Well, I have.
I bought a few (prolly 4 or 5) from Palm.
They do have some sort of DRM, because the 'key' you use to decrypt them is the credit card number you used to purchase them. I'm guessing most people aren't going to put thier CC numbers up on the p2p networks.
It's very handy to be able to read in boring meetings, or while I'm waiting for a server to reboot or something similar. I get to extract value out of time that's otherwise wasted. If I pulled out a regular book, people would realize I was goofing off, but this way it looks like I'm 'working' on my Palm Pilot.
This virus is the result of companies putting idiots in charge of setting up and administering Windows-based networks. There are so many Windows-based organizations, that only a small percentage of idiot admins will create enough insecure systems for a virus to do damage large enough to get noticed.
Unfortunately, even when the admins (ie. Me) tell the higher-ups that we MUST patch (and reboot) the servers periodically, we get shot down, because the bean-counters in charge say that the system cannot be rebooted, because they are in the middle of super-duper-important financial stuff.
So, we tell them if you want 24/7 stability, we should build a cluster or whatever so we can patch the nodes independantly and keep the system up. No dice, that's too expensive (these are bean-counters, remember).
I have 2500 machines to patch, and I am *not allowed* to get started for 7 days. (that's when the bean-counters can tolerate a few minutes of down-time.
So, it's not always stupid admins who cause these troubles.
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My biggest problem with Novell is that to get any of the great benefits that Netware provides, I have to buy a slew of stuff -- like ZenWorks and BorderWare.
I think you have this backwards, sorta. Novell licenses its products (ZenWorks, NDS BorderManager, etc.) Most of them run on a variety of platforms (Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc). They throw in thier os (Netware) for free in most cases.
I know where I work, we pay for X number of NDS lisences, but we can install Netware on as many servers as we like.
I have the exact same arrangement on my IBM x345 2U Intel boxen.
This isn't something special about the mainframe.
IBM is moving a lot of it's Mainframe hardware technology into the xSeries servers. (chipkill memory, hotswap hardware, etc.)
Well, I was not aware that I could view flash animations under avantgo on my palm/cellphone. I stand corrected...
I do think you are missing the point though. SVG does not come on CD. It is an XML dialect. If you don't want to use 'experimental linux tools', use Adobe Illustrator (it supoprts SVG).
Or use notepad/vi, if that's your thing. It doesn't matter.
If you 'have work to do' that must be done in flash, by all means, proceed. 99% of the flash out there in the wild seems specifically designed to: 1. limit my ability as a user to get at content. 2. to create 'gee-whizz cool' effects that simply waste my time and make me even less likely to bother waiting for your content to load.
As a content producer, it is in my best interests to get my content out there in a form that can becomsumed by EVERYONE. (That's what 'feeds my bulldog') So, validatided HTML is the least common denominator.
(You know, there's a reason why./ does not allow flash banner ads, and I for one and happy for that.)
WC3 is incredibly slow and hesitant to evolve the standard. That's why MS charges ahead with it's own stuff. If Mozilla or Opera were smart, they'd do it as well.
Yes, the W3C is horribly slow, I agree, but to encourage the adoption of non-standard 'standards' is not a good thing. This is how we ended up having to code two complete version of sites, one for IE, and one for moz.
I have no problem with Macromedia developing whatever it pleases. I *do* have a problem when I, as an end user, cannot access content because some jackass developer has locked it up in some proprietary format. This is no different for Flash than it is for.doc, or quicktime.
Does macromedia provide a plugin for all browsers on all platforms? Will they support your prefered platform forever and ever?
Flash might work nice and dandy behind the firewall, where your corporate IT people can dictate the end-user experience, but when you are presenting content to the world at large, you don't know what the end user is running.
You keep saying "should", but that opportunity is there and ready to be taken. Macromedia has done that and really evolved it. That 'sucks ass'?
No, I am not faulting Macromedia at all, I fault developers (or perhaps to be fair, thier management) for using Flash, when dhtml+ecmascript would have done the job just as well. (I realize there are RARE occasions when flash does the job better, but in my experience these represent less than 10% of the things I see on the web.)
Of course, if you want your ability to communicate to your users to be at the mercy of a third party (macromedia) more power to you. While you're at it, why not replace your html with powerpoint slides. My point is that there is something on the horizon (SVG) that does what Flash does, except without all the shortcomings of a proprietary format.
Flash should be replaced by a proper W3C standard, that way everybody can play without running closed code from Macromedia.
Lo and behold, just such a thing exists!!!
It's called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/
Don't worry, you can still do all your stupid, annoying animated 'punch the monkey' type of nonsense, but at least your monkey is standard XML. And your audience can 'view-source' your monkey if they like, thus enabling a whole community of open-sourced monkey punching animations.
