See, that's funny to me. I thought the sets were fantastic. I thought that they put a lot of effort into building sets that looked like what these things would *really* look like, not what they would look like in a sf movie. That's what was interesting to me. Stuff looked functional and used, not chrome and useless, like they do in most sf shows.
Interesting that you would have the opposite reaction. I guess what cemented it for me is that the spaceship has the same ugly functionality as a naval vessel does. Conduits and piping with clear labels (in two languages!) and on the outside of walls.. deckplates not floors, that sort of thing. It looked very much to me like a space-ified guided missile cruiser.:)
And as far as a Star Wars killer, I'm not sure what that is. Except go back and watch Ep 4 again. It sucks. "The costumes, and set for that matter, are given enough attention as a cheap made for TV sci fi film. It's dissapointing." to borrow a quote. But the thing that makes Ep 4 good is the same thing that I thought made Serenity good. It's a movie about people, not about technology for technologies sake.
That's what lucas forgot when he excreted Ep 1, 2, and 3.
Do you have one? I think most of the comments posted here are from people that don't have one.
I do. Let me say that yes, it scratches. I've put it in the same pocket as my keys and came away with a scratch on the face of it. Kind of a bummer, but I can't imagine what could go in a pocket with keys and not come out scratched. My fault. Stupid on my part.
But I think the ease with which they become scratched is being exaggerated. I haven't been treating mine daintily, and I just have one scratch on it. I'm sure I'll have more, and I'm not overly concerned about it. Bottom line -- if someone's is so scratched up they can't read it, then they have been mistreating it. Period. They don't become scratched by putting them in a pocket -- cotton isn't going to scrach them. They become scratched by sliding them across the concrete. Or scraping them repeatedly with sharp things (keys!). Not by putting them in a pocket.
Seriously. Someone was a dumbass and mishandled it, and now they are pissed. No story here.
It might be worth noting that by using idmap_rid as the idmap backend, you can get common uid/rid mappings on multiple samba servers without having to set up LDAP.
In a small AD implementation with a couple Linux boxes running samba, I find idmap_rid to be ideal. I run across folks with this level of need all the time.
and you are right... but all generalizations fall apart when applied to specific instances. But as a generalization goes, I think it was a reasonable one. And you clearly know it, but points anyway for being pedantic.:)
Besides, if the parent didn't already know the difference between some kind of xml/soap middleware and MPI, I wasn't going to write a thesis to explain it.
Perhaps I should have stuck with "No, it's not the same.":)
Really, Symantec will be around a long time protecting MS Windows customers.
Sort of, except I'm not willing to stipulate that Symantec is in the business of security. I think they deal more in the field of "security perception management".
Witness "Symantec Internet Security Suite", with a bunch of sub-standard crapware that breaks just about every machine it touches. Even if Windows becomes completely secure, Symantec will move to a "VoIP Security Suite" or a "IM Security Suite", or "$BUZZWORD Security Suite".
They have no danger. As long as there are PHBs and home users (WTF were you thinking dad? Why did you install this crap?) then Symantec will never lose its core market.
Dunno about Tibco. I looked at the Tibco web site, and it looked like they were in the business of synergizing world-class next-generation paradigms using xml for b2b J2EE c# managed ejb something-or-others. Frankly, I couldn't tell what it was they did.
In any case, MPI is almost certainly not it. MPI isn't about synergizing or XML or b2b or any crap like that. MPI is a frameworks for coordinating multiple machines or processes in performing distributed algorithms.
Those beowolf clusters you've heard so much about? They are running MPI.
OpenServer administrators will be pleased to see that Version 6 supports dynamically loading kernel modules. Previously, basic operations in OpenServer, such as changing the IP address of an Ethernet device, required kernel relinking and a reboot--an inconvenience that's no longer required.
I was amused by that too. Hey SCO: 1990 called. They want their feature set back.
I believe that the current administration is working as hard as it can to build a fascist state... perhaps not intentionally, but a fascist state nonetheless. I believe that if there isn't a major shake-up in the mid-term elections, we will have decades of work to repair the damage. And if, God forbid, we get another president with the same motivations as Bush next term, then there will be no turning back. The slide to fascism will be unstoppable, IMHO.
