Many well and some wont. Look at all the people that went out and bought a box set of linux when the only thing you got was a manual that I can ever rember opening and stickers and few other giveaway type thing but it was the same thing I could have gotten online for free. I am not alone on this either. Companys are coming to linux to a certain amount to get out from under the cost of windows and to bring new life to old hardware. That is how I got it into the company I work for but when we buy new hardware for a project and now they see that the email servers went from constant problems to nearly no problems we buy our hardware to make sure it runs under linux as we expand the use of linux even more. So a video card that only cost slight more but can save me 3 Hours of work to config will be cheaper then one that cost less but takes hours to setup. Rember my time isn't free.
I use Linux for more than just cost. I have some hardware at home I bought simple because of cost but I also have some 3dfx boards I bought because I read they had better support under linux then other boards out there and at the time that is what I was looking for and you known what it still works good for what type of card it is. I would spend more to get a hardware I know would just work. I check before I buy most hardware were I except there might be a difference. Will I spend $300 for what amounts to a 3dfx board today no will I speed $30 to $50 more for simalar hardware yes.
So who caused it to happen in 2000 then as it did. How about 1996 As it did. Sorry most are done but local kids with more time then money and no common since.
On the side of roads not in someones yard the state of Maryland would have the signs down in hours. Public works takes down any sign that doesn't have someone attached to it. In other words in you are there holding a sign and have 20 around you that if fine but if you leave take the signs or they get trashed but public works. With that being said. Way back in 1992 with the bush/clinton election I help people reput up signs that were destoryed. It has been happening to both sides for years. I was in the county party headquarter once and some guy came in and want the party to pay to have his sign fixed. We said no problem if you fix these other 30 signs that someone from your party destoryed. He didn't known how to reply and walked away.
And you are the reason we have IT hell. Because of software issue we have Windows 98 on most of our stations not likely to be upgraded for a few years. There is no lock down. What do we get for that. Ghost images. We reinstall all the time because users so screw up those stations that they can't be cleaned out anymore they get reinstalled and updated a 2 Hours process. Before we reinstall things like adaware are required to be run before IT gets involded. However I still need to reinstall every system ever month or so just because the build up bad enfoe.
Althought I don't live in the state but my guess is they put them in a sealed something and hold until it is confirmed. The something has a number on it. Once confirmed the seal something with a number is dumped into a pile then someone else goes and open that piles and counts the votes. I my area. In AA marlyland you going in prove who your are and vote. You get a number when you confirm your idea that gets you another number the get you a ballet. Something like 4 or 5 Diffenet number. In theory someone could want you each step and figure out how you voted but it would be a hell of a lot of work that wouldn't be legal.
Yes but those machines talk to another machine that keeps a copy of the data the most you lose with a HD failiure will be one station. The person using the machine would have to go to another station to finish there vote. I have seen those machines fail more then once and don't think votes were counted on those machines as I know for a fact that it happened at least once.
You have never worked with one of those machines. I have. They aren't that "perfect".
"What is so wrong with the concept behind these machines that we need to all rush out and buy touchscreen systems? "
In concept nothing. Its realty that makes the difference hear. They are machines they breakdown on one election I was at the 1st 7 questions weren't counted on one machine as it failed to product any numbers when the machine was polled to get it data. Those vote might have been counted later but that night they weren't. They cost alot to build and mantain because they cost so much and only limited number or company can work on them making them hard to maintain. Also because of the cost there are limited number in any one area resulting in long lines in some sites if voter turnout is higher then the past. They are large and require alot of storage. That is what is wrong with them.
The touch screen system try and fix some of those issue just like those punch cards did until we find out how some area can mess up a rather simple system.
As someone who has put up alot of bush signs in Maryland a blue state I can tell you that many only last about a week before someone tears it down. "Either Republicans(replace with Dem) the are scared, or my worst fears about the kind of people that party represents are coming true."
It say's in the artical. They release every 6 Months. So 6 Months has passed. In 6 More months 9.3 or 10.0 will be out. It is there release schd. Overall I have found out that works best. Redhat/Fedora I believe release every 6 Months. It appear the most hobby/consumer dist release every 6 Months and Corp./enterprise release every 18 Months that is not set in stone but overall seem about right. Debian as far as I know is the only major dist that releases based on no set timeframe.
