1. Asuming they have some sort of intelligent sysadmin 2. I know, the server is only as secure as the OS, keep it updated. relates to 1 3. You can hide the fact you are running a unix so far. More curious people will learn, others will get their minimum work done.
Having gone to Brooklyn Techincal High School [feh on stuy;)] a while back, I can say that the computing environment improved but got tricker, leaving the not-so-caught-up students even worse off and the smarter ones, smarter. The bell-curve on computer saviness grew wider. None the less, there was peep.exe and what not to look at others screens and no security as viruses were everywhere.
Now, only sysadmins can peep, er, sniff.
Infecting a server would be a neat trick unless you knew sun sparc assembler, bypassed the kernel and did direct disk accesses, but the server would still be intact. Then again, mount/usr remotely and bypass that.
Exposure to unix opens them up to about 10 different OS's in terms of the learning curve learning the basics of one OS and the other. If you know windows, that's about it./etd/rc.d and/etc/init.d are on most unicies... cute that FBsd doesn't have an init.d directory for each service
Yeah flaimbait. It holds no real content. I've walked away with a redundant, "this os is trash, use this one" sorta pov. So fine, it MAY be considered more offtopic. But then again, it's just a ranting opinion.
...sell it cheaply and give an explicit warning that the third slot will not work. Or disable it in some sorta physical manner. A machine maxed out at 512megs of memory is not the end of the world.
I found the over all outcome of the 2 3com guys who are founders of the USR PalmPilot leaving and now forming HandSpring. I just love that name.
Anyway, bets are they have a BSD, Sun Solaris, SUN OS and other boxes in there. It's done as a precaution to know what your competitor is doing. A competitor went IPO and we laughed as their stock just sorta sat there at its opening price. It's not MS being sneaky, it's just them staying on top of their situation, regardless as to what they tell us it is.
You see, this is the exact behavior that makes MS a monopoly. It is giving a free incentive, which will cost MS lots of money to implement.
millions of free copies of windows that could have been sold for millinos more for a smaller cost of having NT installed? The amount of support and everything that has to go into this as a project costs more money than it will take in.
Its no longer a student discount to gain advantage and still make money, this is all about heaving your weight to knock your competitor down.
You do realize, this can be stealthly done like viruses, infect the kernel or whatever to do this.
Think of it, your suspected to be talking about nazi racism, your machine gets a software implant. You aren't root, shouldn't be otherwise you really do have right to do what you want, so you can't tell unless you do a netstat every moment.
But to say that they do allow gives them some credibility. If they start failing exports, people will just go back to developing outside the united states.
Its kinda interesting. We can never be sure, but was it the competition of the general public that drove the government to stop their laws? It seems they are being a bit more sensible about this. We (the US) have taken every single way of getting around export laws, that they have been made useless. In other words, the government looks like they wanna save face by saying, "it's ok" on something they haven't too much control over. Especially with GPG and the like...
Point is that it's some sort of confusion on the trademark or whatever it may be. When people think pilot, they think the PDA and not the pen anymore.
And you mind going by the name steve, but what if you hated it? By the same parallel, how would you like it if someone copied your identity? Point is, it causes confusion and legally, Pilot (the pen company) has rights.
It's kinda funny, that everyone is saying what one is and what one isn't. I pride myself on being just different. My mother is white, father is black. I am into computers, blading and hanging out with friends, drinking and doing 'fun' things and 'romantic' things with my fiance.
So am I black or am I white? Am I geek, nerd or just another guy on the street. It's all subjective and is based on what people view as common. If you are a geek and see the intelligence and ingiuity in me, you might consider me a geek. If you see that I am not dull or 'stupid' you might think so too.. on the flip side, if you are 2x intelligent than I am, you may think of me as a fool (less chances of so if your ego isn't huge).
I am not trying to prove a point, but make people think.
I'm quite sure for people everywhere, its a more comfortable thing to say. The name simply sounds better and I'm quite sure the marketers who originally named it that discovered that through some sort of analysis.
