of the whip and the power of the dollar, I hope you inherit the world you advocate.
Replacing your SonicWalls with anything is bound to be an improvement.
DirectX may be now, but it wasn't when it came out. The real benefit of DX is its a hardware API for sound, input, networking AND graphics. And yes, it finally does cook. Anyone else remember the DirectX 3 days? It was pretty lame. The problem that people have with MS and DX is that they've ALWAYS said that they were "the deal" - its the hubris, and the ignorance of Joe Sixpack, that makes the techies wince.
Culture? You mean the yogurt.
Actually, this is a logical fallacy known as ad hominem of the "vested interest" type. His financial gain is irrelevant to the truth or logic of his argument.
Hardly, I have onboard ATA33, onboard ATA66, a PCI SCSI card, and a PCI ATARAID card, and I can use them all at once. Don't need to (SCSI HD and CDRW, and system on ATARAID), but it all works.
DNS cache.
My company firewall is a Linux host-based box with some custom logging apps, squid and tinydns. Making your network "Internet friendly" is easy:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 53
directs all your outbound DNS to your cache. Let users, rogue admins, and anyone else try and resolve from particular nameservers, all they'll get is your own cache.
Heh, they're still asking to set cookies on me lasting until 2010. There's optimism for you!
So your system information tool is mIRC? Wow... you divulged more than you know.
for ( i=1,i7,i++) {
print 3*rand(6);
}
...and MSoft is planning a similar software built in.
No, MS bought the company (and its IP) who did this already. MS doesn't innovate, they buy.
(-1, Troll or +1, True? You decide. I already have.)
And save the pain.
Since they have the lion's share of the enterprise AV market, and make both Linux and Solaris SMTP scrubbing tools, go with them.
It was in the early 90's, you cretinous troll.
I rarely respond to AC Trolls, but I'm off work today, so I have nothing better to do.
You basically stated my point. Anyone who actually does work with computers understood it implicitly. If you're looking to do server consolidation, you DONT do it on x86. Certainly not with Wintel.
Of course MS will buy one of the implementors of this kind of technology. Look at Citrix. Of course, it will run well, 1 or 2 versions later. Of course, it will NOT run other OSes as well, or even at all. There will be undocumented hacks, which might make it work better.
The problem is that MS stuff doesn't run on anything but x86 these days. I want a real hardware platform, like IBM makes, where I can carve out a few LPARs on a 32-way box with 8GB of RAM. Then I'll run Windows200x on it, with my other OS in that. Real hardware redundancy, etc.
Using Linux as an example--
Its far better to run Linux and Win-in-VMWare (free + VMWare) than MS and Linux-in-its-VMWare-clone. Do you trust MS stuff to be the core OS?
+1, True
Let's all run out and spend $$$$$ on a brand new TV, throw our old ones out, create a landfill the size of New Jersey, so that we can watch "Joe Millionaire" and be bombarded with Coca-Cola ads in super-duper 17.1-quadraphonic digital surround-sound bliss!
WAKE UP PEOPLE. Turn off the TV, and play a game with your kids. Go for a walk. Discuss politics. READ.
The more we act like drones, the more they'll try and cram down our throats. 10 years from now, there won't be any outcry over the next version of the DMCA.
Except what has the UN ever accomplished?