the computer labs bought about 100 machines all with Zip drives installed, and one by one they all gave the "click" and died. all further disks inserted into the drive would be munged. eventually, someone figured out that something mechanical would break inside the drive if you inserted a standard 3 inch floppy into the drive. Thus why, one by one, they all almost died, because the students would come in and screw em up....
Can you fit a 3 1/2" into a ZIP drive?
Another cause, and perhaps as likely in this particular case (it's pretty obvious pretty quick if you're using the wrong drive) is that some ZIP drives, when they fail, will chew the edges of the ZIP disk. If you try to use that disk in another ZIP drive, it will destroy the head. Add in a desperate user aiming to get data back, rinse and repeat. See some details over at Steve Gibson's grc.com.
It is worth noting though that other LAN guides recommend against DHCP because conflicting DHCP servers are hard to find unless you have manageable network equipment. And the more participants there are, the more likely someone will have forgotten that he's running such a server.
ipconfig/all|more on problem machine, get address of DHCP server.
nbtstat -A ipaddress "WHO THE HELL IS ??????!? TURN OFF YOUR DHCP SERVER!"
ipconfig/release_all ipconfig/renew_all
But every good computer geek knows that just number strings are non-copyright-able and non-trademark-able
They're not copyrighting the numbers per se, but the melody the numbers generate when dialed by a DTMF device. I can't copyright 1,3,15,16,18,... on a piano, but I can copyright the music played by the 1st, 3rd, 15th, 16th, 18th,... keys on a piano in that sequence (does timing apply? I really don't know...)
Well.. I agree..
But the way to do multiple websites is to use www.science.drexel.edu, www.staff.drexel.edu, etc... ~username is fine for individual users pages on a given server perhaps...
DNS issupposed to be heirarchial.. the problem is it's also a be-all-end-all lookup service for the WWW now.
You want ford? YOu don't look up 'ford motor company' in an index and go to the site, you go to 'ford.com'.. that's the problem.
While I am with you on the lament of WWW taking over everything, I despise sites that don't redirect HTTP port 80 requests to www.domainname.com instead of either a) having an under construction page, or b) not answering. Let's face it, WWW is the most popular. It's much easier to add mail.domainname.com, or ftp.domainname.com or telnet.domainname.com and use domainname.com and www.domainname.com for websites.
civic workers who boldly rushed into the WTC in an attempt to save the lives of others weren't necessarily doing so because it made them "feel good".
Then why did they do it? Because they felt they had to? Because it was the right thing to do? I'm not saying they're bad reasons because they're selfish, it's just that we're all motivated by making ourselves feel good. Rationalize it however you want, but the bottom line is that we do good things because it makes us feel good about ourselves...therefore it is a selfish action with good results.
Peace good, war bad. War is never leaving us, but it is fundamentally wrong, no matter how necessary it is at times. Western ideas about world peace and democracy for all are a) not hypocritical, and b) in the best interests of all humanity.
Was the American Revolution "bad"? How about the US Civil War? At times, war is good. At times, there are no other ways to solve things. But I digress from my point. Western ideas about world peace and democracy are very recent in the scope of things. We're like an old man who, in his wisdom (or senility, depending on who you agree with), knows whats best for everyone else. The problem is, that we tend to force it upon other nations...whether they're ready for it or not. I contend that we're actually doing more harm than good, at least as far as the other nations are concerned.
Can you actually claim that because some cultures haven't "developed" like ours that their wars are warranted? Can you actually claim that some cultures cannot make democracy, in time, work?
Are their wars warranted? That's a loaded question....Were our wars warranted? Maybe, maybe not. But we sure felt that they were at the time, didn't we? Obviously, they feel theirs are as well. I just have a problem with us not allowing other nations to have the same determining liberty that we had, simply because of a time lapse.
Kudos to Philip Zimmerman for having the fortitude to stand by his convictions in the face of popular American political (and editorial) stupidity. Cryptography doesn't kill people; people kill people.
Exactly when in the "...around the 1800's or so" did today's "civilized" nations stop trying to conquer each other? Was that before or after the 1918 end of World War I, or the 1945 end of World War II (which, by the way, had some disturbing views on various races)?
WWI and WWII both bolster my point. They were both viewed by most Western nations as unjust. ~300 years before, the type of rampant land and power grabbing Hitler (for example) engaged in were accepted, in the 1900's it was a "threat to freedom/democracy". That's why there was a World War.
Was South Africa not "civilized" during the 1899-1902 Boer war?
South Africa has yet to join the Western world as a premier nation. Whether or not they are "civilized" is a maatter of judgment.
