Eweek has their typical (puffy, low on tech details) take on it here. Since they don't specify the OS, I'm assuming these are drivers for Windows.
First off, the linked eWeek article specifically states:
"The Linux, NetBSD and Microsoft Windows operating systems are known to have vulnerable link layer implementations, and it is extremely likely that other operating systems are also affected."
Not to defend eWeek's journalistic or technical integrity, but they do a pretty good job of summing up the pertinent facts... such as the vulerability affecting the above implementations.
Secondly, This is a Hyperlink. They are sometimes used on the World Wide Web, to link relevant and useful resources together. Had you followed this particular link, you would have found the CERT advisory about the problem AND a link the @Stake's own advisory and white paper about the problem.
The design specs for payphones are histerically funny to read. If I remember correctly, the coin boxes need to be able to withstand repeated blows from a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Many that are used in "high risk" areas also have the ET function. They "phone home" when jostled too much or when they have been damaged (failing certain diagnostics) and alert the company that they are in need of service.
My aunt was a switch technician for a while back in the early nineties and the red light district of her town generated a ton of calls for service from "customers." It seems when a payphone was having problems, it affected business and people needed it fixed pronto. They were also some of the most abused phones around. The stuff they would hear during a line test would melt your ears, supposedly.
I would recommend a few titles. These are all geared toward the beginner (some more than others), but they give a very solid foundation and even mild guru's can learn a thing or two from them:
Unix Made Easy: Unix and Linux Basics & Beyond by John Muster; George T. Charbak; Lyssa Wald: A step by step walk thru (with easy to follow exercises and explanations) of working with the Unix/Linux command line. It also includes a bit on working with X-Windows. A really good "first-time-user" book that hits the fundementals in an approachable way.
Practical Guide to Linux by Mark G. Sobell: Along the lines of Unix Made Easy with a little more explanation and fewer hands on actvities. Still good for new comers to the whole Linux/UNIX world.
UNIX for the Impatient (2nd Edition) by Paul W. Abrahams, Bruce Larson: Older book meant for literate computers looking (or forced) to get their feet wet with Unix. The tone is nice because it doesn't talk down to you like most "beginner" books do. Highly recommended.
Finally,
Linux: The Textbook by Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Robert Koretsky, Syed Aqeel Sarwar: More along the lines of a college textbook, so it is thorough... but may be a bit dry for some people's taste (also large blocks of text...good and informative, but maybe a bit too long for most beginners). Check into the other books first and use this one to transition to O'Reilly texts meant for the experienced user.
You do realize that you are talking about the maintainers of libpcap and tcpdump. I wouldn't think that they are slouches in the Linux department. Apache got hacked a while back as well. Theirs was because a combination of policy issues and a hacked server on the network that one of their maintainers was using to connect to the site. I bet we will find something similar in all of these problems.
Remember kids: Your computer may be safe, but the computer you connect from may be a skeezy gutter snipe. If you have to use someone else's computer use a Linux bootable CD with ssh and stunnel. If you are on a foriegn network, pack that laptop and use those tools.
what have i built? lord how embarrassing. you have outed me. the sad truth is the things i have made which have been the most impressive feats of engineering and construction have been cakes. sshhhhhh.
Dangerous stuff. My wife has this great T-shirt with a 50's homemaker on the front with head tilted to the side. The caption reads "If you can bake a cake, you can make a bomb." True too. Given the right recipe, many interesting things can happen.
So, Cathy "the Baker" may be more dangerous than you think.
So, how would usage based fees work for something like education?
Again... Not trolling.
One of the most democratizing things in America is its (yes, as bad as it is) education system. While some born-American's don't take full advantage of it and while there are definite problems with it, our open and free education system does offer opportunities for (at least some of) those that do take advantage.
Some of my immigrant friends always point to public education (and the fact that we don't require aptitude/catagorizing systems) as the reasons their parents immigrated to the US. These are smart people in college who wouldn't have been able to make these types of progress in their home countries.
I myself (despite two working parents, one in the military) grew up working poor to lower middle class (can you say government cheese?... I can). While my parents scraped to send me to private schools through grade school(for religious reasons) it nearly broke them and they are still recovering (15 years later). I worked my way through a state school as well, but my education and grades suffered from having to balance work and school. It can be done and I applaud those that do it well, but without government aid and extensive loans, I wouldn't have been able to/barely did finish school.
