Will this cause all the Debian zealots to shut their mouths and stop claiming that Debian is the "most stable" linux distribution out there?
I doubt it.
My advice is to switch to SuSE. I was once a devoted Slackware user, tried Red Crap once and then started using SuSE at 6.3 and have been happy with it since. I always stay about a version behind, to let any problems get discovered and fixed before updating. I also tend to install new versions freshly to a clean disk, mount my old system's disk and move my custom stuff over to the new disk a piece at a time, but the past couple SuSE updates have overlay-installed onto an existing system quite nicely. SuSE is getting quite refined.
Somebody who's got dsl closer to the exchange. Go halves in it with them, drop in a DIY wireless link for a couple of hundred bucks, and you're good to go.
These days, practically every DSL provider (the telcos) impose a ToS that forbids every DSL customer, even the business accounts, from redistributing the bandwidth or acting as any form of ISP themselves. The next generation of ToS contracts will also ban co-ops and even "private clubs" who are formed for the sole purpose of distributing the bendwidth amongst the members.
Looking at all those connectors on the case, you gotta give them credit for findong a use for all those old locking-ring type CB Radio microphone plugs and jacks left over from the late 1970's and early 1980's.
...but not just to "site licenses". In fact the entire concept of buying (perpetual) software licenses for large enterprise apps (not such as Oracle database itself , but rather stuff like a giant business accounting and management app which sits on top of a big database) is doomed to vanish into oblivion. The software outfits who formerly wrote, sold and supported such apps are a dying breed. They are increasingly being bought out by one new owner after another until there is nobody left who can actually support the software anymore at the company who now owns the line, and a crisis is brewing because the existing customers (for why the software company was bought just to raid a customer base) are fed up with the crappy excuse for support and are all looking for new answers. All those "vendor-supported turnkey apps" that were bought and ramrodded into production as "Y2K solutions" are now a half-decade old, and extremely few of the promises of future-proofing, and ongoing enhancements that were made by the software vendors back then have been kept. The software vendors who are in business today developing enterprise apps know that their own future is only a destiny to be sold out to a bigger company someday and their primary goal seems not to make good systems for customers, but instead to make themselves as attractive as possible to a future new owner, which they can no longer do by selling perpetual software licenses. Instead, such apps are in the future going to only be rented or leased, and probably on a pay-per-use metered basis. That is the way it used to be in the olden days with "time sharing systems" and it looks the industry is coming back around full circle to this business model once again.
I write mine down on the back of my auto insurance "id card" (actually a piece of paper, not an actual card, and when folded in half is roughly the size of a business card). Since proof of insurance is required for vehicle registration renewals, plus you always need it on you whenever you might get pulled over by the cops, it's an important piece of paper to always hang onto, but has zero monetary value in and of itself. It also expires every 6 months and I get a new one from my insurance company. Every 6 months also seems at minimum a good time to be changing passwords too, and I then write them down onto the new insurance card.
Because the software prevents them from moving;) Except when the software crashes first of course:(
When you practically have to take out a 2nd mortage on your house to be able to afford to put any gas in the tank... what's the point of even booting up the car's O/S in the first place?
Gas prices alone could be the answer to having cars that can't crash... because they'll remain parked.
...will tell your company one and only one thing, and that is your network is unsecurable unless you outsource all your network security and administrating to them because you company's own I.T. crew is too incompetant to do it themselves.
My employer recently went thru one of these and I prepared for it (I am the network admin) by writing a list of everything the consultants would find, and why they would find it and what could or could not be done about it short of completely unplugging the affected bunch of machines and users off the network entirely. I also wrote down exactly what they would find when they attempted a penetration test from the outside to try to come thru our firewalls. I sealed up all my reports into an envelope and got my boss and his bosses above him to agree to keep the envelope sealed and not read it until after the consultants submitted their findings report and they'd read it.
During the tests, the consultants could not break in of course, and I got accused of refusing to cooperate with them. I told them to their faces in front of my boss that they weren't even worth half their weight in dirt and were basically committing a con against us. (con + insult = consult).
After their report was finished and my bosses paid them and read it, followed by reading my sealed reports, my employer basically agreed with me they'd just wasted $15K and my network security talents have never come in question again. The consultants didn't even find everything that I already knew was wrong with our network, and I haven't been permitted to fix the stuff that really needs fixing because too many user will bitch about the inconvenience it would impose on them.
...already ended when they set off the explosion in the Borg transwarp conduit and rode the shockwave all the way across the galaxy back home. Oh wait, that was Star Trek... not NASA.
...but don't expect to see IBM buy them unless they've got something compelling to offer.
Novell does have their own flavor of directory services, which is appealing to large organizations who need it to run on a heterogeneous mix of platforms.
I've been thinking for a while, from just before the start of the SCO vs IBM circus, that Novell is getting ripe for being bought out by IBM. Anyone else concurr?
...if we had wireless network interface hardware that operated in some other part of the spectrum than the 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz license free 802.11x, which is already so swamped with traffic around here that it's now more useless than CB radio was in the late 1970's - early 1980's when 18 bazillion people were trying to talk all at the same time on the same rf channels.