You can generate it server-side (or even rasterize it for those with crappy browsers) with a spiffy batch of tools by those same people who brought you the Apache HTTP server.
There's even a very nice gtk SVG editor app available for X11, and Win32 available here.
Of course, there is a small downside, as of yet, mozilla (and IE) only support it with the use of a plugin, but if you're used to flash, you shoudln't mind that. As soon the the mozilla folks get around a liscencing issue, moz should support it natively (some builds already do).
In summary:
Proprietary 'punch the monkey' things suck ass.
Open standards-based 'punch the monkey' things suck considerably less.
Better yet, use SVG in your pages instead of flash (if you *must* have annoying animations) SVG is cool, it's XML, and it can be gziped on the fly. Even better yet, use SVG instead of PNGs for your silly little graphics.
I understand what you're saying, but I think the organic web-shooters make a more 'realistic' story for modern audiences.
There is much noise made in the news lately about cloning, stem cell research, genetically-engineered food, etc. So this is a technology that scares people today (much as I'm sure cold war era children were scared of radiation)
<comic_book_guy_mode> If you accept that a random shot of radiation causes the mutations required for spider-powers, then it seems to me MORE plausable that the genetically engineered spider would have this effect.
Also, mavel has a book (SpiderGirl, IIRC) that deals with Peter's Daughter (who also has spider-powers). In order for this to be believable, the original spder-bite would have had to cause a germ-level mutation in peter, otherwise his Spidey powers would not be a heritable trait. I think the sequence in the film showing the recombinant DNA strands makes this a bit more plausible (highly subjective, I know) </comic_book_guy_mode>
<Star_Trek_geek_mode> I think it's like star trek, where if you suspend disbelief of something absurd (warp speed travel), then it makes another absurdity (lots of different races of aliens within close proximity of earth) more believable. Without the aliens, the story would be lame, so we accept that Faster_than_light travel is possible in this world. </star_trek_geek_mode>
Comic book aged kids today know better than to think a random mutation could cause spiderman, but they just might believe in genetics.
Of course, I'm almost 30, and I still read comic books, so nobody should put much stock in what I have to say;-)
IIRC, Marvel came out with this line of "Ultimate" versions of the comics, where they re-booted all the story lines and made them more modern. I think the movie was based on this newer version of the story. In the "Ultimate" story line, for instance, Aunt May is still alive.
I think genetic DNA stuff is more spookey or whatever nowadays. Radioactiviy is not as horrific as it once was.
Close.
You may register as many machines as you like, but you may only Entitile one machine at a time for free. Each additional entitlement costs $60/year.
I personally have 2 machines registered, my desktop and my laptop, and I just move the entitlement from one machine to the other when upgrade time comes.
Baloney. If you backup your mail servers (you do backup your servers, right?) and take the tapes offsite for disaster recovery, having tapes full of bullshit costs real money. I need more tapes, bigger hard drives etc, etc for my mail servers.
SPAM is a serious problem. I don't think a legislative solution will do any good, becuase the spammers will just move to Sealand or something.
I think the real problem is that it's too easy to forge email. This is just a pulled-out-of-my-ass solution, but could SMTP be changed such that it requires digital signatures on each message, from each server it passes though. That way, I can verify against a trusted certificate authority, and know where this message originated and how it got to my server. Then, I know who to blacklist.
If you are using W2K server, you can set up file replication, so that every time they log on or log off, their files get replicated between the server and thier My Docs folder.
You can use group policy to force folder redirection to the servers, too.
No, I got the joke. The post I was replying to said that redhat was not a funny OS like mandrake with its cute penguins. I was just pointing out an example of RH's own silliness.
RedHat still has some silliness in its installer.
The 7.3 installer has singing, dancing hotdogs advising you to get a snack while the packages are copied!
Head Start is a federal program.
Head start is still alive and kicking (my mom works for head start)
Microsoft has not bankrupted the federal govenment (at least not yet)...:-)
>spacecraft were very polygon-oriented in design,
not curvaceous. It looked more *real* compared to modern
If you look at what WWII era fighter planes looked like compared with a modern-day F-15, you'll see the same curve to polygon evolution over roughly the same time period.
My reason for wanting to do this are many:
1. Netware is expensive! Not as bad as MS, but we are shelling out serious, serious moneies for our support/upgrade protection agreeement
2. With linux, I can do more things with the same hardware. For instance, I can run Domino on it (now we use AIX and NT for that)
3. Novell is dying. A lot of the 3rd party apps we use require an NT domain to work properly. That means even more NT servers. Most of these apps work with samba.Many of these companie's tech support types don't even know what a Netware is!
