i've seen dell pc's (not reman) with xp for $249 just keep an eye on the deal sites like slickdeals.net
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I probably agree with you overall except for "homer at the bat" which was all celebrities, but one of my favorites. Yes, I do play the "softball" song in my car sometimes...
are you on NT4 with roaming profiles? Perhaps I have my wires crossed, but it seems weird that your domain is administered that way.
As for the SunRay's, yes, they are way, way, cool. I've played with them. Sun's recommendatino is for switched 100Mbit to each sunray though, so Ithink they use the LAN pretty heavily.
just like you have the right to quit at any time. That's what "at will" is. Either party can end the relationship for any/no reason. I'm also a contractor, but I don't carp about it, because that's the deal I signed up for. If I don't like it, I can work somewhere else/start my own biz, become a hobo, whatever, but nobody is forcing me to work this job.
I'm confused. How do you have a few hundred people using SBS when it will only accept 100 licenses? Not to question you on your own environmment, but are you sure about that?
what, both of them? Now I know that was a bit glib, but seriously, how can you require someone (MS) to not just write software for a competative platform, but also to require them to provide a specific language version for that specific product on a competing platform? this is like having your boss over your shoulder telling you what color of widget they want you to insert for a program that your coworker is supposed to be writing and will get most of the credit for. no, wait, that's not a great analogy, but it just seems like they are really pushing MS around.
My solution: Switch to MS office for PC which supports hebrew according to their page. OR Keep using your chosen platform but use a different productivity app. OR Make user requests to have this feature added, but do you really think MS should be forced to include a money losing feature in their code? Aren't we all about freedom to code?
sorry for the rant, I know it comes off as pro-MS, but it's not meant to be. It's meant to be pro-freedom of choice.
I guess I'm confused by what you mean. I used the AMD 486 DX/100 and had no problems iwth it. It was used 16 hours a day for 3-4 years until I upgraded running OS/2 warp and win 3.11 in a window. I NEVER had any issues with it. Was I just lucky? It seems like I saw quite a few of them being sold at the time in Computer shopper...
There are ways to terminate your VPN connections while authenticating the users before dropping them on the network and also running IDS on the traffic that they bring in. You could also architect to restric the ports/protocols that the VPN users can access.
Network security should be like an onion. layers (physical and logical) that traffic has to go through so that if one does not stop it, a different method might.
XP is that way for most things too. You just install the hardware and it takes care of it probably about 90% of the time for me without interaction or clicking next. I love it.
I know there've been some issues, but we are the largest importer of goods and we ship millions of jobs overseas via NAFTA, GATT, and some of our other free trade agreements. We also let more foreign workers come here than any other country in the world.
Just my perspective as a USian I guess, but it seems like we spend a lot of money on foreign goods/services. We have a ~ $40B/month trade deficit.
How do other countries compare? Are other developed countries running with huge trade deficits too, or is it just the US?
I think there was a chipset issue. It has to do with your video card and the MB chipset drivers I think. This issue (if it's the one I'm thinking of) existed in several OS's.
I used to have a very similar machine years ago. It's more a factor of AMD's half tested chipset model than anything else. PS, I run exclusively AMD machines at my home (and love the value/performance), but honestly, they've had some weird issues.
you can buy "open" licenses for a good discount and they do not expire. check out the open license program, you'll be saving your company money on the MS products you do decide to purchase.
But MS spends something like $4B/year on R and D that goes into their products, so to truly recreate the whole package (as others have mentioned, they are probably buying the catalog, i'm not sure) you're saying it'd be cheaper for the army to spend $4B/yr instead of $76M/yr to get the same thing? They'd also have a huge section of their organization focused on a non-core competency issue of software development.
Well, as an eastsider, i have to say that of all the folks I work with in Redmond, 70% of them commute from Seattle to the Eastside. Whereas I got a place on the eastside to be near my work. That's as much of a problem as people living on the eastside suburbs commuting to Seattle. Also, a lot of people live southsound (kent, etc) because it's all they can afford. But i agree, the best overall strategy is to live near work, but people don't for economic or lifestyle reasons (I like to live "in the city".) OK, enjoy the druggies on your step as well as you 45 minute, 10 mile commute...