After I got married (and became elligible for more government grants) my grades got even better. After graduation, my degree helped get me a full time job that allowed me to pay for grad school outright and my performance was great. However, I am thankful for the loans and access to public education that I had before that. I went to one of the cheapest schools east of the Missippi at the time and it was still a struggle. My loans are now paid (I was happy to do it, too...) and I am a productive member of society... tax payer and so forth.
Education and access to it, are big issues for me. How do we not create barriers to education in this system?
Seriously... this is not a troll. I have appreciated your informed responses.
Someone should get a copy of the picture (buy a license... whatever) and make up a similar picture for BSD, Linux, BeOS and every other alternative operating system. That would be just classic in by book. Follow the same style as the Microsoft copy (I am sure someone has a copy of the copy) and give instructions for the same things in every other OS.
Maybe even get the Model's opinion on the whole thing.
The fact that we're being called "consumers" instead of "customers" sadly illustrates the cynical attitude of many corporate types. "Shut up and buy our stuff, you nose-picking, beer-guzzling sheep!"
Seems the perfect time to bring up a couple of interesting resources that point exactly along these lines.
An interesting and disturbing part of the first film shows a marketing conference from Disney (actual footage) called "Kid Power" in which the head "marketeer" of Disney talks about how Disney owns America's children and how anti-social behavior in pursuit of a product in young consumers is a good thing. If junior wants a Disney product and is willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get it, then you know you have them. Creepy stuff.
In celebration of the Nuit Blanche art festival in Paris, Project Blinkenlights has transformed Tower T2 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France into what is claimed to be the world's largest computer screen. The system used to drive the display runs an embedded version of Linux.
... more pr0n will be making its way to a building front near you.
Working at a college with roughly the same bandwidth, I can tell you from experience that when our traffic went unchecked Housing's draw destroyed the network. Culprits? P2P.
Let's not even get into the legality of trading music. Personally, I could care less. However, when it every student's dowloads are glogging 40-70Mbps of downloads ALL DAY LONG, IT IS A PROBLEM! Our email servers would not recieve off campus email. We couldn't sync off-site copies of our DNS. We couldn't access off-site Web sites, much less download updates and drivers for our systems or do any online journal research.
Ever since we blocked and/or limited P2P traffic, life (network wise) on campus has been a lot nicer. If you want to do P2P... hook up your modem, pay for an account with an ISP that doesn't limit downloads and have at it... that way only you have to deal with the slow speeds, not everyone else.
Plus, the registry keeps your home directory free from dot-file clutter. Or INI file clutter, in this case.
Simply put, Registry >> INI files.
Ha! dot-files aren't easily corrupted, they can be opened with anything, they can be examined on or off the system easily by support staff, and they only load when called. I am sure I have forgotten many more advantages over REG files, but don't get me started. As someone else said "obviously you haven't had to move a lot of windows users across platforms." Roaming profiles may take care of that, I'm not sure... but I will give it to you.
My suggestion: Obviously you have supported a lot of Windows. When the reg file goes, you are screwed. If backups of the files for that specific system aren't available, you are even more screwed. You can't take a user.dat from one system and expect it to work on another. If the system won't boot, you can't get in to edit the file to make it work. You-are-screwed! Yeah, yeah, "you could have exported the Reg file and reimported it." Not likely. Start editing that REG file by hand and you've got problems... especially if it is a really large chunk of one of the.dat files.
Now, if user.dat and system.dat were actually seperated, I'd feel a lot better about them, but they are not. You can't use one without the other. I can't load one and expect it to work if major errors occur in the other. No individual editing capabilities.
Now dot files. I can do anything with them. I can hand edit them. I can put useful comments in them and not effect execution. I can take a file from one system and it will most likely work on the next. If nothing else, I can edit them with a million different applications and/or setup scripts.
"We do not anticipate offering software on Linux," said Ballmer. "Nobody pays for software on Linux." Even StarOffice, sold by Sun, was originally a free product, he said.
Well, actually, Star Office started as a commericial product from a company called Star Division. The company was eventually aquired by Sun who in turned offered Star Office as a free download and then open souced a version of it and has now gone back to selling branded versions of the open source project (wheww!!!).
