DOS would freeze up after about a week of INACTIVITY. It would last significantly longer if you used it, but if you didn't.... it would lock, regular as clockwork. The longest I've ever seen an NT box run unattended, was 3.51 for six months. Of course, when I tried to login at the console to resolve "wierd errors", I was told "there is insufficient memory to perform this operation".
We use Carrier software for load calculation, and I tell you folks, their Windows packages are already like this. The "network" version requires, get this, the application to be "installed to the network" FROM EVERY SINGLE WORKSTATION so they can run it "off the network". Of course, there's no auto-install..... at least installing it doesn't zap half a dozen other apps dll's like it used to! And before you ask, NO, there are no open source load calc apps. And YES, I am coding furiously so that I can get good enough to write one.
Anyone notice, buried deep in the articles, how Microsoft have hijacked CLI? Instead of "command line interface", it now means some whiz-bang hype-speak. Just like they tried to do with DNS, I suspect, when it (briefly) became "digital nervous system". What's next? UNIX - "User of.Net Information eXtranets"
I knew of the case, from Randals website links, but didn't know EXACTLY what the case was about until this report. So, even after Randal KNEW he had been violating many, many, INTEL procedures, he STILL ran crack on the password files he had nabbed? Fuckin' A. He didn't even work for INTEL at the time he was caught. I wouldn't run crack on my password files, even while I'm a legetimate sysadmin, let alone if I were to leave the company. I'm grateful to all he's done for the Perl community, but this was just dumb-ass ARROGANCE.
I got $700/chapter for my work on SAMBA Unleashed. The deadlines were truly insane - 24 hour turn round on reviewed submissions, and all the work was done in Word, with the markup feature HEAVILY utilized.
I have friends in large Windows shops who do the wildest things with Outlook, using forms and OLE stuff. You have to put the time in, but the results can be phenomenally useful. Until the next service pack breaks your carefully crafted work, of course....
Just buy an X server for your Win32 desktops and run the Linux apps off a server. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face (TM). I use Hummingbird Exceed, and it works very well, including the native cut and paste translate.
I contacted Wells Fargo to ask why NS6.0 wasn't supported yet. Turns out it stores passwords on the local disk in such a way that other folks can walk up after you and login to your account. They stated they are working with Netscape on the issue. Folks, this is a design bungle of high order. I hate IE's password caching (and auto-complete is a freakin' nightmare), why would this method be re-implemented by the Mozilla crew?
Electric Sheep (www.e-sheep.com) have some interesting and unusual strips online, but suffer from infrequent updates, and delays. Jwz (www.jwz.org) has a list of other online comics. I'd love to see archives of old comics online - wouldn't it be fun to read original Superman, Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Dan Dare etc. online? What about early 2000AD? One of my gripes with online comics (probably my only one, since I got broadband) is that they seem intent on re-inventing the medium, rather than telling ripping yarns.....
That's right Allchin - my wife and I were reading books of kids names, and we saw Allchin - it's traditional - and means "BIG TURD JUST WAITING TO BE FLUSHED AWAY!". I ditched M$ in our organization looooong ago, 'cos it failed and failed and failed. Today, our entire IT group is working from 4pm to 4pm on a single excuse server that blew itself up. They are ready to go to the next step of evolution and dump your shite products in favor of freeware. Do the math Jimbo - one admin for 9 Linux boxes, 5 admins for 4 NT boxes! Ha ha ha - who would have thought - it wasn't the DOJ that killed Microsoft, it was QC!
I support Engineers around the country, and have been able to solve literally hundreds of problems and questions quickly and easily by hitting the VNC java applet from my browser that allows me to control a Windows NT desktop. I've been able to do it from any location, too, because the only requirement for the administrator is a PC with a java enabled browser - simple enough. It works snappily over a VPN connection too, so I can help from home. Typically the support calls fall into two categories - 1) confusion over operation, so I'll demonstrate to the user while talking to them on the phone, or 2) a real problem, in which I'll dig right in and fix it. I don't have to talk them through rudimentary tests "Click on start.... " etc. I used to do that, and found that when I went to the VNC model, my support call time went down 90% in duration!
