NDS is great for administering your network. WHat it allows you to do is, administer almost any device on your network through one tool. You can administer, printers, users, server, workstations, software, etc..
I am a Master CNE and have worked with NDS for years, it has come a long way. I swear by it, I couldn't imagine running a large enterprise network without it.
The downside is that NDS can be very touchy when making major changes, like replacing a server or something. When working with a network that is running NDS you have to always be aware of what can happen to tree if you do this or that. It's not a big deal, just as long as you aware of the problems.
I wouldn't jump on this NDS for Linux bandwagon yet though. It's too new, let them release a service pack or two before you use it in a production environment. My experience with Novell and Linux support has been very horrible. Some of things they have released to run on Solaris, that I have running on the "unsupported Linux" platform were not written very well. They named html pages with all uppercase letters and references them with lower case letters in their servlet. Just plain sloppy programming if you ask me. They wouldn't even talk to me when I called to ask for help with running their GroupWise WebAccess on Linux. They told me it was not a supported OS. And the gay on the phone kept referring to Linux as a company, like there is one big office building somewhere that "Linux-Where do you want to go tomorrow". I am going off, but Novell pissed me off. NDS is a good product, we will see how good it is on Linux.
Yeah right. I am sure he's really busting his ass. BTW ETtrade is not really for daytrading. Real daytrading requires immediate trading, not 20 minute delays or whatever.
What they are doing isn't illegal, if it is, it shouldn't be. What they are doing is WRONG, but not illegal. It's not illegal for Wallmart to not sell certain cd's. It shouldn't be illegal for an isp to censor web sites. I don't believe in Governement approved censorship, but the people should have a right to censor what they want to censor. If you don't like what they are doing, you boycott them. It's as simple as that. That is the power of the people. We don't need more laws, we need more people to think with their heads, not their lawyers. If you own an isp and you want to run some software that blocks web sites, so what, isp's are a dime a dozen. If all your customers leave because they don't like the way you do business than you will be out of business. They should have told you. They aren't doing it for moral reasons, since they host "adult" content. They are doing for other reasons, I don't know what they are though. I am just sick and tired of everyone always bringing out the legal issues of things like this. It shouldn't be about legality, it should be about morals. By morals I don't mean christian morals, I mean the morals like right and wrong. It is up to you, the consumer, to say this is wrong. Write them a letter and tell them why you are dropping them as an isp. That is the right thing to do, don't freaking sue them.
I don't know who this guy is? Nor do I care. He obviously knows nothing about Linux or RedHat or anything related to computer OS's. He is most likely some old fart stuck in his ways that is trying desperatly to keep hold of his old-fashioned way of doing business. There are a lot of people that don't want a company like RedHat to succeed because that means that the way they have been doing business for the last 20 years is not the way anymore, for software companies. People don't want change. Businesses don't want to have to change the way they do business. You have seen it in the past when companies don't change with the times, they die. And the reporters that report on them only adapt with the new way of doing things or they find themselves standing all by themselves wondering, "What happened, yesterday I was writing articles about how great Microsoft is. Now I am writing my own obituary."
Well I may be going off the deep end but what the hell it's Thursday.
$65. I only paid like $35 for my Leatherman. If you are just working computers you aren't going to need all that extra crap on that tool that was mentioned. All you need is a Phillips head and occasionally the needlenose.
Who cares if Linux has been or will be legitimized by large corporations? I really don't. I started using Linux in 1997 and will continue to use it regardless of whether Corel makes a version or 3com supports it, or HP thinks it's hip. Who really cares. It was around long before CNN did there 12 minute story on Linux. It was here long before any of the "Big Boys" started showing an interest. Are they going to ruin linux? I don't see how. If companies, like RedHat, start trying to make software that only runs on RedHat, me and every other redblooded linux user will run to Debian or something like Debian. I like Debian, I used it for awhile. I decided to give RedHat a shot, and I like RedHat too. But as soon as anyone starts messing with my OS, I will just wipe my drives and install a distribution that doesn't want to be M$. I don't see any of that happening with RedHat. People just fear anyone that succeeds, like M$. RedHat is nowhere near the size of M$, and they never will be. I don't think there ever will be another M$. I think we have all learned from seeing what M$ has done, to not let that happen ever again. Especially now that we have viable alternatives.