Now that they've done it, I have no problems giving them a little credit by typiing GNU/Linux, but still using "Lih-nooks" conversationally. Why is spelling things this way hard? It would be hard to write an emacs Macro that inserted "GNU" everytime one typed "Linux".
Perfect idea! I think style guidelines for writing are definitely more useful, and easier to put into general use, than conversational guidelines.
As geeks/Linux users/whatever, using "Linux" conversationally is second nature by now. However, there are many things, style and format wise that we have to train ourselves into doing while writing. Typing in 4 extra characters (or implementing an automatic macro) when writing is a small step, and easy to take, step.
"Linux" for conversation.
"GNU/Linux" for written communication.
If this got picked up as the convention of the major media's style guides, or even if it appeared in a standard style guide, like "the orange book," I think it would go a long ways towards settling the debate.
Microsoft Security is pretty decent and granular in an all Windows 2000 / Active Directory environment. Try implementing group policy and acls in Linux or Solaris.... it can be done, but you do not know anyone who can.
Why would you want to? If I need to, I can fire up man pages and search google. I administer about 10 fileservers across three departments totaling a good 15-20TB and hundreds of users and have never run into a situation where ACLs are needed.
It's funny (I agree), I have seen ACLs in practice on a number of systems and you just have to find the right combination that give you the least restrictive clause to jump out of them. The rules of inheritance on a Windows box (the default is that Everyone can see and do everything on the root account... not changed and inheritance bites you in the ass), when not understood by the user and/or admin lead to trouble. Let's not even get into the wonderful mixure that is shared AND local permission interaction.
File permissions are a lot easier for people to understand and therefore get easier for them to get right.
Comparing your Windows XP desktop computer's uptime to your Linux boxes' is not a valid comparison.
Why not? I use Linux on the desktop as well. The problem with Windows boxes is that mgmt. often thinks that trained monkeys can administer a box. And it's probably true. Until something fails. Then "Monkey Boy" does you no good.
I would agree with the original post if uptime of workstations is not an issue as well. Have you worked client support? Workstations being down raising the TCO because productivity goes in the crapper and you still have to hire someone to get, and keep, the damn things running. If it takes 1 support person per 200 Linux/Unix/Mac OS X workstations to do the job versus conservative estimates of 1 support person per 50 (ok, I'll give you 100) XP machines, you're price for simply running a more stable desktop like Linux/Unix/Mac OS X has halved your support cost (a big part of TCO).
I do Microcomputer / Network support for a mid sized public university. We have about 2000 faculty and staff and 18000 students. We have around 12 guys and girls (like myself) who work for individual colleges. A lot of the work involves lame stuff like "my printer won't print", but there are also opportunities for Network troubleshooting and maintenance and server admin work.
You definitely won't get paid what you would in the industry, but, on the other hand, you will get paid. Life isn't too hard (mostly 8 to 5 work) in a relaxed environment and job security.
"Job security?" you say.
Yep. Until the faculty wants to take on more of the responsibility for fixing, using, and managing their computers, education admins are golden.
I have one of the best price/quality best buy Mountain bikes out there. I looked on the web for three days. Checked out all the forums. Then I walked into two bike shops and asked two of their mechanics what they ride and what they would suggest for someone looking for a good ride at a good price. Does anyone else do this?
Hands down the winner for manufacturers was Giant. They make good bikes for many budgets. The model I have, the Iguana (which I am not sure is still available) cost around $500 bucks. It has some nice included parts and features, but you can upgrade most of them to higher quality components if you want something nicer. The advice I was given was to ride the standard parts into the ground and then upgrade as stuff gets worn out. The only "non-optional" upgrade, according to everyone, was the seat. I was told to replace it with a nice large gel model.
I ride this 10-15 miles every day. I take it to a shop every 3 months for a $20 tune up and have them check for wear on the parts that looks serious. Haven't replaced a standard part, other than the seat, yet! I LOVE this bike. Adding "bull's horn" handle bar extensions (what do you call those things anyway?) helps relieve the wrist strain of a mountain bike handlebar for long rides (the rotate the wrists into a more relaxed positions).
The only problem with a bike on the campus where I work is damage when left outside. College students can be destructive vicious fucks (no offense if you are a non-destructive non-vicious college student) and tend to do heavy damage to bikes in bike racks. My office doesn't offer a lot of space either. That's why I am looking into human powered kick, aka push, scooters.
