After trying to use Linux (redhat 6x/7x, mandrake 7x/8x, debian, slackware) I found that none were upgradeable as easy as FreeBSD. Try upgrading from Redhat 7.1 -> 7.2. I've had it fail on 3 different machines (at work). Nightmares doing that. Plus everything is changing on a.x release. Debian sounds the best, but it didn't even install on the computer I tried. Mandrake just died one day (no clue)...the os wouldn't boot and i just gave up. Slackware is good, but it doesn't seem to have the documentation of FreeBSD. I used to love Linux, until I used it. The biggest problems I have had are with dependencies and non-kernel related problems. I think a centrally managed OS like the BSD's are much more efficient. With kernel releases every few months for Linux, how can you expect it to be stable? I'm a business person. I value time and money./stand/sysinstall is the greatest utility FreeBSD has. From that 1 utility I can change anything I need to. Simple as that. Redhat had utilities that don't even work right!
(Linux has always been very stable for me as a server. It runs into serious problems only when you start trying to make it into a desktop system and extensively use the X environment. In fact, X itself works just fine with a trimmed down window manager like fvwm. It's just not very "cool" or flashy, and not at all user-friendly when you need to add new items to menus.)
As a business user, I'd assume you're trying to use BSD (or Linux) in a server situation? If so, I'm not sure why you had so many issues with Linux. On the other hand, BSD installs all the basic stuff you need to run a very stable web, ftp, mail, news, etc. type of server - so I'm not faulting you at all for making that choice.
For myself, I find freebsd the os of choice for my servers, but as far as a desktop is concerned it pisses me off enormously that despite running on only one architecture and having only one distro, freebsd (4.4 stable) can't even set AA fonts up properly, key bindings in vim are fucked up etc.
BSD is just rock solid. It's easy to install, upgrade and use. It has been proven. I can't wait to use 4.5 and try it out. Linux is trying to emulate Windows, and it never will. Linux should find it's niche over time. I know BSD has and it's thriving. Doing everything for everyone is bad, and I know BSD isn't.
I think I read an article a few years ago about this.
The junkscience.com article is a little misleading. I believe the captiol statues are emitting Alpha particles, which are blocked by ordinary clothing.
Many granite & marble structures emit some radiation, but not the hazardous gamma rays associated with pluotonium.
If you get a cheap headset, you'll suffer from poor clarity and a sore ear. You'll sound like you are on a payphone in a bus depot to whomever gets to talk to you.
You are correct in that you cannot be compelled to incriminate yourself.
Unfortunately, you cannot hinder law enforcement with a valid search warrant from searching. Encryption is thought of as a virtual lock or safe, (ie evidence) not as testimony.
You cannot fire an alcoholic, since he/she is 'disabled'. But if a programmer or other computer worker cannot use their hands, that isn't a disability.
The same morons who think that an anti ballistic missile weapon is a waste of time now want us to intercept asteroids.
The technology being developed for the missile defense program will make asteroid interception a concept closer to reality. If missile defense is built, it will neutralize the danger of long-range ballistic missiles being manufactured in North Korea, the Middle East & South Asia.
Or you can "do something worthwhile" like subsidize pregnant 15 years old junkies and drunken bumbs.
Most Windows 2000 implementations run in compatability mode to allow legacy NT 3.51/4.0 and Windows 9x clients to connect.
If Windows 2000/Active Directory is running in native mode, these clients will be unable to connect. Many of the more advanced features of AD can only work in native environments.
There are plenty of reasons to want to use an RDBMS.
If you are working with financial data or health records, there are Federal reporting requirements relating to who accesses what data where & when. Using a central Oracle or other RDBMS makes it easier to keep track of what's up.
Why Oracle? Maybe the organization has a bunch of PL/SQL gurus. Maybe having Java integrated into the DB is advantageous. Or maybe they have a giant Oracle server sitting around with extra cycles.
There is no reason why someone with a real job should have a bank account. If you find it too onerous to have one becuase of fees, then you probaly have a screw or two loose.
Organizations that handle monetary transfers do have a need to establish the basic identity of their clients. They face stiff fines when their clients turn out to be drug dealers, money launderers and other criminal types.
LDAP & PAM is the way to go. We recently implemented a single sign-on system @ work and it works great for 60,000 interal and about 150,000 internet users!
I believe there is an OpenLDAP implementation is Iplanet is too expensive.
The problem here isn't Paypal, banks, credit card companies, or the government.
It's you.
If you read your credit card statement carefully, you would have noticed that the "Credit Protection Service" is an option that you have to sign or initial for. You could have easily not signed and/or initialed and you would not have had to pay the fee.
It also sounds like you don't have a bank account so that you can avoid being "ripped off" by the banking industry. I suppose it is easier and cheaper to pay someone a fee to cash your paycheck and buy money orders to pay your bills.
