There are a lot of products out there to let you search the internet but not so many that allow you to search the intranet. The DoS needed to search 1 million documents, provide a frontend easily, and secure it with SAML. The Google Appliance does all this and for a fraction of the price that everyone else offers. We used to use Convera but the product ran in java and required a huge number of resources. It did not provide a great frontend to do translations and I lost sleep at night trying to keep the software running 24/7. With google I am sleeping normal hours and my biggest problem is with the editors and the content. They also just released a sharepoint connector to crawl and index a sharepoint server and its content. Overall, the goal of the government should be to search the million if not billions and billions of documents, provide value, and make it secure. Also, I think every man, woman, and child has used Google so it is an easy interface and no learning curve.
I am sure myspace execs did not notice and they are all about the money anyways ($$$). Did you see the picture of the CEO on the front of Wired? Tell me he does not make millions off of that company. MySpace is a cancer on the internet (IMHO) and since we all must post about our drunken night of sex and debauchery at the age of 14, it continues on.
As for the users and the million of computers out there. Using Microsoft is a bad thing but a necessary evil because it is on every computer sold at Best Buy, Dell, and well everywhere. When Linux is easy, we will have the same exploits for libraries.
P.S. - Windows people should WindowsUpdate daily if you value your PC as well as your privacy.
You could edit the post to reflect the Anonymous Coward user frmo the original user. The user who posted the story will not know nor care one way or another. Plenty of stories get posted by the anonymous coward. Also, feel free to edit any story, it is your site, and not ours. It is your job to foster the communiyt, well the mods and the owners. It is also "our civic duty" to help you since it is a large site.
But I am afraid to say, it is you the owner that gets the letters from lawyers, and not us the users that gets it.
The reasons businesses do not want to move is because of the "Microsoft Tax". Why pay millions of dollars to Microsoft in upgrade fees when you can get a brand new computer / asset and get the OEM version for a cheaper price than upgrading the OS on a slower computer. You will find that companies asset lifecycle is roughly five years. Longhorn will certainly be on the list for companies upgrading but it will more than likely happen on PCs they leased and got an upgrade on. Remember that businesses run on money and if you can keep the expense down for five years, you get a bigger bottom line.
I can prove my point in this too! Look at freshmeat.net or sourceforge and look at all the bad open source projects people try to do and either figure it out they they do not have the talent to complete the projects or they put something out there that doesn't even work. Don't get me wrong, I still believe in Open Source, I just think you need to pass the mental exam before you can hop on the band wagon. Yes, people do make mistakes, but if some people put a little thought into their projects and read a few white papers and howtos, there would be a huge improvement! Imagine if everyone used their brain... wow.
The driver you can download is from 3COM. The one that is supplied with RedHat now is the one which Donald Becker wrote. My question is this. Do I have to add this driver when the 3C905B I have is already working with the 590x driver? My theory is if it ain't broke don't fix it. The only difference between the 905 and the 905B was only supposed to be WOL (wake-on-lan for the acronym challenged). Why would I have to update why system to use these 3COM drivers if it is working fine now? Hummm.
I don't think it is out of beta. I mean they release NT Service Pack 4 which was a Service Pack 5 beta.... also layer with IE to make the box "Y2K" according to their standards and the whole thing craps the bed. NT4 is not the most amazing thing when it comes to hardware. Hell, server comes with what a processor and a NIC and the thing hums. Now lets add NT to a laptop and the fireworks kick in. Hell, even HP doesn't even support SP4 on the damn omnibooks! See ya.
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There are a lot of products out there to let you search the internet but not so many that allow you to search the intranet. The DoS needed to search 1 million documents, provide a frontend easily, and secure it with SAML. The Google Appliance does all this and for a fraction of the price that everyone else offers. We used to use Convera but the product ran in java and required a huge number of resources. It did not provide a great frontend to do translations and I lost sleep at night trying to keep the software running 24/7. With google I am sleeping normal hours and my biggest problem is with the editors and the content. They also just released a sharepoint connector to crawl and index a sharepoint server and its content. Overall, the goal of the government should be to search the million if not billions and billions of documents, provide value, and make it secure. Also, I think every man, woman, and child has used Google so it is an easy interface and no learning curve.
I am sure myspace execs did not notice and they are all about the money anyways ($$$). Did you see the picture of the CEO on the front of Wired? Tell me he does not make millions off of that company. MySpace is a cancer on the internet (IMHO) and since we all must post about our drunken night of sex and debauchery at the age of 14, it continues on.
As for the users and the million of computers out there. Using Microsoft is a bad thing but a necessary evil because it is on every computer sold at Best Buy, Dell, and well everywhere. When Linux is easy, we will have the same exploits for libraries.
P.S. - Windows people should WindowsUpdate daily if you value your PC as well as your privacy.
You could edit the post to reflect the Anonymous Coward user frmo the original user. The user who posted the story will not know nor care one way or another. Plenty of stories get posted by the anonymous coward. Also, feel free to edit any story, it is your site, and not ours. It is your job to foster the communiyt, well the mods and the owners. It is also "our civic duty" to help you since it is a large site.
But I am afraid to say, it is you the owner that gets the letters from lawyers, and not us the users that gets it.
The reasons businesses do not want to move is because of the "Microsoft Tax". Why pay millions of dollars to Microsoft in upgrade fees when you can get a brand new computer / asset and get the OEM version for a cheaper price than upgrading the OS on a slower computer. You will find that companies asset lifecycle is roughly five years. Longhorn will certainly be on the list for companies upgrading but it will more than likely happen on PCs they leased and got an upgrade on. Remember that businesses run on money and if you can keep the expense down for five years, you get a bigger bottom line.
I can prove my point in this too! Look at freshmeat.net or sourceforge and look at all the bad open source projects people try to do and either figure it out they they do not have the talent to complete the projects or they put something out there that doesn't even work. Don't get me wrong, I still believe in Open Source, I just think you need to pass the mental exam before you can hop on the band wagon. Yes, people do make mistakes, but if some people put a little thought into their projects and read a few white papers and howtos, there would be a huge improvement! Imagine if everyone used their brain... wow.
The driver you can download is from 3COM. The one that is supplied with RedHat now is the one which Donald Becker wrote. My question is this. Do I have to add this driver when the 3C905B I have is already working with the 590x driver? My theory is if it ain't broke don't fix it. The only difference between the 905 and the 905B was only supposed to be WOL (wake-on-lan for the acronym challenged). Why would I have to update why system to use these 3COM drivers if it is working fine now? Hummm.
I don't think it is out of beta. I mean they release NT Service Pack 4 which was a Service Pack 5 beta.... also layer with IE to make the box "Y2K" according to their standards and the whole thing craps the bed. NT4 is not the most amazing thing when it comes to hardware. Hell, server comes with what a processor and a NIC and the thing hums. Now lets add NT to a laptop and the fireworks kick in. Hell, even HP doesn't even support SP4 on the damn omnibooks! See ya.