By all accounts these are perfect for the 1-3 mile commute (I like 1.5 from my office). The ten minute mile walk drops by about a third. I ordered an "adult" scooter just the other day from Xootr. These are considered to be the Rolls Roice of scooters. An electric model is also available. The only problem is that they are somewhat expensive and don't work well in wet conditions. Go Ped make a human-powered model called the Know Ped which has wider wheels and works well in harsher conditions. They also have gas powered versions.
I'm am not trying to just point fingers, but I think (from your description) the problem lies in the way most applications try to access the clipboard buffer. The standard (yeah, right) Linux/Unix way of cutting and pasting:
Left click and drag to mark a selection
Left click at the insertion point
Middle mouse button (if you are lucky), or "Chord Middle"(left and right click together) to paste
Works phenomenally between applications/the command li/and most anything else. This is about the only way that DOES work consistently for copy and pasting within the Linux world.
Most other clipboard thingies, like the powerful, but frustrating Klipper App in KDE, introduce inconsistencies which prove annoying.
What I would like, and, admittedly, what a lot of these apps strive for, is a powerful and universal keyboard cut and paste shortcut...
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Now I know what all those unemployed Flash designers are doing with their time. Seriously, could this guy make it any more *difficult* for us to listen to his message.
Obviously you didn't check the link. It is available as Flash, MP3, and a text transcript. Mirrors were also provided. This guy makes it easier than anybody else to listen to his message.
Don't just tell your friends, though that is an OK start if that's all you feel comfortable with. I think you should seriously lobby the person(s) who you know (or have some sort of access to) who:
Have influence over more people than you do. This could be your boss, your Mayor, your Bartender. Choose someone who can affect the habits of more people than you can with less effort.
I sent this same information to one of my former professors who teaches classes in leadership for a Masters program that churns out upper-level managers for technolgy and telecommunication firms. He in turn will probably (knowing him) make his students read it. I have suggested Lessig's books as textbooks for his class. He also teaches classes in public policy... which is right up this alley.
Work to raise the level of outrage in your local and national politicians. Seriously... one hand written letter a week will get noticed. Even better, form collectives with Geeks in your area and create letter rings. One person in the group writes a letter and a SASE, then mails it in a larger envelope to another in the group. That person can read the letter for inspiration, writes his or her own, includes more postage, and sends it on. After it gets to the last person, the letters are put into their respective SASEs and mailed off. In the end, how ever many letters (equal to the number in your group... the more the better) lands in the inbox of your Rep roughly once a week. It WILL have an impact. No Rep will ignore 40 letters on the same topic a month (assuming you have a group of 10 writers and that the month has 4 weeks... more is always better). Make sure to always tell how many voters you have influence over. My wife once included the fact that she worked with a couple of hundred voting age students on a questionaire that we recieved from a Rep. Not long after, we got a personal letter that addressed some of the concerns that we had raised.
Other examples of Highest Order of Power are welcome
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Perhaps Slashdot should add a Political Candidates section or sub section YRO with areas for given candidates in operation or running for election/re-election.
Then post problems. Organize. Change their minds or work to vote them out.
It doesn't say they will have to purchase THE software from Microsoft, only that they will have to eventually buy software from Microsoft. Granted, it isn't very specific, but get your shit straight.
Ok. You're right. They don't have to by THE software, but the fact that they are then locked in to future aquisitions of Microsoft software means ipso facto that Microsoft has indeed bypassed any "Open Bid" systems that may be in place. Not for the software that Microsoft are "giving" away, but for the software that the gift locks New Orleans into buying in the future.
Plus, the only reason that are getting the "miniscule" charge on future software purchases is because they agreed to this deal in the first place, which may consistitute a bribe. Granted, given Louisianna's political past, Microsoft chose a great place to try this tactic out.;^)
Except I'm not a typical player and its not bragging; I think it illustrates a different mentality/lifestyle/population at Universities. More liberal? More fun? Who knows. The people in the corporate world are, in my experience, far more image/status/suburban-style-success oriented and I work now in about the most liberal type of corporate environment. I'd attribute 25% of the difference to subtle age difference (skews slightly older now), but I do think the University attracted less conventional people.