Witch Windows? Windows NT 4.0, 98, 98se, ME, 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP Home, XP Pro, XP Server, XP Media Center, 2003 Server? All with a different feel and work differently with different patches and problems. I could say the same about windows.
That is the best system but it has to go thought politcal partys 1st. In the state of Maryland the EC goes Dem. most of the time. Althought half or our congressmen are rep. but the areas that go Dem. go with such a majorty that our Sentors and Gov. all almost alwas Dem. If they moved from a winner take all to the system that Maine uses then the Dem. would lost almost 4 or 5 EC votes for this state because of this the party in control of the state wont let that change. If I lived in a state that goes most rep. I would want that change either as I would lose EC votes. I agree that it is the fairiest system and would make it more fair overall without make massive changes to the constion.
1) SPF will first shows itself as a test in stuff like sa and other spam dection software. It will use fails to score spamy and pass to score hamy. That in itself will create more reliablty and add to our abilty to fight spam. That also will give an insentive for companys to post SPF records to get that kick toward hamy some places because of software or whatever are already on the edge in my case our software sends everything in ALL CAPS to clients. The clients are fine with the ALL CAPS but several ISP have called it spam and had to get thing whitelisted.
2) There are fixes in place for things like.forward files but the changes must be made on the sending system. There is the abilty to whitelist certain IP address / Domains like ebay.
3) I couldn't drop mail based on a failer but then again I am in a company that requires all spam to be forwarded to an address and reviewed because what if a custmers email got mixed in it the horror. 3,000 to 5,000 spam a day and one false postive in 4 Months. Lucky it isn't my job to review that junk.
Yes and no. Many will use what every comes with there machine. Look how many people use MS works that came with somemany PC's. But those same people are installing kazaa and other stuff because it givens them something they want. People will start to use FF or mozilla when the find out it reduces those popup ads. I my family that is already starting to happen. Not most of my family use AOL so just getting them to use Mozilla is a big deal. So still use IE and then complain because windows is so unstable. Those that use Mozilla based browse have less problems and telling there frends about it.
Yes but those guns like IBM are now moving to replacing there work desktops with linux. We see novell buying up desktop part. Server has for the most aren't going away and by many experts have been won now we can move on to the desktop. As it was put once. 2.4 was about scaling up. 2.6 was about scaling down. Big companys see linux in corp workstations and embeded devices. I have noticed in the last Year that desktop linux is make leap and bonds. Money is starting to flow into the development of desktops. Several company have come out with desktop based distro's and more seem to come out each day.
Great can you now go fix the other Windows XP system I have to deal with. The one I have at home works great also. I setup mozilla and have AV and proxy to keep the stuff out. My inlaws have windows XP for 6 Months. There 1 Daughter came over and used the machine and then called me 2 weeks later because a game they love wouldn't play. I found over 40 Different spamware programs installed and 2 Virus. I cleaned that out and thing were better for about 1 Month. Having problems again. This time it was about 10 Spyware programs. Not to say that linux is any better if you have a stupid admin. But if windows designed there system with any kind of sec. in mind and had resable setup for users that alowed people to be users without someone having to spend hours tweaking settings to run even the basic software under user level.
As someone who runs one of the smtp servers that work in clear text. In one word Money. Just using encrpted password as 20% increase in resouce usage per email. If we were to use ssl on the smtp that would more then double the resource and increase bandwidth. That would require ous to double the number of servers. Increase my admin time as each server required some mantaince each month. Get enfoe servers and I need a helper and that adds even more cost. In the end to move from plain text to encrtped email it would cost the company close the 3 Times it current cost. For a CTO that see number and haven't a one problem with someone scan emails to figuire out our passwords it is a hard sell.
1) Most of the filesystems under the bulk of linux distro already are lsb 2.x or really close to be that. Witch is why ".so hell" is for the most part gone. That standard say were file are and how they are laid out.
