Having a remote-control solution that utilizes Domain-level security is a major benefit for larger organizations.
At my job, our NT group supports about 50,000 users spread over about 850 sites, with skillsets ranging from Software Engineers to contract clerks.
Currently the only RC solution that meets our needs is Tivoli Remote Control (because it supports distributed security) Tivoli uses an PcAnywhere-like remote control service that does not perform nearly as well as the RDP service in windows xp.
I don't think the service pack stuff really counts here either. Windows XP is more like Windows 2000.5 than a new OS. As long as IE 6 doesn't break any intranet apps, there isn't an overwhelming reason to avoid it.
"They encourage the computer-illiterate to put their trust in Microsoft rather than learning how computers actually work. They created both the software and the culture that propogate malicious code. All of which means that they are greatly to blame for deliberately bringing into existence email viruses."
Those people whom you despise are the ones who ultimately pay your salary.
There is nothing more obnoxious than a IT person who forgets that the computers are there to drive the business, not vice-versa.
The FBI, being a Federal law-enforcement agency has absolutely no business investigating murder, rape, or most violent crime, since the vast majority of these are state offenses.
Attempts to do what you suggest have resulted in the nothing more than the abuse of hate crime, civil rights and tax laws by federal law enforcement.
"I'm also waiting for every one of you satellite-stealing-mother-f'ers to buy your used slim-line PC with 2 serial ports ("perfect for emulation") so the price goes back down on those boxes. I need to build some firewalls and other appliances and you guys are driving the prices up"
Maybe I'm just retarded, but what in god's earth does that mean?
Unfortunately, the security/gestapo group controls the firewalls, not me. The Nazis want all outgoing connections to be authenticated against the W2k domain via active directory. They disallow non-ntlm connections to enforce this.
I have better things to do than fight powerhungry lunatics -- so I connect to my home pc via citrix and do everything from there.
Companies that are Windows 2000 shops will require IE, because MS Proxy servers in native mode will only authenticate with IE or with a proxy client (only available for Windows)
One of the mainframes that takes up some space in our data center now spends all of it's days running the climate control, utility and elevator management software for the state capitol and various gov't buildings.
I believe they are planning on writing a replacement to run on Sun or IBM unix boxes, but it probaly won't be done for 5-7 years (it's low-priority, since the current system is fine until the people who run it retire in 10 years)
The mainframe is from the late 80's, but the initial revision of the software (now on version 6.6 or something) was coded in 1967.
I heard that all of the new AT&T UBRs are simply using CAT to reflect the traffic to the former @Home UBR chain.
In case you are unfamiliar with the implications of reflecting UBR traffic to another chain, the results can be absolutely devastating. You are talking about like 95% ACR load, which will disable all of the BGP gateways on the routers and cause a cascading failure of the border routers.
Ok, that sounds just wonderful. Unfortunately, the notion is completely absurd.
Again, who would put money up? Why would they do such a thing??? There would be no game shops and no pretty boxes, because the product is in the public domain.
The Soviet Union tried a similar experiment with farming. Instead of peasants working as defacto slaves for some Nobleman, they would work in collective farms owned by the people.
This worked ok for awhile, since larger farms combined with mechanization made better use of the land. But after a few years, things began to fall apart.
Your proposal makes a few assumptions:
- Developers are not motivated by self-interest.
- Organizations that produce software are happy with a small, fixed amount of compensation for their services (assuming anyone would pay) versus virtually unlimited compensation today.
- Developers are willing to provide a warranty for software that they do not own; guaranteing that it will perform as specified, since the escrow system will withhold payment until everyone is happy.
- Consumers plan software purchases well in advance.
- Consumers are willing to sponsor developers for the "public good"
Your argument is a complete fantasy. As a whole, human beings act in their own self-interest. Society functions around commerce, not charity.
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There is plenty of practical value.
Alot of embedded systems, particularly POS systems and some industrial controllers use DOS.
So computer code is some sort of sacrosanct expression that must be free and open to all, but "artwork" should have strictly enforced copyrights???
You've been reading Slashdot too long.
What if I render a 3-d view of video game code? Is it art or code?
The other poster in this thread is right, the DURATION of copyright is inappropriate for many mediums, and ultimately leads to the death of the "art" that was created. Videogames & applications written in the 80's are largely extinct, thanks to unreasonable copyrights that prevent others from distributing old works.
It is appropriate for derelicts and perverts to sit in the public library and masturbate to internet porn.
It's bullshit that our fascist government takes legal action against those who facilitate mass theft of copyrighted material.
It's also bullshit that our nation aggressively prosecutes the enemy during a time of national crisis. I say tear down the metal detectors at airports and open the prisons!
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The process of opening a window is under a BSD license. A GPL solution is needed.
Having a remote-control solution that utilizes Domain-level security is a major benefit for larger organizations.
At my job, our NT group supports about 50,000 users spread over about 850 sites, with skillsets ranging from Software Engineers to contract clerks.
Currently the only RC solution that meets our needs is Tivoli Remote Control (because it supports distributed security) Tivoli uses an PcAnywhere-like remote control service that does not perform nearly as well as the RDP service in windows xp.
I don't think the service pack stuff really counts here either. Windows XP is more like Windows 2000.5 than a new OS. As long as IE 6 doesn't break any intranet apps, there isn't an overwhelming reason to avoid it.
People always say this...
6 months ago, you would have said that Windows 2000 was an unproven platform an NT 4 was a safe bet.
Anyone can access Solaris source code for $75
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/source
How would Sun open-sourcing Solaris change this??
