In the IT world, in my personal experience, you obtain raises through adding on to your skillset. With more skills, especially cutting-edge, or hard to find skills, you're worth more to the company. Once you have that skillset, you can let your employer know at your next review (ask for quarterly reviews, or at least semi-annual reviews) that you've added those skillsets and feel you're more valuable to the company. If you're not at least given some hope of a worthwhile upcoming raise (typically at your year review, not sooner) start shopping around - but don't quit or burn bridges. Once you've found a good new employer and they're willing to hire you, go back to your boss and say you'd like to stay, but need to have things adjusted. It won't be out of the blue if you've already brought up your new skillset and expectation of more pay with it. Further, you can let your boss know that the new skills you've aquired is worth X in the market now. The key is to do it politely, not with an ultimatum. Even if they turn you down and aren't willing to offer a bump in pay, be polite, ask for a reference letter (not that you're leaving, just that should they or the company of a change of staff soon, you want to make sure you've got good references), and let them know you'll be seriously considering another job offer you have (don't bluff, you must have another job lined up for this to work, otherwise you'll back down and end up looking like a liar).
Should they counter (it should be for more, not just matching), you could go to the company wanting to hire you and ask for a matching rate for what your existing employer is willing to go up to (don't ask for more than your current employer offered, that sounds greedy and doesn't leave much room for growth if you do jump ship).
Don't forget to be sure of perks, number of paid holidays/vacation days, bonuses, like healthcare, cell phone, paid home internet, company laptop, company car, etc. You might have those now, but not if you leave.
I've traded employers twice like this. As I didn't burn any bridges, I actually work for my first real major employer again, and each time I've traded up in position, title, and of course compensation.
I'd like to see stats on how many machines shipped with Vista only to be re-formated with XP, or in the case of myself and 2 co-workers, our favorite Linux distro. No way to really get that info though as few folks (myself included) bother to install Linux Counter on their PCs. I still have it running on a bunch of old servers, but haven't bothered to install it on any new laptops. I know more and more folks are wiping Vista off and going back to XP, including several of my customers.
I know my logic was I would just make a Ghost image of Vista before ever booting it up (since nothing these days ships with the media), and at some point someone else may get this laptop and I can put Vista back on it for them, but at this rate our office may be using XP for a long time.
RIAA says, Copying CDs... transferring a copy onto your computer hard drive or your portable music player, won't usually raise concerns so long as:
* The copy is made from an authorized original CD that you legitimately own
* The copy is just for your personal use.
They themselves say you can do it, and they're now going after people who do this? Any judge who reads this should throw out any such personal use cases since the RIAA themselves are essentially giving legal advice and stating is it ok to do so.
Which is more important long-term? How much food/medicine would $188 buy for one kid, vs. how much a laptop with internet access can change their life forever?
I literally get 0 spam in my inbox. The only spam I ever get is from businesses that I have a "relationship" for (ie., created an account on their site, said no thanks to junk, but got it anyway). Easy enough to block them since each site gets their own alias.jan-1-2007@mydomain.com that I can filter later on and never bother to "unsubscribe."
I use sendmail with greylisting as my frontline defense, then dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, `sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, list.dsbl.org, and lastly bl.spamcop.net. Thunderbird is great at picking up all the stupid "business relationship" junk based on the servers spamassassin's markings (but I don't have spamassassin dropping anything, just marking it up), but mostly just gets in the way of me permanently rejecting their mail (just a few a month ever come in).
4 days worth of spam filtering shows the following were blocked (this is just for my little list of personal domains, mind you): # grep -c sorbs/var/log/maillog 16048 # grep -c spamhaus/var/log/maillog 13246 # grep -c dsbl.org/var/log/maillog 230 # grep -c spamcop.net/var/log/maillog 897
Combined spam blocked (each file is 7 days worth of spam count, except the top one which is only 4 days): # grep -cF $'sorbs\nspamhaus\ndsbl.org\nspamcop.net'/var/log/maillog*
The 'hidden' messages are spoofed (by Comcast) TCP RSTs (pretending to be sending packets from the bitorrent peer) which essentially stop the traffic until a new TCP session is built. Comcast calls it "delaying." Sounds more like a denial of service attack.
