The PlayStation 3 will be made by Sony, a company which distributes software that renders a personal computer quite unstable and open to attack by malfeasant users from across the Internet.
The Xbox 360, on the other hand, is made by Microsoft.
*sigh*
People, think a little. Sony is a mega corp, and has its fingers in a shit load of businesses. The music business is separate from the Playstation business, and in fact, the Playstation business is supposed to be the biggest breadwinner.
The music division screwed up.
If the Playstation division continues to be successful, which division's vision will win out?
The division that got the world steamed at them, or the division that brought you Linux to the PS2?!
In other words, you want to *support* the Playstation division, while giving the music division the (figuratively) bird.
I have an RHCE certification and two of five endorsment exams for RHCA - I obviously never touched RHEL.
And this is different from the legions of mcse fanboys how?
This is NOT about FOSS. This is about REDCRAP's support, which is allegedly what I get, when I pay them shitloads of money for free crap. Further more, if you have had some reading comprehension, you will note that I stated that support had already cnfirmed the bug as something that exists - if it's a known issue, and they want to know more about how it behaves, then they should fscking test it out, and then only go bother the customers.
OK. One more time: Acknowledging an issue != having an environment which easily reproduces it. If someone posts a dmesg with a clear BUG() invocation in it, I can see that's a bug.
It does not mean I can easily reproduce it. The two are orthogonal.
So, without know what was the bug I was bitching about, you can instantly determine that support can't replicate it?
Hmm, valid point, I didn't check to see if fdisk actually exist. But neither did support mention this - and the question has been posed to them for more than 2 days now.
Funny, because it's mentioned in the RHEL Installation Guide in section 4.1.1, and was taught as part of the RHCE when I sat it.
Here's a link.
Which further shows how much REDCRAP's support sucks, if they can't answer such a simple question.
That's in MiB - 217MiB for Base + Daemons. That's not the minimal install size btw, simply the size of those groups. Keep doing that for any groups you want included, and unless you're on crack, you can fit it in well under the 1 GiB mark.
So, why does a minimal install, WITHOUT even X, give me this:
[the_B0fh@REDCRAP ~]$ df -h
/dev/sda3 132G 940M 125G 1%/
I can only guess that either you use non-RedHat rpms, or the EMT64 install is *significantly* different from the x86 installs.
If you have any sense, you'll build a stripped down ISO with just the packages you need (figured that out yet?), and your kickstarts all set and ready to go.
If I had any sense, I would do a minimal install of openbsd. Too bad I'm not allowed to have sense at work.
Some people obviously like to hear the sound of their own voices. Tell you what, I'll make it easy on you. Go install RHEL4 under 500 megs, with a working apache server, only using standard RHEL4 rpms.
Oh, so it's 500MiB now? It was 800 a paragraph ago, and 1GiB in your original post.
Please stop moving the goalposts.
*shrug* The way I see it, I know a minimal install is 900+megs, so, if I let ask you to do a 500meg, that can't be done. But if you _can_ do it, that's a net win for me anyway.
The SMP kernel has *NOTHING* to do with dual-core support. It existed years before dual core was even thought of for x86 family CPUs.
You know, this explanation actually makes sense. I've no idea if it's true or not (like the other guy who claimed that apache won't support > 2G, sounded good, turns out to be false, because you _can_ download fedora DVD isos), will have to double check.
If you're an enterprise customer, you should know that early adopters shoulder the pain that latecomers don't even see.
This is very true. Unfortunately, I'm only allowed one vendor, and this vendor refreshed their opteron hardware one month right before I put my orders through. Hence my pain. There are a number of issues I had that I attributed to the hardware vendor and did not include in my earlier rant.
Oh, and btw, I looked, and Red Hat introduced dual core
You know RedHat has made it, when they have fan boys modding folks down for criticizing it.
And I love the fedora fan boys who can't tell the difference between a guinea pig and an enterprise solution.
Remember, folks, RedHat (the company) is NOT fedora, and fedora is NOT RedHat. And when folks complain about the lousy support that RedHat has, they are NOT interested in how good or bad fedora is. They are talking about the LACK of a quality product from RedHat.