Sadly, I don't even think that revolution will work, since there are too few people concerned with Freedom and Liberty, but instead concerned with "Everyone Loves Raymond" and "Survivor".
I think the most likely cause of a reversal is a major war in which the United States is the bad guy. World War II, take 2, but we get to play the part of Germany this time, with our ass handed to us by the EU.
I'd suggest that anyone who really cares about values such as Freedom and Liberty move to a country that counts those values are core values. The United States clearly doesn't.
My biggest problem with it is that I have a wide variety of programs that I use a lot. So if I used my dock as my primary launcher, it gets very small... I don't like the magnification, because "scrubbing" along a small dock and relying on magnification makes me misfire when starting apps. So I keep my dock small enough that I don't have magnification (or very little) but can still *see* the apps on it. But that means that I can't get as many apps as I regularly run on it. So there are some apps I have to keep aliases for on my desktop (messy and cluttery), or click through/Applications to find it (slow).
I keep/Applications on the dock so I can control-click and get the flyout menu, but the hesitation when I control-click is annoying.
So I like the dock, and I use it, but it's insufficient for me as a complete launcher. I think dock + spotlight (if it works anything like quicksilver) will be an excellent combo.
But the dock alone is IMHO insufficient for my needs. I guess I could change my habits, but I don't have to with quicksilver. It makes me faster and more productive. And that's what it's all about.
That's been a constant niggle to me for something like a year and a half. thanks!
wrt the parent:
The stuff that bugged me the most:
The dock is nice eye-candy and all, but a crappy application launcher. Between that and no right-click launch menu on the desktop, trying to run an application sucks. I found a couple different launchers that made this problem bearable:
One is X-10 launch studio, the other newer one is quicksilver. Now, launching an application (say, Transit) is "command-space transit enter". Much faster and easier.
Another one is the cluttery buildup of windows that comes without a decent pager. But I found desktop manager to be an excellent pager with nice eye-candy features, too.
There are other things I use alot, but those are the ones I can't live without.
p.s. If you are using one of the many carbon ports of emacs, might try a different one -- I use emacs hours a day on mine and have never have a crash. It may be as simple as that.
Uhh... maybe because the previous administration didn't use terrorism as an excuse to pass laws that restrict our civil rights to the degree that the patriot act (etc) do.
I think that's what the parent poster was talking about. Not that they talked bs about terrorism, but they used that bs as a weapon with which to destroy the constitution.
Sorry if I'm putting words in the mouth of the parent poster, but that's how I interpreted it.
I was going to say "you must be new here" until I noticed your uid.:)
I sometimes think the same thing, but then I realize that the people who comment on stuff in general are those with strong opinions either way.
So when I see people bitching about a gpl violation, and in the next article see people advocating downloading music from p2p sites, I guess I just assume that they are different people. I guess I don't try to assume that every reader shares the values of "the collective".
I do find it interesting that there are so many Apple apologists though. It might be because the "Apple People" follow the apple articles the most and post most aggressively in their defense, while "The PC People" don't really follow the Apple articles as much and allows the discussion to become skewed.
I don't know. It is interesting though.
Just as a point of reference, I'm an Apple fanboy, and I think the idea of Apple using lawyers as a blunt object with which to beat college kids running rumor sites is bullshit.
But the only reason that Oracle will be here in five years is that they can charge a pound price.
So this year, MySQL can only do 10% of what Oracle does. But next year, it will get subselects and do 20%. The year after that, stored procedures and 30%. The year after that, views and 40%.
At which point, Oracle has 60% of the market it used to have, and now must compete on the basis of price. It's margins shink, and it keeps getting chased higher and higher into the datacenter, until it's pushed out by commodity open source.
It's Microsoft's famous recipe. It's worked for everything they've tried so far, but now it's going to turn on them because they can't displace open source on the low end.
At best, even if the Oracles of the world keep innovating to stay ahead of open source (which they will have to do), all it would take is a couple missteps, and they would be gone because of the combined effect of an eroding low-end and a decreasing market share.
Look at all the IT companies that aren't here now that got displaced from the bottom. DEC, maybe. They kept moving more and more upmarket until there was no more "up".