I've read through most of the comments, and between that and talking with real people, I think I know what the original poster is facing. People want ONE distribution to run across the enterprise (desktops, critical servers, non-critical servers). (This is what Sun provides, BTW). But, people don't want to shell out for an expensive advance server license and support for every single DNS server or MTA or desktop just for the sake of standardization.
Basically, people want to just maintain one distro (and also don't want the distro to mandate upgrades every 1.5 years) but at the same time, they don't want to pay Between $179 adn $2499 for every single box in their organization just for the sake of them all being the same.
I think if Redhat had a longer lived standard edition, but would provide enterprise level support when purchased, maybe there would be a better market for them.
There is a logical fallacy in your statement "'Our products just aren't engineered for security.' 'In short, there's nothing you can do to improve your security except upgrade to a different client...'"
just because they were not designed for secuirty does not mean you cannot make them more secure or improve your secuirty with them.
This doesn't mean they're the most secure things out there, but it doesnt' mena they arent' eitehr.
PS, was Mozilla "designed for security" or was it designed to provide feature that the developers thought would be useful to the users? I don't know the answer to that, but with few exceptions, software isn't engineered for security, it's engineered to do something for someone and the level of security engineered into the product is an overhead cost that is a reluctant add on.
Again, this doesn't provide the best security, but it does enable rapid app dev and nice features.
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i've seen dell pc's (not reman) with xp for $249 just keep an eye on the deal sites like slickdeals.net
I probably agree with you overall except for "homer at the bat" which was all celebrities, but one of my favorites. Yes, I do play the "softball" song in my car sometimes...
"I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one!" -Homer
"What do you mean boy? They've got all the top brands here. Sorny, Magnetbox, Panaphonics!" - Homer
Yes, I've had great luck with www.steelmailbox.com they have a cool "smartlock" technology too that is pretty handy.
are you on NT4 with roaming profiles? Perhaps I have my wires crossed, but it seems weird that your domain is administered that way.
As for the SunRay's, yes, they are way, way, cool. I've played with them. Sun's recommendatino is for switched 100Mbit to each sunray though, so Ithink they use the LAN pretty heavily.
unions have their place, but they were a big part of why International Harvester folded and we never got a carbon-fiber scout 3.
(yes it was in development when they closed up...)
what about this then for the enterprise? http://www.microsoft.com/ISAServer/
just like you have the right to quit at any time. That's what "at will" is. Either party can end the relationship for any/no reason. I'm also a contractor, but I don't carp about it, because that's the deal I signed up for. If I don't like it, I can work somewhere else/start my own biz, become a hobo, whatever, but nobody is forcing me to work this job.
MS has announced that they are shipping XP from now on with teh firewall on by default which would solve most of these problems.
I'm confused. How do you have a few hundred people using SBS when it will only accept 100 licenses? Not to question you on your own environmment, but are you sure about that?
Peace...
what, both of them? Now I know that was a bit glib, but seriously, how can you require someone (MS) to not just write software for a competative platform, but also to require them to provide a specific language version for that specific product on a competing platform? this is like having your boss over your shoulder telling you what color of widget they want you to insert for a program that your coworker is supposed to be writing and will get most of the credit for. no, wait, that's not a great analogy, but it just seems like they are really pushing MS around.
My solution:
Switch to MS office for PC which supports hebrew according to their page.
OR
Keep using your chosen platform but use a different productivity app.
OR
Make user requests to have this feature added, but do you really think MS should be forced to include a money losing feature in their code? Aren't we all about freedom to code?
sorry for the rant, I know it comes off as pro-MS, but it's not meant to be. It's meant to be pro-freedom of choice.
I guess I'm confused by what you mean. I used the AMD 486 DX/100 and had no problems iwth it. It was used 16 hours a day for 3-4 years until I upgraded running OS/2 warp and win 3.11 in a window. I NEVER had any issues with it. Was I just lucky? It seems like I saw quite a few of them being sold at the time in Computer shopper...