4. Novell is dying (part 2) Have you tried to staff competent Novell admins? They are getting hard to find. We already have a stable of AIX admins here, so staffing is less of concern.
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I bought a few (prolly 4 or 5) from Palm.
They do have some sort of DRM, because the 'key' you use to decrypt them is the credit card number you used to purchase them. I'm guessing most people aren't going to put thier CC numbers up on the p2p networks.
It's very handy to be able to read in boring meetings, or while I'm waiting for a server to reboot or something similar. I get to extract value out of time that's otherwise wasted. If I pulled out a regular book, people would realize I was goofing off, but this way it looks like I'm 'working' on my Palm Pilot.
Unfortunately, even when the admins (ie. Me) tell the higher-ups that we MUST patch (and reboot) the servers periodically, we get shot down, because the bean-counters in charge say that the system cannot be rebooted, because they are in the middle of super-duper-important financial stuff.
So, we tell them if you want 24/7 stability, we should build a cluster or whatever so we can patch the nodes independantly and keep the system up. No dice, that's too expensive (these are bean-counters, remember).
I have 2500 machines to patch, and I am *not allowed* to get started for 7 days. (that's when the bean-counters can tolerate a few minutes of down-time.
So, it's not always stupid admins who cause these troubles.
My biggest problem with Novell is that to get any of the great benefits that Netware provides, I have to buy a slew of stuff -- like ZenWorks and BorderWare.
I think you have this backwards, sorta. Novell licenses its products (ZenWorks, NDS BorderManager, etc.) Most of them run on a variety of platforms (Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc). They throw in thier os (Netware) for free in most cases.
I know where I work, we pay for X number of NDS lisences, but we can install Netware on as many servers as we like.
Supposedly, it's responsible for the massive scalability NDS has.
Windows Server 2003 has finally caught up, and includes a Salvage-like utility called "Shadow Copy
Better late than never, I guess :-)
Novell is supposedly releasing a GW client for linux! Woo!
This isn't something special about the mainframe. IBM is moving a lot of it's Mainframe hardware technology into the xSeries servers. (chipkill memory, hotswap hardware, etc.)
Well, I was not aware that I could view flash animations under avantgo on my palm/cellphone. I stand corrected...
./ does not allow flash banner ads, and I for one and happy for that.)
I do think you are missing the point though. SVG does not come on CD. It is an XML dialect. If you don't want to use 'experimental linux tools', use Adobe Illustrator (it supoprts SVG).
Or use notepad/vi, if that's your thing. It doesn't matter.
If you 'have work to do' that must be done in flash, by all means, proceed. 99% of the flash out there in the wild seems specifically designed to:
1. limit my ability as a user to get at content.
2. to create 'gee-whizz cool' effects that simply waste my time and make me even less likely to bother waiting for your content to load.
As a content producer, it is in my best interests to get my content out there in a form that can becomsumed by EVERYONE. (That's what 'feeds my bulldog') So, validatided HTML is the least common denominator.
(You know, there's a reason why
Yes, the W3C is horribly slow, I agree, but to encourage the adoption of non-standard 'standards' is not a good thing. This is how we ended up having to code two complete version of sites, one for IE, and one for moz.
I have no problem with Macromedia developing whatever it pleases. I *do* have a problem when I, as an end user, cannot access content because some jackass developer has locked it up in some proprietary format. This is no different for Flash than it is for .doc, or quicktime.
Does macromedia provide a plugin for all browsers on all platforms? Will they support your prefered platform forever and ever?
Flash might work nice and dandy behind the firewall, where your corporate IT people can dictate the end-user experience, but when you are presenting content to the world at large, you don't know what the end user is running.
You keep saying "should", but that opportunity is there and ready to be taken. Macromedia has done that and really evolved it. That 'sucks ass'?
No, I am not faulting Macromedia at all, I fault developers (or perhaps to be fair, thier management) for using Flash, when dhtml+ecmascript would have done the job just as well. (I realize there are RARE occasions when flash does the job better, but in my experience these represent less than 10% of the things I see on the web.)
Of course, if you want your ability to communicate to your users to be at the mercy of a third party (macromedia) more power to you. While you're at it, why not replace your html with powerpoint slides. My point is that there is something on the horizon (SVG) that does what Flash does, except without all the shortcomings of a proprietary format.
Flash should be replaced by a proper W3C standard, that way everybody can play without running closed code from Macromedia.
Lo and behold, just such a thing exists!!!
It's called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/
Don't worry, you can still do all your stupid, annoying animated 'punch the monkey' type of nonsense, but at least your monkey is standard XML. And your audience can 'view-source' your monkey if they like, thus enabling a whole community of open-sourced monkey punching animations.