I can understand your complaints about various fees levied by paypal against it's users. Complaining about PayPal's desire to know who it is doing business with, on the other hand, is sheer lunacy.
How can you operate a money-transfer operation without knowing whom you are transferring money to? The sheer paranoia you display by refusing such a sensical and basic request is pretty frightening. Feel free to contact me via email where I can refer you to a mental health provider.
Tivoli supports Linux for Inventory, Software Distribution and Distributed Monitoring.
Be aware, though, that enterprise management products get very expensive. My (rather large) organization is doing a Tivoli rollout that will cost about millions of dollars over 4-5 years and require a staff of about 10 to manage. This includes licensing, hardware costs and consulting time.
In a well designed system, the frontline is almost irrelevant.
I support a number of projects which have third-tier webservers running Windows that are maintained by our clients. Oftentimes because of government contracts they are still on Windows NT 4. (or even 3.51 in one case!!)
We own the middleware and database tiers, and keep a VERY tight ship. We've never had a breach in the database tier in four years, and only had one in the middle tier (which was an internal breach by an admin). The webservers are considered more dangerous than the general internet user.
Personally, I am more afraid of Unix systems being breached on the front end than windows machines. It is quite easy for an unsophisticated hacker wannabe to do real damage with a poorly secured Linux or Solaris box.
You need something like a palm pilot is size and power. 802.11b is also too much, standard VHF, some sort of wireless serial scheme or Bluetooth is probally a better way to control things.
If you think about what a car needs to do, 802.11b becomes more complicated than the actual application.
A website with a Linux front end may very well be connecting to an NT 4 or even 3.51 server running Oracle or Sybase, which is where your data is stored.
NT web servers may have Solaris application and database servers running in the background.
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This is just my opinion. Nothing more.
.x release. Debian sounds the best, but it didn't even install on the computer I tried. Mandrake just died one day (no clue)...the os wouldn't boot and i just gave up. Slackware is good, but it doesn't seem to have the documentation of FreeBSD. I used to love Linux, until I used it. The biggest problems I have had are with dependencies and non-kernel related problems. I think a centrally managed OS like the BSD's are much more efficient. With kernel releases every few months for Linux, how can you expect it to be stable? I'm a business person. I value time and money. /stand/sysinstall is the greatest utility FreeBSD has. From that 1 utility I can change anything I need to. Simple as that. Redhat had utilities that don't even work right!
After trying to use Linux (redhat 6x/7x, mandrake 7x/8x, debian, slackware) I found that none were upgradeable as easy as FreeBSD. Try upgrading from Redhat 7.1 -> 7.2. I've had it fail on 3 different machines (at work). Nightmares doing that. Plus everything is changing on a
(Linux has always been very stable for me as a server. It runs into serious problems only when you start trying to make it into a desktop system and extensively use the X environment. In fact, X itself works just fine with a trimmed down window manager like fvwm. It's just not very "cool" or flashy, and not at all user-friendly when you need to add new items to menus.)
As a business user, I'd assume you're trying to use BSD (or Linux) in a server situation? If so, I'm not sure why you had so many issues with Linux. On the other hand, BSD installs all the basic stuff you need to run a very stable web, ftp, mail, news, etc. type of server - so I'm not faulting you at all for making that choice.
For myself, I find freebsd the os of choice for my servers, but as far as a desktop is concerned it pisses me off enormously that despite running on only one architecture and having only one distro, freebsd (4.4 stable) can't even set AA fonts up properly, key bindings in vim are fucked up etc.
BSD is just rock solid. It's easy to install, upgrade and use. It has been proven. I can't wait to use 4.5 and try it out. Linux is trying to emulate Windows, and it never will. Linux should find it's niche over time. I know BSD has and it's thriving. Doing everything for everyone is bad, and I know BSD isn't.
I think I read an article a few years ago about this.
The junkscience.com article is a little misleading. I believe the captiol statues are emitting Alpha particles, which are blocked by ordinary clothing.
Many granite & marble structures emit some radiation, but not the hazardous gamma rays associated with pluotonium.
One problem with breeder reactors is that they operate at higher temperatures and pressure than most reactors in use today.
With the current anti-nuclear hysteria the grips many people, they could simply never be built.
On Plantronics or GN Netcom.
If you get a cheap headset, you'll suffer from poor clarity and a sore ear. You'll sound like you are on a payphone in a bus depot to whomever gets to talk to you.
You are correct in that you cannot be compelled to incriminate yourself.
Unfortunately, you cannot hinder law enforcement with a valid search warrant from searching. Encryption is thought of as a virtual lock or safe, (ie evidence) not as testimony.
If you are ever arrested and refuse to provide decryption keys to the feds, you'll be arrested for obstruction of justice.
Tapes need to be cycled every few years in order to reliably retain data.
This is why NASA is having difficulty holding on to data... by the time a dataset is archived, it needs to be transferred to a new tape!
Here's one more obvious thing:
- You are a moron.
