Yahoo is a large website operation. For most corporates the web server is a _very small_ part of the overall IT infrastructure. Yahoo is not representative of what you'd find in a typical corporate datacentre / computer room.
BIND does not work properly with ADS if you have multiple domain controllers on seperate subnets.
Microsoft DNS will return the domain controller on your subnet as the topmost entry in your AD domain. Bind returns them in round robin order. Needless to say that this causes big problems in larger networks as users end up logging on to in-appropriate servers.
When I was investigating this problem the BIND answer was that sorting results is a problem for the client resolver and not the dns server.
The spammers sell their service (spamming) to these outfits that supply porn, herbal supplements, mortgages etc. The spammers won't get anywhere near the product, the spammers product is spam.
A spammed product may never make any money for anyone but the spammer, as theres always some mug who's desperate to make some money willing to use the services of a spammer.
It isn't the client that makes the ports system great, its the sheer number of applications that have been ported, almost every decent open source project (and some closed source apps too) are available for a binary or source install via the packaging/ports system, usually you can also install specific versions (eg: Postgresql 7, 7.2, 7.3 or the current development release;Apache 2.x or Apache 1.3).
There is nothing more frustrating than the distribution forcing you to install Apache 2.0 when you absolutely have to have 1.3 for some app/third party module. Falling back to source is not ideal as you lose quick and easy updates.
Pulling poor quality RPMs (or any other package format for that matter) from random websites is not ideal, particularly as these third party rpms often depend on different third party rpms and then the whole system breaks down.
apt-get on Redhat takes away most of the annoyances with RPM client. I've managed to remote upgrade a Redhat 7 box to Redhat 9 with very few problems.
Compiling from source or the client itself does not in itself make the ports collection great. Its the fact that so many applications maintained and designed to work together are available to the package system that make it great.
Fedora would do well to encourage a large community maintained set of packages.
And for immigration purposes, not showing up on the system IS beating the system. The immigrant can then claim that they have just arrived at port and begin the immigration process again, despite having been in the country for a while and previously had your application rejected.
The application looping is what these systems are supposed to prevent and is much of the basis for the ID card proposals.
I'm currently experimenting with Freesbie (freesbie.org). The big advantage this has over some of the other live-cd distributions is modifications are easy, as is keeping your customized CD up to date as its all built from the OS sources. So a cvsup && make buildworld and your CD incorporates all the latest driver fixes
The downside is that the hardware auto-detection for setting up an X session is nowhere near as good, but its looking promising for a thin-client boot cd.
Morphix is awful, it does give you an easy way to patch the system and add additional packages, but it lags too far behind Knoppix in terms of hardware support and keeping it updated is a bitch.
I would love for the Knoppix guys to tidy up the distribution so it is alot easier to customise. The half-dozen distributions that feed off Knoppix would not lag as much and be much higher quality.
I'm currently building a thin-client CD for terminal services clients, I've tried almost every boot cd distribution available, none are as good for bleeding edge hardware as Knoppix, however Knoppix is a swine to customise.
I think I'm going with Freesbie, mainly because its easy to update and rebuild new CDs.
>Moral of the story: Outsourcing is a correction of an imbalance in wage prices.
Too right, I feel that the American IT industry is paying the price for the dot-com salary boom.
Salaries were pushed far too high and the expectation for highly paid IT jobs still remains, despite demand lowering due to the number of business failures and an increase both locally and globally in job competition.
The warning signs should have been the number of HB1 visas being issued during the late ninties, this should have been a warning that you were pricing yourselves out of your own job market.
I think you've had to much of a good thing, perhaps only the next generation of IT people can compete with offshoring as they will perhaps be willing to do the job for a lot less pay.
Its not unreasonable to assume that IT pay is going to end up at a similar level to a competent office worker, only the next generation will accept that and would be willing to work at that pay level for loving the job rather than the salary.
Microsoft Terminal Services Server does multi-user very nicely, and has alot of features that are missing from WinVNC. You can take your locally attached drives, printers, serial devices and sound across with your connection. Last time I checked VNC does none of this.
We use Terminal Services at work (with a Linux load balancer) to save on support and hardware upgrade costs.
A fairly inexpensive server can handle around 50-60 remote desktop sessions. Typically ms-office, e-mail, web browsing and access to accounting and database frontends.