I am not sure what you are getting at, but a whole lot of sleeping around is one reason an office in the largest major city close to me has a really high syphillus rate. Maybe people are just trying to avoid something like that (let's forget about morals and so forth).
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First off, the linked eWeek article specifically states:
Not to defend eWeek's journalistic or technical integrity, but they do a pretty good job of summing up the pertinent facts... such as the vulerability affecting the above implementations.
Secondly, This is a Hyperlink. They are sometimes used on the World Wide Web, to link relevant and useful resources together. Had you followed this particular link, you would have found the CERT advisory about the problem AND a link the @Stake's own advisory and white paper about the problem.
Thank you
The design specs for payphones are histerically funny to read. If I remember correctly, the coin boxes need to be able to withstand repeated blows from a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Many that are used in "high risk" areas also have the ET function. They "phone home" when jostled too much or when they have been damaged (failing certain diagnostics) and alert the company that they are in need of service.
My aunt was a switch technician for a while back in the early nineties and the red light district of her town generated a ton of calls for service from "customers." It seems when a payphone was having problems, it affected business and people needed it fixed pronto. They were also some of the most abused phones around. The stuff they would hear during a line test would melt your ears, supposedly.
by Paul W. Abrahams, Bruce Larson: Older book meant for literate computers looking (or forced) to get their feet wet with Unix. The tone is nice because it doesn't talk down to you like most "beginner" books do. Highly recommended.
Finally,
by Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Robert Koretsky, Syed Aqeel Sarwar: More along the lines of a college textbook, so it is thorough... but may be a bit dry for some people's taste (also large blocks of text...good and informative, but maybe a bit too long for most beginners). Check into the other books first and use this one to transition to O'Reilly texts meant for the experienced user.
I hope these help...
If the process was reversable, I could see its usefulness. But, just rendering them useless sucks the big one.
We already can't find anything useful to do with the millions of AOL CDs floating about.
Remember kids: Your computer may be safe, but the computer you connect from may be a skeezy gutter snipe. If you have to use someone else's computer use a Linux bootable CD with ssh and stunnel. If you are on a foriegn network, pack that laptop and use those tools.
Dangerous stuff. My wife has this great T-shirt with a 50's homemaker on the front with head tilted to the side. The caption reads "If you can bake a cake, you can make a bomb." True too. Given the right recipe, many interesting things can happen.
So, Cathy "the Baker" may be more dangerous than you think.
Nice benefit of the shirt... all the great looks.
Again... Not trolling.
One of the most democratizing things in America is its (yes, as bad as it is) education system. While some born-American's don't take full advantage of it and while there are definite problems with it, our open and free education system does offer opportunities for (at least some of) those that do take advantage.
Some of my immigrant friends always point to public education (and the fact that we don't require aptitude/catagorizing systems) as the reasons their parents immigrated to the US. These are smart people in college who wouldn't have been able to make these types of progress in their home countries.
I myself (despite two working parents, one in the military) grew up working poor to lower middle class (can you say government cheese?... I can). While my parents scraped to send me to private schools through grade school(for religious reasons) it nearly broke them and they are still recovering (15 years later). I worked my way through a state school as well, but my education and grades suffered from having to balance work and school. It can be done and I applaud those that do it well, but without government aid and extensive loans, I wouldn't have been able to/barely did finish school.
After I got married (and became elligible for more government grants) my grades got even better. After graduation, my degree helped get me a full time job that allowed me to pay for grad school outright and my performance was great. However, I am thankful for the loans and access to public education that I had before that. I went to one of the cheapest schools east of the Missippi at the time and it was still a struggle. My loans are now paid (I was happy to do it, too...) and I am a productive member of society... tax payer and so forth.
Education and access to it, are big issues for me. How do we not create barriers to education in this system?
Seriously... this is not a troll. I have appreciated your informed responses.
Now I am wondering about general upkeep of infrastructure. How does that happen? Who pays for it?
I am not trolling. I would like to seriously know.
http://www.microsoft.com/insider/downloads/ShowOff YourSkills.pdf
Maybe even get the Model's opinion on the whole thing.
Funny, funny stuff.
Seems the perfect time to bring up a couple of interesting resources that point exactly along these lines.
There are a fascinating group of documentaries and a book about the rise of consumerism in America (/the world) and how it is adversely affecting us. I highly recommend the book Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic and the two documentaries on which it is based; Affluenza: The Disease of Materialism and Escape from Affluenza.