What's a payphone? I was cell-less for a weekend over 4 years ago when I was stopping one job on a Friday and starting a new job on a Mondya. I bought some hard drives at a tech store closing, but forgot I was on my motorcycle until I walked back outside. Doh! I couldn't find a payphone anywhere nearby to call to get the drives picked up. I ended up asking someone else walking out if I could pay them $1 to make a quick call. They let me use it for free. Everywhere I used to know of that had a payphone has taken them out and painted over the old spot.
I fealt the same way, and switched to CentOS 5 (based on FC6). With additional repos, I have everything I want from the Fedora line, but with the core CentOS stability for 7 years.
You know, all of this is so lame. We have the technology to solve the bandwidth problem: IP multicast (not the TV digital multicast for multiple stations in the same channel space, but the computer network ip multicast - the one opposite unicast). One stream going out, whoever wants to listen does (and requests getting a copy of the stream). You could even do multicast at different bit rates for things like OS distribution and loop it as long as folks are requesting it. Whereever you start "listening", say at 30%, you just keep listening until it loops again and gets to 30% again.
The problem is that ISPs don't impliment decent multicast support. Multicast doens't work well with non-live distribution (in TV/radio terms), but I bet it would solve a large amount of complaints.
Especially for "legitmate" use, where you're going to have different download starting times and speeds, and anyone doing things professionally will just have 4 or 5 different rates that they transmit at.
This works great for things like Music on Hold on VoIP systems, or imaging software like Ghost, etc. You can send it to one or thousands and it costs nothing more for the sender and the network only has to bear it once along each path. At the end-node level, it costs only once per feed that is being requested.
In VoIP terms (which is where I have a lot of multicast support knowledge), at remote office that puts a hold on call gets a MoH stream sent because the local VoIP/PSTN gateway or an internal which is put on hold requests it, sends the request to the switch, the switch sends it to the local router, which forwards it over the WAN, the router on the far end sends it to the remote switch which forwards it to the MoH source. The source is always sending, but now the remote switch starts to transmit it up to the remote router, which forwards it to the local router, the local router to the local switch, the local switch to the VoIP/PSTN gateway and/or internal phone which was put on hold.
Ok, that's pretty basic, but the beauty of it is that when a second internal phone or VoIP/PSTN gateway at the same site wants the same MoH feed, it tells the local switch, but since it already has a stream coming in, there is no additional bandwidth required anywhere. So long as there is one device requesting the MoH feed it keeps coming. Once the last device stops requesting, then the whole process goes backwards with the local switch telling the local router, the local router tells the remote router, the remote router tells the remote switch and it all prunes back nicely.
If Comcast had multicast support, and they distribute was set to use this, it would means when I go to download a CentOS 5 i386 DVD, it only takes whatever the bandwidth of the stream that I'm requesting - for me, and for everyone in my neighborhood who wants to download it. It costs the Comcast network nothing additional for 1 or 1000 people requesting it.
Missed packets can be dealt with the same as missed unicast packets - you just re-request those specific packets.
If ISPs would think smarter and use the tech already there to solve problems, we wouldn't have this issue in the first place. The same is true of IPv6. People want static addresses, they want to be able to get to their home PCs to access info while on a school PC, work PC or their cell phone - IPv6 essentially gives that to you as the addresses are based on your MAC address (one form of assigning them, anyway). So long as your network address doesn't change (and with proper planning there is no reason it should), you always have the same IPv6 address, forever.
Even enterprise service providers are stupid regarding multicast as well. For customers who want multicast support over MPLS or private IP based networks, one ISP wants to charge something crazy like $1000 per site per month to add multicast support. Utterly retarded. The solution in that enviroment is just the tunnel multicast over GRE. This
No, I stated my total bill, including taxes. 3 years ago Comcast called me up to get me to sign up for cabletv (as I had internet-only). I said the only way I'd do it is if it was cheaper. The guy ran the math, and with the taxes it is cheaper (by about $0.70, but enough to round them to different numbers). I've been careful to double check it and make sure it's not going up periodically.
Everything in ~/work is.doc or.xls Everything in ~/personal is.odt or.ods
Family has and uses OOo. Work has an MSDN subscription and uses MS products (yay for free VMWare Server). My company Blackberry 8830 doesn't support any OOo formats, but it supports XLS, DOC, PDF.