My biggest fear about all the RedHat bashing is that it will divide the Linux community and we will go by way of the dinosaur or UNIX. We need to stick together and not fight amongst ourselves.
I have an idea, let's make a movie about an astroid that is going to kill everyone that is left over after the y2k bug killed most of us. We can have Jon Katz write a book about it first then of course make it into a movie. That is the year that all the 32-bit unix systems will die right. Isn't that also the year when evidence that has been sealed by the Warren commission will be released about the JFK killing. It is going to be an exciting year. I will be 66 years old and wont even know my own name much less care about any of this, I will have had my brain fried from reading Slashdot for 40 years and slashdot's subliminal messaging will have taken it's toll on my sanity.
I have never been to Idaho, but I am sure you people aren't lying. I just think that Katz likes to overwrite. By overwrite I mean like how some actors overact. His writing sounds neat and everything and it sounds like he knows what he is talking about, but if you really listen to what he is saying, there really isn't much there. It's like he could write for an hour about the dog jumping over the fence and you might think you are reading a great story. In reality you just spent an hour reading about a dog jumping over a fence. This story, was really just about two guys that moved to Chicago. I am moving from Naples, Florida, a real wasteland for technology to Seattle, why not right 20 pages on my struggles. I grew on the poor side of St.Paul, moved to Naples, realized Naples sucks and moved to Seattle. End of story, who cares. I don't have anything against Katz or the two characters in his story, I just think that I will be skipping the rest of Katz' posts, he got my twice.
I know this $500 is for 24 copies of the same book, but come on. Who the hell wants 24 the same book written by butthead.
I do love Microsoft though. Just think all the fun we would be missing out on if we didn't have Microsoft to laugh at. If it weren't for Microsoft we may not have Open Source. Maybe we would just have really high quality commercial software and os's. What then? What would the world be like if we never had a Microsoft? I digress.
KEWL. My point wasn't that there is nothing on the Internet worth reading, I am sure there is. But you can't disagree that there way more stuff to read in a library. I mean stuff that is worth reading. Any moron can create a website on geocities, but who really wants to read it. I gues sifting through all the crap takes too long for me to really find anything of value.
You shouldn't beg, it belittles you. Just kidding. I am not saying that we aren't communicating. I am not saying we are not caring on a conversation. I am just saying that there is something to be said for communicating with people on a personal level, face to face.
I did not say that there is no information on the Internet, I just said that the library which has thousands of great literature that is not available on the Internet. Reading some stupid post on Slashdot is not quite the same as sitting down and reading Gone With The Wind or whatever.
I have heard through the grapevine that china is in the process of building a network of AMiga computers that they will ditribute to it's people, that's a lot of Amiga's. With these Amiga's the chinese people will be able to access the Internet, sort of. The government will download all the sites that they deem appropriate and the Amiga computers will access only those sites.
So before we get all in to bashing the USA and the freaks that just love to censor everything, it could be worse.
I think censoring the Internet is pretty stupid. I would rather see parents parent their children. Just because the Internet is there does not mean that you have to let your kid run wild on it. As for adults I think we can make up our own minds.
The Internet is almost as big of an invention as the printing press, but not quite. In the USA anyone can get a library card and go read any number of millions of books. Not everyone can afford a computer. Of course you can go to most libraries now and log on to the net, but that's not the same as reading a book. How many of you out there have sat down at your computer, logged in to the net and read a novel? Probably none. Although some of Jon's posts are almost novels.Yes you can read about news and read stories from people, but it is not the same as reading a book. Someday the net will probably be equal to a library in information but that time is not yet. The Internet is allowing people to communicate with people all around the world with out leaving their home. It allows people to do all their shopping online. It allows people to not have to actually carry on a conversation with another human being, that is not always so great. I sometimes feel we are building a society of introverts.
Is drawing attention to that fact that you think Linux sucks what you want. It is pretty obvious that you aren't going to get any constructive help. That's like going up to someone and saying "You are an idiot, help me." Posting this on a mailing list or newsgroup would be a lot more constructive.
