Maybe I'm doing something wrong or misunderstanding what it is that you're measuring, but when I perform a search with all of the settings to "ALL" with a minimum hourly rate of $1 and a maximum hourly rate of $10,000, I get six pages of results at 50 results a page. That's 300 results, at best, which is a long ways from a million, much less millions.
And finally, I would like to point out that projects like CentOS could not exist without the continued support of RedHat, and we thank them for their continued efforts to find the right balance between running a for-profit business and helping the non-profit community.
Ah, finally a reasonable thought. I see a lot of people wishing death on Red Hat, without seeming to realize that without Red Hat, there would be no CentOS.
Generally, yes, they do, in the factory service manuals. Not that I disagree with your point; I'm sure Google is doing something with Gmail, not that I care.
Not to mention the fact that his challenge has no bearing on reality. Nobody running a critical email server, or a critical server of any kind, would put it out on the public internet without a firewall in front of it, regardless of what OS it is running.
I probably shouldn't bring up the fact that over the last year or so, I've helped more people with rooted Linux boxes than people with hacked Windows boxes. I'm sure my personal statistics are way out of the norm, but to assume that bad things can't happen to a Linux box is just ignorant.
I also won't laugh at him for implying a mission critical email server running Linux would be running FC3.
MS Exchange is fundamentally broken (as is EVERY other MS product). MS claim that every problem that's pointed out to them will be fixed "in the next release".
Please tell us what is broken. I'm on the edge of my seat in anticipatioin.
Hint: millions of businesses depend every day on their Exchange servers so that they can do business. If there really was a fundamental problem with the product, that wouldn't be the case. Really.
It sets it's locale information to countries I don't live in. Freshly installed stands nearly a 50% chance of not running. I spend more time downloading patches and updates for it, than I do for my three Debian boxes, without caching packages on the network.
No offense, but you must be doing something wrong. Literally millions of people use XP without problems of those nature.
I've been using Linux since '92 or so. It does a lot of neat things. I used it as my desktop for years.
Two years ago I got a new laptop and then a new job at a company that does a lot of Microsoft Exchange related work. So, I tried XP out, because I hadn't really tried a MS product in a long time. Guess what? XP is pretty fucking good. Sorry, it is.
Oh yeah. Exchange is pretty fucking good, too. So is Active Directory.
Yes, over time, a company or a project has to move forward. Sometimes that leaves older versions out in the dark.
In this case, there is no evil plot. The upgrade to Quicken 2005 is free. They should have mailed you a CD. If they haven't, there is a very obvious way to contact Intuit; from the Quicken Bill Pay home page:
"To continue accessing your account, you must install your free copy of Quicken 2005 Premier* and upgrade to the improved Quicken Bill Pay.
[filling removed by me]
* If you have not received or have misplaced the new software we sent you, and/or the letter that came with it, please call us toll-free at 1-877-486-8844 for further instructions.
For the sake of argument, lets say that what you really mean is their right to free speech, because there is no right to send spam. You're still wrong.
The right to free speech does not mean that anyone has to listen to you or that you have the right to make them. You can't go on TV whenever you like, you can make the papers print whatever you like, you can't force someone to provide you network services you're planning to for something they consider unacceptable, and you can't force anyone to transport, accept or read email that you've sent.
Free speech does not imply "consequence free" speech. You can call your boss an asshole all day long, but that doesn't mean your rights have been violated when you get fired.
Uh. If they're trying to kill the technology so bad, why are they working so hard to get Virtual Server 2005 out? I've been betaing it for a while, it rocks. I hope the pricing is better than GSX server...
You're missing the point of the 1st, I think. It doesn't say that I have to listen to anything you say, only that you have a right to say it. There is a huge difference.
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Spoken like someone who truely knows jack-shit about Microsoft and their products!
robert
Maybe I'm doing something wrong or misunderstanding what it is that you're measuring, but when I perform a search with all of the settings to "ALL" with a minimum hourly rate of $1 and a maximum hourly rate of $10,000, I get six pages of results at 50 results a page. That's 300 results, at best, which is a long ways from a million, much less millions.
robert
The guy's a troll. He posts this exact thing, tailored to the topic, in almost every article that has anything to do with OSS.
Don't feed him.
Also, I'm not so sure that there are millions of companies offering support for OSS. Certainly not that I'd buy a support contract from.
robert
It is hard to enforce U.S. law on foreigners.
robert
Um, you don't think he has thought about it?
robert
Mod this up!