I always wondered why my local Comcast office was behind plexiglass (bullet-proof?). The Post Office down the street has no such physical barriers. I guess Comcast is used to dealing with this sort of response to their customer dis-service. The Post Office is slow and all, but at least you get what they promise. I just wish Comcast could get their programming guide data fixed. I lost a few channels that they block now with their filter. I can still most of one, and a hazy version of another. Comcast's solution? Upgrade my package to digital and pay $40 more a month for the two channels I want. No thanks. OTA looks better and better if there was just another high-speed internet player in the market.
What a racket, eh? It's cheaper to get their mini-basic CableTV and internet than to just get internet solo. Not by much, of course. I wish I could just get high-speed internet for $45 and then that'd be motivation enough to get a nice OTA setup going.
Second trick for stupid businesses wanting to do this sort of "tracking." I used to use this for Radio Shack all the time:
Give them their own address and phone number. At least at Radio Shack they always have a business card at the counter. So many clueless clerks never even noticed. The few that do notice, "Hey, that's our number/address!" you can just chuckle and reply, "Yeah, you can field my junk mail."
I've used another version of this for years. Apt or Ste numbers can be put in the first line next to the street address and name (if you have one). This frees up the second line.
Great use for the second address line:
Firstname Lastname 127 Loopback Ave Apt C Company name SPAM DEPT. City, ST 65335
You still get all the junk mail, but now you know who sold your info thanks to that SPAM DEPT line.
I use Linux exclusively for some time as my desktop (5, 6 years?). Everything personal works just fine for me with one thing or another (mplayer, gnucash, etc.). When things don't work (usually Work-related products issues), I just fire up my VMWare GuestOS running WinXP and grab what I need. Linux users don't complain, or at least not loudly, we just find a work-around and move on.
For instance, Cisco Unity Express and Cisco CallManager 5.x run on Linux, but require (or required, the latest may have fixed it) Internet Explorer to configure.
I don't know when I learned about POPCORN, but I've used it for years. As a telco installer (Cisco phones), I use it regularly to busy out lines to test things like DSP resources, etc. are really available. I called the number a half dozen times tonight turning up another bank branch. It's nice to have a free number to call that won't ring busy nor bug someone.
You'd think they could just send POPCORN to a MoH source multicasting the same thing over and over. I understand the need to get the prefixes back, but you could still keep the POPCORN one and give the other numbers back.
I wouldn't count any updates released on 3/14 against RHEL5 on it's ship date - It's a perfect example of how OSS works and how fast patches are available. RH wanted to ship a stable version and didn't want to through last-minute patches into the install routine. What's the first thing you do when you install a new OS? You run the tool for online updates. So on day one 19 patches were available for all the bugs that had popped up since the version freeze to produce RHEL5.
Since 3/14, there have been 42 updates to RHEL-WS5. 11 of them have been after the 90-day mark, so that leaves you with 31 defects in the first 90 days of RHEL-WS5. That's also not using the "reduced" method to match feature-for-feature what Vista has.
However, I think the point is still always going to be that you can't have totally bug-free sofware. But it's how fast are bugs found and fixed. That's what Microsoft can't touch. How long do bugs go unreported so someone can take advantage of them on MS OS? Even once reported, how long do they linger? The same is simply not true for any critical bugs found in OSS.
But it is nice to see MS finally taking security seriously. They've only been trying to do that for 5 years with their Trustworthy Computing Initiative. Why not compare Windows 2003 Server stats, since it was released after the Trustworthy Computing Initiative? 6 months showed 38 defects. If you compare RHEL5 with just the same installed features to match WS2003 in 3 more months, I wonder how it will fair?
Of course, Microsoft had the NSAhelp them with Vista, which proves again that the more eyes you have on the source code, the better;-p
I'll stick with CentOS myself... all the benefits of RHEL without the support fee costs.
Using Fedora on production servers isn't wise, unless you plan to upgrade yearly. As others have pointed out, use CentOS 5.0. EL 5.0 will have patches for 7 more years (2014!).
Tell Chase you want to see this feature and that you're considering switching to MBNA/BankAmerica and/or CitiBank which both offer it. When enough people complain, they'll jump on it.