I am soooooo glad I got out of there and came to the US when I could. Video cameras on most street corners, the ability to MAKE you give up your pgp keys, and now, to crown it all (after the huge Mad Cow Disease gaff and the "British Constitution" forced by losing in the Euro Court of Human Rights one time too many) MANDATORY DNA submission. And this is under the labour party? WTF?
The HTML 4.0 support is what kills it, coupled with Netscape not quite being a "product". For example, Wells Fargo have a FAQ about beta browsers, and they state that when a browser goes out of non-beta status they will support it within a few weeks. This is clearly directed at the Mozilla effort. In addition, when Mozilla comes out the box with recognized https support (recognized by sites that are selling product), the tide will start to turn. Why? Because suddenly the concept of the internet appliance becomes an affordable reality again, and you won't have to deal with the just plain bad rendering of Netscape 4.7x. Other than OS specific tweaking, my own CSS testing of IE -v- Mozilla has shown that it's almost completely identical, allowing you to layout according to specs, not browser functionality.
For those who still cling to the belief that Dell have some kind of non-Microsoft product, cast your mind back to the anti-trust trial and the "open discussions" with Scott McNealy, Michael Dell, Jim Clarke, etc. Michael Dell was the one brown-nosing Bill Gates with his pathetic "alternative OS" lies. He got called on it in front of the senators, and live on TV. He's so deeply owned by Bill that the thought of anything else coming out of their factory is laughable. Having said that, I've run several of their pre-configured Windows boxes. They are horrible, bizarrely installed, cheaply made, crap. Ironically, they seem to run BSD (net and open) and RedHat just fine. Go figure.
I like BeOS, and think it's an attractive, well thought out design. However, I hardly ever fire up my BeOS box. Why? Same reason that people claimed prevented them from using Linux on the desktop 2 years ago - No Apps. (One wag I know once claimed BeOS was just like OS/2, only without the applications!). Now, I never quite understood that claim on Linux, as I was running an office suite, and had 6 CD's of goodies with my RedHat 4.2 PowerTools, but still people claimed it. With BeOS, there's a little more substance, Emacs supposedly doesn't work, there's no X support, Mozilla is proving so challenging to port, last I heard they were on M14, and it usually wouldn't compile. These are common apps. I can run all these on my W2K box, so why would I run BeOS? Also, if you're interested in Be, check out the BeOS Bible, for a glance at why Mac folks are so pompous, it's the same vein. The final nail in the coffin (other than pathetic hardware support - 5 NIC's? C'mon that's unusable!) was when it crashed. I have *NEVER* had Linux crash on me in the past 5 years, on many, many servers and desktops. I had some good hopes for BeOS, and so did the guy who wrote "in the beginning was the command line" - the sf writer you all love, I just can't remember his name right now.... I wonder if he still uses it...
Last time I checked, there was no cable service in the UK, period. Plenty of satellite, though... This means the UK consumer can't even try something else when being shafted by the phone companies.
I recently got OpenBSD 2.7. It came wrapped in a canadian newspaper, which, in itself was quite fun. Well, imagine my surprise during the (freakin' horrible) install, to discover that it *didn't* have openssh out the box, that it would have to be downloaded. Bah. 2 weeks later, my corporate subscription to RedHat dropped 7.0 in my mailbox. Openssh and openssl were part of the standard install. Bam.
It's SF and the bay, if you take the time to read it. How come Las Vegas can handle it's power needs, yet Silicon Valley can't?
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.... is to riot. You already forgotten the poll tax? Man, the crypto laws have been a little funky here in the U.S., but at least I don't have to contend with big brother any more, and I accomplish that to a large extent with crypto. My wife and I both have yahoo mail accounts, and I send more from mine. Yet who gets the most spam? It ain't me, 'cos you can bet your ass they can't read my email with a bot.
I've been reading about Home Depot in the computer trade rags for years, every time they're mentioned it seems like it's something new. First it was widespread javastation deployment, then that fell through, so it was Windows CE. Today I see it's Linux. I almost wonder if they are deploying anything, or just perpetually in the planning stage.
Some ivory tower academics proposed a vague model that wasn't adopted by the industry or the people. Here they attempt to save face by telling you why.
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DOS would freeze up after about a week of INACTIVITY. It would last significantly longer if you used it, but if you didn't.... it would lock, regular as clockwork. The longest I've ever seen an NT box run unattended, was 3.51 for six months. Of course, when I tried to login at the console to resolve "wierd errors", I was told "there is insufficient memory to perform this operation".