I dunno. I think it's one of those things that we look back at 15 or 20 years from now and say "It couldn't have happened any other way".
I think the original post said it right. Cheap and good enough trumps expensive and great.
These products are free (and I often use them!), but sometimes the cost of moving to them is not. I have a considerable volume of Oracle-specific SQL written by others. Migrating to MySQL would certainly not be free. Then there is developer and DBA retraining....
Yup. And your other points are valid too, but because linux isn't a corporation, it can compete with zero margin indefinitely. So next year, when you have to rewrite that one app because of new compliance issues, you might take a swing at MySQL, just for grins. Maybe a couple years after that, you've had good luck with it and move some more, because, heck, you are halfway there already, and it sure would be nice to roll that Oracle licensing cost into something else.
The point is, open source will NEVER GO AWAY. It's like how microsoft screwed everyone else out of the market by undercutting them until they bled so much they couldn't make payroll anymore. Sure, microsoft got hurt too, but could crank up the prices once all the competition was dead. They had the cash reserves (and enough *other* profitable divisions) that they could take a loss while waiting for a competitor to die.
This competition will never be dead, and it can't be undersold. So yeah, in the short term there is a market for the stuff Microsoft is selling, but not in the long term. I think the post you replied to is right... in the long term, there will be only verticals so thin that open source can't touch it because there aren't enough people interested in the vertical that can form a community. That, or things that have such a high liability that open source can't be insured for -- medical stuff, bank core processing... that kind of thing. The sort of thing that you have to have a deep pocket to sue in case something goes wrong.
Sure adoption is low now. But it will be higher next year. And the year after that. And the network effect of all this open source software will keep adoption increasing at an increasing rate.
Well, I know TiVo's value add to me: it doesn't suck!
I got HDTV service, and was irritated that my TiVo didn't record HD, so I thought I would give the cable company version of the PVR a try.
Did it suck! It's a Scientific Atlanta 8000HD though Time Warner, just so you can avoid it yourself. They bill it as "just like TiVo", but they clearly forgot to add "except that TiVo isn't a complete piece of crap, like this is."
No wishlists, no discriminating between first runs and reruns, arbitrarily forgets to record stuff, no "bounceback" on resume from fast-forward, no 30 second skip... ugh..
But in the end, the TiVo just doesn't do HD, so what can you do?
Neither RAID nor hard drive backups provide the file versioning capability that tape or offline backups provide.
Doesn't help for the "rm -rf" situation.
Even for all that, I mostly use the same online storage you describe.:)
Sometimes, though, I like to archive that stuff off to cd or dvd. When I do, I use par2 to generate parity sets of the data I archive to dvd. That way, if I suffer some minimal bit rot, I can still correct it. With large enough parity sets, you can even correct for huge amounts of bit rot, but of course, that depends on how paranoid you are.
Between par2 and not putting cd labels on anything anymore, I feel a lot more confident about the long-term viability of my backups.
Not only that, but it may spur me to buy *more* music. One thing that worries me with iTMS is that one day I might not have a mac. I might have just linux boxes, or whatever the "new" operating system is that Apple refuses to port iTunes to.
Now, I'm safe no matter what happens. Now the $0.99 for high quality songs available instantly is now suddenly very much worth it, since I don't have to worry about obsolescense.
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Only fools blaim MS for users who download a "keygen" that turns out to be a virus. However we do blaim MS for making holes in their software that affects every damn installation of windows out there.
Not true. Or... perhaps it is, and I'm a fool. Yeah, I do blame Microsoft for a fault in which a user can execute something that destroys his or her machine, as well as those around it.
On my linux box, if I'm logged in as the user I typically log in as, the worst that could happen is something could trash my home directory. Bad enough, but it wouldn't affect other machines around me.
With Windows, almost all users are local admins on the workstations. They have to be, because software (both Microsoft and 3rd parties) require it to run. So a user running a "bad" program can destroy the workstation. It's possible that a class of users has blanket admin permissions on a host of machines that they regularly log into, and those can be remotely broken by the same program.