But if you changed your name to say, steve, should you stil be called by your old name? Maybe, but this (palm) is of legal issue and cannot be worked around, legally. So if you go into a store and asked for a palmpilot, don't be surprised if the representative that's never heard of a palmpilot as such, be confused.
If you are having the server as part of the art with the webcam running on that machine, a simple page with an image, any pentium with some good amount of memory, 128m since it's not much more than 64m in cost. Since you won't be using so much in the way of disk space for your website, put the entire thing on MFS (a ramdisk or whatever it is in linux). No huge IO costs, so you won't have THAT bottle neck to really worry about. Don't have to worry about inode size, block size data is being read off of the disk and what not... Just remember to copy changed stuff from the MFS to disk periodically and stuff from the disk to MFS on startup.
If you are doing some sorta server-side dhtml (someone reply and tell me what mod_perl, cgi and php, thunderstone and coldfussion all classify as), double the memory, make it a PII 266 (whatever the slowest moddles are). If there are a lot of these programs, double the ram, increase the disk cache.
Now, for tcpip stuff, set your MRU/MTU high. Since you are handling large chunks of data, using less than the MAX won't pay. Think of it. Would you rather send 10k 2 byte packets with extra overhead per packet, or 2 5k packets?
I know this will be ranked downward since people will no doubtedly see this as pro-MS advocacy and anti-linux FUD, but..
Was there ever real competition? There WAS OS/2 for a brief moment of glory, and DesqView, but as the graphical age came along, Windows won out. Joy, now we have to deal with Windows because it was the 'easiest' thing to use though it wasn't the best.
Linux those days, I remember running it. It wasn't as great and was more of a hobby for me. It wasn't too difficult to install, but if you didn't have the right hardware, you were cooked. That's why I left linux a while back - lack of support for the NCR53c875. *nix caught up in the PC end and look where it is now. It supports LOTS of different hardwares. When I started using X, it had support for about 23-30 video cards. Now it has support for about 500 cards and their minor variants.
MS had no competition, not because MS had such a great upper hand, there was nothing else graphical that existed and was well supported. Not to say that nothing was as great, but Windows was more well known and developed for. Too bad it wasn't great for anything but the home market.
What DID MS have? They had the PC market, but to keep it safe, they performed unfair activities. Of course, they were involved in other unethical buisness practices, such as absorbing the competition. When *nix got as big as it did, MS couldn't do anything to stop it. Who was there to buy? Linus and *bsd.org? Someone else would just continue the projects. PC *nix now more popular than ever, not as easy to use, but works great.
My verdict? Monopoly by virtue, unethical by practice in maintaining the virtue. Unethical in other practices also.
It's kinda funny. Isn't this security by obscurity since not as many people know about Appletalk than TCP/IP and NetBios? I found it startling and rather calming to find out they are moving to Macs. I haven't heard of as many security issues in comparison.
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1. Asuming they have some sort of intelligent sysadmin
2. I know, the server is only as secure as the OS, keep it updated. relates to 1
3. You can hide the fact you are running a unix so far. More curious people will learn, others will get their minimum work done.
Yeah flaimbait. It holds no real content. I've walked away with a redundant, "this os is trash, use this one" sorta pov. So fine, it MAY be considered more offtopic. But then again, it's just a ranting opinion.
Thanx for the correction. 2hours of sleep + comprehension don't work.
...sell it cheaply and give an explicit warning that the third slot will not work. Or disable it in some sorta physical manner. A machine maxed out at 512megs of memory is not the end of the world.
Damnit, I lost 8 megs, oh wait, its wedged between a PCI slot and an AGP...
Anyway, bets are they have a BSD, Sun Solaris, SUN OS and other boxes in there. It's done as a precaution to know what your competitor is doing. A competitor went IPO and we laughed as their stock just sorta sat there at its opening price. It's not MS being sneaky, it's just them staying on top of their situation, regardless as to what they tell us it is.
-sporty
It's more fun than HUGBEES! HANDSPRING!
http://www.google.com/linux?q=porn&num=10
millions of free copies of windows that could have been sold for millinos more for a smaller cost of having NT installed? The amount of support and everything that has to go into this as a project costs more money than it will take in.