Oh My God! The READING comprehension of Anonymous Cowards is below the 8th grade level apparently.
You fucking assholes simply can't comprehend that REDCRAP is COMMERCIAL PRODUCT that people pay good money for?
And then when they put out such shoddy products, we get all these lamer anonymous cowards rushing to REDCRAP's defense? What the fuck for man?
If I were not forced to use REDCRAP, I'd have all my crap done within a day. However, because of the various bugs that came with this COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, bugs that I WANT FIXED whether or not I can work around them ***ALERT*** THESE ARE FUCKING BUGS THAT NEED TO BE FIXED, YOU REDCRAP WEENIE MORONS.
The reason Red Hat does not offer RHEL4 DVDs as a download from Red Hat Network is that there is a two Gigabyte download limit for files in Apache. FYI
Hmm, I didn't realize that. Still, they could have provided the iso as a 2 parter, and I can just cat iso1 and iso2 together to get my dvd iso.
P.S. Tried http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ lately? You can request features and submit bug reports for developers to work on. It is still open source, so if they don't move at a speed that is acceptable, you could always just suck it up and do it yourself....
I'm sorry, you must think that I'm wearing my OSS hat today. I am not. If I were wearing my OSS hat, I would not be using REDCRAP now, would I? I am using a commercially produced piece of junk, and I demand a quality product AND quality service and support, because I FSCKING PAID FOR IT.
This is not some OSS project I'm working on. If REDCRAP wants to make real money off OSS, then they better be ready to provide REAL support the way other REAL OSes do. This is COMMERCIAL SUPPORT we're talking about here, folks, not a couple of readmes, ok?
Remember, nobody has ever assumed Open Source solutions to be perfect, or we'd still be using the MCC distribution,
JD, the issue is not about opensource, but about a commercial OS that is sold, that is sorely lacking in QA and support.
Complaints about REDCRAP are not complaints about opensource. I use gentoo and openbsd, both personally, and professionally, and I get exactly the kind of support I put back into it. With REDCRAP, all I got was a couple of months of frothing at mouth type issues, because REDCRAP fscked up yet again. This is simply not acceptable in an enterprise environment.
You obviously do not have experience with REDCRAP, but is just a dumb pawn for the fedora crap. If I pay for something, I expect it to work as advertized, even though this is software we are talking about.
>> BAH!!! REDCRAP is the WORST piece of shit I've ever used. We just bought a bunch of >> RHEL 4 AS licenses, and it has been a freaking nightmare. Support sucks, and takes >> it own sweet time if it's not something easily found. And they'll ask you to test things >> out for things that they've confirmed to be issues - WTF? If you FSCKING know it's an >> issue, you can FSCKING TEST IT OUT YOURSELF, damned lazy bastards.
>Lazy? Have you any idea how long it could take to >*accurately* reproduce a problematic >environment for this kind of work? It may not even >be possible. By asking you to help out, >they are helping *YOU* out - FOSS is all about >co-operation btw.
This is NOT about FOSS. This is about REDCRAP's support, which is allegedly what I get, when I pay them shitloads of money for free crap. Further more, if you have had some reading comprehension, you will note that I stated that support had already cnfirmed the bug as something that exists - if it's a known issue, and they want to know more about how it behaves, then they should fscking test it out, and then only go bother the customers.
>> I also like the way they push things off to others. Oh, disk druid is broken? Use fdisk. >> Umm, excuse me, but where's fdisk when I'm trying to install? And why aren't you putting >> in a ticket to engineering to get it fixed?
>It's on virtual console 2 (Alt-F2, or Ctrl-Alt-F2 if >you're using graphical). Learn to use >the tools in your hands before criticising the help >offered by others. Or find out what a >kickstart %pre script is good for.
Hmm, valid point, I didn't check to see if fdisk actually exist. But neither did support mention this - and the question has been posed to them for more than 2 days now.
>> And I especially love the way everything is bundled together. So, now, my choice is waste >> 1G of disk space on win2k, or waste 1G of disk space on REDCRAP, when all I'm trying to >> do is run a freaking web server?!
>You installed your webserver with a pre-defined >package profile? What are you? Fscking crazy?
