I still have all four of my wisdom teeth too. Fortunately they came in straight and strong and I have had zero problems with them. When they were coming in, my dentist said if they come in alright that it will be good to leave them alone because if I ever have any problems later in life with my the rest of my molars that result in their complete loss, then those 3rd molars might come in handy as anchors for bridges. I'm almost 40 yrs old now and I've already had to have some 1st and 2nd molar filings and a crown put on one of my bicuspids after I broke it in an accident, so now I'm very glad I never had my wisdom teeth removed.
Can you give examples of good Exchange replacements?
Yes. Lotus Domino / Notes.
And no, I'm not joking. Lotus has come a *long way* with their new version 8.x stuff.
It works very well, is reliable, and even looks very good with an all-new user interface. IBM has been remarkably active in Lotus development the past few years and has made Lotus into a highly capable enterprise messaging and groupware system for the 21st century.
Yes, there have been many years of Lotus nightmare stories, and Lotus still does have a fairly steep learning curve, and its architecture is vastly different from Exchange.
It's as different from MS Exchange as Linux is different from Windows.
Internal network topology is a way of organizing a network for administrative purposes, and is in NOT designed, nor CAN be be designed, to provide security
Ever heard of Network Admissions Controls?
802.1x Authentication?
The largest threats to IT security comes from internal users and internal physical access.
Locking down internal access to your network resources is one of the biggest steps you can take towards improving security. The number of organizations who leave lots of unused RJ-45 wall jacks around their office buildings actively patched into hot switch ports is astounding. In that situation, all it takes is someone with a laptop and a few freeware software tools to plug in and do all kinds of "nifty things" on such a network.
I don't feel like doing the math right now but the power generating options from a 1000C heat source is very, very, very good.
Only problem is that if we build a bunch of geothermal power plants, someone will come along bitching that by sucking all the heat out of the Earth's mantle, we'll start causing "global core cooling" or something like that.
The guitar amp industry is still a consumer of signal-level tubes. It is impossible to make a solid-state guitar amp that sounds exactly as good as a tube-type amp, especially for the overdrive sounds. Engineers have been trying for nearly half a century to duplicate the sounds of a tube guitar amp in a solid-state amp, and while some have come close and made some pretty darned good ones, none have ever truly succeeded.
... quieter operations. Take the USAF T-37 training jet for example. It's engines are enclosed fairly well inside the fuselage where the wings attach, and it's one of the most obnoxiously loud little jets still flying (though not for much longer as the remaining fleet is being retired soon).
...and there really is no more practical real need anymore for an individual AIX desktop workstation. Today's RS6000 boxen support LPARs, so you all you need to do if you want a "desktop" personal AIX instance, is to create yourself a private LPAR on the server. Then you basically have a virtualized machine all to yourself for testing and development.
Truly managing windows boxen over a low bandwith, high latency link (probably with a fair amount of packet loss thrown in for good measure)??? I can only think of four simple words to answer that one:
1)You 2)Are 3)So 4)Screwed
Seriously, I've had to manage Windows machines over poor, slow links and it's a crap shoot. HP's hardware iLO is a must-have to start with. Second, for remote console stuff, Windows' own RDP sucks to a level of practical unusability if your bandwidth drops below 100kbps. Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp or whatever the hell they decide to call it this week) makes much better use of thin, crappy bandwidth than raw RDP along. If you can use one of the mobile VPN's like NetMotion's Mobility XE, it does wonders for maintaining tcp session continuity when the network link's thruput and packet loss is going up and down like a yoyo. NetMotion was primarily designed to make seemless roaming and session persistence possible across various mobile wireless networks, but I've seen it employed to smooth out crappy landline-based and cellphone aircard-based network links too.
In the end, you're going to end up building a Rube Goldberg contraption where one piece-part of the conglomeration is eventually going to force you to visit the machines in person to fix it. The Windows O/S itself makes that fact inevitable.
In other words, the migration from XP to 7 will be as seamless as the migration from XP to Vista...
All you'll have to do is migrate your XP to Vista and then migrate from Vista to 7.
It would not surprise me in the least if MS refuses to offer an upgrade-from-XP version at all... that the only versions of 7 you'll be able to buy other than OEM already installed on a new machine are: (1) the full blown retail versions, intended for blank empty hardware, and (2)upgrade-from-Vista-only upgrade versions at the various levels, to force you to buy a copy of Vista even if it's only good for use as a stepping stone.
And what's the waiting time for that same surgery in the US if you have no money to pay for it?