Yup, at least that's what MBNA (now BankAmerica) has had for a long time. You can lock in the amount and when the card number expires (minimum is 2 months). I love it, and don't worry about shopping online or even via the phone (since I only have a cell phone), since the number is basically useless since I set the limit to the rounded up dollar amount of my purchase.
I also found it useful for sites that wouldn't tell me the tax and shipping costs until AFTER I entered in my creditcard. I'd limit it to the purchase plus what I thought the tax and max shipping cost would be, and this kept the website from charging some stupid extra fees. With MBNA/BofA you can also increase the amount. I don't recall if you can change/extend the expiration date.
I've used the Citibank feature once as well, but that was only because MBNA was merging into BofA and they had the account access down and/or their "ShopSafe" feature wasn't online yet. I don't recall much about the CitiBank one, but I believe there were a few features lacking.
One thing I also like with the MBNA one is you can see the minute a hold (or whatever it is called) is put on funds, as the available amount of money left on the card number goes down, so you know once they've run the transactions.
I just wish there was a way to do this in person, so there wouldn't be fears of the Dollar Store employees ripping you off. Somehow I think stores would freak if you were told them, "Hold on while I generate a temporary virtual credit card number for you."
I wouldn't call my PC an entertainment device. It's an information/education device (411, IMDB, Wikipedia, Bible software), family communication (email, email to cell), music library, and banking. We rarely play games on the PCs. I can see it on other devices that are rarely used (tv, home stereo, etc.).
I know I hate certain standby devices with long warm-up times, like printers and photo copiers. They need intelligent clocks built in to watch usage patterns. M-F at 8am (or whenever usage usually occurs), they should step back up.
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In the IT world, in my personal experience, you obtain raises through adding on to your skillset. With more skills, especially cutting-edge, or hard to find skills, you're worth more to the company. Once you have that skillset, you can let your employer know at your next review (ask for quarterly reviews, or at least semi-annual reviews) that you've added those skillsets and feel you're more valuable to the company. If you're not at least given some hope of a worthwhile upcoming raise (typically at your year review, not sooner) start shopping around - but don't quit or burn bridges. Once you've found a good new employer and they're willing to hire you, go back to your boss and say you'd like to stay, but need to have things adjusted. It won't be out of the blue if you've already brought up your new skillset and expectation of more pay with it. Further, you can let your boss know that the new skills you've aquired is worth X in the market now. The key is to do it politely, not with an ultimatum. Even if they turn you down and aren't willing to offer a bump in pay, be polite, ask for a reference letter (not that you're leaving, just that should they or the company of a change of staff soon, you want to make sure you've got good references), and let them know you'll be seriously considering another job offer you have (don't bluff, you must have another job lined up for this to work, otherwise you'll back down and end up looking like a liar).
Should they counter (it should be for more, not just matching), you could go to the company wanting to hire you and ask for a matching rate for what your existing employer is willing to go up to (don't ask for more than your current employer offered, that sounds greedy and doesn't leave much room for growth if you do jump ship).
Don't forget to be sure of perks, number of paid holidays/vacation days, bonuses, like healthcare, cell phone, paid home internet, company laptop, company car, etc. You might have those now, but not if you leave.
I've traded employers twice like this. As I didn't burn any bridges, I actually work for my first real major employer again, and each time I've traded up in position, title, and of course compensation.
I'd like to see stats on how many machines shipped with Vista only to be re-formated with XP, or in the case of myself and 2 co-workers, our favorite Linux distro. No way to really get that info though as few folks (myself included) bother to install Linux Counter on their PCs. I still have it running on a bunch of old servers, but haven't bothered to install it on any new laptops. I know more and more folks are wiping Vista off and going back to XP, including several of my customers.
I know my logic was I would just make a Ghost image of Vista before ever booting it up (since nothing these days ships with the media), and at some point someone else may get this laptop and I can put Vista back on it for them, but at this rate our office may be using XP for a long time.
RIAA says, Copying CDs... transferring a copy onto your computer hard drive or your portable music player, won't usually raise concerns so long as:
* The copy is made from an authorized original CD that you legitimately own
* The copy is just for your personal use.
They themselves say you can do it, and they're now going after people who do this? Any judge who reads this should throw out any such personal use cases since the RIAA themselves are essentially giving legal advice and stating is it ok to do so.