An interesting and disturbing part of the first film shows a marketing conference from Disney (actual footage) called "Kid Power" in which the head "marketeer" of Disney talks about how Disney owns America's children and how anti-social behavior in pursuit of a product in young consumers is a good thing. If junior wants a Disney product and is willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get it, then you know you have them. Creepy stuff.
I would also recommend the book Culture Jam How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must from the editor of Adbusters Magazine.
... more pr0n will be making its way to a building front near you.
Working at a college with roughly the same bandwidth, I can tell you from experience that when our traffic went unchecked Housing's draw destroyed the network. Culprits? P2P.
Let's not even get into the legality of trading music. Personally, I could care less. However, when it every student's dowloads are glogging 40-70Mbps of downloads ALL DAY LONG, IT IS A PROBLEM! Our email servers would not recieve off campus email. We couldn't sync off-site copies of our DNS. We couldn't access off-site Web sites, much less download updates and drivers for our systems or do any online journal research.
Ever since we blocked and/or limited P2P traffic, life (network wise) on campus has been a lot nicer. If you want to do P2P... hook up your modem, pay for an account with an ISP that doesn't limit downloads and have at it... that way only you have to deal with the slow speeds, not everyone else.
P2P use on campus is a classic illustration of the tragedy of the commons.
Simply put, Registry >> INI files.
Ha! dot-files aren't easily corrupted, they can be opened with anything, they can be examined on or off the system easily by support staff, and they only load when called. I am sure I have forgotten many more advantages over REG files, but don't get me started. As someone else said "obviously you haven't had to move a lot of windows users across platforms." Roaming profiles may take care of that, I'm not sure... but I will give it to you.
My suggestion: Obviously you have supported a lot of Windows. When the reg file goes, you are screwed. If backups of the files for that specific system aren't available, you are even more screwed. You can't take a user.dat from one system and expect it to work on another. If the system won't boot, you can't get in to edit the file to make it work. You-are-screwed! Yeah, yeah, "you could have exported the Reg file and reimported it." Not likely. Start editing that REG file by hand and you've got problems... especially if it is a really large chunk of one of the .dat files.
Now, if user.dat and system.dat were actually seperated, I'd feel a lot better about them, but they are not. You can't use one without the other. I can't load one and expect it to work if major errors occur in the other. No individual editing capabilities.
Now dot files. I can do anything with them. I can hand edit them. I can put useful comments in them and not effect execution. I can take a file from one system and it will most likely work on the next. If nothing else, I can edit them with a million different applications and/or setup scripts.
REG files? Please...
Well, actually, Star Office started as a commericial product from a company called Star Division. The company was eventually aquired by Sun who in turned offered Star Office as a free download and then open souced a version of it and has now gone back to selling branded versions of the open source project (wheww!!!).
Perfect idea! I think style guidelines for writing are definitely more useful, and easier to put into general use, than conversational guidelines.
As geeks/Linux users/whatever, using "Linux" conversationally is second nature by now. However, there are many things, style and format wise that we have to train ourselves into doing while writing. Typing in 4 extra characters (or implementing an automatic macro) when writing is a small step, and easy to take, step.
"Linux" for conversation.
"GNU/Linux" for written communication.
If this got picked up as the convention of the major media's style guides, or even if it appeared in a standard style guide, like "the orange book," I think it would go a long ways towards settling the debate.
Microsoft Security is pretty decent and granular in an all Windows 2000 / Active Directory environment. Try implementing group policy and acls in Linux or Solaris.... it can be done, but you do not know anyone who can.
Why would you want to? If I need to, I can fire up man pages and search google. I administer about 10 fileservers across three departments totaling a good 15-20TB and hundreds of users and have never run into a situation where ACLs are needed.
It's funny (I agree), I have seen ACLs in practice on a number of systems and you just have to find the right combination that give you the least restrictive clause to jump out of them. The rules of inheritance on a Windows box (the default is that Everyone can see and do everything on the root account... not changed and inheritance bites you in the ass), when not understood by the user and/or admin lead to trouble. Let's not even get into the wonderful mixure that is shared AND local permission interaction.
File permissions are a lot easier for people to understand and therefore get easier for them to get right.
Comparing your Windows XP desktop computer's uptime to your Linux boxes' is not a valid comparison.