I know of someone who was 79 yrs old, basically destitute and living on a fixed income of only Social Security, no health insurance, only Medicare. He was diagnosed with kidney cancer and needed emergency surgery to remove one of his kidneys which had a large malignant tumor on it that was in danger of bleeding internally and he was accepted into MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston immediately and his surgery was completed in under three weeks from his first visit there. That was two years ago and he's alive and doing well today at age 81.
I tried Nagios and getting it installed, set up and running seemed to be an exercise in futility. The purpose of an NMS is supposed to accomplish saving you some work, not creating more work to set it up and babysit it.
I then tried OpenNMS and never looked back. Installation and configs were a piece of cake. I installed it to a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy Heron desktop edition and was up and running in about two hours. Everything just simply worked right the first time.
I've been using OpenNMS to monitor a 1000 user voip network with tons of cisco switches, routers and call manager servers scattered across 8 buildings for about four months now and it's working like a dream.
On another note, as a pilot I'm now interested to try to fly a Citaboria. Hopefully without the same results Steve had though
It's spelled Citabria ('Airbatic' spelled backwards, supposedly it was named that on purpose as a play on 'aerobatic').
A Citabria is a fun plane to fly, a lot like a SuperCub. I've got a few hours in the type too. It's a fairly forgiving airplane to fly too, unless you stall/spin too close to the ground then you're screwed, so just don't ever do that.
My speculation on Steve's demise is that he probably had a catastrophic medical malfunction like a stroke or heart attack right before he augered the plane into the mountain. We'll probably never know, since the wildlife made a meal out of his body, and in a day or two all they'll find of him is perhaps a few gnawed bones.
I'm a gov't contractor and there is no shortage of work where I am.
Same for me... I've been working 60-70 hour weeks the past couple months.
I'm not getting rich though, my pay is still far below what I should be making given that I hold a bunch of certs including recently adding on CISSP which was required for one of the justice system contracts I got assigned. My boss keeps saying be happy we have the work.
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What about Baron Von Cavitus? He's a hamster-guided robot too!
I still have all four of my wisdom teeth too. Fortunately they came in straight and strong and I have had zero problems with them. When they were coming in, my dentist said if they come in alright that it will be good to leave them alone because if I ever have any problems later in life with my the rest of my molars that result in their complete loss, then those 3rd molars might come in handy as anchors for bridges. I'm almost 40 yrs old now and I've already had to have some 1st and 2nd molar filings and a crown put on one of my bicuspids after I broke it in an accident, so now I'm very glad I never had my wisdom teeth removed.
Forced Premature Obsolescence
There, I fixed it for you.
Can you give examples of good Exchange replacements?
Yes. Lotus Domino / Notes.
And no, I'm not joking. Lotus has come a *long way* with their new version 8.x stuff.
It works very well, is reliable, and even looks very good with an all-new user interface. IBM has been remarkably active in Lotus development the past few years and has made Lotus into a highly capable enterprise messaging and groupware system for the 21st century.
Yes, there have been many years of Lotus nightmare stories, and Lotus still does have a fairly steep learning curve, and its architecture is vastly different from Exchange.
It's as different from MS Exchange as Linux is different from Windows.
I thought campaign contributions were considered more valuable than individual votes.
And that's exactly why political campaign contributions coming from anyone other than individual registered voters needs to be outlawed.
Internal network topology is a way of organizing a network for administrative purposes, and is in NOT designed, nor CAN be be designed, to provide security
Ever heard of Network Admissions Controls?
802.1x Authentication?
The largest threats to IT security comes from internal users and internal physical access.
Locking down internal access to your network resources is one of the biggest steps you can take towards improving security. The number of organizations who leave lots of unused RJ-45 wall jacks around their office buildings actively patched into hot switch ports is astounding. In that situation, all it takes is someone with a laptop and a few freeware software tools to plug in and do all kinds of "nifty things" on such a network.
I don't feel like doing the math right now but the power generating options from a 1000C heat source is very, very, very good.
Only problem is that if we build a bunch of geothermal power plants, someone will come along bitching that by sucking all the heat out of the Earth's mantle, we'll start causing "global core cooling" or something like that.
The guitar amp industry is still a consumer of signal-level tubes. It is impossible to make a solid-state guitar amp that sounds exactly as good as a tube-type amp, especially for the overdrive sounds. Engineers have been trying for nearly half a century to duplicate the sounds of a tube guitar amp in a solid-state amp, and while some have come close and made some pretty darned good ones, none have ever truly succeeded.
... quieter operations. Take the USAF T-37 training jet for example. It's engines are enclosed fairly well inside the fuselage where the wings attach, and it's one of the most obnoxiously loud little jets still flying (though not for much longer as the remaining fleet is being retired soon).
