Comparing some linux users to terrorists is just plain defamation. Where do linux users raise suicide bombers from youth with promises of Glory and Women to those martar themselves to ride the world of microsoft "infidels"?
Sure maybe you might find some script kiddie hacking a site claiming to do it for the Open Source but that hardly his true modivation.
Terrorists are modivated by a hatred ingrained in them from birth. Linux users are definitely not.
Because their usefulness wasn't conceived in Redmond, they don't come bundled with Windows.
How many ways is this statement wrong? Were Doublespace, Defrag, Checkdisk conceived in Redmond? How about a file manager or the modern desktop? Microsoft has a history of stealing other people's code a putting into windows.
I remember the day that SoBig.F reared it's ugly head. I can into work and must have had 40-50 emails claiming I sent a virus to some person I have never heard of. It was so many I actually figured I better check and make sure I didn't have the virus.
Even worse 1 in 4 of the messages sent the virus to me in the message bounce.
But in reality antivirus software is playing a losing game, it tries to get out virus definitions to protect systems after the virus has been released. Not only that the viruses have much faster distribution rate than the definitions so it's a loosing battle. We need a new solution.
I propose that we should call for a ban of Microsoft Lookout. In its short existence, it has become the most insecure piece of software every written -- surpassing Bind, Sendmail and even Wuftpd, programs much older than it.
While we are at it lets call for banning direct access to the internet for all windows based systems. Let's face it. If you put a windows box bare on the net, eventually it is going to be compromised. Windows wasn't originally designed to work on the internet and Microsoft has shoehorned in the internet support without proper security measures taken.
You can't rely on end users who are too afraid to install there own OS to properly secure and update the machine. Someone needs to do that for them and frankly Microsoft doesn't.
IBM's problem wasn't as much a design issue as it was shoddly workmanship. The bad drives came from their Hungary plant. The whole plant has been closed since either by IBM or the division's new owners Hitachi.
Dismissing Linux as safe because there currently is no real spyware out for the Linux desktop does not really address the question. Assuming there were, it would be nice to be able to block just one application. Blocking a port would not be enough (since it could just use 80, then no web browsing for you...). Blocking an IP is the obvious "right way" but it still might not be the best solution if that cuts your off from the webpage or other important service.
Hmm, you do realize that outgoing HTTP requests do not normally use port 80? They connect to port 80 on the other end maybe but they originate for a port other than port 80.
That is not totally true. ATI's DVD compensation technology was licensed from a 3rd party. The restrictions put on the software where such that the DVD software for my Rage128 use to only come on CDROM. The original IP holder would allow downloading of the software. The company name escapes me at this time but remember distinctly being ticked off that I had to order the DVD Software update CD (it was free).
Whatever, the Gatos Drivers have never been about getting good 3D support and thus hardly worth comparing to DRI drivers. The goal of the Gatos Project is to provide video capture, tv tuner support and DVD playback with ATI Video cards as the AIW and VIVO lines. Occasionly the may merge in some DRI stuff into the CVS tree but they never provide the cutting edge 3d support that current DRI drivers provide.
Also I have played games on a Rage128 under Linux with the DRI driver and they were not as good as performance of my current 9100Pro that has little to do with the drivers and everything to do with the fact that the R200 core Radeons are very much faster than the Rage 128s.
I have used both the ATI drivers and R200 DRI drivers and yes the ATI drivers are faster but the open source drivers are adequate for gaming.
Hmm, if you check it's history, pine has had a few more security holes than mutt. Including one that allowed you to run code on a persons machine by putting invalid characters in the subject line. Yes it's more secure than lookout but definitely not the "safest thing"....
I am not taking out about whether the driver works or not. It does. They don't support the driver. (n other words so you can understand that means if you have a problem with a Radeon card and the drivers, they won't help you. Is that clear enough???
That compete bull. ATI's FireGL guys wrote the linux drivers just like they did before ATI bought them. Yes they tell you where to get the Open Source Drivers but also have written drivers which are much fast than the OS drivers for 3D acceleration.
The Radeon Linux Drivers were never supported. They released the FireGL Linux Drivers which work with Radeons (because they use the same chipset) but they never offered support for Radeon cards under Linux.