Which is more important long-term? How much food/medicine would $188 buy for one kid, vs. how much a laptop with internet access can change their life forever?
I literally get 0 spam in my inbox. The only spam I ever get is from businesses that I have a "relationship" for (ie., created an account on their site, said no thanks to junk, but got it anyway). Easy enough to block them since each site gets their own alias.jan-1-2007@mydomain.com that I can filter later on and never bother to "unsubscribe."
/var/log/maillog /var/log/maillog /var/log/maillog /var/log/maillog
/var/log/maillog*
I use sendmail with greylisting as my frontline defense, then dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, `sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, list.dsbl.org, and lastly bl.spamcop.net. Thunderbird is great at picking up all the stupid "business relationship" junk based on the servers spamassassin's markings (but I don't have spamassassin dropping anything, just marking it up), but mostly just gets in the way of me permanently rejecting their mail (just a few a month ever come in).
I found many of the sendmail configuration lines from http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/Sendmail.html if you'd like to give it a try.
4 days worth of spam filtering shows the following were blocked (this is just for my little list of personal domains, mind you):
# grep -c sorbs
16048
# grep -c spamhaus
13246
# grep -c dsbl.org
230
# grep -c spamcop.net
897
Combined spam blocked (each file is 7 days worth of spam count, except the top one which is only 4 days):
# grep -cF $'sorbs\nspamhaus\ndsbl.org\nspamcop.net'
/var/log/maillog:30486
/var/log/maillog.1:43508
/var/log/maillog.2:41687
/var/log/maillog.3:36868
/var/log/maillog.4:35687
The 'hidden' messages are spoofed (by Comcast) TCP RSTs (pretending to be sending packets from the bitorrent peer) which essentially stop the traffic until a new TCP session is built. Comcast calls it "delaying." Sounds more like a denial of service attack.
I'm not a lawyer - research this yourself and for your own State.
California law, and the bulk of the US, doesn't require any sort of 2 weeks pay under At-Will employment.
What's a payphone? I was cell-less for a weekend over 4 years ago when I was stopping one job on a Friday and starting a new job on a Mondya. I bought some hard drives at a tech store closing, but forgot I was on my motorcycle until I walked back outside. Doh! I couldn't find a payphone anywhere nearby to call to get the drives picked up. I ended up asking someone else walking out if I could pay them $1 to make a quick call. They let me use it for free. Everywhere I used to know of that had a payphone has taken them out and painted over the old spot.
I fealt the same way, and switched to CentOS 5 (based on FC6). With additional repos, I have everything I want from the Fedora line, but with the core CentOS stability for 7 years.
You know, all of this is so lame. We have the technology to solve the bandwidth problem: IP multicast (not the TV digital multicast for multiple stations in the same channel space, but the computer network ip multicast - the one opposite unicast). One stream going out, whoever wants to listen does (and requests getting a copy of the stream). You could even do multicast at different bit rates for things like OS distribution and loop it as long as folks are requesting it. Whereever you start "listening", say at 30%, you just keep listening until it loops again and gets to 30% again.
The problem is that ISPs don't impliment decent multicast support. Multicast doens't work well with non-live distribution (in TV/radio terms), but I bet it would solve a large amount of complaints.
Especially for "legitmate" use, where you're going to have different download starting times and speeds, and anyone doing things professionally will just have 4 or 5 different rates that they transmit at.
This works great for things like Music on Hold on VoIP systems, or imaging software like Ghost, etc. You can send it to one or thousands and it costs nothing more for the sender and the network only has to bear it once along each path. At the end-node level, it costs only once per feed that is being requested.
In VoIP terms (which is where I have a lot of multicast support knowledge), at remote office that puts a hold on call gets a MoH stream sent because the local VoIP/PSTN gateway or an internal which is put on hold requests it, sends the request to the switch, the switch sends it to the local router, which forwards it over the WAN, the router on the far end sends it to the remote switch which forwards it to the MoH source. The source is always sending, but now the remote switch starts to transmit it up to the remote router, which forwards it to the local router, the local router to the local switch, the local switch to the VoIP/PSTN gateway and/or internal phone which was put on hold.