When did the USA acquire "civilized" status -- before or after we all but exterminated dozens of Native American cultures in the name of expansion?
Wait...are you arguing with me or agreeing with me? Perhaps you noticed "civilized" is in quotes? That's not a typo...
Yes, we wiped out millions of Native Americans in order to secure our land and power. There's a strong parallel between that and incidents occuring around the world today. Unfortunately for the would-be winners of today's conflicts, however, these types of things are no longer accepted. THAT'S MY FREAKIN' POINT!
It just seems Afghanistan (and others) are still in this phase of development, and that by interfering with this, we're actually harming their growth as a culture.
This statement is so offensive, I don't know how to respond (of course, I'll try anyway). How on earth did you get so arrogant that you think you would know what "culture growth" is (other than what's probably in your refigerator)? You seem to be implying that anyone not in your culture must be (A) "lower" than you, and (B) needs to improve to your level.
That's not at all what I'm implying. I'm actually of the opinion (perhaps not very well stated...) that cultures and societies are on a constant up and down evolution. I don't think any other culture "needs to improve to my level", I'm actually advocating that they be allowed to make their own determination of which direction to grow in. If the use of the word growth implies that they are inferior, it's unintended. All cultures "grow" and "evolve", though it's not necessarily for the better or worse. It's just the way of the world. I realize that some day in the future, the US and it's allies will no longer be the dominant force that it is today. Every great culture (whether Egyption, Roman, Greek, etc.) falls, and other cultures take their place.
My whole point is that if we don't allow Afghanistan (once again, Afghanistan is simply an example country...) to make their own determination on thier evolution, that they will never be in a position to become a dominant culture.
start ---> windows update ---> product updates
select the ones under critical and hit download. They install automagically. been running 2k since it came out... Had IIS running on it since day 1....never been hit. Takes 5 minutes per week to run windows update.
Windows Update is not supported with the server OS's. While, true, you can get many updates there, server specific ones (such as IIS) will not show up there. Do yourself a favor, run HFNetChk on your servers....
Exactly. I can argue that Mother Theresa was a selfish, evil person. I can argue that she devoted her life to helping the less fortunate so that she would secure her place in Paradise; self-advancement. The side effect, of course, would not justify the fact that, in this argument, she only did it to advance herself.
Exactly. EVERY action is a purely selfish action. No matter what you do, you do it for yourself. Mother Teresa devotes her life to the sick and the poor...but why does she do it? Becuase it makes her feel good. Not to say that there are no good actions, simply clarifying that they are slefish actions with good consequences....
Interesting you mentioned that [g]. I was talking with a friend the other day, and I brought up my observation that Afghanistan (and other countries as well, of course) seem to be about 500 or so years behind the "civilized" world as far as societal development. 500 years ago (1500's), we (Anglo-Saxons, Europeans, whatever you want to call it) were still very much in our conquest and conquer phase. But, since that time, probably around the 1800's or so, the "civilized" nations basically declared a moratarium on conquering other nations, and countries were expected to work with what they had already acquired.
Before the 1500's, England (and France, et al.) were involved in horrendous civil wars with human rights violations on both sides. Many acts of "terrorism" accompanied these wars.
It just seems Afghanistan (and others) are still in this phase of development, and that by interfering with this, we're actually harming their growth as a culture.
NOTE!!!: I am NOT defending the terrorist acts. Obviously, Afghanistan/bin Laden overstepped the boounds of reason by attacking another country. No matter what stage of development cultures are in, an attack on another culture/nation is ALWAYS met with war. I am simply stating that the US (in particular) ideas of world peace and democracy for eevryone are a) a bit hypocritical, and b) not necessarily in the best interests of other cultures or our own...
No, not 3d; 2 and a half, perhaps. If i saw in 3d, i'd be able to see the back of something at the same time as the front.
Ehh? WTF? I think that'd be more akin to x-ray vision...or disconnected eyeballs.
3D translates to 3 Dimensional. The dimension in question are:
1. Length
2. Width
3. Depth
If you see 1D, you'd only see lines. 2D would be able to give you shapes, but no idea how deep the shape was. 3D gives you all of it. Check out Flatland for help...which you obviously need.
Do you really think Canadians were the target of that attack, however? No one said anything about appeasing the fundamentalist Muslims, my point remains, however, that if we do not even look into their grievances that we will be in this same situation again.
There's a reason bin Laden is as popular as he is...it's because he has struck a nerve with at least a few people who feel that America has wronged them and/or theirs.
