Well, given that you set the bar for difficulty in one sentence for a sysadmin, and in another for an end-user, I am quite sure that you are a troll.
You didn't even give a decent rebuttal to my points. So OK, you're not an MCSE monkey, I will give you that. Instead you're a Slashdot troll. Hardly an improvement, would you say?
In other words, you're an MCSE monkey who's lost when he doesn't have a pretty wizard to click on. Harsh? No. The rest of your post bears out my judgment.
Samba4 still requires either usermapping, or managing the linux users and groups separately.
To prove the point: it is trivial to have a Linux system use the LDAP information in AD to manage account information. Integrating with Kerberos for password management is only slightly more difficult. The only thing necessary is to change a few attributes in config files, as Linux systems usually default to RFC2307 for LDAP integration, and AD uses a different schema. But that requires knowing LDAP and editing a few config files. Which you have just admitted is beyond your capabilities.
And this is why Symbian S60 wins, for me at least. It is a phone OS first and foremost. No matter what is running, the phone always goes through. I remember my colleague complaining about his HTC TyTN with WinMO 5, that would need to have the keyboard slid in to switch to phone mode, even on an incoming call, and take seconds for that transition.
Yeah, because of its nature, programmers coming from a PC culture hate S60 with a passion. Too bad. A phone is not a computer.
Funny. I did refer to Microsoft's own case study. And it is you trying to strawman a little hyperbole in my post that makes you look like the idiot you are.
Yeah, Accenture did the actual implementation, under guidance from Microsoft. MS says that explicitly in its own case study. That is the same as 'Microsoft basically wrote TradElect', if you account for the obvious hyperbole indicated by the word 'basically'. Some of us have the intelligence to have command of more style elements than mere invective.
Unless of course you are a complete moron or a dishonest fuck, and you can't or won't read one word for context.
But hey, your posting history speaks for itself, now doesn't it? Fucking shill.
There's nothing 'expect' about it. It is a known fact that there is a political bias in his work, and in the direction you say. You do know who Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' was supposed to be dedicated to? And why that dedication was withdrawn at the very last moment?
And why would the EU pick the choral part of Symphony No. 9 as its anthem? A poetic ode to human brotherhood, set to music just after the Napeleonic wars, is not a political statement? The EU rightly seems to think so, and I find it hard to find any reason to disagree.
You MS shills really like playing silly semantic games and twistingn words, do you not? This story has been mentioned on Slashdot before. You even commented in the original stories, like you always do to defend your masters. Since I know you read the stories, and you know I know, why don't we just drop the bullshit of you demanding I prove the Sun rises in the East?
Yes, developed by Accenture with heavy MS support. Heck, even MS' case study mentions that.
And dropping TradElect for a different system means that it is worse than the other system, otherwise it would not make business sense. Cheaper is only interesting if the system is at least as good as TradElect. So, at least as good, plus cheaper, equals a better system.
What colour is the sky in your world? Or are you seeing it through a nice four-pane Window?
So fucking what? TomTom did not sue first. That makes Microsoft the agressor, plain and simple. They could have followed TomTom's strategy and wait for the lawsuit before countersuing. Instead they initiated the suit.
Next you are going to tell me that ignorance is strength.
If you had read the earlier articles on the TradElect fiasco, you would have known that it was basically written and designed by Microsoft itself. Accenture had a very heavy involvement in the project straight from Redmond.
So yes, this is an outright condemnation of the quality of Microsoft's products.
From what I recall, gconf was introduced in Gnome 2, which in fact was the release where the Gnome team started actually removing Miguel's design ideas, like his COM-inspired Bonobo component system.
gconf is not a binary registry. It is a set of XML files under a central directory. The default GUI editor looks a bit like regedit, but that's the extent of the similarities.
Resolution independence? Windows? Surely you're joking? Windows still measures everything in pixels. Try running it on a high-DPI display with larger fonts, and wince at how many dialogs totally mess up their layout. Maybe it has gotten better in Vista and 7, but up til XP running Windows at anything above 1600x1200 was frankly horrid. Especially if you were used to *nix or MacOS.
Or a compliant mailserver will immediately retry on the backup MX. Just hope that the greylister is clueful enough to handle that case.
Unfortunately, not all are, as I found out this week. A 430 on the primary MX, and the backup accepts and drops silently, and the idiots on the other side are trying to blame a non-existent Exchange server. Yeah right.
If the sending party does not get a bounce, the sending mail server is misconfigured. If it can't connect to the fastmail.fm MX servers, then it should bounce the message.
So, no fail here. Just someone who doesn't understand how email works.
Never worry. Their flagship OEM (after they screwed over Sendo) is already leaving the sinking ship. HTC used to be a Windows-only shop, and now they're shipping, and visibly promoting, phones with other OSes.
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Obviously the iPhone isn't as hot to non-geeks as you think, as almost half the smartphone buyers still pick a Nokia.
All your points are subjective as hell. Just because you like the iPhone doesn't make it the Second Coming, you know.
And funnily enough, I see the most iPhone proselytisers on geek forums like Slashdot.
Mart
All you mention is possible on any Nokia smartphone running S60. And has been for some time. So what's so special about the iPhone?
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It will indeed take some time to beat Nokia.