The smartass troll who was bragging about his 3733t coding skills would be in the same mess.
Actually, he'd probaly be in a worse mess if he introduced a bug on all of his organizations Sun servers that Sun wouldn't support.
If you are so smart, why are you running rlogin and telnet?
That's what the State Police are for.
When the local yokels can't handle it, the state guys take over usually. Generally, state police agencies are competent.
"They encourage the computer-illiterate to put their trust in Microsoft rather than learning how computers actually work. They created both the software and the culture that propogate malicious code. All of which means that they are greatly to blame for deliberately bringing into existence email viruses."
Those people whom you despise are the ones who ultimately pay your salary.
There is nothing more obnoxious than a IT person who forgets that the computers are there to drive the business, not vice-versa.
How does that make them different from any perl, java or vb programmer?
The FBI, being a Federal law-enforcement agency has absolutely no business investigating murder, rape, or most violent crime, since the vast majority of these are state offenses.
Attempts to do what you suggest have resulted in the nothing more than the abuse of hate crime, civil rights and tax laws by federal law enforcement.
Windows NT is also designed to run multiple types of applications natively.
win32 is one runtime, but there is also a win16, dos and posix runtime. These are no longer promoted or maintained.
Daemonnews comes out almost every month.
Why it news when it arrives. This is more lame than ask slashdot.
"I'm also waiting for every one of you satellite-stealing-mother-f'ers to buy your used slim-line PC with 2 serial ports ("perfect for emulation") so the price goes back down on those boxes. I need to build some firewalls and other appliances and you guys are driving the prices up"
Maybe I'm just retarded, but what in god's earth does that mean?
Linux is not enterprise-ready because it is an immature platform. Point kernel releases result in large changes to the operation of Linux.
If linux is to be enterprise-ready, it needs to adhere to some standards like the IEEE POSIX or the Open Group's Unix spec.
I agree with you in that regard.
Unfortunately, the security/gestapo group controls the firewalls, not me. The Nazis want all outgoing connections to be authenticated against the W2k domain via active directory. They disallow non-ntlm connections to enforce this.
I have better things to do than fight powerhungry lunatics -- so I connect to my home pc via citrix and do everything from there.
Companies that are Windows 2000 shops will require IE, because MS Proxy servers in native mode will only authenticate with IE or with a proxy client (only available for Windows)
One of the mainframes that takes up some space in our data center now spends all of it's days running the climate control, utility and elevator management software for the state capitol and various gov't buildings.
I believe they are planning on writing a replacement to run on Sun or IBM unix boxes, but it probaly won't be done for 5-7 years (it's low-priority, since the current system is fine until the people who run it retire in 10 years)
The mainframe is from the late 80's, but the initial revision of the software (now on version 6.6 or something) was coded in 1967.
Motorola MTS-2000t ml
http://www.motorola.com/cgiss/portables/sp50.sh
More features than you can shake a stick at!
I heard that all of the new AT&T UBRs are simply using CAT to reflect the traffic to the former @Home UBR chain.
In case you are unfamiliar with the implications of reflecting UBR traffic to another chain, the results can be absolutely devastating. You are talking about like 95% ACR load, which will disable all of the BGP gateways on the routers and cause a cascading failure of the border routers.
I hope they fix it soon!
Ok, that sounds just wonderful. Unfortunately, the notion is completely absurd.
Again, who would put money up? Why would they do such a thing??? There would be no game shops and no pretty boxes, because the product is in the public domain.
The Soviet Union tried a similar experiment with farming. Instead of peasants working as defacto slaves for some Nobleman, they would work in collective farms owned by the people.
This worked ok for awhile, since larger farms combined with mechanization made better use of the land. But after a few years, things began to fall apart.
Your proposal makes a few assumptions:
- Developers are not motivated by self-interest.
- Organizations that produce software are happy with a small, fixed amount of compensation for their services (assuming anyone would pay) versus virtually unlimited compensation today.
- Developers are willing to provide a warranty for software that they do not own; guaranteing that it will perform as specified, since the escrow system will withhold payment until everyone is happy.
- Consumers plan software purchases well in advance.
- Consumers are willing to sponsor developers for the "public good"
Your argument is a complete fantasy. As a whole, human beings act in their own self-interest. Society functions around commerce, not charity.
There is plenty of practical value.
Alot of embedded systems, particularly POS systems and some industrial controllers use DOS.
Stallman doesn't give a shit about the software industry -- he lives and works in the academic universe.
Since his job & livlihood is funded by gov't grants, charity and tuition, he does not have to worry about actually producing profit.
What would compel me to pay an escrow agent when the work is public domain??? I could just copy it from anyone!
Please go and get yourself a clue.
So computer code is some sort of sacrosanct expression that must be free and open to all, but "artwork" should have strictly enforced copyrights???
You've been reading Slashdot too long.
What if I render a 3-d view of video game code? Is it art or code?
The other poster in this thread is right, the DURATION of copyright is inappropriate for many mediums, and ultimately leads to the death of the "art" that was created. Videogames & applications written in the 80's are largely extinct, thanks to unreasonable copyrights that prevent others from distributing old works.
I agree with you.
It is appropriate for derelicts and perverts to sit in the public library and masturbate to internet porn.
It's bullshit that our fascist government takes legal action against those who facilitate mass theft of copyrighted material.
It's also bullshit that our nation aggressively prosecutes the enemy during a time of national crisis. I say tear down the metal detectors at airports and open the prisons!
THANK YOU JON KATZ! I have seen the light!