Having worked for startups, I can guarrantee that we never hired people for the personnel department let alone first. A small company is not going to waste it's resources on people who are not contributing directly to the growth of the company. They hire people to design and sell their products first not HR personnel. HR departments do not come along until a company has move well past the startup stage.
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TIVO can call it anything they want. They still can't make you buy their service just because you own their hardware.
Like Blaster was the only worm that Windows has seen in the past 5 years. How about Conficker? That affected SP2 machines.
This was 5 years ago, but of course old habits die hard and we keep hearing "Oh Windows machines get pwned within seconds of being on the net", referring to this or similar studies (same as some people think it's 1998 and BSoDs happen 30 times a day). Yeah... if they're running WinXP-SP1 or earlier they might get pwned. Don't get me wrong, that is a real risk, and there are a lot of unpatched machines running SP1, either because they were never updated, or because it was reinstalled with install media that didn't include at least SP2. There's no reason for someone with any common sense to not reinstall XP machines with slipstreamed SP3 media.
And how many people are going to know how to slipstream a windows install? I know IT people who have no clue how to do it.
What I consider Crap is an OS that can't make up its mind what sound system to use. One were seemingly minor upgrades result in random hardware not working. One that ships alpha grade code into production versions (Intel drivers, KDE 4.0, etc). One where the user is forced to upgrade versions very frequently if they wish to access new apps, an upgrade which is risky if done directly, requiring a clean install with every version for the greatest chance of success. That would be Linux, particularly Ubuntu.
Yeah well run RedHat EL and you won't have those problems. Most new applications can be compiled for older distributions though sometimes it requires upgrading Libraries as well but that happens on Windows too. As long as you are running a currently supported version of a distro, you can most likely find a repository with an rpm or deb for your new app along with any libraries and perl packages it might require.
As for sound, well RHEL and Centos 5.4 are running alsa with some oss support for legacy apps. Which has pretty much been the standard for a while now. Now I will grant you that sound on linux needs work but that looks to be coming with OSS 4. OSS 4 isn't mainstream yet but it's getting rave reviews so it shouldn't be long before it becomes the standard.
Umm, Linux is the most popular OS for web servers so I would dare say it's popular enough.
That accounts for what, maybe 0.001% of internet-connected machines ?
Maybe I shouldn't respond because you are obviously clueless but anyway. Most consumer routers run Linux, Unix or Maybe Qnx so the percentage is way higher.
The issue is that viruses on Linux, Unix and OS X are less destructive because they can only effect the individual user account unless they are able to first infect the user account and then escalate their priviledges to root.
This is, at best, insignificant semantics. What, exactly, do you think the average piece of malicious code needs elevated privileges for ?
Without elevated privileges all the virus is going to do is mess up the user account it was installed in. And that should be backed up.
That's baloney. I have installed Windows XP without a proper firewall and before you can finished updating the system to the newest patches, the system will be infected. The only way to properly secure a new install is to put on all the patches before putting the machine on the net. I have no such problems with Linux.
Umm, Linux is the most popular OS for web servers so I would dare say it's popular enough. The issue is that viruses on Linux, Unix and OS X are less destructive because they can only effect the individual user account unless they are able to first infect the user account and then escalate their priviledges to root. With that said Linux/Unix tends to be infected more by worms than viruses. Worms being self propagating software that affects services offered by the OS such as dns, http, ftp, smtp, irc, ssh, etc. As such most desktop Linux boxes do not need to offer these services because they are not servers and thus can be secured even more than a Linux server.
When did you install? 5 years ago? While there are still Windows only hardware devices around, it's easy to build a system that is Linux compatible. I even have a Nforce board that has had full Linux support for years and yet isn't fully supported in Vista and I assume Windows 7 too. In fact if you consider the hardware that Windows Vista/7 has dropped support for and the lower system requirements of Linux, a case could be made that Linux has better hardware support now.
How recently? I recently re-installed windows on several HP systems with only the stickers and they passed the WGA no problem. With a couple, I did need to call in with but I had no problem getting them validated. Just told them I was reinstalling which was the truth. I am guessing with those someone copied the license key from work used it at home.
I am sure I read when they announced that the free upgrade doesn't include shipping. Also the Vista upgrade, I got with my laptop didn't include shipping. Maybe the manufacturers and sales reps aren't being clear, I don't know. I do know when I was talking to my sister about free upgrade when she purchased her new computer, I definitely told her she would need to pay the shipping.
The reason England and Europe is as warm as it is has to do with the warm ocean currents flowing up from the Caribbean. These currents obviously effect England more than Germany. As such your argument that England which is farther north than Germany and needs AC so Germany must is as well is completely stupid.
There are designs for Nuclear power plants that can be buried and run for 50 years. The waste material is contained until it is decayed and then it can be dug up if necessary.