A regular user takes down a bunch of workstations isn't an unlikely occurrance. Root problem is that Microsoft doesn't give tools to set fine-grained permissions necessary to stop someone from having to run as local administrator.
So yeah, I *do* blame Microsoft, for making such an "easy to use" OS that *forces* poor security, bad practices, and guarantees you a shot in the foot for it.
Nice. Thanks, Microsoft.
Or it could be that I'm bitter over wasting yet ANOTHER day of my life restoring a crappy exchange box.
After futzing for the better part of an afternoon trying to get OSX and FreeS/WAN working together, I said "screw it". I downloaded OpenVPN and had it running in literally ten minutes.
Why the heck can't IPSec have a set of "must implement" specs so that there could be a standard default config that works with every single ipsec vpn?
Plus, it all runs in userspace, and it works on every single operating system ever, can be port forwarded, natted, mangled in just about every which-way and still works.
It was always possible to do that. Just dump the exports of a.dll, make a new.dll with the same exports that merely hands them off to the old.dll.
Insert whatever code you want before and after handoff to the old.dll. This was all trivially doable before, although its harder now with the File Protection crap in 2k and newer.
It still comes down to the same thing. If you are running a binary system that's not signed with a trusted key, you are vulnerable. Period. This is as true with Linux as it is Windows. Access to source doesn't change anything.
Besides, if you are running Windows, some terrorist plot to subvert your machine is the least of your problems. Trying to not get infected, 0wn3d, and bluescreened twice a day is a much larger concern. If you are running Windows, you clearly don't care about security anyway.
I second the idea of outsourcing payroll. As far as accounting goes, our company is in the process of dumping Great Plains Dynamics for SQL-Ledger. Just because you pay $30,000 for a piece of commercial software doesn't mean it doesn't suck -- doesn't mean it isn't buggy, doesn't mean it won't cost you downtime.
The difference in FOSS accounting software is the same as the difference in *any* FOSS software -- access to developers, community support, etc.
If you manage FOSS the same way you do commercial software, with controlled upgrades in a development environment, parallel entry with switchovers after end-of-year, and the other prudent measures you would take with commercial software, I'm not sure you wouldn't be better served going with FOSS.
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See, that's funny to me. I thought the sets were fantastic. I thought that they put a lot of effort into building sets that looked like what these things would *really* look like, not what they would look like in a sf movie. That's what was interesting to me. Stuff looked functional and used, not chrome and useless, like they do in most sf shows.
:)
Interesting that you would have the opposite reaction. I guess what cemented it for me is that the spaceship has the same ugly functionality as a naval vessel does. Conduits and piping with clear labels (in two languages!) and on the outside of walls.. deckplates not floors, that sort of thing. It looked very much to me like a space-ified guided missile cruiser.
And as far as a Star Wars killer, I'm not sure what that is. Except go back and watch Ep 4 again. It sucks. "The costumes, and set for that matter, are given enough attention as a cheap made for TV sci fi film. It's dissapointing." to borrow a quote. But the thing that makes Ep 4 good is the same thing that I thought made Serenity good. It's a movie about people, not about technology for technologies sake.
That's what lucas forgot when he excreted Ep 1, 2, and 3.
Just my 0.02. Cheers.
That's assuming we are talking about the *original* Han, not the pussified "special edition" Han.
But yeah. I agree with that.
Do you have one? I think most of the comments posted here are from people that don't have one.
I do. Let me say that yes, it scratches. I've put it in the same pocket as my keys and came away with a scratch on the face of it. Kind of a bummer, but I can't imagine what could go in a pocket with keys and not come out scratched. My fault. Stupid on my part.
But I think the ease with which they become scratched is being exaggerated. I haven't been treating mine daintily, and I just have one scratch on it. I'm sure I'll have more, and I'm not overly concerned about it. Bottom line -- if someone's is so scratched up they can't read it, then they have been mistreating it. Period. They don't become scratched by putting them in a pocket -- cotton isn't going to scrach them. They become scratched by sliding them across the concrete. Or scraping them repeatedly with sharp things (keys!). Not by putting them in a pocket.
Seriously. Someone was a dumbass and mishandled it, and now they are pissed. No story here.