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NDS is great for administering your network. WHat it allows you to do is, administer almost any device on your network through one tool. You can administer, printers, users, server, workstations, software, etc..
I am a Master CNE and have worked with NDS for years, it has come a long way. I swear by it, I couldn't imagine running a large enterprise network without it.
The downside is that NDS can be very touchy when making major changes, like replacing a server or something. When working with a network that is running NDS you have to always be aware of what can happen to tree if you do this or that. It's not a big deal, just as long as you aware of the problems.
I wouldn't jump on this NDS for Linux bandwagon yet though. It's too new, let them release a service pack or two before you use it in a production environment. My experience with Novell and Linux support has been very horrible. Some of things they have released to run on Solaris, that I have running on the "unsupported Linux" platform were not written very well. They named html pages with all uppercase letters and references them with lower case letters in their servlet. Just plain sloppy programming if you ask me. They wouldn't even talk to me when I called to ask for help with running their GroupWise WebAccess on Linux. They told me it was not a supported OS. And the gay on the phone kept referring to Linux as a company, like there is one big office building somewhere that "Linux-Where do you want to go tomorrow". I am going off, but Novell pissed me off. NDS is a good product, we will see how good it is on Linux.
Yeah right. I am sure he's really busting his ass.
BTW ETtrade is not really for daytrading. Real daytrading requires immediate trading, not 20 minute delays or whatever.
What they are doing isn't illegal, if it is, it shouldn't be. What they are doing is WRONG, but not illegal. It's not illegal for Wallmart to not sell certain cd's. It shouldn't be illegal for an isp to censor web sites. I don't believe in Governement approved censorship, but the people should have a right to censor what they want to censor. If you don't like what they are doing, you boycott them. It's as simple as that. That is the power of the people. We don't need more laws, we need more people to think with their heads, not their lawyers. If you own an isp and you want to run some software that blocks web sites, so what, isp's are a dime a dozen. If all your customers leave because they don't like the way you do business than you will be out of business. They should have told you. They aren't doing it for moral reasons, since they host "adult" content. They are doing for other reasons, I don't know what they are though. I am just sick and tired of everyone always bringing out the legal issues of things like this. It shouldn't be about legality, it should be about morals. By morals I don't mean christian morals, I mean the morals like right and wrong. It is up to you, the consumer, to say this is wrong. Write them a letter and tell them why you are dropping them as an isp. That is the right thing to do, don't freaking sue them.
That's my two cents.
I don't know who this guy is? Nor do I care. He obviously knows nothing about Linux or RedHat or anything related to computer OS's. He is most likely some old fart stuck in his ways that is trying desperatly to keep hold of his old-fashioned way of doing business. There are a lot of people that don't want a company like RedHat to succeed because that means that the way they have been doing business for the last 20 years is not the way anymore, for software companies. People don't want change. Businesses don't want to have to change the way they do business. You have seen it in the past when companies don't change with the times, they die. And the reporters that report on them only adapt with the new way of doing things or they find themselves standing all by themselves wondering, "What happened, yesterday I was writing articles about how great Microsoft is. Now I am writing my own obituary."
Well I may be going off the deep end but what the hell it's Thursday.
$65. I only paid like $35 for my Leatherman. If you are just working computers you aren't going to need all that extra crap on that tool that was mentioned. All you need is a Phillips head and occasionally the needlenose.
Who cares if Linux has been or will be legitimized by large corporations? I really don't. I started using Linux in 1997 and will continue to use it regardless of whether Corel makes a version or 3com supports it, or HP thinks it's hip. Who really cares. It was around long before CNN did there 12 minute story on Linux. It was here long before any of the "Big Boys" started showing an interest. Are they going to ruin linux? I don't see how. If companies, like RedHat, start trying to make software that only runs on RedHat, me and every other redblooded linux user will run to Debian or something like Debian. I like Debian, I used it for awhile. I decided to give RedHat a shot, and I like RedHat too. But as soon as anyone starts messing with my OS, I will just wipe my drives and install a distribution that doesn't want to be M$. I don't see any of that happening with RedHat. People just fear anyone that succeeds, like M$. RedHat is nowhere near the size of M$, and they never will be. I don't think there ever will be another M$. I think we have all learned from seeing what M$ has done, to not let that happen ever again. Especially now that we have viable alternatives.