Like we aren't already called linux commies enough already....
.ru?
Seriously though, this is the march of globilization, but I wonder if this will cause more outsourcing and more cracking coming for
I'm not trolling, but is there a way to script it to start up like 15 minutes before you get there?
There are ways to terminate your VPN connections while authenticating the users before dropping them on the network and also running IDS on the traffic that they bring in. You could also architect to restric the ports/protocols that the VPN users can access.
Network security should be like an onion. layers (physical and logical) that traffic has to go through so that if one does not stop it, a different method might.
XP is that way for most things too. You just install the hardware and it takes care of it probably about 90% of the time for me without interaction or clicking next. I love it.
I know there've been some issues, but we are the largest importer of goods and we ship millions of jobs overseas via NAFTA, GATT, and some of our other free trade agreements. We also let more foreign workers come here than any other country in the world.
Just my perspective as a USian I guess, but it seems like we spend a lot of money on foreign goods/services. We have a ~ $40B/month trade deficit.
How do other countries compare? Are other developed countries running with huge trade deficits too, or is it just the US?
I think there was a chipset issue. It has to do with your video card and the MB chipset drivers I think. This issue (if it's the one I'm thinking of) existed in several OS's.
I used to have a very similar machine years ago. It's more a factor of AMD's half tested chipset model than anything else. PS, I run exclusively AMD machines at my home (and love the value/performance), but honestly, they've had some weird issues.
"Fancy controlling your mobile phone just by moving it?"
I have this feature now, it's called "poor coverage" and the way I hold the phone affects whether I can make calls or not.
you can buy "open" licenses for a good discount and they do not expire. check out the open license program, you'll be saving your company money on the MS products you do decide to purchase.
But MS spends something like $4B/year on R and D that goes into their products, so to truly recreate the whole package (as others have mentioned, they are probably buying the catalog, i'm not sure) you're saying it'd be cheaper for the army to spend $4B/yr instead of $76M/yr to get the same thing? They'd also have a huge section of their organization focused on a non-core competency issue of software development.
Just a thought.
Well, as an eastsider, i have to say that of all the folks I work with in Redmond, 70% of them commute from Seattle to the Eastside. Whereas I got a place on the eastside to be near my work. That's as much of a problem as people living on the eastside suburbs commuting to Seattle. Also, a lot of people live southsound (kent, etc) because it's all they can afford. But i agree, the best overall strategy is to live near work, but people don't for economic or lifestyle reasons (I like to live "in the city".) OK, enjoy the druggies on your step as well as you 45 minute, 10 mile commute...
no, slap the person in the VW going at any speed less than full throttle. Full speed only.
I've read through most of the comments, and between that and talking with real people, I think I know what the original poster is facing. People want ONE distribution to run across the enterprise (desktops, critical servers, non-critical servers). (This is what Sun provides, BTW). But, people don't want to shell out for an expensive advance server license and support for every single DNS server or MTA or desktop just for the sake of standardization.
Basically, people want to just maintain one distro (and also don't want the distro to mandate upgrades every 1.5 years) but at the same time, they don't want to pay Between $179 adn $2499 for every single box in their organization just for the sake of them all being the same.
I think if Redhat had a longer lived standard edition, but would provide enterprise level support when purchased, maybe there would be a better market for them.
There is a logical fallacy in your statement "'Our products just aren't engineered for security.'
'In short, there's nothing you can do to improve your security except upgrade to a different client...'"
just because they were not designed for secuirty does not mean you cannot make them more secure or improve your secuirty with them.
This doesn't mean they're the most secure things out there, but it doesnt' mena they arent' eitehr.
PS, was Mozilla "designed for security" or was it designed to provide feature that the developers thought would be useful to the users? I don't know the answer to that, but with few exceptions, software isn't engineered for security, it's engineered to do something for someone and the level of security engineered into the product is an overhead cost that is a reluctant add on.
Again, this doesn't provide the best security, but it does enable rapid app dev and nice features.
Your mileage may vary.