It runs fine on old hardware or thin-clients. We are starting to get away from the haphazzard desktop upgrades that prevented us from ever being able to produce a standard desktop image, pcs are bought on a departmental and team basis depending on how much money is left in the budget.
So we have around 150 laptops and 300 desktops a year upgraded and spread amongst 1300 users. You can't believe how many different variations of PC specs, operating system and application versions there are even within a single team.
Terminal services are allowing the desktop support people to get back on top of this, as people are moved onto terminal services there underlying machine becomes irrelevant, there should be no new desktops purchased as we can either recycle an old pc or use a linux based system with rdesktop, or make use of a wyse thin-client.
Its not suitable for everyone, particularly those using graphics / design apps, but for the vast majority of administrative staff (most of our operation) it does the job well and cuts down on support costs and it is getting us out of a rather large mess.
Anyway back to your original point, it is no longer true that microsoft do not produce a good multi-user system. If you've used RDP you can't not admit that it works well, it works just as well multi-user on multi-user enabled windows.
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Setup two accounts. One which you give out for personal and use among people you trust. (eg: personal@mydomain.com) Another for all your registration signups and things. (eg: signups@mydomain.com)
On the signups account make use of the + addressing.
Any mail that makes it straight through to signups@mydomain.com delete instantly.
Some anti-spam systems use an expiry date notation after the +. eg: signups+03132004@mydomain.com. Its a trivial matter to write a procmail filter to drop all messages after the expiration date.
There is no standard way to perform a firmware upgrade, as it varies depending on the device that your upgrading. There are a many hundreds (if not thousands) of flash controllers and memory devices that all upgrade in different ways.
Firmware upgrades over the internet would have to be designed into the product from the very beginning. As the product would have to be capable of overwriting its own operating code while using that same code to collect and run off the internet.
While many devices are getting alot more flexible about how they can be upgraded there are alot of legacy and CHEAP devices that do not support these features.
There is also the problem of getting these same people who are leaving out features in order to get the device to market spending a great deal of time on the firmware upgrade process.
The copy to hd feature of knoppix copies only the (KNOPPIX) image file to the hard disk.. (knoppix-hdinstall utility is a bit different)
The advantage of copying to HD is you get some extra speed and the CD does not need to be in the drive, while maintaing some of the read-onlyness that is beneficial from running from the cd, eg: people not powering down the system properly and changing files and settings.
I'm sure that developing tics is an unacceptable side effect of the medication and the medication should be stopped immediately and alternative medications or approaches tried..
[++ FreeBSD supports 90% of linux software with nearly NO decrease in performance (and the software it doesn't support relies on kernel specific calls). Plus, if you use the 4.* series, it's rock solid. ++]
Most linux software is open source, open source software tends to be portable and ported and in the FreeBSD ports collection. Therefore most linux software is infact open source software usable on a variety of platforms.
The only time the platform matters is when you need to use software supplied as a linux binary, usually for a specific redhat release. At this point you can install the relevant binary compatibility mode for the redhat release required and its at this point that you can "Run 90% of [pre-compiled] linux software with nearly NO decrease in performance"
Perhaps the best bit about the binary compatibility mode is that you can run a shoddy unmaintained app for an ancient redhat release (5 or 6) in a funny little compatibility sandbox, on an otherwise up to date modern system.
I'm sure part of Microsofts XBox master plan is providing these services through the XBox. Add a keyboard and a mouse to an XBox and whats the difference between a PC and an XBox?
100% Microsoft Control.
If Microsoft succeed with the XBox, the computer software and hardware industry in the consumer market belongs to Microsoft.
Its a profitable enough goal that they can afford to wait many years to achieve this.
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erm, if there are more exploits thats more weekends!
Yahoo is a large website operation. For most corporates the web server is a _very small_ part of the overall IT infrastructure. Yahoo is not representative of what you'd find in a typical corporate datacentre / computer room.
BIND does not work properly with ADS if you have multiple domain controllers on seperate subnets.
Microsoft DNS will return the domain controller on your subnet as the topmost entry in your AD domain. Bind returns them in round robin order. Needless to say that this causes big problems in larger networks as users end up logging on to in-appropriate servers.