You don't win by mortgaging unless it's to complete the high priced set of properties or put houses on them just before your opponent(s) get to that part of the board.
I am afraid I disagree. The provision that allows sharing and copying is there to make a practise that would be illegal legal. Thus if it isn't covered in the provision it is illegal.
Also the FBI warning on Videos is American and has no bearing in Canada.
Well that's actually debatable. The law says that if I borrow a friends CD and I have the right to copy it. I says that my friend cannot copy it for me. So if a friend copies it to their Hard Drive and then lets me copy it from there is it legal? Well the law doesn't cover that as it predates internet file sharing.
This is Canada. RIAA doesn't see a dime of this money. It goes to the Canadian Recording Industry Association who's suppose to split it up between the Canadian Musicians.
The fee or levy is not for the person who orginally bought the CD but for his friends who copy it. In Canada it is legal to borrow a friends CD and copy it for yourself. This levy pays the right. It's really a silly law as the CD owner is not allowed to copy it for a friend. I guess the government figured it was easier to tax blank media than attempt to stop copying. The RIAA is pushing to have the law changed in Canada however.
Iraq had WMDs and had a history of using them. The UN destroyed some of them in the 90's. Apparently they had abandoned the WMD programs before the second war but pretended to still have them to provoke the US.
Well you don't necessarily need to make the hull massive. You could possibly use plasma to absorb the radiation. Problem being that you would need to bring fuel for the plasma as well.
The only additional costs would be the upgrade from SATA cards to SATA RAID cards like 3ware and maybe they would need to switch to a server class board with multiple PCI-e slots. Not a significant additional cost.
This is a NAS box. They aren't adding 10Gbe nics so the network will GigE and would be the bottle neck if they weren't using PCI sata cards.
You would have support for typical NAS stuff like NFS, Samba, distributed filesystems like AFS. YOu could also setup iSCSI nodes as well. But definitely no FiberChannel support. I don't know maybe you could add a card to the box to add this but I am pretty sure for the same money you could setup a 10Gbe storage network. Of course the 10Gbe storage network would be faster.
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Having worked for startups, I can guarrantee that we never hired people for the personnel department let alone first. A small company is not going to waste it's resources on people who are not contributing directly to the growth of the company. They hire people to design and sell their products first not HR personnel. HR departments do not come along until a company has move well past the startup stage.
TIVO can call it anything they want. They still can't make you buy their service just because you own their hardware.
I am pretty sure it was XP with Service Pack 2 that got owned. SP2 is not a replacement for a good firewall. Windows is just plain crap.
No it was SP1, which left Blaster/Sasser exploits exposed. Firewall being enabled in SP2 helped tremendously.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm
Like Blaster was the only worm that Windows has seen in the past 5 years. How about Conficker? That affected SP2 machines.
This was 5 years ago, but of course old habits die hard and we keep hearing "Oh Windows machines get pwned within seconds of being on the net", referring to this or similar studies (same as some people think it's 1998 and BSoDs happen 30 times a day). Yeah... if they're running WinXP-SP1 or earlier they might get pwned. Don't get me wrong, that is a real risk, and there are a lot of unpatched machines running SP1, either because they were never updated, or because it was reinstalled with install media that didn't include at least SP2. There's no reason for someone with any common sense to not reinstall XP machines with slipstreamed SP3 media.
And how many people are going to know how to slipstream a windows install? I know IT people who have no clue how to do it.
What I consider Crap is an OS that can't make up its mind what sound system to use. One were seemingly minor upgrades result in random hardware not working. One that ships alpha grade code into production versions (Intel drivers, KDE 4.0, etc). One where the user is forced to upgrade versions very frequently if they wish to access new apps, an upgrade which is risky if done directly, requiring a clean install with every version for the greatest chance of success. That would be Linux, particularly Ubuntu.
Yeah well run RedHat EL and you won't have those problems. Most new applications can be compiled for older distributions though sometimes it requires upgrading Libraries as well but that happens on Windows too. As long as you are running a currently supported version of a distro, you can most likely find a repository with an rpm or deb for your new app along with any libraries and perl packages it might require.
As for sound, well RHEL and Centos 5.4 are running alsa with some oss support for legacy apps. Which has pretty much been the standard for a while now. Now I will grant you that sound on linux needs work but that looks to be coming with OSS 4. OSS 4 isn't mainstream yet but it's getting rave reviews so it shouldn't be long before it becomes the standard.
Umm, Linux is the most popular OS for web servers so I would dare say it's popular enough.
That accounts for what, maybe 0.001% of internet-connected machines ?
Maybe I shouldn't respond because you are obviously clueless but anyway. Most consumer routers run Linux, Unix or Maybe Qnx so the percentage is way higher.
The issue is that viruses on Linux, Unix and OS X are less destructive because they can only effect the individual user account unless they are able to first infect the user account and then escalate their priviledges to root.