2) Unless it has changed proper setup of a library at least under redhat & debian they are in the basic format.
libwrap.so.0 -> libwrap.so.0.7.6 libwrap.so.0.7.6
so if you have something that is depend on libwrap.so.0.7.6 and something that need libwrap.so.0.7.7 the you can have both installed and just point libwrap.so.0 to.0.7.7 and link the app to the old version.
Problem is most software / disto don't link direct to.0.7.6 but to.0 or just to libwrap.so. However the is a the abilty to override the library location in linux using an enviroment varible and a few other way to deal with it.
I haven't had ".so hell" since I tried to upgrade redhat 5.1 to 5.2 by installing just the RPM's
"Halt all development of technology! Robs crowd need to catch up!"
Get a job someday and you might find out that company replace equipement when it dies or over long time replacement timeframes. Granted most are 3 to 5 Year timeframes but many smaller and midsize company don't upgrade as fast do to the cost. To upgrade our system including replacing a few DOS applactions that are required to make our business work would amount to several million dollars so we spreed it out as slowly as possible only replacing what breaks and upgrading 1 site at a time. The means that it will take several years to upgrade out but I have seen many company setup this way. Yea there are some companys that replace there hardware very quickly but there are also companys out there still using windows 3.1 also. Please note that the use of newer system wont give us a bussiness advange so why spend money we don't need to speed.
The lack of a floppy in the new PC would mean that it would be harder for data to be transfer between the systems. We still transfer data using either a floppy disk or ethernet card. So if the lan is down we copy drivers to a floppy or other mantaince stuff.
I have several Machines that wont. Granted most are sub 1 Ghz but they are still in heavy use. I also have several CD-roms that wonts read cd-r(rw). Never forget there are alot of sub 1ghz still out there. In my company that represents over 1/2 of our systems. It will likly be 2 years or more before all of our systems will have CD rom drives in them. Don't assume everyone is using a system less then 5 Years old and even 2 or 3 year old systems didn't alwas come with bios that boot off cd-r(rw).
About the same as if ever cable modem custmer trings to download a 3 GB file at the same time. It would slow things down alot.
Digital cable box/network seems to be a self contained IP network with built in cable modem. The get assigned 10.x.x.x IP address and recieve most core channels like HBO in a broadcast mode and the OnDemand in unicast modem. The have alot of bandwidth to work with and if a certain segment gets overloaded the do what is called spliting the node were the break a node into 2 fiber connections instead of 1. It means that if everyone in a area desided they wanted to use OnDemand as once it would break and there are piece build in to stop if from slowing the more import broadcast traffic. But I can tell you that only a small precentage us OnDemand at any given time and that if they find that it has problems on a regular base then they split the node.
Nothing real strange here. There have been several projects out there tring to do the same on local lans for years.
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Already in place. Most intel chips since the PII or PIII I can't rember can cut ther CPU in half when not needed and saves lots of power.
How do you know 99.9% or even 99% is illeage use. How many indy artist distrib thought P2P and how about ISO althought they have mostly moved to other p2p tech there was a time when ISO for linux were sent that way. Greated most are probly RIAA crap but how do you know it isn't 80% or 75% no stats are keep that I known of? Were is the line drawn. Perfert example of that. In the state of Maryland someone wanted to limit the hour of oparation of porn shops so they submitted a law and it passed the state. Well what happen all the porn place are sell half no-porn stuff and half porn stuff why because they nolonger meet the laws requirement and don't have to have those special hour. That is what most of these law do.
I am sorta in that boat. I just bought a new computer for my grandmother. I bought all hardware that would work under linux why my grandmother is a strong AOL user and probly will never use linux. Because I alwas look for linux support in the hardware I buy. I also base the recommendation to family and frend on that as well plus as Sysadmin at my company I get a little input into hardware buying as well and if you don't support linux think again about me sugesting it. Right now NVida have the better support so NVida based boards it is. If ATI has better drivers in the futher then ATI may get recommend.
One other things ATI drivers suck overall. There ATI All-in-wonder windows dirvers would crash my system on a regular bases. I have tried like 10 Different version and the all crash the system. I switch that machine to linux and use the gatos drivers for the card and although the TV part doesn't work the video and OS are great. Now all I buy is separate cards for Video and OS seem to work alot better overall.