When I was investigating this problem the BIND answer was that sorting results is a problem for the client resolver and not the dns server.
The envelope sender would be mailinglist-owner@mail.sourceforge.net (or similar).
The spammers sell their service (spamming) to these outfits that supply porn, herbal supplements, mortgages etc. The spammers won't get anywhere near the product, the spammers product is spam.
A spammed product may never make any money for anyone but the spammer, as theres always some mug who's desperate to make some money willing to use the services of a spammer.
It isn't the client that makes the ports system great, its the sheer number of applications that have been ported, almost every decent open source project (and some closed source apps too) are available for a binary or source install via the packaging/ports system, usually you can also install specific versions (eg: Postgresql 7, 7.2, 7.3 or the current development release;Apache 2.x or Apache 1.3).
There is nothing more frustrating than the distribution forcing you to install Apache 2.0 when you absolutely have to have 1.3 for some app/third party module. Falling back to source is not ideal as you lose quick and easy updates.
Pulling poor quality RPMs (or any other package format for that matter) from random websites is not ideal, particularly as these third party rpms often depend on different third party rpms and then the whole system breaks down.
apt-get on Redhat takes away most of the annoyances with RPM client. I've managed to remote upgrade a Redhat 7 box to Redhat 9 with very few problems.
Compiling from source or the client itself does not in itself make the ports collection great. Its the fact that so many applications maintained and designed to work together are available to the package system that make it great.
Fedora would do well to encourage a large community maintained set of packages.
So in 10 to 20 years bangalore will have creativity as well as low cost?
Very true.
And for immigration purposes, not showing up on the system IS beating the system. The immigrant can then claim that they have just arrived at port and begin the immigration process again, despite having been in the country for a while and previously had your application rejected.
The application looping is what these systems are supposed to prevent and is much of the basis for the ID card proposals.
This system is worthless.
I'm currently experimenting with Freesbie (freesbie.org). The big advantage this has over some of the other live-cd distributions is modifications are easy, as is keeping your customized CD up to date as its all built from the OS sources. So a cvsup && make buildworld and your CD incorporates all the latest driver fixes
The downside is that the hardware auto-detection for setting up an X session is nowhere near as good, but its looking promising for a thin-client boot cd.
Morphix is awful, it does give you an easy way to patch the system and add additional packages, but it lags too far behind Knoppix in terms of hardware support and keeping it updated is a bitch.
I would love for the Knoppix guys to tidy up the distribution so it is alot easier to customise. The half-dozen distributions that feed off Knoppix would not lag as much and be much higher quality.
I'm currently building a thin-client CD for terminal services clients, I've tried almost every boot cd distribution available, none are as good for bleeding edge hardware as Knoppix, however Knoppix is a swine to customise.
I think I'm going with Freesbie, mainly because its easy to update and rebuild new CDs.
My missus has got an international politics degree in Spanish.
She's sent her CV to Spain, Mexico and most of South America.
She's still holding out for a vice-presidency (or a presidency if its a third world country). She hasn't had much interest yet.
Can you share any tips?
>Moral of the story: Outsourcing is a correction of an imbalance in wage prices.
Too right, I feel that the American IT industry is paying the price for the dot-com salary boom.
Salaries were pushed far too high and the expectation for highly paid IT jobs still remains, despite demand lowering due to the number of business failures and an increase both locally and globally in job competition.
The warning signs should have been the number of HB1 visas being issued during the late ninties, this should have been a warning that you were pricing yourselves out of your own job market.
I think you've had to much of a good thing, perhaps only the next generation of IT people can compete with offshoring as they will perhaps be willing to do the job for a lot less pay.
Its not unreasonable to assume that IT pay is going to end up at a similar level to a competent office worker, only the next generation will accept that and would be willing to work at that pay level for loving the job rather than the salary.
Microsoft Terminal Services Server does multi-user very nicely, and has alot of features that are missing from WinVNC. You can take your locally attached drives, printers, serial devices and sound across with your connection. Last time I checked VNC does none of this.
We use Terminal Services at work (with a Linux load balancer) to save on support and hardware upgrade costs.
A fairly inexpensive server can handle around 50-60 remote desktop sessions. Typically ms-office, e-mail, web browsing and access to accounting and database frontends.