My biggest fear about all the RedHat bashing is that it will divide the Linux community and we will go by way of the dinosaur or UNIX. We need to stick together and not fight amongst ourselves.
I have an idea, let's make a movie about an astroid that is going to kill everyone that is left over after the y2k bug killed most of us. We can have Jon Katz write a book about it first then of course make it into a movie. That is the year that all the 32-bit unix systems will die right. Isn't that also the year when evidence that has been sealed by the Warren commission will be released about the JFK killing. It is going to be an exciting year. I will be 66 years old and wont even know my own name much less care about any of this, I will have had my brain fried from reading Slashdot for 40 years and slashdot's subliminal messaging will have taken it's toll on my sanity.
Keep up the good work.
I have never been to Idaho, but I am sure you people aren't lying. I just think that Katz likes to overwrite. By overwrite I mean like how some actors overact. His writing sounds neat and everything and it sounds like he knows what he is talking about, but if you really listen to what he is saying, there really isn't much there. It's like he could write for an hour about the dog jumping over the fence and you might think you are reading a great story. In reality you just spent an hour reading about a dog jumping over a fence. This story, was really just about two guys that moved to Chicago. I am moving from Naples, Florida, a real wasteland for technology to Seattle, why not right 20 pages on my struggles. I grew on the poor side of St.Paul, moved to Naples, realized Naples sucks and moved to Seattle. End of story, who cares. I don't have anything against Katz or the two characters in his story, I just think that I will be skipping the rest of Katz' posts, he got my twice.
I know this $500 is for 24 copies of the same book, but come on. Who the hell wants 24 the same book written by butthead.
I do love Microsoft though. Just think all the fun we would be missing out on if we didn't have Microsoft to laugh at. If it weren't for Microsoft we may not have Open Source. Maybe we would just have really high quality commercial software and os's. What then? What would the world be like if we never had a Microsoft? I digress.
KEWL.
My point wasn't that there is nothing on the Internet worth reading, I am sure there is. But you can't disagree that there way more stuff to read in a library. I mean stuff that is worth reading. Any moron can create a website on geocities, but who really wants to read it. I gues sifting through all the crap takes too long for me to really find anything of value.
KEWL
You shouldn't beg, it belittles you. Just kidding. I am not saying that we aren't communicating. I am not saying we are not caring on a conversation. I am just saying that there is something to be said for communicating with people on a personal level, face to face.
I did not say that there is no information on the Internet, I just said that the library which has thousands of great literature that is not available on the Internet. Reading some stupid post on Slashdot is not quite the same as sitting down and reading Gone With The Wind or whatever.
I have heard through the grapevine that china is in the process of building a network of AMiga computers that they will ditribute to it's people, that's a lot of Amiga's. With these Amiga's the chinese people will be able to access the Internet, sort of. The government will download all the sites that they deem appropriate and the Amiga computers will access only those sites.
So before we get all in to bashing the USA and the freaks that just love to censor everything, it could be worse.
I think censoring the Internet is pretty stupid. I would rather see parents parent their children. Just because the Internet is there does not mean that you have to let your kid run wild on it. As for adults I think we can make up our own minds.
The Internet is almost as big of an invention as the printing press, but not quite. In the USA anyone can get a library card and go read any number of millions of books. Not everyone can afford a computer. Of course you can go to most libraries now and log on to the net, but that's not the same as reading a book. How many of you out there have sat down at your computer, logged in to the net and read a novel? Probably none. Although some of Jon's posts are almost novels.Yes you can read about news and read stories from people, but it is not the same as reading a book. Someday the net will probably be equal to a library in information but that time is not yet. The Internet is allowing people to communicate with people all around the world with out leaving their home. It allows people to do all their shopping online. It allows people to not have to actually carry on a conversation with another human being, that is not always so great. I sometimes feel we are building a society of introverts.
Just my 2 cents.
Is drawing attention to that fact that you think Linux sucks what you want. It is pretty obvious that you aren't going to get any constructive help. That's like going up to someone and saying "You are an idiot, help me." Posting this on a mailing list or newsgroup would be a lot more constructive.
Just my two cents.