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Many well and some wont. Look at all the people that went out and bought a box set of linux when the only thing you got was a manual that I can ever rember opening and stickers and few other giveaway type thing but it was the same thing I could have gotten online for free. I am not alone on this either. Companys are coming to linux to a certain amount to get out from under the cost of windows and to bring new life to old hardware. That is how I got it into the company I work for but when we buy new hardware for a project and now they see that the email servers went from constant problems to nearly no problems we buy our hardware to make sure it runs under linux as we expand the use of linux even more. So a video card that only cost slight more but can save me 3 Hours of work to config will be cheaper then one that cost less but takes hours to setup. Rember my time isn't free.
I use Linux for more than just cost. I have some hardware at home I bought simple because of cost but I also have some 3dfx boards I bought because I read they had better support under linux then other boards out there and at the time that is what I was looking for and you known what it still works good for what type of card it is. I would spend more to get a hardware I know would just work. I check before I buy most hardware were I except there might be a difference. Will I spend $300 for what amounts to a 3dfx board today no will I speed $30 to $50 more for simalar hardware yes.
So who caused it to happen in 2000 then as it did. How about 1996 As it did. Sorry most are done but local kids with more time then money and no common since.
On the side of roads not in someones yard the state of Maryland would have the signs down in hours. Public works takes down any sign that doesn't have someone attached to it. In other words in you are there holding a sign and have 20 around you that if fine but if you leave take the signs or they get trashed but public works. With that being said. Way back in 1992 with the bush/clinton election I help people reput up signs that were destoryed. It has been happening to both sides for years. I was in the county party headquarter once and some guy came in and want the party to pay to have his sign fixed. We said no problem if you fix these other 30 signs that someone from your party destoryed. He didn't known how to reply and walked away.
And you are the reason we have IT hell. Because of software issue we have Windows 98 on most of our stations not likely to be upgraded for a few years. There is no lock down. What do we get for that. Ghost images. We reinstall all the time because users so screw up those stations that they can't be cleaned out anymore they get reinstalled and updated a 2 Hours process. Before we reinstall things like adaware are required to be run before IT gets involded. However I still need to reinstall every system ever month or so just because the build up bad enfoe.
Althought I don't live in the state but my guess is they put them in a sealed something and hold until it is confirmed. The something has a number on it. Once confirmed the seal something with a number is dumped into a pile then someone else goes and open that piles and counts the votes. I my area. In AA marlyland you going in prove who your are and vote. You get a number when you confirm your idea that gets you another number the get you a ballet. Something like 4 or 5 Diffenet number. In theory someone could want you each step and figure out how you voted but it would be a hell of a lot of work that wouldn't be legal.
Yes but those machines talk to another machine that keeps a copy of the data the most you lose with a HD failiure will be one station. The person using the machine would have to go to another station to finish there vote. I have seen those machines fail more then once and don't think votes were counted on those machines as I know for a fact that it happened at least once.
You have never worked with one of those machines. I have. They aren't that "perfect".
"What is so wrong with the concept behind these machines that we need to all rush out and buy touchscreen systems? "
In concept nothing. Its realty that makes the difference hear. They are machines they breakdown on one election I was at the 1st 7 questions weren't counted on one machine as it failed to product any numbers when the machine was polled to get it data. Those vote might have been counted later but that night they weren't. They cost alot to build and mantain because they cost so much and only limited number or company can work on them making them hard to maintain. Also because of the cost there are limited number in any one area resulting in long lines in some sites if voter turnout is higher then the past. They are large and require alot of storage. That is what is wrong with them.
The touch screen system try and fix some of those issue just like those punch cards did until we find out how some area can mess up a rather simple system.
Rear to say this to a Dem but I agree with you on this one.
As someone who has put up alot of bush signs in Maryland a blue state I can tell you that many only last about a week before someone tears it down. "Either Republicans(replace with Dem) the are scared, or my worst fears about the kind of people that party represents are coming true."
It say's in the artical. They release every 6 Months. So 6 Months has passed. In 6 More months 9.3 or 10.0 will be out. It is there release schd. Overall I have found out that works best. Redhat/Fedora I believe release every 6 Months. It appear the most hobby/consumer dist release every 6 Months and Corp./enterprise release every 18 Months that is not set in stone but overall seem about right. Debian as far as I know is the only major dist that releases based on no set timeframe.