Ok, that's pretty basic, but the beauty of it is that when a second internal phone or VoIP/PSTN gateway at the same site wants the same MoH feed, it tells the local switch, but since it already has a stream coming in, there is no additional bandwidth required anywhere. So long as there is one device requesting the MoH feed it keeps coming. Once the last device stops requesting, then the whole process goes backwards with the local switch telling the local router, the local router tells the remote router, the remote router tells the remote switch and it all prunes back nicely.
If Comcast had multicast support, and they distribute was set to use this, it would means when I go to download a CentOS 5 i386 DVD, it only takes whatever the bandwidth of the stream that I'm requesting - for me, and for everyone in my neighborhood who wants to download it. It costs the Comcast network nothing additional for 1 or 1000 people requesting it.
Missed packets can be dealt with the same as missed unicast packets - you just re-request those specific packets.
If ISPs would think smarter and use the tech already there to solve problems, we wouldn't have this issue in the first place. The same is true of IPv6. People want static addresses, they want to be able to get to their home PCs to access info while on a school PC, work PC or their cell phone - IPv6 essentially gives that to you as the addresses are based on your MAC address (one form of assigning them, anyway). So long as your network address doesn't change (and with proper planning there is no reason it should), you always have the same IPv6 address, forever.
Even enterprise service providers are stupid regarding multicast as well. For customers who want multicast support over MPLS or private IP based networks, one ISP wants to charge something crazy like $1000 per site per month to add multicast support. Utterly retarded. The solution in that enviroment is just the tunnel multicast over GRE. This
No, I stated my total bill, including taxes. 3 years ago Comcast called me up to get me to sign up for cabletv (as I had internet-only). I said the only way I'd do it is if it was cheaper. The guy ran the math, and with the taxes it is cheaper (by about $0.70, but enough to round them to different numbers). I've been careful to double check it and make sure it's not going up periodically.
Everything in ~/work is .doc or .xls .odt or .ods
Everything in ~/personal is
Family has and uses OOo. Work has an MSDN subscription and uses MS products (yay for free VMWare Server). My company Blackberry 8830 doesn't support any OOo formats, but it supports XLS, DOC, PDF.
I always wondered why my local Comcast office was behind plexiglass (bullet-proof?). The Post Office down the street has no such physical barriers. I guess Comcast is used to dealing with this sort of response to their customer dis-service. The Post Office is slow and all, but at least you get what they promise. I just wish Comcast could get their programming guide data fixed. I lost a few channels that they block now with their filter. I can still most of one, and a hazy version of another. Comcast's solution? Upgrade my package to digital and pay $40 more a month for the two channels I want. No thanks. OTA looks better and better if there was just another high-speed internet player in the market.
Comcast high-speed internet (without CableTV): $61
Comcast mini-basic CableTV ($15) + high-speed internet: $60
What a racket, eh? It's cheaper to get their mini-basic CableTV and internet than to just get internet solo. Not by much, of course. I wish I could just get high-speed internet for $45 and then that'd be motivation enough to get a nice OTA setup going.
Second trick for stupid businesses wanting to do this sort of "tracking." I used to use this for Radio Shack all the time:
Give them their own address and phone number. At least at Radio Shack they always have a business card at the counter. So many clueless clerks never even noticed. The few that do notice, "Hey, that's our number/address!" you can just chuckle and reply, "Yeah, you can field my junk mail."
I've used another version of this for years. Apt or Ste numbers can be put in the first line next to the street address and name (if you have one). This frees up the second line.
Great use for the second address line:
Firstname Lastname
127 Loopback Ave Apt C
Company name SPAM DEPT.
City, ST 65335
You still get all the junk mail, but now you know who sold your info thanks to that SPAM DEPT line.
I use Linux exclusively for some time as my desktop (5, 6 years?). Everything personal works just fine for me with one thing or another (mplayer, gnucash, etc.). When things don't work (usually Work-related products issues), I just fire up my VMWare GuestOS running WinXP and grab what I need. Linux users don't complain, or at least not loudly, we just find a work-around and move on.
For instance, Cisco Unity Express and Cisco CallManager 5.x run on Linux, but require (or required, the latest may have fixed it) Internet Explorer to configure.
I don't know when I learned about POPCORN, but I've used it for years. As a telco installer (Cisco phones), I use it regularly to busy out lines to test things like DSP resources, etc. are really available. I called the number a half dozen times tonight turning up another bank branch. It's nice to have a free number to call that won't ring busy nor bug someone.
