But the server side, Exchange, is a giant piece of bloatware that couldn't stay up for a week if Bill Gate's life depended on it.
As someone who has worked professionally with Exchange for some time, I'd have to contradict part of this at least. Sure Exchange is bloated (I've just been dowloading SP4, which is obscenely large ~ 134 MB). I'd have to disagree with the stability accusation, though. I've been doing second line support for about 40 Exchange servers on a corporate network (all running on ridiculously overspecced Compaq servers) and it's proved to be rock solid. The only faults I've had in the last year related to the Lotus Notes connector - a bit of software that makes Charlie Manson look stable - and the occassional hardware glitch.
Using up-to-date service packs, neither NT nor Exchange are anywhere near as flaky as they used to be. As a passionate Linux user, I'm irritated every time I see anti-Linux FUD. However, as a regular NT admin, I'm also irritated by anti-MS FUD There are plenty of real points upon which NT & Exchange can be attacked (price, security, being closed-source) but echoing outdated rhetoric serves no one.
Sorry for the rant. I think I'll go and have another cup of tea now.
Why couldn't they have included a surge protector for the user as well? It's about the only thing that'll save my fat arse when blipverts start coming out. --
In a private meeting with Bezos, Jobs and Doerr, Kamen assembled two Gingers -- or ITs -- in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes.
Quickly assembled using simple tools and with no reports of maiming or bloodloss? I guess Ikea won't be selling them, then. --
...sparked by astonishingly inventive new technologies like the PS 2...
OK, it's got pretty graphics, it's fast and it's got decent connectivity, but it's still a game console. Is this innovative in the Microsoft sense of the word? --
I mean, now that I can't make Enlightenment look like Aqua I'm just going to have to go out and buy a Mac. --
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Come on people, can't we stop thinking of ourselves at least once every year? Make the effort to turn off the computer and do something that will make your loved ones happy
I don't see how turning off the computer would make my loved ones happier. Almost every time I see them the first thing they say is "Can you sort out this computer problem for me?"
Now, as far as making me happier is concerned... --
For once, a Slashdot editor does something literate and he gets flamed for it by those who miss it.
What impressed me even more was that I believe he was the first person to use the word "loosing" on this site without it being a typo or misnomer.:) --
I'll go along with this. I've been doing a lot of work with qmail recently and usually when the documentation or the links from the qmail site have failed me a quick search in Google has bailed me out of the shit. A lot of the useful scripts, examples and so on I've found have been on personal homepages. I've just tried similar searches on theindex and they've failed to bring up any links to useful information. --
Perl is a godsend for sysadmins. I use it on a daily basis for doing things like managing MS Exchange directories via LDAP, extracting filtered and reports from the NT event logs and migrating users between different mail systems.
As someone who uses Konqeror at home and IE 4 under NT at work, I have to admit (grudgingly) that IE is a hell of a lot more stable (as well as being a lot more stable than Netscape). In fact, thinking about it, I'm not sure I've ever seen it actually fall over under NT. Its reliability under 95/98/ME is another story.
Konqueror has won a place in my heart by rendering pages wonderfully fast, being fairly intuitive to use and by using KCookiejar to allow a nice degree of control over cookies. I just hope stability is a priority for subsequent releases, as it crashes more than any other browser I've used.
> Should we therefore abolish the Senate, since
> it is not based on proportional representation?
Oh, sod it, why not just abolish the USA? We'll be happy enough to take you back as a colony if you just say sorry for all that unpleasantness in the 18th century.
After reading all the responses to stories about videogame violence recently that just say "we need better parenting" I think it's a good thing that parents are being given the opportunity to control what games their kids buy. The only complaint I'd have about this is that there should probably be catagories based on the amount of violence, with age limits set appropriately.
I don't know how it works in the US, but here in the UK we have laws like this already for videogames, videotapes and DVDs and they seem to work OK. If a parent doesn't want their kids to get a particular film or game, it just makes it that bit more possible for them to exercise control.
Secure handgun storage and trigger locks are not the answers either. A kid who really wants to shoot up his school will always find a way to get
his hands on firearms.
Not necessarily. A kid in the UK, for example, would have a pretty hard time getting his hands on a firearm. It's kind of difficult to do when there are almost none in circulation.
Hey, does anyone else remember that classic oversvation made by David Frost on some British TV show in the 1960s:
"In the US they have two political parties. They have the Republicans, who are the equivalent of our Conservative Party and the Democrats, who are the equivalent of our Conservative Party."
What's going to be interesting is to see what the movie industry does when pissed off people start putting up sites like www.getyourdecsscodehere.kg, www.firstrunmoviesforfree.kg, etc. etc...
That's OK. Sony would just firewall off the entire state of Kyrgyzstan.:)
> My web logs consistently show percentage of > non-IE and non-NS usage in the low single > digits. I'm not going to bust my butt > accomodating some bunch of hobbyist techo-dweebs > with a penchant to run every stray piece of > software that catches their > attention-deficit-disorder-addled eyes.