Witch Windows? Windows NT 4.0, 98, 98se, ME, 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP Home, XP Pro, XP Server, XP Media Center, 2003 Server? All with a different feel and work differently with different patches and problems. I could say the same about windows.
That is the best system but it has to go thought politcal partys 1st. In the state of Maryland the EC goes Dem. most of the time. Althought half or our congressmen are rep. but the areas that go Dem. go with such a majorty that our Sentors and Gov. all almost alwas Dem. If they moved from a winner take all to the system that Maine uses then the Dem. would lost almost 4 or 5 EC votes for this state because of this the party in control of the state wont let that change. If I lived in a state that goes most rep. I would want that change either as I would lose EC votes. I agree that it is the fairiest system and would make it more fair overall without make massive changes to the constion.
1) SPF will first shows itself as a test in stuff like sa and other spam dection software. It will use fails to score spamy and pass to score hamy. That in itself will create more reliablty and add to our abilty to fight spam. That also will give an insentive for companys to post SPF records to get that kick toward hamy some places because of software or whatever are already on the edge in my case our software sends everything in ALL CAPS to clients. The clients are fine with the ALL CAPS but several ISP have called it spam and had to get thing whitelisted.
.forward files but the changes must be made on the sending system. There is the abilty to whitelist certain IP address / Domains like ebay.
2) There are fixes in place for things like
3) I couldn't drop mail based on a failer but then again I am in a company that requires all spam to be forwarded to an address and reviewed because what if a custmers email got mixed in it the horror. 3,000 to 5,000 spam a day and one false postive in 4 Months. Lucky it isn't my job to review that junk.
Yes and no. Many will use what every comes with there machine. Look how many people use MS works that came with somemany PC's. But those same people are installing kazaa and other stuff because it givens them something they want. People will start to use FF or mozilla when the find out it reduces those popup ads. I my family that is already starting to happen. Not most of my family use AOL so just getting them to use Mozilla is a big deal. So still use IE and then complain because windows is so unstable. Those that use Mozilla based browse have less problems and telling there frends about it.
Yes but those guns like IBM are now moving to replacing there work desktops with linux. We see novell buying up desktop part. Server has for the most aren't going away and by many experts have been won now we can move on to the desktop. As it was put once. 2.4 was about scaling up. 2.6 was about scaling down. Big companys see linux in corp workstations and embeded devices. I have noticed in the last Year that desktop linux is make leap and bonds. Money is starting to flow into the development of desktops. Several company have come out with desktop based distro's and more seem to come out each day.
Great can you now go fix the other Windows XP system I have to deal with. The one I have at home works great also. I setup mozilla and have AV and proxy to keep the stuff out. My inlaws have windows XP for 6 Months. There 1 Daughter came over and used the machine and then called me 2 weeks later because a game they love wouldn't play. I found over 40 Different spamware programs installed and 2 Virus. I cleaned that out and thing were better for about 1 Month. Having problems again. This time it was about 10 Spyware programs. Not to say that linux is any better if you have a stupid admin. But if windows designed there system with any kind of sec. in mind and had resable setup for users that alowed people to be users without someone having to spend hours tweaking settings to run even the basic software under user level.
As someone who runs one of the smtp servers that work in clear text. In one word Money. Just using encrpted password as 20% increase in resouce usage per email. If we were to use ssl on the smtp that would more then double the resource and increase bandwidth. That would require ous to double the number of servers. Increase my admin time as each server required some mantaince each month. Get enfoe servers and I need a helper and that adds even more cost. In the end to move from plain text to encrtped email it would cost the company close the 3 Times it current cost. For a CTO that see number and haven't a one problem with someone scan emails to figuire out our passwords it is a hard sell.
You are getting 2 Issue mixed up.
.0.7.7 and link the app to the old version.
.0.7.6 but to .0 or just to libwrap.so. However the is a the abilty to override the library location in linux using an enviroment varible and a few other way to deal with it.
1) Most of the filesystems under the bulk of linux distro already are lsb 2.x or really close to be that. Witch is why ".so hell" is for the most part gone. That standard say were file are and how they are laid out.