You have not had a chance to install REDCRAP lately have you? I'm not talking about the pansy ass fedora crap, I'm talking about RHEL 4. *you* show me an install that's under 800Megs.
>Learn to do a kickstart like everyone else and have *only* the packages you select. >Oh, wait, you probably don't even know what packages you want or need.
Some people obviously like to hear the sound of their own voices. Tell you what, I'll make it easy on you. Go install RHEL4 under 500 megs, with a working apache server, only using standard RHEL4 rpms.
>*sharpens the clue-by-four*
*and accidentally takes off his own hand*
>> Oh, oh, lets not even mention the fact that RHEL4 can't even run, out of the box, on >> platforms that they advertize for!!!! Yeah, go perform a default install of RHEL4 on a >> dual core opteron, reboot, and watch it hang. Why the fsck do you put in the smp kernel, >> if it doesn't fucking work?
>You mean the dual core opterons that weren't even >available as engineering samples at the >time RHEL4 was being cut?
Oh, you mean they were not telling me the truth? They sold me a defective product?! They lied about a working smp kernel? OK, even if I grant you that they did not have a working smp kernel - WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU INCLUDE IT ON THE FUCKING CD THEN?!
>Ahh, of course, Red Hat should have just used their magic crystal >ball.
Well, they wouldn't need to, not with fanboys like you around.
>In the mean time, install update 2 like the rest of the san
I use Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and think they are the best Linux distributions
BAH!!! REDCRAP is the WORST piece of shit I've ever used. We just bought a bunch of RHEL 4 AS licenses, and it has been a freaking nightmare. Support sucks, and takes its own sweet time if it's not something easily found. And they'll ask you to test things out for things that they've confirmed to be issues - WTF? If you FSCKING know it's an issue, you can FSCKING TEST IT OUT YOURSELF, damned lazy bastards.
I also like the way they push things off to others. Oh, disk druid is broken? Use fdisk. Umm, excuse me, but where's fdisk when I'm trying to install? And why aren't you putting in a ticket to engineering to get it fixed?
And I especially love the way everything is bundled together. So, now, my choice is waste 1G of disk space on win2k, or waste 1G of disk space on REDCRAP, when all I'm trying to do is run a freaking web server?!
Oh, oh, lets not even mention the fact that RHEL4 can't even run, out of the box, on platforms that they advertize for!!!! Yeah, go perform a default install of RHEL4 on a dual core opteron, reboot, and watch it hang. Why the fsck do you put in the smp kernel, if it doesn't fucking work?
And of course, the support and registration sites going up and down, and taking more than 24 hours to get my damned registration in.
And lets not talk about how much fun it was doing an up2date to go from RHEL 4 to RHEL 4 U1 and U2. Freaking dependency failures, and killing the box so bad that it can't reboot, and needing a re-install.
And did you know that even though you paid thousands of dollars for that nice RHEL 4 dvd, you can't get an actual working RHEL 4 U2 dvd. They want you to download CD isos. You see, this is because:
it takes too much bandwidth to download a DVD
it the download gets interrupted, you have to re-download the whole thing again
Redhat can't afford to buy some extra drives
I'm not shitting you, those were the exact answers given to me. Of course, the fact that:
downloading 5 CD isos saves you a shitload of bandwidth over one DVD
ftp and http both support resumption of downloads, so if REDCRAP's servers can't support this, this is a REDCRAP issue, isn't it?
"we're an enterprise company, hear us ROAR" but... umm... just don't expect us to be able to afford to buy a couple of extra hard drives...
This means that the user can be sure that the interface brought up by pressing ctrl+alt+delete is provided by the OS, not some application.
What a load of hogwash. You're telling me that VMWare and PCAnywhere are part of the OS when they trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE and ask you whether you want to use it locally, or send it to the remote computer?
I was the guy who sent him the info on %WINDIR% and all that info on what it is/how to use it, for his clean up scripts, and not only did he not credit me, but he even gave the credit to OTHER folks who wrote in in subsequent weeks. In other words, I sent him info, he used it without crediting me, then other folks send him more info, and he fucking credits those other people.