You'd think they could just send POPCORN to a MoH source multicasting the same thing over and over. I understand the need to get the prefixes back, but you could still keep the POPCORN one and give the other numbers back.
RHEL5 shipped March 14th, 2007. Why not compare it's errata?
;-p
I wouldn't count any updates released on 3/14 against RHEL5 on it's ship date - It's a perfect example of how OSS works and how fast patches are available. RH wanted to ship a stable version and didn't want to through last-minute patches into the install routine. What's the first thing you do when you install a new OS? You run the tool for online updates. So on day one 19 patches were available for all the bugs that had popped up since the version freeze to produce RHEL5.
Since 3/14, there have been 42 updates to RHEL-WS5. 11 of them have been after the 90-day mark, so that leaves you with 31 defects in the first 90 days of RHEL-WS5. That's also not using the "reduced" method to match feature-for-feature what Vista has.
However, I think the point is still always going to be that you can't have totally bug-free sofware. But it's how fast are bugs found and fixed. That's what Microsoft can't touch. How long do bugs go unreported so someone can take advantage of them on MS OS? Even once reported, how long do they linger? The same is simply not true for any critical bugs found in OSS.
But it is nice to see MS finally taking security seriously. They've only been trying to do that for 5 years with their Trustworthy Computing Initiative. Why not compare Windows 2003 Server stats, since it was released after the Trustworthy Computing Initiative? 6 months showed 38 defects. If you compare RHEL5 with just the same installed features to match WS2003 in 3 more months, I wonder how it will fair?
Of course, Microsoft had the NSA help them with Vista, which proves again that the more eyes you have on the source code, the better
I'll stick with CentOS myself... all the benefits of RHEL without the support fee costs.
Actually, any version of Fedora will have FedoraLegacy support for the current version plus two back:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/FAQ
Using Fedora on production servers isn't wise, unless you plan to upgrade yearly. As others have pointed out, use CentOS 5.0. EL 5.0 will have patches for 7 more years (2014!).
Tell Chase you want to see this feature and that you're considering switching to MBNA/BankAmerica and/or CitiBank which both offer it. When enough people complain, they'll jump on it.
Yup, at least that's what MBNA (now BankAmerica) has had for a long time. You can lock in the amount and when the card number expires (minimum is 2 months). I love it, and don't worry about shopping online or even via the phone (since I only have a cell phone), since the number is basically useless since I set the limit to the rounded up dollar amount of my purchase.
I also found it useful for sites that wouldn't tell me the tax and shipping costs until AFTER I entered in my creditcard. I'd limit it to the purchase plus what I thought the tax and max shipping cost would be, and this kept the website from charging some stupid extra fees. With MBNA/BofA you can also increase the amount. I don't recall if you can change/extend the expiration date.
I've used the Citibank feature once as well, but that was only because MBNA was merging into BofA and they had the account access down and/or their "ShopSafe" feature wasn't online yet. I don't recall much about the CitiBank one, but I believe there were a few features lacking.
One thing I also like with the MBNA one is you can see the minute a hold (or whatever it is called) is put on funds, as the available amount of money left on the card number goes down, so you know once they've run the transactions.
I just wish there was a way to do this in person, so there wouldn't be fears of the Dollar Store employees ripping you off. Somehow I think stores would freak if you were told them, "Hold on while I generate a temporary virtual credit card number for you."
But as the patches by RH will be OSS, Oracle can just strip the RH trademark out and re-roll them, just the same as CentOS does.
fc4 is legacy once fc6-test2 shipped.
fedoralegacy.org is where you need to move for fc4 support, but better to move to fc6.
Also note that fc3 will only be supported by fedoralegacy until fc7-test1 ships.
It won't work for the simple reason that you need dns glue, and you can't control where the glue will come from.
I wouldn't call my PC an entertainment device. It's an information/education device (411, IMDB, Wikipedia, Bible software), family communication (email, email to cell), music library, and banking. We rarely play games on the PCs. I can see it on other devices that are rarely used (tv, home stereo, etc.).
I know I hate certain standby devices with long warm-up times, like printers and photo copiers. They need intelligent clocks built in to watch usage patterns. M-F at 8am (or whenever usage usually occurs), they should step back up.