It might be worth noting that by using idmap_rid as the idmap backend, you can get common uid/rid mappings on multiple samba servers without having to set up LDAP.
In a small AD implementation with a couple Linux boxes running samba, I find idmap_rid to be ideal. I run across folks with this level of need all the time.
and you are right... but all generalizations fall apart when applied to specific instances. But as a generalization goes, I think it was a reasonable one. And you clearly know it, but points anyway for being pedantic. :)
:)
Besides, if the parent didn't already know the difference between some kind of xml/soap middleware and MPI, I wasn't going to write a thesis to explain it.
Perhaps I should have stuck with "No, it's not the same."
Cheers.
Sort of, except I'm not willing to stipulate that Symantec is in the business of security. I think they deal more in the field of "security perception management".
Witness "Symantec Internet Security Suite", with a bunch of sub-standard crapware that breaks just about every machine it touches. Even if Windows becomes completely secure, Symantec will move to a "VoIP Security Suite" or a "IM Security Suite", or "$BUZZWORD Security Suite".
They have no danger. As long as there are PHBs and home users (WTF were you thinking dad? Why did you install this crap?) then Symantec will never lose its core market.
Dunno about Tibco. I looked at the Tibco web site, and it looked like they were in the business of synergizing world-class next-generation paradigms using xml for b2b J2EE c# managed ejb something-or-others. Frankly, I couldn't tell what it was they did.
In any case, MPI is almost certainly not it. MPI isn't about synergizing or XML or b2b or any crap like that. MPI is a frameworks for coordinating multiple machines or processes in performing distributed algorithms.
Those beowolf clusters you've heard so much about? They are running MPI.
workaround is there now. updated packages (including NSLU2 packages) are on nightlies.mt-daapd.org.
They will be up on sourceforge tomorrow, and updates will probably trickle into unslung by the end of the week.
-- Ron
I was amused by that too. Hey SCO: 1990 called. They want their feature set back.
I believe that the current administration is working as hard as it can to build a fascist state... perhaps not intentionally, but a fascist state nonetheless. I believe that if there isn't a major shake-up in the mid-term elections, we will have decades of work to repair the damage. And if, God forbid, we get another president with the same motivations as Bush next term, then there will be no turning back. The slide to fascism will be unstoppable, IMHO.
Sadly, I don't even think that revolution will work, since there are too few people concerned with Freedom and Liberty, but instead concerned with "Everyone Loves Raymond" and "Survivor".
I think the most likely cause of a reversal is a major war in which the United States is the bad guy. World War II, take 2, but we get to play the part of Germany this time, with our ass handed to us by the EU.
I'd suggest that anyone who really cares about values such as Freedom and Liberty move to a country that counts those values are core values. The United States clearly doesn't.
My biggest problem with it is that I have a wide variety of programs that I use a lot. So if I used my dock as my primary launcher, it gets very small... I don't like the magnification, because "scrubbing" along a small dock and relying on magnification makes me misfire when starting apps. So I keep my dock small enough that I don't have magnification (or very little) but can still *see* the apps on it. But that means that I can't get as many apps as I regularly run on it. So there are some apps I have to keep aliases for on my desktop (messy and cluttery), or click through /Applications to find it (slow).
/Applications on the dock so I can control-click and get the flyout menu, but the hesitation when I control-click is annoying.
I keep
So I like the dock, and I use it, but it's insufficient for me as a complete launcher. I think dock + spotlight (if it works anything like quicksilver) will be an excellent combo.
But the dock alone is IMHO insufficient for my needs. I guess I could change my habits, but I don't have to with quicksilver. It makes me faster and more productive. And that's what it's all about.
That's been a constant niggle to me for something like a year and a half. thanks!
wrt the parent:
The stuff that bugged me the most:
The dock is nice eye-candy and all, but a crappy application launcher. Between that and no right-click launch menu on the desktop, trying to run an application sucks. I found a couple different launchers that made this problem bearable:
One is X-10 launch studio, the other newer one is quicksilver. Now, launching an application (say, Transit) is "command-space transit enter". Much faster and easier.
Another one is the cluttery buildup of windows that comes without a decent pager. But I found desktop manager to be an excellent pager with nice eye-candy features, too.