I have an old HP DeskJet 697C which sat unused since March of 2001 in storage. I recently pulled it out, and wiped off the bottom of the old ink cartridges with a paper towel wetted with a bit of rubbing alcohol, and have now printed almost 100 pages with it on those ~ four year old carts.
The big difference about the Gillette razor is that the cheap generic blades always sucked and didn't last very long, and the genuine Gillette brand blades performed an order of magnitude better and lasted a lot longer... actually giving you your money's worth.
In the inkjet printer industry, both the genuine brand name cartridges AND the cheap generics (when and if available) all suck in the value area, they just simply cost way too much per page.
I dearly miss my old beloved original solid-metal Atra razor that gave me a quarter century of excellent shaves before it finally broke... I'm not going to buy any new Gillette products due to the RFID and secret photographing of customers controversy. Been buying Schick disposable Xtreme3 razors lately and they actually give an excellent shave and last a long time, but they feel cheap and lightweight since they are... well... disposeables.
and a little-known law allows me to drive solo on carpool (HOV) lanes in California.
There is the occasional moron who thinks I'm a carpool lane violator and turns on the high beams behind me - There is the occasional dumb cop who thinks I'm a carpool lane violator and pulls me over, only to let me go 2 minutes later
So make yourself a bumper sticker / window sticker that cites the specific California law by number and some brief text that states that law in a few words in order to educate the morons, and perhaps educate others who might also benefit from a similar vehicle.
Please explain how NOx gasses are produced... It was my understanding that a PROTON membrane allows only H+ ions through to react with ONLY oxygen....
I believe "lobotomy" was thinking of only burning the H2 in a conventional internal combustion (piston) engine, not using it in a fuel cell to generate electricity for powering an electric motor.
Like a moron, I traded a 100mhz dual trace Tektronix scope for the 133 meg drive. Now it sits on the floor in the closet. But guess what?
I'd gladly trade you my collection of antique hard drives (from 40GB on up) for that Tektronix scope, even if it doesn't work as long as the CRT is good.
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Will this cause all the Debian zealots to shut their mouths and stop claiming that Debian is the "most stable" linux distribution out there?
I doubt it.
My advice is to switch to SuSE. I was once a devoted Slackware user, tried Red Crap once and then started using SuSE at 6.3 and have been happy with it since. I always stay about a version behind, to let any problems get discovered and fixed before updating. I also tend to install new versions freshly to a clean disk, mount my old system's disk and move my custom stuff over to the new disk a piece at a time, but the past couple SuSE updates have overlay-installed onto an existing system quite nicely. SuSE is getting quite refined.
What a trip, man!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
...of those federal regulators might just happen to own Citi stock or have other personal or family financial interest in Citi?
Somebody who's got dsl closer to the exchange.
Go halves in it with them, drop in a DIY wireless link for a couple of hundred bucks, and you're good to go.
These days, practically every DSL provider (the telcos) impose a ToS that forbids every DSL customer, even the business accounts, from redistributing the bandwidth or acting as any form of ISP themselves. The next generation of ToS contracts will also ban co-ops and even "private clubs" who are formed for the sole purpose of distributing the bendwidth amongst the members.
Looking at all those connectors on the case, you gotta give them credit for findong a use for all those old locking-ring type CB Radio microphone plugs and jacks left over from the late 1970's and early 1980's.
...but not just to "site licenses". In fact the entire concept of buying (perpetual) software licenses for large enterprise apps (not such as Oracle database itself , but rather stuff like a giant business accounting and management app which sits on top of a big database) is doomed to vanish into oblivion. The software outfits who formerly wrote, sold and supported such apps are a dying breed. They are increasingly being bought out by one new owner after another until there is nobody left who can actually support the software anymore at the company who now owns the line, and a crisis is brewing because the existing customers (for why the software company was bought just to raid a customer base) are fed up with the crappy excuse for support and are all looking for new answers. All those "vendor-supported turnkey apps" that were bought and ramrodded into production as "Y2K solutions" are now a half-decade old, and extremely few of the promises of future-proofing, and ongoing enhancements that were made by the software vendors back then have been kept. The software vendors who are in business today developing enterprise apps know that their own future is only a destiny to be sold out to a bigger company someday and their primary goal seems not to make good systems for customers, but instead to make themselves as attractive as possible to a future new owner, which they can no longer do by selling perpetual software licenses. Instead, such apps are in the future going to only be rented or leased, and probably on a pay-per-use metered basis. That is the way it used to be in the olden days with "time sharing systems" and it looks the industry is coming back around full circle to this business model once again.
Teh word "teh" is prolly teh most favorate misspelled non-word here becuase it;s used more often than any others. LMAO, w00r!
Balmer hawking Windows when it was first released.
I write mine down on the back of my auto insurance "id card" (actually a piece of paper, not an actual card, and when folded in half is roughly the size of a business card). Since proof of insurance is required for vehicle registration renewals, plus you always need it on you whenever you might get pulled over by the cops, it's an important piece of paper to always hang onto, but has zero monetary value in and of itself. It also expires every 6 months and I get a new one from my insurance company. Every 6 months also seems at minimum a good time to be changing passwords too, and I then write them down onto the new insurance card.