Did Americans pull the triggers or point the weapons? Americans profited from the sale of the weapons. For sure, a despicable act. But no American deliberately piloted a large fuel (and civilian)-laden aluminum missile at 300 knots directly into a building containing tens of thousands of other innocent civilians.
No, Americans did not. Neither did Afghanistan's Taliban, but, rest assured, they're on the shitlist. Now, there's talk of Hussein aiding the terrorists. He, too, will have to deal with the repercussions. According to the US gov't, anyone aiding or associating with "known" terrorists is in an unenviable position.
Of course, the US gov't has aided and associated with terrorists, including bin Laden (sp?) and Hussein...I hope that doesn't mean we're declaring war on ourselves...
What we are saying is they may have had legitimate greivances against the US, and maybe, just maybe we should sit up and take notice.
There are no grievances legitimate enough to take it out this way. Period.
You're right. But, without knowing and confronting the WHYs of this action, we're doomed to have it repeat itself. Even after we deal with the WHOs, and the HOWs of the situation, the fact will remain that there's a lot of folks out in the world that just plain don't like the US very much.
If we don't work on that, then the WHOs and HOWs will adapt and attack again, and we'll be discussing this again on/.
Granted, saying that the industry average of users/server is 350 is a rather meaningless number. What kind of systems does the average refer to?
More than likely, the average is skewed because of smaller shops running Exchange. Just because your server/OS/groupware can host 2000 mailboxes doesn't mean you have 2000 users.
When I discussed this with my insurance broker he said the reasoning was simply that it would be a big PITA to track down equipment that old.
What insurance company actually buys the stuff for you? There's a respected used computer pricing guide (I can't remember the name right now) that will list FMV prices for older computers. That's what your insurance company shold be paying.
Regardless, I've got about 10 386/486/Early Pentium machines that I'd love to see stolen^H^H^H^H^H^H have a good home....
First of all, the google example is not the same thing. Google isn't running more stuff on their OS, they are just running more computers. Completely different upscaling. Have you noticed, google is running Linux. Linux can use as few resources outside the server as possible and still be a good sample. So, your sample is actually a counter-example to your cause.
I never mentioned running more stuff on the OS. You, or someone earlier in this nightmarish thread, mentioned that Windows 2000 Server wouldn't run on a 386. A comment was made that we're interested in UPscaling, not DOWNscaling, so 386's weren't important. The Google example illustrates that 4-Way, 8-Way, 16-Way, etc. systems are very important in enterprise OS's. 386's are not.
As for my "cause", I don't have a cause. I know Google is running Linux. I like Linux. I like the flexibility of Linux. I also like Windows 2000. There's a place for both. The point still remains that Google has uses for upscaling, but no uses for downscaling.
So, your sample is actually a counter-example to your cause.
Hmmm...that's what they said to me after my last drug test, but I fail to see the significance here.
Why can't it be more simple to kill tasks like linux. Kill -signal processid.
Get the Resource Kit. Kill away.
Forcing me to do extra tasks that I can't do without taking my hand off the keyboard(you could probably do it without the mouse but let's ignore that) is going to make me mad.
You're right, we should ignore that, I guess. Why? I don't know...I guess it's because you couldn't figure out those complicated keystrokes...
I can get my computer back in less then a minute.
I guess your server doesn't have a SCSI controller, then, huh? Of course not, I forgot. You're running a 386 with 8MB of RAM off a floppy disk. Hint, hint: neither LRP or FreeSCO count as an Enterprise OS.
No, economics and average IQ proves this. Microsoft is going to enter the market that gives them the most sales, not the best design with reduced sales. Legally, I'm a genius and don't need all these extra functions because most of the time they cost me time which money in my pocket.
First off, I'd love to see your "legal" proof of being a genius. Secondly, if you are a "genius", I'd suggest taking a few grammar and spelling courses before you go off spouting it.
Secondly, me being from the US and all, I feel that democracy is a pretty fair system. Therefore, largest market and average IQ can very well correlate to the subjective notion of "better".
I'm not saying computers should 8 mb of ram, I'm saying you should be able to configure and maintain you computer on very little memory. How much actual memory does it take to run an FTP server, HTTP server, and a Microsoft Network Client. Not very much. Resources aren't a premium right not but does not mean we should explurge the OS to the point that resources are being wasted beyond belief. The GUI is not the OS and is not needed. It's a great feature but it is still not the OS. If you want a good server, using as few resources as possible not being used as a server, then a GUI is not the ideal solution. If you want the server so you don't have to think about it and maybe it crashes every six months or so then the extras are fine.