Mart
Well, given that you set the bar for difficulty in one sentence for a sysadmin, and in another for an end-user, I am quite sure that you are a troll.
You didn't even give a decent rebuttal to my points. So OK, you're not an MCSE monkey, I will give you that. Instead you're a Slashdot troll. Hardly an improvement, would you say?
Mart
Remember this is Murdoch. The man who turned the venerable Times of London into the Daily Mail with better English.
Mart
In other words, you're an MCSE monkey who's lost when he doesn't have a pretty wizard to click on. Harsh? No. The rest of your post bears out my judgment.
To prove the point: it is trivial to have a Linux system use the LDAP information in AD to manage account information. Integrating with Kerberos for password management is only slightly more difficult. The only thing necessary is to change a few attributes in config files, as Linux systems usually default to RFC2307 for LDAP integration, and AD uses a different schema. But that requires knowing LDAP and editing a few config files. Which you have just admitted is beyond your capabilities.
Mart
And this is why Symbian S60 wins, for me at least. It is a phone OS first and foremost. No matter what is running, the phone always goes through. I remember my colleague complaining about his HTC TyTN with WinMO 5, that would need to have the keyboard slid in to switch to phone mode, even on an incoming call, and take seconds for that transition.
Yeah, because of its nature, programmers coming from a PC culture hate S60 with a passion. Too bad. A phone is not a computer.
Mart
Citation needed.
Mart
Funny. I did refer to Microsoft's own case study. And it is you trying to strawman a little hyperbole in my post that makes you look like the idiot you are.
Yeah, Accenture did the actual implementation, under guidance from Microsoft. MS says that explicitly in its own case study. That is the same as 'Microsoft basically wrote TradElect', if you account for the obvious hyperbole indicated by the word 'basically'. Some of us have the intelligence to have command of more style elements than mere invective.
Unless of course you are a complete moron or a dishonest fuck, and you can't or won't read one word for context.
But hey, your posting history speaks for itself, now doesn't it? Fucking shill.
Mart
Well, it is often said that ignorance is bliss. So I quite understand how you can keep smiling while acting like a complete idiot.
Mart
There's nothing 'expect' about it. It is a known fact that there is a political bias in his work, and in the direction you say. You do know who Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' was supposed to be dedicated to? And why that dedication was withdrawn at the very last moment?
And why would the EU pick the choral part of Symphony No. 9 as its anthem? A poetic ode to human brotherhood, set to music just after the Napeleonic wars, is not a political statement? The EU rightly seems to think so, and I find it hard to find any reason to disagree.
Mart
You MS shills really like playing silly semantic games and twistingn words, do you not? This story has been mentioned on Slashdot before. You even commented in the original stories, like you always do to defend your masters. Since I know you read the stories, and you know I know, why don't we just drop the bullshit of you demanding I prove the Sun rises in the East?
Now sod off.
Mart
How about you produce some quotes to prove that? I say you are lying.
Mart
Yes, developed by Accenture with heavy MS support. Heck, even MS' case study mentions that.
And dropping TradElect for a different system means that it is worse than the other system, otherwise it would not make business sense. Cheaper is only interesting if the system is at least as good as TradElect. So, at least as good, plus cheaper, equals a better system.
What colour is the sky in your world? Or are you seeing it through a nice four-pane Window?
Mart
So fucking what? TomTom did not sue first. That makes Microsoft the agressor, plain and simple. They could have followed TomTom's strategy and wait for the lawsuit before countersuing. Instead they initiated the suit.
Next you are going to tell me that ignorance is strength.
Mart
If you had read the earlier articles on the TradElect fiasco, you would have known that it was basically written and designed by Microsoft itself. Accenture had a very heavy involvement in the project straight from Redmond.
So yes, this is an outright condemnation of the quality of Microsoft's products.
Mart
Ambiguous? Microsoft sued first. On a notice of possible infringement from TomTom, they sued. That's about as unambiguous as you can get.
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Two things:
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Resolution independence? Windows? Surely you're joking? Windows still measures everything in pixels. Try running it on a high-DPI display with larger fonts, and wince at how many dialogs totally mess up their layout. Maybe it has gotten better in Vista and 7, but up til XP running Windows at anything above 1600x1200 was frankly horrid. Especially if you were used to *nix or MacOS.
Mart
It might surprise you, but there is actually a world outside the U.S. borders.
Mart
Or a compliant mailserver will immediately retry on the backup MX. Just hope that the greylister is clueful enough to handle that case.
Unfortunately, not all are, as I found out this week. A 430 on the primary MX, and the backup accepts and drops silently, and the idiots on the other side are trying to blame a non-existent Exchange server. Yeah right.
Mart
This sounds a bit like an empty entropy pool, with all the crypto functions hanging on a blocked read on the FreeBSD equivalent of /dev/random.
I'm a bit puzzled why a new connection would go through though.
Mart
If the sending party does not get a bounce, the sending mail server is misconfigured. If it can't connect to the fastmail.fm MX servers, then it should bounce the message.
So, no fail here. Just someone who doesn't understand how email works.
Mart
Too fucking bad. The world does not owe you a living.
Mart
Never worry. Their flagship OEM (after they screwed over Sendo) is already leaving the sinking ship. HTC used to be a Windows-only shop, and now they're shipping, and visibly promoting, phones with other OSes.
Mart