Think Blue tooth or any other builtin wireless stuff.
Now, your entire neighborhood can play against each other. All this without broadband! Of course, this does mean that your neighbors laptop will surf slower while you're on a deathmatch, but so?
So, all the American Indian programmers have spoken, and have such strong words about the situation.
What about the rest of you people whose parents or grandparents immigrated here... What do you guys, the transplanted ones, think about the whole situation? If it wasn't for the fact that someone in your family tree thought that they could get a better life, and moved here to the States, and coincidentally, happened to have met someone, and a few generations afterwards, hey, here you are, where would you be?
I must say that my experience with cisco is slightly different. We bought a couple of switches, a 5000 and a 5501. We wanted cisco to put someone on site to help us move it in and configure it.
Cisco sends this piece of meat. He comes in and starts asking for this 5501 "router" which is sitting on the table right in front of him. You can't miss it, it's about 3-4 feet high, big blue box.
In the end, all he did was call the TAC and got someone to walk him thru stuff. I came in on a weekend thinking I was going to learn something. Bloody waste of my time.
Gotta admit, I'm curious. How many are speaking from personal experience, and how many are just parroting what they read?
In today's environment, if you don't like your job or your salary, just go find a new job. You do realize that H1B people do not get recruited easily as most companies do not want to pay the 30% to the headhunter, wait 3 months, and get the H1B person. They want the person _NOW_.
So, what does that make those who can't find a job (of which I see thousands, in just monster.com alone). Either they don't want to leave, or they can't leave.
The majority of the H1B holders that I know personally are all making in the $50+k range. Some are in the $100+k range. How are they driving the pay scale down? I don't understand that.
I disagree. There are times when the top level admin is required NOT to have rights to an OU. And Netware allows you to do that. You can stop that from happening if you wanted to, if you are the top level admin. The point is, the top level admin can make the decision whether he or she wants to allow such a thing to happen. With AiDS, they tell you that you can do it, but they are fucking lying.
As to separate trees, you can create trust relationships between them, and have rights given to the objects in other trees too.
And why would you need ot make an OU a member of a group? You will have horrible scaling problems if you do such a thing (especially if you have sub-ou, and partitioned them across the country). But you know what, I think the latest versions of nds allows this. But I can't be sure. But nothing a little template won't cure:)
I don't know about this particular case but I know all too often the situation is as
outlined in the lead story: you don't have a choice. You get handed a mandate that
the organization is moving to AD (or whatever) and you're stuck with trying to
implement it. You either make it work or you give up and go entirely MS.
Or do what I did. Show that it won't work. Then implement my solution of choice. Sure, I have to defend the choice every couple of months, but all I have got to do is show the form letter I wrote originally describing the situation. Heh.
3. If you're given your own Organizational Unit within the active directory, you can
choose to block inheritance of permissions and policies and whatnot, and maintain a
certain level of autonomy.
Umm... nope. No way to totally block everything. The root admin will always be able to get thru if he or she wants to. And of course, Microsoft says it's a feature. Go to www.novell.com and check out their "things you should know about AD" they first discovered this among many other "gotchas" you have to be careful about. For example, giving someone in ou1 admin rights over ou2 will increase the database size by 13 megs or so. In NDS, it increases by 256 bytes.
Anyway, basically, you will not be able to control your OU. The admin can take ownership, then change the rights. The only place where you can find out about this is in the log files. Remember, this is a feature.
As to 1), I have heard of people using samba 2.0.7 (?) and allowing access by nt4 clients. However, if I am correct, what you are saying is that you want ADS enabled clients to get to your samba resources too, right? This may be a problem. But if it is, all you have to do is upgrade _all_ your clients to win2k (certainly, it will be the microsoft preferred solution:))
-the B0fh
I think the reason for that is the technology is changing...as soon as USB came out, another, faster technology (firewire) could already take its place.
Uh, dude, get your history straight. Firewire was out in late 1980s. USB 1.0 sucked bad. Until I see some usb 2.0 devices where things worked properly, I'm going to say that it'll suck too. Implementation is very different from theory.