The only reason they made Solaris for x86 is that the federal government needed a fully POSIX compliant OS that ran CDE on cheap x86 hardware.
Now that sun in making sub-$2000 SPARC workstations, there is no need for solaris x86.
that was his point, faggot
You cannot fire an alcoholic, since he/she is 'disabled'. But if a programmer or other computer worker cannot use their hands, that isn't a disability.
The only way that a small biotech will ever succeed is if it is awarded a patent or have a drug that will pass clinical trials.
You need to find out:
1. What patents do they hold on procedures, genomes or technology.
2. Are any drugs in trials yet? How many?
3. How many drugs are in the pipeline?
The same morons who think that an anti ballistic missile weapon is a waste of time now want us to intercept asteroids.
The technology being developed for the missile defense program will make asteroid interception a concept closer to reality. If missile defense is built, it will neutralize the danger of long-range ballistic missiles being manufactured in North Korea, the Middle East & South Asia.
Or you can "do something worthwhile" like subsidize pregnant 15 years old junkies and drunken bumbs.
You are right and wrong.
Most Windows 2000 implementations run in compatability mode to allow legacy NT 3.51/4.0 and Windows 9x clients to connect.
If Windows 2000/Active Directory is running in native mode, these clients will be unable to connect. Many of the more advanced features of AD can only work in native environments.
People here have even less of a clue about satellites than they do about copyright & patent law.
If you are not a troll, then YUO=FUCKED.
There are plenty of reasons to want to use an RDBMS.
If you are working with financial data or health records, there are Federal reporting requirements relating to who accesses what data where & when. Using a central Oracle or other RDBMS makes it easier to keep track of what's up.
Why Oracle? Maybe the organization has a bunch of PL/SQL gurus. Maybe having Java integrated into the DB is advantageous. Or maybe they have a giant Oracle server sitting around with extra cycles.
There is no reason why someone with a real job should have a bank account. If you find it too onerous to have one becuase of fees, then you probaly have a screw or two loose.
Organizations that handle monetary transfers do have a need to establish the basic identity of their clients. They face stiff fines when their clients turn out to be drug dealers, money launderers and other criminal types.
LDAP & PAM is the way to go. We recently implemented a single sign-on system @ work and it works great for 60,000 interal and about 150,000 internet users!
I believe there is an OpenLDAP implementation is Iplanet is too expensive.
The problem here isn't Paypal, banks, credit card companies, or the government.
It's you.
If you read your credit card statement carefully, you would have noticed that the "Credit Protection Service" is an option that you have to sign or initial for. You could have easily not signed and/or initialed and you would not have had to pay the fee.
It also sounds like you don't have a bank account so that you can avoid being "ripped off" by the banking industry. I suppose it is easier and cheaper to pay someone a fee to cash your paycheck and buy money orders to pay your bills.
I can understand your complaints about various fees levied by paypal against it's users. Complaining about PayPal's desire to know who it is doing business with, on the other hand, is sheer lunacy.
How can you operate a money-transfer operation without knowing whom you are transferring money to? The sheer paranoia you display by refusing such a sensical and basic request is pretty frightening. Feel free to contact me via email where I can refer you to a mental health provider.
Tivoli supports Linux for Inventory, Software Distribution and Distributed Monitoring.
Be aware, though, that enterprise management products get very expensive. My (rather large) organization is doing a Tivoli rollout that will cost about millions of dollars over 4-5 years and require a staff of about 10 to manage. This includes licensing, hardware costs and consulting time.
In a well designed system, the frontline is almost irrelevant.
I support a number of projects which have third-tier webservers running Windows that are maintained by our clients. Oftentimes because of government contracts they are still on Windows NT 4. (or even 3.51 in one case!!)
We own the middleware and database tiers, and keep a VERY tight ship. We've never had a breach in the database tier in four years, and only had one in the middle tier (which was an internal breach by an admin). The webservers are considered more dangerous than the general internet user.
Personally, I am more afraid of Unix systems being breached on the front end than windows machines. It is quite easy for an unsophisticated hacker wannabe to do real damage with a poorly secured Linux or Solaris box.
You need something like a palm pilot is size and power. 802.11b is also too much, standard VHF, some sort of wireless serial scheme or Bluetooth is probally a better way to control things.
If you think about what a car needs to do, 802.11b becomes more complicated than the actual application.
You are a Slashdot infidel!
How dare you say the commercial software is better than gcc.
Of course, you have to code so much around gcc bugs that your software can't compile on the Intel compiler anyway!
Hate to tell you, but most Otis elevators in 2-20 story buildings are controlled by MS-DOS or NT 3.51.
Bigger buildings generally have more customized software on an embedded platform.
You are ignorant beyond belief.
A website with a Linux front end may very well be connecting to an NT 4 or even 3.51 server running Oracle or Sybase, which is where your data is stored.
NT web servers may have Solaris application and database servers running in the background.