There are other things I use alot, but those are the ones I can't live without.
p.s. If you are using one of the many carbon ports of emacs, might try a different one -- I use emacs hours a day on mine and have never have a crash. It may be as simple as that.
Uhh... maybe because the previous administration didn't use terrorism as an excuse to pass laws that restrict our civil rights to the degree that the patriot act (etc) do.
I think that's what the parent poster was talking about. Not that they talked bs about terrorism, but they used that bs as a weapon with which to destroy the constitution.
Sorry if I'm putting words in the mouth of the parent poster, but that's how I interpreted it.
I was going to say "you must be new here" until I noticed your uid. :)
I sometimes think the same thing, but then I realize that the people who comment on stuff in general are those with strong opinions either way.
So when I see people bitching about a gpl violation, and in the next article see people advocating downloading music from p2p sites, I guess I just assume that they are different people. I guess I don't try to assume that every reader shares the values of "the collective".
I do find it interesting that there are so many Apple apologists though. It might be because the "Apple People" follow the apple articles the most and post most aggressively in their defense, while "The PC People" don't really follow the Apple articles as much and allows the discussion to become skewed.
I don't know. It is interesting though.
Just as a point of reference, I'm an Apple fanboy, and I think the idea of Apple using lawyers as a blunt object with which to beat college kids running rumor sites is bullshit.
So this year, MySQL can only do 10% of what Oracle does. But next year, it will get subselects and do 20%. The year after that, stored procedures and 30%. The year after that, views and 40%.
At which point, Oracle has 60% of the market it used to have, and now must compete on the basis of price. It's margins shink, and it keeps getting chased higher and higher into the datacenter, until it's pushed out by commodity open source.
It's Microsoft's famous recipe. It's worked for everything they've tried so far, but now it's going to turn on them because they can't displace open source on the low end.
At best, even if the Oracles of the world keep innovating to stay ahead of open source (which they will have to do), all it would take is a couple missteps, and they would be gone because of the combined effect of an eroding low-end and a decreasing market share.
Look at all the IT companies that aren't here now that got displaced from the bottom. DEC, maybe. They kept moving more and more upmarket until there was no more "up".
I dunno. I think it's one of those things that we look back at 15 or 20 years from now and say "It couldn't have happened any other way".
I think the original post said it right. Cheap and good enough trumps expensive and great.
Yup. And your other points are valid too, but because linux isn't a corporation, it can compete with zero margin indefinitely. So next year, when you have to rewrite that one app because of new compliance issues, you might take a swing at MySQL, just for grins. Maybe a couple years after that, you've had good luck with it and move some more, because, heck, you are halfway there already, and it sure would be nice to roll that Oracle licensing cost into something else.
The point is, open source will NEVER GO AWAY. It's like how microsoft screwed everyone else out of the market by undercutting them until they bled so much they couldn't make payroll anymore. Sure, microsoft got hurt too, but could crank up the prices once all the competition was dead. They had the cash reserves (and enough *other* profitable divisions) that they could take a loss while waiting for a competitor to die.
This competition will never be dead, and it can't be undersold. So yeah, in the short term there is a market for the stuff Microsoft is selling, but not in the long term. I think the post you replied to is right... in the long term, there will be only verticals so thin that open source can't touch it because there aren't enough people interested in the vertical that can form a community. That, or things that have such a high liability that open source can't be insured for -- medical stuff, bank core processing... that kind of thing. The sort of thing that you have to have a deep pocket to sue in case something goes wrong.
Sure adoption is low now. But it will be higher next year. And the year after that. And the network effect of all this open source software will keep adoption increasing at an increasing rate.
Yeah, I agree with the parent. It's inevitable.
Well, I know TiVo's value add to me: it doesn't suck!
I got HDTV service, and was irritated that my TiVo didn't record HD, so I thought I would give the cable company version of the PVR a try.
Did it suck! It's a Scientific Atlanta 8000HD though Time Warner, just so you can avoid it yourself. They bill it as "just like TiVo", but they clearly forgot to add "except that TiVo isn't a complete piece of crap, like this is."