The real problem here was that manufacturers were VERY slow to produce USB peripherals. My Asus Pentium motherboard had connectors for USB ports on it 4 years ago, but until the iMac came along last year (or was it the year before?), there was narry a USB peripheral in sight.
Isn't it funny how Apple remains the driving force eventhough they sidelined themselves years ago? Before the macs, there was no CDRom drives. Before the Macs, there weren't any mice. Before the mac, there was no gui. Before the mac, there were no...
And yes, I know all these existed before the macs, but it was never popular until macs started spouting them
There are MANY sites on the net that get far more traffic than hotmail (the MSN homepage for instance) and they handle the load just fine. Doesn't that make you think?
Umm... so what is this story I hear about www.microsoft.com running on 1000+ NT boxes?
And the other story about the biggest single day download in 97 from www.cdrom.com was 480Gigs and the biggest single day download in the same year from www.microsoft.com was 380Gigs, and how cdrom.com was _ONE_ dual cpu Ppro with 2 Gigs of ram whereas microsoft.com was 40+ similar machines?
And what about the story about etoys being very happy with their NT servers until christmas time, when it will fall over every 45 seconds. As an interim solution, they went out and bought more servers, stuck them behind the hotfailover proxy, and survived christmas that way?
Lets see, it takes 3 minutes to reboot, it falls over in 45 secs, I will need... hmm... 5 servers. www.dell.com/INEEDMYSERVERSNOWDAMNIT
Slashdot Mirror
No no no, when wine, women and song gets to be too much, stop singing.
Actually, that's one word, and one number.
You should not put a link to a pay for article. What is this - some kind of fraud?!
Seriously though, this irks the heck out of me.
*sigh*
People, think a little. Sony is a mega corp, and has its fingers in a shit load of businesses. The music business is separate from the Playstation business, and in fact, the Playstation business is supposed to be the biggest breadwinner.
The music division screwed up.
If the Playstation division continues to be successful, which division's vision will win out?
The division that got the world steamed at them, or the division that brought you Linux to the PS2?!
In other words, you want to *support* the Playstation division, while giving the music division the (figuratively) bird.
-B0fh
And this is different from the legions of mcse fanboys how?
So, without know what was the bug I was bitching about, you can instantly determine that support can't replicate it?
Which further shows how much REDCRAP's support sucks, if they can't answer such a simple question.
So, why does a minimal install, WITHOUT even X, give me this:
/
[the_B0fh@REDCRAP ~]$ df -h
/dev/sda3 132G 940M 125G 1%
I can only guess that either you use non-RedHat rpms, or the EMT64 install is *significantly* different from the x86 installs.
If I had any sense, I would do a minimal install of openbsd. Too bad I'm not allowed to have sense at work.
*shrug* The way I see it, I know a minimal install is 900+megs, so, if I let ask you to do a 500meg, that can't be done. But if you _can_ do it, that's a net win for me anyway.
You know, this explanation actually makes sense. I've no idea if it's true or not (like the other guy who claimed that apache won't support > 2G, sounded good, turns out to be false, because you _can_ download fedora DVD isos), will have to double check.
This is very true. Unfortunately, I'm only allowed one vendor, and this vendor refreshed their opteron hardware one month right before I put my orders through. Hence my pain. There are a number of issues I had that I attributed to the hardware vendor and did not include in my earlier rant.
You know RedHat has made it, when they have fan boys modding folks down for criticizing it.
And I love the fedora fan boys who can't tell the difference between a guinea pig and an enterprise solution.
Remember, folks, RedHat (the company) is NOT fedora, and fedora is NOT RedHat. And when folks complain about the lousy support that RedHat has, they are NOT interested in how good or bad fedora is. They are talking about the LACK of a quality product from RedHat.
Oh My God! The READING comprehension of Anonymous Cowards is below the 8th grade level apparently.
You fucking assholes simply can't comprehend that REDCRAP is COMMERCIAL PRODUCT that people pay good money for?
And then when they put out such shoddy products, we get all these lamer anonymous cowards rushing to REDCRAP's defense? What the fuck for man?