Your box must have been misconfigured then, or you must be using a really, really buggy program. If the problem is a really buggy program, well you can't blame windows. I've had programs hose the system under linux, too. (Konqueror!) (Now your probably going to say I set it up wrong,, and yeah, your probably right) You really can't blame an OS for someone else's software. I mean, I was just working on something, and some stuff I had written caused a page fault (one of those stupid mistakes). I can't blame the OS for that. I've kept a generally clean system, and its longest uptime has been 12 days, at which point a buggy driver brought it down. Up until that time, it had been working perfectly, and had the driver been working probably still wouldn't have crashed.
I am a computer professional and am an expert in installing and configuring windows. The problem has nothing to do with the setup.
I've said this more than once, and I'll say it again: In order to acheive a stable system, you HAVE to configure it correctly. I have never gone over 2 days uptime with Linux, mostly because I honestly have no idea how to set it up correctly, I just click next in the RH installer, and let it go. Generally, however, XP and Linux are, out of the box, good enough for most general use.
I have a linux box that never crashes. It's been running for almost 2 years now and the only time it get rebooted is when the kernel is upgraded or there's a power outage. Now I have some non default programs on there but I did nothing special to set it up.
Actually ATI is already planning to use PCI-Express on it's next video card. PCI-Express to AGP bridge will be used to support older motherboards.
If Intel is Planning AGPx16, it's for either or both of these reasons:
1 PCI-Express is still a least 9 months to a year off and they want something in between.
2 Many AGP cards will still exist when PCI-Express board start shipping so some with come with AGP for backwards compatibility. Remember motherboards with Vesa and PCI buses.
You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
We work with Server Xeon, AthlonMP, Opteron boards on a daily basis and each PCI slot does not have it's own bus. PCI is Multidrop as the Articles says. A server board might have 2 or 3 separate PCI-X buses but not one for each of 6 PCI-X slots, and the onboard dual GigE. That's not practical.
Microsoft is the leading software manufacturer for Mac and I doubt they would do anything to loose that market.
I have a feeling that Microsoft could safely exist without the Mac market if they thought it was in their best interest. Besides, they don't seem to eager to cash in on the rapidly growing Linux market.
Why would they drop it? The reason Microsoft doesn't care about Mac being an alternative is because they own that software market as well. A market that is big enough to warrant it's own version of Office.
Microsoft may never choose to release MS Office for linux but that has nothing to do with their Mac Software division.
When did I say it did? All I said was that it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft canceled Office for Mac.
You compared them. By doing so you are suggesting a simularity.
I have had both Windows 2000 and Windows XP Crash repeatedly. We have one XP box that crashes daily. Granted that is due to a specific program but that no different than any version of Windows. It's not neccessarily windows that causes the crashes but the awful software written for windows. Windows does not encourage proper memory management in 3rd party apps now or ever.
This would be bad because emulation is almost universally slower and more buggy.
If this were only true. Win4lin boots faster, runs more stable, and in some cases faster than running windows 98 directly on the machine.
If a crash does occur in Windows, only Windows crashes and you can restart a clean version of Windows in a couple of seconds. Man when my Win98 box crashes at work, I am waiting 1 to 5 minutes before working again.
Win4lin runs fast and stable because it provides Windows with simple emulated devices that Windows supports well. None of these crazy video drivers for Windows to worry about.
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I don't think there will be a native port of MS Office very soon. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Mac version's days are numbered, what with IE being cancelled.
What you are forgetting here is IE was free. MS Office for Mac was never free. Microsoft is the leading software manufacturer for Mac and I doubt they would do anything to loose that market.
Microsoft may never choose to release MS Office for linux but that has nothing to do with their Mac Software division.
Gentoo is a source distribution. I really wouldn't want to administer a big enterprise network by building packages all the time and building packages on an Enterprise class server is just a waste of server resources. The server is suppose to be serving and not compiling.
Sure I can dedicate one machine to compiling but in the end I am redoing work that is already done for me.
I really don't think you need enterprise. If you want stable just go with RedHat 7.3. If you want some newer cutting edge stuff than look at 9 and avoid 8 at all costs.
With your inhouse talent you don't need the extra support anyway. If you are worried about updates run a local mirror and have the systems pull the updates from there using apt-rpm. There's no reason to pay for an up2date account.
And finally join the RedHat update/security mailinglist. You will be informed of any updates as they are released. So you'll know when you need to sync up your mirror and do updates.
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Comparing some linux users to terrorists is just plain defamation. Where do linux users raise suicide bombers from youth with promises of Glory and Women to those martar themselves to ride the world of microsoft "infidels"?