I don't even know what the hell this means. Evidently, your "genius" has come full-circle to babbling idiocy, because you seem to have forgotten half the words in these incoherent ramblings. Unfortunately, they seem to be the most important part. I tried running it through BabelFish, but it abended.
Can you say, do not waste more CPU cycles on the OS than we physically have to. You should be able get up a server(2000 was designed to be a server) on 8 or less megs of RAM with a web server and anything else you want if you are going to use it as a server.
I pity your users if you're running a server on 8MB of RAM. RAM is cheap, splurge a little.
After that, if you really want a work station with a GUI, a better computer is needed.
And if you really want Windows 2000 Server, a better computer is needed.
Upscaling does not lead to better programs(against popular belief) just ones that have more eyecandy AND possibly more logic so the human brain can more easily relate to it.
Which to a lot of admins and users, equals a better program. Microsoft's success proves it.
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Can you fit a 3 1/2" into a ZIP drive?
Another cause, and perhaps as likely in this particular case (it's pretty obvious pretty quick if you're using the wrong drive) is that some ZIP drives, when they fail, will chew the edges of the ZIP disk. If you try to use that disk in another ZIP drive, it will destroy the head. Add in a desperate user aiming to get data back, rinse and repeat. See some details over at Steve Gibson's grc.com.
ipconfig/all|more on problem machine, get address of DHCP server.
nbtstat -A ipaddress "WHO THE HELL IS ??????!? TURN OFF YOUR DHCP SERVER!"
ipconfig/release_all ipconfig/renew_all
They're not copyrighting the numbers per se, but the melody the numbers generate when dialed by a DTMF device. I can't copyright 1,3,15,16,18,... on a piano, but I can copyright the music played by the 1st, 3rd, 15th, 16th, 18th, ... keys on a piano in that sequence (does timing apply? I really don't know...)
Then why did they do it? Because they felt they had to? Because it was the right thing to do? I'm not saying they're bad reasons because they're selfish, it's just that we're all motivated by making ourselves feel good. Rationalize it however you want, but the bottom line is that we do good things because it makes us feel good about ourselves...therefore it is a selfish action with good results.
Was the American Revolution "bad"? How about the US Civil War? At times, war is good. At times, there are no other ways to solve things. But I digress from my point. Western ideas about world peace and democracy are very recent in the scope of things. We're like an old man who, in his wisdom (or senility, depending on who you agree with), knows whats best for everyone else. The problem is, that we tend to force it upon other nations...whether they're ready for it or not. I contend that we're actually doing more harm than good, at least as far as the other nations are concerned.
Are their wars warranted? That's a loaded question....Were our wars warranted? Maybe, maybe not. But we sure felt that they were at the time, didn't we? Obviously, they feel theirs are as well. I just have a problem with us not allowing other nations to have the same determining liberty that we had, simply because of a time lapse.
Ditto.
WWI and WWII both bolster my point. They were both viewed by most Western nations as unjust. ~300 years before, the type of rampant land and power grabbing Hitler (for example) engaged in were accepted, in the 1900's it was a "threat to freedom/democracy". That's why there was a World War.
South Africa has yet to join the Western world as a premier nation. Whether or not they are "civilized" is a maatter of judgment.
Wait...are you arguing with me or agreeing with me? Perhaps you noticed "civilized" is in quotes? That's not a typo...
Yes, we wiped out millions of Native Americans in order to secure our land and power. There's a strong parallel between that and incidents occuring around the world today. Unfortunately for the would-be winners of today's conflicts, however, these types of things are no longer accepted. THAT'S MY FREAKIN' POINT!
That's not at all what I'm implying. I'm actually of the opinion (perhaps not very well stated...) that cultures and societies are on a constant up and down evolution. I don't think any other culture "needs to improve to my level", I'm actually advocating that they be allowed to make their own determination of which direction to grow in. If the use of the word growth implies that they are inferior, it's unintended. All cultures "grow" and "evolve", though it's not necessarily for the better or worse. It's just the way of the world. I realize that some day in the future, the US and it's allies will no longer be the dominant force that it is today. Every great culture (whether Egyption, Roman, Greek, etc.) falls, and other cultures take their place.
My whole point is that if we don't allow Afghanistan (once again, Afghanistan is simply an example country...) to make their own determination on thier evolution, that they will never be in a position to become a dominant culture.
Windows Update is not supported with the server OS's. While, true, you can get many updates there, server specific ones (such as IIS) will not show up there. Do yourself a favor, run HFNetChk on your servers....