We use Carrier software for load calculation, and I tell you folks, their Windows packages are already like this. The "network" version requires, get this, the application to be "installed to the network" FROM EVERY SINGLE WORKSTATION so they can run it "off the network". Of course, there's no auto-install..... at least installing it doesn't zap half a dozen other apps dll's like it used to! And before you ask, NO, there are no open source load calc apps. And YES, I am coding furiously so that I can get good enough to write one.
Anyone notice, buried deep in the articles, how Microsoft have hijacked CLI? Instead of "command line interface", it now means some whiz-bang hype-speak. Just like they tried to do with DNS, I suspect, when it (briefly) became "digital nervous system". What's next? UNIX - "User of .Net Information eXtranets"
I knew of the case, from Randals website links, but didn't know EXACTLY what the case was about until this report. So, even after Randal KNEW he had been violating many, many, INTEL procedures, he STILL ran crack on the password files he had nabbed? Fuckin' A. He didn't even work for INTEL at the time he was caught. I wouldn't run crack on my password files, even while I'm a legetimate sysadmin, let alone if I were to leave the company. I'm grateful to all he's done for the Perl community, but this was just dumb-ass ARROGANCE.
It's like OS/2, only without the apps!
I got $700/chapter for my work on SAMBA Unleashed. The deadlines were truly insane - 24 hour turn round on reviewed submissions, and all the work was done in Word, with the markup feature HEAVILY utilized.
I have friends in large Windows shops who do the wildest things with Outlook, using forms and OLE stuff. You have to put the time in, but the results can be phenomenally useful. Until the next service pack breaks your carefully crafted work, of course....
Just buy an X server for your Win32 desktops and run the Linux apps off a server. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face (TM). I use Hummingbird Exceed, and it works very well, including the native cut and paste translate.
I contacted Wells Fargo to ask why NS6.0 wasn't supported yet. Turns out it stores passwords on the local disk in such a way that other folks can walk up after you and login to your account. They stated they are working with Netscape on the issue. Folks, this is a design bungle of high order. I hate IE's password caching (and auto-complete is a freakin' nightmare), why would this method be re-implemented by the Mozilla crew?
Electric Sheep (www.e-sheep.com) have some interesting and unusual strips online, but suffer from infrequent updates, and delays. Jwz (www.jwz.org) has a list of other online comics. I'd love to see archives of old comics online - wouldn't it be fun to read original Superman, Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Dan Dare etc. online? What about early 2000AD? One of my gripes with online comics (probably my only one, since I got broadband) is that they seem intent on re-inventing the medium, rather than telling ripping yarns.....
That's right Allchin - my wife and I were reading books of kids names, and we saw Allchin - it's traditional - and means "BIG TURD JUST WAITING TO BE FLUSHED AWAY!". I ditched M$ in our organization looooong ago, 'cos it failed and failed and failed. Today, our entire IT group is working from 4pm to 4pm on a single excuse server that blew itself up. They are ready to go to the next step of evolution and dump your shite products in favor of freeware. Do the math Jimbo - one admin for 9 Linux boxes, 5 admins for 4 NT boxes! Ha ha ha - who would have thought - it wasn't the DOJ that killed Microsoft, it was QC!
I support Engineers around the country, and have been able to solve literally hundreds of problems and questions quickly and easily by hitting the VNC java applet from my browser that allows me to control a Windows NT desktop. I've been able to do it from any location, too, because the only requirement for the administrator is a PC with a java enabled browser - simple enough. It works snappily over a VPN connection too, so I can help from home. Typically the support calls fall into two categories - 1) confusion over operation, so I'll demonstrate to the user while talking to them on the phone, or 2) a real problem, in which I'll dig right in and fix it. I don't have to talk them through rudimentary tests "Click on start .... " etc. I used to do that, and found that when I went to the VNC model, my support call time went down 90% in duration!
Renaming it to assh and asshd, based on the arcfour (alleged RC4) debacle is an intelligent move. It could even become "OpenASSH". Good grief.
The LC2000R has power management, and I'm sure most current OS configs can take advantage of it.