If I were not forced to use REDCRAP, I'd have all my crap done within a day. However, because of the various bugs that came with this COMMERCIAL PRODUCT, bugs that I WANT FIXED whether or not I can work around them ***ALERT*** THESE ARE FUCKING BUGS THAT NEED TO BE FIXED, YOU REDCRAP WEENIE MORONS.
Hmm, I didn't realize that. Still, they could have provided the iso as a 2 parter, and I can just cat iso1 and iso2 together to get my dvd iso.
I'm sorry, you must think that I'm wearing my OSS hat today. I am not. If I were wearing my OSS hat, I would not be using REDCRAP now, would I? I am using a commercially produced piece of junk, and I demand a quality product AND quality service and support, because I FSCKING PAID FOR IT.
This is not some OSS project I'm working on. If REDCRAP wants to make real money off OSS, then they better be ready to provide REAL support the way other REAL OSes do. This is COMMERCIAL SUPPORT we're talking about here, folks, not a couple of readmes, ok?
JD, the issue is not about opensource, but about a commercial OS that is sold, that is sorely lacking in QA and support.
Complaints about REDCRAP are not complaints about opensource. I use gentoo and openbsd, both personally, and professionally, and I get exactly the kind of support I put back into it. With REDCRAP, all I got was a couple of months of frothing at mouth type issues, because REDCRAP fscked up yet again. This is simply not acceptable in an enterprise environment.
You obviously do not have experience with REDCRAP, but is just a dumb pawn for the fedora crap. If I pay for something, I expect it to work as advertized, even though this is software we are talking about.
>> BAH!!! REDCRAP is the WORST piece of shit I've ever used. We just bought a bunch of
>> RHEL 4 AS licenses, and it has been a freaking nightmare. Support sucks, and takes
>> it own sweet time if it's not something easily found. And they'll ask you to test things
>> out for things that they've confirmed to be issues - WTF? If you FSCKING know it's an
>> issue, you can FSCKING TEST IT OUT YOURSELF, damned lazy bastards.
>Lazy? Have you any idea how long it could take to >*accurately* reproduce a problematic
>environment for this kind of work? It may not even >be possible. By asking you to help out,
>they are helping *YOU* out - FOSS is all about >co-operation btw.
This is NOT about FOSS. This is about REDCRAP's support, which is allegedly what I get, when I pay them shitloads of money for free crap. Further more, if you have had some reading comprehension, you will note that I stated that support had already cnfirmed the bug as something that exists - if it's a known issue, and they want to know more about how it behaves, then they should fscking test it out, and then only go bother the customers.
>> I also like the way they push things off to others. Oh, disk druid is broken? Use fdisk.
>> Umm, excuse me, but where's fdisk when I'm trying to install? And why aren't you putting
>> in a ticket to engineering to get it fixed?
>It's on virtual console 2 (Alt-F2, or Ctrl-Alt-F2 if >you're using graphical). Learn to use
>the tools in your hands before criticising the help >offered by others. Or find out what a
>kickstart %pre script is good for.
Hmm, valid point, I didn't check to see if fdisk actually exist. But neither did support mention this - and the question has been posed to them for more than 2 days now.
>> And I especially love the way everything is bundled together. So, now, my choice is waste
>> 1G of disk space on win2k, or waste 1G of disk space on REDCRAP, when all I'm trying to
>> do is run a freaking web server?!
>You installed your webserver with a pre-defined >package profile? What are you? Fscking crazy?
You have not had a chance to install REDCRAP lately have you? I'm not talking about the pansy ass fedora crap, I'm talking about RHEL 4. *you* show me an install that's under 800Megs.
>Learn to do a kickstart like everyone else and have *only* the packages you select.
>Oh, wait, you probably don't even know what packages you want or need.
Some people obviously like to hear the sound of their own voices. Tell you what, I'll make it easy on you. Go install RHEL4 under 500 megs, with a working apache server, only using standard RHEL4 rpms.
>*sharpens the clue-by-four*
*and accidentally takes off his own hand*
>> Oh, oh, lets not even mention the fact that RHEL4 can't even run, out of the box, on
>> platforms that they advertize for!!!! Yeah, go perform a default install of RHEL4 on a
>> dual core opteron, reboot, and watch it hang. Why the fsck do you put in the smp kernel,
>> if it doesn't fucking work?