...and there really is no more practical real need anymore for an individual AIX desktop workstation. Today's RS6000 boxen support LPARs, so you all you need to do if you want a "desktop" personal AIX instance, is to create yourself a private LPAR on the server. Then you basically have a virtualized machine all to yourself for testing and development.
Well, Hans Reiser used his real name....
Need I say more?
My thoughts too. Would've been really special for her to have known for certain that he won the presidency.
Truly managing windows boxen over a low bandwith, high latency link (probably with a fair amount of packet loss thrown in for good measure)??? I can only think of four simple words to answer that one:
1)You
2)Are
3)So
4)Screwed
Seriously, I've had to manage Windows machines over poor, slow links and it's a crap shoot. HP's hardware iLO is a must-have to start with. Second, for remote console stuff, Windows' own RDP sucks to a level of practical unusability if your bandwidth drops below 100kbps. Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp or whatever the hell they decide to call it this week) makes much better use of thin, crappy bandwidth than raw RDP along. If you can use one of the mobile VPN's like NetMotion's Mobility XE, it does wonders for maintaining tcp session continuity when the network link's thruput and packet loss is going up and down like a yoyo. NetMotion was primarily designed to make seemless roaming and session persistence possible across various mobile wireless networks, but I've seen it employed to smooth out crappy landline-based and cellphone aircard-based network links too.
In the end, you're going to end up building a Rube Goldberg contraption where one piece-part of the conglomeration is eventually going to force you to visit the machines in person to fix it. The Windows O/S itself makes that fact inevitable.
In other words, the migration from XP to 7 will be as seamless as the migration from XP to Vista...
All you'll have to do is migrate your XP to Vista and then migrate from Vista to 7.
It would not surprise me in the least if MS refuses to offer an upgrade-from-XP version at all... that the only versions of 7 you'll be able to buy other than OEM already installed on a new machine are: (1) the full blown retail versions, intended for blank empty hardware, and (2)upgrade-from-Vista-only upgrade versions at the various levels, to force you to buy a copy of Vista even if it's only good for use as a stepping stone.
All Your Face Are Belong To Us!
...and it was called the General Lee
Didn't fly very far and the nose-first landings were a bit on the rough side.
...is still alive!
And what's the waiting time for that same surgery in the US if you have no money to pay for it?
I know of someone who was 79 yrs old, basically destitute and living on a fixed income of only Social Security, no health insurance, only Medicare. He was diagnosed with kidney cancer and needed emergency surgery to remove one of his kidneys which had a large malignant tumor on it that was in danger of bleeding internally and he was accepted into MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston immediately and his surgery was completed in under three weeks from his first visit there. That was two years ago and he's alive and doing well today at age 81.
After all.... Information wants to be free.
Right?
Be careful what you wish for.
I tried Nagios and getting it installed, set up and running seemed to be an exercise in futility. The purpose of an NMS is supposed to accomplish saving you some work, not creating more work to set it up and babysit it.
I then tried OpenNMS and never looked back. Installation and configs were a piece of cake. I installed it to a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy Heron desktop edition and was up and running in about two hours. Everything just simply worked right the first time.
I've been using OpenNMS to monitor a 1000 user voip network with tons of cisco switches, routers and call manager servers scattered across 8 buildings for about four months now and it's working like a dream.
From your sig:
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It is unfortunate that the right hates rights and the left hates guns.
So, in other words, the left hates rights too.
dammit, I misspelled Citabria in the subject line.
Nuts! Dang typos.
On another note, as a pilot I'm now interested to try to fly a Citaboria. Hopefully without the same results Steve had though
It's spelled Citabria ('Airbatic' spelled backwards, supposedly it was named that on purpose as a play on 'aerobatic').
A Citabria is a fun plane to fly, a lot like a SuperCub. I've got a few hours in the type too. It's a fairly forgiving airplane to fly too, unless you stall/spin too close to the ground then you're screwed, so just don't ever do that.
My speculation on Steve's demise is that he probably had a catastrophic medical malfunction like a stroke or heart attack right before he augered the plane into the mountain. We'll probably never know, since the wildlife made a meal out of his body, and in a day or two all they'll find of him is perhaps a few gnawed bones.
...it's got a bite taken out of the upper right hand corner.
Other than that, it looks pretty much the same as my private pilot certificate.
I'm a gov't contractor and there is no shortage of work where I am.
Same for me... I've been working 60-70 hour weeks the past couple months.
I'm not getting rich though, my pay is still far below what I should be making given that I hold a bunch of certs including recently adding on CISSP which was required for one of the justice system contracts I got assigned. My boss keeps saying be happy we have the work.