2) Unless it has changed proper setup of a library at least under redhat & debian they are in the basic format.
libwrap.so.0 -> libwrap.so.0.7.6
libwrap.so.0.7.6
so if you have something that is depend on libwrap.so.0.7.6 and something that need libwrap.so.0.7.7 the you can have both installed and just point libwrap.so.0 to
Problem is most software / disto don't link direct to
I haven't had ".so hell" since I tried to upgrade redhat 5.1 to 5.2 by installing just the RPM's
"Halt all development of technology! Robs crowd need to catch up!"
Get a job someday and you might find out that company replace equipement when it dies or over long time replacement timeframes. Granted most are 3 to 5 Year timeframes but many smaller and midsize company don't upgrade as fast do to the cost. To upgrade our system including replacing a few DOS applactions that are required to make our business work would amount to several million dollars so we spreed it out as slowly as possible only replacing what breaks and upgrading 1 site at a time. The means that it will take several years to upgrade out but I have seen many company setup this way. Yea there are some companys that replace there hardware very quickly but there are also companys out there still using windows 3.1 also. Please note that the use of newer system wont give us a bussiness advange so why spend money we don't need to speed.
The lack of a floppy in the new PC would mean that it would be harder for data to be transfer between the systems. We still transfer data using either a floppy disk or ethernet card. So if the lan is down we copy drivers to a floppy or other mantaince stuff.
I have several Machines that wont. Granted most are sub 1 Ghz but they are still in heavy use. I also have several CD-roms that wonts read cd-r(rw). Never forget there are alot of sub 1ghz still out there. In my company that represents over 1/2 of our systems. It will likly be 2 years or more before all of our systems will have CD rom drives in them. Don't assume everyone is using a system less then 5 Years old and even 2 or 3 year old systems didn't alwas come with bios that boot off cd-r(rw).
About the same as if ever cable modem custmer trings to download a 3 GB file at the same time. It would slow things down alot.
Digital cable box/network seems to be a self contained IP network with built in cable modem. The get assigned 10.x.x.x IP address and recieve most core channels like HBO in a broadcast mode and the OnDemand in unicast modem. The have alot of bandwidth to work with and if a certain segment gets overloaded the do what is called spliting the node were the break a node into 2 fiber connections instead of 1. It means that if everyone in a area desided they wanted to use OnDemand as once it would break and there are piece build in to stop if from slowing the more import broadcast traffic. But I can tell you that only a small precentage us OnDemand at any given time and that if they find that it has problems on a regular base then they split the node.
Nothing real strange here. There have been several projects out there tring to do the same on local lans for years.
Already in place. Most intel chips since the PII or PIII I can't rember can cut ther CPU in half when not needed and saves lots of power.
How do you know 99.9% or even 99% is illeage use. How many indy artist distrib thought P2P and how about ISO althought they have mostly moved to other p2p tech there was a time when ISO for linux were sent that way. Greated most are probly RIAA crap but how do you know it isn't 80% or 75% no stats are keep that I known of? Were is the line drawn. Perfert example of that. In the state of Maryland someone wanted to limit the hour of oparation of porn shops so they submitted a law and it passed the state. Well what happen all the porn place are sell half no-porn stuff and half porn stuff why because they nolonger meet the laws requirement and don't have to have those special hour. That is what most of these law do.
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I am sorta in that boat. I just bought a new computer for my grandmother. I bought all hardware that would work under linux why my grandmother is a strong AOL user and probly will never use linux. Because I alwas look for linux support in the hardware I buy. I also base the recommendation to family and frend on that as well plus as Sysadmin at my company I get a little input into hardware buying as well and if you don't support linux think again about me sugesting it. Right now NVida have the better support so NVida based boards it is. If ATI has better drivers in the futher then ATI may get recommend.
One other things ATI drivers suck overall. There ATI All-in-wonder windows dirvers would crash my system on a regular bases. I have tried like 10 Different version and the all crash the system. I switch that machine to linux and use the gatos drivers for the card and although the TV part doesn't work the video and OS are great. Now all I buy is separate cards for Video and OS seem to work alot better overall.