Why not? I use Linux on the desktop as well. The problem with Windows boxes is that mgmt. often thinks that trained monkeys can administer a box. And it's probably true. Until something fails. Then "Monkey Boy" does you no good.
I would agree with the original post if uptime of workstations is not an issue as well. Have you worked client support? Workstations being down raising the TCO because productivity goes in the crapper and you still have to hire someone to get, and keep, the damn things running. If it takes 1 support person per 200 Linux/Unix/Mac OS X workstations to do the job versus conservative estimates of 1 support person per 50 (ok, I'll give you 100) XP machines, you're price for simply running a more stable desktop like Linux/Unix/Mac OS X has halved your support cost (a big part of TCO).
You definitely won't get paid what you would in the industry, but, on the other hand, you will get paid. Life isn't too hard (mostly 8 to 5 work) in a relaxed environment and job security.
"Job security?" you say.
Yep. Until the faculty wants to take on more of the responsibility for fixing, using, and managing their computers, education admins are golden.
I could be wrong.
I have one of the best price/quality best buy Mountain bikes out there. I looked on the web for three days. Checked out all the forums. Then I walked into two bike shops and asked two of their mechanics what they ride and what they would suggest for someone looking for a good ride at a good price. Does anyone else do this?
Hands down the winner for manufacturers was Giant. They make good bikes for many budgets. The model I have, the Iguana (which I am not sure is still available) cost around $500 bucks. It has some nice included parts and features, but you can upgrade most of them to higher quality components if you want something nicer. The advice I was given was to ride the standard parts into the ground and then upgrade as stuff gets worn out. The only "non-optional" upgrade, according to everyone, was the seat. I was told to replace it with a nice large gel model.
I ride this 10-15 miles every day. I take it to a shop every 3 months for a $20 tune up and have them check for wear on the parts that looks serious. Haven't replaced a standard part, other than the seat, yet! I LOVE this bike. Adding "bull's horn" handle bar extensions (what do you call those things anyway?) helps relieve the wrist strain of a mountain bike handlebar for long rides (the rotate the wrists into a more relaxed positions).
The only problem with a bike on the campus where I work is damage when left outside. College students can be destructive vicious fucks (no offense if you are a non-destructive non-vicious college student) and tend to do heavy damage to bikes in bike racks. My office doesn't offer a lot of space either. That's why I am looking into human powered kick, aka push, scooters.
By all accounts these are perfect for the 1-3 mile commute (I like 1.5 from my office). The ten minute mile walk drops by about a third. I ordered an "adult" scooter just the other day from Xootr. These are considered to be the Rolls Roice of scooters. An electric model is also available. The only problem is that they are somewhat expensive and don't work well in wet conditions. Go Ped make a human-powered model called the Know Ped which has wider wheels and works well in harsher conditions. They also have gas powered versions.
Works phenomenally between applications/the command li/and most anything else. This is about the only way that DOES work consistently for copy and pasting within the Linux world.
Most other clipboard thingies, like the powerful, but frustrating Klipper App in KDE, introduce inconsistencies which prove annoying.
What I would like, and, admittedly, what a lot of these apps strive for, is a powerful and universal keyboard cut and paste shortcut...
The search continues.
Seriously, could this guy make it any more *difficult* for us to listen to his message.
Obviously you didn't check the link. It is available as Flash, MP3, and a text transcript. Mirrors were also provided. This guy makes it easier than anybody else to listen to his message.
Then post problems. Organize. Change their minds or work to vote them out.
Yes, I realize this is a pipe dream.
Ok. You're right. They don't have to by THE software, but the fact that they are then locked in to future aquisitions of Microsoft software means ipso facto that Microsoft has indeed bypassed any "Open Bid" systems that may be in place. Not for the software that Microsoft are "giving" away, but for the software that the gift locks New Orleans into buying in the future.
Plus, the only reason that are getting the "miniscule" charge on future software purchases is because they agreed to this deal in the first place, which may consistitute a bribe. Granted, given Louisianna's political past, Microsoft chose a great place to try this tactic out. ;^)
I smell lawsuit.
I am not sure what you are getting at, but a whole lot of sleeping around is one reason an office in the largest major city close to me has a really high syphillus rate. Maybe people are just trying to avoid something like that (let's forget about morals and so forth).