>You mean the dual core opterons that weren't even >available as engineering samples at the
>time RHEL4 was being cut?
Oh, you mean they were not telling me the truth? They sold me a defective product?! They lied about a working smp kernel? OK, even if I grant you that they did not have a working smp kernel - WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU INCLUDE IT ON THE FUCKING CD THEN?!
>Ahh, of course, Red Hat should have just used their magic crystal
>ball.
Well, they wouldn't need to, not with fanboys like you around.
>In the mean time, install update 2 like the rest of the san
BAH!!! REDCRAP is the WORST piece of shit I've ever used. We just bought a bunch of RHEL 4 AS licenses, and it has been a freaking nightmare. Support sucks, and takes its own sweet time if it's not something easily found. And they'll ask you to test things out for things that they've confirmed to be issues - WTF? If you FSCKING know it's an issue, you can FSCKING TEST IT OUT YOURSELF, damned lazy bastards.
I also like the way they push things off to others. Oh, disk druid is broken? Use fdisk. Umm, excuse me, but where's fdisk when I'm trying to install? And why aren't you putting in a ticket to engineering to get it fixed?
And I especially love the way everything is bundled together. So, now, my choice is waste 1G of disk space on win2k, or waste 1G of disk space on REDCRAP, when all I'm trying to do is run a freaking web server?!
Oh, oh, lets not even mention the fact that RHEL4 can't even run, out of the box, on platforms that they advertize for!!!! Yeah, go perform a default install of RHEL4 on a dual core opteron, reboot, and watch it hang. Why the fsck do you put in the smp kernel, if it doesn't fucking work?
And of course, the support and registration sites going up and down, and taking more than 24 hours to get my damned registration in.
And lets not talk about how much fun it was doing an up2date to go from RHEL 4 to RHEL 4 U1 and U2. Freaking dependency failures, and killing the box so bad that it can't reboot, and needing a re-install.
And did you know that even though you paid thousands of dollars for that nice RHEL 4 dvd, you can't get an actual working RHEL 4 U2 dvd. They want you to download CD isos. You see, this is because:
I'm not shitting you, those were the exact answers given to me. Of course, the fact that:
What a load of hogwash. You're telling me that VMWare and PCAnywhere are part of the OS when they trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE and ask you whether you want to use it locally, or send it to the remote computer?
http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=w eb2164446
Minimum of $200 for each? Hah. Thank you very much.
-the B0fh
I was the guy who sent him the info on %WINDIR% and all that info on what it is/how to use it, for his clean up scripts, and not only did he not credit me, but he even gave the credit to OTHER folks who wrote in in subsequent weeks. In other words, I sent him info, he used it without crediting me, then other folks send him more info, and he fucking credits those other people.
Not reading his stuff anymore.
-the B0fh
Too damned many of them.
-bofh
*SNORT* You mean, look at VMS don't you? People who have looked at actual disk structures say that NTFS looks damn similar to VMS's FS.
the B0fh
Think Blue tooth or any other builtin wireless stuff.
Now, your entire neighborhood can play against each other. All this without broadband! Of course, this does mean that your neighbors laptop will surf slower while you're on a deathmatch, but so?
-the B0fh
So, all the American Indian programmers have spoken, and have such strong words about the situation.
What about the rest of you people whose parents or grandparents immigrated here... What do you guys, the transplanted ones, think about the whole situation? If it wasn't for the fact that someone in your family tree thought that they could get a better life, and moved here to the States, and coincidentally, happened to have met someone, and a few generations afterwards, hey, here you are, where would you be?
Bloody xenophones. Bah.
-b0fh
I must say that my experience with cisco is slightly different. We bought a couple of switches, a 5000 and a 5501. We wanted cisco to put someone on site to help us move it in and configure it.
Cisco sends this piece of meat. He comes in and starts asking for this 5501 "router" which is sitting on the table right in front of him. You can't miss it, it's about 3-4 feet high, big blue box.
In the end, all he did was call the TAC and got someone to walk him thru stuff. I came in on a weekend thinking I was going to learn something. Bloody waste of my time.
