"For our next project, some boneheads decided on Win2K and "embedded" Win2K". While Mundie is sent out to "enrage" us with anti-GPL rhetoric, Microsoft are hard at work on getting windows in every place they can. From VoIP solutions, to embedded, to medical and industrial, to phones, to consumer electronics. They are beginning to make a very "dangerous" end run around all other technologies. We got a taste of this when code red shut down routers because they had embedded IIS. The fight for the desktop is becoming irrelevant, as it is turning into the battle for technology itself.
.... with OBSD you get to deal with that donut of delight, Theo. Of course, when I wanted to utilize OBSD in the enterprise, I couldn't - I was asked - "who is the support team" - and I had to post a sample from the obsd-misc mailing list. Ah well, you can't say I didn't try.
Sorry I really didn't catch it. I'm pretty sure it was for a news special coming up today or in a few days, and it may have been on CNN headline news, instead. I don't see anything listed though.
There was some short news preview (either for a book or an upcoming show) on fox news yesterday, that I only caught in passing, about the use of technology by terrorist groups. They mentioned in passing that the NSA had cracked pgp 2 years ago. This was news to me.
As the other reply states, VNC doesn't provide multi-user access, in the way we think of with terminal server products. And yes, I do mean MS terminal server - you can install it onto a samba box.
I post this in the hope that it will avert all the uninformed "Can't you do this with VNC?" posts. I believe you can run terminal server on a SAMBA box, BTW, and there are even BSD clients for it.
I've been with you guys under various guises since chips and dips. Fix the WAP and PQA interfaces, and I'll cough up for a subscription. Looking back over the years I've been reading this site, there's been so much good stuff - the kerberos debacle, the april 1 1600x1200 table, the 9/11 coverage was simply the most human angle on the web that day (thanks Katz). IMHO, it's worth it. heck - if I can pay for 6 pages of perl journal in a magazine that has not much else interesting to me, I can certainly pay for slash.
Well, I quit using Dells about 18 months ago. Sounds like they may be better. The issues I've had with them were a sample of about 30 machines: CD drives not being recognized, internal zip disks causing lockups out the box, all of them had video card issues, modems not working, no recovery CD being provided with the unit. In a nutshell, many, many hardware incompatibility problems that prevented the machines from even getting to the desktop. I still get occasional calls from tech. support at Dell to see if my machine issues are resolved, and the last one was returned (after a long protracted process) over a year ago.
Gee, I dunno, I kind of expected source code, or full version only for non-commercial, or available on something other than just 'doze and muck, or output files that weren't proprietary - you know, the usual THINGS WE THINK OF WHEN USING THE WORD FREE. This is some tacky, crippled, handout. No thanks.
.... it is not http anymore. That's right - it's http running on IIS. fuck you M$, XML-RPC will eat your lunch, and you've been asking for it for some time now. Go shove that in your.NOT
... you make the WAP and PQA interfaces actually work, instead of being a novelty, and give me a direct Mozilla sidebar instead of going through an "aggregator".
Keep your systems patched, especially office and the browser, and don't run in the administrators account. If the user base is likely to run executables that they download, list the executables that can be run in a policy. Problem solved. I have not seen a virus on my workstation farm in over 2 years, even when they are floating the rest of the company like crazy, and yet the workstations don't run NAV etc. 'cos it gets in the way of AutoCAD and SAMBA.
being able to plug in your domain SAM, with acls on the site. Also domain authentication with "web folders" (DAV) is another. Note: I will be happy to be corrected with a HOWTO that tells you how to point DAV at your PDC or SAMBA box here... (without running a separate accounts database)
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It's kind of ironic that the mailing list guidelines, for Mozilla discussion, recommend against using HTML email. Whatever happened to dogfood, huh?
.... finally put together an RHN update for this?
"For our next project, some boneheads decided on Win2K and "embedded" Win2K". While Mundie is sent out to "enrage" us with anti-GPL rhetoric, Microsoft are hard at work on getting windows in every place they can. From VoIP solutions, to embedded, to medical and industrial, to phones, to consumer electronics. They are beginning to make a very "dangerous" end run around all other technologies. We got a taste of this when code red shut down routers because they had embedded IIS. The fight for the desktop is becoming irrelevant, as it is turning into the battle for technology itself.