It runs fine on old hardware or thin-clients. We are starting to get away from the haphazzard desktop upgrades that prevented us from ever being able to produce a standard desktop image, pcs are bought on a departmental and team basis depending on how much money is left in the budget.
So we have around 150 laptops and 300 desktops a year upgraded and spread amongst 1300 users. You can't believe how many different variations of PC specs, operating system and application versions there are even within a single team.
Terminal services are allowing the desktop support people to get back on top of this, as people are moved onto terminal services there underlying machine becomes irrelevant, there should be no new desktops purchased as we can either recycle an old pc or use a linux based system with rdesktop, or make use of a wyse thin-client.
Its not suitable for everyone, particularly those using graphics / design apps, but for the vast majority of administrative staff (most of our operation) it does the job well and cuts down on support costs and it is getting us out of a rather large mess.
Anyway back to your original point, it is no longer true that microsoft do not produce a good multi-user system. If you've used RDP you can't not admit that it works well, it works just as well multi-user on multi-user enabled windows.
Setup two accounts. One which you give out for personal and use among people you trust. (eg: personal@mydomain.com) Another for all your registration signups and things. (eg: signups@mydomain.com)
On the signups account make use of the + addressing.
Any mail that makes it straight through to signups@mydomain.com delete instantly.
Some anti-spam systems use an expiry date notation after the +. eg: signups+03132004@mydomain.com. Its a trivial matter to write a procmail filter to drop all messages after the expiration date.
There is no standard way to perform a firmware upgrade, as it varies depending on the device that your upgrading. There are a many hundreds (if not thousands) of flash controllers and memory devices that all upgrade in different ways.
Firmware upgrades over the internet would have to be designed into the product from the very beginning. As the product would have to be capable of overwriting its own operating code while using that same code to collect and run off the internet.
While many devices are getting alot more flexible about how they can be upgraded there are alot of legacy and CHEAP devices that do not support these features.
There is also the problem of getting these same people who are leaving out features in order to get the device to market spending a great deal of time on the firmware upgrade process.
No its not.
The copy to hd feature of knoppix copies only the (KNOPPIX) image file to the hard disk.. (knoppix-hdinstall utility is a bit different)
The advantage of copying to HD is you get some extra speed and the CD does not need to be in the drive, while maintaing some of the read-onlyness that is beneficial from running from the cd, eg: people not powering down the system properly and changing files and settings.
I'm sure that developing tics is an unacceptable side effect of the medication and the medication should be stopped immediately and alternative medications or approaches tried..
About 60 or so servers used for firewalls/mailservers.
Management don't even seem aware of the situation, or that the platform of choice (RedHat 7.3) has limited support life.
I guess those that would not understand the claims are not even aware of SCO's case.
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FreeBSD supports 90% of linux software with nearly NO decrease in performance (and the software it doesn't support relies on kernel specific calls). Plus, if you use the 4.* series, it's rock solid.
++]
Most linux software is open source, open source software tends to be portable and ported and in the FreeBSD ports collection. Therefore most linux software is infact open source software usable on a variety of platforms.
The only time the platform matters is when you need to use software supplied as a linux binary, usually for a specific redhat release. At this point you can install the relevant binary compatibility mode for the redhat release required and its at this point that you can "Run 90% of [pre-compiled] linux software with nearly NO decrease in performance"
Perhaps the best bit about the binary compatibility mode is that you can run a shoddy unmaintained app for an ancient redhat release (5 or 6) in a funny little compatibility sandbox, on an otherwise up to date modern system.
.uk's are no better and unless your prepared to deal with nominet by snail mail/fax you are at the mercy of your isp.
No, if you read a little, you'll see it only applies to an item for sale.
I'm sure part of Microsofts XBox master plan is providing these services through the XBox. Add a keyboard and a mouse to an XBox and whats the difference between a PC and an XBox?
100% Microsoft Control.
If Microsoft succeed with the XBox, the computer software and hardware industry in the consumer market belongs to Microsoft.
Its a profitable enough goal that they can afford to wait many years to achieve this.
Jason
If your going to buy the volume the tools and design will often be thrown in for free.
Jason
and one award to rule them all?
The memo was relating to their own internal projects. If their internal projects are not running on Solaris then they have even bigger problems.
So Solaris is implied, but the problems may also be true of Java in general.
Jason.