Its no longer a student discount to gain advantage and still make money, this is all about heaving your weight to knock your competitor down.
Um, why are you replying to me on this? I am not advocating but simply presenting a situation where linxu (or any os) is not the answer
Think of it, your suspected to be talking about nazi racism, your machine gets a software implant. You aren't root, shouldn't be otherwise you really do have right to do what you want, so you can't tell unless you do a netstat every moment.
But to say that they do allow gives them some credibility. If they start failing exports, people will just go back to developing outside the united states.
Its kinda interesting. We can never be sure, but was it the competition of the general public that drove the government to stop their laws? It seems they are being a bit more sensible about this. We (the US) have taken every single way of getting around export laws, that they have been made useless. In other words, the government looks like they wanna save face by saying, "it's ok" on something they haven't too much control over. Especially with GPG and the like...
And you mind going by the name steve, but what if you hated it? By the same parallel, how would you like it if someone copied your identity? Point is, it causes confusion and legally, Pilot (the pen company) has rights.
So am I black or am I white? Am I geek, nerd or just another guy on the street. It's all subjective and is based on what people view as common. If you are a geek and see the intelligence and ingiuity in me, you might consider me a geek. If you see that I am not dull or 'stupid' you might think so too.. on the flip side, if you are 2x intelligent than I am, you may think of me as a fool (less chances of so if your ego isn't huge).
I am not trying to prove a point, but make people think.
sporty
Would you have any grey poupon? Oh poupon this.
But if you changed your name to say, steve, should you stil be called by your old name? Maybe, but this (palm) is of legal issue and cannot be worked around, legally. So if you go into a store and asked for a palmpilot, don't be surprised if the representative that's never heard of a palmpilot as such, be confused.
Cheers!
SpOrTy!
Remember people.. it's no longer a palm pilot. It's a Palm[3-7]. There was a problem with that pen company, Pilot pens or what-have-you.
Well.. if there are things being done in the background, cgi's and the what, you guarantee that your data stays in memory.
Practice this long enough, you don't need to actually think about it.
Off topic, but its something people should do...
If you are doing some sorta server-side dhtml (someone reply and tell me what mod_perl, cgi and php, thunderstone and coldfussion all classify as), double the memory, make it a PII 266 (whatever the slowest moddles are). If there are a lot of these programs, double the ram, increase the disk cache.
Now, for tcpip stuff, set your MRU/MTU high. Since you are handling large chunks of data, using less than the MAX won't pay. Think of it. Would you rather send 10k 2 byte packets with extra overhead per packet, or 2 5k packets?
Ok.. I'll stop with the evil sheep puns...
Was there ever real competition? There WAS OS/2 for a brief moment of glory, and DesqView, but as the graphical age came along, Windows won out. Joy, now we have to deal with Windows because it was the 'easiest' thing to use though it wasn't the best.
Linux those days, I remember running it. It wasn't as great and was more of a hobby for me. It wasn't too difficult to install, but if you didn't have the right hardware, you were cooked. That's why I left linux a while back - lack of support for the NCR53c875. *nix caught up in the PC end and look where it is now. It supports LOTS of different hardwares. When I started using X, it had support for about 23-30 video cards. Now it has support for about 500 cards and their minor variants.
MS had no competition, not because MS had such a great upper hand, there was nothing else graphical that existed and was well supported. Not to say that nothing was as great, but Windows was more well known and developed for. Too bad it wasn't great for anything but the home market.
What DID MS have? They had the PC market, but to keep it safe, they performed unfair activities. Of course, they were involved in other unethical buisness practices, such as absorbing the competition. When *nix got as big as it did, MS couldn't do anything to stop it. Who was there to buy? Linus and *bsd.org? Someone else would just continue the projects. PC *nix now more popular than ever, not as easy to use, but works great.
My verdict? Monopoly by virtue, unethical by practice in maintaining the virtue. Unethical in other practices also.
Problem is that with our society, more important things usually get precedence, like viagra