No wishlists, no discriminating between first runs and reruns, arbitrarily forgets to record stuff, no "bounceback" on resume from fast-forward, no 30 second skip... ugh..
But in the end, the TiVo just doesn't do HD, so what can you do?
Even for all that, I mostly use the same online storage you describe. :)
Sometimes, though, I like to archive that stuff off to cd or dvd. When I do, I use par2 to generate parity sets of the data I archive to dvd. That way, if I suffer some minimal bit rot, I can still correct it. With large enough parity sets, you can even correct for huge amounts of bit rot, but of course, that depends on how paranoid you are.
Between par2 and not putting cd labels on anything anymore, I feel a lot more confident about the long-term viability of my backups.
Hear hear.
Not only that, but it may spur me to buy *more* music. One thing that worries me with iTMS is that one day I might not have a mac. I might have just linux boxes, or whatever the "new" operating system is that Apple refuses to port iTunes to.
Now, I'm safe no matter what happens. Now the $0.99 for high quality songs available instantly is now suddenly very much worth it, since I don't have to worry about obsolescense.
Not true. Or... perhaps it is, and I'm a fool. Yeah, I do blame Microsoft for a fault in which a user can execute something that destroys his or her machine, as well as those around it.
On my linux box, if I'm logged in as the user I typically log in as, the worst that could happen is something could trash my home directory. Bad enough, but it wouldn't affect other machines around me.
With Windows, almost all users are local admins on the workstations. They have to be, because software (both Microsoft and 3rd parties) require it to run. So a user running a "bad" program can destroy the workstation. It's possible that a class of users has blanket admin permissions on a host of machines that they regularly log into, and those can be remotely broken by the same program.
A regular user takes down a bunch of workstations isn't an unlikely occurrance. Root problem is that Microsoft doesn't give tools to set fine-grained permissions necessary to stop someone from having to run as local administrator.
So yeah, I *do* blame Microsoft, for making such an "easy to use" OS that *forces* poor security, bad practices, and guarantees you a shot in the foot for it.
Nice. Thanks, Microsoft.
Or it could be that I'm bitter over wasting yet ANOTHER day of my life restoring a crappy exchange box.
After futzing for the better part of an afternoon trying to get OSX and FreeS/WAN working together, I said "screw it". I downloaded OpenVPN and had it running in literally ten minutes.
Why the heck can't IPSec have a set of "must implement" specs so that there could be a standard default config that works with every single ipsec vpn?
Plus, it all runs in userspace, and it works on every single operating system ever, can be port forwarded, natted, mangled in just about every which-way and still works.
What a pleasure to use. Try it. You'll like it.
It was always possible to do that. Just dump the exports of a .dll, make a new .dll with the same exports that merely hands them off to the old .dll.
.dll. This was all trivially doable before, although its harder now with the File Protection crap in 2k and newer.
Insert whatever code you want before and after handoff to the old
It still comes down to the same thing. If you are running a binary system that's not signed with a trusted key, you are vulnerable. Period. This is as true with Linux as it is Windows. Access to source doesn't change anything.
Besides, if you are running Windows, some terrorist plot to subvert your machine is the least of your problems. Trying to not get infected, 0wn3d, and bluescreened twice a day is a much larger concern. If you are running Windows, you clearly don't care about security anyway.
I second the idea of outsourcing payroll. As far as accounting goes, our company is in the process of dumping Great Plains Dynamics for SQL-Ledger. Just because you pay $30,000 for a piece of commercial software doesn't mean it doesn't suck -- doesn't mean it isn't buggy, doesn't mean it won't cost you downtime.
The difference in FOSS accounting software is the same as the difference in *any* FOSS software -- access to developers, community support, etc.
If you manage FOSS the same way you do commercial software, with controlled upgrades in a development environment, parallel entry with switchovers after end-of-year, and the other prudent measures you would take with commercial software, I'm not sure you wouldn't be better served going with FOSS.
If nothing else, it'll save you 10-20K per year.
If you are mac user, it should have been in your software update weeks ago.
If you have the misfortune to be a PC user (I'm sorry. :) you can download it here:
iPod firmaware update 2.1.
Cheers.
You, sir, have been trolled.