You can generate it server-side (or even rasterize it for those with crappy browsers) with a spiffy batch of tools by those same people who brought you the Apache HTTP server.
There's even a very nice gtk SVG editor app available for X11, and Win32 available here.
Of course, there is a small downside, as of yet, mozilla (and IE) only support it with the use of a plugin, but if you're used to flash, you shoudln't mind that. As soon the the mozilla folks get around a liscencing issue, moz should support it natively (some builds already do).
In summary:
Proprietary 'punch the monkey' things suck ass.
Open standards-based 'punch the monkey' things suck considerably less.
Better yet, use SVG in your pages instead of flash (if you *must* have annoying animations)
SVG is cool, it's XML, and it can be gziped on the fly.
Even better yet, use SVG instead of PNGs for your silly little graphics.
Zoom, Zoom, bandwidth friendly, standards (and buzzword) compliant!!
I understand what you're saying, but I think the organic web-shooters make a more 'realistic' story for modern audiences.
;-)
There is much noise made in the news lately about cloning, stem cell research, genetically-engineered food, etc. So this is a technology that scares people today (much as I'm sure cold war era children were scared of radiation)
<comic_book_guy_mode>
If you accept that a random shot of radiation causes the mutations required for spider-powers, then it seems to me MORE plausable that the genetically engineered spider would have this effect.
Also, mavel has a book (SpiderGirl, IIRC) that deals with Peter's Daughter (who also has spider-powers). In order for this to be believable, the original spder-bite would have had to cause a germ-level mutation in peter, otherwise his Spidey powers would not be a heritable trait. I think the sequence in the film showing the recombinant DNA strands makes this a bit more plausible (highly subjective, I know)
</comic_book_guy_mode>
<Star_Trek_geek_mode>
I think it's like star trek, where if you suspend disbelief of something absurd (warp speed travel), then it makes another absurdity (lots of different races of aliens within close proximity of earth) more believable.
Without the aliens, the story would be lame, so we accept that Faster_than_light travel is possible in this world.
</star_trek_geek_mode>
Comic book aged kids today know better than to think a random mutation could cause spiderman, but they just might believe in genetics.
Of course, I'm almost 30, and I still read comic books, so nobody should put much stock in what I have to say
I think genetic DNA stuff is more spookey or whatever nowadays. Radioactiviy is not as horrific as it once was.
Just leave a bottle in your car on a hot day. Works for me. Hot Mt. Dew is an....interesting experience.
Close.
You may register as many machines as you like, but you may only Entitile one machine at a time for free. Each additional entitlement costs $60/year. I personally have 2 machines registered, my desktop and my laptop, and I just move the entitlement from one machine to the other when upgrade time comes.
the smb://server/share works in nautilus, too.
At least it does for me on RH 7.3
How do you spell Linux?
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.)
(http://www.redhat.com/legal/legal_statement.html
If you backup your mail servers (you do backup your servers, right?) and take the tapes offsite for disaster recovery, having tapes full of bullshit costs real money. I need more tapes, bigger hard drives etc, etc for my mail servers.
SPAM is a serious problem.
I don't think a legislative solution will do any good, becuase the spammers will just move to Sealand or something.
I think the real problem is that it's too easy to forge email. This is just a pulled-out-of-my-ass solution, but could SMTP be changed such that it requires digital signatures on each message, from each server it passes though. That way, I can verify against a trusted certificate authority, and know where this message originated and how it got to my server.
Then, I know who to blacklist.
Or am I just talking arse?
You can use group policy to force folder redirection to the servers, too.
No, I got the joke. The post I was replying to said that redhat was not a funny OS like mandrake with its cute penguins. I was just pointing out an example of RH's own silliness.
RedHat still has some silliness in its installer.
The 7.3 installer has singing, dancing hotdogs advising you to get a snack while the packages are copied!
Head Start is a federal program. :-)
Head start is still alive and kicking (my mom works for head start)
Microsoft has not bankrupted the federal govenment (at least not yet)...
If you look at what WWII era fighter planes looked like compared with a modern-day F-15, you'll see the same curve to polygon evolution over roughly the same time period.
1. Netware is expensive! Not as bad as MS, but we are shelling out serious, serious moneies for our support/upgrade protection agreeement
2. With linux, I can do more things with the same hardware. For instance, I can run Domino on it (now we use AIX and NT for that)
3. Novell is dying. A lot of the 3rd party apps we use require an NT domain to work properly. That means even more NT servers. Most of these apps work with samba.Many of these companie's tech support types don't even know what a Netware is!
4. Novell is dying (part 2) Have you tried to staff competent Novell admins? They are getting hard to find. We already have a stable of AIX admins here, so staffing is less of concern.