Futurologist is a cool title. I wish I'd invented it myself.
History -> Historian
Future -> Futurian
Much cooler sounding, I think.
Sorry but somebody has to repeat this old one here...
Three of the most satisfying things in life are:
1) taking a good dump
2) having an explosive orgasm.
3) making a successful carrier landing
On a night-time carrier landing, you might get to experience all three simultaneously.
Because the software prevents them from moving ;) Except when the software crashes first of course :(
When you practically have to take out a 2nd mortage on your house to be able to afford to put any gas in the tank... what's the point of even booting up the car's O/S in the first place?
Gas prices alone could be the answer to having cars that can't crash... because they'll remain parked.
...will tell your company one and only one thing, and that is your network is unsecurable unless you outsource all your network security and administrating to them because you company's own I.T. crew is too incompetant to do it themselves.
My employer recently went thru one of these and I prepared for it (I am the network admin) by writing a list of everything the consultants would find, and why they would find it and what could or could not be done about it short of completely unplugging the affected bunch of machines and users off the network entirely. I also wrote down exactly what they would find when they attempted a penetration test from the outside to try to come thru our firewalls. I sealed up all my reports into an envelope and got my boss and his bosses above him to agree to keep the envelope sealed and not read it until after the consultants submitted their findings report and they'd read it.
During the tests, the consultants could not break in of course, and I got accused of refusing to cooperate with them. I told them to their faces in front of my boss that they weren't even worth half their weight in dirt and were basically committing a con against us. (con + insult = consult).
After their report was finished and my bosses paid them and read it, followed by reading my sealed reports, my employer basically agreed with me they'd just wasted $15K and my network security talents have never come in question again. The consultants didn't even find everything that I already knew was wrong with our network, and I haven't been permitted to fix the stuff that really needs fixing because too many user will bitch about the inconvenience it would impose on them.
I've always been told that Aluminum will burn like magnesium if you get it hot enough. I wonder if a cutting torch could ignite it?
...already ended when they set off the explosion in the Borg transwarp conduit and rode the shockwave all the way across the galaxy back home. Oh wait, that was Star Trek... not NASA.
:-)
Oops.
...but don't expect to see IBM buy them unless they've got something compelling to offer.
Novell does have their own flavor of directory services, which is appealing to large organizations who need it to run on a heterogeneous mix of platforms.
I've been thinking for a while, from just before the start of the SCO vs IBM circus, that Novell is getting ripe for being bought out by IBM. Anyone else concurr?
...if we had wireless network interface hardware that operated in some other part of the spectrum than the 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz license free 802.11x, which is already so swamped with traffic around here that it's now more useless than CB radio was in the late 1970's - early 1980's when 18 bazillion people were trying to talk all at the same time on the same rf channels.
I have an old HP DeskJet 697C which sat unused since March of 2001 in storage. I recently pulled it out, and wiped off the bottom of the old ink cartridges with a paper towel wetted with a bit of rubbing alcohol, and have now printed almost 100 pages with it on those ~ four year old carts.
The big difference about the Gillette razor is that the cheap generic blades always sucked and didn't last very long, and the genuine Gillette brand blades performed an order of magnitude better and lasted a lot longer... actually giving you your money's worth.
In the inkjet printer industry, both the genuine brand name cartridges AND the cheap generics (when and if available) all suck in the value area, they just simply cost way too much per page.
I dearly miss my old beloved original solid-metal Atra razor that gave me a quarter century of excellent shaves before it finally broke... I'm not going to buy any new Gillette products due to the RFID and secret photographing of customers controversy. Been buying Schick disposable Xtreme3 razors lately and they actually give an excellent shave and last a long time, but they feel cheap and lightweight since they are... well... disposeables.
and a little-known law allows me to drive solo on carpool (HOV) lanes in California.
There is the occasional moron who thinks I'm a carpool lane violator and turns on the high beams behind me
- There is the occasional dumb cop who thinks I'm a carpool lane violator and pulls me over, only to let me go 2 minutes later
So make yourself a bumper sticker / window sticker that cites the specific California law by number and some brief text that states that law in a few words in order to educate the morons, and perhaps educate others who might also benefit from a similar vehicle.
Please explain how NOx gasses are produced...
It was my understanding that a PROTON membrane allows only H+ ions through to react with ONLY oxygen....
I believe "lobotomy" was thinking of only burning the H2 in a conventional internal combustion (piston) engine, not using it in a fuel cell to generate electricity for powering an electric motor.
...cannot own their own guns freely like Texans can.
Hubble? Hell yeah. The moon? Absolutely, .......
How about a huge-ass remote controlled telesope parked on the surface of the moon?
Like a moron, I traded a 100mhz dual trace Tektronix scope for the 133 meg drive. Now it sits on the floor in the closet. But guess what?
I'd gladly trade you my collection of antique hard drives (from 40GB on up) for that Tektronix scope, even if it doesn't work as long as the CRT is good.