Sure maybe you might find some script kiddie hacking a site claiming to do it for the Open Source but that hardly his true modivation.
Terrorists are modivated by a hatred ingrained in them from birth. Linux users are definitely not.
Because their usefulness wasn't conceived in Redmond, they don't come bundled with Windows.
How many ways is this statement wrong? Were Doublespace, Defrag, Checkdisk conceived in Redmond? How about a file manager or the modern desktop? Microsoft has a history of stealing other people's code a putting into windows.
How about the machine built for the 1890 Us Census by a company later to be named as International Business Machines? You know IBM.
I remember the day that SoBig.F reared it's ugly head. I can into work and must have had 40-50 emails claiming I sent a virus to some person I have never heard of. It was so many I actually figured I better check and make sure I didn't have the virus.
Even worse 1 in 4 of the messages sent the virus to me in the message bounce.
But in reality antivirus software is playing a losing game, it tries to get out virus definitions to protect systems after the virus has been released. Not only that the viruses have much faster distribution rate than the definitions so it's a loosing battle. We need a new solution.
I propose that we should call for a ban of Microsoft Lookout. In its short existence, it has become the most insecure piece of software every written -- surpassing Bind, Sendmail and even Wuftpd, programs much older than it.
While we are at it lets call for banning direct access to the internet for all windows based systems. Let's face it. If you put a windows box bare on the net, eventually it is going to be compromised. Windows wasn't originally designed to work on the internet and Microsoft has shoehorned in the internet support without proper security measures taken.
You can't rely on end users who are too afraid to install there own OS to properly secure and update the machine. Someone needs to do that for them and frankly Microsoft doesn't.
IBM's problem wasn't as much a design issue as it was shoddly workmanship. The bad drives came from their Hungary plant. The whole plant has been closed since either by IBM or the division's new owners Hitachi.
Dismissing Linux as safe because there currently is no real spyware out for the Linux desktop does not really address the question. Assuming there were, it would be nice to be able to block just one application. Blocking a port would not be enough (since it could just use 80, then no web browsing for you...). Blocking an IP is the obvious "right way" but it still might not be the best solution if that cuts your off from the webpage or other important service.
Hmm, you do realize that outgoing HTTP requests do not normally use port 80? They connect to port 80 on the other end maybe but they originate for a port other than port 80.
That is not totally true. ATI's DVD compensation technology was licensed from a 3rd party. The restrictions put on the software where such that the DVD software for my Rage128 use to only come on CDROM. The original IP holder would allow downloading of the software. The company name escapes me at this time but remember distinctly being ticked off that I had to order the DVD Software update CD (it was free).
Whatever, the Gatos Drivers have never been about getting good 3D support and thus hardly worth comparing to DRI drivers. The goal of the Gatos Project is to provide video capture, tv tuner support and DVD playback with ATI Video cards as the AIW and VIVO lines. Occasionly the may merge in some DRI stuff into the CVS tree but they never provide the cutting edge 3d support that current DRI drivers provide.
Also I have played games on a Rage128 under Linux with the DRI driver and they were not as good as performance of my current 9100Pro that has little to do with the drivers and everything to do with the fact that the R200 core Radeons are very much faster than the Rage 128s.
I have used both the ATI drivers and R200 DRI drivers and yes the ATI drivers are faster but the open source drivers are adequate for gaming.
Hmm, if you check it's history, pine has had a few more security holes than mutt. Including one that allowed you to run code on a persons machine by putting invalid characters in the subject line. Yes it's more secure than lookout but definitely not the "safest thing"....
Of course they do. Otherwise there Opteron Chipset would be useless.
I am not taking out about whether the driver works or not. It does. They don't support the driver. (n other words so you can understand that means if you have a problem with a Radeon card and the drivers, they won't help you. Is that clear enough???
They never supported the Radeon Linux Drivers. The support comes with the FireGL cards only.
That compete bull. ATI's FireGL guys wrote the linux drivers just like they did before ATI bought them. Yes they tell you where to get the Open Source Drivers but also have written drivers which are much fast than the OS drivers for 3D acceleration.
The Radeon Linux Drivers were never supported. They released the FireGL Linux Drivers which work with Radeons (because they use the same chipset) but they never offered support for Radeon cards under Linux.
BTW the Xfree4.3 drivers do exist...