And finally, I would like to point out that projects like CentOS could not exist without the continued support of RedHat, and we thank them for their continued efforts to find the right balance between running a for-profit business and helping the non-profit community.
Ah, finally a reasonable thought. I see a lot of people wishing death on Red Hat, without seeming to realize that without Red Hat, there would be no CentOS.
robert
Generally, yes, they do, in the factory service manuals. Not that I disagree with your point; I'm sure Google is doing something with Gmail, not that I care.
Am I the only one not that impressed with Gmail?
robert
Not to mention the fact that his challenge has no bearing on reality. Nobody running a critical email server, or a critical server of any kind, would put it out on the public internet without a firewall in front of it, regardless of what OS it is running.
I probably shouldn't bring up the fact that over the last year or so, I've helped more people with rooted Linux boxes than people with hacked Windows boxes. I'm sure my personal statistics are way out of the norm, but to assume that bad things can't happen to a Linux box is just ignorant.
I also won't laugh at him for implying a mission critical email server running Linux would be running FC3.
robert
MS Exchange is fundamentally broken (as is EVERY other MS product). MS claim that every problem that's pointed out to them will be fixed "in the next release".
Please tell us what is broken. I'm on the edge of my seat in anticipatioin.
Hint: millions of businesses depend every day on their Exchange servers so that they can do business. If there really was a fundamental problem with the product, that wouldn't be the case. Really.
robert
It sets it's locale information to countries I don't live in. Freshly installed stands nearly a 50% chance of not running. I spend more time downloading patches and updates for it, than I do for my three Debian boxes, without caching packages on the network.
No offense, but you must be doing something wrong. Literally millions of people use XP without problems of those nature.
robert
Someone mod the parent up...! Really, I mean it.
I've been using Linux since '92 or so. It does a lot of neat things. I used it as my desktop for years.
Two years ago I got a new laptop and then a new job at a company that does a lot of Microsoft Exchange related work. So, I tried XP out, because I hadn't really tried a MS product in a long time. Guess what? XP is pretty fucking good. Sorry, it is.
Oh yeah. Exchange is pretty fucking good, too. So is Active Directory.
Deal with it.
robert
Yes, over time, a company or a project has to move forward. Sometimes that leaves older versions out in the dark.
In this case, there is no evil plot. The upgrade to Quicken 2005 is free. They should have mailed you a CD. If they haven't, there is a very obvious way to contact Intuit; from the Quicken Bill Pay home page:
"To continue accessing your account, you must install your free copy of Quicken 2005 Premier* and upgrade to the improved Quicken Bill Pay.
[filling removed by me]
* If you have not received or have misplaced the new software we sent you, and/or the letter that came with it, please call us toll-free at 1-877-486-8844 for further instructions.
robert
Rather important for the military to know what the weather is going to do, don't you think?
robert
"their right to send spam has been infringed on"
For the sake of argument, lets say that what you really mean is their right to free speech, because there is no right to send spam. You're still wrong.
The right to free speech does not mean that anyone has to listen to you or that you have the right to make them. You can't go on TV whenever you like, you can make the papers print whatever you like, you can't force someone to provide you network services you're planning to for something they consider unacceptable, and you can't force anyone to transport, accept or read email that you've sent.
Free speech does not imply "consequence free" speech. You can call your boss an asshole all day long, but that doesn't mean your rights have been violated when you get fired.
robert
The Solaris boxes are not exposed to the internet. They're core servers, doing real world in the background.
robert
Uh. If they're trying to kill the technology so bad, why are they working so hard to get Virtual Server 2005 out? I've been betaing it for a while, it rocks. I hope the pricing is better than GSX server...
robert
Heh. That's some funny shit. StoryServer does suck ass. I think I'd rather pull my own teeth out than ever touch StoryServer again.
robert
"Support the First Amendment: Read at -1."
You're missing the point of the 1st, I think. It doesn't say that I have to listen to anything you say, only that you have a right to say it. There is a huge difference.
robert
Yeah, I don't know that you really know what you're talking about. For example, korea.com hosts millions of Exchange seats: korea.com
It wasn't DCC, it was they greylisting.
robert
MySQL does not suport views or stored procedures. It does support transactions and replication.
PostgreSQL does not support replication[1]. It does support transactions, views and stored procedures.
Both are fine tools. Both have been used by many people that have achieved their goals.
robert
[1] There are 3rd party tools that provide PostgreSQL with transactions.
Let me get this straight; feeding and sheltering him doesn't qualify as helping him out?
robert
From Dell, of course.
"So I don't recommend using Samba at all unless you're looking for Windows compatibility."
No kidding?
robert