I am soooooo glad I got out of there and came to the US when I could. Video cameras on most street corners, the ability to MAKE you give up your pgp keys, and now, to crown it all (after the huge Mad Cow Disease gaff and the "British Constitution" forced by losing in the Euro Court of Human Rights one time too many) MANDATORY DNA submission. And this is under the labour party? WTF?
The HTML 4.0 support is what kills it, coupled with Netscape not quite being a "product". For example, Wells Fargo have a FAQ about beta browsers, and they state that when a browser goes out of non-beta status they will support it within a few weeks. This is clearly directed at the Mozilla effort. In addition, when Mozilla comes out the box with recognized https support (recognized by sites that are selling product), the tide will start to turn. Why? Because suddenly the concept of the internet appliance becomes an affordable reality again, and you won't have to deal with the just plain bad rendering of Netscape 4.7x. Other than OS specific tweaking, my own CSS testing of IE -v- Mozilla has shown that it's almost completely identical, allowing you to layout according to specs, not browser functionality.
Check out Arsdigita and read Phillips notes on e-commerce in "the book". You can use the ACS to take care of this stuff, when it's credit card based.
For those who still cling to the belief that Dell have some kind of non-Microsoft product, cast your mind back to the anti-trust trial and the "open discussions" with Scott McNealy, Michael Dell, Jim Clarke, etc. Michael Dell was the one brown-nosing Bill Gates with his pathetic "alternative OS" lies. He got called on it in front of the senators, and live on TV. He's so deeply owned by Bill that the thought of anything else coming out of their factory is laughable. Having said that, I've run several of their pre-configured Windows boxes. They are horrible, bizarrely installed, cheaply made, crap. Ironically, they seem to run BSD (net and open) and RedHat just fine. Go figure.
I like BeOS, and think it's an attractive, well thought out design. However, I hardly ever fire up my BeOS box.
Why? Same reason that people claimed prevented them from using Linux on the desktop 2 years ago - No Apps. (One wag I know once claimed BeOS was just like OS/2, only without the applications!). Now, I never quite understood that claim on Linux, as I was running an office suite, and had 6 CD's of goodies with my RedHat 4.2 PowerTools, but still people claimed it. With BeOS, there's a little more substance, Emacs supposedly doesn't work, there's no X support, Mozilla is proving so challenging to port, last I heard they were on M14, and it usually wouldn't compile. These are common apps. I can run all these on my W2K box, so why would I run BeOS?
Also, if you're interested in Be, check out the BeOS Bible, for a glance at why Mac folks are so pompous, it's the same vein. The final nail in the coffin (other than pathetic hardware support - 5 NIC's? C'mon that's unusable!) was when it crashed. I have *NEVER* had Linux crash on me in the past 5 years, on many, many servers and desktops. I had some good hopes for BeOS, and so did the guy who wrote "in the beginning was the command line" - the sf writer you all love, I just can't remember his name right now.... I wonder if he still uses it...
Last time I checked, there was no cable service in the UK, period. Plenty of satellite, though... This means the UK consumer can't even try something else when being shafted by the phone companies.
I recently got OpenBSD 2.7. It came wrapped in a canadian newspaper, which, in itself was quite fun. Well, imagine my surprise during the (freakin' horrible) install, to discover that it *didn't* have openssh out the box, that it would have to be downloaded. Bah. 2 weeks later, my corporate subscription to RedHat dropped 7.0 in my mailbox. Openssh and openssl were part of the standard install. Bam.
It's SF and the bay, if you take the time to read it. How come Las Vegas can handle it's power needs, yet Silicon Valley can't?
.... is to riot. You already forgotten the poll tax? Man, the crypto laws have been a little funky here in the U.S., but at least I don't have to contend with big brother any more, and I accomplish that to a large extent with crypto. My wife and I both have yahoo mail accounts, and I send more from mine. Yet who gets the most spam? It ain't me, 'cos you can bet your ass they can't read my email with a bot.
I've been reading about Home Depot in the computer trade rags for years, every time they're mentioned it seems like it's something new. First it was widespread javastation deployment, then that fell through, so it was Windows CE. Today I see it's Linux. I almost wonder if they are deploying anything, or just perpetually in the planning stage.
Some ivory tower academics proposed a vague model that wasn't adopted by the industry or the people. Here they attempt to save face by telling you why.