Checkout this link
Your box must have been misconfigured then, or you must be using a really, really buggy program. If the problem is a really buggy program, well you can't blame windows. I've had programs hose the system under linux, too. (Konqueror!) (Now your probably going to say I set it up wrong,, and yeah, your probably right) You really can't blame an OS for someone else's software. I mean, I was just working on something, and some stuff I had written caused a page fault (one of those stupid mistakes). I can't blame the OS for that. I've kept a generally clean system, and its longest uptime has been 12 days, at which point a buggy driver brought it down. Up until that time, it had been working perfectly, and had the driver been working probably still wouldn't have crashed.
I am a computer professional and am an expert in installing and configuring windows. The problem has nothing to do with the setup.
I've said this more than once, and I'll say it again: In order to acheive a stable system, you HAVE to configure it correctly. I have never gone over 2 days uptime with Linux, mostly because I honestly have no idea how to set it up correctly, I just click next in the RH installer, and let it go. Generally, however, XP and Linux are, out of the box, good enough for most general use.
I have a linux box that never crashes. It's been running for almost 2 years now and the only time it get rebooted is when the kernel is upgraded or there's a power outage. Now I have some non default programs on there but I did nothing special to set it up.
Actually ATI is already planning to use PCI-Express on it's next video card. PCI-Express to AGP bridge will be used to support older motherboards.
If Intel is Planning AGPx16, it's for either or both of these reasons:
1 PCI-Express is still a least 9 months to a year off and they want something in between.
2 Many AGP cards will still exist when PCI-Express board start shipping so some with come with AGP for backwards compatibility. Remember motherboards with Vesa and PCI buses.
You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
We work with Server Xeon, AthlonMP, Opteron boards on a daily basis and each PCI slot does not have it's own bus. PCI is Multidrop as the Articles says. A server board might have 2 or 3 separate PCI-X buses but not one for each of 6 PCI-X slots, and the onboard dual GigE. That's not practical.
Microsoft is the leading software manufacturer for Mac and I doubt they would do anything to loose that market.
I have a feeling that Microsoft could safely exist without the Mac market if they thought it was in their best interest. Besides, they don't seem to eager to cash in on the rapidly growing Linux market.
Why would they drop it? The reason Microsoft doesn't care about Mac being an alternative is because they own that software market as well. A market that is big enough to warrant it's own version of Office.
Microsoft may never choose to release MS Office for linux but that has nothing to do with their Mac Software division.
When did I say it did? All I said was that it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft canceled Office for Mac.
You compared them. By doing so you are suggesting a simularity.
I have had both Windows 2000 and Windows XP Crash repeatedly. We have one XP box that crashes daily. Granted that is due to a specific program but that no different than any version of Windows. It's not neccessarily windows that causes the crashes but the awful software written for windows. Windows does not encourage proper memory management in 3rd party apps now or ever.
This would be bad because emulation is almost universally slower and more buggy.
If this were only true. Win4lin boots faster, runs more stable, and in some cases faster than running windows 98 directly on the machine.
If a crash does occur in Windows, only Windows crashes and you can restart a clean version of Windows in a couple of seconds. Man when my Win98 box crashes at work, I am waiting 1 to 5 minutes before working again.
Win4lin runs fast and stable because it provides Windows with simple emulated devices that Windows supports well. None of these crazy video drivers for Windows to worry about.
I don't think there will be a native port of MS Office very soon. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Mac version's days are numbered, what with IE being cancelled.
What you are forgetting here is IE was free. MS Office for Mac was never free. Microsoft is the leading software manufacturer for Mac and I doubt they would do anything to loose that market.
Microsoft may never choose to release MS Office for linux but that has nothing to do with their Mac Software division.
We helped Dnet crack the 56bit key.
They release their bigmem kernels as well as smp kernels
Gentoo is a source distribution. I really wouldn't want to administer a big enterprise network by building packages all the time and building packages on an Enterprise class server is just a waste of server resources. The server is suppose to be serving and not compiling.
Sure I can dedicate one machine to compiling but in the end I am redoing work that is already done for me.
I really don't think you need enterprise. If you want stable just go with RedHat 7.3. If you want some newer cutting edge stuff than look at 9 and avoid 8 at all costs.
With your inhouse talent you don't need the extra support anyway. If you are worried about updates run a local mirror and have the systems pull the updates from there using apt-rpm. There's no reason to pay for an up2date account.
And finally join the RedHat update/security mailinglist. You will be informed of any updates as they are released. So you'll know when you need to sync up your mirror and do updates.