-the_B0fh
Gotta admit, I'm curious. How many are speaking from personal experience, and how many are just parroting what they read?
In today's environment, if you don't like your job or your salary, just go find a new job. You do realize that H1B people do not get recruited easily as most companies do not want to pay the 30% to the headhunter, wait 3 months, and get the H1B person. They want the person _NOW_.
So, what does that make those who can't find a job (of which I see thousands, in just monster.com alone). Either they don't want to leave, or they can't leave.
The majority of the H1B holders that I know personally are all making in the $50+k range. Some are in the $100+k range. How are they driving the pay scale down? I don't understand that.
-the b0fh
As to separate trees, you can create trust relationships between them, and have rights given to the objects in other trees too.
And why would you need ot make an OU a member of a group? You will have horrible scaling problems if you do such a thing (especially if you have sub-ou, and partitioned them across the country). But you know what, I think the latest versions of nds allows this. But I can't be sure. But nothing a little template won't cure :)
-the b0fh
I don't know about this particular case but I know all too often the situation is as outlined in the lead story: you don't have a choice. You get handed a mandate that the organization is moving to AD (or whatever) and you're stuck with trying to implement it. You either make it work or you give up and go entirely MS.
Or do what I did. Show that it won't work. Then implement my solution of choice. Sure, I have to defend the choice every couple of months, but all I have got to do is show the form letter I wrote originally describing the situation. Heh.
-the b0fh
3. If you're given your own Organizational Unit within the active directory, you can choose to block inheritance of permissions and policies and whatnot, and maintain a certain level of autonomy.
Umm... nope. No way to totally block everything. The root admin will always be able to get thru if he or she wants to. And of course, Microsoft says it's a feature. Go to www.novell.com and check out their "things you should know about AD" they first discovered this among many other "gotchas" you have to be careful about. For example, giving someone in ou1 admin rights over ou2 will increase the database size by 13 megs or so. In NDS, it increases by 256 bytes.
Anyway, basically, you will not be able to control your OU. The admin can take ownership, then change the rights. The only place where you can find out about this is in the log files. Remember, this is a feature.
As to 1), I have heard of people using samba 2.0.7 (?) and allowing access by nt4 clients. However, if I am correct, what you are saying is that you want ADS enabled clients to get to your samba resources too, right? This may be a problem. But if it is, all you have to do is upgrade _all_ your clients to win2k (certainly, it will be the microsoft preferred solution :))
-the B0fh
I think the reason for that is the technology is changing...as soon as USB came out, another, faster technology (firewire) could already take its place.
Uh, dude, get your history straight. Firewire was out in late 1980s. USB 1.0 sucked bad. Until I see some usb 2.0 devices where things worked properly, I'm going to say that it'll suck too. Implementation is very different from theory.
The real problem here was that manufacturers were VERY slow to produce USB peripherals. My Asus Pentium motherboard had connectors for USB ports on it 4 years ago, but until the iMac came along last year (or was it the year before?), there was narry a USB peripheral in sight.
Isn't it funny how Apple remains the driving force eventhough they sidelined themselves years ago? Before the macs, there was no CDRom drives. Before the Macs, there weren't any mice. Before the mac, there was no gui. Before the mac, there were no...
And yes, I know all these existed before the macs, but it was never popular until macs started spouting them
-the b0fh
Umm... so what is this story I hear about www.microsoft.com running on 1000+ NT boxes?
And the other story about the biggest single day download in 97 from www.cdrom.com was 480Gigs and the biggest single day download in the same year from www.microsoft.com was 380Gigs, and how cdrom.com was _ONE_ dual cpu Ppro with 2 Gigs of ram whereas microsoft.com was 40+ similar machines?
And what about the story about etoys being very happy with their NT servers until christmas time, when it will fall over every 45 seconds. As an interim solution, they went out and bought more servers, stuck them behind the hotfailover proxy, and survived christmas that way?
Lets see, it takes 3 minutes to reboot, it falls over in 45 secs, I will need... hmm... 5 servers. www.dell.com/INEEDMYSERVERSNOWDAMNIT
-the_b0fh