Exactly. EVERY action is a purely selfish action. No matter what you do, you do it for yourself. Mother Teresa devotes her life to the sick and the poor...but why does she do it? Becuase it makes her feel good. Not to say that there are no good actions, simply clarifying that they are slefish actions with good consequences....
Well, I guess that's the next virus WINE developers need to work on. It is, after all, the most popular Windows virus.
Ehh? WTF? I think that'd be more akin to x-ray vision...or disconnected eyeballs.
3D translates to 3 Dimensional. The dimension in question are:
1. Length
2. Width
3. Depth
If you see 1D, you'd only see lines. 2D would be able to give you shapes, but no idea how deep the shape was. 3D gives you all of it. Check out Flatland for help...which you obviously need.
Do you really think Canadians were the target of that attack, however? No one said anything about appeasing the fundamentalist Muslims, my point remains, however, that if we do not even look into their grievances that we will be in this same situation again.
There's a reason bin Laden is as popular as he is...it's because he has struck a nerve with at least a few people who feel that America has wronged them and/or theirs.
No, Americans did not. Neither did Afghanistan's Taliban, but, rest assured, they're on the shitlist. Now, there's talk of Hussein aiding the terrorists. He, too, will have to deal with the repercussions. According to the US gov't, anyone aiding or associating with "known" terrorists is in an unenviable position.
Of course, the US gov't has aided and associated with terrorists, including bin Laden (sp?) and Hussein...I hope that doesn't mean we're declaring war on ourselves...
You're right. But, without knowing and confronting the WHYs of this action, we're doomed to have it repeat itself. Even after we deal with the WHOs, and the HOWs of the situation, the fact will remain that there's a lot of folks out in the world that just plain don't like the US very much.
If we don't work on that, then the WHOs and HOWs will adapt and attack again, and we'll be discussing this again on /.
Hotmail is groupware now!?!?
Oh wait...no it isn't. It's simply web based email. Do you think that may be one of the reasons it doesn't run on Exchange?
Not negating the fact that Outlook Web Access reeks...but, then, so does Lotus' i-Notes.
More than likely, the average is skewed because of smaller shops running Exchange. Just because your server/OS/groupware can host 2000 mailboxes doesn't mean you have 2000 users.
What insurance company actually buys the stuff for you? There's a respected used computer pricing guide (I can't remember the name right now) that will list FMV prices for older computers. That's what your insurance company shold be paying.
Regardless, I've got about 10 386/486/Early Pentium machines that I'd love to see stolen^H^H^H^H^H^H have a good home....
Grammatically, there's nothing wrong with that sentence. What Taco needs is a good proofreader.
Yeah, except for the missing verb after "it". What Taco needs is a good editor.
I'm not surprised.
I never mentioned running more stuff on the OS. You, or someone earlier in this nightmarish thread, mentioned that Windows 2000 Server wouldn't run on a 386. A comment was made that we're interested in UPscaling, not DOWNscaling, so 386's weren't important. The Google example illustrates that 4-Way, 8-Way, 16-Way, etc. systems are very important in enterprise OS's. 386's are not.
As for my "cause", I don't have a cause. I know Google is running Linux. I like Linux. I like the flexibility of Linux. I also like Windows 2000. There's a place for both. The point still remains that Google has uses for upscaling, but no uses for downscaling.
Hmmm...that's what they said to me after my last drug test, but I fail to see the significance here.
I know the origins of the term, but I still fail to see the link to usage defining market forces.
Get the Resource Kit. Kill away.
You're right, we should ignore that, I guess. Why? I don't know...I guess it's because you couldn't figure out those complicated keystrokes...
I guess your server doesn't have a SCSI controller, then, huh? Of course not, I forgot. You're running a 386 with 8MB of RAM off a floppy disk. Hint, hint: neither LRP or FreeSCO count as an Enterprise OS.
First off, I'd love to see your "legal" proof of being a genius. Secondly, if you are a "genius", I'd suggest taking a few grammar and spelling courses before you go off spouting it.
Secondly, me being from the US and all, I feel that democracy is a pretty fair system. Therefore, largest market and average IQ can very well correlate to the subjective notion of "better".
I don't even know what the hell this means. Evidently, your "genius" has come full-circle to babbling idiocy, because you seem to have forgotten half the words in these incoherent ramblings. Unfortunately, they seem to be the most important part. I tried running it through BabelFish, but it abended.
I pity your users if you're running a server on 8MB of RAM. RAM is cheap, splurge a little.
And if you really want Windows 2000 Server, a better computer is needed.
Tell that to Google.
Which to a lot of admins and users, equals a better program. Microsoft's success proves it.