.... with OBSD you get to deal with that donut of delight, Theo. Of course, when I wanted to utilize OBSD in the enterprise, I couldn't - I was asked - "who is the support team" - and I had to post a sample from the obsd-misc mailing list. Ah well, you can't say I didn't try.
Aha! I was beginning to think I was going crazy. It was just mentioned as a side issue. Pretty freakin' big side issue to me, as a long time pgp user.
Sorry I really didn't catch it. I'm pretty sure it was for a news special coming up today or in a few days, and it may have been on CNN headline news, instead. I don't see anything listed though.
There was some short news preview (either for a book or an upcoming show) on fox news yesterday, that I only caught in passing, about the use of technology by terrorist groups. They mentioned in passing that the NSA had cracked pgp 2 years ago. This was news to me.
Or are you just someone who likes to talk?
well, right now they have 2 big macs for $2.22.
As the other reply states, VNC doesn't provide multi-user access, in the way we think of with terminal server products. And yes, I do mean MS terminal server - you can install it onto a samba box.
I post this in the hope that it will avert all the uninformed "Can't you do this with VNC?" posts. I believe you can run terminal server on a SAMBA box, BTW, and there are even BSD clients for it.
I've been with you guys under various guises since chips and dips. Fix the WAP and PQA interfaces, and I'll cough up for a subscription. Looking back over the years I've been reading this site, there's been so much good stuff - the kerberos debacle, the april 1 1600x1200 table, the 9/11 coverage was simply the most human angle on the web that day (thanks Katz). IMHO, it's worth it. heck - if I can pay for 6 pages of perl journal in a magazine that has not much else interesting to me, I can certainly pay for slash.
Well, I quit using Dells about 18 months ago. Sounds like they may be better. The issues I've had with them were a sample of about 30 machines: CD drives not being recognized, internal zip disks causing lockups out the box, all of them had video card issues, modems not working, no recovery CD being provided with the unit. In a nutshell, many, many hardware incompatibility problems that prevented the machines from even getting to the desktop. I still get occasional calls from tech. support at Dell to see if my machine issues are resolved, and the last one was returned (after a long protracted process) over a year ago.
Why don't you ask your vendor? After all, isn't that the point of buying proprietary software in the first place - that you get "support" ?
My own experience of Dell shows that they may have reasonable 9x boxes, but they have no clue how to build something that will run NT.
Gee, I dunno, I kind of expected source code, or full version only for non-commercial, or available on something other than just 'doze and muck, or output files that weren't proprietary - you know, the usual THINGS WE THINK OF WHEN USING THE WORD FREE. This is some tacky, crippled, handout. No thanks.
.... it is not http anymore. That's right - it's http running on IIS. fuck you M$, XML-RPC will eat your lunch, and you've been asking for it for some time now. Go shove that in your .NOT
I get your point, now that's not a nice thing to do. *bsd stories should be included by default.
Uh, it is on the front page, like all *bsd stories unless you have them excluded from your page for some reason.
Looks like we're actually up to 1 post/hour on a BSD story. How's yer funding Theo? Ha ha!
... you make the WAP and PQA interfaces actually work, instead of being a novelty, and give me a direct Mozilla sidebar instead of going through an "aggregator".
Keep your systems patched, especially office and the browser, and don't run in the administrators account. If the user base is likely to run executables that they download, list the executables that can be run in a policy. Problem solved. I have not seen a virus on my workstation farm in over 2 years, even when they are floating the rest of the company like crazy, and yet the workstations don't run NAV etc. 'cos it gets in the way of AutoCAD and SAMBA.
I tape my Palm VIIx to my wrist and run xdaliclock on it. Looks great and always gets comments from the ladies.
only without the apps!
... then you shouldn't give a crap about this.
being able to plug in your domain SAM, with acls on the site. Also domain authentication with "web folders" (DAV) is another. Note: I will be happy to be corrected with a HOWTO that tells you how to point DAV at your PDC or SAMBA box here ... (without running a separate accounts database)