This is, at best, insignificant semantics. What, exactly, do you think the average piece of malicious code needs elevated privileges for ?
Without elevated privileges all the virus is going to do is mess up the user account it was installed in. And that should be backed up.
I am pretty sure it was XP with Service Pack 2 that got owned. SP2 is not a replacement for a good firewall. Windows is just plain crap.
There are root kit scanners for Linux. Most wise administrators run them periodically to search for root kits.
That's baloney. I have installed Windows XP without a proper firewall and before you can finished updating the system to the newest patches, the system will be infected. The only way to properly secure a new install is to put on all the patches before putting the machine on the net. I have no such problems with Linux.
Umm, Linux is the most popular OS for web servers so I would dare say it's popular enough. The issue is that viruses on Linux, Unix and OS X are less destructive because they can only effect the individual user account unless they are able to first infect the user account and then escalate their priviledges to root. With that said Linux/Unix tends to be infected more by worms than viruses. Worms being self propagating software that affects services offered by the OS such as dns, http, ftp, smtp, irc, ssh, etc. As such most desktop Linux boxes do not need to offer these services because they are not servers and thus can be secured even more than a Linux server.
When did you install? 5 years ago? While there are still Windows only hardware devices around, it's easy to build a system that is Linux compatible. I even have a Nforce board that has had full Linux support for years and yet isn't fully supported in Vista and I assume Windows 7 too. In fact if you consider the hardware that Windows Vista/7 has dropped support for and the lower system requirements of Linux, a case could be made that Linux has better hardware support now.
How recently? I recently re-installed windows on several HP systems with only the stickers and they passed the WGA no problem. With a couple, I did need to call in with but I had no problem getting them validated. Just told them I was reinstalling which was the truth. I am guessing with those someone copied the license key from work used it at home.
I am sure I read when they announced that the free upgrade doesn't include shipping. Also the Vista upgrade, I got with my laptop didn't include shipping. Maybe the manufacturers and sales reps aren't being clear, I don't know. I do know when I was talking to my sister about free upgrade when she purchased her new computer, I definitely told her she would need to pay the shipping.
The reason England and Europe is as warm as it is has to do with the warm ocean currents flowing up from the Caribbean. These currents obviously effect England more than Germany. As such your argument that England which is farther north than Germany and needs AC so Germany must is as well is completely stupid.
There are designs for Nuclear power plants that can be buried and run for 50 years. The waste material is contained until it is decayed and then it can be dug up if necessary.
You don't win by mortgaging unless it's to complete the high priced set of properties or put houses on them just before your opponent(s) get to that part of the board.
I am afraid I disagree. The provision that allows sharing and copying is there to make a practise that would be illegal legal. Thus if it isn't covered in the provision it is illegal.
Also the FBI warning on Videos is American and has no bearing in Canada.
Well that's actually debatable. The law says that if I borrow a friends CD and I have the right to copy it. I says that my friend cannot copy it for me. So if a friend copies it to their Hard Drive and then lets me copy it from there is it legal? Well the law doesn't cover that as it predates internet file sharing.
This is Canada. RIAA doesn't see a dime of this money. It goes to the Canadian Recording Industry Association who's suppose to split it up between the Canadian Musicians.
The fee or levy is not for the person who orginally bought the CD but for his friends who copy it. In Canada it is legal to borrow a friends CD and copy it for yourself. This levy pays the right. It's really a silly law as the CD owner is not allowed to copy it for a friend. I guess the government figured it was easier to tax blank media than attempt to stop copying. The RIAA is pushing to have the law changed in Canada however.
Iraq had WMDs and had a history of using them. The UN destroyed some of them in the 90's. Apparently they had abandoned the WMD programs before the second war but pretended to still have them to provoke the US.
Well the made the Security Guard think they had a gun to scare him. Where they did or not would be hard to prove unless it was caught on camera.
Well you don't necessarily need to make the hull massive. You could possibly use plasma to absorb the radiation. Problem being that you would need to bring fuel for the plasma as well.
Actually they are RAID cards just really cheap ones. I doubt they scan the drives periodically.
The only additional costs would be the upgrade from SATA cards to SATA RAID cards like 3ware and maybe they would need to switch to a server class board with multiple PCI-e slots. Not a significant additional cost.
They aren't using RAID cards. Just SATA interface cards.
Umm, it's kind of obvious but whatever.
This is a NAS box. They aren't adding 10Gbe nics so the network will GigE and would be the bottle neck if they weren't using PCI sata cards.
You would have support for typical NAS stuff like NFS, Samba, distributed filesystems like AFS. YOu could also setup iSCSI nodes as well. But definitely no FiberChannel support. I don't know maybe you could add a card to the box to add this but I am pretty sure for the same money you could setup a 10Gbe storage network. Of course the 10Gbe storage network would be faster.