What, like all those whimsical sight-impared lynx users using that dweebish text-to-speech interface? Why can't those crazy kids just see things your way?
> Can caffeine produce the same kind of effects as illicit narcotics?
There are a few times I've decided to really, really abuse caffeine (like taking 24 Pro Plus tablets in one go) and I've found the effect to be quite like speed, right down to negating the effects of other drugs.
The comedown is pretty rough, too, but still better than speed.
> I saw an advertisement recently, there's a > "talking" mainboard out there, calling for > "help" when something is wrong. > Now that's what I would call scary.
Does it notify you of fatal errors by singing "Daisy, Daisy"?
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But the server side, Exchange, is a giant piece of bloatware that couldn't stay up for a week if Bill Gate's life depended on it.
As someone who has worked professionally with Exchange for some time, I'd have to contradict part of this at least. Sure Exchange is bloated (I've just been dowloading SP4, which is obscenely large ~ 134 MB). I'd have to disagree with the stability accusation, though. I've been doing second line support for about 40 Exchange servers on a corporate network (all running on ridiculously overspecced Compaq servers) and it's proved to be rock solid. The only faults I've had in the last year related to the Lotus Notes connector - a bit of software that makes Charlie Manson look stable - and the occassional hardware glitch.
Using up-to-date service packs, neither NT nor Exchange are anywhere near as flaky as they used to be. As a passionate Linux user, I'm irritated every time I see anti-Linux FUD. However, as a regular NT admin, I'm also irritated by anti-MS FUD There are plenty of real points upon which NT & Exchange can be attacked (price, security, being closed-source) but echoing outdated rhetoric serves no one.
Sorry for the rant. I think I'll go and have another cup of tea now.
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Why couldn't they have included a surge protector for the user as well? It's about the only thing that'll save my fat arse when blipverts start coming out.
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Quickly assembled using simple tools and with no reports of maiming or bloodloss? I guess Ikea won't be selling them, then.
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OK, it's got pretty graphics, it's fast and it's got decent connectivity, but it's still a game console. Is this innovative in the Microsoft sense of the word?
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I mean, now that I can't make Enlightenment look like Aqua I'm just going to have to go out and buy a Mac.
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I don't see how turning off the computer would make my loved ones happier. Almost every time I see them the first thing they say is "Can you sort out this computer problem for me?"
Now, as far as making me happier is concerned...
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What impressed me even more was that I believe he was the first person to use the word "loosing" on this site without it being a typo or misnomer. :)
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I'll go along with this. I've been doing a lot of work with qmail recently and usually when the documentation or the links from the qmail site have failed me a quick search in Google has bailed me out of the shit. A lot of the useful scripts, examples and so on I've found have been on personal homepages. I've just tried similar searches on theindex and they've failed to bring up any links to useful information.
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Anyone looking to use Perl for administration could do a lot worse than read Perl for System Administration.
My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine NGC-11297 Pizzas
Sounds like they should name the new planet "Pepperoni" to make it easy to remember.
Not a fan of C-Plus-Plus either, then?
Konqueror has won a place in my heart by rendering pages wonderfully fast, being fairly intuitive to use and by using KCookiejar to allow a nice degree of control over cookies. I just hope stability is a priority for subsequent releases, as it crashes more than any other browser I've used.
> Should we therefore abolish the Senate, since
> it is not based on proportional representation?
Oh, sod it, why not just abolish the USA? We'll be happy enough to take you back as a colony if you just say sorry for all that unpleasantness in the 18th century.
I don't know how it works in the US, but here in the UK we have laws like this already for videogames, videotapes and DVDs and they seem to work OK. If a parent doesn't want their kids to get a particular film or game, it just makes it that bit more possible for them to exercise control.
Not necessarily. A kid in the UK, for example, would have a pretty hard time getting his hands on a firearm. It's kind of difficult to do when there are almost none in circulation.
Would that by any chance be related to the identical article that's sitting on the main page right now?
You mean Emacs doesn't do this already? So that's the feature they left out!
That's OK. Sony would just firewall off the entire state of Kyrgyzstan. :)
I suppose all this affect benchmarks too; most readers today will be more interested in testes that show server-like workloads.
I think if my testes showed server-like workloads they'd rupture.
> non-IE and non-NS usage in the low single
> digits. I'm not going to bust my butt
> accomodating some bunch of hobbyist techo-dweebs
> with a penchant to run every stray piece of
> software that catches their
> attention-deficit-disorder-addled eyes.
What, like all those whimsical sight-impared lynx users using that dweebish text-to-speech interface? Why can't those crazy kids just see things your way?
There are a few times I've decided to really, really abuse caffeine (like taking 24 Pro Plus tablets in one go) and I've found the effect to be quite like speed, right down to negating the effects of other drugs.
The comedown is pretty rough, too, but still better than speed.
> I saw an advertisement recently, there's a
> "talking" mainboard out there, calling for
> "help" when something is wrong.
> Now that's what I would call scary.
Does it notify you of fatal errors by singing "Daisy, Daisy"?